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BlackRock to skim 18% of staked Ethereum ETF rewards from investors — and ETHB exits could take weeks

BlackRock has sharpened the staking posture for its iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB), outlining a plan to keep most of the fund’s ETH staked and earning rewards rather than held in custody. In its...

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Wall Street is selling crypto income inside TradFi products and one hidden switch decides who gets in

Bitwise’s February announcement arrived as two moves packaged as one. The crypto asset manager announced a partnership with Morpho to launch curated yield vaults and simultaneously acquired Chorus One’s institutional staking business. It looks like...

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Is China using US Bitcoin ETFs as a backdoor? Mystery Hong Kong firm invested $436M in BlackRock’s IBIT

An obscure Hong Kong firm has disclosed a $436 million position in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, a revelation that is fueling speculation about Chinese capital flowing into crypto through offshore side doors. Laurore Ltd, a previously...

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The metrics that matter for XRP network health and how to read them without counting noise

XRP network health scorecard: wallets, trustlines, DEX volume, uptime Key takeaways Ripple and Aviva Investors said Feb. 11 they intend to tokenize traditional fund structures onto the XRP Ledger “over 2026 and beyond.” Messari’s State...

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Bitcoin eyes $7.7T sidelined dollars as Wall Street runs out of cash to “buy the dip”

I came across some analysis that’s relevant to Bitcoin this morning that cut through the usual stream of charts and market takes with a stark claim: there is “almost no cash on the sidelines.” If...

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Bitcoin on track to equal its most bearish period in history – only one price matters now

The scoop: Bitcoin is on pace for a fifth straight monthly drop if February closes red, its longest losing streak since 2018, while spot ETF flows flip persistently negative, reinforcing a new reality: post-ETF BTC...

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Bitcoin no longer acting like “digital gold” because its correlation with physical gold, USD collapsed

In 2025 and early 2026, Bitcoin’s behavior has been less “digital gold” and more regime-dependent. Sometimes it trades like a tech beta, then like a rates-and-liquidity-duration trade, and only intermittently like a hedge. The real...

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SEC decisions setup revenue pathway for top DAOs to earn hundreds of millions of dollars

Aave Labs posted a governance proposal on Feb. 12 asking tokenholders to endorse a strategic package that would direct 100% of Aave-branded product revenue to the DAO treasury, formalize brand protection, and center the roadmap...

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Binance traders are panic selling but HODLing on Coinbase — the $60,000 BTC stress test

Bitcoin’s recent price crash towards $60,000 did more than just shave billions off market capitalizations or liquidate leveraged positions. It served as a massive, chaotic stress test that exposed a widening behavioral fracture between the...

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Standard Chartered slashes XRP price target by 65% as whales send millions of tokens to Binance

XRP is sliding even as the XRP Ledger (XRPL) rolls out features that supporters have long framed as a bridge to institutional adoption. According to CryptoSlate’s data, the token has been trading around $1.47, while...

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Crypto privacy just became an economic crisis as MEV bots siphon millions and most users still leak everything

On some Ethereum L2s, bots now burn over half the gas just searching for MEV, and they don’t pay proportionally for it. That’s a scaling and market-fairness problem rooted in market structure. The privacy conversation...

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US debt to hit WWII-era extremes with $64 trillion owed, but one market price decides whether Bitcoin benefits

The fiscal mathematics of the United States are drifting toward a threshold that markets can no longer afford to ignore, and a level that, relative to GDP, hasn’t transpired since the last world war. Washington’s...

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Binance employee hunted down in botched France home invasion as crypto “wrench attack” spike spreads

A botched home invasion in the Paris suburbs on Feb. 12 marked a tactical shift in crypto’s physical-threat or “wrench attack” landscape. The target, according to French media reports, was the CEO of Binance France....

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Bitcoin hit $60,000 because two different groups finally surrendered — on-chain data shows who blinked

Bitcoin’s February drop to about $60,000 was the kind of single-day panic people will remember as a bottom. But the more accurate reading of this washout is harder and more useful: this cycle quit in...

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XRP holds 63% of this T-bill token supply but barely any of the trading, and that’s a problem

Tokenized US Treasuries are close to $11 billion, but the chain war is shifting from issuance to distribution and utility. Where yield tokens actually sit, how often they move, and whether they plug into stablecoin...

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CLARITY Act is turning into a proxy war over who pays Americans for holding “digital dollars”

The fight over CLARITY has always been sold as a battle for rules, a way to finally give the U.S. crypto market a clean lane to run in. That story still matters. The past week...

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No one has cash to “buy the dip” but $7.7T could rotate into Bitcoin if prices stay beaten down

I came across some analysis this morning that cut through the usual stream of charts and market takes with a stark claim: there is “almost no cash on the sidelines.” If true, it challenges one...

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EU crypto reporting goes live and Netherlands immediately votes on 36% Bitcoin tax – even if you don’t sell

The scoop: The Netherlands has just moved to tax Bitcoin like a stock, marked to market. Lawmakers in the Dutch House backed a Box 3 overhaul that would tax “actual returns,”  including annual price changes...

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