As bitcoin price collapses, I should remind you that intermittent fasting is good for health. Restaurant food is unreliable because you do not have control over ingredients. Homemade instant coffee is just as good as Starbucks coffee.
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▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷Tether launches open-source Bitcoin mining OS
- MiningOS (MOS), an open-source operating system designed to manage, monitor, and automate bitcoin mining operations from small setups to industrial-scale sites
- The system uses a modular, peer-to-peer architecture to coordinate hardware, energy use, device health, and site infrastructure within a single operational layer
🔷Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap, which he previously championed, no longer makes sense
- arguing Layer 2s have decentralized far more slowly than expected while the base layer has continued to scale
- Buterin reframed their role, urging teams to pursue clear value-adds beyond scaling while highlighting renewed emphasis on base-layer upgrades such as enshrined ZK-EVM proofs
🔷Opinion said it raised $20 million in a pre-Series A funding round backed by firms including Hack VC and Jump Crypto
- The platform settles markets entirely onchain, positioning itself closer to Polymarket than centralized rival Kalshi
🔷TRM Labs notches $1 billion valuation with new $70 million funding round
- Series C funding round, led by its seed investor Blockchain Capital, along with Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Brevan Howard, Thoma Bravo, and Citi Ventures
🔷Coinbase has launched a prediction market platform, Coinbase Predict
- allowing users to trade on real-world events across sports, politics, crypto, and culture, available in all 50 U.S. states
🔷Binance’s SAFU fund purchased an additional 1,315 BTC worth $100.42 million
- bringing its total acquisition over the past two days to 2,630 BTC valued at $201.12 million
🔷Crypto.com has launched OG, a new U.S.-focused prediction market app
- OG offers regulated sports event contracts alongside financial, political, and cultural event markets, with plans to introduce margin trading—making it the first prediction market platform to do so
🔷CME Group CEO Terry Duffy indicated that the company is exploring launching its own token that could operate on a decentralized network
- as per CoinDesk
- The CME declined to clarify whether this “coin” would function as a stablecoin, settlement token or something else entirely
- the firm is also collaborating with Google on a “tokenized cash” solution set to launch later this year
🔷Tether launches open-source Bitcoin mining OS
- MiningOS (MOS), an open-source operating system designed to manage, monitor, and automate bitcoin mining operations from small setups to industrial-scale sites
- The system uses a modular, peer-to-peer architecture to coordinate hardware, energy use, device health, and site infrastructure within a single operational layer
🔷Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap, which he previously championed, no longer makes sense
- arguing Layer 2s have decentralized far more slowly than expected while the base layer has continued to scale
- Buterin reframed their role, urging teams to pursue clear value-adds beyond scaling while highlighting renewed emphasis on base-layer upgrades such as enshrined ZK-EVM proofs
🔷Opinion said it raised $20 million in a pre-Series A funding round backed by firms including Hack VC and Jump Crypto
- The platform settles markets entirely onchain, positioning itself closer to Polymarket than centralized rival Kalshi
🔷TRM Labs notches $1 billion valuation with new $70 million funding round
- Series C funding round, led by its seed investor Blockchain Capital, along with Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Brevan Howard, Thoma Bravo, and Citi Ventures
🔷Coinbase has launched a prediction market platform, Coinbase Predict
- allowing users to trade on real-world events across sports, politics, crypto, and culture, available in all 50 U.S. states
🔷Binance’s SAFU fund purchased an additional 1,315 BTC worth $100.42 million
- bringing its total acquisition over the past two days to 2,630 BTC valued at $201.12 million
🔷Crypto.com has launched OG, a new U.S.-focused prediction market app
- OG offers regulated sports event contracts alongside financial, political, and cultural event markets, with plans to introduce margin trading—making it the first prediction market platform to do so
🔷CME Group CEO Terry Duffy indicated that the company is exploring launching its own token that could operate on a decentralized network
- as per CoinDesk
- The CME declined to clarify whether this “coin” would function as a stablecoin, settlement token or something else entirely
- the firm is also collaborating with Google on a “tokenized cash” solution set to launch later this year
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▶️Crypto News & Updates
💠Binance SAFU Fund has purchased another 4,225 BTC worth about $299.6 million
- bringing its total accumulation to 10,455 BTC valued at roughly $734 million
- SAFU Fund address: 1BAuq7Vho2CEkVkUxbfU26LhwQjbCmWQkD
💠Tether announced a strategic investment in t-0 network
- a USD₮-powered settlement network for licensed financial institutions
- aiming to enable near-instant, low-cost cross-border payments by using stablecoins as the core settlement layer
💠Maple Finance's frontend was compromised
- "Smart contracts were unaffected and user deposits are safe. We will provide further updates here and notify users when the web application is back online."
💠Michael Saylor's Strategy has acquired 1,142 BTC for ~$90.0 million at ~$78,815 per bitcoin
- Strategy now holds 714,644 $BTC acquired for ~$54.35 billion at ~$76,056 per bitcoin
💠Tom Lee's Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) said it added around 40,600 ETH in the past week
- Its ETH holdings reached 4.326 million ETH, about 3.58% of total supply
💠Founders of Farcaster, Dan Romero & Varun Srinivasan, announced they're joining the Stripe & Paradigm backed stablecoin chain Tempo
💠Binance SAFU Fund has purchased another 4,225 BTC worth about $299.6 million
- bringing its total accumulation to 10,455 BTC valued at roughly $734 million
- SAFU Fund address: 1BAuq7Vho2CEkVkUxbfU26LhwQjbCmWQkD
💠Tether announced a strategic investment in t-0 network
- a USD₮-powered settlement network for licensed financial institutions
- aiming to enable near-instant, low-cost cross-border payments by using stablecoins as the core settlement layer
💠Maple Finance's frontend was compromised
- "Smart contracts were unaffected and user deposits are safe. We will provide further updates here and notify users when the web application is back online."
💠Michael Saylor's Strategy has acquired 1,142 BTC for ~$90.0 million at ~$78,815 per bitcoin
- Strategy now holds 714,644 $BTC acquired for ~$54.35 billion at ~$76,056 per bitcoin
💠Tom Lee's Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) said it added around 40,600 ETH in the past week
- Its ETH holdings reached 4.326 million ETH, about 3.58% of total supply
💠Founders of Farcaster, Dan Romero & Varun Srinivasan, announced they're joining the Stripe & Paradigm backed stablecoin chain Tempo
▶️Crypto News & Updates
💠LayerZero announced a a new blockchain called Zero designed to meet the needs of Wall Street
- Citadel Securities, ARK’s Cathie Wood, Intercontinental Exchange(parent company of NYSE) & Tether are joining as investors, partners, and advisors
💠Polymarket announced a partnership with Kaito AI to launch “attention markets”
- allowing users to trade on public attention and sentiment toward trends, brands, and individuals based on social media data
💠Backpack Exchange announced complicated TGE & IPO plan for its token and DAT
- Team tokens (37.5%) to be held by a DAT and team will hold equity in that DAT
- Users to get 25% tokens as airdrop at TGE
- Balance 37.5% to also go to users with unlocking based on milestones
💠Circle Ventures made a strategic investment in edgeX
- a decentralized perpetual futures trading platform/DEX built on its own EDGE Chain (an L3 on Arbitrum)
- edgeX will integrate native USDC and
- Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) will enable seamless, secure USDC transfers across supported chains
💠Robinhood launched the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum
💠BlackRock is enabling direct onchain trading of its $2.4 billion tokenized Treasury fund BUIDL
- via UniswapX in collaboration with Securitize and Uniswap Labs
- BlackRock also purchased an undisclosed amount of UNI
💠Binance has successfully completed the final tranche purchase of 4,545 BTC
- finalizing the $1 billion transition of SAFU stablecoin reserves into Bitcoin
- SAFU now holds 15,000 #BTC, worth $1,005,000,000 USD at the time of completion (calculated at a BTC price of $67,000)
💠LayerZero announced a a new blockchain called Zero designed to meet the needs of Wall Street
- Citadel Securities, ARK’s Cathie Wood, Intercontinental Exchange(parent company of NYSE) & Tether are joining as investors, partners, and advisors
💠Polymarket announced a partnership with Kaito AI to launch “attention markets”
- allowing users to trade on public attention and sentiment toward trends, brands, and individuals based on social media data
💠Backpack Exchange announced complicated TGE & IPO plan for its token and DAT
- Team tokens (37.5%) to be held by a DAT and team will hold equity in that DAT
- Users to get 25% tokens as airdrop at TGE
- Balance 37.5% to also go to users with unlocking based on milestones
💠Circle Ventures made a strategic investment in edgeX
- a decentralized perpetual futures trading platform/DEX built on its own EDGE Chain (an L3 on Arbitrum)
- edgeX will integrate native USDC and
- Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) will enable seamless, secure USDC transfers across supported chains
💠Robinhood launched the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum
💠BlackRock is enabling direct onchain trading of its $2.4 billion tokenized Treasury fund BUIDL
- via UniswapX in collaboration with Securitize and Uniswap Labs
- BlackRock also purchased an undisclosed amount of UNI
💠Binance has successfully completed the final tranche purchase of 4,545 BTC
- finalizing the $1 billion transition of SAFU stablecoin reserves into Bitcoin
- SAFU now holds 15,000 #BTC, worth $1,005,000,000 USD at the time of completion (calculated at a BTC price of $67,000)
No one holds crypto anymore we can't be raped man. At least not in this chat
▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷World Liberty Financial to roll out foreign exchange remittance service
- plans to launch World Swap, a foreign exchange and remittance platform aimed at cutting the cost of cross-border transfers
🔷Binance France chief David Princay was targeted in a failed home invasion
- Police tracked the suspects using mobile phones stolen from the scene and surveillance footage, arresting them later that day
- France has recorded multiple kidnappings, ransom attempts, and home invasions tied to crypto holders and entrepreneurs
🔷Flying Tulip (FT), a new project created by Andre Cronje, announced that it will launch its public sale tomorrow
- open to all users, with a maximum fundraising cap of $1 billion
- all funds raised will be deployed into low-risk yield strategies (such as Aave, Lido), and users may redeem their deposits unconditionally at any time
🔷Ethzilla announced the launch of the first tradable tokenized aviation asset on the Ethereum
- The asset is backed by Boeing 737-800 aircraft engines leased to major U.S. air carriers as underlying collateral
- Ethzilla converts physical aviation assets into on-chain digital tokens, enabling qualified investors to access engine-leasing cash flows via secondary market trading
🔷An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservist and a civilian have been indicted for using classified information to place bets on military operations via Polymarket
🔷Aave Labs Proposes V4 Overhaul and 100% Revenue Handover from Aave-branded assets to DAO
- In exchange, they're seeking $25 million in stablecoins and 75,000 AAVE tokens (worth ~$7.5-8M) for one-year funding to fuel V4 development, new product features, and marketing efforts
- with potential additional grants up to $17.5M for milestones
🔷Tether invests in Hyperliquid frontend Dreamcash
- to launch perpetual futures (perps) for USDT0 on Tesla stock, gold, and S&P 500
- $200K USDT trading rewards aim to attract users and boost volume
🔷Wall Street giant Apollo deepens crypto push with Morpho token deal
- Apollo Global Management struck a cooperation agreement to support lending markets built on Morpho’s onchain protocol
- The deal allows Apollo to acquire up to 90 million MORPHO tokens over 48 months
🔷World Liberty Financial to roll out foreign exchange remittance service
- plans to launch World Swap, a foreign exchange and remittance platform aimed at cutting the cost of cross-border transfers
🔷Binance France chief David Princay was targeted in a failed home invasion
- Police tracked the suspects using mobile phones stolen from the scene and surveillance footage, arresting them later that day
- France has recorded multiple kidnappings, ransom attempts, and home invasions tied to crypto holders and entrepreneurs
🔷Flying Tulip (FT), a new project created by Andre Cronje, announced that it will launch its public sale tomorrow
- open to all users, with a maximum fundraising cap of $1 billion
- all funds raised will be deployed into low-risk yield strategies (such as Aave, Lido), and users may redeem their deposits unconditionally at any time
🔷Ethzilla announced the launch of the first tradable tokenized aviation asset on the Ethereum
- The asset is backed by Boeing 737-800 aircraft engines leased to major U.S. air carriers as underlying collateral
- Ethzilla converts physical aviation assets into on-chain digital tokens, enabling qualified investors to access engine-leasing cash flows via secondary market trading
🔷An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservist and a civilian have been indicted for using classified information to place bets on military operations via Polymarket
🔷Aave Labs Proposes V4 Overhaul and 100% Revenue Handover from Aave-branded assets to DAO
- In exchange, they're seeking $25 million in stablecoins and 75,000 AAVE tokens (worth ~$7.5-8M) for one-year funding to fuel V4 development, new product features, and marketing efforts
- with potential additional grants up to $17.5M for milestones
🔷Tether invests in Hyperliquid frontend Dreamcash
- to launch perpetual futures (perps) for USDT0 on Tesla stock, gold, and S&P 500
- $200K USDT trading rewards aim to attract users and boost volume
🔷Wall Street giant Apollo deepens crypto push with Morpho token deal
- Apollo Global Management struck a cooperation agreement to support lending markets built on Morpho’s onchain protocol
- The deal allows Apollo to acquire up to 90 million MORPHO tokens over 48 months
▶️Crypto News & Updates
💠Harvard Management Company cut its holdings of BlackRock's IBIT Bitcoin ETF by 21% in Q4 but still held $265.8 million worth
- it simultaneously opened its first ether exposure, buying $86.8 million worth of shares in BlackRock's ETHA Ethereum ETF
💠Anthony Scaramucci's son buys Logan Paul's previously tokenized Pokémon card for record $16 million
💠deBridge launches MCP, enabling AI agents to execute non-custodial cross-chain transactions
💠Gemini announced the departure of its COO Marshall Beard, CFO Dan Chen, and CLO Tyler Meade, effective Feb. 17
💠Michael Saylor's Strategy purchased another 2,486 BTC for $168.4 million at an average price of $67,710
- bringing its total holdings to 717,131 BTC worth roughly $48.8 billion
💠Loss-making DeFi lender ZeroLend to shut down after 98% TVL drop
- The protocol's total value locked collapsed 98% from nearly $359 million in November 2024 to just $6.6 million
- ZERO token has lost nearly all its value
💠Tom Lee's Bitmine Has Added Additional 45,759 ETH
- and Now Holds 4,371,497 ETH
💠Dragonfly Capital has closed its fourth fund at $650 million
- The firm said it remains focused on crypto’s shift toward financial infrastructure, including stablecoins, onchain finance, and tokenized real-world assets (RWA)
💠As of December 31, 2025, Metaplanet held 35,102 BTC, up from 1,762 BTC a year earlier
- and recorded an unrealized Bitcoin valuation loss of about ¥102.2 billion
💠PETER THIEL EXITS ETHEREUM DAT "ETHZILLA" AMID $ETHZ TOKENIZED JET ENGINE FOCUS
💠Harvard Management Company cut its holdings of BlackRock's IBIT Bitcoin ETF by 21% in Q4 but still held $265.8 million worth
- it simultaneously opened its first ether exposure, buying $86.8 million worth of shares in BlackRock's ETHA Ethereum ETF
💠Anthony Scaramucci's son buys Logan Paul's previously tokenized Pokémon card for record $16 million
💠deBridge launches MCP, enabling AI agents to execute non-custodial cross-chain transactions
💠Gemini announced the departure of its COO Marshall Beard, CFO Dan Chen, and CLO Tyler Meade, effective Feb. 17
💠Michael Saylor's Strategy purchased another 2,486 BTC for $168.4 million at an average price of $67,710
- bringing its total holdings to 717,131 BTC worth roughly $48.8 billion
💠Loss-making DeFi lender ZeroLend to shut down after 98% TVL drop
- The protocol's total value locked collapsed 98% from nearly $359 million in November 2024 to just $6.6 million
- ZERO token has lost nearly all its value
💠Tom Lee's Bitmine Has Added Additional 45,759 ETH
- and Now Holds 4,371,497 ETH
💠Dragonfly Capital has closed its fourth fund at $650 million
- The firm said it remains focused on crypto’s shift toward financial infrastructure, including stablecoins, onchain finance, and tokenized real-world assets (RWA)
💠As of December 31, 2025, Metaplanet held 35,102 BTC, up from 1,762 BTC a year earlier
- and recorded an unrealized Bitcoin valuation loss of about ¥102.2 billion
💠PETER THIEL EXITS ETHEREUM DAT "ETHZILLA" AMID $ETHZ TOKENIZED JET ENGINE FOCUS
▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷DeFi lending protocol Moonwell hit with $1.8 million bad debt after oracle misconfiguration
- Moonwell said a misconfigured oracle mispriced cbETH at around $1 instead of roughly $2,000, triggering liquidations
- The error stemmed from a governance update that failed to incorporate the ETH/USD price feed
🔷Hacker returns $21 million in stolen bitcoin to South Korean authorities
- Investigators lost the bitcoin last August after entering recovery seed phrases on a phishing website during a gambling platform probe, but did not discover the loss until December
🔷Crypto investment firm DBA raises $68 million for its second venture fund
🔷Polymarket announces acquisition of Dome, terms undisclosed
- Dome, part of Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 cohort, provides a unified API for prediction markets, enabling developers to build apps, bots, dashboards, or trading tools across platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi
🔷CME Group announced that, pending regulatory review, its regulated cryptocurrency futures and options will be available for 24/7 trading starting on May 29
🔷Base plans to consolidate key network components into its own unified codebase
- Over the coming months, Base will gradually move away from the OP Stack
🔷Zora announced the launch of an attention market on the Solana platform
- The market allows users to trade popular topics, ideas, memes, or events
🔷DeFi lending protocol Moonwell hit with $1.8 million bad debt after oracle misconfiguration
- Moonwell said a misconfigured oracle mispriced cbETH at around $1 instead of roughly $2,000, triggering liquidations
- The error stemmed from a governance update that failed to incorporate the ETH/USD price feed
🔷Hacker returns $21 million in stolen bitcoin to South Korean authorities
- Investigators lost the bitcoin last August after entering recovery seed phrases on a phishing website during a gambling platform probe, but did not discover the loss until December
🔷Crypto investment firm DBA raises $68 million for its second venture fund
🔷Polymarket announces acquisition of Dome, terms undisclosed
- Dome, part of Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 cohort, provides a unified API for prediction markets, enabling developers to build apps, bots, dashboards, or trading tools across platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi
🔷CME Group announced that, pending regulatory review, its regulated cryptocurrency futures and options will be available for 24/7 trading starting on May 29
🔷Base plans to consolidate key network components into its own unified codebase
- Over the coming months, Base will gradually move away from the OP Stack
🔷Zora announced the launch of an attention market on the Solana platform
- The market allows users to trade popular topics, ideas, memes, or events
▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷Eric Trump's "American Bitcoin" (ABTC) now holds 6,000 BTC worth over $400 million
🔷Michael Saylor's Strategy has acquired 592 BTC for ~$39.8 million at ~$67,286 per bitcoin
- now holds 717,722 $BTC acquired for ~$54.56 billion at ~$76,020 per bitcoin
🔷Tom Lee's Bitmine Has Added Additional 51,162 ETH, and Now Holds 4,422,659 ETH
🔷BGD Labs (DeFi service provider) to cease Aave contributions after four years as governance tensions grow
🔷"Lobstar Wilde," an automated AI crypto trading bot created by an OpenAI employee, "accidentally" sent its entire stash of its own memecoin — about 5% of the total supply — to an X user who had requested only 4 SOL
- The recipient quickly sold the 53 million Lobstar tokens for about $40,000 due to limited liquidity, though that same amount later rose in value to more than $400,000 as attention boosted the token
🔷Hyperliquid 'SuperApp' Based raises $11.5 million Series A led by Pantera
- with Coinbase Ventures and Wintermute Ventures participating, structured as an equity investment with token warrants
- the app combines perpetual trading, prediction markets, wallet services, and crypto-linked payments into a single consumer-facing platform
- Based said it has surpassed 100,000 registered users, generated about $40 billion in cumulative trading volume, and produced nearly $14 million in revenue
🔷Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets Announce Shutdown Following January Hack
🔷Eric Trump's "American Bitcoin" (ABTC) now holds 6,000 BTC worth over $400 million
🔷Michael Saylor's Strategy has acquired 592 BTC for ~$39.8 million at ~$67,286 per bitcoin
- now holds 717,722 $BTC acquired for ~$54.56 billion at ~$76,020 per bitcoin
🔷Tom Lee's Bitmine Has Added Additional 51,162 ETH, and Now Holds 4,422,659 ETH
🔷BGD Labs (DeFi service provider) to cease Aave contributions after four years as governance tensions grow
🔷"Lobstar Wilde," an automated AI crypto trading bot created by an OpenAI employee, "accidentally" sent its entire stash of its own memecoin — about 5% of the total supply — to an X user who had requested only 4 SOL
- The recipient quickly sold the 53 million Lobstar tokens for about $40,000 due to limited liquidity, though that same amount later rose in value to more than $400,000 as attention boosted the token
🔷Hyperliquid 'SuperApp' Based raises $11.5 million Series A led by Pantera
- with Coinbase Ventures and Wintermute Ventures participating, structured as an equity investment with token warrants
- the app combines perpetual trading, prediction markets, wallet services, and crypto-linked payments into a single consumer-facing platform
- Based said it has surpassed 100,000 registered users, generated about $40 billion in cumulative trading volume, and produced nearly $14 million in revenue
🔷Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets Announce Shutdown Following January Hack