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Panama City, Republic of Panama, February 18th, 2026, Chainwire Sai today launched Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading platform built to be as fast and intuitive as a centralized exchange with the transparency and self-custody of onchain settlement. The platform features gasless transactions, removing friction for traders while maintaining full onchain security. Sai also unveiled Let’s Go Saicho, a one-month onchain trading competition running February 18 through March 19, 2026, with $25,000 in total prizes. The campaign is structured in two phases designed to reward both performance and participation: a PNL competition for profitable traders, followed by a first-come, first-serve “Be…

Institutional investors are entering prediction markets, following a strategy seen earlier in the crypto space. Asset managers are filing for prediction-market tied exchange-traded funds as the space continues to gain traction. Sponsored SponsoredInstitutional Capital Moves Into Prediction Markets as ETF Race Begins On February 17, 2026, Bitwise Asset Management submitted a post-effective amendment to register six ETFs under a new brand called “PredictionShares.” The proposed funds, tied to event contracts on the outcome of US elections, would be listed and primarily traded on NYSE Arca. “PredictionShares will serve as a new Bitwise platform focused on providing exposure to prediction markets. Bitwise’s CIO Matt…

In brief Bitwise, Roundhill, and GraniteShares have filed for election-linked prediction market ETFs. Experts say demand and liquidity could be strong from hedge funds, but warn that political event markets also raise manipulation and insider information risks. The filings land as U.S. midterms approach and the CFTC moves to assert federal authority over prediction markets. Wall Street’s latest push into political prediction markets is drawing both strong liquidity expectations and warnings of manipulation from industry experts, as major ETF issuers race to launch election-linked funds ahead of the U.S. midterms.Fund managers Bitwise Asset Management, Roundhill Investments, and GraniteShares are seeking…

About Biljana Obradovic Full Name: Biljana Obradovic Designation:  Senior Project/Program Manager  Company: Concept360 Country: Serbia What is your professional background? I have professional experience of more than 20 years as a Delivery Leader and Project Manager. I have led complex projects involving multiple phases in finance and ICT alongside the public sector. My work also helped me acquire experience in leading large-scale development projects to create digital platforms and software. I have had the experience of working in environments focused on regulation and compliance with priority to governance, operational resilience, security, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) alongside speed and…

Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun has rolled out a new feature that shifts rewards toward memecoin traders rather than its deployers — a tweak to its fee model that once generated over $15 million in a single day at its peak.In a post to X on Tuesday, Pump.fun said the platform’s memecoin creators can now decide whether a token “truly deserves” Creator Fees, or whether it’s best to redirect rewards to traders engaging with the token through “Cashback Coins.”  Pump.fun’s original model features Creator Fees, giving token creators 0.3% of all fees generated by the tokens they launch.However, Pump.fun said not…

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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Galaxy Digital head of research Alex Thorn is pushing back on a growing critique that Bitcoin has “failed” its digital gold promise, arguing that the label was always about BTC’s monetary properties, not a guarantee it would trade like bullion in every macro regime. In a post on X, Thorn said Bitcoin’s “failure to trade like gold as part of ‘the debasement trade’ since Sep. ‘25’ damaged its narrative with new entrants,” but framed that disappointment as a category error. “When bitcoiners said ‘digital gold’ they were…

Executives at Coinbase used a recent company ‘AMA’ call to address growing scrutiny around Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, defending the firm’s dominant role as a custodian and pushing back against claims that spot Bitcoin ETFs are backed by “paper Bitcoin” rather than real assets. Responding to a question from Bloomberg’s James Seyffart, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the company holds a commanding share of the U.S.-listed Bitcoin ETF custody market, estimating Coinbase’s share at more than 80%. He framed that concentration as a competitive advantage rather than a risk. “We do have pretty dominant market share in terms of custody for…

George Town, Cayman Islands, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire Zircuit, a security-first digital asset company backed by YZiLabs, Dragonfly, and Pantera, today announced the launch of Zircuit Finance. Incubated by a team from Quantstamp, Zircuit Finance is a secure platform for institutional-grade strategies, a stablecoin vault designed to generate yield on USDC and USDT, with a stated target range of 8–11% APR, subject to market conditions and variability. Historically, access to professional asset managers and institutional strategies required significant minimum investments and long lockups. Zircuit Finance removes those barriers with a simplified, cross-chain interface that provides access to institutional-grade yield strategies…

Bitmine has 3,040,483 staked ETH, representing $6.1 billion at $1,998 per ETH; MAVAN staking solution on track to launch Q1 2026 Bitmine now owns 3.62% of the ETH token supply, over 72% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 7 months Bitmine recently closed on initial $200 million investment into Beast Industries Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $9.6 billion, including 4.371 million ETH tokens, total cash of $670 million, and other crypto holdings Bitmine leads crypto treasury peers by both the velocity of raising crypto NAV per share and by the high trading…