Month: February 2026

Anthropic alleges industrial-scale Claude attacks by DeepSeek and other Chinese AI rivals

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Anthropic said it has identified large-scale campaigns by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax to extract capabilities from its Claude models illicitly. The company said the three labs generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts, violating terms of service and regional access restrictions. Anthropic attributed the campaigns using IP correlations, metadata, infrastructure indicators and corroboration from industry partners. According to Anthropic, the labs used “distillation,” a method that trains a smaller model on the outputs of a more capable one. While widely used internally by…

Bitcoin, Altcoins Fall Toward New Lows As Stocks Digest New Trump Tariffs

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Bitcoin’s (BTC) weakness extended into the weekly open as major stocks sold off in response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to enforce a 15% global tariff after the Supreme Court ruled that his IEEPA tariffs were illegal. Market sentiment remains fragile, as the Crypto Fear & Greed Index at 5 out of 100 remains in the “extreme fear” zone. Pseudonymous trader and investor BitcoinHyper said in a post on X that the index has been in the extreme fear zone for nearly three weeks, the longest since 2022. Traders…

Stablecore Taps Jack Henry to Expand Bank Stablecoin Access

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Stablecore, a digital asset infrastructure company, has joined the Jack Henry Fintech Integration Network, enabling banks and credit unions on the platform to offer stablecoin and tokenized asset services through their existing systems. Jack Henry supplies core processing and digital banking technology to approximately 1,670 banks and credit unions in the United States. Many of those institutions also rely on its Banno Digital Platform, which powers online and mobile banking services for more than 1,000 financial institutions.  On Monday, Stablecore said the integration will connect blockchain-based products to traditional core…

Satlantis Launches Bitcoin-Native Ticketing Platform with Lightning Wallets

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Satlantis has launched as a Bitcoin-native events and ticketing platform that embeds Lightning wallets directly into user accounts and events, allowing organizers to issue tickets and receive payments in Bitcoin without relying solely on traditional payment processors. According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the platform functions similarly to services like Luma and Eventbrite, offering ticket tiers, attendee management and event pages, but automatically generates a unique Bitcoin (BTC) wallet for each event to facilitate direct payments and withdrawals. Satlantis also integrates with Stripe to process fiat payments and said…

SolanaFloor winds down operations after challenges at Step Finance

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SolanaFloor, which serves as a leading news hub and resource for DeFi, NFTs, prices, and market insights on the Solana blockchain, announced today it is ceasing operations following financial difficulties at parent company Step Finance. Today we are announcing that SolanaFloor will be winding down operations, effective immediately. Since its founding, SolanaFloor has worked to document and contextualize the growth of the Solana ecosystem. What began as a small X account grew into one of the most widely read… — SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) February 23, 2026 The platform, which grew from…

Trump Crypto Company Says ‘Coordinated Attack‘ on Stablecoin Failed

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World Liberty Financial, the crypto company backed by US President Donald Trump and his sons, reported being targeted by hackers, “paid influencers,” and short sellers in an effort to “manufacture chaos” against the USD1 stablecoin. In a Monday X post, World Liberty said the attack, which happened earlier this morning, failed after hackers targeted “several WLFI cofounder accounts,” opened “massive shorts” against the company’s WLFI token, and “paid influencers to spread FUD [fear, uncertainty, and doubt].” The price of WLFI dipped by about 7% amid the “manufactured chaos,” according to…

Austria’s Regulator Slaps New Business Ban on KuCoin EU

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Austria’s financial regulator has prohibited KuCoin EU Exchange from conducting new business, citing breaches of internal organizational requirements around Anti-Money Laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF) and the observance of financial sanctions. The Thursday decision by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) means KuCoin’s Vienna-based entity cannot onboard new customers or conclude new contracts or products within existing relationships until key compliance functions are “appropriately filled.” Sabina Liu, managing director at KuCoin EU, told Cointelegraph that two compliance professionals holding designated AML and sanctions oversight functions in Austria had “recently departed,”…

World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin slips below dollar peg amid coordinated attack claims

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World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump and his family, said today it fended off what it described as a multi-pronged assault on its digital asset ecosystem after its dollar-pegged stablecoin briefly lost parity with the greenback. A coordinated attack was launched against USD1 this morning. Attackers hacked several WLFI cofounder accounts, paid influencers to spread FUD, and opened massive $WLFI shorts to profit from the manufactured chaos. It didn’t work. Thanks to USD1’s sound mint-and-redeem mechanism… — WLFI (@worldlibertyfi) February 23, 2026 USD1, the firm’s…

ProShares IQMM Debut Signals Tokenized MMF Growth

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ProShares’ record-breaking debut of its money market exchange-traded fund (ETF) last week underscores the enormous demand for cash-management products at a time when the asset class is increasingly being tokenized — and, as industry proponents argue, the shift could help funds remain competitive amid increasing US stablecoin adoption. Money market funds invest in short-term, high-quality debt instruments such as US Treasury bills, repurchase agreements and commercial paper. They are designed to preserve capital while offering modest yield and daily liquidity, making them a popular cash-management vehicle for investors. That backdrop…

Binance.US eyes deeper banking ties and charter options after SEC lawsuit withdrawal

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Binance.US, the American arm of the global crypto exchange, is pursuing expansion in the US after securities regulators dropped their 2023 lawsuit against the platform, said Binance’s co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao in a recent interview with Bloomberg News. CZ, who is no longer involved in the day-to-day operations of Binance but remains its largest shareholder, suggested that a more accommodating regulatory environment could open the door to options such as enhanced banking partnerships or securing a financial charter. However, he indicated that execution would depend on legal and management decisions.…