Raw News Items
23 itemsFebruary 15, 2026
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Mirae Asset agrees to buy 92% stake in Korean exchange Korbit for $93M
Mirae Asset Consulting agreed to acquire a 92.06% controlling stake in South Korean crypto exchange Korbit for about $93 million in cash.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Hong Kong is trying to build up its crypto regulations: State of Crypto
Several leaders in Hong Kong announced efforts to advance the region's regulatory environment.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Wall Street giant Apollo deepens crypto push with Morpho token deal
The asset manager overseeing more than $900 billion assets may buy up to 90 million MORPHO tokens as part of a partnership to support DeFi credit market, it said.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin shorts just hit their most extreme level in years as BTC defiantly holds above $70k
Bitcoin derivative traders are increasingly positioning for further downside rather than a clean bounce as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in a tight range below $70,000. According to CryptoSlate's data, BTC price bottomed at $65,092 during the last 24 hours but has since recovered to ...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Senators ask Bessent to probe $500M UAE stake in Trump-linked WLFI
Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim call on Treasury’s Scott Bessent to review a UAE-backed investment in the Trump-linked crypto firm over national security concerns.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Michael Saylor signals another Bitcoin buy amid market rout
The purchase will mark week 12 of consecutive buys by Strategy, which continues accumulating BTC despite a sharp decline in the company's stock price.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
BlackRock's digital assets head: Leverage-driven volatility threatens bitcoin’s narrative
Rampant speculation on crypto derivatives platforms is fueling volatility and risking bitcoin’s image as a stable hedge, says BlackRock’s digital assets chief.
- DecryptScore: 70
Bitcoin Takes Step Towards Quantum Fix as Experts Diverge on Urgency of Threat
Bitcoin developers lay the groundwork for post-quantum upgrades, but experts vary on whether the threat is years or decades away.
- DecryptScore: 70
OpenClaw Creator Gets Big Offers to Acquire AI Sensation—Will It Stay Open Source?
Peter Steinberger's open-source AI agent OpenClaw hit 180,000 GitHub stars and spawned MoltBook chaos. Now Meta and OpenAI want to buy it, but he's determined to keep it free.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Token Escrow on XRPL could force new XRP demand, but only if this adoption hurdle breaks
On Feb. 12, RippleX, Ripple's development arm, announced that Token Escrow is now live on the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) mainnet. The change, labeled Token Escrow (XLS-85), extends conditional locking and release to trustline-based tokens (IOUs) and Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs). This expands the network’s e...
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Wall Street remains bullish on bitcoin while offshore traders retreat
The difference in futures basis between CME and Deribit reflects varying risk appetite across regions.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitcoin hit $60,000 because two different groups finally surrendered — on-chain data shows who blinked
Bitcoin’s February drop to about $60,000 was the kind of single-day panic people will remember as a bottom. But the more accurate reading of this washout is harder and more useful: this cycle quit in stages, and the sellers rotated. A Feb. 10 report from Checkonchain framed the move as a capitulatio...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Robinhood’s $221 million crypto revenue drop shows crypto winter isn’t on chain and retail already moved
Crypto winter has a branding problem. The phrase makes it sound like the chain goes quiet, wallets stop moving, and the whole machine turns cold. However, the cleanest proof of retail pulling back rarely lives on-chain. The people who vanish first aren’t the power users bridging stables into DeFi or...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Study suggests WLFI could act as an ‘early warning signal’ in crypto
Trump-linked WLFI dropped more than five hours before a $6.9 billion crypto liquidation event, raising questions about early market stress signals.
- CryptoSlateScore: 50
Wall Street is desperate to copy crypto’s prediction markets as Cboe files for “Yes/No” options
Cboe wants to bring back all-or-nothing options, a contract that pays a fixed amount if a condition is met and pays zero if it isn't. While that might sound like a small product refresh, the timing makes it hard to ignore. Prediction markets have trained a new retail reflex: turn a belief into a num...
- CoinDeskScore: 50
XRP outruns bitcoin, ether after investors piled into the recent crash
XRP is outperforming bitcoin and ether following signs of dip buying during recent crash.
- CointelegraphScore: 45
Institutions may get 'fed up' and fire Bitcoin devs over quantum: VC
Bitcoin developers must address the quantum risks to Bitcoin fast to avoid a successful “corporate takeover,” according to venture capitalist Nic Carter.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Prediction markets vs. insider trading: Founders admit blockchain transparency is the only defense
Prediction markets are increasingly being framed not as gambling platforms but as vehicles for monetizing information, though founders acknowledged the line can blur.
- The BlockScore: 30
Polymarket investor Vitalik Buterin says prediction markets need to stop catering to ‘dumb opinions’
Buterin proposed replacing the current speculative model with AI-powered hedging tools that help users offset real-world costs like housing and food.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
CZ says lack of onchain privacy is holding back crypto payments
Transparency, which is a hallmark feature of most cryptocurrencies, is likely one of the biggest hurdles to mass adoption, the Binance founder said.
- CointelegraphScore: 20
Roundhill’s election event contract ETFs ‘potentially groundbreaking'
The ETF issuer warned that investors who pick the fund tied to the losing US presidential outcome could lose nearly all invested capital.
- DecryptScore: 20
Her Divorce Was Ugly. Crypto Became a Lifeline
A mother in Texas said that crypto helped her overcome financial abuse.
- The BlockScore: 20
Kevin O’Leary wins $2.8 million defamation judgment against crypto influencer Ben ‘BitBoy’ Armstrong
The ruling stems from posts Armstrong made in March 2025 falsely accusing O'Leary of murder in connection with a 2019 boating accident.