Month: February 2026
UAE firm bought 49% of Trump-linked crypto startup for $500M: WSJ
A Tahnoon-backed Abu Dhabi entity reportedly agreed to buy 49% of World Liberty Financial for $500 million just days before Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Contracts in Nix
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Step Finance treasury breach leads to $27M in losses, STEP crashes 90%
Solana-based DeFi platform Step Finance disclosed a treasury wallet breach that saw over $27 million in SOL moved onchain, sending its STEP token down more than 90%.
A Broken Heart
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The Book of PF, 4th edition
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Sam Bankman-Fried turns up Trump support following Ellison’s release
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said US president Donald Trump was “right on crypto” and that Joe Biden “bungled crypto” in a series of recent X posts.
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Single trader just lost $220 million as ether plunged 10%
A massive ETH liquidation on Hyperliquid led a leverage-driven wipeout that pushed total crypto liquidations past $2.5 billion in 24 hours.
Meet the new European unicorns of 2026
From Belgium to Ukraine, five fresh European unicorns were minted this January.
Tom Lee’s BitMine sits on $6 billion loss from ether bets
The firm’s recent ETH purchases came just ahead of a sharp market slide, pushing unrealized losses past $6 billion as liquidity thinned and liquidations picked up.
Bitcoin drops to $78,000 as MicroStrategy-fueled rally runs out of buyers, traders say
Bitcoin sank to its lowest levels since April as profit-taking by early holders collided with thinning liquidity and a sharp drop-off in fresh capital.
Bitcoin’s price may have seen ‘deepest pullback’ at $77K: Analyst
Bitcoin advocate and accountant Rajat Soni warned, “Never trust a weekend pump or dump,” as Bitcoin plunged and over $2 billion was wiped from the crypto market.
SOL drops to $95 as Bitcoin, AI stocks and gold sell off: Will traders buy the dip?
SOL falls to lows not seen since April 2025, but Solana’s price-to-fundamentals gap and its wider correlation to macro markets may provide hope for investors.
OpenRouter’s Video Endpoint: The “Ask Your Video Anything” Model, Explained
Learn how router/video/enterprise processes video over time—identifying objects, actions, and sequences.
UniVideo Wants to Be the One Model That Understands, Generates, and Edits Video
UniVideo combines video comprehension, creation, and editing into a single system built on established components—here’s what it does, what it outputs, and how to test it.