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Thailand’s government on Tuesday approved the Finance Ministry’s proposal allowing digital assets to be used as underlying assets in the country’s derivatives and capital markets.The move aims to modernize Thailand’s derivatives markets in line with international standards, strengthen regulatory oversight and investor protection, and position itself as a regional hub for institutional crypto trading, the Bangkok Post reported.The country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will amend the Derivatives Act to enable these new asset classes, which include Bitcoin (BTC) and carbon credits. “The decision to formally recognize digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and digital tokens […] reflects a growing understanding that digital…

February 11, 2026 05:35 PM EST Robinhood’s CEO Says a Prediction Markets ‘Supercycle’ Is Just Starting FROM 6 hr 18 min ago Investors dumped shares of Robinhood Wednesday after the company reported disappointing quarterly results. Its CEO says they should be excited about its newest slate of offerings, particularly in prediction markets. “We’re just at the beginning of a prediction market supercycle that could drive trillions in annual volume over time,” Vlad Tenev told investors during the company’s earnings call late Tuesday, according to a transcript provided by AlphaSense. Robinhood said in its earnings report that its prediction markets volume more…

XAI just had its first all-hands meeting since its merger with SpaceX.In the recorded event on Tuesday night, CEO Elon Musk outlined a new organizational structure — the main Grok product and Grok Voice, Grok Code, Grok Imagine, and the company’s Macrohard project. The all-hands was later posted on X on Wednesday.From a plan to build a catapult, or mass driver, on the moon to soothing nerves after the restructuring, here are the main takeaways from xAI’s latest all-hands meeting.1. Addressing the restructureThere are now only six members left of an original founding team of 12 at xAI, following two…

The DeFi ecosystem is looking at a major change as it relates to both interoperability and security designed for consumers. OKX Wallet announced the inclusion of the DEX API into the Ledger ecosystem, bridging high-end hardware security and enormous liquidity. This partnership is an important development for users who want to use self-custody, as users of Ledger hardware wallets will be able to access thousands of EVM tokens directly from their hardware wallets. Streamlining the On-Chain Swap Experience Hardware wallet users have had to undergo an extensive process to swap cryptocurrencies for quite some time now. First, they need to…

GPTVerse, a well-known Web3 project, has announced its official completion of migration to Solana. Specifically, by shifting from Binance Smart Chain (BSC) to the most popular Solana ecosystem, GPTVerse has experienced a key landmark in its network evolution. As GPTVerse revealed in its official X announcement, the move aims to provide consumers with a faster, smarter, and cheaper token platform. Additionally, the migration portal is currently live, letting users seamlessly transact tokens to Solana. GPTVerse Completes Transition to Solana to Offer Seamless Experience for $GPTV Holders The completion of GPTVerse’s migration to Solana endeavors to deliver a more user-focused token…

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, its most advanced AI model yet, built to tackle large-scale, high-complexity work with sharper coding, longer memory, and a powerful 1 million token context window. Quick Summary – TLDR: Claude Opus 4.6 introduces a 1 million token context window (in beta), enabling deeper long-context tasks. The model leads industry benchmarks in coding, reasoning, and agentic task performance. It improves reliability in large codebases and handles complex workflows across tools like Excel and PowerPoint. Enterprises benefit from stronger autonomy, safety improvements, and more developer control over model behavior. What Happened? Anthropic officially launched Claude Opus…

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says banks and crypto may begin to offer similar products, and pledged to prevent deposit flight concerns that are stalling a key crypto bill.US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told Congress that traditional and crypto banking products and services may be more intertwined in the future. Appearing before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, Bessent was asked by Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis whether there could come a time when conventional banks and crypto are offering the same types of products.“I think that can happen over time,” Bessent said. “We’ve actually been working with small and community…

MSTR stock price of Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) extends its crash beyond 17% on Thursday following the release of its Q4 2025 earnings results. The company reported a massive $12.4 billion net loss driven primarily by sharp declines in Bitcoin price. MSTR Stock Price Plunges 17% Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) stock began falling by more 10% before the Q4 2025 earnings release. MSTR stock price extended the crash by another 17% to close at $106.99 on February 5 as Bitcoin tumbled more than 14% to below $65,000. This marks one of its deepest single-day drops in years, pushing it…

While directly holding cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum is a popular option, investors looking for alternatives are clamoring for financial products such as crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs).Canada first launched Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in 2021. These Canadian Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs allow investors to place returns in tax-sheltered accounts like tax-free savings accounts or registered retirement savings plans.“There is a high demand for a Bitcoin product that has all the features that people love about ETFs — that they trade on an exchange, that they’re liquid,” Ross Mayfield of Robert W. Baird & Co. told Bloomberg in mid-2021.Interest has only…

A decade-old email is reviving questions about whether projects like Ripple posed a threat to Bitcoin’s development or merely served as competitors that some BTC backers sought to exclude.The email, dated July 31, 2014, appears to show Austin Hill, then described as Blockstream’s chief executive, telling the late Jeffrey Epstein and other recipients that “Ripple, and Jed McCaleb’s new Stellar [were] bad for the ecosystem.” Blockstream is a Bitcoin-focused blockchain technology firm.The correspondence resurfaced after the US Department of Justice published millions of pages of records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a disclosure that includes emails, files, images, and…