Billionaire investor Peter Thiel and his venture firm Founders Fund have fully walked away from ETHZilla, marking a decisive end to what was once a high-profile bet on the company’s Ethereum-focused treasury model.
Jane Street has ranked among the largest net buyers of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to newly released 13F filings.
Caution is building across global markets ahead of the Federal Reserve’s January meeting minutes, due later Wednesday, with investors looking for clues on the path of U.S. interest rates.
The newly appointed chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Michael Selig, is drawing a firm line between federal oversight and state intervention in the fast-growing prediction market sector.
Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee signaled that the Federal Reserve could deliver several more interest rate cuts in 2026 - but only if inflation convincingly moves back toward the central bank’s 2% goal.
Stablecoins are moving deeper into the U.S. banking system. Bridge, the digital dollar platform owned by Stripe, has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to form a national trust bank - a step that could reshape how regulated stablecoins operate at scale.
President Donald Trump has officially launched a sweeping $550 billion trade and investment framework with Japan, marking one of the largest bilateral economic agreements in recent years.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the crypto market has been locked in a “full-bore” winter since January 2025 - but most investors did not even realize it.
BlackRock has officially put capital behind its latest crypto product, seeding its proposed iShares Staked Ethereum Trust with $100,000.
Italian banking heavyweight Intesa Sanpaolo has significantly expanded its exposure to digital assets, according to its February 17, 2026 Form 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Gemini Space Station Inc. (NASDAQ: GEMI) disclosed a significant leadership restructuring on February 17, 2026, with the immediate departures of its Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Legal Officer.
As of February 2026, the United Arab Emirates has quietly built one of the largest sovereign Bitcoin positions in the world, with total exposure now estimated to exceed $900 million.



