The Daily: Trump nominates pro-bitcoin Lutnick for Commerce Secretary, Metaplanet shares jump 15% after latest BTC acquisition and more

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated the crypto-friendly Howard Lutnick to lead the U.S. Department of Commerce.Shares in the Japanese investment firm Metaplanet gained more than 15% on Tuesday after the company announced its latest bitcoin acquisition.Tokenization firm Securitize has introduced the “sToken,” a new way to gain liquidity from real-world assets while still earning a yield, using the ERC-4626 token standard.The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.