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TLDR CRYPTO 2025-03-06

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01MARKETS & BUSINESS

COINBASE EYES TOKENIZED SECURITIES AS CRYPTO REGULATIONS SHIFT UNDER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Coinbase is revisiting its goal to introduce tokenized securities to the U.S. market given the apparent regulatory shift under the Trump administration, which now appears more supportive of crypto innovation. With the SEC's crypto task force in place, Coinbase sees an opportunity to revive its earlier efforts to launch security tokens and improve traditional asset trading on-chain.

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ETHEREUM DEVS ACTIVATE PECTRA UPGRADE ON SEPOLIA TESTNET IN LAST PHASE BEFORE MAINNET ROLLOUT

Ethereum's Pectra upgrade has been activated on the Sepolia testnet, marking the final major test phase before its planned mainnet launch next month. The upgrade introduces improvements to scalability, security, and usability, including an improved wallet experience (less wallet approvals), account abstraction, and increased validator stake limits.

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02INNOVATION & LAUNCHES

NEXUS TESTNET II RECAP: BUILDING THE LAYER 1 SUPERCOMPUTER

Nexus has completed its second testnet for its upcoming blockchain, demonstrating scale with 2.1 million unique users and 3.6 million total nodes over a 4.5-day period. The testnet integrated blockchain functionality with its distributed supercomputer network. Nexus is working toward its vision of a “Verifiable Internet” powered by its zkVM, with the platform now transitioning to devnet mode for continued development.

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CORK: THE TOKENIZED RISK PRIMITIVE

Cork Protocol has launched its public beta on Ethereum Mainnet, introducing a new DeFi primitive for pricing, hedging, and trading risk in the $30B onchain credit market. Depeg Swaps are a new asset class allowing users to price and hedge against depeg events in stablecoins and liquid staking tokens. The beta features capped liquidity vaults for the next 3-6 months, aiming to enable risk-free leveraged farming strategies and prevent systemic risks like Terra.

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03GUIDES & TUTORIALS

ARE STABLECOINS A NEW FINANCIAL SYSTEM OR WILL THEY BE REPLACED?

Stablecoins account for two-thirds of all onchain transactions and are increasingly growing with institutional and retail interest alike. Initially popularized by Tether for arbitrage, they've grown into a fast, low-cost alternative for transfers, payments, and yield generation, outpacing traditional wires and processors like Western Union. In regions plagued by capital controls and inefficient banking, stablecoins offer financial freedom and the potential to transform global money movement.

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FRANKLIN TEMPLETON: SOLANA VS ETHEREUM DEFI

Solana's DEX volume surpassed all EVM DEX volumes for the first time in January 2025. Despite this achievement and higher growth profiles, Solana DeFi continues to trade at lower valuation multiples compared to Ethereum counterparts, potentially presenting a market asymmetry. This shift, combined with Solana's milestone of one year without outages and the migration of Ethereum activity to Layer 2s, suggests a potential transition from EVM to SVM dominance in DeFi, while also validating Ethereum's modular scaling approach.

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04MISCELLANEOUS

WALLET-CENTRISM

As crypto moves toward AI agents as the primary point of interaction, users will increasingly delegate complex tasks to their agents, requiring a secure and universal way to manage identity and permissions. Self-custody wallets will become the primary interface for both onchain and offchain activities, serving as a cryptographically-secure “autonomous extension” of users that can generate attestations and manage permissions on their behalf.

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ETHENA LABS IS NOW A TOP 5 DEFI PROTOCOL BY TVL, EARNING $300M+ IN REVENUE

Ethena Labs has become a top 5 DeFi protocol by TVL, generating over $300M in revenue, leading to the approval of a fee switch proposal by its Risk Committee. The activation of this fee switch depends on meeting key success and risk metrics, ensuring sustainable revenue distribution to ENA stakers.

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