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Conflux (CFX) Network released its v3.0.3 testnet upgrade on February 28, addressing seven bug fixes and introducing CIP-166, a new Count Leading Zeros opcode that expands smart contract capabilities on the EVM-compatible chain.The upgrade comes as CFX trades at $0.0458, down 9.31% over 24 hours, with the token consolidating around key support levels following its February listing on Kraken.What’s Actually in This ReleaseThe most consequential fix addresses CIP-78 sponsor flags—specifically, incorrect gasCoveredBySponsor and storageCoveredBySponsor receipt fields that were appearing on reverted transactions during testnet replay. For developers building on Conflux’s sponsorship mechanism (a core feature that lets dApps pay gas…

Democrats in the U.S. Senate continue to pile onto Binance, asking the Treasury and Justice departments to investigate its sanctions compliance and protections against illicit finance following reports of potential terrorism funding.Nine senators, including a few that have been instrumental in negotiations over the crypto industry legislation known as the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, sent a letter Friday to the chiefs of the federal agencies, requesting they probe the exchange after news reports on possible breaches, which also claimed the company had fired some of the compliance personnel involved in discovering the transactions.The latest move from Democrats follows an…

Bitcoin (BTC) and gold are showing very different profiles in 2026. Gold has climbed 153% since the start of 2024, while Bitcoin is down roughly 30% over the same stretch. One analyst said that the gap lines up with steady growth in global money supply, cooling appetite for risky tech stocks, and falling crypto exchange balances. Together, these changes are shaping how both assets are trading in the market. Rising liquidity and tech stock speculation fail to supercharge BitcoinIn an X post, Fidelity director of global macro, Jurrien Timmer said that gold has behaved as expected in a bull market, with sharp…

GitHub has published a comprehensive workflow guide for its Copilot CLI tool, coinciding with the AI coding assistant’s general availability release for all paid Copilot subscribers. The guide, authored by Senior Service Delivery Engineer Ari LiVigni, outlines a practical approach to building applications entirely from the command line.The timing isn’t accidental. After entering public preview in September 2025 and reportedly achieving 10x speed improvements by November, Copilot CLI now reaches full production status across Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise tiers.What Copilot CLI Actually DoesThe tool functions as a GitHub-aware coding agent that accepts natural language prompts directly in your terminal.…

The crypto industry’s stablecoin operations, such as the arrangement between issuer Circle and leading exchange Coinbase, could be under serious pressure in the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s newly proposed set of stablecoin rules.Even as OCC chief Jonathan Gould testified in the U.S. Senate on issues that included crypto oversight on Thursday, people in the industry said they’ve been trying to understand his agency’s 376-page proposal to regulate domestic issuers under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act that became law last year. The allowance of stablecoin yield and reward has not only…

US-based asset manager REX Shares has launched an exchange-traded fund that bundles leveraged covered-call strategies tied to nine individual stocks, including crypto-linked names Coinbase and Strategy, into a single income-focused product trading under the ticker GIF.According to Thursday’s announcement, the fund holds equal-weighted positions in REX’s existing single-stock Growth & Income ETFs, each of which targets about 1.25x exposure to its underlying equity while writing covered calls on a portion of the portfolio to generate option premium income.GIF trades on Cboe Global Markets and each underlying ETF seeks to distribute income on a weekly basis, with payouts largely derived from…

AAVE Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $137.53 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $125-$145 range• Bullish breakout level: $128.53 • Critical support: $107.85 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Aave While specific analyst predictions from major KOLs are currently limited, recent market analysis provides valuable insights into AAVE’s trajectory. According to CoinCodex’s February 23rd assessment, AAVE is expected to reach $137.53 by February 28, 2026, representing a potential 19.78% price increase over the next five days. Earlier analysis from February 20th highlighted that AAVE faced some obstacles, with the DeFi token experiencing a 3.57% decline that underperformed both…

MIAMI BEACH — Bitcoin’s BTC$69,368.18 recent slide has frustrated investors who expected a smoother ride after a wave of institutional milestones, but Adam Back, one of the early cypherpunks cited in bitcoin’s 2008 white paper, said the volatility should not surprise long-time observers.“Bitcoin is generally volatile,” Back said at the iConnections conference in Miami Beach on Tuesday. “There’s a lot of positive news […] and in the previous four year market cycles, this has been about a time in a cycle where price runs lower.”He suggested that some market participants may be trading around that historical pattern rather than reacting…

Crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) provider 21Shares has launched an investment product giving European investors access to a preferred stock issued by Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public holder of Bitcoin.The asset manager will list its 21Shares Strategy Yield ETP under the ticker “STRC NA” on Euronext Amsterdam on Thursday, the company said Wednesday.The ETP is available to institutional and retail investors, offering a dividend backed by Strategy’s Bitcoin (BTC) treasury, which currently holds 717,722 BTC, valued at around $47 billion. With dividends set at a variable 11.25% annualized rate, the ETP represents one of the earliest structured, BTC-backed corporate…

Anthropic has released the third iteration of its Responsible Scaling Policy, marking a significant restructuring of how the AI company approaches catastrophic risk mitigation after two and a half years of real-world implementation.The update, published February 24, 2026, introduces three major changes: a clear separation between what Anthropic can achieve alone versus what requires industry-wide action, a new Frontier Safety Roadmap with public accountability metrics, and mandatory external review of Risk Reports under certain conditions.What Actually ChangedThe most notable shift? Anthropic is now openly admitting that some safety measures simply cannot be implemented by a single company. The previous RSP’s…