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The New York Fed undertook an out-right purchase of Treasury bills of up to $8.165 billion. This move brought in reserves into the banking system directly. The operation was settled the day afterward. The acquisition is an indication of the further attempts to ensure the continuous operation of the market. It coincides with a taking of a break in aggressive balance sheet shrinkage. The Fed statistics indicate that the total assets of the Fed have been on the increase. Additions into treasury bills have been used to counter maturing securities. This change has sneaked up overall liquidity. Such acts are…

Blockchain advocacy group The Digital Chamber has launched a new unit focused on supporting prediction markets and helping gain regulatory clarity for the sector in the US. In an announcement via X on Tuesday, The Digital Chamber unveiled the Prediction Markets Working Group, outlining a multi-year plan to bring clarity to what it called a “misunderstood segment of finance.” The Digital Chamber said the first course of action was sending a letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Mike Selig praising his efforts to maintain federal jurisdiction over prediction markets, while also calling for an end to regulation by…

Alchemy Pay, a renowned crypt-fiat payment gateway, is excited to announce its new interesting partnership with USA₮, a U.S. regulated dollar-backed stablecoin launched by Tether for secure and compliant digital currency transactions. The purpose of this partnership is to bring seamless and easy fiat on-ramp access to the USA₮ stablecoin via its worldwide payment infrastructure. Excited to support USA₮ @usat on #AlchemyPay.With fiat on-ramp now live, users can access USA₮ using local payment methods in 173 countries, making compliant, payments-first stablecoins easier to use worldwide.Get started 👉 https://t.co/3GbzXnxaRRhttps://t.co/PdAdpNSWZK… pic.twitter.com/WfBr5FMKhO — Alchemy Pay|$ACH: Fiat-Crypto Payment Gateway (@AlchemyPay) February 20, 2026 This…

Polymarket announced that it has entered an exclusive partnership with Substack to integrate real-time prediction market data directly into Substack posts and newsletters. ​​Polymarket Expands Into Independent Media With Substack Integration Polymarket is a blockchain-based prediction market platform where users trade on the likelihood of future events, from elections to economic indicators, with prices reflecting crowd-assessed probabilities. Under the new agreement, Substack writers can embed live Polymarket markets — including dynamic probability tables — directly inside their editor, without leaving the drafting interface. The integration allows articles to display odds that update in real time, effectively turning static commentary into…

The crypto industry often talks about trillion dollar opportunities, but few founders dare to project a $50 trillion future. That bold number now sits at the center of Aave’s long term roadmap. Stani Kulechov believes the next phase of growth will not come from speculation, but from infrastructure that funds the real economy. He argues that onchain lending can power the next industrial cycle. Solar farms, energy storage systems and robotics networks require enormous upfront capital. Traditional banks move slowly and limit access. Onchain lending introduces global liquidity without friction and without geographic constraints. This vision goes beyond token trading.…

Ethereum price is compressing into a tight bearish pennant, with declining volatility and converging structure signaling that a decisive move is approaching as downside risks continue to build. Summary Bearish pennant structure suggests continuation risk, not reversal Volume expansion is required to confirm a valid breakdown $1,740 swing low is the key downside target, if support fails Ethereum ($ETH) price action is approaching a critical inflection point as the market compresses into a well-defined pennant structure. Periods of tightening range and declining volatility often precede strong directional moves, and in Ethereum’s case, the broader technical context leans bearish. The prevailing…

The South Korean government plans to allocate 25% of its $499.2 billion (approximately 728 Trillion Won) through digital assets by 2030. A substantial portion of the national treasury funds is expected to be distributed as deposit tokens, starting with subsidies in the EV sector in 2026. The South Korean government is set to include the Digital Currency Utilization Plan for Advanced National Treasury Fund Management in the 2026 Economic Growth Strategy. The SK government aims to incorporate the Bank of Korea’s experimental central bank digital currency (CBDC) payment system, “Project Hangang.” According to the Bank of Korea, the project tests…

Crypto industry lobby Coin Center has sent a letter to the US Senate Banking Committee urging it to advance a bill that would prevent well-intentioned crypto developers from being prosecuted. The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) was first introduced by House Representative Tom Emmer in September 2018, with a new version of the bill written last month by Senators Cynthia Lummis and Ron Wyden to clarify that software developers and infrastructure providers who do not control user funds are not money transmitters under federal law. Coin Center policy director Jason Somensatto’s letter to the Senate Banking Committee, which he shared…

In his latest attempt to defend his reputation to the outside world from behind bars, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former CEO of FTX Trading Ltd, came out today, February 20, to challenge the narratives that led to his conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. The former FTX CEO, currently serving a 25-year sentence at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, posted a “10 Myths About Me & FTX” thread claiming FTX was never insolvent, customers are being “made whole” with above 100% repayments, and that his November 2023 trial was basically unfair. He even spared time to address the rumors…

Cipher, a company formerly known as Cipher Mining, has released its Q4 and full-year 2025 results, reporting $60 million in revenue, below what analysts expected, with an adjusted net loss of $55 million. It attributed those figures to heavy transition costs as the company shifts away from its core business operations — Bitcoin mining. Those costs are being treated as necessary collateral. Cipher has rebranded Tyler Page, Chief Executive Officer, still tagged the year 2025 a transformative one that reflected continued momentum as the company advanced its evolution into a leading HPC data center development company. During the quarter, Cipher…