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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to recent reports, the Dutch arm of the prediction markets platform Polymarket has been asked to cease its activities in the Netherlands. This order comes as the latest regulatory blow dealt to the prediction market platform in recent weeks. Dutch Regulator Threatens Polymarket With $840,000 Fine In a notice dated Tuesday, February 17, the Netherlands Gambling Authority ordered Polymarket’s Dutch arm, Adventure One, to “cease its activities immediately” or risk incurring up to $840,000 in fines per week. According to the Dutch regulator, Adventure One offered…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin hashing power pushed the difficulty up about 15% to a little past 144 trillion on Friday, based on data from CoinWarz. That move reversed an earlier drop of 10% that followed widespread outages in parts of the US. The numbers are blunt: machines went quiet during extreme weather, then came back online, and the protocol rebalanced itself. Winter Outages And The Bounce Back Foundry USA’s pool saw a dramatic swing in computing power, falling near 198 EH/s before climbing from roughly 400 EH/s. Reports say that…

In brief FOCIL will headline Ethereum’s Hegota upgrade set for later in 2026. The proposal forces the inclusion of valid transactions to limit censorship. Critics warn it could expose validators to unforeseen risk, particularly when it comes to sanctioned addresses. Ethereum is doubling down on its cypherpunk roots. Developers have scheduled Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists, or FOCIL, as the consensus-layer headliner for the network’s upcoming Hegota upgrade.The Hegota upgrade is a coordinated change to the network’s core rules that developers expect to roll out in the second half of 2026. The proposal, entered as EIP-7805, is designed to ensure that…

The FBI is warning financial institutions and the public about a sharp rise in attacks that compromise ATMs, forcing them to dispense cash. In a flash alert, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center says there have been more than 1,900 so-called “jackpotting” incidents since 2020. Over 700 of the attacks happened in 2025 alone, causing more than $20 million in losses. To crack the machines, criminals first open the ATM using widely available generic keys. They then remove or replace the hard drive and load malware that exploits Windows-based systems and the XFS software layer that controls cash dispensers. The…

In brief AdGazer is a model that predicts human ad attention using eye-tracking–trained AI. Page context drives up to one-third of ad attention outcomes. An academic demo could quickly evolve into real ad-tech deployment. Somewhere between the article you’re reading and the ad next to it, a quiet war is being waged for your eyeballs. Most display ads lose it because people just hate ads—so much that big tech companies like Perplexity or Anthropic are trying to steer away from those invasive burdens, looking for better monetization models.But a new AI tool from researchers at the University of Maryland and…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure After months of aggressive positioning, Bitcoin’s market structure is increasingly defined by caution rather than conviction. Traders are stepping back as macroeconomic and geopolitical risks resurface. Bitcoin Traders Adopt Deleveraging Strategy In Shaky Market According to a CryptoQuant analyst, Darkfrost, investors are refraining from risky leveraged positions in Bitcoin futures. This behavioral shift is most evident on Binance. which currently dominates global BTC futures activity, accounting for over 31% of total Bitcoin open interest (excluding CME — Chicago Mercantile Exchange). The BTC Estimated Leverage Ratio on the…

In brief BIP 360 co-authors say Bitcoin signatures are the main quantum risk for the blockchain. About 30% of Bitcoin sits under exposed public keys. As quantum hardware thresholds fall, Bitcoin and Ethereum devs alike are ramping up quantum planning. While this year’s Ethereum developer conference, ETH Denver, focused on building in a down market and empowering AI agents via blockchain, one panel examined whether Bitcoin’s cryptography can survive in a post-quantum world.Onstage this week, the focus on Bitcoin’s ability to survive the quantum computing threat was narrow, focusing on what could actually break first. According to Hunter Beast, co-author…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure New research shows Bitcoin is facing a discount of about 20% due to the Quantum Computing threat, and it could rise further without an upgrade. Bitcoin Quantum Discount Could Hit 60% By 2028 Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards has published a new research piece on how the Quantum Computing risk could discount the fair value of Bitcoin. Quantum Computing is an upcoming technology that could, in theory, be used to break into certain old BTC wallets. “A quantum hack would compromise the core tenets of Bitcoin,” noted Edwards.…

Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller is boosting his stake in a pair of Magnificent 7 stocks while eliminating exposure to the banking industry. New filings show Duquesne Family Office bolstered its holdings in Alphabet (GOOGL) by 277% to 385,000 shares and its holdings in Amazon (AMZN) by 69% to 737,940 shares. Meanwhile, Druckenmiller exited positions in Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), and Capital One (COF). The filings show that Duquesne Family Office dumped 989,250 shares of BAC, 514,850 shares of C and 43,920 shares of COF, bringing the firm’s total to zero. Other noteworthy stocks that were cut by Druckenmiller include…

Stablecoin supply is crypto’s deployable cash. With a total stablecoin market cap of around $307.92 billion and down -1.13% in the past 30 days, the pool has stopped growing month over month.When supply stalls, price moves get sharper, and Bitcoin feels it first in thin depth and bigger wicks.Stablecoins sit in a strange middle ground in the crypto market. They behave like cash, yet they arrive there through private issuers, reserve portfolios, and redemption rails that look more like a money-market complex than a payment app.For trading, though, they play one role so consistently that it earns a macro comparison:…

An employee at a US banking giant has been caught orchestrating a $500,000 fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ says 31-year-old Edward Low of New York has admitted to using his position at TD Bank to steal confidential customer data and pass it to co-conspirators, who used it to take over and drain accounts. Authorities say that between January 2021 and May 2021, Lew accepted bribes and actually processed some of the fraudulent transactions himself. In addition, from May 2022 through August 2022, Low worked for a separate financial institution and accepted bribes to falsify…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The White House reportedly took the lead during the latest Crypto Council meeting, narrowing the stablecoin rewards dispute that has delayed progress in the long-awaited crypto market structure bill. White House Steps In On CLARITY Act Dispute On Thursday, the White House held another meeting between the crypto industry and the banking sector to negotiate the stablecoin yield dispute that has stalled the crypto market structure bill, known as the CLARITY Act, over the past month. According to a report from journalist Eleanor Terret, the meeting was…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Analytics firm Glassnode has highlighted how the current Bitcoin market pain echoes May 2022 based on the trend in the Relative Unrealized Loss. Bitcoin Relative Unrealized Loss Has Shot Up Recently As explained by Glassnode in a new post on X, the current structure of the Bitcoin Relative Unrealized Loss could mirror May 2022. The “Relative Unrealized Loss” is an on-chain indicator that measures the amount of unrealized loss being held by BTC investors as a whole as a percentage of the asset’s market cap. The metric…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The crypto market is entering a critical phase as persistent selling pressure and rising fear continue to dominate sentiment across digital assets. Price action has remained fragile in recent weeks, with both major cryptocurrencies and altcoins struggling to regain sustained momentum. Investors are increasingly cautious as liquidity tightens, volatility persists, and macro uncertainty weighs on risk appetite. While corrective phases are not unusual after strong rallies, the current environment suggests the market is still searching for stability rather than transitioning into a clear recovery. A recent CryptoQuant…