Morpho Association Announces Cooperation Agreement with Apollo

Under the Agreement, Apollo or its affiliates may acquire MORPHO tokens through a combination of open-market purchases, OTC transactions, and other contractual arrangements, subject to an overall ownership cap of 90 million MORPHO tokens over a 48-month period as well as transfer and trading restrictions.

https://morpho.org/blog/morpho-association-announces-cooperation-agreement-with-apollo/

Binance denies report on Iran-linked sanctions breaches and investigator firings

https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-denies-iran-sanctions-report-fortune

Nexo has reentered the U.S. market, rolling out a suite of digital asset services and trading infrastructure powered by U.S.-based Bakkt.

The company, which left the U.S. in 2022 after regulatory clashes over its Earn Interest Product, returns with $11 billion in assets under management and a focus on operating within a compliant framework.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/16/nexo-partners-with-bakkt-reenters-the-u-s-with-crypto-yield-lending-and-exchange-services

The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 57.82%

Market Cap - $2.37T
BTC - $68,497 (-0.14%)
ETH - $1,986 (+1.09%)
BNB - $627 (+1.88%)
SOL - $86 (+1.29%)
M - $1.5 (+16.44%)

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Flying Tulip Public Sale Goes Live

Impossible Extends Sale Deadline to February 23, 8:00 UTC (Third Extension).

https://x.com/flyingtulip_/status/2023366257127330243

OpenSea will make announcements on March 30

https://x.com/opensea/status/2023432604784189920

The entire former ECC team is now Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), and Zcash is rebranding the Zashi wallet to Zodl

https://x.com/zashi_app/status/2023427477830275147

Wintermute launched institutional OTC trading for tokenized gold and expects the market to reach $15 billion by 2026.

https://x.com/Cointelegraph/status/2023517798337556962

Harvard trims bitcoin ETF holdings by 21%

https://www.theblock.co/amp/post/389996/harvard-bitcoin-ether-etf-holdings

Strategy has acquired 2,486 BTC for ~$168.4 million at ~$67,710 per bitcoin. As of 2/16/2026, it holds 717,131 BTC acquired for ~$54.52 billion at ~$76,027 per bitcoin.

https://x.com/strategy/status/2023744904283714016

Crypto venture firm Dragonfly closes $650 million fourth fund—even as blockchain VCs face ‘mass extinction’

https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/dragonfly-fourth-fund-crypto-venture-capital-blockchain-polymarket-ethena/

BitMine acquired 45,759 ETH worth around ~$91M last week

The company holds 4,371 million ETH valued at ~$8.7B.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitmine-immersion-technologies-bmnr-announces-eth-holdings-reach-4-371-million-tokens-and-total-crypto-and-total-cash-holdings-of-9-6-billion-302689296.html

Gemini fires three top execs amid $600M losses

https://www.theblock.co/post/390172/gemini-exchange-parts-ways-cfo-coo-clo-big-shakeup

The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 57.55%

Market Cap - $2.35T
BTC - $67,627 (-1.24%)
ETH - $1,997 (+0.65%)
BNB - $619 (-1.29%)
SOL - $85 (-1.19%)
WLFI - $0.11 (+15.08%)

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Pump.fun introduces Cashback Coins, allowing creators to redirect all Creator Fees to traders instead of token deployers, as it continues iterating on its model amid weaker memecoin activity.

https://x.com/Pumpfun/status/2023781357168537818

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds invested more than $1 billion in Bitcoin ETFs

Mubadala Investment Company: 12,702,323 shares of iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) worth approximately $631 million

Al Warda Investments: 8,218,712 shares of IBIT worth approximately $408 million

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2075444/000092963826000633/xslForm13F_X02/informationtable.xml

The Zora attention market is now live on Solana

https://x.com/zora/status/2023797263651533053