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Crypto is up (+3.0%) — Top: AAVE +9.5%

Crypto markets traded broadly higher (average +2.93%) as regulatory and infrastructure headlines reinforced a “lower policy risk, improving rails” narrative that tends to lift large-cap risk assets, with Ethereum (+6.82%) and DeFi names like Aave (+9.49%) leading the move. In particular, the Treasury’s outline of how stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act would target illicit finance without broadly constraining legitimate activity supported sentiment around on-chain finance, while Nunchuk’s release of open-source tools for bounded-authority Bitcoin agents added to the constructive backdrop for crypto-native tooling. Offsetting headlines, such as Cango’s reported $143 million BTC sale and Argentina’s LIBRA-related investigation, appeared to be treated as idiosyncratic rather than market-wide negatives, suggesting buyers were more focused on policy clarity and ecosystem development than single-issuer or single-jurisdiction risks.

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