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George Town, Cayman Islands, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire Zircuit, a security-first digital asset company backed by YZiLabs, Dragonfly, and Pantera, today announced the launch of Zircuit Finance. Incubated by a team from Quantstamp, Zircuit Finance is a secure platform for institutional-grade strategies, a stablecoin vault designed to generate yield on USDC and USDT, with a stated target range of 8–11% APR, subject to market conditions and variability. Historically, access to professional asset managers and institutional strategies required significant minimum investments and long lockups. Zircuit Finance removes those barriers with a simplified, cross-chain interface that provides access to institutional-grade yield strategies…

Bitmine has 3,040,483 staked ETH, representing $6.1 billion at $1,998 per ETH; MAVAN staking solution on track to launch Q1 2026 Bitmine now owns 3.62% of the ETH token supply, over 72% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 7 months Bitmine recently closed on initial $200 million investment into Beast Industries Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $9.6 billion, including 4.371 million ETH tokens, total cash of $670 million, and other crypto holdings Bitmine leads crypto treasury peers by both the velocity of raising crypto NAV per share and by the high trading…

Karavas, Cyprus, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire At a time when much of the blockchain industry is still recovering from one of its harshest downturns, a small number of companies are quietly moving in the opposite direction: expanding, building, and positioning themselves for the next era of adoption. Public Masterpiece, a Cyprus-based real-world asset tokenization company, has announced PMT Chain, its own purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain. Alongside the announcement, the company confirmed a strategic repositioning: PMT, once short for Public Masterpiece Token, will now stand for Public Masterpiece Technology. The timing is notable. Crypto did not simply experience a correction, but…

Bitcoin BTC$68,153.35 is struggling to build any upward momentum, even as the key panic gauge pulls back from its early-month high and hints at renewed stability.Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility, the fear or panic gauge, which reflects investors’ expectations for price swings over 4 weeks, has dropped to an annualised 52%, according to data source Volmex. The decline has reversed the early-month spike, which saw the index rise from roughly 48% to nearly 100% as bitcoin crashed to nearly $60,000.The receding volatility suggests that panic has ebbed and that investors are no longer chasing options or hedging instruments as frantically as…

CryptoMondays, the world’s leading community for Web3 enthusiasts, today announced a series of major initiatives that reinforce its position as a high-octane global engine for innovation, education, and connection. Following its latest “Chapter Champions” monthly leadership meeting, the organization unveiled its new AI-driven platform, Agent MonDAI, and showcased explosive growth across its institutional and regional chapters. Innovation at the Intersection of AI & Web3 Leading the digital transformation of the community is Agent MonDAI, a custom-built dashboard designed to embody the organization’s “Learn, Earn, Connect” mission. Unlike standard chatbots, Agent MonDAI utilizes a sophisticated knowledge management database developed by KBAI…

While mainstream American financial media continue to discuss the stickiness of inflation, fluctuating expectations of interest rate cuts, and the high-level fluctuations of BTC and XRP, a more subtle yet realistic consensus is forming: While prices are uncertain, the cash flow of computing power and Proof-of-Work (PoW) is being repriced. Amid this structural shift, Moon Hash is increasingly seen by North American middle-class and high-net-worth individuals as a “solution to the times”—it doesn’t sell returns, but rather assetizes, institutionalizes, and long-termizes PoW computing power, reshaping participants’ cognitive coordinates with an almost exaggerated sense of stability. Moon Hash periodically allocates PoW…

U.S. stock futures turned lower Monday night, following another brutal week for tech stocks.

Nearly half of single Americans believe their net worth affects their dating prospects, a perception that may quietly shape who they date, how often they go out and how much they spend trying to impress. According to a new BMO survey, 44% of single Americans say their net worth influences their ability to date. At the same time, dating itself has become expensive. The average American adult spends $2,279 a year on dates, while the all-in cost of a single outing, including grooming, transportation and activities, runs about $168 (1). That combination can be intimidating. When dating feels costly, and…

Apollo Global Management (APO) is moving deeper into crypto, striking a deal that could make the $938 billion asset manager a major token holder in a decentralized lending platform.The firm signed a cooperation agreement with the Morpho Association, the French non-profit organization behind the Morpho protocol, that allows Apollo and its affiliates to buy up 90 million tokens MORPHO$1.4106 tokens over the next four years. The purchases may take place through open-market buys, over-the-counter transactions and other arrangements, and are subject to ownership caps and transfer restrictions. Galaxy Digital UK acted as exclusive financial adviser to Morpho, according to the…

Here’s how trading hours and other services will be affected on the federal holiday, which falls on Monday, Feb. 16, this year.