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Wallet infrastructure firm Kresus Labs has raised approximately 18 billion won ($13 million) in investment from Hanwha Investment & Securities, one of South Korea’s largest financial institutions.The investment follows a memorandum of understanding signed in December at Abu Dhabi Finance Week and is aimed at expanding Kresus’ enterprise digital wallet infrastructure, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platforms and onchain financial workflows.The wallet and blockchain infrastructure firm develops digital asset tools for both consumers and institutions, including “seedless” wallet recovery technology and multi-party computation (MPC)-based security systems. Seedless recovery refers to the means of restoring access to a digital asset stored in…

The European Central Bank (ECB) is moving closer to a pilot for a digital euro, with Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone outlining plans to begin selecting payment service providers (PSPs) in early 2026, ahead of a 12-month test scheduled for the second half of 2027.Cipollone on Wednesday held an executive committee meeting of the Italian Banking Association. He said the pilot would involve a limited number of payment service providers, merchants and Eurosystem staff. Selection of participating providers is expected to start in the first quarter of 2026.Cipollone said the digital euro will be designed to ensure it protects European…

Panama City, Republic of Panama, February 18th, 2026, Chainwire Sai today launched Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading platform built to be as fast and intuitive as a centralized exchange with the transparency and self-custody of onchain settlement. The platform features gasless transactions, removing friction for traders while maintaining full onchain security. Sai also unveiled Let’s Go Saicho, a one-month onchain trading competition running February 18 through March 19, 2026, with $25,000 in total prizes. The campaign is structured in two phases designed to reward both performance and participation: a PNL competition for profitable traders, followed by a first-come, first-serve “Be…

India just made its biggest bet yet on AI sovereignty. At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, the country unveiled partnerships with NVIDIA to deploy over 20,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs across multiple data centers—the hardware backbone for what officials are calling the IndiaAI Mission.The $1 billion government initiative, approved in March 2024, aims to transform India from an AI consumer into a producer. With domestic AI market projections ranging from $27.7 billion to $131 billion by 2032 depending on the estimate, the stakes couldn’t be higher.The Hardware PlayThree cloud providers are leading the infrastructure buildout. Yotta is constructing what…

Elemental Royalty Corporation (ELE) is now offering shareholders something no other public gold company has before: the option to receive dividends in blockchain-based tokens backed by gold.In a move announced Tuesday, the Canada-based royalty company said it will distribute shareholder returns using stablecoin issuer Tether’s tokenized gold, Tether Gold (XAUT).Shareholders choosing this route will receive their dividends in XAUT rather than fiat money, providing exposure directly tied to the price of gold with the added flexibility of digital settlement.This marks the first time a publicly listed gold company has made such an offer, according to the press release. The move…

George Town, Cayman Islands, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire Zircuit, a security-first digital asset company backed by YZiLabs, Dragonfly, and Pantera, today announced the launch of Zircuit Finance. Incubated by a team from Quantstamp, Zircuit Finance is a secure platform for institutional-grade strategies, a stablecoin vault designed to generate yield on USDC and USDT, with a stated target range of 8–11% APR, subject to market conditions and variability. Historically, access to professional asset managers and institutional strategies required significant minimum investments and long lockups. Zircuit Finance removes those barriers with a simplified, cross-chain interface that provides access to institutional-grade yield strategies…

Bitmine has 3,040,483 staked ETH, representing $6.1 billion at $1,998 per ETH; MAVAN staking solution on track to launch Q1 2026 Bitmine now owns 3.62% of the ETH token supply, over 72% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 7 months Bitmine recently closed on initial $200 million investment into Beast Industries Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $9.6 billion, including 4.371 million ETH tokens, total cash of $670 million, and other crypto holdings Bitmine leads crypto treasury peers by both the velocity of raising crypto NAV per share and by the high trading…

Karavas, Cyprus, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire At a time when much of the blockchain industry is still recovering from one of its harshest downturns, a small number of companies are quietly moving in the opposite direction: expanding, building, and positioning themselves for the next era of adoption. Public Masterpiece, a Cyprus-based real-world asset tokenization company, has announced PMT Chain, its own purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain. Alongside the announcement, the company confirmed a strategic repositioning: PMT, once short for Public Masterpiece Token, will now stand for Public Masterpiece Technology. The timing is notable. Crypto did not simply experience a correction, but…

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings is moving to deepen its presence in the crypto sector, announcing plans to take a controlling position in Singapore-based exchange Coinhako.In a Friday announcement, the Tokyo-listed firm said its wholly owned subsidiary, SBI Ventures Asset, has signed a letter of intent with Coinhako’s parent company, Holdbuild, to inject capital into the business and purchase shares from existing investors. If completed, the transaction would give SBI Holdings a majority stake and make Coinhako a consolidated subsidiary, subject to regulatory approval.“Bringing Coinhako into the SBI Group as a consolidated subsidiary is not merely an investment in a…

While mainstream American financial media continue to discuss the stickiness of inflation, fluctuating expectations of interest rate cuts, and the high-level fluctuations of BTC and XRP, a more subtle yet realistic consensus is forming: While prices are uncertain, the cash flow of computing power and Proof-of-Work (PoW) is being repriced. Amid this structural shift, Moon Hash is increasingly seen by North American middle-class and high-net-worth individuals as a “solution to the times”—it doesn’t sell returns, but rather assetizes, institutionalizes, and long-termizes PoW computing power, reshaping participants’ cognitive coordinates with an almost exaggerated sense of stability. Moon Hash periodically allocates PoW…