Day: 11 February 2026

Ile Du Port, Seychelles, 11th February 2026, Chainwire

Sam Bankman-Fried is seeking a new trial in his federal fraud case, filing a pro se motion in the Southern District of New York that argues his 2023 conviction was fundamentally unfair. The former FTX CEO, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence, claims crucial witness testimony was excluded from ...

Franklin Templeton and Binance have launched a new institutional off-exchange collateral program, allowing tokenized money market fund shares issued through Franklin Templeton’s Benji platform to be used as collateral for trading on Binance. The program aims to bring traditional regulated assets into digital markets without exposing them to exchange custody ...

Spark has rolled out two new products aimed at channelling its decentralized finance (DeFi) stablecoin reserves into institutional credit markets, marking a fresh push to connect onchain liquidity with traditional finance. The decentralized asset allocator on Wednesday introduced Spark Prime and Spark Institutional Lending, a suite designed to help professional ...

As stablecoins and crypto wallets edge closer to everyday financial use, payment service providers are facing a new reality. Millions of users now hold spendable balances in digital wallets, whether from stablecoin payroll, cross-border transfers,  or onchain savings. Increasingly, those users expect to check out with those funds just as ...

LayerZero Labs has announced the launch of "Zero," a new heterogeneous blockchain designed to eliminate scalability bottlenecks for global financial markets.  Developed in collaboration with industry giants Citadel Securities, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and Intercontinental Exchange, the network aims to provide institutional-grade infrastructure for trading, clearing, and ...

Monad has rolled out a new networking upgrade designed to significantly reduce the computational burden of message verification within its consensus protocol, marking a technical step forward in blockchain performance optimization. The update replaces traditional per-message cryptographic signature verification with authenticated UDP sessions built on the Noise protocol framework. The ...

Hong Kong-based Vobile Group and fintech platform Finloop have announced a strategic collaboration to launch a blockchain-based platform for tokenizing cultural and creative intellectual property (IP) as real-world assets (RWAs). The partnership aims to bring dormant IP revenue rights onchain, providing liquidity and new investment opportunities in a compliant offshore ...

Stripe has introduced a new payment system that enables artificial intelligence agents to automatically pay for digital services in cryptocurrency, marking a major step toward machine-to-machine commerce. The feature, revealed on February 11 by Stripe product manager Jeff Weinstein, is currently available in preview. It integrates support for Base, an ...

The era of explosive crypto returns may be cooling as institutional investors increasingly replace retail traders who once fueled the market’s biggest rallies, according to Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz. Crypto's 'age of speculation' may be over, says Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz https://t.co/P7Lxv8kAQm — CNBC (@CNBC) February 10, 2026 Speaking ...