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Daily Edition · Page 6

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

MARKETS & BUSINESS

TLDR Crypto

TLDR Crypto

CFTC LAUNCHES DIGITAL ASSETS PILOT

CFTC Acting Chair Caroline Pham launched a pilot program allowing Bitcoin, Ether, and USDC as collateral in US derivatives markets for approved futures commission merchants with strict weekly disclosure requirements for the first three months and enhanced custody oversight. The agency withdrew 2020 guidance that blocked crypto collateral and issued a no-action letter permitting FCMs to hold digital assets in segregated customer accounts. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal called it "precisely what the Administration and Congress intended the GENIUS Act to enable." The program extends to tokenized real-world assets like US Treasuries that meet enforceability, custody, and valuation standards under technology-neutral rules.

coindesk.com · 6 min

TLDR Crypto

TETHER EXPANDING TO NINE NEW CHAINS

Tether's USDT received regulatory recognition as an accepted fiat-referenced token across nine blockchains in Abu Dhabi Global Market, including Aptos, Celo, Cosmos, Kaia, Near, Polkadot, Tezos, TON, and TRON, adding to earlier approvals for Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche. ADGM-licensed institutions can now conduct regulated activities involving USDT across nearly all networks where the token circulates, forming a multi-chain foundation enhancing liquidity and interoperability for trading, settlement, and decentralized applications. The announcement coincides with Binance securing full ADGM authorization to operate Binance.com starting January 5, through three separately licensed entities mirroring traditional financial-market architecture for exchange, clearinghouse, and broker-dealer functions.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

TLDR Crypto

VITALIK BUTERIN PUSHES FOR TRUSTLESS GAS FUTURES MARKET

Vitalik Buterin has proposed a trustless onchain gas futures market that allows users to prepay for specific gas quantities in defined time intervals, but Flashbots strategist Hasu argued the market lacks a natural short side as many want to hedge gas exposure, but no one is long gas at scale. Buterin suggested the protocol itself could auction basefee claiming rights to move from long to neutral while users shift from short to neutral, though Gnosis co-founder Martin Koppelmann countered that Ethereum's burn mechanism eliminates validators as natural sellers who would otherwise hedge without significant risk premiums.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

TLDR Crypto

THE THIRD PILLAR OF DIGITAL GOLD

Privacy represents the third pillar of digital gold alongside Bitcoin's sovereignty and Ethereum's programmability, and Zcash is positioned as the underpriced rallying point for private money that could activate self-reinforcing incentive mechanisms virally spreading cypherpunk ideals. ZEC pioneers created foundational ZK innovations like Sonic and Halo that enabled Ethereum's first rollup prototype, Ignis, built on Zcash's Bellman code seven years ago. Naval's thesis frames Bitcoin as "insurance against fiat" and ZCash as "insurance against Bitcoin."

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

TLDR Crypto

A WORLD OF 1,000 STABLECOIN NEOBANKS

The current explosion of “stablecoin neobanks” isn't happening because we suddenly got brilliant product ideas, but because infrastructure has gotten good enough that anyone can stitch together a bank-like app. These apps lean on a tiny set of centralized providers and optimize for perks instead of reliability. When any of those infra providers fail, the neobank breaks, trust evaporates, and users retreat back to CEXs and TradFi. We don't need 1,000 flashy stablecoin banks that “usually” work, we need one built on rock-solid, redundant infra that always works.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

TLDR Crypto

TOKENIZED DEPOSITS VS STABLECOINS

The Tokenized deposits vs. stablecoins debate is a false fight as banks create credit, stablecoins move money, and the future system needs both. Tokenized deposits keep corporate funds inside banks so they can borrow cheaply against them, while stablecoins are fully reserved, cash-like dollars that can move permissionlessly, 24/7, across borders. The real unlock is on-chain interoperability. Instant swaps between bank deposits and stablecoins so a company can tap cheap bank credit and pay anyone globally in seconds. In this framing, deposits = regulated credit rails, and stablecoins = universal settlement rails.

threadreaderapp.com · 3 min

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