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Franklin Templeton has partnered with Ondo Finance to issue tokenized versions of its ETFs, enabling 24/7 trading via crypto wallets without requiring brokerage accounts. The structure removes two core constraints of traditional fund investing: restricted trading hours tied to exchange sessions and custodial reliance on broker-dealer intermediaries. Ondo Finance, the leading RWA tokenization protocol by TVL, will provide the onchain infrastructure that allows ETF shares to settle and transfer on public blockchain rails.

Lawmakers released a compromise update to the Clarity Act's stablecoin yield provisions that bars firms from tying rewards to account-level transaction volume, closing the door on credit card-style stablecoin rewards models. Coinbase emerged as the primary industry dissenter, with CEO Brian Armstrong having previously derailed an earlier compromise attempt, while other stakeholders described the updated text as acceptable or better than expected. Circle's stock fell 20% Tuesday following news of the restrictions before recovering partially Wednesday. A concurrent Tether announcement of a Big Four audit contributed to market volatility, while White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt publicly dismissed industry concerns, signaling the administration intends to move forward with the current framework.

DTCC received a No-Action Letter from the SEC authorizing tokenization of real-world assets on approved blockchains and is targeting production tokenization of US Treasury securities in H1 2026, after processing $3.7 quadrillion in transactions in 2024. NYSE announced a platform for 24/7 onchain trading and settlement of US equities and ETFs with BNY and Citi support, while Tradeweb executed the first real-time onchain financing of US Treasuries against USDC alongside Bank of America, Citadel Securities, and Virtu Financial. The thesis is that tokenization applies the same velocity-increasing logic that electronic trading brought in the 1990s (24/7 markets, instant settlement, fractionalization, and real-time collateral movement) to the entire global financial stack.

Tori Finance is launching a yield protocol that ports institutional delta-neutral strategies on-chain, targeting up to 15% APY with no directional crypto exposure. It uses the strUSD token as a yield-bearing instrument running the same strategies institutions have had access to for decades, but have been closed to the public due to high minimums and accreditation. All yield comes from trading revenue, not short-term incentive programs or single-strategy dependencies.

The Ethereum Foundation's Platform team published a framework positioning L1 and L2s as complementary layers rather than competitors. L1 serves as the permissionless global hub for settlement, shared state, liquidity, and DeFi, while L2s deliver specialized features like non-EVM execution, privacy, ultra-low latency, and custom sequencing. The post recommends L2s pursue Stage 2 status on L2Beat, synchronous composability, and native rollup architecture to eliminate security councils. ZK technology advances have enabled L1 scaling faster than originally anticipated, with blob capacity currently at roughly 30% utilization.

Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi takes the most bearish stance among crypto leaders quoted in a recent Forbes piece on agentic payments, arguing that current agents are too unreliable for autonomous money management because they operate on tasks outside their training distribution. x402 processing around $1M/day in volume, with multi-party payment protocols seeing lower throughput, confirms the ecosystem remains in a tinkerer phase with no meaningful commercial deployment. RL fine-tuning on agentic task traces is the primary performance catalyst, and major labs hold large volumes of interaction data from tools like OpenClaw but have not yet applied it to specialized model training. He maps the adoption timeline to a standard diffusion curve: next-generation models expected within months will close the tinkering era, while the early majority phase remains years away.

The post-CLARITY Act selloff in Circle misreads where yield restrictions land, falling on distributors like Coinbase rather than issuers. Coinbase earns over $900M per year in USDC revenue share, roughly half of Circle's total revenue, making it the more exposed party under rules that curtail distribution-side yield. Circle's regulated issuer status is an asset under stricter federal oversight, and the August 2026 commercial renegotiation with Coinbase means tighter rules could shift bargaining leverage toward Circle. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan projects Circle could reach a $75B valuation as the stablecoin market grows to $1.9-4 trillion by decade's end, with adoption driven by cross-border payment utility rather than yield.

Tokens.fun launched on Base with an AI platform that converts a plain-text startup idea into a deployed app and live token in a single flow. The product targets founders who want to skip the build cycle and go from concept to onchain token launch.

A coordinated incentives campaign across Base DeFi protocols, including Moonwell, Mamo, Glider, Superform, and Merkl, is offering 18%+ APR via boosted yield stacked on top of existing protocol yield and points.

A daily roundup capturing 13 developments: Elon Musk's X hired Benji Taylor (ex-Aave Labs CPO, ex-Base design lead) as X Money prepares for April launch, Midas introduced mGLOBAL in partnership with Fasanara Capital ($5.5B AUM) to tokenize a European asset-backed lending fund, and Pudgy Penguins launched a Visa card with KAST in 170+ countries offering up to 12% cashback to name a few.

Rain published eight use cases for building stablecoin-powered products and payment experiences on its infrastructure.

Revolut users have transferred over $1.2 billion on Polygon, with cross-border remittances costing fractions of a cent.