ICYMI: Here's a quick news recap from today's Asia & EMEA sessions @TheBlock__ 👇 🏅 Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the stablecoin giant is on track to become one of the largest gold central banks in the world and plans to actively trade its reserves, Bloomberg reported. 📜 A South Dakota lawmaker has introduced a bill that seeks to allow the state to invest a portion of its public funds in bitcoin, reviving efforts that failed to materialize in the state legislature last year. 🤖 Ethereum announced that ERC-8004, a proposal defining a standard for trustless AI agents on the network, is set to go live on mainnet soon. 🤔 Ethereum researchers are also considering a new mechanism designed to harden the network's censorship resistance as the headline proposal for its Hegota upgrade. 🚀 Ripple launched Ripple Treasury, a corporate treasury platform that integrates GTreasury's enterprise software with Ripple's blockchain infrastructure. 💰 Former Revolut leaders Joao Alves and Guilherme Gomes have raised a $6 million seed round to expand Bleap, an onchain finance app built around self-custody and stablecoin-based payments. 💸 WisdomTree is extending the full suite of its tokenized funds onto Solana, one of its largest non-EVM chain deployments to date. 📈 HYPE jumped more than 60% over the past week, trading near $35, as open interest and trading activity on Hyperliquid continued to rise following a surge in commodities-focused derivatives. 🪙 Fidelity Investments is set to launch its first stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD), as one of the world's largest asset managers steps into onchain payments and settlement as U.S. regulation around digital dollars takes shape.

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