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Sui Network is pushing decentralized finance (DeFi) beyond spot trading with the launch of DeepBook Margin. A new layer built on the protocol’s existing DeepBook infrastructure that brings fully on-chain margin trading to its ecosystem. This upgrade expands liquidity mechanics from static pools into a more dynamic and capital-efficient financial layer. Therefore, it enables developers to embed leverage, rewards and automated risk processes directly into their applications. DeepBook Margin represents a shift from traditional, isolated liquidity towards a system where borrowing, trading, and reward incentives operate within a shared architecture. Essentially, Sui’s DeFi stack is evolving into something closer to…

After the aggressive sell-off toward the $1.8K region, the market has transitioned into choppy consolidation, while lower timeframes are now approaching a decisive breakout point. The key question is whether this compression resolves to the upside or results in continuation within the dominant downtrend structure. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, $ETH continues to trade inside a descending channel, with the midline acting as dynamic resistance and the $1.8K region serving as a firm structural base. Following the aggressive sell-off, the price action has turned increasingly choppy, printing overlapping candles and minor retracements rather than impulsive…

We all just watched PayPal’ stock PYPL sit out the entirety of 2025’s bull run, even as its fellow tech stocks went utterly parabolic taking unprecedented control of the entire stock market, crypto pumped Bitcoin to an astounding $126,000, and AI took off too. But PayPal just kept crashing. On January 9, it dropped another 1%, closing at $57.66. And this wasn’t a one-day thing. It’s been stuck in the dirt for months. At the same time, insiders sold PYPL in Q4 2025 and none of them bought while short sellers made millions of dollars off PayPal, per data from…

The crypto industry and traditional banking lobbies appear to be inching toward a historic compromise following weeks of gridlock that threatens the passage of the key U.S. digital asset legislation. Stuart Alderoty, chief legal officer at Ripple, emerged from the closed-door session with a highly optimistic outlook on the progress made regarding the stalled CLARITY Act. “We rolled up our sleeves and went through specific language today. Work will continue in the coming days. Let’s get this right and make the US the crypto capital of the world!” The White House takes the wheel Sources have reported that this third…

In a significant on-chain transaction monitored by analysts globally, a cryptocurrency wallet linked to venture firm YZi Labs has deposited over $450,000 worth of AI and WOO tokens to the Binance exchange, a move widely interpreted as a precursor to selling. This YZi Labs wallet deposit follows a pattern of asset liquidation by the firm, raising questions about venture capital exit strategies in the current digital asset climate. The transaction, executed approximately five hours before reporting, involved substantial sums of two distinct project tokens acquired through vesting schedules. Analyzing the YZi Labs Wallet Deposit Blockchain data reveals the specific details…

Russian brokerage firm Finam has registered the country’s first cryptocurrency mining-focused investment fund with the Bank of Russia. The company plans to begin trading the fund’s shares in the coming days. A Russian broker Finam has registered a cryptocurrency mining-focused investment fund with the Bank of Russia and plans to begin trading its shares in the coming days. The fund’s mining infrastructure uses a gas-powered setup to supply energy for mining equipment. Finam said it’s… — Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) February 16, 2026 This marks a huge step for Russia’s crypto industry. While the country legalized cryptocurrency mining in 2024, it…

Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, has announced the formation of the RealFi Alliance, a strategic initiative aimed at bringing greater standardization and coordination to institutional real-world asset (RWA) activity onchain, according to an announcement shared with Finbold on February 23. The alliance brings together asset issuers, financial infrastructure providers, and onchain builders to help move the RWA market beyond isolated pilot programs toward a more scalable and operational framework. The inaugural cohort includes Chainlink, Asseto Finance, Ember, Faroo, LayerZero, R25, Re7 Labs, TopNod, and Centrifuge. Coordinating infrastructure, liquidity, and compliance Pharos said the RealFi Alliance is structured to…

The decentralized exchange (DEX) industry had a total weekly trading volume of $59.51 billion which is the latest market snapshot provided by Phoenix Group as of February 20, 2026. The market had experienced a very steep weekly 31.87% drop in activity, in spite of the high aggregate number, an indicator of more extensive cooling of the crypto markets. TOP #DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGES BY WEEKLY TRADING VOLUME #Uniswap #PancakeSwap #Raydium #Aerodrome #Orca #Balancer #Meteora #Curve #Hyperliquid pic.twitter.com/hXrGqlhddm — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) February 20, 2026 Meanwhile, DEX and CEX supremacy were at 14.63%, meaning that centralized exchanges still take…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin remains one of the wealthiest figures in crypto based on on-chain data. Public wallet records show he controls more than 224,000 $ETH across known addresses. With the Ethereum price trading around $1,900, those holdings are valued near $439 million. During Ethereum’s 2014 presale, approximately 16.53% of the initial 72 million $ETH supply was allocated to the founding team. This allocation became the foundation of Vitalik Buterin’s long-term crypto wealth. While exact individual distributions were not publicly itemized at launch, blockchain data shows that Buterin controlled over 662,000 $ETH in 2015, representing about 0.91% of the total…

Inquiries about whether pensions can be paid in crypto have become one of the most frequent non-standard requests received by the Social Fund of Russia, a state-run institution responsible for managing Russia’s public pension system. In 2025, the Social Fund’s call center handled roughly 37 million calls, the vast majority related to routine matters such as pensions, benefits and maternity capital. However, operators also increasingly fielded questions about digital assets, according to a Saturday report from Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Russian Gazette), the official daily newspaper of the Russian government. Among the most common crypto-related inquiries were whether Russian citizens could receive…