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• IoTeX offers cross-bridge hackers 10% bounty if they return $4.4 million within 48 hours Raullen Chai, IoTeX co-founder and CEO, told CoinDesk he would not press charges if the s

• NEAR Launches Near.com super app, touting AI capabilities and confidential transactions The company is betting that the next big wave in crypto will come from its convergence wit

• Kraken’s co-CEO could trust AI with 100% of his crypto - Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi isn’t convinced At NEARCON 2026, Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi deli

• Trump’s Board of Peace exploring stablecoin to aid Gaza’s digital economy. • Stablecoin would not replace fiat, but enable digital transactions for Gazans. • Board requires $1B m

• Crypto suffers deeper declines as AI fears send IBM plunging 11% Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that its Claude platform can streamline COBOL code, a key pro

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• The Board of Peace is exploring the creation of a stablecoin for Gaza, according to reporting from the Financial Times.

• Solana Company launches ‘Pacific Backbone’ to build low‑latency network across Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong. • Infrastructure supports staking, validation, and trading, tar

• Mystery Hong Kong investor in BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF breaks silence after $436 million stake sparks controversy A spokesperson for Laurore said the $436 million IBIT stake ‘refl

• Bitcoin rebound fades as software and private equity rout drags stocks and crypto lower Crypto has been nearly perfectly correlated with a key software sector ETF, and that gauge

• USD1 briefly fell to about $0.99707 on Monday morning, a drop that typically would not be considered a stablecoin depeg.

• Pacific Backbone initiative will develop a high-speed, low-latency network connecting Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

• Trump-linked stablecoin wobbles as WLFI says it’s under ‘coordinated attack’ The USD1 token briefly fell to $0.994, some 0.6% below its $1 peg, CoinGecko data shows. • What to kn

• Crypto.com wins initial approval for U.S. • federally regulated crypto custodian bank The national trust charter institution would consolidate custody services under a single fra

• Anthony Pompliano led Procap Financial dips toe into buybacks The company, which has raised more than $750 million from investors, repurchased about $350,000 worth of its stock.

• Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says we’re in a classic crypto winter but fundamentals are racing ahead of price, and expects recovery by 2027.

• Bitmine increased holdings to 4.42 million ETH, controlling 3.66% of supply and generating $171 million staking revenue.

• Elliptic flags Russia-linked crypto platforms’ ongoing sanctions evasion Bitpapa, Garantex and ABCeX were among the cryptocurrency exchanges linked to Russian-tied transactions c

• Crypto.com has secured conditional approval from the OCC to pursue a federally chartered national bank license in the future.

• CoinDesk 20 performance update: AAVE gains 1.7% while index trades lower over weekend Uniswap (UNI) joined Aave (AAVE) as a top performers, gaining 0.5% from Friday. • CoinDesk I

• BitMine Immersion added $98 million of ether last week as losses balloon to more than $8 billion Tom Lee’s Ethereum-focused firm continues buying into the crypto market weakness,

• Treasury may boost T-Bill issuance as stablecoins eye $2 trillion market cap: StanChart The bank said stablecoins may generate up to $1 trillion in fresh Treasury bill demand by

• Australian police have charged a 42-year-old man over his role in an alleged $3.5 million crypto scam targeting 190 elderly victims.

• Pantera leads $11.5M round in Based, a Hyperliquid-powered crypto app The company said the fresh capital will be used to expand into new markets and build out its onchain financi

• Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas remains bullish on bitcoin after plunge Salinas has previously said he has 70% of his liquid assets in bitcoin. • What to know: Ricardo Salina

• Strategy logs 100th bitcoin purchase announcement, adding 592 coins last week for $39.8 million Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company now holds 717,722 bitcoin, p

• Bitmine’s unrealized losses near $8.8B as Ether drops 60% in six months. • Ether trades below Bitmine’s average cost, testing cyclical vs structural weakness. • Bitmine continues

• Strategy’s holdings account for more than 3.4% of the total 21 million bitcoin supply - worth around $47.5 billion.

• The round was structured as an equity investment with token warrants, Based co-founder and CEO Edison Lim told The Block.

• Crypto ETP outflows have reached $4 billion over five weeks as trading volumes fell to their lowest level since July 2025, CoinShares said.

• Crypto ETP outflows have reached $4 billion over five weeks as trading volumes fell to their lowest level since July 2025, CoinShares said.

• Tariff travails resurface, bitcoin holders prepare for declines Your day-ahead look for Feb. • 23, 2026 What to know: You are viewing Crypto Daybook Americas, your morning briefi

• Tariff travails resurface, bitcoin holders prepare for declines Your day-ahead look for Feb. • 23, 2026 What to know: You are viewing Crypto Daybook Americas, your morning briefi

• Bitcoin stabilizes after overnight crypto rout, bouncing to $66,000 Bitcoin fell to $64,270 shortly after midnight UTC before rebounding to $66,300, as thin liquidity amplified m

• Bitdeer CEO Jihan Wu said the company’s zero-bitcoin balance is not permanent after the miner sold its final 943.1 BTC.

• Standard Chartered said stablecoin growth could generate up to $1 trillion in new T-bill demand by 2028, potentially reshaping issuance.

• Pre-market trading stabilizes as bitcoin reclaims $66,000, Saylor eyes 100th BTC purchase President Trump’s proposed tariffs and U.S. • tensions with Iran have weighed on broader

• Kucoin told to halt new EU business due to compliance staffing shortfalls Austria’s financial regulator said Kucoin EU must appoint an anti-money-laundering officer and deputy of

• Bitcoin holdings in Binance-linked wallets rose to 676,835 BTC, up 9.3% from November low. • The increase signals potential selling pressure or margin use in derivatives, often c

• Bitcoin balances on Binance hit highest since November 2024: here’s what it means Users’ bitcoin holdings in wallets linked to Binance have climbed to highest since late 2024. •

• Hanwha Asset Management partners with Jito Foundation to develop liquidity staking exchange‑traded products. • Focus on JitoSOL, a Solana‑based protocol, to offer tokenized staki

• Hanwha Asset Management has partnered with the Jito Foundation to explore JitoSOL-based exchange-traded products in South Korea.

• NYDIG notes only a handful of crypto applications remain attractive to investors. • Focus shifts to Bitcoin, tokenized assets, stablecoins, and select DeFi infrastructure. • Gene

• AI bot’s tipping blunder hands $450,000 memecoin pile to X sad story poster AI trading bot ‘Lobstar Wilde’ accidentally sent a large coin stash to an X user in need of 4 SOL for

• OpenAI engineer’s AI bot ‘Lobstar Wilde’ mistakenly tipped $450,000 worth of Lobstar memecoins instead of 4 SOL on X. • The recipient sold the 53‑million token pile, earning roug

• Vitalik Buterin proposes AI integration to strengthen DAO governance. • Near Foundation researcher develops AI-powered digital twins for voting. • Digital twins simulate member p

• $61 million bitcoin whale liquidated on HTX as sentiment back at ’extreme fear’ The position was the largest single forced closure in 24 hours as bitcoin shed weekend gains and t

• Bitcoin dropped from $68,600 to $64,300, erasing weekend gains. • $468M in crypto futures liquidated, mostly long positions. • Largest single forced closure: $61.5M BTC-USDT on H

• Bitcoin ETFs have lost $3.8B over five consecutive weeks, longest streak since Feb 2025. • BlackRock’s IBIT accounts for $2.13B of redemptions, leading the outflow trend. • Insti

• HB 2080 seeks to create a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Fund and let the state treasurer receive, invest and hold bitcoin.

• Nearly $360 million in crypto long positions were liquidated in an hour, according to Coinglass’ heatmap based on available data.

• BlackRock, Apollo, and Citadel have acquired or agreed to acquire DeFi tokens. • Here’s why and what it really signals.

• Bitcoin slides 5%, tumbling below $65,000 as whale selling grows and recent buyers lock in losses On-chain data from Glassnode and CryptoQuant shows large holders dominating exch

• The Ethereum Foundation’s Commitment to DeFi Supporting the builders shaping decentralized finance and strengthening Ethereum as the global financial settlement layer Posted by C

• The recipient quickly sold the entire stack of Lobstar tokens for a profit of about $40,000, though the same amount of tokens is now worth over $400,000.

• How decentralized AI is leveling the playing field Forget OpenAI and Google. • New decentralized networks are putting an end to Big Tech’s monopoly. • As AI infrastructure invest

• The liquidation makes Bitdeer the largest publicly traded bitcoin miner by self-mining hashrate to hold no BTC on its balance sheet.

• To freeze or not to freeze: Satoshi and the $440 billion in bitcoin threatened by quantum computing As quantum computing inches closer to reality, nearly 7 million bitcoin, inclu

• Bitcoin see-saws around $68,000, DOGE, ETH slide as tariff uncertainty weighs on risk assets President Donald Trump raised the global tariff rate to 15% despite a Supreme Court r

• XRP falls 4% as network sees biggest realized loss spike since 2022 Past capitulation waves have preceded sharp recoveries, but this time price is still fighting technical resist