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Crypto markets drifted lower as Bitcoin hovered around $68,000 ahead of key macroeconomic events, including the Fed minutes and the core PCE inflation report. Beyond price action, the race to build next-generation AI agents is accelerating as the creator of OpenClaw joins OpenAI while weighing competing acquisition offers and pledging the project will remain open source. Strategy also signaled confidence in its balance sheet, saying it can weather extreme downside scenarios and plans to shift debt into equity.
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News Roundup
Artificial Intelligence
Grok 4.20 Launching Next Week With Improvements Over 4.1 (Elon Musk)
OpenClaw Creator Joins OpenAI to Lead Next-Gen Personal Agents (TechCrunch)
OpenClaw Creator Weighs Meta and OpenAI Offers, Vows to Keep It Open Source (Decrypt)
Hollywood Escalates AI Copyright Fight as Detection Startups Enter the Fray (Decrypt)
Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance
Tether Backs Dreamcash to Launch USDT0-Collateralized Perps on Hyperliquid (The Block)
Lighter Rolls Out Unified Collateral for Spot and Futures Trading (The Defiant)
DefiLlama Launches Vetted Search Tool for DeFi Apps, Wallets, and Websites (DeFiLlama)
Central Bank of Russia to Study Domestic Stablecoin in 2026 (TASS)
SpaceX Weighs Dual-Class IPO to Strengthen Musk’s Control (Bloomberg)
ARK Reverses Course, Buys $15M in Coinbase Shares After Recent Sell-Off (Cointelegraph)
Andre Cronje’s Flying Tulip Targets $1 Billion Raise With Low-Risk Yield Strategy (Andre Cronje)
Animoca Brands Secures Dubai VASP License Amid Nasdaq Merger Plans (The Block)
Aave Founder Envisions $50 Trillion ‘Abundance Asset’ Market to Fuel DeFi Growth (Cointelegraph)
Finam Registers Crypto Mining Fund With Bank of Russia (bits.media)
Nexo Partners With Bakkt for U.S. Relaunch After SEC Settlement (Decrypt)
Wintermute Launches Institutional Tokenized Gold Desk, Expects $15B Market in 2026 (The Block)
Tokenized RWAs Rise 13.5% as Crypto Market Sheds $1 Trillion (Cointelegraph)
Exchanges
Exchange-Traded Products
Grayscale Files S-1 for AAVE ETF to List on NYSE Arca (SEC)
Roundhill Files Election Outcome ETFs, Analyst Calls Them ‘Potentially Groundbreaking’ (Cointelegraph)
Harvard Cuts Bitcoin ETF Stake, Adds $87 Million Ether Exposure (The Block)
Global Crypto ETP Outflows Hit $3.7 Billion in Four Weeks as U.S. Investors Lead Withdrawals (The Block)
From Feb. 9-13, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs saw $359.91 million in net outflows.
U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs recorded $161.15 million in net outflows from Feb. 9-13.
From Feb. 9-13, U.S. Solana spot ETFs posted $13.17 million in net inflows.
U.S. XRP spot ETFs logged $7.65 million in net inflows from Feb. 9-13.
Infrastructure
China Proposes Blockchain-Based Full-Chain Certification for Green Electricity (Chinese Government)
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Personalized Prediction Market Baskets to Hedge Cost-of-Living Risks (Vitalik Buterin)
Bitcoin Moves Toward Quantum Safeguards as Experts Debate Urgency (Decrypt)
deBridge Rolls Out MCP to Enable AI Agents to Execute Cross-Chain Transactions (The Block)
Markets
KAITO Token Drops After X Bans InfoFi Reward Apps (The Block)
Dogecoin Surges as Bitcoin and Ethereum Fade (DL News)
Retail Crypto Investors Show Staying Power as Market Volatility Persists (Brian Armstrong)
Token Unlock Wave Worth $321 Million Set to Hit Market This Week (Tokenomist)
Bitcoin Leverage Builds as Futures Premium Widens (Decrypt)
Altcoins Rally as Bitcoin Stalls, but Macro Risks Cloud Sustainability (Decrypt)
Bitcoin Weekly RSI Mirrors 2022 Bear Market as Liquidity Traps Rattle Traders (Cointelegraph)
Crypto Market Slides as Bitcoin Falls to $68K Ahead of Key Macro Events (CoinDesk)
Russian Official Says $129B in Annual Crypto Flows Occur ‘Outside Regulation’ (Cointelegraph)
Politics & Regulation
Dutch House Advances Controversial 36% Tax on Crypto and Investments (Cointelegraph)
Mark Moran Pushes Solana Meme Coin to Boost Long-Shot Senate Bid (Decrypt)
Elizabeth Warren, Andy Kim Seek CFIUS Review of UAE Stake in World Liberty Financial (The Block)
UK Prime Minister Moves to Expand UK Online Safety Law to Rein In AI Chatbots (Decrypt)
Token Generation Events
MegaETH TVL Jumps 65% Post-Launch, but TGE Conditions Still Unmet (The Defiant)
Treasuries & Reserves
Solana Company Shares Surge 17% After Launching Borrowing Against Staked SOL (The Block)
Strategy Says It Can Withstand $8,000 Bitcoin, Plans Debt-to-Equity Shift (Strategy, Michael Saylor)
Metaplanet Reports ¥95 billion ($605 million) Annual Loss as Bitcoin Holdings Topped 35,102 BTC (Metaplanet)
Trump-Backed American Bitcoin Surpasses 6,000 BTC in Treasury Holdings (Bitcoin Magazine)
Other News
Publicly Traded Lender Figure Confirms Customer Data Breach After Social Engineering Attack (Decrypt)
X to Launch ‘Smart Cashtags’ for In-Timeline Crypto and Stock Trading Within Weeks (The Block)
X Clarifies It Won’t Execute Trades, Only Provide Financial Data Tools for ‘Smart Cashtags’ (Nikita Bier)
Texas Mother Says Crypto Helped Her Escape Financial Abuse During Divorce (Decrypt)
Kevin O’Leary Wins $2.8M Defamation Judgment Against “BitBoy” Armstrong (The Block)
Scammers Target Ledger and Trezor Users With Phishing Letters (Bleeping Computer)
Russian Man Arrested on Terror Charges Over $6,500 Crypto Fundraising Scheme (DL News)
Prediction Market Founders Say Onchain Transparency Is Key to Curbing Insider Trading (CoinDesk)
Check This Out!
More than 95% of Bitcoin’s 21 million supply has already been mined, leaving about 1,009,606 BTC still to be issued.
Source: Bitcoin Magazine
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