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Crypto platform Gemini secures $100 million strategic investment from Winklevoss Capital — link | AI comment

JUST IN: Iran is now one of the World's largest bitcoin miners, contributing as much as 6-8% of the Global hashrate. Telegram | Twitter

🪖 % Willing to Fight for Their Country 🇹🇷 Turkey — 88% 🇦🇱 Albania — 69% 🇸🇪 Sweden — 66% 🇫🇮 Finland — 64% 🇲🇪 Montenegro — 63% 🇬🇷 Greece — 63% 🇳🇴 Norway — 61% 🇱🇹 Lithuania — 52% 🇵🇱 Poland — 49% 🇸🇮 Slovenia — 49% 🇪🇪 Estonia — 45% 🇨🇦 Canada — 39% 🇱🇻 Latvia — 37% 🇺🇸 USA — 37% 🇭🇺 Hungary — 33% 🇨🇿 Czechia — 33% 🇳🇱 Netherlands — 30% 🇩🇪 Germany — 27% 🇮🇹 Italy — 25% 🇸🇰 Slovakia — 25% Source: 2025 survey by Riga Stradins University & Center for Geopolitical Studies Riga (nationally representative; via FPRI). Over 31,000 respondents across 20 NATO allies surveyed

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% Below All-Time High ExxonMobil: 0% S&P 500: -7% Google: -14% Apple: -14% Nvidia: -19% Gold: -20% Amazon: -21% Meta: -25% Tesla: -26% Palantir: -28% Microsoft: -31% Bitcoin: -44% Silver: -45% Ethereum: -57% MicroStrategy: -75% Fartcoin: -92% Trump Coin: -96% Melania Coin: -99%

Iran war volatility is driving oil trading boom on Hyperliquid, says JPMorgan - CoinDesk

https://x.com/solana/status/2034022625408635137?s=46&t=dHj4vBmgyIXCn2qRbv-3xQ

Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing roughly $20 billion valuations: WSJ — link | AI comment

A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Binance, Changpeng Zhao and Binance US of helping terrorist groups move crypto funds, ruling that plaintiffs failed to plausibly link the exchange’s conduct to specific attacks. Following the decision, CZ said CEXs have “zero motive” to assist terrorists, arguing such actors generate little trading revenue and typically withdraw funds quickly. — link

🌍 Key events for this week: ❗️🇺🇸 The US has switched to Daylight Saving Time, with markets opening an hour earlier at 16:30 MSK. Monday, March 9: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - no trading - Women's Day 🇨🇳 China - CPI (Feb) - 04:30 MSK 🇩🇪 Germany - Industrial Production (Jan) - 10:00 MSK 🇺🇸 US - NY-Fed Consumer Inflation Expectations (Jan) - 17:00 MSK Tuesday, March 10: 🇯🇵 Japan - GDP (Q4 2025) - 02:50 MSK 🇨🇳 China - Global Trade (Feb) - 06:00 MSK 🇺🇸 US - ADP Nonfarm Employment (Week) - 16:15 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Existing Home Sales (Feb) - 17:00 MSK 🛢 US Short-Term Oil Market Forecast - 19:00 MSK 🛢 US Oil - API Stockpiles - 23:30 MSK Wednesday, March 11: 🛢 OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report - 14:00 MSK 🇺🇸 US - CPI (Feb) - 15:30 MSK 🛢 US Oil - EIA Stockpiles - 17:30 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Federal Budget (Feb) - 21:00 MSK Thursday, March 12: 🛢 IEA Monthly Oil Market Report - 12:00 MSK 🇬🇧 Bank of England Governor - 12:30 MSK 🇹🇷 Turkey - Central Bank Rate - 14:00 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Trade Balance (Jan) - 15:30 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Housing Starts (Jan) - 15:30 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Initial Jobless Claims - 15:30 MSK 🛢 US Natural Gas - EIA Stockpiles - 17:30 MSK Friday, March 13: 🇬🇧 UK - GDP (Jan) - 10:00 MSK 🇪🇺 Eurozone - Industrial Production (Jan) - 13:00 MSK 🇺🇸 US - GDP (Q4 2025 - Preliminary) - 15:30 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Durable Goods Orders (Jan) - 15:30 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Inflation - PCE Price Index (Jan) - 15:30 MSK 🇷🇺 Russia - Trade Balance (Jan) - 16:00 MSK 🇺🇸 US - JOLTS Job Openings (Jan) - 17:00 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Michigan Consumer Sentiment (March - Preliminary) - 17:00 MSK 🇺🇸 US - Consumer Inflation Expectations (March - Preliminary) - 17:00 MSK 🇷🇺 Russia - CPI (Feb) - 19:00 MSK

KALSHI AND POLYMARKET ARE EACH EYEING ROUGHLY $20 BILLION VALUATIONS: WSJ ...

As the market rebounds, whales are buying $ETH again. 3 hours ago, whale 0xE1Ad withdrew 6,114 $ETH($12.52M) from #OKX and deposited it into #Aave. 0x7673 and 0xBA9A (likely belonging to the same whale) came back after 3 months of inactivity and spent $10.93M to buy 5,350 $ETH at $2,043. https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xE1AdF7cd79DA4234beea798e934F483533Ec1691 https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0x7673C7F97e907B558fB81D353A5bb02221e03678 https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xBA9ABb5bE21cb831ED7EEF8e5A253864CC285a6a

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT URGES AMERICANS TO 'DEPART NOW' FROM THESE COUNTRIES: BAHRAIN EGYPT IRAN IRAQ ISRAEL JORDAN KUWAIT LEBANON OMAN QATAR SAUDI ARABIA SYRIA UAE YEMEN

Bitcoin’s correlation with gold is essentially unstable, swinging between strong positive and negative relationships depending on the dominant macro narrative. Thirty-day rolling correlation data shows the BTC-Gold relationship fluctuating sharply over the past two years — link | AI comment

new ฿ daily high: $70,087

Vitalik Buterin lays out a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum’s execution layer from the ground up - The Block

https://x.com/COIN360/status/2027702841910169649?s=20 Crypto Weekly Unwrapped: 🟩 U.S.–Israel strike on Iran, AI valuation fears, retail shift to equities, hotter PPI, tariff uncertainty pressured crypto 🟩 Fear & Greed Index hit 11; total crypto market cap stood at $2.19T 🟩 Strategy logged 100th $BTC buy, lifting holdings to 717,722 $BTC as institutional treasuries expanded 🟩 ZachXBT alleged Axiom insider misuse as Polymarket activity sparked another insider trading debate 🟩 Binance denied $1B Iran-linked $USDT transfers 🟩 Circle posted $770M Q4 revenue; $USDC reached $75.3B supply, shares jumped up to 35.5% 🟩 Ethereum Foundation began deploying 70,000 $ETH to validators as Vitalik sold $ETH Top gainers: $PIPPIN (+21.09%) $DCR (+19.21%) $MORPHO (+12.10%) $M (+9.44%) $JST (+8.67%) Top losers: $ATOM (-24.78%) $BCH (-21.72%) $ZEC (-20.62%) $PEPE (-19.74%) $PUMP (-17.02%) 👉 https://coin360.com/news/crypto-weekly-update-feb22-feb28-2026