Day: 11 February 2026

A Bitcoin wallet address associated with the alleged $6 million ransom demand for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, recorded its first transaction late Tuesday.  The movement of approximately $152 (0.0022 BTC) occurred nearly 24 hours after a final Monday deadline expired, marking the first ...

Braden John Karony, the former CEO of digital asset company SafeMoon US LLC, was sentenced to 100 months in prison on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, for his role in a massive cryptocurrency fraud scheme.  United States District Judge Eric Komitee handed down the sentence in a Brooklyn federal court following ...

A White House-hosted meeting between leading crypto executives and banking representatives has been described as “productive,” but key disagreements over stablecoin yield provisions remain unresolved. Ripple’s chief legal officer, Stuart Alderoty, who attended the session, said there was clear bipartisan energy behind advancing legislation to reform the crypto market structure. ...

Robinhood Markets (HOOD) reported record full-year revenue of $4.5 billion in 2025, even as its core cryptocurrency trading business faced significant headwinds amid a persistent crypto winter. Preliminary data for January 2026 showed that crypto notional trading volumes on the Robinhood App fell 57% year over year to $8.7 billion. ...

Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) reported a 121.1% year-over-year revenue surge to $196.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by record-breaking demand for its Avalon mining hardware in the North American market. The Singapore-based manufacturer announced on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, that it sold an all-time high of 14.6 ...

Defend American Jobs, a political action committee affiliated with crypto super PAC Fairshake, is preparing to spend $5 million to back Barry Moore in his campaign for the U.S. Senate, according to a Bloomberg report. 🚨 CRYPTO JUST BOUGHT A SENATE SEAT $5M from Fairshake PAC into Alabama race Backing ...

Solana Foundation President Lily Liu asserted that Solana is the only Layer 1 blockchain capable of realising the original vision of peer-to-peer electronic cash during the Solana Accelerate APAC event in Hong Kong on Wednesday.  Speaking at the summit, Liu emphasised that achieving global financial usability requires asymptotically zero transaction ...

Goldman Sachs has disclosed a $2.36 billion portfolio of crypto assets, all acquired through spot crypto ETF holdings and direct token ownership. The firm's holdings are broken down as: $1.1 billion in Bitcoin (BTC), $1.0 billion in Ethereum (ETH), $153 million in XRP, and $108 million in Solana (SOL), according ...

Bitcoin and Ethereum staged a recovery this week, climbing from last week’s sharp lows as investor interest in ETFs returned. BTC touched $71,000, while ETH rebounded to $2,150, sparking optimism that the recent selloff may have marked a near-term bottom. This is after Bitcoin faced further downside in the weeks ...

Wirex, a leading crypto payment platform, has partnered with decentralized social platform Collective Memory to launch the Collective Memory Card, giving creators real-time access to their onchain earnings. The card allows users to convert content rewards into spendable funds instantly at over 80 million merchants globally. https://t.co/yzBqsGROBf — Wirex (@wirexapp) ...