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Crypto is up (+1.8%) — Top: ARB +13.9%

Crypto prices drifted higher on the day (average +1.8%) as sentiment improved around institutional adoption narratives, helped by fresh discussion of tokenized-asset settlement following Swift and Chainlink’s trial updates. The strongest upside was concentrated in higher-beta L2 and smart-contract names, with Arbitrum and Avalanche leading, consistent with traders rotating into growth-oriented exposure when the macro news flow is constructive. By contrast, the day’s regulatory and governance headlines around Coinbase’s legal leadership transition and Binance’s MiCA commentary read as incremental rather than market-moving, while the AI-agent security warning stayed largely siloed to the AI theme and did not materially weigh on broad crypto risk appetite.

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