Day: February 16, 2026

Harvard discloses first Ethereum ETF holdings valued at $87M

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Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment arm overseeing Harvard University’s $56.9 billion endowment, disclosed acquiring about $87 million worth of iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) in Q4 2025, its first reported position tied to the second-largest crypto asset, according to a recent SEC filing. In contrast, the endowment reduced its Bitcoin exposure during the quarter, cutting its holdings in the iShares Bitcoin Trust from about 6.8 million shares to 5.4 million. The stake was valued at nearly $266 million at the time of reporting. Overall, HMC held $352.6 million in crypto-linked…

Crypto Funds See $173M Outflows As Altcoins Gain Momentum

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Crypto investment products failed to attract enough inflows last week to reverse negative sentiment, clocking a fourth consecutive week of outflows. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded another $173 million in outflows last week, following the previous week’s $187 million, according to a CoinShares fund flows update on Monday. Although the last two weeks brought relatively minor losses, total outflows over the past four weeks now amount to around $3.8 billion, while total assets under management (AUM) sit near $133 billion, the lowest since April 2025. CoinShares’ head of research, James…

Willy Woo Flags Q Day Risk as Bitcoin’s Valuation Versus Gold Slips

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Onchain analyst and early Bitcoin adopter Willy Woo is warning that growing attention to quantum computing risks is starting to weigh on Bitcoin’s long-term valuation case against gold. Woo argued in a Monday X post that markets had begun to price in the risk of a future “Q‑Day” breakthrough — shorthand for the moment when a powerful enough quantum computer exists to break today’s public key cryptography. Roughly 4 million “lost” Bitcoin (BTC) — coins whose private keys are presumed gone — could be dragged back into play, Woo argued,…

OKX Secures Malta License To Expand EU Stablecoin Payments

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OKX secured a Malta payment institution license to support EU-compliant stablecoin services, including OKX Pay and the OKX Card. Cryptocurrency exchange OKX expanded its regulatory footprint in Europe, securing a license for stablecoin payments. OKX has obtained a Payment Institution (PI) license in Malta, the company told Cointelegraph on Monday. The authorization is issued under the European Union’s payments framework and is designed to bring OKX’s payment products into line with requirements under the bloc’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Under these rules,…

Animoca Brands Secures VARA VASP License in Dubai to Serve Institutions

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Animoca Brands has secured a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), clearing the way for the company to broaden its crypto operations across the Middle East. The license allows the Hong Kong-founded Web3 investor and platform developer to offer broker-dealer services and investment management related to virtual assets in and from Dubai, excluding the Dubai International Financial Centre, according to a Monday announcement. The services are aimed primarily at institutional and qualified investors. “This licence enhances our ability to engage with Web3 foundations…

Kevin O’Leary Wins $2.8M Defamation Suit Against ‘Bitboy’

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Businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary has won a multi-million-dollar defamation lawsuit against crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, also known as “Bitboy.” Miami federal judge Beth Bloom on Friday ordered Armstrong to pay almost $2.83 million in damages to O’Leary over a series of social media posts accusing the Shark Tank star of being a murderer. O’Leary and his wife, Linda, were in a boating accident in 2019 that resulted in two deaths when their boat struck another. Armstrong accused O’Leary of murder in multiple X posts in March 2025, claiming…

Bitcoin Heads For Worst Quarter Since 2018 With 22% Drop

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Bitcoin may be headed for its worst first quarter in eight years, with data showing Bitcoin is already down 22.3% since the start of the year. The asset began the year trading around $87,700 and has declined by around $20,000 to current lows of around $68,000, putting it on track for its worst first quarter since the 2018 bear market — which fell almost 50%, according to CoinGlass.  Bitcoin (BTC) has declined in seven of the past thirteen Q1s, with the most recent being 2025 when it lost 11.8%, 2020…

Russia Sees $648M In Daily Crypto Transactions As Gov Pushes Regulation

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Russia’s finance ministry and central bank are reportedly calling on the government to speed up the rollout of crypto market regulations amid a boom in digital asset adoption, claiming that citizens are spending almost 50 billion Russian rubles ($648 million) on crypto daily.  According to a report from Russian news outlet RBC on Thursday, Russia’s deputy finance minister, Ivan Chebeskov, emphasized the importance of regulating the market, noting that most crypto spending occurs through unregulated channels.   “We have always said that millions of citizens are involved in this activity, these…

Dogecoin (DOGE) Gives Back Gains, Support Level Under Spotlight

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Aave Founder Wants DeFi to Tokenize $50T Abundance Assets

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Stani Kulechov, the founder of the decentralized lending platform Aave, says DeFi could benefit from $50 trillion worth of “abundance assets,” such as solar energy, through tokenization by 2050, opening a new class of onchain collateral. Data from RWA.xyz shows that nearly $25 billion worth of real-world assets have been tokenized onchain, but they are mostly in the form of US Treasury bonds, stocks, commodities, private credit and real estate. In a post to X on Sunday, Kulechov said he expects these scarce assets to continue growing but that the…