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Headlines

• NYSE parent company invested in OKX at a $25B valuation — OKX launched perps on select equities

• Crude oil posted its biggest weekly gain ever as conflict escalates in Iran

• A16Z announced a new $2B crypto venture fund

• The S&P 500 posted consecutive days below 100 day moving average for the first time in 10 months

• Kraken became first exchange to receive access to the Federal Reserve

Macro News

• Middle Eastern countries discussed pulling US investments amidst Iranian conflict

• Polymarket targets $20B valuation for new funding round

• The US SEC and CFTC will move into the same building

• Blackrock limited how much investors can pull out of private credit fund

• Kevin Warsh was officially nominated for next Fed Chair

• Weak US payroll report increased rate cut odds

Crypto News

• John Lick was arrested with an assist from ZachXBT for stealing over $46M in crypto from the US government

• Strategy’s STRC continued to trade above $100 par as Polymarket predicts over 20K BTC will be purchased in March

• Trump lashed out against banks and pushed for crypto market structure bill after Brian Armstrong visited the White House

• ETH validator queue time surged to 60 days as total ETH staked hit a new ATH

Tokens and NFTs

• OpenSea released their CLI for AI agents

• USDAI closes CHIP token sale raising $19.4M

• PEI Licensing suedPudgy Penguins for use of the penguin logo

• Meteora launched a trading terminal with a focus on LP

• Coinbase launched spot trading of Limitless’ LMTS token

• Paradex’s DIME token went live

AI News

• Anthropic is re-entered talks with Pentagon to reach AI model compromise — CEO thinks Claude may be sentient

• OpenAI released GPT 5.4

• Study showed 22 of 36 AI models prefer Bitcoin as their currency of choice, with none choosing fiat

• Polygon launched agent CLI

• Google adds workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Drive) CLI with agent support

• Binance launched batch of 7 AI agent skills