Day: 12 February 2026

Lighter, a high-performance decentralized exchange (DEX), has launched the world's first perpetual futures contracts for South Korean blue-chip stocks, including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Hyundai Motor. The Ethereum-based Layer 2 platform now allows global traders to speculate on these cornerstone Asian assets with up to 10x leverage without requiring ...

Strategy CEO Phong Le is moving to solidify investor confidence amid stock price fluctuations by intensifying the company's focus on its "Stretch" perpetual preferred shares.  As reported by Bloomberg, this initiative is designed to offer investors a steadier path to digital asset exposure. Critically, the move will also continue to ...

The UK Treasury has selected HSBC as the platform provider for its pioneering Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot, marking a decisive step in the nation’s quest to modernize its sovereign debt markets according to Bloomberg reports.  Announced on Thursday, February 12, 2026, the collaboration will leverage the bank’s Orion blockchain ...

The privacy-focused blockchain Midnight is drawing renewed attention after Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson unveiled major updates at the Consensus Hong Kong conference, including a confirmed mainnet launch timeline and high-profile collaborations. Midnight mainnet is coming. On the #ConsensusHK stage, we shared that Midnight mainnet will officially go live before the ...

A wealth management client invested $11 million in Bitcoin during the recent market pullback, marking its first crypto allocation after nearly two years of sitting on the sidelines, according to Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley. A wealth management client who Bitwise met two years ago, had never allocated to crypto. Until ...

The American Bankers Association (ABA) is calling on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to slow down approvals of national trust bank charters for crypto and stablecoin firms, warning that the regulatory picture remains unsettled. In a comment letter submitted Wednesday in response to the OCC’s proposed ...

Thailand has taken a major step toward integrating cryptocurrencies into its traditional financial system after approving a proposal to allow digital assets to serve as underlying assets in the country’s derivatives and capital markets, the Bangkok Post reported. The Cabinet on Tuesday endorsed the Finance Ministry’s plan, which will permit ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum Foundation AI lead Davide Crapis have outlined a new framework to make interactions with large language models (LLMs) private, secure, and spam-resistant, without sacrificing efficiency. In a blog post published on Wednesday, the pair argued that as AI chatbot usage accelerates, the current payment ...

Institutional crypto lending platform BlockFills has temporarily suspended customer deposits and withdrawals following a sharp downturn in Bitcoin and the broader digital asset market. The company confirmed in a Wednesday post on X that the move, which remains in place, was taken to safeguard clients and stabilize liquidity on the ...

Binance has completed the full conversion of its $1 billion emergency insurance fund into Bitcoin, reinforcing its stance on BTC as a long-term reserve asset despite worsening crypto market sentiment. On Thursday, on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence showed that the exchange acquired an additional $304 million worth of Bitcoin, bringing ...