Ondo (ONDO) continues to rise for the fifth straight day, bringing its total gains to roughly 12% so far this week. Onboarding Franklin Templeton’s $1.7 trillion in financial products as tokenized Real-World Assets (RWA) on Ondo fuels Ondo’s Total Value Locked (TVL). Derivatives data show a surge in trader participation based on the double-digit increase in ONDO futures Open Interest over the last 24 hours.

Bitcoin (BTC) slips below $69,000 as of writing on Friday, nearly wiping out its recovery from earlier this week. Growing uncertainty over the US-Iran ceasefire plan and a slight bearish bias among institutional investors faded the Crypto King’s rebound, signaling cautious traders and no clear direction bias for the largest…