Crypto News. February 24, 2026
Jane Street is being sued for allegedly using insider ties to Terraform Labs to pull and dump about $85M of UST from Curve’s 3pool minutes after Terraform’s own $150M withdrawal on May 7, 2022, profiting while accelerating the UST depeg
Anthropic accused Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of repeatedly siphoning Claude data to train their own AI systems.
PayPal is drawing takeover interest after its stock slump halved its value, holding meetings with banks following unsolicited bids for either the entire company or specific assets.
Trump’s Board of Peace reportedly exploring stablecoin for Gaza.
Robinhood launched Ventures Fund I to give retail access to private markets.
Backpack announced 20% of its equity will be given to users who stake it token for a year.
Strategy acquired additional 592 BTC at $67,286 per BTC, now holds 717,722 BTC.
Bitmine added additional 51,162 ETH, and now holds 4,422,659 ETH.
Based raised $11.5M Series A led by Pantera Capital to build onchain SuperApp.
Cryptocom joins Ripple, Circle, Paxos and Fidelity to receive conditional approval from the OCC for its National Trust Bank Charter
Bankr Uniswap v4 hook generated $100M in less than two weeks
Ethereum Foundation is doubling down on its DeFi-punk vision by forming a dedicated DeFi unit under App Relations, appointing Charles St Louis as DeFi Protocol Specialist and Ivan GBI, co-founder of Gearbox Protocol, as DeFi Coordinator to back permissionless, privacy first, censorship-resistant DeFi.
Cambrian Network published its Q1 2026 Agentic Finance Landscape Report. The report reviews autonomous DeFi tools built to support retail users, highlighting key trends and emerging onchain agents.
a16z crypto published an essay that explores how AI agents could shift payments to B2B rails with stablecoins leading the way.
Kamino crossed $1B in total RWA market Size.
Step Finance, the parent company behind SolanaFloor and Remora Markets, is shutting down all operations, including its subsidiaries, due to an unrecovered January hack
Jito Foundation signed an MOU with Hanwha Asset Management to launch Asia’s first regulated JitoSOL ETP in Korea
Bitdeer CEO Jihan Wu posted that their bitcoin holdings are zero for now but will not remain so in the future
Former Chainlink exec Taylor Lindman joined SEC as chief counsel for crypto task force.
Gemini is cutting up to 25% of staff, exiting the UK, EU, and Australia, and refocusing on custody services and its new prediction markets platform after revenue growth fell short and stock dropped over 80% from post-IPO highs.
