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02/23/2026 04:32 AM Missouri advances bitcoin reserve bill to House committee, reviving crypto treasury push
HB 2080 seeks to create a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Fund and let the state treasurer receive, invest and hold bitcoin.
02/23/2026 03:03 AM Bitcoin sinks below $65,000 as macro shocks rattle fragile market: analysts
Nearly $360 million in crypto long positions were liquidated in an hour, according to Coinglass' heatmap based on available data.
02/23/2026 01:50 AM The Funding: Why TradFi giants like BlackRock are buying DeFi tokens now
BlackRock, Apollo, and Citadel have acquired or agreed to acquire DeFi tokens. Here’s why and what it really signals.
02/22/2026 09:53 PM AI agent created by OpenAI dev ‘accidentally’ sends entire memecoin holdings to reply guy
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.
02/22/2026 05:24 PM Bitdeer’s bitcoin treasury drops to zero after miner liquidates remaining 943 BTC
The liquidation makes Bitdeer the largest publicly traded bitcoin miner by self-mining hashrate to hold no BTC on its balance sheet.
02/21/2026 10:20 PM CryptoQuant says bitcoin whale deposit activity grows amid ongoing bear phase
CryptoQuant said the exchange whale ratio has risen to 0.64, the highest level since 2015, suggesting whales are leading selling activity.
02/21/2026 09:40 PM Five crypto exchanges are helping Russia evade sanctions, filling Garantex’s void: Elliptic
One exchange has processed at least $11 billion in crypto from an office in the same building previously occupied by sanctioned exchange Garantex.
02/21/2026 07:21 PM Spot bitcoin ETFs notch five straight weeks of outflows for first time since March 2025
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded about $316 million in net outflows during the holiday-shortened Presidents' Day trading week.
02/21/2026 05:17 PM IoTeX hit by private key exploit draining around $2 million from bridge contracts, per co-founder
IoTeX co-founder Raullen Chai said losses are "significantly lower" than circulating estimates, but has not provided a specific figure.
02/20/2026 08:49 PM BNP Paribas taps Ethereum for new money market fund tokenization pilot
The tokenized shares were issued by the BNP Paribas’ AssetFoundryTM platform using a "permissioned access model on Ethereum."
02/20/2026 08:41 PM Vitalik Buterin is building a ‘cypherpunk principled non-ugly Ethereum’ as devs officially add FOCIL to upgrade roadmap
FOCIL was officially “scheduled for inclusion” as the consensus-layer (CL) headliner for the upcoming Hegota upgrade, targeted for late 2026.
02/20/2026 07:44 PM Opening the door: SEC issues guidance on brokers’ capital stablecoin requirements
The SEC introduced new guidance allowing broker-dealers to apply a “2% haircut” to proprietary positions in certain stablecoins.
02/20/2026 07:43 PM ProShares’ stablecoin-ready ETF generates record $17 billion in day-one trading volume
ProShares on Thursday launched a money market ETF designed to hold assets that qualify as reserves for dollar-backed stablecoins.
02/20/2026 06:24 PM MARA completes purchase of majority stake in French data center unit
Last August, Bloomberg reported MARA would pay $168 million in cash to secure a 64% stake in Exaion from EDF Pulse Ventures.
02/20/2026 05:14 PM The Daily: Ripple CEO sees 90% chance of crypto bill passing by end of April, BGD Labs to stop contributing to Aave, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
02/20/2026 03:41 PM Crypto prices rally as Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s broad tariff regime
21shares said “a negative ruling on tariffs could potentially hurt Treasuries and the dollar, while favoring stocks and crypto.”
02/20/2026 01:32 PM House Democrats press Treasury Sec. Bessent over OCC review of Trump-linked World Liberty Financial’s trust bank charter
The latest inquiry lands amid broader Democratic pressure over Trump-linked crypto activity and World Liberty Financial.
02/20/2026 01:26 PM BGD Labs to cease Aave contributions after four years as governance tensions grow
BGD Labs said it will cease contributions to Aave after April 1, ending a four-year role as a core protocol contributor.
02/20/2026 12:26 PM Malaysian authorities arrest 12 police officers over alleged crypto extortion: report
Malaysian authorities arrested 12 police officers accused of forcing a Chinese national to transfer their cryptocurrency during a raid.
02/20/2026 11:48 AM Bitcoin remains below key onchain level as ETF outflows persist, liquidity stays tight: analysts
Analysts warned that weak ETF flows, constrained liquidity, and fragile accumulation are keeping bitcoin's price rangebound and indecisive.
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