Crypto News. February 16, 2026

Vitalik warned that prediction markets risk devolving into “corposlop” gambling, urging a shift toward expense-hedging markets denominated in assets like ETH and other volatile assets, and replacing stablecoins with personalized baskets of prediction markets tied to users’ real world expenses.

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

Recently I have been starting to worry about the state of prediction markets, in their current form. They have achieved a certain level of success: market volume is high enough to make meaningful bets and have a full-time job as a trader, and they often prove useful as a

1:49 PM · Feb 14, 2026 · 820K Views

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Strategy disclosed it can handle $8000 Bitcoin without risking insolvency

Strategy@Strategy

Strategy can withstand a drawdown in $BTC price to $8K and still have sufficient assets to fully cover our debt.

5:34 PM · Feb 15, 2026 · 818K Views

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X Head of Product Nikita Bier announced X will update API to block token creation-claim fee bots

Nikita Bier@nikitabier

@santisiri @steipete @openclaw Frankly, this is the most dishonest perspective on the “claim your fees” spam that I’ve ever read. Everyone knows that the moment he does it, it will haunt him on for the rest of his tenure on this app. Every reply will be about making the price goes up. We intend to update

8:09 AM · Feb 14, 2026 · 1.17M Views

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umang@umang_veerma

To put in perspective, Instead of holding USD in a savings account for future expenses Hold a basket of prediction markets representing those expenses You hedge against actual expenses and inflation doesn't cost you money BONUS: position collateral is yield-bearing

vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin

Recently I have been starting to worry about the state of prediction markets, in their current form. They have achieved a certain level of success: market volume is high enough to make meaningful bets and have a full-time job as a trader, and they often prove useful as a

2:42 PM · Feb 14, 2026 · 1.44K Views

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Nikita Bier confirmed that X is building Smart Cashtags that show live prices, charts, and asset data in the timeline

Nikita Bier@nikitabier

@mistor @santisiri @steipete @openclaw I genuinely want crypto to proliferate on X, but applications that create incentives to spam, raid, and harass random users is not the way. It meaningfully degrades the experience for millions of people — only to enrich a few people. And yes, we are launching a number of

8:44 AM · Feb 14, 2026 · 1.27M Views

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Nikita Bier@nikitabier

@BullTheoryio This is wrong. X is not handling trade execution or acting as a brokerage. Just building the financial data tools and links.

5:34 PM · Feb 14, 2026 · 218K Views

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Morgan Stanley, listed a blockchain engineer role targeting multi-chain integrations including Hyperledger, Polygon, Canton, and Ethereum.

Frank Chaparro@fintechfrank

Morgan Stanley is exploring integration with at least four blockchains — Hyperledger, Polygon, Canton, and Ethereum — according to a job ad for a blockchain software engineer

7:44 PM · Feb 14, 2026 · 27K Views

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Flying Tulip to launch $1B public sale tomorrow using novel perpetual PUT raise where their token, FT is sold at $0.10 with a hard floor, as holders can always exit at NAV, while funds are deployed to strategies like Aave and Lido Finance, with all fees and yield used for buybacks distributed to users.

Wu Blockchain@WuBlockchain

Flying Tulip (FT), a new project created by Andre Cronje, announced that it will launch its public sale tomorrow, open to all users, with a maximum fundraising cap of $1 billion. Andre Cronje previously stated that all funds raised will be deployed into low-risk yield strategies

2:28 AM · Feb 16, 2026 · 18.5K Views

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Newton (🌷,🌷)@flyingNewton

Flying Tulip (@flyingtulip_) raise mechanism is revolutionary. $FT is issued as a Perpetual PUT and sold for $0.1. Its price cannot go below $0.1. Why? Because PUT holders can simply exit their position and get back their $0.1. If they instead, for some reason, decide to

7:40 PM · Feb 15, 2026 · 902 Views

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