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Valkyrie amends Bitcoin Fund S-1 filing with enhanced custody and valuation rules

Valkyrie Investments refiled an amended Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday for its Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund, adding more precise rules around custody, valuation, seed investments, and risks as the cryptocurrency investment vehicle awaits regulatory approval to trade on Nasdaq. The new filing updates the index used to value the fund’s Bitcoin from Lukka Prime to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate – New York Variant, which calculates the reference rate as of 4 PM Eastern

Mysterious Offshore Entity Takes $436M Position in Blackrock’s Bitcoin ETF

A little-known offshore entity has stepped into the spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) arena with a $436 million position, instantly becoming one of the largest new institutional shareholders in Blackrock’s Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). Offshore Capital Flows? Hong Kong-Linked Laurore Ltd. Holds Major IBIT Stake According to a Form 13F-HR filed with the U.S. Securities […]

Matt Corallo: Most crypto wallets are quantum-safe, Bitcoin’s soft fork could require proof of seed phrase ownership, and the Ethereum Foundation is leading in quantum threat response | Unchained

Bitcoin's path to quantum safety may be smoother than expected, with proactive steps already underway.The post Matt Corallo: Most crypto wallets are quantum-safe, Bitcoin’s soft fork could require proof of seed phrase ownership, and the Ethereum Foundation is leading in quantum threat response | Unchained appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The SEC just gave Cardano a 75-day shortcut to a spot ETF that took Bitcoin 240 days

CME's Cardano futures went live on Feb. 9, and that date may matter more for ETFs than for trading.Under the SEC's new generic listing standards for commodity-based trust shares, one of the clearest fast lanes for a spot crypto ETP is having regulated futures on a CFTC-supervised venue for at least six months.That turns Feb. 9 into a starting gun: if CME's ADA futures remain listed and active, the earliest six-month threshold falls around Aug. 9, potentially shortening the path to launch compare

Overhead Resistance Stacks up — Bitcoin’s Next Expansion Move Could Be Violent

As of Sunday morning, at 8 a.m. EST, bitcoin is trading between $67,926 and $68,022, compressing just below a critical resistance band while momentum metrics quietly shift under the surface. The broader structure remains corrective, but short-term price action suggests volatility is not done making headlines. Bitcoin Chart Outlook At the macro level, bitcoin‘s daily […]

Voltage Debuts Programmatic Revolving Credit Line for Lightning Network Payments

Voltage has launched Voltage Credit, a revolving line of credit that allows businesses to settle payments instantly via the Lightning Network while repaying in U.S. Dollars. Bitcoin infrastructure provider Voltage introduced Voltage Credit. The platform enables enterprises to tap into a revolving credit line to send payments that clear in seconds via the Lightning Network […]

Bitcoin enters a 150-day danger zone as Trump pivots to a 1974 trade law the Supreme Court hasn’t touched yet

Bitcoin trades sideways as Trump cites Trade Act for 15% tariffs after Supreme Court limits IEEPA authority, and the market starts watching the 150-day clockIt is one of those rare weekend sessions where the chart barely moves… yet it still feels like something is about to snap.Bitcoin is hovering around $68,000, chopping inside a tight band, while Washington hands markets a story that is both legal and macro at once.The U.S. Supreme Court just narrowed the emergency-powers tariff pathway

Latam Insights: El Salvador Defends Its Bitcoin Strategy, Prospera Faces an Uncertain Future

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, El Salvador defends its continuous bitcoin purchases, Prospera faces an uncertain future in Honduras, and Argentina facilitates “mattress money” investments in crypto assets. ‘Not A Stock:’ El Salvador Defends Bitcoin Purchases Amid Market […]

Kraken‑Backed Tokenized Stocks Surpasses $25 Billion in Volume

The xStocks framework has exceeded $25 billion in total transaction volume, establishing a new liquidity benchmark for tokenized traditional assets on blockchain infrastructure. The Kraken-backed xStocks ecosystem reached a milestone $25 billion in total transaction volume on February 19, 2026, marking a shift in the adoption of tokenized U.S. equities. The platform currently supports over […]

862k jobs vanished, CPI cooled, and Bitcoin now trades like a bond – What Would Satoshi Say?

Bitcoin is trading like a rates product now because real yields are the new “gravity”Earlier this month, we saw the macro picture shift in a very real and tangible way. The record of last year's job level changed significantly, and markets treated that update as fresh information to trade on.Two days later, inflation cooled on the headline, yields moved, and Bitcoin moved in the same cross-asset rhythm that, until recently, belonged to rates and major equity indexes.Bitcoin used to react to cryp

Trump’s Double Whammy? Why Section 122 Tariffs Might Also Face Legal Challenges

While President Trump invoked a new round of tariffs under the authority of Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, analysts and experts say the conditions for invoking them are not met and that the matter is likely to return to the Supreme Court. Analysts: Trump’s New Tariff Regime Might Also Be Considered Illegal […]

MARA Holdings Completes Strategic Acquisition of Controlling Stake in French Computing Firm Exaion

MARA Holdings has finalized its purchase of a 64% stake in Exaion from EDF Pulse Ventures, positioning the firm to lead European AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. MARA France completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Exaion on February 20, 2026, following formal regulatory approval from the French government. The partnership includes NJJ Capital, […]

Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security, Shaking up Cybersecurity Stocks

This week, the artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic rolled out Claude Code Security, an AI-driven code-scanning tool that hunts vulnerabilities and drafts patches, jolting cybersecurity markets while raising pointed questions about jobs and industry power shifts. Can Claude Code Security Replace Human Scanners? Anthropic’s latest addition to its Claude Code platform arrives with a simple […]

Why did Bitcoin sell off as the yen surged fast enough to trigger cuts across risk books?

Bitcoin sometimes sells off hard on days with no crypto headlines. A recurring driver sits outside crypto: a yen-funded carry unwind that forces cross-asset deleveraging, then transmits into BTC through thinner liquidity, wider spreads, and fast position reduction in derivatives.Here's the core mechanism in one line: if USD/JPY moves fast enough to trigger margin and VAR cuts, BTC can sell off like it got bad news even when crypto headlines stay quiet.Japan’s FX officials have started speaking i

Bloomberg Report Argues Bitcoin’s Digital Gold Thesis Is Cracking, Bitcoiners Disagree

A new Bloomberg analysis argues bitcoin is facing a “$1 trillion identity crisis,” as falling prices, exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows, and rising competition from gold, stablecoins, and prediction markets are testing the asset’s long-standing narratives, at least according to the authors. Bloomberg Touches Upon Bitcoin’s Alleged ‘Identity Crisis’ At the center of the article written […]

Election odds, but with an ETF wrapper: the “ambient gambling” shift coming to brokerage accounts

A set of new ETF filings wants to turn election outcomes into brokerage-account tickers.If approved, they’d also make “political risk” a tradable product on the same rails that already carry spot Bitcoin ETFs, pulling attention, liquidity, and regulatory pressure into the same lane.Roundhill, GraniteShares, and Bitwise’s PredictionShares brand propose funds that track binary “event contracts” tied to US political outcomes, such as which party wins the presidency and which

Equals Money, Match-Trader, NinjaTrader, and More: Executive Moves of the Week

Equals Money hires ex-Binance, Gemini executiveExecutive reshuffles remained active this week as brokersand fintech firms tapped new leaders across different business lines. Equals Money, a UK-based payments and financial servicesprovider, appointed Marcus Bacchi-Howard as its Head of Digital Assets. His appointment brings deep expertise in digital asset salesand trading to the company. Before that, he wasHead of Sales and Managing Director at One Trading for a year. His earlier roles also inclu

$100M Crypto Laundering Bust Reveals 81 Bank Accounts and Offshore Transfers

Nearly $100 million in investor funds was funneled through shell companies, offshore accounts, and major cryptocurrency exchanges in a sweeping federal money laundering case, underscoring risks and red flags crypto investors cannot afford to ignore. Federal Crackdown Uncovers $100 Million Crypto Laundering Operation Financial fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency continue to draw federal enforcement action. The […]

Supreme Court nukes Trump tariffs — up to $175B in refunds could hit Bitcoin market next

The Supreme Court's Feb. 20 decision striking down President Donald Trump's IEEPA-based tariff program as illegal creates a massive fiscal overhang that could function as an unintended liquidity injection.The Court ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the President to impose tariffs, invalidating a program that collected at least $133.5 billion through Dec. 14, 2025, with Penn-Wharton Budget Model estimates suggesting total receipts reached approximat

FATF Warns Crypto Misuse Fuels Illicit Finance, Urges Nations to Impose New Countermeasures

Global crypto oversight efforts advanced as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) approved new digital asset risk reports, reaffirmed Iran’s blacklist status, and heightened scrutiny of stablecoins and offshore providers, reinforcing pressure on jurisdictions to curb illicit finance. FATF Flags Illicit Crypto Flows, Presses Governments to Tighten Financial Safeguards Global crypto oversight efforts advanced as […]