📢 About $101.5M was liquidated in just one hour as $BTC pushed back above the $69K level.

📢 According to BlackRock research, Bitcoin has historically outperformed traditional assets such as gold and equities during periods of geopolitical tension.

📢 Prediction markets recorded their first monthly drop since August, but still handled $23.4B in volume in February.

📢 Court Clears Path for Tariff Refund Cases 🇺🇸

Legal pressure is building.

• A federal appeals court denied the Trump administration’s request to delay the case
• Importers can now move forward with tariff refund claims
• Litigation over trade policy continues in the courts

📢 Roughly $90 billion has been added to the total crypto market capitalization over the past 10 hours.

📢 Bitcoin’s relationship with gold continues to fluctuate, alternating between strong positive and negative correlation as broader macro themes evolve.

📢 Riot Platforms Posts Record Year

Strong numbers from one of the major $BTC miners.

• Reported $647M in 2025 revenue, a new record
• Produced 5,686 $BTC during the year
• Expanding further into AI and high-performance computing

📢 Uniswap Labs Wins Lawsuit Dismissal

A major legal win for $UNI.

• Court fully dismissed the scam token class action case
• Judge ruled the platform isn’t liable for misconduct by third-party token issuers
• Reinforces the distinction between protocol infrastructure and user-issued tokens

📢 PayPay Targets $1.1B US IPO

A big move toward U.S. markets.

• Aiming to raise up to $1.1B in its U.S. IPO
• Backed by SoftBank Group
• Could become one of the largest Japanese listings in the U.S.

📢 Anthropic’s Claude has climbed to the top of the US App Store rankings as the #1 free app, surpassing both ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

📢 Tennessee’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act has been advanced with a recommendation for passage and sent to the Finance, Ways, and Means Committee.

If approved, it would permit the state treasurer to invest up to 10% of public funds in Bitcoin.

📢 Bloomberg reports that open interest in Hyperliquid’s oil perpetual contracts has reached a record high, as crypto traders increasingly shift toward commodity-linked instruments.

📢 According to Santiment, positive sentiment around Bitcoin has reached its highest point since February 6, as $BTC climbs 7% and approaches the $70K mark.

📢 Global gold funds are set to break records in 2026, with annualized inflows reaching $148 billion so far, well above last year’s $101 billion high.

📢 According to CryptoQuant, about 38% of altcoins are currently hovering close to their all-time lows, a deeper slump than what was seen after the FTX collapse.

📢 Core Scientific Cuts $BTC Holdings, Shifts to AI

A clear change in strategy.

• Sold about 1,900 $BTC for $175M in January
• Now holds under 1,000 $BTC
• Pivoting focus from mining toward AI data center operations

📢 An Ethereum whale has moved 82,000 $ETH to Binance, bringing their total deposits over the past year to more than $1.35B.

📢 Hyperliquid leads the daily fee rankings with $1.6M generated, while Tron follows behind at $703.5K.