Bitcoin's $1.7 trillion market cap is still "a drop in the bucket" compared to gold's $30 trillion and real estate's roughly $400 trillion. @RaphaZagury, CEO of @twentyone, tells @JD_Durkin he sees bitcoin:native as "the best savings technology" ever, gradually capturing monetary premium from those other assets.

Today on Taking Stock | S&P 500 heads for weekly gain as oil pulls back on Hormuz developments. @MReinking on elevated yields, @twentyone CEO @RaphaZagury talks a new kind of Bitcoin treasury + @XPRIZE rings the Closing Bell! @jd_durkin has more.

Twenty-one-year-old Nabing Magar returned to her home in Nepal's Nuwakot district after floods swept through the area, killing her two buffaloes, goats and chickens and burying them under mud and debris

THE BLOCK: Twenty-one major financial institutions have committed to establish a new stablecoin company in the second half of 2026, moving the initiative beyond the exploratory stage announced by 10 banks last October. The group has added 13 members, including Fidelity, Wells Fargo, Capital One, WisdomTree, BBVA, Lloyds and Standard Bank, while Barclays and BNP Paribas are no longer listed. The yet-to-be-named company aims to launch a USD stablecoin in the first half of 2027, with a euro stablecoin and other G7 currencies planned later.

JUST IN: Twenty One Capital CEO tells Bloomberg "Bitcoin is the best savings technology in the world" 💥 "Bitcoin is a monetary asset that's different than anything else than we've ever seen as humans, it's extremely predictable. The monetary issuance is written in code." 👏