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Crypto is up (+2.4%) — Top: AAVE +9.5%

Crypto markets traded higher on average (+2.40%) as risk appetite improved on a mix of regulatory-clarity headlines and institution-facing product developments, which tend to reduce perceived policy and access frictions for large allocators. South Korea’s proposal to apply bank-style rules to stablecoins and MEXC’s push toward EU MiCA compliance helped frame the day’s gains as regulation trending toward formalization rather than outright restriction, supporting broad bids that lifted majors like Ethereum (+6.82%) and higher-beta names such as Cardano (+7.04%) and Immutable (+6.63%). The strongest move in Aave (+9.49%) fits that “risk-on” tone in DeFi, where traders typically rotate into more volatile protocol tokens when sentiment improves, while the separate AAVE drawdown (-8.81%) highlights how quickly positioning can unwind even on up days.

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