TL;DR Bitcoin drops 25% monthly to $69,000 as crypto ETFs face $5.8 billion in outflows. BlackRock’s IBIT loses $2.8 billion in the quarter, contrasting with $21 billion prior inflows. Matt Hougan notes financial advisors hold positions; selling comes from hedge funds. Bitcoin records a decline exceeding 25% over the last month, while cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds
Nicki Minaj will take the stage at the Trump-linked World Liberty Forum later this week, marking her latest public alignment with the Trump family’s expanding crypto ambitions. World Liberty Financial ($WLFI), the DeFi project backed by Donald Trump’s family, confirmed that the global music icon will attend its flagship summit at Mar-a-Lago on February 18.
Charles Hoskinson, a co-founder of Cardano, hopes to expand blockchain technology beyond the financial industry and into commonplace applications, potentially reaching billions of users on Facebook and Tinder. Hoskinson said at the Consensus Hong Kong 2026 that dating apps could use blockchain to help users verify personal details like their salary, location, and height. By
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YOMIRGO, a renowned Web3 network for AI agent incubation, has gained notable backing from Alpha Capital, a popular venture capital investment firm. Particularly, Alpha Capital has made a strategic investment in YOMIRGO, denoting a key move in evolving the tokenized AI framework. As per YOMIRGO’s official X announcement, the development merges its on-chain AI Mega
12 Chainlink standard integrations landed across 7 services on Ethereum, Solana, $BNB Chain, Polygon and Robinhood Chain. Bank of England chose the network for the 2026 Synchronisation Lab and CME launched $LINK futures expanding regulated access. Chainlink posted a weekly adoption update showing 12 integrations of the Chainlink standard across seven services and five chains:
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 in liquid assets like $BTC, at a flat 36%, even if you never sell. The plan targets Jan. 1, 2028
YZi Labs is attempting to expand the board of directors at CEA Industries Inc. in order to have more influence over the company’s operations. Shareholders are currently unable to vote or submit consents as the filing remains under review by the SEC. In July 2025, YZi Labs raised $500 million in a private placement (PIPE)
In a landmark development for blockchain interoperability and artificial intelligence, the cross-chain protocol deBridge has officially launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This pivotal innovation, reported by The Block, fundamentally empowers AI agents and developer tools—including prominent platforms like Claude—to directly execute on-chain activities. Consequently, a new era of automated, intent-driven blockchain interaction begins.
Some experts suggest that the cycles of sharp rises and falls in the cryptocurrency market have ended, and a new era has begun for Bitcoin. According to a recent assessment note published by the US-based asset management company WisdomTree, Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market in general are now shaped by institutional discipline rather than speculative