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Crypto is down (-2.6%) — Top: UNI -11.6%

Crypto markets traded lower on average (about -3.0%) as risk appetite softened amid renewed regulatory overhang, highlighted by New York’s lawsuit against Polymarket that reinforces ongoing scrutiny of crypto-adjacent financial products. That risk-off tone hit DeFi and Ethereum L2 names hardest, with UNI and ARB among the notable underperformers, as traders typically de-risk higher-beta tokens first when headline regulatory pressure rises. Meanwhile, institutionally framed developments such as Ondo’s launch of onchain portfolio tokens and the trade-finance push by stablecoin issuer Qivalis were not enough to offset the broader caution, leaving the market to price the near-term policy uncertainty more heavily than longer-term adoption narratives.

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