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WELLS FARGO FILES 'WFUSD' TRADEMARK FOR CRYPTO, PAYMENTS, AND TOKENIZATION

Wells Fargo, a financial services giant with approximately $2.1 trillion in assets, filed a trademark application for “WFUSD” on March 9 covering three international classes, including downloadable software for digital asset trading, payments and wallet functionality, cryptocurrency trading and exchange services, and software-as-a-service for asset tokenization and blockchain-based trading infrastructure. The “WFUSD” name resembles ticker symbols commonly used for stablecoins, and the filing explicitly references software for processing stablecoin transactions, though Wells Fargo has not publicly commented on the application. The trademark filing builds on Wells Fargo's prior crypto infrastructure investments, including $5 million in blockchain analytics firm Elliptic in February 2020 and participation in Talos's $105 million Series B round in May 2022 alongside Citigroup and BNY Mellon, which valued the crypto trading infrastructure firm at $1.25 billion.

AON TESTS STABLECOIN PAYMENTS FOR INSURANCE PREMIUMS

Aon, which manages roughly $5 trillion in assets, completed a proof-of-concept settling insurance premiums via USDC on Ethereum and PYUSD on Solana with Coinbase and Paxos – the first known instance of a major insurance broker accepting stablecoins for premium settlement. Cross-border premium settlement through bank clearing can take days, whereas stablecoin rails compress that to minutes with on-chain auditability. The initiative gained regulatory footing from the GENIUS Act, increasingly cited as a prerequisite for institutional stablecoin adoption at scale.

AI TOKENS RALLY AFTER NVIDIA OPEN-SOURCE AGENT PLAN

AI-linked crypto tokens rallied ~4.8% to a collective $14.17B market cap after reports that Nvidia is developing NemoClaw, an open-source platform for deploying autonomous, multi-step AI agents in enterprise environments. Bittensor (TAO) led gains, with NEAR Protocol and Internet Computer also advancing. Nvidia approached Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike as potential partners, with the platform incorporating enterprise security and privacy tooling. NemoClaw is slated to debut at Nvidia's GTC developer conference beginning March 17. Though there is no direct link with Nvidia's announcement and AI tokens, investors are hoping that open agents naturally use crypto rails for verifiability and decentralization.

CL-USDC ON BOROS: WHY WEEKEND FUNDING IS THE TRADE

CL-USDC perpetual funding data reveals a pronounced "TradFi Gap" phenomenon: weekends comprise only 29% of total hours yet account for 54% of all funding paid, with weekend mean APR of 40.82% running 2.85x above the weekday rate of 14.33% (overall mean 22.01%, positive funding frequency 79.2%). When TradFi closes, crude oil price discovery moves entirely onchain, and without desks to balance hedges, funding rates spike – the March 7 weekend averaged 74% APR as oil breached $100 amid Iran strike headlines. The proposed Boros trade is to enter pay-fixed/receive-floating swaps ahead of each weekend to capture the rate spike, then rotate to receive-fixed/pay-variable at Monday open as TradFi liquidity returns and rates compress.

AAVE FEBRUARY 2026 REPORT

Despite a February market correction that drove TVL down 21.58% MoM to $44.94B and triggered approximately $429M in liquidations across 12,500 transactions, Aave's protocol revenue paradoxically rose 31.24% MoM to $13.40M, with liquidation activity and Chainlink SVR contributing $4.6M (34.4% of monthly revenue). GHO demonstrated resilience, growing 6.74% MoM to $467.53M market cap, while RWA deposits crossed $1B and cumulative loans originated since V1 surpassed $1 trillion. Aave maintained 59.36% lending market share with MAU rising 34.88% MoM to 154.63K, and L2 chains accounting for 60%+ of active users. A governance proposal dubbed the "Aave Will Win Framework" was put forward to redirect 100% of product revenue to the DAO treasury.

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