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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure PayPal, the digital payments company, has seen its stock price slump by almost half its value in recent months, which has led to conversations about who could realistically step in if a deal were ever pursued. Among the names circulating in online discussions is Ripple, the blockchain payments firm, which has been on a spree of acquisitions in recent months. Although no talks have been confirmed, the idea of Ripple acquiring PayPal is interesting because of the overlap between both companies in digital payments, cross-border transfers, and…

February 26th, 2026 – GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands Protocol goes live following testnet phase producing 700,000+ accounts, 1 million daily trades, and $58 million in pre-deposits The Decibel Foundation today announced that Decibel, a fully onchain perpetuals exchange incubated by Aptos Labs, is live on Aptos Mainnet. The launch transitions Decibel from a validated testnet phase — which produced 700,000+ unique accounts, 132,000 daily active accounts, over 1 million user trades per day, and $58 million in committed capital during its pre-deposit campaign — to a fully operational trading venue with user capital deployed at launch.  The standard for trading…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors continue rebound rally, jump 4-6%; BTC at $68,200 CRCL stock soars 35% after posting major Q4 amidst stablecoin boom Mr. Beast employee fined and suspended by Kalshi for insider trading Ethereum Foundation publishes updated roadmap highlighting focus thru 2029 Tether invests $200M in online mp Whop, enabling USDT payments on their platform ? Circle Earnings Highlight a Massive Day for CryptoCircle crushed earnings on the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure With the XRP price still struggling to reclaim $1.5, it comes as no surprise that sentiment has plunged toward the negative. Naturally, this has led to major sell-offs across the board, causing a downward cascade. Amid this sell-off, a pundit has warned that XRP investors could be making a grave mistake by panic-selling. Instead, he has proposed a way that XRP investors could use their coins without having to offload them on the market. Selling XRP To Take Profits Is Not The Way Max Avery, a staunch…

Circle’s fourth quarter earnings tell a story the company would prefer investors understand through the lens of growth: USDC circulation climbed 72% year-over-year to $75.3 billion, reserve income surged 69%, and adjusted EBITDA quintupled.However, the income statement reveals a different architecture in which the issuer generates yield and immediately bargains most of it away to the platforms that control access to users.The scoreboard is stark. Circle earned $733.4 million in reserve income during the quarter.Distribution and transaction costs consumed $460.6 million of that, roughly 63 cents of every dollar earned from investing customer deposits.Total revenue and reserve income reached $770.2…

In brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $506M Wednesday, their highest level since February 2. The Coinbase premium index flipped positive for first time since mid-January. One analyst warned that easing selling pressure doesn’t confirm a trend reversal. Bitcoin extended its rally Thursday as on-chain data showed easing selling pressure and U.S. spot ETFs recorded their largest inflow day in nearly three weeks.The leading cryptocurrency climbed 4.4% over the past 24 hours to around $68,300, according to CoinGecko data. The move extends Wednesday’s pre-Nvidia earnings-driven rally in tech stocks, which also influenced Bitcoin, Decrypt previously reported.NVIDIA’s blockbuster earnings report…

Institutional interest in Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrategy) preferred securities is building at a time when the company’s common stock, MSTR, remains one of the market’s most-watched bearish trades tied to Bitcoin.The clearest signal came this week, when Prevalon Energy and Anchorage Digital said at Strategy World 2026 that they had each allocated part of their corporate treasury to STRC, Strategy’s variable-rate perpetual preferred stock.Those developments matter because they suggest Strategy is finding demand for its capital structure outside the common stock, MSTR, which remains one of the market’s most heavily shorted large-cap names.Still, Strategy is buying Bitcoin, even as the top…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Dutch financial authorities have revealed that the reform bill to tax unrealized gains on crypto, stocks, and other investments will be revised following criticism from lawmakers and local investors. Dutch Finance Minister To Revise Tax Overhaul On Wednesday, the Minister of Finance of the Netherlands, Eelco Heinen, announced that the recently passed bill to tax unrealized gains on crypto and other assets will be reviewed and amended to address multiple concerns brought by the Senate and crypto investors. “I don’t think the law can go through as…

In brief The OCC opened a 60-day comment period on draft rules implementing the GENIUS Act. The proposal prohibits anyone other than a “permitted payment stablecoin issuer” from issuing a payment stablecoin in the U.S. AML and sanctions rules will follow separately, with the Act taking effect the earlier of 18 months after enactment or 120 days after final regulations. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Wednesday proposed rules to implement the GENIUS Act, laying out how payment stablecoins would be issued and supervised under the agency’s jurisdiction.In a notice of proposed rulemaking issued Wednesday, the OCC…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin is struggling to push decisively above the $66,000 level as persistent selling pressure continues to weigh on sentiment across the crypto market. Price action remains fragile, with bears maintaining short-term control while buyers show limited conviction. The broader environment — marked by cautious liquidity conditions and subdued risk appetite — has kept Bitcoin locked in a consolidation phase rather than a clear recovery trend. A recent CryptoQuant report offers additional context through the Coinbase Premium Gap, a metric that measures the price difference between Coinbase Advanced…

In brief TIME reports Anthropic dropped a pledge to halt training without guaranteed safeguards. OpenAI also removed “safely” from its mission after restructuring into a for-profit entity. Experts say the shift reflects political, economic, and intellectual changes. Anthropic has dropped a central safety pledge from its Responsible Scaling Policy, according to a report by TIME. The changes loosen a commitment that once barred the Claude AI developer from training advanced AI systems without guaranteed safeguards in place.The move reshapes how the company positions itself in the AI race against rivals OpenAI, Google, and xAI. Anthropic has long cast itself as…

In brief ETHZilla will rebrand as Forum Markets and trade as FRMM on Nasdaq at the start of March The move follows a week after investors exited as it turned away from an Ethereum balance sheet model. Observers say single-asset treasury strategies depend on sustained equity premiums and strong market conditions. Former Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla said it will rebrand as Forum Markets and adopt a new Nasdaq ticker next month, formalizing a shift away from balance-sheet crypto exposure toward tokenized real-world assets.The move marks a departure from the company’s earlier strategy of positioning its shares as a public proxy…