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As of February 18, 2026, the Grayscale Sui Staking ETF (GSUI) and Canary Staked SUI ETF (SUIS) are live on the NYSE and Nasdaq.
These are the first U.S. ETFs to pass on-chain staking rewards directly to shareholders’ NAV.

SBI HOLDINGS TO OFFER XRP REWARDS ON $64.5M BOND
Japan’s financial giant SBI Holdings announced it is preparing to issue 10B yen ($64.5M) in on-chain bonds.
Investors earn 1.85%–2.45% interest plus $XRP rewards.
The three-year securities run through BOOSTRY’s ibet for Fin platform.

🚨 JUST IN: CRYPTO GOES MAINSTREAM IN MORTGAGES
U.S. mortgage lender Rate (formerly Guaranteed Rate) has launched RateFi, a nationwide program allowing borrowers to use cryptocurrency in mortgage underwriting.
- No Liquidation Required: Verified crypto can qualify as reserves or, in some cases, income - without selling it.
- Supported Assets: Large-cap cryptocurrencies like $BTC and $ETH , plus major USD-backed stablecoins.
- Compliance: Assets must be held with approved custodians or exchanges; ownership documentation required.
The rollout aligns with Senator Cynthia Lummis’s 21st Cen

Aave becomes the first lending protocol to surpass $1,000,000,000 in RWA deposits.
Trillions next 🚀

BREAKING: $META STRIKES $100B AI CHIP MEGA-DEAL WITH AMD
$Meta Platforms has agreed to purchase over $100 billion in AI computing capacity from AMD, securing up to 6 gigawatts over five years and potentially taking a ~10% stake in the chipmaker.
The agreement includes custom AI chips and stock warrants tied to AMD’s future share price performance, deepening the strategic alignment between the two companies.
The deal significantly boosts AMD’s competitive position against Nvidia in the red-hot AI semiconductor race.

Major DeFi Updates in February 2026.
Here's what shipped this month:
$UNI: Released 7 new AI "Skills" for agent integration, v4 hook with Bankr hit $100M volume in 2 weeks, awarded ETHDenver prize to Chaintology, BlackRock purchased UNI tokens
$AAVE: First lending protocol with >$1B in RWAs deposited, V4 third security audit by ChainSecurity completed, featured Stani Kulechov in OFFSTAGE episode
$LINK: Onboarded Taylor Lindman as SEC Crypto Task Force Chief Counsel, formed RealFi Alliance with Centrifuge & LayerZero, CCIP positioned as multi-chain bridge winner
$LDO: Staked ETH hit 31% of tota

BIG: Real-world assets on Ethereum just surpassed $15 billion in market cap, marking a ~200% increase year-over-year.

🚨STABLECOIN FIRM TO ENTER WALL STREET
RedotPay, a Hong Kong stablecoin payments firm, is planning a $1 BILLION US IPO, backed by JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Jefferies.
TradFi is no longer fighting crypto payments. They’re financing the infrastructure behind them.

JANE STREET WAS BEHIND THE $40 BILLION LUNA UST COLLAPSE ACCORDING TO THE NEW LAWSUIT.
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court claims Jane Street used insider information during the May 2022 Terra collapse to profit and cause further damage to the system.
In mid-April 2022, Terraform announced that Anchor’s 20% yield would start declining. Anchor was the main reason users held UST. Once that yield started falling, demand for UST weakened.
At the same time, Terraform was moving UST liquidity to a new Curve pool. When liquidity is reduced, large sell orders have a much bigger impact on price.
On

BITCOIN JUST MADE HISTORY.
But it's not something we all wanted.
Bitcoin weekly RSI has just reached its lowest level in history.
- Lower than tariffs Crash
- Lower than the FTX crash
- Lower than the Covid Crash
- Lower than the 2018 bottom
- Lower than the Mt. Gox hack
This means, in the history of Bitcoin, it has never been this oversold.

SATOSHI NAKAMOTO IS DOWN $62.6 BILLION
Bitcoin's creator and the largest $BTC holder on earth has lost $62,640,000,000 in unrealized value since BTC’s peak.
NO ONE IS IMMUNE.🔥

BREAKING: Anthropic accuses Chinese companies of "siphoning" data from Claude, per WSJ.
Accusations include:
1. Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax set up fraudulent accounts on Claude
2. These companies prompted Claude more than 16 million times to train and improve their own models
3. Anthropic says more than 24,000 fraudulent accounts were used
4. OpenAI sent a memo to the US House accusing DeepSeek of the same tactics
The AI arms race is heating up.

SOLANA POSITIONS FOR A “SUPER CYCLE”
Solana is rolling out high-speed infrastructure to position $SOL for its next growth phase.
The focus is on institutional demand in APAC, with DeFi tools, liquid staking, and execution services for traditional finance.

LATEST: ⚡ South Korea's Hanwha Asset Management is partnering with the Jito Foundation to develop JitoSOL-backed Solana ETPs, targeting the country's expanding regulated crypto market.

Market volatility has rarely been this high under the surface:
The 1-month realized volatility of the S&P 500 average stock relative to index volatility is up to 24 points, the highest on record.
This means individual stocks are experiencing much larger price swings than the S&P 500 index itself.
The difference is even higher than during the 2008 Financial Crisis.
Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has traded in a 2-month closing range of just 3.7%, less than half the 20-year median of 8.6%, and one of the tightest ranges in history.
By comparison, in 2020 and 2008, the range was 35.0% and 38.0%, respecti

WEB3 APP "BASED" RAISES $11.5 MILLION
The Hyperliquid-based Web3 app raised $11.5 MILLION from Pantera, Coinbase Ventures and Wintermute, structured as equity with token warrants.

BitMine Immersion buys another 51,162 Ethereum, crossing a milestone of 4.4M $ETH in total holdings.

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