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Crypto is up (+1.3%) — Top: ARB +13.9%

Crypto markets edged higher on average (+0.95%) as traders leaned into a modest risk-on tone driven by regulatory positioning rather than macro catalysts. The White House’s disclosure that it has received no Democratic nominees for SEC and CFTC vacancies, alongside Phantom and Hyperliquid’s call for the CFTC to modernize onchain derivatives rules, helped frame near-term regulation as more procedural and potentially more market-structure focused, supporting outsized strength in higher-beta names like Arbitrum (ARB). Offsetting that, pockets of weakness in majors such as NEAR (-6.03%) and Cardano (-5.6%) suggest the bid was selective, with ongoing scrutiny of miners’ AI pivots and governance uncertainty keeping some investors cautious even as the Ethereum Foundation’s AI-driven security work reinforced the longer-term push toward more resilient infrastructure.

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