Day: February 24, 2026

Empery Digital Shareholder Urges BTC Sale, CEO Exit

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A major shareholder in Empery Digital has called on the company to abandon its Bitcoin-centric strategy, sell its digital asset holdings and return the proceeds to investors, along with demanding the resignation of the CEO and the entire board of directors. In a letter to the company’s board on Monday, Tice P. Brown, who is the beneficial owner of roughly 9.8% of Empery Digital’s outstanding shares, accused management of entrenching themselves at shareholders’ expense.  Brown said that Empery Digital’s leadership privately approached him on Feb. 18 with an offer to…

Another XRP Ledger Amendment Is Coming: The Most Important Things To Know

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XRP developers have proposed a new amendment that would introduce Batch Transactions on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). Vet, an XRPL dUNL validator, has revealed that the amendment was still under voting by validators. He also shared key insights into the proposed amendment, highlighting the main benefits it would bring to the ecosystem and some recent challenges it has faced.  About The New XRP Ledger Amendment The new amendment, XLS-56d: Batch Transactions, was created by Denis Angell, a software engineer at XRPL Labs. According to reports, the amendment will make it…

Ethereum Foundation Starts Staking ETH, Spotlights Client Diversity

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The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking part of its treasury, turning one of Ethereum’s most influential entities into a direct economic participant in network consensus. According to a Tuesday post on X, the foundation deposited 2,016 Ether (ETH) and plans to stake about 70,000 in total, with all rewards flowing back into its treasury to fund protocol research and development, ecosystem development and grants. ​In its announcement, the foundation stressed that new validators were being operated using open-source infrastructure, Dirk and Vouch, originally developed by Attestant and now part of…

White House confirms Trump will not pardon Sam Bankman-Fried

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The White House has confirmed that President Trump will not grant clemency to Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX, Fortune reported Tuesday. The confirmation, delivered by a White House official, reinforces Trump’s previously stated opposition to freeing the imprisoned crypto executive. In an interview with The New York Times in January, Trump ruled out pardoning Bankman-Fried after granting clemency to prominent figures such as Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of Binance, and Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX. Bankman-Fried is attempting to secure a presidential pardon by publicly…

Coinbase launches full stock trading access for US users

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Coinbase has rolled out stock trading to all eligible users in the US, allowing customers to buy and sell US stocks and ETFs alongside crypto in a single account. The expansion enables 24/5 trading on thousands of equities with zero commission through Coinbase Capital Markets. Users can fund trades with USD or USDC and purchase fractional shares starting at one dollar. As part of the launch, Coinbase has partnered with Yahoo Finance to streamline asset discovery and execution. The integration allows users to move from researching an asset on Yahoo…

Stripe hits $159B valuation as payment volume reaches $1.9T in 2025

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Stripe said in its 2025 annual letter that it has reached a $159 billion valuation through a new employee liquidity tender, while reporting $1.9 trillion in total payment volume for the year. The tender will provide liquidity to current and former employees. Most of the capital will come from investors including Thrive Capital, Coatue, and Andreessen Horowitz, while Stripe will also use a portion of its own balance sheet to repurchase shares. Stripe said businesses on its platform generated $1.9 trillion in payments in 2025, up 34% from the prior…

WisdomTree Launches 24/7 Trading for Tokenized Treasury Money Market Fund

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US-based asset manager WisdomTree has launched 24/7 trading and instant settlement for the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX), enabling round-the-clock secondary trading of a registered tokenized mutual fund within the US regulatory framework. The company said it is the first time a registered tokenized mutual fund has been allowed to trade and settle around the clock under the Investment Company Act of 1940 using a dealer-principal model. The structure allows shares to settle instantly, giving investors real-time access to yield-bearing US Treasurys exposure. To implement the model, WisdomTree…

Better, Framework Ventures Strike $500M Stablecoin Mortgage Deal

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Mortgage lender Better has partnered with crypto venture firm Framework Ventures to secure up to $500 million in financing through the Sky stablecoin ecosystem, in a deal that connects traditional home lending with decentralized finance infrastructure. Better, which originates mortgages for homebuyers, will access the credit through Sky, a blockchain-based system with roots in MakerDAO, the companies announced Tuesday. Within the ecosystem, Better will operate as a designated capital recipient, referred to as a “Star.” The arrangement aims to channel real-world mortgage activity into decentralized finance (DeFi) via stablecoins. Better…

The Multi-Year XRP Bull Market That Could Change Everything Forever

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XRP is currently trading without a clear bullish sentiment, but a few analysts are of the notion that the token is on the verge of something bigger than a standard bull cycle.  A recent post on X by crypto commentator 24HRSCRYPTO predicts that what lies ahead for XRP may not resemble the typical 6-12 month surge seen in previous cycles. Instead, he believes a multi-year expansion phase could be unfolding, one based on liquidity and real-world utility. XRP Is About To Change Forever At the time of writing, XRP is…

Binance CEO Hints at Legal Action over Report on Iranian Sanctions

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Binance CEO Richard Teng took to social media on Tuesday to attack what he called “inaccurate reporting” by the Wall Street Journal regarding investigators at the crypto exchange uncovering $1.7 billion in digital assets moving to Iranian entities. In a Tuesday X post, Teng said the report, published on Monday, contained “defamatory claims,” including a letter from Binance’s legal team “demanding immediate corrections and a full retraction of these false statements.”  “Your Article is false, seriously misleading to your readers, and defamatory of our client,” said the letter to WSJ…