#WeeklyMarketHighlights
Weekly Market Highlights — April 18, 2025
BTC Strategy Grows, DeFi Faces Pullback
Strategy now holds 531,644 BTC (2.5% of total supply) after purchasing 3,459 BTC for $285.8M.
Metaplanet adds 319 BTC, totaling 4,525 BTC in reserves.
VanEck unveils BitBonds—a U.S. Treasuries + Bitcoin hybrid product, and preps a crypto ETF launch.
Panama City greenlights crypto payments for taxes & permits (BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT).
DeFi Update
DeFi TVL dropped 27.5% (US$48B) in Q1.
Raydium launches LaunchLab for token creation.
Sky and Spark inject US$25M into Maple Finance RWA lending.
Solayer unveils crypto credit card.
Other Highlights
Eliza Labs launches auto.fun—AI-powered token deployment.
Treehouse Finance hits $400M valuation in new funding round.
Securitise acquires fund admin firm, now managing $38B AUM.
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