⚖️ NEW: South Korean prosecutors recovered 320.8 $BTC — worth about $21.4 million — months after the cryptocurrency was lost in a phishing breach involving seized assets.

🚨 NEW: Morgan Stanley and ARK Invest boosted their stakes in #Bitmine Immersion (BMNR) in Q4 2025, despite the crypto market downturn. Morgan Stanley raised its BMNR position by 26%, while ARK Invest increased its Bitmine stake by 27%.

🔥 NEW: Robinhood’s public #blockchain testnet processed 4M transactions in its first week, according to CEO Vlad Tenev.

💵 NEW: #Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 45,759 ETH worth roughly $91M. This brings its #Ethereum holdings to 4.37M ETH.

🔴 NEW: US spot #Bitcoin ETFs saw $133.3M in net outflows Wednesday, pushing weekly losses to $238M.

📣 NEW: Decentralized perpetual futures exchange #Hyperliquid has launched the Hyperliquid Policy Center in Washington to advocate for clearer congressional rules governing #DeFi.

👀 NEW: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon shared at the World Liberty Forum 2026 in Mar-a-Lago that he personally owns #Bitcoin — though he describes the position as “very little.”

🗣️ NEW: Sen. Bernie Moreno says the long-awaited US #CLARITY Act could pass Congress “hopefully by April.”

📣 NEW: Kraken’s parent company Payward acquired #tokenization platform #Magna, adding vesting, token distribution, custody, and staking infrastructure to its product stack.

💵 NEW: Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest bought 41,453 #Coinbase shares on Tuesday across ARKK, ARKW, and ARKF, totaling roughly $6.9M.

🚨 Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan: #DeFi could lead #crypto out of its bear market, thanks to governance upgrades, institutional flows, and rising protocol revenues.

🟠 NEW: Spot #Bitcoin ETFs logged $104.9M in outflows in the first trading session of the week.

🚨 NEW: #Moonwell’s lending pools were hit with $1.78M in bad debt after a $cbETH oracle mispriced the token at $1.

👀 NEW: Abu Dhabi-linked sovereign investors held over $1B in US spot #Bitcoin ETFs at the end of 2025.

⚠️ NEW: Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has fully exited #Ethereum treasury company #ETHZilla, and reported holding zero shares in a new 13G amendment that was filed with the SEC.

⚖️ NEW: Nevada sues #Kalshi after appeals court clears the way for state regulators to act against its sports event contracts.

📣 NEW: According to an updated SEC filing, #BlackRock and #Coinbase will take an 18% cut of staking rewards from BlackRock’s proposed #Ethereum staking ETF.

🗣️ Arthur Hayes: #Bitcoin’s divergence from the Nasdaq 100 could signal an #AI-driven credit crisis ahead.

📜 NEW: #Bitwise and GraniteShares filed with the SEC to launch #ETFs tied to US election outcomes, including presidential and congressional races.

🟠 NEW: #Strategy added 2,486 BTC for $168.4M, bringing total holdings to 717,131 $BTC.

📣 CryptoQuant: #Binance now holds $47.5B in $USDT and $USDC, accounting for 65% of all CEX stablecoin reserves.

🤝 NEW: #TON Foundation and Banxa team up to enable APAC small businesses to settle payments and move funds cross-border using The Open Network.

🍔 NEW: Steak 'n Shake says same-store sales have “risen dramatically” since launching its burger-to-#Bitcoin strategy in May of 2025.

Kevin O’Leary: Says quantum computing risks are capping institutional #Bitcoin allocations at around 3%.

🔴 NEW: Nasdaq-listed miner #Bitdeer cut 96.5 $BTC from its treasury, bringing total holdings below the 1,000 BTC mark.

📣 NEW: Japan’s SBI Holdings plans to take a controlling stake in Singapore-based #crypto exchange #Coinhako.

🚨 NEW: Decentralized lending protocol #ZeroLend is shutting down due to low user activity and liquidity across the blockchains it operates on.

📣 NEW: #Crypto exchange Kraken joins support for Trump’s child savings initiative, committing funds to #TrumpAccounts opened for newborns in Wyoming.

📨 NEW: Users of #Ledger and #Trezor are reporting a new wave of physical mail phishing attempts aimed at extracting seed recovery phrases from hardware wallet owners.

🗣️ NEW: SBI Holdings has denied viral claims that it holds $10B worth of #XRP. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao clarified the firm owns roughly 9% of #Ripple Labs, not a multibillion-dollar stash of XRP tokens.