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More than $8.72 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options expire today, marking February’s largest derivatives event and covering roughly 20% of total open interest.

A large crypto trader lost approximately $8.2 million USDC after a heavily leveraged long position in the ARC perpetuals market collapsed on the decentralised derivatives platform Lighter.

Indiana lawmakers have passed House Bill 1042, sending the crypto rights legislation to Governor Mike Braun after it cleared both chambers by a 59–33 vote.

AI and crypto-linked infrastructure companies have raised roughly $33 billion in long-term senior notes over the past year, signalling strong lender demand despite elevated borrowing costs.

U.S. stocks retreated on Feb. 26 as investors reassessed the artificial intelligence trade, with the S&P 500 falling 0.9% to 6,883, the Nasdaq dropping 1.6% to 22,782 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average easing 0.3% to about 49,320.

AllUnity has launched CHFAU, a Swiss franc-pegged stablecoin backed 1:1 by CHF and initially available to institutional and professional investors.

Telegram has introduced yield-generating vaults within its in-app crypto wallet, enabling users to earn returns on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether directly inside the messaging platform.

US asset manager REX Shares has launched the GIF ETF, an income-focused fund that combines nine leveraged single-stock strategies including crypto-linked equities Coinbase and Strategy.

Gate has secured a Payment Institution licence in Malta under the EU’s PSD2 framework, allowing it to execute regulated payment transactions across the European Union alongside its existing crypto services.

Decentralised perpetual futures exchange Grvt has integrated the Aave lending protocol to allow traders to earn yield on margin collateral while keeping derivatives positions open.

Market analysts have pushed back against claims that Jane Street is engineering a daily 10 a.m. Bitcoin sell-off, saying available data does not support the idea of a systematic price dump.

Mastercard and MetaMask have launched the MetaMask Card in the United States marking its first availability across 49 states including New York after pilot programmes over the past two years.