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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…

Crypto exchange Kraken is launching what it calls the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, the firm told CoinDesk.The products, available to eligible non-U.S. users in more than 110 countries, track digital versions of major U.S. stocks, indices and a gold ETF, building on the tokenized equities offering of xStocks that Kraken acquired in December.Initial listings include tokenized versions of the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100, Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and SPDR’s gold ETF (GLD), the firm said.Kraken’s launch matters because perpetuals trading has enjoyed a rapid growth, dominating crypto derivatives trading. Blockchain-based decentralized exchanges processed over $600…

WLD Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $0.39-$0.41 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $0.35-$0.46 range• Bullish breakout level: $0.42 • Critical support: $0.35 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Worldcoin While specific analyst predictions are limited in the current market cycle, historical forecasts provide context for WLD’s trajectory. In early January 2026, analyst Joerg Hiller projected Worldcoin could reach $0.58-$0.62 within 3-4 weeks based on MACD turning positive and technical breakout patterns. However, current on-chain metrics suggest a more cautious outlook as WLD trades significantly below these earlier projections. According to technical data platforms, Worldcoin’s momentum indicators are…

Bitcoin (BTC) will see “purification” as a new wave of institutional money stays long BTC for decades, says EMJ Capital founder Eric Jackson.Key points:BTC has become a “high-beta tech position,” thanks to ETFs and institutional involvement.Bitcoin ETF sellers will give way to longer-term institutional buyers, analysis predicts.Stablecoin supply needs to recover to upend the bearish trend.Bitcoin ETF moves “not a store of value”In an X post on Tuesday, Jackson predicted more stable BTC price strength in the future despite the current institutional exodus.“BTC didn’t fail as an asset. It succeeded as an ETF. And that’s the problem,” he summarized.The US…

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)Tariff uncertainty is back to haunt markets, and it’s no surprise bitcoin BTC$66,465.91 traders are chasing downside protection.On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs from April last year. Within a few hours, Trump had announced fresh tariffs, invoking a law that allows an import levy of up to 15% for 150 days to address “international payment problems.”That’s confirmation the president still sees “tariffs” as the most beautiful word in the English dictionary. It also means trade-related uncertainty is here to stay, posing a headwind to risk…

XRP Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $1.47-$1.54• Medium-term forecast (1 month): $1.60-$1.80 range• Bullish breakout level: $1.55 (Upper Bollinger Band)• Critical support: $1.30 (Lower Bollinger Band) What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Ripple While specific analyst predictions from the past 24 hours are limited, several notable forecasts from earlier in 2026 remain relevant for current market positioning. According to technical analyst Felix Pinkston’s February 18th assessment, “XRP technical analysis shows neutral RSI at 42.97 with key resistance at $1.54. Ripple forecast suggests potential recovery to $1.60-$1.80 range if bulls break above current consolidation zone.” More optimistically, Standard…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says artificial intelligence could help create more efficient decentralized governance models and enable users to make better-informed decisions.  Buterin said in an X post on Sunday that one of the main issues with democratic and decentralized modes of governance, like DAOs, is the “limits to human attention,” because of the many decisions that can require a wide range of expertise or time, which most don’t have.“The usual solution, delegation, is disempowering it leads to a small group of delegates controlling decision-making while their supporters, after they hit the delegate button, have no influence at all,” he said.…

LangChain has pulled back the curtain on the memory architecture powering its LangSmith Agent Builder, revealing a filesystem-based approach that lets AI agents learn and adapt across sessions without requiring users to write code.The company made an unconventional bet: prioritizing memory from day one rather than bolting it on later like most AI products. Their reasoning? Agent Builder creates task-specific agents, not general-purpose chatbots. When an agent handles the same workflow repeatedly, lessons from Tuesday’s session should automatically apply on Wednesday.Files as MemoryRather than building custom memory infrastructure, LangChain’s team leaned into something LLMs already understand well—filesystems. The system represents…