Some pretty wild developments dropped recently in the crypto space. Sergey Nazarov, the guy behind Chainlink, just threw out a bold prediction: DeFi has hit about 30% of where it could be in terms of mass adoption. Get this—he thinks we might see it go full throttle to 100% within the next four years, but there's a catch. Regulatory clarity needs to come through first. Without that? We're stuck.

Meanwhile, the New York Stock Exchange just certified its approval for the Bitwise Dogecoin ETF to list and register. Yeah, you read that right. Dogecoin. The meme coin that started as a joke might soon have a spot on the NYSE through an exchange-traded fund. Wild times.

And here's the kicker—Texas just made history as the first U.S. state to officially buy Bitcoin. They dropped a cool $10 million into BTC. Governments getting in on the action? That's the kind of signal that makes you wonder what's coming next.