February 18, 2026 – Denver, Colorado
Ymax today opened early access to its yield orchestration platform, enabling stablecoin holders to deploy assets and yield strategies across leading protocols with a single signature – and have execution complete automatically on-chain.
Built for self-directed DeFi users with meaningful on-chain capital, Ymax replaces manual, interruptible workflows with...
Hedge fund veteran Dan Ives believes “armageddon” fears in one stock market sector have triggered a golden buying opportunity.
In a new CNBC interview, Ives argues that accelerating AI spending will create a multiplier effect across tech, benefiting software stocks that have taken a beating.
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“The spending is even going to be more accelerated than I think people thought...
Media and tech giant Comcast is preparing to pay more than $100 million to settle a series of lawsuits over a massive data breach.
The breach happened back in 2023, when “unauthorized third parties” accessed Comcast’s internal network.
In total, 31.6 million customers are affected, with usernames and passwords, names, contact information, dates of birth and the last four digits of Social Security...
February 17, 2026 – George Town, Cayman Islands
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%...
February 17, 2026 – Karavas, Cyprus
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 RWA (real-world asset) tokenization company, has announced PMT Chain,...
Harvard is now an Ethereum (ETH) investor.
The Ivy League Institution’s endowment bought more than $86.8 million worth of BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the fourth quarter of 2025, per filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week.
Harvard Management Company also slashed its ongoing Bitcoin (BTC) ETF investment, reducing its...
Fundstrat’s head of technical strategy says 2026 could be a rougher year for the stock market.
Mark Newton says in a new interview on Thoughtful Money that there are a couple of different negative factors heading deeper into 2026.
“I think we’re setting up for much more of a choppy year than we’ve seen in years past. We’ve had now three straight years of over 15% gains. Over 20% for the first two...
A US bank is warning nearly 4,000 customers that their names, Social Security numbers and financial account information could be at risk after a data breach.
Last May, the Florida-based Flagship Bank “became aware of suspicious activity within their environment” and launched an investigation, per a new filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General.
“The investigation determined...
Retail giant Amazon is preparing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to customers in a settlement over the company’s return and refund practices.
The class action lawsuit alleges that customers properly returned items in compliance with Amazon’s policies, but were wrongly denied refunds.
The deal creates a $309 million non-reversionary fund to cover unpaid refunds plus interest for affected...
Bitcoin (BTC) is now nearly 50% below its all-time high set four months ago.
And according to Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan, there is “never a single reason why the crypto market falls,” but rather multiple factors at work.
Hougan believes there are six major drivers behind the downturn.
Chief among them is long-term investors selling to “front-run the four-year cycle.” Hougan...