🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!

🚨 Oil prices surge as much as 12% to over $75 a barrel as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran effectively shuts down the Strait of Hormuz.

🚨 X Head of Product Nikita Bier announces Paid Partnership labels on posts and confirmed that crypto is not included in the prohibited list.

🚨 Arthur Hayes argues that a prolonged US-Iran conflict could push the Fed to print money, ultimately sending Bitcoin higher.

⚡️ Vitalik Buterin calls for binary state trees and a RISC-V VM to tackle Ethereum's two biggest execution layer bottlenecks.

🇺🇸 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the door to a bank-crypto deal is wide open, urging banks to act in good faith as stablecoin yield negotiations continue.

🔥 Steak 'n Shake announces it will pay all hourly employees a Bitcoin bonus of 21 cents per hour starting March 1.

⚡️ Crypto social media chatter about World War 3 has hit its highest level since June 2025 as the US-Israel-Iran conflict continues to escalate, per Santiment.

🇸🇦 Saudi Aramco shuts Ras Tanura oil refinery after drone strike.

🔥 Strategy buys 3,015 $BTC at an average price of $67,700, totaling $204.1M.

🚨 Polymarket traders are pricing a 55% chance that Bitcoin hits $60,000 before $80,000.

🇺🇸 A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request to delay tariff refund litigation, allowing importer refund cases to move forward.

🚨 Uniswap wins full dismissal of the scam token class action lawsuit, with the judge ruling the platform cannot be held liable for third-party token issuers' misconduct.

🇺🇸 The US Senate Banking Committee's 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act includes a provision banning the Fed from issuing a retail CBDC, set to expire in 2030.

🔥 Around $90,000,000,000 added to the total crypto market cap in the past 10 hours.

🔥 Van Eck CEO says Bitcoin is “making a bottom and this is a very nice sign of life.”

🚨 SoftBank-backed PayPay is aiming to raise up to $1.1 billion in its US IPO, potentially one of the largest Japanese listings on American markets.

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits the company's rushed Pentagon deal looked "opportunistic and sloppy."

They've since added clauses to ensure AI isn't used for domestic surveillance or by intelligence agencies like the NSA.

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🚨 ALERT: 38% of altcoins are now trading near their all-time lows, worse than the post-FTX period, per CryptoQuant.

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🔥 BULLISH: A Bitwise study using data through year-end 2025 finds that adding $BTC to a 60/40 portfolio improved cumulative and risk-adjusted returns in 100% of three-year periods and 93% of two-year periods.

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: President Donald J. Trump accuses banks of undermining the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts, vowing to secure U.S. crypto leadership.

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