February 23rd, 2026 – Singapore, Singapore Funding will accelerate global expansion, deepen on-chain financial infrastructure, and position Based to become the gateway to Hyperliquid and the default financial app for on-chain users worldwide. Based, a Web3 consumer SuperApp for trading and spending crypto globally, today announced it has raised a $11.5 million Series A financing […]

The spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded four straight months of outflows, with hodlings down 85,000 BTC since October 2025. Is slowing institutional demand the death knell for BTC price?

TL;DR: BTC price retraced to $64,111, liquidating approximately $240 million in long positions. Derivatives data shows liquidity asymmetry, with $3.5 billion vulnerable on the upside. Technical indicators like Bollinger Bands suggest an imminent expansion in volatility. The crypto market began the week with high tension as the pioneer cryptocurrency retraced to weekly lows. Despite this […]

TL;DR: The report, scheduled for February 26, points to the misuse of confidential data for personal profit. The investigation focuses on an employee of a sector-leading company, whose identity remains unknown. The market anticipates volatility and potential regulatory actions by the SEC following the revelations. ZachXBT is set to unveil his latest investigative work on […]

Dogecoin (DOGE) nears a golden cross signal against Bitcoin (BTC) for the first time in 2026 as the meme coin shows rare strength amid a massive downtrend.

Bitcoin Magazine Bitdeer (BTDR) Dumps Bitcoin Treasury After Eight-Week Drawdown, Holds Zero BTC Bitdeer Technologies has fully liquidated its corporate bitcoin treasury, reporting zero BTC held as of Feb. 20 and completing an eight-week drawdown from roughly 2,000 BTC at 2025 year-end. In its latest weekly production update, the Singapore-based miner disclosed that it produced […]

Early discussions inside President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” are exploring whether a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin could help reboot Gaza’s shattered economy through digital payments. The Financial Times (FT) first reported on the news that Trump’s U.S.-led Board of Peace — the body overseeing Gaza’s postwar reconstruction — is weighing the creation of a dollar-backed […]

Institutional investors just sold an overall total of $288 million in Bitcoin and crypto assets in one week, according to a new update from Coinshares. The outflows mark the fifth consecutive week of selling, bringing cumulative year-to-date outflows to $4 billion. Bitcoin drove the bulk of the selling with $215 million in outflows. Short-bitcoin products […]

USD1, a stablecoin affiliated with President Donald Trump, just briefly dipped below its $1.00 price peg. The asset slipped to $0.9942 on Monday morning, before regaining its peg within a couple of hours. The decentralized finance (DeFi) project World Liberty Financial (WLFI), which issues USD1, attributed the volatility to a “coordinated attack” from hackers. “Attackers […]

Nik Pash, an OpenAI employee and former Cline executive, funded an automated trading bot called “Lobstar Wilde” with $50,000 worth of Solana. After an X user requested 4 SOL for a “tetanus treatment,” the bot accidentally transferred its entire holdings instead of the requested small amount. The recipient sold the tokens for approximately $40,000 due […]

Investor appetite for digital asset funds remains muted after $288 million in weekly outflows. This is the fifth week in a row of redemptions, which propelled aggregate withdrawals to $4 billion, still trailing the $6 billion logged last year. Market participation has thinned significantly, as ETP trading slid to $17 billion, the weakest level since […]

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XRP’s short-term setup is facing renewed pressure after a sharp burst of exchange inflows to Binance, with on-chain data showing that the move was driven primarily by large holders. The spike matters because it points to a sudden increase in potential sell-side supply at a time when broader market momentum remains weak. CryptoQuant contributor Darkfost […]

The equity offering builds on Backpack’s token announcement earlier this month, in which the first 62.5% of tokens will be distributed to users.

SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci has presented an “intellectually defensible” bull case for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Magazine Missouri Advances Second Attempt to Establish State Bitcoin Reserve Missouri House Bill 2080, introduced in January by Representative Ben Keathley, has been referred to the House Commerce Committee, where it awaits a public hearing and committee vote. The measure would create a “Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Fund” for the state. It would authorize the […]

A Houston resident directed a major bank fraud scheme that laundered at least $40 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The agency says 44-year-old Bun Khath and his co-conspirators submitted loan applications that contained fraudulent information and documents, including fake equipment sales invoices, income tax returns and bank statements. Khath, who admitted to […]

Traders betting on a Bitcoin and crypto bounce are getting wrecked to start the week. Bitcoin dropped from a 24-hour high of $67,695 to as low as $63,962, triggering a total of $616.41 million in liquidations, according to CoinGlass. The vast majority of the liquidations hit traders going long, coming in at $524.28 million. BTC […]

TL;DR: Strategy completed its 100th bitcoin purchase, adding 592 BTC for $39.8 million at an average price of $67,286. The company holds 717,722 bitcoin acquired for $54.56 billion, with an unrealized loss of around $7 billion. Strategy’s shares have fallen more than 50% over the past year and an additional 2.5% in Monday’s premarket. Strategy recorded […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that the objective of “security” is to minimize the divergence between a user’s intent and a system’s actual behavior, implying that perfect protection is not realistically attainable. How I think about "security": The goal is to minimize the divergence between the user's intent, and the actual behavior of the system. […]

Solana Company unveiled plans for the “Pacific Backbone,” a high-speed infrastructure expansion across Asia-Pacific aimed at strengthening staking, validation, and institutional access within the Solana ecosystem. Solana Company Bets on Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong The digital asset treasury (DAT) firm, Solana Company, (Nasdaq: HSDT), announced Monday that it intends to build what it […]

Solana DeFi aggregator Step Finance was hacked for $27 million in January, but said it was “unable to secure a viable outcome.”

The ongoing cryptocurrency market correction, which many analysts have decisively called a full-on bear market, has not deterred the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin. Michael Saylor’s BTC-focused brainchild just announced its latest acquisition, which was relatively modest given the company’s history of billion-dollar purchases in the past. Strategy spent just under $40 million to […]

A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to keep a steady price, usually pegged to the U.S. dollar, and backed by reserves or mechanisms so it …

Michael Saylor’s quiet hint this weekend put a spotlight on a methodical habit that has quietly shaped corporate crypto moves for years. Michael Saylor posted a chart with the caption “The Orange Century,” and through that single image he signaled what many traders already suspected: the company he chairs is poised to make another buy. […]

Ethereum developers have scheduled the “FOCIL” upgrade (EIP-7805) for late 2026 to enhance censorship resistance by requiring validators to include transactions from public lists. The update aims to prevent large validators from blocking specific transactions, ensuring “neutral blockspace” even as the network becomes more centralised. While supported by figures like Vitalik Buterin, critics argue the […]

Key Takeaways: Missouri’s HB2080 has advanced to the House Commerce Committee, reviving the HB2080 bill of Missouri has been submitted to the House Commerce Committee, restarted the effort to build the state’s Bitcoin reserve fund. The bill proposes to establish the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Fund with the 5-year minimum compulsory holding time. The bill also […]

Crypto news digest: Michael Saylor teases another BTC purchase; XRP Ledger transactions jump 40%; SHIB wraps up February with a $3.6 billion cap.

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Makes 100th Bitcoin Purchase, Adds 592 BTC as Bitcoin Price Falls Strategy has completed its 100th bitcoin acquisition since adopting the cryptocurrency as its primary reserve asset in 2020, purchasing 592 BTC for roughly $39.8 million at an average price of $67,286 per coin. The purchase was funded through the sale […]

Base rode SocialFi, memecoins and AI agents to the top of Ethereum’s layer-2 ladder before turning inward to rebuild its core stack.

A new Elliptic investigation identifies five major cryptocurrency platforms enabling Russian entities to bypass international sanctions through sophisticated wallet obfuscation and shared infrastructure. Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic released a report detailing how exchanges including Bitpapa, ABCeX, Exmo, Rapira, and Aifory Pro serve as critical pipelines for Russian capital flight. These services allow for the conversion […]

TL;DR US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed about 100,300 BTC since October, cutting holdings to roughly 1.26 million BTC as redemptions forced selling further. SoSoValue estimates $1.6 billion exited in January, extending outflows from November 2025, while Bitcoin near $67,349 leaves buyers about 20% underwater at $83,980 basis. Crypto funds saw $173 million leave last week […]