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Foresight News report, Vitalik stated on social media that with the significant increase in Ethereum's main chain capacity and gas limit plans, the originally envisioned 'brand sharding' layer two is no longer necessary. L2 cannot fully meet the characteristics that 'brand sharding' should have, and some projects may even remain in stage 1 forever to meet client regulatory needs. Therefore, L2 should be repositioned, no longer merely pursuing scalability, but instead providing unique additional features such as privacy-focused virtual machines, application-specific efficiency, extreme scalability, social/identity/AI non-financial application design, as well as low latency or built-in oracles.

Foresight News: Ondo announces the launch of perpetual contract products for trading major U.S. stocks and ETFs around the clock, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times. Available only for users outside the United States. Users can use tokenized securities as collateral, cross-collateralizing positions with a maximum leverage of 20 times.

Foresight News reported that Crypto.com announced on Tuesday that the company will launch a dedicated prediction market platform OG a few days before the Super Bowl. Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek stated that its event contract business has grown 40 times week over week in the past six months, making the launch of a standalone product necessary.

Foresight News reports that Ondo has announced the launch of Global Listing, allowing U.S. stock IPOs to be almost instantly on-chain at the moment of listing. From day one, trading services can be accessed on mainstream blockchains through the Ondo Global Markets platform. Now, wallets, trading platforms, and blockchains can offer global users the opportunity for on-chain IPOs from day one, utilizing tokenized stocks that are permissionless and transferable, designed for composability similar to stablecoins, and compatible with the most widely used blockchain ecosystems.

Foresight News reports that, according to Fortune magazine, the prediction market Kairos has completed a $2.5 million financing round, led by a16z crypto, with follow-on investments from Geneva Trading, the University of Illinois, and angel investors.

Kairos was co-founded by Jay Malavia (CEO) and Zayd Alzein (CTO), both of whom previously worked at the traditional financial company Cboe Global Markets. They started the project after noticing the fragmented information and disjointed experience in the prediction market industry. Their platform aims to integrate the markets and trading of leading prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, providing a fast, customizable dashboard and synchronously displaying related news dynamics with trading data. The company plans to launch a private beta version in the coming weeks, and currently has only the two co-founders, with hiring expected to start after the financing.

According to Foresight News, as per the official announcement, MetaMask has completed integration with the tokenized real asset platform Ondo Finance. Through this collaboration, eligible mobile users outside the United States can now directly purchase, hold, and trade over 200 tokenized U.S. stocks, ETFs, and commodities within the MetaMask wallet via Ondo Global Markets.

The first batch of supported assets includes stocks such as Tesla, NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and others, as well as silver, gold, and ETFs like QQQ. Users do not need to open a traditional retail brokerage account and can trade entirely through encrypted channels. Users can use the MetaMask Swaps feature to exchange USDC for Ondo's global market tokens (GM tokens) on the Ethereum mainnet. This token aims to track the market value of its underlying securities. Trading hours are from 20:05 on Sunday to 19:59 on Friday Eastern Time, supporting trading 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, and the tokens can be transferred around the clock.

Foresight News reports that the well-known Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator has announced that it will allow founders of its Spring 2026 batch of startups to choose to receive funding in the form of the stablecoin USDC, typically amounting to around $500,000. Y Combinator's crypto access partner Nemil Dalal stated that founders who choose stablecoins can receive tokens on multiple blockchains such as Ethereum and Solana, and it may expand to other stablecoins in the future based on demand. He noted that stablecoins are one of the key areas where the organization hopes to see more entrepreneurial ideas, and therefore hopes to practice this direction firsthand.

Foresight News report, the probability of MegaETH listing on Polymarket having a fully diluted valuation (FDV) exceeding $1 billion drops to 62%, exceeding $1.5 billion is 31%, and exceeding $2 billion is 17%. Currently, the market transaction volume exceeds $9.1 million.

Foresight News reported, according to CoinDesk, that Kraken's parent company Payward announced its performance for 2025, with adjusted revenue of 2.2 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 33%. Adjusted EBITDA grew by 26% to 531 million USD. The company stated that revenue from trading operations accounted for 47% of total revenue, with the remaining income coming from non-trading businesses such as custody, payments, and financing.

Its total trading volume increased by 34% to 2 trillion USD, and platform asset size grew by 12% to 48.5 billion USD. The number of customer accounts increased by 50% to 5.7 million, with part of the growth attributed to acquisition activities. During the period, the average daily trading volume of its futures products increased by 119%.

Foresight News reports that the sports and entertainment public chain Chiliz Chain announced on platform X that Chiliz will launch fan tokens for U.S. fans in the coming months, with 10% of the fan token revenue being used to buy back and burn CHZ tokens.

Foresight News reports that according to an official announcement, Coinbase will launch spot trading for Tria (TRIA).

Foresight News reports that, according to Bloomberg, Cipher Mining Inc. plans to raise $2 billion through the U.S. high-yield bond market to fund data center construction related to Amazon. The company stated in a press release that it will issue bonds maturing in 2031 through a private placement to cover the remaining construction costs of its Black Pearl computing data center located in Wink, Texas.

Foresight News reported that Jack Yi (易理华), founder of Liquid Capital, tweeted: "As a bull in this round, we remain optimistic about the performance of the new bull market: ETH reaching over $10,000 and BTC exceeding $200,000. We have made some adjustments to manage risk, but our expectations for the future bull market remain unchanged. I know everyone is disappointed with the industry and the leaders, especially due to the 1011 incident which led to a liquidity shortage and some platform manipulation. However, I believe the long-term trend in the cryptocurrency space remains unchanged. Right now is the best time to buy spot assets, based on future three-year investment returns. Volatility is the biggest characteristic of the cryptocurrency market; countless bulls have been thrown off by this volatility, but often the subsequent rebounds are doubled."

Foresight News reported that Robinhood has launched the gold token PAXG.

Foresight News reports that Galaxy Digital, a provider of digital assets and data center infrastructure listed on NASDAQ, released its financial performance report for 2025, revealing that its total assets reached $12 billion by the end of 2025, with net inflows of $2 billion in asset management business and cash and stablecoin holdings of $2.6 billion. Galaxy also disclosed that it strengthened its balance sheet by raising $325 million in equity capital and issuing $1.3 billion in exchangeable preferred notes, and has completed the acquisition of the staking software development company Alluvial Finance.

Foresight News reported that Elon Musk responded on Twitter, stating that SpaceX may send real Dogecoin to the moon as early as next year.

Foresight News reported that the confidential computing network Arcium has announced that its mainnet Alpha version is now live. The focus of this version update is on providing core functionalities, stability, and user experience, and it is not prepared for decentralization.

Foresight News reported by The Block, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan stated that the crypto market has been in a "complete crypto winter" since early 2025, but the current market is likely closer to the end of the downturn cycle rather than the beginning. Hougan pointed out that Bitcoin has dropped about 39% from its historical high in October 2025, while Ethereum has decreased by about 53%, with many other digital assets experiencing even deeper declines. He believes that the current stage can be compared to the crypto winters of 2018 and 2022, characterized by excessive leverage and early holders generally taking profits, with negative sentiment overwhelming incremental positives; despite Bitcoin peaking in October 2025, the actual market weakness began in January 2025, merely masked by strong ETF and digital asset treasury inflows. Without this support, Bitcoin's decline could approach 60%.

Foresight News reported that the Ink Ecosystem DEX Nado tweeted that the points page is now live, allowing users to track weekly point declines, rankings, and trader levels. The initially distributed points include Nado Alpha and points from the off-season. In the future, points will be distributed every Friday.

Foresight News message, Abstract tweeted that it has integrated the 0x protocol, allowing users to execute trades with smaller spreads and less slippage.