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In brief Billionaire investor Peter Thiel and Founders Fund dumped all their shares in Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla. Thiel and Founders Fund had purchased a 7.5% stake in the firm in July, sending shares upward amid the news. Shares of ETHZ have tumbled around 98% from their August high, factoring in October’s 1-for-10 stock split. Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel exited his 7.5% stake in Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla during Q4 2025, according to new filings with the SEC. Thiel’s exit comes amid plunging prices for shares of ETHZ, now down about 98% since last year’s peak, per data from Yahoo…

Peter Thiel went to zero in ETHZilla, and the ETH treasury company trade just got a lot more realOn Feb. 17, an amended 13G/A posted to ETHZilla’s investor site listed Peter Thiel and Founders Fund-related vehicles at zero shares and 0.0% beneficial ownership.The filing also stamped a “date of event” of Dec. 31, 2025, which sets the timing frame for what the document captures, a beneficial ownership snapshot that arrives on a compliance clock.Bloomberg is reporting that Thiel and his Founders Fund have, in fact, fully exited the company, completing a simple arc that has been building for months.Back in August 2025,…

In brief The Base network is ditching the open-source Optimism tech stack in favor of its own, unified technology. As part of the change, the network will seek to double its hard-forks to six per year, with narrower focuses in each. The Ethereum scaling network will ultimately require node operators to migrate in the coming months. Ethereum layer-2 scaling network Base, which was incubated by publicly traded crypto exchange Coinbase, said Wednesday that it will modify its technology foundation, introducing a new unified tech stack that it believes will allow it to ship upgrades faster and reduce overhead. The network’s underlying…

FutureBit launched the Apollo III today, a new home Bitcoin mining system combining a high-performance miner and a full Bitcoin node in a single desktop device. The system is built around next-generation 3nm American-designed ASICs and a custom in-house controller, marking the first U.S.-engineered Bitcoin ASIC paired with a domestically built hardware platform in a consumer desktop form factor, according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine. The Apollo III continues FutureBit’s mission to decentralize hash power through low-power, individual-focused systems. Founder John Stefanopoulos highlighted the device’s role in strengthening Bitcoin decentralization, referencing the company’s 2024 milestone of mining a…

In brief Jake Chervinsky will lead the Hyperliquid Policy Center as CEO. The organization was funded with $29 million worth of HYPE tokens. The HPC plans to serve as a resource for policymakers. There’s a new heavyweight fighting for the future of decentralized finance on Capitol Hill.The Hyperliquid Policy Center, or HPC, announced its debut on Wednesday, positioning itself as a resource for U.S. policymakers on DeFi and derivatives like perpetual futures.In a press release, founder and CEO Jake Chervinsky said that blockchains are poised to become the bedrock of the financial system, and the U.S. must choose between adopting…

Bitcoin’s ongoing price struggles is turning into a market defined less by “bad news” and more by mechanics, the kind that can keep a downtrend alive even when selling looks tired.According to CryptoSlate’s data, the BTC price is down approximately 46% from the record high near $126,000 set in early October 2025 and trading around $67,470 as of press time.Glassnode has described the post-October market as a three-stage unwind where BTC experienced a rapid decline toward its “True Market Mean” of $79,200, consolidation through late January, and a decisive breakdown that accelerated the move toward the $60,000 area. Related ReadingBitcoin…

In brief The first SUI ETFs from Canary (SUIS) and Grayscale (GSUI) debuted on major exchanges Wednesday. Both funds offer staking rewards through exposure to Sui’s proof-of-stake mechanism. The price of SUI has dropped significantly since Canary’s initial ETF filing in March 2025. The first SUI ETFs have started trading as fund issuers Canary Capital and Grayscale make their debuts.The Sui layer-1 blockchain was launched in 2023 as a so-called “Solana killer” because it uses Move, a programming language based on Rust, to provide high-speed transactions, instant processing, and scalability. The network operates on a delegated proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure XRP has surpassed Ethereum in terms of the crypto assets that are most discussed among institutional investors. This comes as its ETFs continue to record notable inflows despite net outflows from Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs.   XRP Ranks Above Ethereum In Institutional Interest Grayscale drew attention to its Head of Research, Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary’s statement during the XRP Community Day, in which she revealed that the altcoin is the second most talked about asset behind Bitcoin in some cases. This puts the token ahead of other altcoins, including Ethereum,…

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Wednesday that crypto companies who think they can walk away from an industry market structure bill currently stalling in Congress “should move to El Salvador.”Solomon was invoking the words of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said earlier this month that certain crypto leaders—who have argued they reject the bill if they don’t like its final language—are “nihilists” who should move to the Latin American nation. Bessent went further a few days later, calling such crypto executives “recalcitrant actors.” The comments may have been referring to U.S. crypto giant Coinbase and its CEO, Brian Armstrong.…

XRP network health scorecard: wallets, trustlines, DEX volume, uptimeKey takeawaysRipple and Aviva Investors said Feb. 11 they intend to tokenize traditional fund structures onto the XRP Ledger “over 2026 and beyond.”Messari’s State of XRP Ledger Q4 2025 reported 425,400 total new addresses in Q4 2025 (down 4.9% QoQ) and average daily active addresses of about 49,000, alongside 1.83 million average daily transactions.XRPL’s consensus model centers on validator trust lists, and the network’s standard quorum requires 80% of trusted validators, meaning availability is part of any “payments rail” narrative.A “network health” view in 2026 needs explicit separation between payments, market activity…

In brief Sai has announced the launch of Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading platform. The platform is designed to offer a “clean, CEX-like experience,” with onchain settlement providing transparency and settlement guarantees. Sai Perps launches alongside Let’s Go Saicho, a one-month onchain trading competition with a $25,000 prize pool. Sai has announced the launch of Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading platform designed to combine the accessibility of centralized exchanges with the transparency and self-custody of onchain settlement. The platform features gasless transactions, which Sai claims removes friction for traders while maintaining full onchain security.“Onchain markets shouldn’t require traders to compromise…

An obscure Hong Kong firm has disclosed a $436 million position in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, a revelation that is fueling speculation about Chinese capital flowing into crypto through offshore side doors.Laurore Ltd, a previously unknown entity, reported the stake in BlackRock Inc.’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).The disclosure serves as a rare, quantifiable signal that professional money managers in Asia’s financial hub are quietly building bridges to digital assets through regulated American investment vehicles.The filing arrives at a complex juncture for the cryptocurrency market, with risk appetite cooling in the…