Blockchain

• Strategy added 2,486 BTC for $168.4 M last week, raising holdings to 717,131 BTC. • Average purchase price $76,027 per BTC, below the current $68,000 market price. • Funding sour

• Strategy’s holdings account for more than 3.4% of the total 21 million bitcoin supply - worth around $49 billion.

• Banking giant Intesa Sanapolo discloses $100 million bitcoin ETF holdings, along with Strategy hedge The bank also holds a large put option position on Strategy, potentially capi

• Bitcoin improvement proposal to block spam draws heat from heavyweights Your day-ahead look for Feb. • 17, 2026 What to know: You are viewing Crypto Daybook Americas, your mornin

• TON Foundation and Banxa have partnered to enable stablecoin payments for APAC merchants using TON infrastructure.

• Crypto slides as tech stocks and gold retreat; bitcoin-Nasdaq correlation turns positive Bitcoin falls to $68,000 as tech-led risk-off move deepens, gold extends correction and m

• Ethereum’s tokenized real-world asset market cap has topped $17 billion, up nearly 315% year over year as more TradFi giants move onchain.

• ZeroLend will wind down after operating losses as TVL fell 98% to $6.6 million and the ZERO token plunged.

• UK crypto rules too slow to support global hub ambitions, says Agant CEO Regulatory delays risk blunting Britain’s digital asset push, said Andrew MacKenzie, head of the pound-pe

• In April 2022, Logan Paul raised $8 million to launch Liquid Marketplace, a platform for tokenizing physical and digital collectibles.

• DeFi protocol ZeroLend shuts down after three years, citing inactive chains and hacks The protocol is shutting down after three years, citing unsustainable economics, thin margin

• Stablecoin use in everyday spending, cross-border work, and savings allocation is growing rapidly among crypto-savvy consumers.

• BofA survey flags dollar bearish bets at over a decade high. • Here’s what it means for bitcoin BofA’s February survey shows investor positioning in the U.S. • dollar has fallen

• Announcing the Platform Team at EF Posted by Josh Rudolf on February 17, 2026 Research & Development Platform is a new team inside the EF with one goal: Deliver the strongest pos

• Ethereum Protocol Studies 2026 Posted by Josh Davis and Mario Havel on February 17, 2026 Research & Development tl;dr: Ethereum Protocol Studies returns for 2026 with new content

• The prolonged slide into fear territory traces back in large part to the events of Oct. • 10, 2025, widely referred to as ‘10/10.’

• Wintermute has launched institutional tokenized gold trading as the $5.4 billion sector surges 80% in three months.

• ‘We do not do illegal things’: Inside a U.S.-sanctioned stablecoin issuer’s race to build a crypto giant Oleg Ogienko, the public face of A7A5, pitched the ruble-pegged stablecoi

• Hong Kong regulator approves first crypto company license since June Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) granted Victory Fintech a license. • What to know: Hong K

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• Crypto mining can help energy volatility, Paradigm responds to policy onslaught As U.S. • lawmakers consider limits on data and mining facilities because of energy usage, the ind

• Institutional crypto adoption is accelerating, driving larger VC checks, bank-led custody, and lending. • Stablecoins are emerging as the internet’s dollar, backed by clearer reg

• Harvard cuts bitcoin exposure by 20%, adds new ether position The shift may be due to complex market dynamics, potentially reflecting the unwinding of a trade that capitalized on

• Nexo re-enters the U.S. • market three years after exiting due to regulatory issues The digital assets wealth platform’s rollout includes regulated yield accounts, credit lines a

• Bitcoin could fall to $10,000 as U.S. • recession risk builds, Mike McGlone says McGlone links bitcoin’s downturn to record U.S. • market cap-to-GDP levels, low equity volatility

• Metaplanet posted a $619 million FY2025 loss on its bitcoin valuation, while its total holdings jumped to 35,102 BTC and revenue surged.

• deBridge has launched MCP, enabling AI agents to carry out non-custodial cross-chain swaps, bridging, and multi-step transactions.

• Bitcoin hovers near $69k, buoyed by increasing whale buying despite market outflows. • ETF outflows signal investor caution, tightening liquidity and heightening price sensitivit

• Hive, Riot earnings reports, Fed rate-decision minutes: Crypto Week Ahead Your look at what’s coming in the week starting Feb. • What to know: You are reading Crypto Week Ahead:

• Animoca Brands clears major regulatory hurdle with new Dubai license Animoca said the license allows it to commence operations in Dubai, offering broker-dealer services and digit

• Ether steadies after $540 million sell wave to outperform wider crypto market Crypto markets remain under pressure despite firmer U.S. • equity futures, with ether rebounding tow

• Crypto investment products have posted a fourth straight week of outflows, with $3.74 billion exiting over the past month, per CoinShares.

• Harvard trimmed its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund holdings by 21% in Q4 and opened an $86.8 million Ethereum ETF position.

• Russia’s daily crypto turnover is over $650 million, Ministry of Finance says Government and central bank officials are pushing for legislation to regulate cryptocurrency activit

• Binance’s CZ echoes Consensus panelists on lack of privacy blocking crypto adoption Lack of privacy is a barrier to both everyday and institutional use of crypto and blockchain t

• The licence allows the firm to offer regulated virtual asset services in and from Dubai for global institutional and qualified investors.

• OKX snags European payments license for stablecoin and crypto card expansion The Payments Institution license, gained in Malta, aligns the exchange with European Union regulatory

• Crypto market drowns in red as bitcoin falls to $68,000 Traders are bracing for a heavy week of macroeconomic events, including Fed minutes and the core PCE inflation report. • W

• The ruling stems from posts Armstrong made in March 2025 falsely accusing O’Leary of murder in connection with a 2019 boating accident.

• Buterin proposed replacing the current speculative model with AI-powered hedging tools that help users offset real-world costs like housing and food.

• Benchmark’s Mark Palmer cut his COIN price target to $267 from $421, citing worsening crypto market conditions, while reiterating a buy rating.

• The request follows a separate House probe launched last week by Rep. • Ro Khanna, widening the congressional scrutiny around the Trump-linked firm.

• Bier also promised forthcoming efforts to cut down on spam posts and apps on X, a stance which has sometimes drawn the ire of crypto traders.

• Crypto asset manager Grayscale is looking to convert its closed-ended AAVE trust into an exchange-traded fund.

• Solana treasury companies are starting to turn to staking income and on-chain financing tools as lower SOL prices pressure balance sheets and share prices.

• CQ said bitcoin has not reached full capitulation yet, as key onchain indicators remain in a Bear Phase rather than the Extreme Bear Phase.

• Dreamcash said Tether made a strategic investment in the project in the wake of its 10 RWA perps deployments.

• ether.fi is the 5th-ranked DeFi protocol by TVL, with over 3.4 million ETH restaked and the highest YoY LST growth across the category. • The protocol spans three revenue lines:

• Introduction 18 projects raised $62 million this week, led by Inference Research ($20M), Avenia ($17M), and LevlFi ($7M), while Strategy, Bitmine, and DDC Enterprise added roughl

Stacks Q4 2025 shows 120% DeFi TVL growth. STX price drops 57%, market cap falls 57%. Dual Stacking introduces BTC-native yield pilot. Protocol revenue declines 32%, daily transact

• I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. • Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. • The future is bright for builders,

• Executive Leadership Update Posted by Ethereum Foundation Board on February 13, 2026 Organizational Today, we are announcing a transition in the executive leadership team at the

• Fuse: The Energy Network and TGE Key Insights Fuse’s Energy Network targets an inefficiency in modern electricity markets: renewable energy is increasingly cost-effective, but gr

• Active Subgraphs reached a new all-time high of 15.5K, up 3.0% QoQ, indicating continued developer engagement despite a sharp slowdown in new Subgraph creation. • Layer 2 network

• TL;DR - Cryptocurrency flows to suspected human trafficking services, largely based in Southeast Asia, grew 85% in 2025, reaching a scale of hundreds of millions across identifie

• Chainalysis is excited to announce upgraded support for Stellar, one of the longest-running blockchains in the ecosystem. • Founded in 2014, Stellar has a strong technical and hi

• Stablecoin market cap rose 0.58% to $307.7B, with USDC up 3.30% and USDT up 7.08%. • Active addresses fell 2.85% while monthly volume surged 62.21%. • Transaction volumes dropped

• The Superchain captured 12.7% of total crypto transactions by H2 end and has maintained more than half of the total L2 market share by transactions since April 2025. • Aggregate

• BNB Chain (BNB) is an ecosystem of blockchains where each chain serves a particular function. • The three core components of BNB Chain are as follows: The metrics in this report

• When Machines Become Economic Actors Key Insights As markets dwelled over the past four months, foundational primitives emerged quietly, including x402, an HTTP-native standard f