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Crypto.com Is One Step From Becoming a US National Trust BankgettyOn February 23rd, 2026, Crypto.com has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a U.S. National Trust Bank focused on digital asset custody and fiduciary services. According to Research and Market, institutional capital in digital asset custody topped $800 billion last year, and the infrastructure race to capture it just shifted. For investors, and builders across the ecosystem, this is a signal worth paying attention to. What a National Trust Charter Gives Crypto.comCustody is the single most critical infrastructure layer for institutional adoption…

A new report by Citrini Research has been partially blamed for a software and payments stock sell-off on Monday, where it outlined extreme scenarios in which AI could severely disrupt the economy, from wiping out a sizable share of the workforce and slashing consumer spending to threatening the $13 trillion US mortgage market.Citrini was little-known up until Monday, when its “Global Intelligence Crisis” report amassed over 22 million views on X alone, discussing how AI agents could drive corporate profits so high that human labor could become increasingly redundant and trigger a recession. The report lays out a chilling June…

The court-appointed administrator leading crypto company Terraform Labs through its bankruptcy has sued trading firm Jane Street, accusing it of insider trading that worsened the collapse of the multibillion-dollar Terra ecosystem.On Monday, Todd Snyder, Terraform’s court-appointed administrator, sued Jane Street, its co-founder Robert Granieri, and employees Bryce Pratt and Michael Huang in a Manhattan federal court, accusing them of “misappropriating confidential information and manipulating market prices.”The heavily redacted complaint claimed Jane Street used connections with “Terraform insiders to learn material non-public information” about the company and used the information to sell off tokens tied to the Terra blockchain that worsened…

Key Takeaways Home care rates vary from $25 per hour in Mississippi to $44 per hour in South Dakota—geography, not care quality, drives the biggest price differences.Nearly one-third of families end up paying more than they expected for care, often because they started researching costs after a health crisis forced their hand. Get personalized, AI-powered answers built on 27+ years of trusted expertise. If you’re hiring a home caregiver for a loved one in 2026, what state you live in may determine a lot about how much you’ll pay. Families paid a median of $34 an hour for a home…

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has said that quantum computing is not a threat to Bitcoin at the moment and called the narrative FUD. He further said that any meaningful danger would still be more than a decade away. The Strategy executive chairman also attributed the price limit of Bitcoin to restricted access to bank credit. According to him, this indicates that liquidity, rather than quantum risks, was influencing prices. He further said that the traditional lending channels are not accessible to Bitcoin holders. Michael Saylor Quantifies Bitcoin Quantum Threat as Distant In a sit-down interview with Natalie Brunell in…

Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT) (“RIOT” or “the Company”), a Bitcoin-driven industry leader in the development of large-scale data centers and bitcoin mining applications, announced today that it has scheduled its fourth quarter and year-end 2025 earnings conference call for Monday, March 2, 2026, at 4:30 P.M. EST. This conference call will be available through an audio-only webcast. Please use this link here to register. Participants who choose to dial into the call in the United States or internationally, please use this link here to register. A replay of the webcast will be available after the call ends, through this…

PART 1Executive summaryOn-chain finance is approaching an inflection point. Privacy is increasingly necessary for user safety, market integrity, and mainstream adoption — while anti-money laundering (AML) / countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) regulations and national security objectives require data-accessibility, speed, and the ability to act.The policy question is no longer “privacy versus compliance.” It’s: Which privacy regime — combined with which compliance model and which governance controls — can meet the minimum needs of all stakeholders?This paper provides a framework for evaluating five privacy regimes common in privacy-preserving blockchain systems:Transaction view keys (per-transaction disclosure)Address view keys (wallet-scoped disclosure)Set membership…

MoonPay, a famous crypto payments and Web3 onboarding platform, is pleased to announce its landmark partnership with Dreamcash, a decentralized, mobile-first, self-custodial trading platform and ecosystem built on the Hyperliquid Layer-1 blockchain.  The primary objective of this partnership is to enable fast and seamless fiat trading on-ramp for better performance in the trading field. MoonPay has released this news through its official social media X account. MoonPay and Dreamcash Set to Advance Trading Access MoonPay already is fulfilling its best duty in serving humanity with different solutions to cryptocurrency-related problems; simultaneously, it is efficiently satisfying crypto users all over the…

The US is mounting its largest military buildup in the Middle East since 2003. Here’s a list of the weapons and hardware that it’s sent to the region as the Trump administration pressures Iran to strike a deal that would limit its nuclear and military capabilities.At least a dozen warships collectively worth an estimated $50 billion have been deployed to the region. Satellite imagery shows the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, and a second carrier strike group led by the USS Gerald R. Ford is on the way. The buildup also includes a variety…