JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Binance US plans expansion.

CZ says Binance US may expand in the US after the SEC dropped its 2023 lawsuit.

New banking partnerships or licenses are now possible. And, he clarified this applying only to Binance US, not the global Binance platform.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Crypto․com receives conditional approval to operate as a national US crypto bank.

Today in Bitcoin:23/02/2026

✅ 🇫🇷 French government owned energy company Engie is considering installing bitcoin miners at its new solar plant in Brazil "to make the facility more profitable"
✅ 🇺🇸 US regulator OCC approves Bitcoin exchange Crypto․com to become a National Trust Bank
✅ 🇺🇸 Michael Saylor's 'Strategy' buys 592 Bitcoin worth $40 million.

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JUST IN: Terra sues Jane Street for alleged insider trading leading to the collapse of $UST and $LUNA.

BREAKING: Meta has agreed to a deal with AMD to buy over $100 billion worth of AI computing power and potentially a ~10% stake in the company.

AMD stock, $AMD, is surging +15% on the news.

JUST IN: Binance brings back tokenized stocks via Ondo Finance partnership.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he's "starting to see parallels to the era before 2008 financial crisis."

JUST IN: TRUMP CONSIDERING EXPANDING KYC RULES, FORCING BANKS TO COLLECT CITIZENSHIP INFORMATION SUCH AS PASSPORTS

JUST IN: Kraken exchanges launch 24/7 perpetuals for US stocks.

JUST IN: WisdomTree gets SEC approval for round-the-clock trading of tokenized MMF, per report.

JUST IN: Stripe considers acquiring PayPal.

BREAKING: PayPal stock, $PYPL, surges over +7% on reports that Stripe is considering acquiring the company.

JUST IN: President Trump will not pardon Sam Bankman-Fried, according to the White House.

NOW: Bitcoin is at its weakest correlation with stocks since the FTX collapse in 2022, down 43% in 6 months while gold surged 51% and the S&P 500 gained 7%, per Santiment.

JUST IN: TETHER INVESTS IN WHOP, A POPULAR INTERNET MARKETPLACE, AS IT ADOPTS STABLECOIN PAYOUTS

Bitcoin wicked down by 30% to 47.6K on Lighter 20 minutes ago.