Kraken Eyes a 15% Stake in Aave at $385M + Guests: Joseph Chalom + Wiz to Talk Ethlabs & Markets

Crypto majors are mostly red down 1-5%; BTC -3% at $59.4k; ETH -5% at $1,550; SOL +1% at $68.68; HYPE -1% at $62. JTO (+12%), INJ (+9%) and VVV (+4%) led top movers. Oil even at $69.60; Gold +0.5% at $4,070. Stock futures are red as the tech selloff continues; DOW -0.1%, Nasdaq -1.1%. Strategy’s STRC hit a new low as Bitcoin got slammed again, the preferred stock sliding further as BTC broke toward 2026 lows, keeping pressure on Saylor’s funding engine. Tether flipped ETH in fully diluted market cap to become the 2nd biggest crypto after the recent ETH slide. OpenAI executives are reportedly pressuring Sam Altman to push the IPO back to 2027 based on the market’s reaction to SpaceX. Coinbase’s Base network recovered from a block-production issue that briefly halted the chain before resuming normal operation after the outage. SBI Holdings struck a $289 million deal to acquire Bitbank, creating Japan’s largest regulated crypto exchange. CoinEx denied any involvement in an alleged $38 billion Iranian sanctions-evasion scheme, pushing back on claims tying the exchange to the operation. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets