Day: February 14, 2026

Elon Musk’s X to enable crypto and stock trading with Smart Cashtags

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Smart Cashtags, a feature under development at Elon Musk’s X to refine how assets such as stocks and crypto are integrated into the platform, will let users trade them straight from the timeline, Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said Saturday. Bier framed the move as part of an effort to support crypto without enabling behaviors that degrade the platform’s social experience. “I genuinely want crypto to proliferate on X, but applications that create incentives to spam, raid, and harass random users are not the way. It meaningfully degrades the…

Trump Media Files Bitcoin, Ether and Cronos Crypto ETFs with SEC

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US President Donald Trump’s media conglomerate, Trump Media & Technology Group, has filed paperwork with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) linked to major cryptocurrencies. According to a Friday announcement by its Truth Social Funds arm, the company plans to launch the Truth Social Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) ETF alongside the Truth Social Cronos (CRO) Yield Maximizer ETF. The filing has not yet taken effect and remains subject to SEC review. “We plan to provide an investment platform for investors covering…

Memecoins’ Silence Could Signal a Comeback: Santiment

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A reversal in memecoins could come sooner than traders expect, even amid choppy conditions across the broader crypto market, if history is any indication, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment. “There is a growing narrative of “nostalgia” regarding memecoins, with many traders treating the sector as if it is permanently dead,” Santiment said in a report published on Friday. Dogecoin’s price, which has historically moved significantly during memecoin uptrends, is down 32% over the past 30 days. Source: CoinMarketCap “This collective acceptance of the ‘end of the meme era’ is…

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wins $2.8M defamation suit against Ben ‘BitBoy’ Armstrong

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Kevin O’Leary, an entrepreneur and television investor best known for Shark Tank, secured a $2.8 million judgment against Ben Armstrong, a crypto content creator who operated under the name BitBoy, in a defamation case decided this week by a federal court in Miami. According to a recent order, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida awarded O’Leary $750,000 for emotional distress, $78,000 for harm to his reputation, and $2 million in punitive damages after Armstrong failed to appear or respond throughout the proceeding. The dispute arose from…

Bitcoiners Face Test As Inflation Cools: Pompliano

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Bitcoin investors are being forced to rethink why they hold the asset as inflation data cools, according to Bitcoin entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano. “I think the challenge for Bitcoin investors, can you hold an asset when there is not high inflation in your face on a day-to-day basis?” Pompliano said during an interview with Fox Business on Thursday. “Can you still believe in what Bitcoin’s value proposition is, which is that it’s a finite-supply asset. If they print money, Bitcoin is going higher,” he said. “Bitcoin and gold are great long-term…