Bitcoin rebounded sharply on Friday, climbing back to $69,000 after U.S. 
inflation data came in cooler than expected at 2.4%. The move marked a 5% 
rally in under 24 hours, adding about $70 billion to its market cap and 
lifting the broader crypto market to $2.42 trillion. Market Resilience and 
Recovery Bitcoin staged a notable […]

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Companies linked to President Donald Trump are expanding their presence in the 
cryptocurrency industry, with the Trump Media &amp; Technology Group taking 
another formal step into digital asset markets. Truth Social Funds, an 
affiliate of Trump Media, has submitted a registration statement to the US 
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeking approval to launch two new 
cryptocurrency exchange‑traded funds (ETFs). Trump Media Latest Crypto 
Proposal The filings outline plans for Crypto.com’s native token, Cronos 
(CRO), the Cronos Yield Maximizer ETF, and the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum 
(ETH) ETFs. Related Reading: Standard Chartered Lowers Bitcoin Forecast: 
Predicts Price Dive To $50,000 Before Rebound The Cronos-focused product is 
designed to provide exposure to CRO, the native token of the Cronos 
blockchain, while also capturing staking rewards associated with holding the 
asset. The second fund would track the performance of Bitcoin and Ethereum, 
the two largest cryptocurrencies by market value, and incorporate Ether 
staking yields into its strategy. Under the proposed structure, Crypto.com 
would play a central operational role. The digital asset platform is set to 
provide custody, liquidity, and staking services for the funds. Meanwhile, 
Yorkville America Equities has been named as the investment adviser, with the 
filings indicating a 0.95% annual management fee. Bitcoin Struggles Below 
$70,000 Friday’s announcement builds on a broader strategic partnership formed 
last year between Trump Media and Crypto.com. As part of that agreement, Trump 
Media was set to acquire 684.4 million Cronos (CRO) tokens at an approximate 
price of $0.153 per token. The transaction was structured as a 50% stock and 
50% cash exchange and included the creation of a Trump Media Group CRO 
Strategy aimed at integrating Cronos into the company’s broader digital asset 
plans. Related Reading: Cardano Founder Hoskinson Warns Of 90-180 Days Of Pain 
Ahead: Here’s Why The expansion into crypto-linked investment products comes 
at a time when Bitcoin continues to face technical resistance. Although the 
leading cryptocurrency has posted gains of roughly 5% over the past 24 hours, 
it remains unable to decisively break above the $70,000 level. Shares of Trump 
Media (DJT) also moved modestly higher during Friday’s trading session, rising 
about 2.5% to trade near $11.18. Featured image from OpenArt, chart from 
TradingView.com

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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says the crypto market is headed for “90–180 
days” of more grind, not because the industry lacks catalysts, but because 
retail is exhausted and the narrative that kept people engaged has stopped 
working. Speaking with CoinDesk at Consensus 2026 in Hong Kong, the Input 
Output CEO framed the current drawdown as a morale problem as much as a market 
one. “This one particularly stings because we expected a really strong cycle 
in 2025 and we didn’t quite get it,” he said. “So, a lot of people are pretty 
bitter about it… We just got to get through the next 90-180 days. It’s going 
to be tough.” Cardano Founder On What Went Wrong For Crypto Hoskinson’s core 
point was that crypto has spent years promising a near-term “magic fix,” then 
watching the market fail to respond even when those fixes arrived. He rattled 
off the sequence retail has lived through: NFT mania, the collapse of Luna, 
collapse of FTX, the “scary Gary era,” memecoin mania, and “all the Trump 
stuff” and argued that each cycle offered the same story: endure the pain now, 
because something big is coming in 6–12 months. “And we got all the 
mcguffins,” he said. “We got BlackRock coming in. We got the US government 
doing the reserve thing. We got good regulation with Genius to start… all the 
things that we were looking for happened and then nothing happened 
afterwards.” Related Reading: Cardano May Be At A Prime Buying Point, Analyst 
Says To explain the mood, Hoskinson leaned on a vivid travel metaphor: “We got 
to the town and the hotel was closed, the restaurants closed and we’re like 
where do we sleep and eat? … people are deeply frustrated.” That frustration, 
in his telling, has turned into a broader disengagement. Retail isn’t shocked 
by volatility, it’s bored and worn down by the repeated promise that the next 
institutional wave, the next regulatory milestone, or the next narrative pivot 
will make the market “work” again. Hoskinson also cast the next phase of 
adoption as politically contentious inside crypto itself. As more traditional 
finance players get involved, he warned of a future where the industry becomes 
“federated”, dominated by large corporate-controlled networks and where users 
are pushed away from self-custody. “What they want to do long term is move 
everybody into a custodial holder from a non-custodial holder and then ban 
DeFi and non-custodial wallets so they can consolidate the entire industry to 
like 10 or 15 of big actors,” he said, adding that it’s feeding apathy among 
long-time participants. He put it more bluntly a moment later: “We didn’t sign 
up to have Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and BlackRock and these other guys run 
the industry. We signed up to build a new banking system that is pushing power 
to the edges.” If the industry drifts back into the hands of the institutions 
crypto originally positioned itself against, Hoskinson argued, the last decade 
of risk-taking starts to look like a round trip. How To Make Crypto Great 
Again Hoskinson’s proposed reset centers on making crypto usable for people 
who aren’t primarily there to trade. That starts with “wallet abstraction”, 
reducing onboarding to something like “30 seconds with a fingerprint and a pin 
code,” plus social recovery and then integrating those wallets into mainstream 
platforms so the default experience becomes non-financial. Related Reading: 
Cardano Nears End Of 2020-Style Correction: Is $5 To $10 Next? “Right now, I 
have to understand… private keys, understand how to back up wallets, all this 
stuff,” he said. “So, really, the only interface is for people that are doing 
this for financial reasons.” From there, he argued, crypto should stop “over 
financializing everything,” pointing to the volume of token launches as a 
symptom. “Anytime I hear anything, I always ask, ‘When’s the token launch?’ 
And I’m sorry, 11 million tokens went out last year. It’s not sustainable,” he 
said. He tied that thesis to what he sees as the next wave of demand: agentic 
AI. By 2030, Hoskinson predicted, “the majority of internet searches in 
commerce will be agentic,” meaning bots transact more than humans and crypto, 
via stablecoins and standards he referenced such as x402 becomes the rails 
that give those agents “economic agency.” Hoskinson also dismissed the idea 
that quantum fears are driving today’s downturn. “If there are, they’re 
stupid,” he said of anyone selling Bitcoin due to quantum risk, calling the 
threat “not… right now.” He pointed instead to DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking 
Initiative (QBI), saying the effort is working toward measuring whether 
quantum computers will be meaningful “by 2033,” and argued the real issue is 
trade-offs: post-quantum cryptography is “5 to 10 times less efficient,” and 
few networks want to pay that cost today. Still, he framed the looming 
transition as an opportunity, especially for Bitcoin, which he said may need a 
hard fork to fully address post-quantum migration. For Cardano, he argued, on- 
chain governance makes such changes a more bounded process: “It’s a six-month 
conversation for us.” At press time, Cardano traded at $0.2638. Featured image 
from YouTube, chart from TradingView.com

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A new framework allows institutions to borrow against staked SOL while the 
assets remain in qualified custody, as US lawmakers debate DeFi oversight.

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