Day: 20 February 2026

Hey Crypto fam, This Week at a Glance Kraken backs newborn crypto adoption program in Wyoming $3.5B exits Bitcoin ETFs amid market uncertainty Pump.fun team dumps tokens at heavy losses South Korean prosecutors lose seized Bitcoin in phishing incident Eurozone signals support for euro stablecoins This week highlighted how crypto ...

Treasury Bills have always been the safe, silent backbone of global finance. But the combination of higher yields, rapid blockchain adoption, and the shift toward markets that never close has pushed them into an entirely new narrative. What was once a conservative instrument is now one of the most actively ...

From bank accounts to social media logins, our personal data is everywhere—and it’s become a prime target for scammers, many of whom rely on simple tricks to get people to hand over sensitive details. In 2021 alone, identity fraud cost $52 billion and affected 42 million U.S. adults, according to ...

Bitcoin has logged its worst-ever start to a year on record, falling 23% within the first 50 trading days of 2026. The leading cryptocurrency faced a brutal combination of a 10% slide in January followed by a further 15% drop in February, marking the first time in history that the ...

Bitcoin’s recent price slump is unlikely to be driven by fears of quantum computing, according to veteran developer Matt Corallo, who argues that market behaviour doesn’t support the theory. Speaking to journalist Laura Shin on the Unchained podcast, Corallo said he “strongly disagrees” with claims that quantum risk is materially ...

Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, has sharply criticized the cryptocurrency industry, describing crypto as “utterly useless” and questioning whether stablecoins offer any meaningful advantages over existing payment systems. Speaking at the 2026 Midwest Economic Outlook summit on Thursday, Kashkari contrasted crypto with artificial intelligence, arguing ...

Chake Protocol has launched a new Layer 1 blockchain built for crypto derivatives trading. The project aims to move prime brokerage services fully on-chain, combining trading, margin, and settlement directly at the base layer of the network. The team says most crypto trading platforms were built on blockchains that were ...

Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen, CEO of Into The Cryptoverse, said the sharp market drop on October 10, 2025, was not caused by a single event but by long-building structural pressure in the crypto market. According to Cowen, tight global liquidity, weakening market breadth, falling participation, and a maturing Bitcoin cycle ...

The White House has reportedly narrowed discussions between crypto firms and banking lobbyists to a key sticking point in proposed US crypto market structure legislation: how stablecoin rewards should be structured. Representatives from the crypto and banking sectors met Thursday for the third time in just over two weeks to ...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says there is a 90% chance the US Digital Asset Market Clarity Act will pass by the end of April, a move that could finally end years of regulatory ambiguity for the crypto industry. Garlinghouse pointed to renewed momentum in Washington after months of delays in ...