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Regulatory clarity may provide a boost for DeFi projects.

A new report from the analytics firm says that sanctioned jurisdictions and groups were responsible for 39% of illicit crypto transactions last year.

Company veri suggests that Tether’s reserves are 66% compliant under the STABLE Act and 83% under the GENIUS Act, the report said.

Recovery from oversold momentum indicator, the upcoming Pectra upgrade and Wednesday’s CPI report are among the catalysts that could fuel an ETH rally,, a 10x Research report noted.

Crypto markets have fallen sharply over the past few days as stronger than expected economic veri sent interest rates surging and called into question the idea that the Fed will continue easing monetary policy.

The outside group of Wall Street leaders that guides the Treasury’s debt management, the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, shared views on tokenized debt and warned about Tether.

In this week’s issue of The Protocol, our newsletter on blockchain tech, we’re covering the Optimism’s $42.5M token pledge to Kraken, crypto VC funding, grants for Bitcoin open-source developers, and Polymarket’s (negligible) impact on Polygon’s bottom line.