FTX Selling Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million, SWIFT Announces Phase 2 Results of Tokenization Experiments

U.S. equities are rising in Tuesday trading, with the SPY and QQQ both gaining approximately 0.21%. U.S. durable goods orders rose 1.4% in February, bouncing back after dropping 6.1% in January. The DXY (+0.04%) is flat on the day but remains above $104, while rates are showing modest gains across the curve. Crypto markets are showing slight declines, with BTC (-0.22%) trading at $69.7k and ETH (-0.72%) holding above $3,550. It was revealed yesterday that the SEC will seek $2 billion in fines and penalties from Ripple Labs as part of their recent lawsuit. Ripple executive management took to Twitter, addressing the lack of precedent or merit to the SEC’s requests and saying that Ripple would respond with complete trust that the courts would “approach the remedies phase fairly.” XRP (-1.03%) has not overreacted to the news and remains above $0.63.