CRYPTO_NEWS

JUST IN: 🇫🇷🇦🇪 $TON rises 20% after France grants Telegram founder Pavel Durov permission to return to Dubai following his arrest.

❕ White House Crypto Summit Set as Trump Hints at Expanding Crypto Reserve
The White House Crypto Summit will take place today at 3 PM EST, with President Trump delivering a keynote speech. Ahead of the event, Trump will sign executive orders reinforcing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will be managed by the Treasury. Notably, Trump has hinted at expanding the reserve to include Ethereum ($ETH), XRP ($XRP), Solana ($SOL), and Cardano ($ADA) in the future.

🐋 Metaplanet Becomes Asia’s Largest Corporate Bitcoin Holder After 497 BTC Purchase
Metaplanet has surpassed Boyaa Interactive as Asia’s top corporate Bitcoin holder after buying 497 BTC at $88,448 per coin for $44M. The firm now holds 2,888 BTC ($251M), positioning it as the 12th-largest corporate Bitcoin holder globally. Metaplanet’s stock surged 20.9% following the move, as it continues an aggressive accumulation strategy aiming for 21,000 BTC by 2026.

UPDATE: 🇺🇸 Yesterday in US,
📉 #Bitcoin spot ETFs sold 787 $BTC ($74.2M)
📉 #Ethereum spot ETFs sold 4,810 $ETH ($12.1M)

Ronaldinho’s STAR10 Token Launches Amid Insider Trading and Security Concerns
Ronaldinho’s STAR10 token launched on BNB Chain, reaching a peak of $0.3855 with a market cap exceeding $360M. However, concerns have emerged over insider trading, as an individual linked to Ronaldinho made nearly $5M in profits. Another wallet acquired 12.24% of the supply for $50K, quickly selling part for $270K while holding $33.5M worth of tokens. Additionally, GoPlus flagged security risks, warning the contract allowed token burning, though this issue was later resolved.

24 hours ago, someone took $200M worth of Ethereum and Bitcoin longs on 50x leverage🤯
This meant even a 2% drop in Bitcoin would liquidate $200M 💀
Yesterday night Trump announced the 🇺🇸US Crypto Reserve including $BTC & $ETH
Was it the possibility that this is an INSIDER 🤔

⁠Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade could lay groundwork for next market rally
The Pectra upgrade aims to significantly reduce Ether selling pressure, potentially contributing to long-term price appreciation.

NEW: Ethereum Foundation appoints Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stanczak as co-Executive Directors.
Wang served as a researcher at the Foundation for 7 years.
Stanczak is the founder of NethermindEth and one of the early team members of Flashbots.

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: Around 8,510 BTC and 37,800 ETH were sold on Feb. 26.
BTC ETFs saw $754.6M in net outflows.
ETH ETFs saw $94.3M in net outflows.

JUST IN: Elon Musk says he has been receiving "a lot of death threats" for his work at DOGE.

UPDATE: 🇺🇸 Yesterday in US,
📉 #Bitcoin spot ETFs sold 10,250 $BTC ($937.9M)
📉 #Ethereum spot ETFs sold 19,940 $ETH ($50M)

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC acknowledges Grayscale filing to allow staking for its spot Ethereum ETF.

JUST IN: Over $110,000,000,000 was wiped out from the crypto market in the past 24 hours.

JUST IN: $64 billion asset manager Citadel to offer crypto trading and become a liquidity provider for cryptocurrencies.
#ETH Price Recovery

🚨Breaking News: Binance CEO Ben Zhao has updated that Ethereum has completely shut down the gap after the $1.4 billion hack and will soon release a new audit report called POR.

JUST IN: Elon Musk proposes "FAFO" as the enforcement arm of DOGE.

NEW: 🇺🇸 Franklin Templeton files S-1 for its $SOL spot ETF with the SEC.

💵At the moment: The prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum have dropped following a hack of approximately $1.5 billion.
Major tokens like Bitcoin were within their recent trading ranges, but smaller tokens such as $XRP, $SOL, and $Doge have experienced significant losses.

🪙 South African Strategy
Altvest Capital announced that it will become the first listed company in Africa to adopt BTC as its primary treasury reserve asset, taking a cue from the US Strategy.