Crypto Green Ahead of FOMC, ZEC Activates Ironwood Upgrade, PIPEDOG Explodes From Nowhere to $40m+

Crypto majors are green and rebounding ahead of FOMC; BTC +2% at $64.4k; ETH +2% at $1,910; SOL +1% at $74; HYPE +1% at $54.80. Top alt movers include Kaito (+9%), JUP (+8%) and UNI (+7%). Oil +4% at $83; Gold even at $4,030. Stock futures are mixed ahead of FOMC today; DOW -0.3%, Nasdaq +0.3%. BlackRock, Fidelity, and other Wall Street giants publicly backed the CLARITY Act, with BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, and SoFi all urging passage, even as JPMorgan splits from the group over stablecoin-yield rules and the Senate’s window shrinks. Wall Street veteran Don Wilson said regulators are getting perps all wrong, arguing that crypto’s biggest trading innovation, perpetual futures, is being misunderstood by the CFTC and CME as they fight over onchain oversight. Ondo dropped its tokenized-asset blockchain plans in favor of a private, high-speed trading network, a notable pivot for one of the biggest names in real-world-asset tokenization. Ethereum startup EthSystems is betting privacy is the key to getting banks onchain, building tools so institutions can use public blockchains without exposing their activity. Michael Saylor called Bitcoin's code "a constitution," arguing that changes like BIP-110 are attacks on "economic rights". Morgan Stanley launched spot Ethereum and Solana ETPs under tickers MSSE and MSOL, each staking a portion of holdings and passing rewards to investors. 1inch launched its Aqua shared-liquidity layer publicly on 13 chains, letting LPs keep tokens in their own wallets while backing several positions at once, in what it calls the first “risk-controlled” DeFi liquidity venue. Russia charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list, with the FSB alleging Telegram won't remove channels used to coordinate attacks inside Russia. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets