Traditional finance is moving quickly into tokenized assets, longer trading hours, and blockchain-based settlement. That leaves DeFi's clearest edge, composability, under pressure to prove it can be trusted at institutional scale.
Payrolls rose 178,000 in March versus 60,000 expected, but a falling labor force, a shorter workweek, and fresh revisions muddy the picture as stronger data cools hopes for Fed cuts and pressures BTC.
Circle's own terms say it can block addresses and freeze funds under legal orders, but the latest controversy is whether those powers are being applied precisely, consistently, and in users' interests.