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North Carolina Seizes $61M USDT Linked to Pig Butchering Fraud
Federal prosecutors in North Carolina have confirmed the seizure of more than $61 million in cryptocurrency tied to an alleged digital asset investment fraud operation. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for...
Trump Claims Portfolios Are ‘Way Up,’ But What About Crypto?
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a confident State of the Union address this week, declaring that the United States is experiencing what he called “a transformation like no one has...
Vitalik Buterin Tightens Ethereum’s DeFi Standards
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a recent X post that the Ethereum Foundation has tightened its stance on decentralized finance and will not support every protocol that launches with...
Bitcoin’s Next Big Move? Gamma Data Highlights $60K Risk, $90K Resistance
Bitcoin has been stuck in a tight range, and everyone is asking the same question: are we about to break higher or roll over again? A new report from Coinbase...
Buterin Advances ETH Sale Plan, 70% Already Liquidated
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is once again in the headlines after on-chain data revealed a steady wave of ETH sales over the past month. While the broader crypto market has...
HashKey Group Launches One-Stop RWA Platform in Hong Kong
HashKey Group just launched a new all-in-one RWA issuance platform in Hong Kong that makes it easier to turn traditional financial assets into digital tokens and put them on the...
Binance Denies Firing Own Team Over Iran Sanctions Report
Binance is pushing back hard against reports claiming it fired staff who found approximately $1.7 billion in crypto moving to Iranian-linked accounts. The exchange says the stories are wrong and...
U.S. SEC Appoints Former Chainlink Executive to Crypto Task Force
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appointed Taylor Lindman as Chief Counsel of its Crypto Task Force on February 23, 2026. As the former Deputy General Counsel at Chainlink Labs,...
Binance Buying Power Hits 2024 Lows as Stablecoin Reserves Fall 18%
Something important is unfolding at Binance, and it centers on liquidity. According to CryptoQuant, the exchange’s 90-day Buying Power Ratio, which compares stablecoin reserves to Bitcoin outflows, has fallen to...
Is Crypto the New Down Payment? Rate Launches RateFi
Chicago-based lender Rate has officially stepped into the crypto mortgage debate. On Monday, the company announced the launch of RateFi, a new program that allows qualified borrowers to use verified...
Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets Shut Down After $40M Hack
The Solana ecosystem is facing another setback. Step Finance has announced it is shutting down operations, alongside SolanaFloor and Remora Markets, after a devastating treasury hack and failed efforts to...
Fed Proposes to Codify Removal of ‘Reputation Risk’ from Bank Rules
The Federal Reserve Board has requested public comments on February 23, 2026, to remove “reputation risk” from bank supervision permanently. Vice Chair Michelle Bowman leads this effort to refocus oversight...
Sam Bankman-Fried Praises TrumpRx, Calls Out Insurance Giants
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of FTX, reemerged publicly on February 23 with a post on X praising the Trump administration’s new drug-pricing platform, TrumpRx. He claimed drug companies are...
Crypto.com Receives Conditional OCC Approval to Launch U.S. National Trust Bank
Crypto.com has taken a big step toward becoming a federally regulated crypto institution in the United States. The company announced that it has received conditional approval from the U.S. Office...
Bank of Korea Urges Bank-Only Stablecoins to Prevent Money Laundering
Bank of Korea (BOK), South Korea’s central bank, is pushing for only licensed commercial banks to issue won-backed stablecoins. In a recommendation sent to lawmakers on February 23, the bank...
Vitalik Buterin Redefines Crypto Security as User Intent Alignment
Vitalik Buterin has published a groundbreaking security framework on X on February 22, 2026. He redefines security as actively closing the gap between users’ true intentions and the system’s actual...
Why Crypto Has Been Crashing: Breaking Down the Biggest Reasons Behind the Market Slump
The past six months have been tough for crypto investors. While stocks, metals, and AI companies surged, digital assets struggled to regain momentum. According to crypto analyst Lark Davis, the...
Crypto Market Panic Deepens as Fear & Greed Index Hits A Low of 5
The crypto market panic reached extreme levels on Monday, February 23, 2026, as the rout intensified. The total crypto market cap fell by 4% in 24 hours, dropping from $2.33T...
Missouri Advances Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill HB 2080
Missouri is once again stepping into the Bitcoin debate, and this time the proposal is moving forward. House Bill 2080, which would create a state-run Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Fund, has...
Arizona S.B. 1649 Fact Sheet Highlights Crypto Plan
Arizona is moving deeper into the digital asset space. Lawmakers in the Arizona State Senate advanced Senate Bill 1649 in a 4–2 committee vote, pushing forward a proposal to establish...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 15% After Winter Storm; What’s Next?
The Bitcoin (BTC) network has recorded one of its largest daily mining difficulty adjustments since 2021. After the winter storms in the United States subsided, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has since...
FTX Was Solvent and Creditors Received 143% In Repayments: SBF Says
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) claims that FTX was never insolvent. SBF shared an X post on Friday, February 20, stating that the FTX exchange is now repaying customers...
Ripple Custody Secures $5M+ in Dubai Tokenized Real Estate Assets
Dubai’s blockchain real estate experiment has entered a new phase, and the XRP Ledger is at the center of it. On February 20, 2026, the Dubai Land Department and Ctrl...
Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs in 6–3 Ruling
In one of the most consequential economic rulings in years, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a major portion of President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, delivering a 6–3...
XRP Slips Below $1.40 Support Despite Coinbase Utility Boost
It was expected that XRP would experience a big boost due to Coinbase now letting people borrow up to $100,000 in USDC using XRP, Dogecoin, Cardano, and Litecoin as collateral....
