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Two of Abu Dhabi’s major investment firms increased their exposure to bitcoin BTC$67,682.80 in the fourth quarter of 2025, buying into BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF as the market fell, according to recent regulatory filings.Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign wealth fund backed by the Abu Dhabi government, added nearly four million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) between October and December, bringing its total holdings to 12.7 million shares. The move came as bitcoin fell roughly 23% during the quarter.Mubadala made its first purchases in IBIT in late 2024 and has been adding since.Al Warda Investments, another Abu Dhabi-based investment…

Institutional investors are entering prediction markets, following a strategy seen earlier in the crypto space. Asset managers are filing for prediction-market tied exchange-traded funds as the space continues to gain traction. Sponsored SponsoredInstitutional Capital Moves Into Prediction Markets as ETF Race Begins On February 17, 2026, Bitwise Asset Management submitted a post-effective amendment to register six ETFs under a new brand called “PredictionShares.” The proposed funds, tied to event contracts on the outcome of US elections, would be listed and primarily traded on NYSE Arca. “PredictionShares will serve as a new Bitwise platform focused on providing exposure to prediction markets. Bitwise’s CIO Matt…

Tectonic announced the inaugural Quantum Summit, an ETHDenver 2026 event focused on practical preparation for post-quantum cryptography. The event will take place Feb. 19, 2026, at RISE Comedy in Denver. Quantum computing is advancing, putting the cryptography used across much of the internet and many blockchain ecosystems under long-term pressure as the industry moves toward post-quantum cryptography. The transition is not a simple algorithm swap. It is a multidimensional migration effort that touches standards, protocol design, wallet security, identity systems, privacy tooling, operational readiness, and interoperability across ecosystems. Quantum Summit is designed for developers, cryptographers, and institutional stakeholders seeking practical,…

In brief Bitcoin’s decline is diverging from Nasdaq’s sideways movement, flashing a warning signal according to Maelstrom fund’s Arthur Hayes. Hayes estimates $330 billion in consumer credit losses if 20% of knowledge workers lose jobs to AI While experts agree with the idea, they disagree on the timeline, suggesting that disruption of that scale takes quarters, not weeks Bitcoin is signaling a warning that traditional equities have yet to acknowledge, according to BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes.The leading crypto has been on a downtrend since its October 2025 all-time high of $126,080, while the Nasdaq 100 Index has remained largely flat.…

The positive sentiment reflects strong and meaningful activity from the XRP community, despite the bears dominating the broader market. The crypto market may be in a bear season now, but some assets are in the spotlight, thanks to their strong communities. One such cryptocurrency is XRP, the native asset of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), otherwise known as the Ripple Network. Recent data from the asset management giant Grayscale ranked XRP as the second-most-discussed asset in the platform’s community, after bitcoin (BTC). This reflects strong and meaningful activity from the XRP community. The Second Most Talked-About Asset According to a voiceover…

Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) offers retail access to Stripe, Databricks, and 6 other private companies at $25/share. We break down the fees, risks, and how it compares to ARK and DXYZ.Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev kicked off the IPO roadshow for the company’s first-ever venture fund today, calling it “the next front in our mission to democratize finance for all.” Robinhood Ventures Fund I ($RVI) will give retail investors access to buy shares in private companies through a publicly traded closed-end fund, with no accreditation required.The fund will trade on the NYSE at an expected price of $25 per share,…

George Town, Cayman Islands, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire Zircuit, a security-first digital asset company backed by YZiLabs, Dragonfly, and Pantera, today announced the launch of Zircuit Finance. Incubated by a team from Quantstamp, Zircuit Finance is a secure platform for institutional-grade strategies, a stablecoin vault designed to generate yield on USDC and USDT, with a stated target range of 8–11% APR, subject to market conditions and variability. Historically, access to professional asset managers and institutional strategies required significant minimum investments and long lockups. Zircuit Finance removes those barriers with a simplified, cross-chain interface that provides access to institutional-grade yield strategies…

Bitmine has 3,040,483 staked ETH, representing $6.1 billion at $1,998 per ETH; MAVAN staking solution on track to launch Q1 2026 Bitmine now owns 3.62% of the ETH token supply, over 72% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 7 months Bitmine recently closed on initial $200 million investment into Beast Industries Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $9.6 billion, including 4.371 million ETH tokens, total cash of $670 million, and other crypto holdings Bitmine leads crypto treasury peers by both the velocity of raising crypto NAV per share and by the high trading…

Karavas, Cyprus, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire At a time when much of the blockchain industry is still recovering from one of its harshest downturns, a small number of companies are quietly moving in the opposite direction: expanding, building, and positioning themselves for the next era of adoption. Public Masterpiece, a Cyprus-based real-world asset tokenization company, has announced PMT Chain, its own purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain. Alongside the announcement, the company confirmed a strategic repositioning: PMT, once short for Public Masterpiece Token, will now stand for Public Masterpiece Technology. The timing is notable. Crypto did not simply experience a correction, but…

While mainstream American financial media continue to discuss the stickiness of inflation, fluctuating expectations of interest rate cuts, and the high-level fluctuations of BTC and XRP, a more subtle yet realistic consensus is forming: While prices are uncertain, the cash flow of computing power and Proof-of-Work (PoW) is being repriced. Amid this structural shift, Moon Hash is increasingly seen by North American middle-class and high-net-worth individuals as a “solution to the times”—it doesn’t sell returns, but rather assetizes, institutionalizes, and long-termizes PoW computing power, reshaping participants’ cognitive coordinates with an almost exaggerated sense of stability. Moon Hash periodically allocates PoW…