Canary Capital and Grayscale Launch First Spot SUI ETFs with 7% Staking Yields
On 18 February 2026, Canary Capital Group and Grayscale Investments launched the first US-listed spot SUI exchange-traded funds. This will give investors regulated access to Sui Network’s native token and approximately 7% staking rewards. Both funds hold physical SUI tokens and stake them on Sui Network’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) validation mechanism. The Canary Staked SUI ETF […]
Solana Faces $870 Million Token Unlock – What It Means for SOL Price
Solana traders are on edge. Roughly $870 million worth of SOL is set to unlock from staking, and that kind of supply does not slip into the market price quietly in these condtions. Bulls have been trying to build structure, but a sudden wave of tokens hitting circulation can shift momentum again. Now the big […]
Robinhood Layer-2 Testnet Logs 4 Million Transactions in Crypto First Week
Robinhood loves crypto and really wants to get on-chain as soon as possible. The company’s new Layer-2 testnet just processed 4 million transactions in 7 days. CEO Vlad Tenev confirmed the milestone, framing the chain as a bridge between traditional finance and on chain markets. Built on Arbitrum, the network is designed for high throughput […]
Peter Thiel Bows Out of ETHZilla as Volatility Pressures Public Ether Treasuries
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has fully exited ETHZilla, according to a new SEC filing. The amendment shows Thiel-linked entities now hold zero shares. The disclosure reverses a 7.5% stake reported in August 2025. At that time, the group owned 11,592,241 shares. Those holdings were valued near $40 million based on market prices. JUST IN: Billionaire […]
Crypto companies being funded again sound great, until you trace where the money actually lands
Dragonfly Capital closed its fourth fund at $650 million this week, the same size as its 2022 vehicle, raised into a venture market Fortune calls a “mass extinction event.” The headline reads like a vote of confidence: institutional capital returning, crypto winter thawing, alt season loading. But peel back one layer and the picture warps. […]
Illicit networks accounted for $141 billion of the trillions of stablecoin volume in 2025
Sanctions-related activity accounted for 86% of illicit crypto flows last year, with most of those flows routed through stablecoin platforms, according to TRM Labs.
Crypto markets feel the chill, Base, ether.fi reorganize layer-2 landscape
Your day-ahead look for Feb. 19, 2026
XRP’s Brutal 12-Month Reality: Hard Truths Explained
The current atmosphere about XRP has split into two separate groups. The first group believes the cryptocurrency has reached its endpoint. The second group predicts the cryptocurrency will reach a value of 100 dollars. The actual situation exists between these two opposing positions. XRP started its severe price decline after reaching its highest point of
Ethereum (ETH) Under Pressure as Price Slips Toward $1,800 Support
Ethereum (ETH) is currently trading at $1,980.50 on Thursday, Feb 19, as the market experiences a new wave of selling pressure. The token declined by 1.84% in the last 24 hours. The trading volume also dropped by 5.02% to $19.54 billion. ETH has risen by 0.54% in the last week, according to CoinMarketCap. Source: CoinMarketCap
Robinhood Testnet Hits 4 Million Transactions, Expanding Tokenization Ambitions
Robinhood has seen strong early activity on the public testnet of its new blockchain, which is a major step in its journey into tokenized finance. In its first week of being available to the public, the network processed four million transactions, according to its CEO, Vlad Tenev. In a post shared on X on February
Sam Altman’s OpenAI Partners With Paradigm To Launch AI Tool EVMbench To Test Ethereum Security
ChatGPT creator OpenAI and crypto investment firm Paradigm have partnered for a new AI tool that will assess if it can fix Ethereum’s security woes. On 18 February 2026, EVMbench was released, and it now tests ground to see how well AI agents can find and patch bugs in smart contracts. With billions previously lost to […]
Why is SOL Down Today? Solana Falls Below $82 After Hawkish Fed Signals
Solana (SOL) has officially slipped below the psychological $82 mark. It dropped over 3.6% in the last 24 hours, and the primary culprit is the Federal Reserve. When the Fed signals a “hawkish” stance, markets tend to shudder. They aren’t ready to lower interest rates just yet. At the time of writing, SOL is hovering […]