[PRESS RELEASE – George Town, Cayman Islands, February 17th, 2026] Zircuit, a security-first digital asset company backed by YZiLabs, Dragonfly, and Pantera, today announced the launch of Zircuit Finance. Incubated by a team from Quantstamp, Zircuit Finance is a secure platform for institutional-grade strategies, a stablecoin vault designed to...

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has moved to defend its authority over prediction markets, filing a friend-of-the-court brief as state-level legal challenges against the sector intensify. CFTC defends control of US prediction markets In a video posted on…...

Crypto majors soften while Asian equities rebound modestly, with traders continuing to weigh quantum fears, ETF flows and a possible shift in bitcoin’s broader trend....

Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong acknowledged on Tuesday that the company is “misunderstood” on Wall Street, stating that some traditional finance players have not been able to stomach the cryptocurrency “disruption.” Is TradFi Skeptical Of Crypto? In an X post, Armstrong said that while one section has been “leaning” and...

Stablecoin platform Bridge has received a conditional banking charter from the United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. “Once fully approved, the charter will enable Bridge to operate stablecoin products and services under direct federal oversight,” Bridge said…...

XRP price has dropped nearly 25% over the past month. It risks extending its downtrend over the coming weeks as bearish technicals continue to cast a shadow upon any potential recovery. According to data from crypto.news, XRP (XRP) price has…...

The Digital Chamber, a Washington-based blockchain advocacy group, has established a dedicated Prediction Markets Working Group that would lobby for federal oversight regarding prediction markets, which remain at the center of a jurisdictional tug-of-war across the United States. “The absence…...

Thiel’s exit from ETHZilla signals potential instability in Ethereum-focused ventures, impacting investor confidence and market dynamics. The post Peter Thiel sells entire stake in Ethereum treasury ETHZilla through Founders Fund appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund held zero shares in ether treasury firm ETHZillan at the end of 2025, per SEC filings....

The crypto market continues to face intense selling pressure as both Bitcoin and Ethereum struggle to reclaim key psychological levels. Repeated rejection near resistance zones has reinforced cautious sentiment across the sector, with investors increasingly defensive after months of declining liquidity and volatile price action. While corrective phases are...