Today's Crypto Pulse
Bitcoin slides below $70k as energy‑price worries spark $1.8B in liquidations
Bitcoin fell under $70,000 amid heightened energy‑price uncertainty linked to U.S.–Iran tensions. The dip triggered roughly $1.8 billion in crypto liquidations, while institutional investors pulled more than $4.2 billion from digital‑asset positions.
Also developing:
By the numbers: Strive acquires 2,500 Bitcoin for $185.2M
BNP Paribas Asset Management Issues Tokenised Money Market Fund Share Class on Ethereum
BNP Paribas Asset Management issued a tokenised share class of a French‑domiciled money‑market fund on the public Ethereum blockchain, using its AssetFoundry™ platform. The pilot employs a permissioned access model, keeping transaction records public while restricting token holding and transfers to authorized participants. This is the firm’s second tokenisation experiment, following a private‑blockchain rollout, and involved BNP Paribas Securities Services as transfer agent and wallet custodian. The initiative aims to test end‑to‑end fund processes within a regulated framework and explore operational efficiencies.
Exploring the Future of Crypto and Stablecoins
Fintech Times podcast featured Yap Global founder Samantha Yap discussing the rapid expansion of digital assets and Web3. The conversation highlighted stablecoins as a catalyst for faster, cheaper cross‑border payments and examined the UAE’s proactive regulatory sandbox. Yap noted that...
CoinShares Slashes Fee on Flagship Bitcoin ETP to 0.15% Amid European Price War
CoinShares has permanently lowered the management fee on its flagship Bitcoin ETP, BITC, to 0.15 percent, making it one of the cheapest physically‑backed Bitcoin products worldwide. The fund, the largest of its kind in Europe, holds over $1.3 billion in assets under...
BTC’s $65K Support Key to Next Move
Casual monday morning drop on the markets, taking all the liquidity beneath the lows for $BTC. It's all depending on how this daily is going to unfold. If $65K can sustain as support, I think that we'll roll this over towards a...
Crypto Exchange BTCC Adds TradFi CFDs
BTCC has launched BTCC TradFi, a cross‑market platform that lets users trade forex, commodities, indices and stocks using USDT as margin and settlement currency. The service builds on the exchange’s tokenized precious‑metal success, which generated $5.72 billion in 2025 trading volume...
Sonic Labs Launches Spawn, the First AI Platform for Building Web3 Apps From Natural Language
Sonic Labs unveiled Spawn, an AI‑powered platform that converts natural‑language prompts into complete Web3 applications, automatically generating smart contracts, compiling, deploying them on the Sonic testnet, and building a fully integrated frontend. The tool abstracts the entire stack—from Solidity code...
The $425 Million Bitcoin Move to Binance: What a Single On-Chain Transfer Says About the Market:
On-chain trackers flagged a transfer of 6,318 BTC, worth about $425 million, from a wallet linked to trader Garrett Jin into Binance. The same day an earlier 5,000‑BTC transfer brought the total moved to Binance to roughly 11,318 BTC (~$761 million). Analysts stress that...
OpenAI Employee’s AI Agent ‘Accidentally’ Sent $442K to Beggar
OpenAI engineer Nik Pash launched the Lobstar Wilde AI agent to turn $50,000 of Solana tokens into $1 million through automated trades. The bot mistakenly transferred roughly $442,000 worth of its own LOBSTAR tokens to a user who requested a small...
Missouri Lawmakers Advance New Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill
Missouri lawmakers have moved House Bill 2080, a revived proposal to create a state Bitcoin strategic reserve, to the House Commerce Committee for public hearing and vote. The bill would empower the state treasurer to invest, purchase, and hold cryptocurrency...
Michael Saylor Hints at Strategy’s 100th Bitcoin Buy
Michael Saylor’s treasury firm Strategy is poised to make its 100th Bitcoin purchase, bringing its total holdings to 717,131 BTC. The firm has bought Bitcoin for 12 consecutive weeks, maintaining a buying streak despite a declining market price of around...
Wellspring Debuts Treasury Management Tool for Small Businesses
Wellspring has launched Wellspring Institutional, a treasury management platform tailored for small and midsize businesses. The solution merges traditional banking APIs with regulated stablecoin settlement rails, delivering centralized cash visibility, domestic and cross‑border payments, and yield generation on idle balances....
Risk Management Turns Rare Trades Into Long-Term Success
These types of markets separate the long term successful traders from the short term lucky ones Buy opportunities for spot only swing traders have been very few and far between But with proper risk management u can afford to take some shots...
Over 140,000 Crypto Traders Lost Money in 24 Hours
🚨 UPDATE 141,911 Crypto traders have been wiped out over the last 24 hours. 📉 https://t.co/h95xzgwgTw
Vitalik Buterin Floats Simulated Transactions to Enhance Crypto Security
Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin proposed using transaction simulations to boost wallet and smart‑contract security. He argues that showing users a preview of on‑chain consequences lets them confirm intent before execution. The approach pairs simulations with spending limits and multisig approvals...
Banks Embrace DeFi to Cut Lending Costs, Aave Leads
Every bank will move towards DeFi, it improves their lending cost structure. One of Aave’s goals is to connect Aave into as many banks as possible to serve as a lending network. DeFi will win.
Bitcoin's Falling Valuation vs Gold Highlights Huge Upside
The valuation of #Bitcoin vs. Gold continues to fall. That shows how strong of a disconnect there is between the two and the larger the opportunity is within Bitcoin. https://t.co/sVBTu0feM6
Cannae Holdings Inc (CNNE) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Canaan Inc. posted Q4 2025 revenue of $196 million, up 30.4% quarter‑over‑quarter and 121.1% year‑over‑year, marking its strongest quarter in three years. Product revenue surged 39.1% to $165 million, driven by large North American orders, while computing power sold hit an all‑time high...
TRON Backs Kyrgyzstan’s Push for Blockchain Infrastructure
Encouraging to see Kyrgyzstan moving forward with virtual asset development. TRON is ready to support infrastructure, stablecoin scalability, and real world blockchain adoption.
Liquidity Signals Business Cycle End in 2‑3 Years
Interesting read, certainly something to consider. Even somewhat aligns with the business cycle views I expressed here: https://t.co/Ao19CL9d25 I think there is a reason to believe the current business cycle will end within the next 2-3 years from a liquidity point of...
North Korea’s Crypto Theft Machine Shows No Signs of Slowing After ByBit Hack : Analysis
Elliptic reports North Korea stole a record $2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, pushing its total illicit haul past $6 billion and financing the regime’s weapons programs. The ByBit breach, which yielded $1.46 billion, saw more than $1 billion laundered within six months via...
Bitcoin Poised for a Breakout Right Now
I don’t know who CLAVICULAR is or what Looksmaxxing is but he isn’t wrong about Bitcoin in this very moment. https://t.co/D2C3vjpA5a
BTC's Next Local Top Expected After Late‑February Weakness
Found when the next local top for BTC will be (after maybe a little more weakness into late February)
Bitcoin’s Calm Price Action Is a Trap: The Steady ETF Bid that Supported It Has Already Disappeared
Bitcoin’s price stability is increasingly deceptive as spot ETF inflows, once a reliable daily catalyst, have turned sporadic. Early February still saw sizable net inflows—$562 million, $471 million and $145 million—but the consistency that previously propelled rallies has faded, ushering an "ETF fatigue"...
Japanese Team Launches BNB Privacy Project
Pretty cool. A BNB privacy project by some Japanese friends. (No investment or commercial relationships with us.)
Crypto Community Faces Deep Personal Reckoning
Good read about the reckoning going in the hearts of crypto people. https://t.co/cmGXxQYUDz HT @sacha
Europe Will See Gold Become the First Trillion-Dollar On-Chain Asset
European banks and asset managers are increasingly tokenising gold, positioning it as the continent’s first trillion‑dollar asset on blockchain. The metal’s entrenched legal status, central‑bank reserve role, and existing custody standards make it a natural fit for regulated on‑chain settlement....
Crypto Market Spirals: $200M Liquid
Bitcoin dumped below $65,000 $200,000,000 crypto liquidations in progress Vitalik is dumping Ethereum We aren’t even close to max pain.
Diversified Portfolio: Commodities, Energy, Crypto, and Gold
My portfolio right now. Stonks - gold silver copper uranium miners, oil majors, merchants of death, LatAM energy names Crypto - $BTC, $ETH, $ZEC, $HYPE And physical gold. Watchu got fam?
ProShares' Stablecoin-Ready ETF Sees $17 Billion Debut, Sparking Speculation About Circle
ProShares launched the GENIUS‑compliant Money Market ETF (IQMM) with a record $17 billion in first‑day trading volume. Analysts initially linked the surge to Circle’s USDC reserves, but data show Circle’s BlackRock‑managed fund held steady around $64 billion. Morningstar identified an internal transfer...
Celebrating 100th Bitcoin Purchase with Exclusive Saylor Interview
100th Bitcoin purchase and nearly 2-hour interview loading… Exclusive @saylor show drops first thing tomorrow. Subscribe to Coin Stories on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Rumble and wherever you get your podcasts. See you at Strategy WORLD ⚡️ https://t.co/Dx6T6nm7gw
AI Audits Could Accidentally Hack DeFi Platforms
Imagine waking up to find your AI agent has hacked Uniswap v3. 🤣 Kain explores potential mishaps that could arise from AI-driven crypto audits 👇 #artificialintelligence #crypto #openclaw
The SEC Just Gave Cardano a 75-Day Shortcut to a Spot ETF that Took Bitcoin 240 Days
The SEC’s new generic listing standards let a spot crypto ETF qualify once a regulated futures contract has traded for six months. CME launched Cardano (ADA) futures on February 9, 2026, so the earliest the futures‑eligibility condition can be met is...
Starknet Powers Complex Apps, Ready for AI Future
One of the reason that Starknet is home to Perp exchanges and Gaming is that Starknet enables big computation transactions. These apps usually have complex logic, and accordingly, they need a network that can support complex transactions. Starknet, built with...
Zero‑Human Companies Are Already Being Built
I'm watching Anthropic and OpenAI and others ship agents that can operate businesses Meanwhile, DAOs are figuring out governance without humans in the loop And crypto rails are enabling 24/7 automated settlement The pieces are connecting Zero-human companies aren't science fiction They're under construction right...
DRC Launches AXIS Programme and Sovereign Gold Reserve Token Framework
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Mines and the Social Fund signed an agreement to launch the AXIS Programme and its Sovereign Gold Reserve Token (SGRT), a debt‑free financing tool linked to gold production. Led by the FSRDC with...
Bitcoin Could Be Quantum‑proof with Just Two Steps
“Only two steps” required to make Bitcoin quantum-resistant? In this @Unchained_pod episode, @TheBlueMatt joins me to discuss: ❌ Why he thinks Nic Carter is wrong about the quantum threat to Bitcoin ⛔ Why he disagrees with Nic on his ranking of Bitcoin’s most...
More Than Half Await Bitcoin Price Dip Before Buying
The results are in. Over 50% of people are waiting to buy #Bitcoin lower Is the majority right?
Michael Burry Regrets Missing 2013 Bitcoin Opportunity
🚨CHECK THIS MICHAEL BURRY SAYS HE ALMOST BOUGHT BITCOIN IN 2013 "In 2013, I moved to buy Bitcoin after meeting with a friend at Lightspeed. I should have. Slept on it and did not." https://t.co/IECPPFuQmw
Agent-Driven DeFi Will Explode, Each with Aave Accounts
More agent-driven interactions with DeFi will become massive. Every agent could maintain its own savings account on Aave.
Float Management: Hoarding Supply, Never Selling
Im hoarding my own supply. Float management is important and an extremely underrated aspect of managing a project. Ill wait a few months until you all sell and ill buy more. And no, i have never sold a single coin, despite what...
Only Coin I've Launched—Stake It Now
This is the only coin i have ever launched You can stake it at https://t.co/czPJQSAN12 6MpafrXMywfyojAUnxdqGw9SQ2MhPuH3d6daW3xipump https://t.co/x45AXC9OXk
Shorting Bears: Your Cheat Code for Daily Crypto Gains
The secret to daily crypto profits? Shorting. The best trades are shorts when the market flips bearish. Use tools to identify trends, don't guess. Riding the bear trend is your cheat code to stacking gains. #CryptoTrading #Shorting #IvanClips https://t.co/YA5GGq2de3
Bitcoin Dips Create Buying Opportunities for Long-Term Investors
The lower Bitcoin goes, the higher the opportunity Whether it’s $67k, $50k, or lower, every big drop is a chance to buy more BTC Those with a long-term outlook have always been who benefits https://t.co/G224I1A1aJ
Inside Trust AI Thrives; Outside Requires Crypto Verification
AI inside, crypto outside. Within your tribe's trusted perimeter, you give AI all the context and let it figure it out. But outside your tribe's trusted perimeter, you hit a wall of AI spam. Now you need cryptographic verification to see what's...
Human Stubbornness Keeps Bitcoin Alive, Not Robots
Bitcoin is not robot money Robots would've optimized for efficiency and shut it down in 2011 Only humans are stubborn enough to run a global settlement layer at 7 TPS
Stablecoins Process $390 B in Annual Payments
How much are stablecoins used to make payments? This is one of the trickier market-sizing questions. Luckily, @artemis and @McKinsey developed a new methodology to calculate Total Annual Payments Volume, estimated at $390B per year. More data in our @thestablecon report: https://t.co/upRya2aVyb
Crypto's Branding Crisis Revealed by Degen Harassment
.@tayvano_ says crypto has a branding problem and I agree 😪 Watching degens harass Peter Steinberger it was pretty clear why normies don't like us 😭👇 https://t.co/XpoqyLHQMx
Use Quiet Bitcoin Market to Master Leverage Shorting
For accumulators, patience is key. Now we are not in the buy zone. Use this quiet market time for Bitcoin to learn leverage trading and shorting techniques. #CryptoTrading #Bitcoin #IvanClips https://t.co/PnbQtCwOdY
Engineer Collaboration Ensures Safe, User‑Friendly Crosslink Proposal
Really appreciate a fellow engineer seeing all our work to make the Crosslink proposal safe and user-friendly. 🙂
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