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The long-term holder (LTH) supply of Bitcoin has started to increase again after months of distribution, a move that analysts believe may be a sign of renewed belief among experienced investors and may be indicative of a mid-cycle rally instead of the termination of the existing bull market.

Bitcoin long term holder supply has turned up after months of distribution, now back near 14.3M BTC.In past cycles fresh highs in LTH supply led $BTC by roughly 3–4 months.If this build up continues, it supports the view that this is a mid cycle reset, not a final top. pic.twitter.com/EJ0Q87vp7d

— Bitfinex (@bitfinex) February 11, 2026

According to recent market statistics by Bitfinex, the number of Bitcoin in long-term holders- those most commonly defined as wallets that have not transacted any coins in at least 155 days – is returning to historic accumulation levels of 14.3 million BTC. The recovery occurs after a season where older coins came back to circulation following the strong price moves of Bitcoin, and is indicative of profit-taking and portfolio rebalancing.

Understanding the Long-Term Holder Metric

The long-term holder supply metric is a metric that is commonly applied to determine the markets sentiment amongst the strongest participants in Bitcoin. Such investors tend to be less responsive to the short-term volatility and more appear to be in line with the multi-year adoption story of Bitcoin.

Increase in LTH supply implies coins being transferred to more secure hands- wallets with low probability of selling in price fluctuations. On the other hand, decreases in this indicator tend to be accompanied by distribution stages, during which the experienced holders transfer profits to market strength.

In the past, shifts between falling and rising LTH supply have been historic in the market structure of Bitcoin.

Historical Cycles Offer Important Clues

Market analysts observe that in past Bitcoin cycles, the supply of long-term holders has hit new highs before significant BTC price expansions by about three to four months. The same trend occurred in previous bull markets, with the accumulation slowly building up and then explosive upward movements.

Some analysts are thus seeing the recent surge as an indication that the market is experiencing a reset in a larger cycle and not a macro top.

Such resets typically involve:

Reduction of the momentum following booming prices.

Distribution of money between short-term traders and long-term investors.

Step by step recovery of a supply squeeze that may subsequently lead to price acceleration.

Price Action and Supply Dynamics Align

Most recent data releases indicate that Bitcoin has been trading around the 90,000 mark with longer-term supply increasing once more. This consistency of high price level and the re-accumulation indicates that longer term investors have no fears of the market volatility.

Instead of winding up positions, most of them seem to be applying consolidation periods to add exposure- something that has been characteristic of earlier expansion stages.

This is a dynamic that supports a notable aspect of the Bitcoin market structure since the more people adopt it, the more supply effectively becomes illiquid, restricting the inventory available to new purchasers.

Why This Matters for the Broader Market

The long-term supply of holders can be significantly implied on liquidity and price discovery in case of a long-term increase. In the event of fewer coins in circulation, even relatively small demand can have a disproportionately large influence on price.

Since it is commonly referred to as a supply squeeze, the phenomenon has historically been a key to the drastic increases in the price of Bitcoin.

Also, an increase in the LTH supply may be an indication of growing market maturity, where the mode of ownership shifts towards conviction-based holding as opposed to speculative trading.

Ile Du Port, Seychelles, February 11th, 2026, Chainwire

Over 100 million users can now fund their TON Wallet using crypto from the most popular blockchains – no additional bridges, swaps or manual conversions required.

Wallet in Telegram today announced the launch of cross-chain deposits in its self-custodial TON Wallet, enabling users to fund their wallets with crypto from the most popular blockchains. Powered by MoonPay, the integration manages cross-chain transfers behind the scenes, ensuring a smooth deposit experience in TON Wallet.

With this launch, more than 100 million users can transfer their stablecoins from other chains to TON without friction or losing value. TON Wallet users can now deposit USDC or USDT from Ethereum, Solana, TRON, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Base – converted at a 1:1 rate to USDT (TON) – directly in Wallet in Telegram. This removes the need to already hold TON-native assets, opening the ecosystem to users across the broader crypto landscape. As part of the integration, users will soon be able to withdraw USDT on TON to USDT or USDC on popular blockchains with a fee and deposit BTC, ETH, and SOL, which are automatically converted into Toncoin.

This Launch Introduces the Following Functionality

Stablecoin deposits from leading blockchains, allowing users to deposit USDC or USDT with automatic 1:1 conversion into USDT (TON)

Stablecoin withdrawals from USDT (TON) to USDT or USDC on other major blockchains, processed at a 1:1 rate, subject to applicable network and service fees. Will be available soon.

Crypto deposits from BTC, ETH, and SOL, which are automatically converted into Toncoin upon arrival in TON Wallet

Removing Barriers to Web3 Adoption on Telegram

Funding a self-custodial wallet has traditionally been a complex, multi-step process. Through its collaboration with MoonPay, Wallet in Telegram removes this friction by introducing a single, seamless deposit flow that works across blockchains and assets. As a result, cross-chain transfers are now as simple as custodial ones, significantly streamlining onboarding into TON Ecosystem – while preserving value by minimizing unnecessary conversion losses and fees.

“One of the biggest challenges in crypto adoption is the first step – getting users funded and ready to participate. Until now, using TON Wallet meant already having assets on TON, which created unnecessary friction and limited access to the broader ecosystem. Now, we’re removing that barrier entirely. Users can bring their funds directly into TON Wallet from other networks, without unnecessary conversions, exchanges or lock-ins,” said Andrew Rogozov, Founder and CEO of The Open Platform and Wallet in Telegram. “Our goal is simple: make entering, and exiting, TON ecosystem as seamless as using a custodial wallet, while preserving the freedom and control of self-custody.”

Powered by MoonPay Deposits and built on MoonPay’s infrastructure, the solution supports the end-to-end flow, from deposit detection to final asset delivery, and is integrated natively into partner environments

“Users shouldn’t have to buy new assets or navigate complex steps just to fund an account,” said Ivan Soto-Wright, CEO of MoonPay. “We simplify the process by letting people use the crypto they already have while we handle the technicalities behind the scenes, making it easier to move value across the ecosystem and access a broader range of applications.”

Funding a TON Wallet now takes just a few steps

The Deposit section includes two options: Stablecoins (for 1:1 stablecoin deposits) and Other Crypto (for converting BTC, ETH, or SOL to TON).

After selecting the token and the originating network, a deposit address is generated automatically.

The deposit address can be copied or accessed via QR code.

This address is entered on the withdrawal page of the external wallet or exchange.

The transfer amount must meet the minimum deposit requirement.

Once the details are verified, the transfer is confirmed on the sending platform.

Funds arrive in the user’s selected asset, fully compatible with TON ecosystem and Telegram’s growing network of decentralized applications.

Built for Scale, Native to Telegram

The new deposit experience is available exclusively in the self-custodial TON Wallet, part of Wallet in Telegram’s dual-wallet setup, and is fully integrated into the Telegram interface. By abstracting away cross-chain complexity, Wallet in Telegram makes it easier for users to participate in DeFi, gaming, payments, and on-chain apps – without needing deep crypto expertise.

This launch marks a major step toward making Telegram the most accessible Web3 gateway in the world, combining mass-market distribution with self-custody and open blockchain infrastructure.

About Wallet in Telegram

Wallet in Telegram is a digital asset solution natively embedded into Telegram’s interface. Backed by The Open Platform, Wallet in Telegram has gained 150M+ registered users to date and continues to grow. The company offers a dual-wallet experience with Crypto Wallet (a multi-chain wallet for trading and sending crypto to contacts) and TON Wallet (a self-custodial wallet with access to TON ecosystem of apps and TON-based digital assets).

About MoonPay

Founded in 2019, MoonPay is a global financial technology company that helps businesses and consumers move value across fiat and digital assets. MoonPay has more than 30 million customers across 180 countries and supports more than 500 enterprise customers spanning crypto and fintech.

Through a single integration, MoonPay powers on- and off-ramps, trading, crypto payments, and stablecoin infrastructure, connecting traditional payment rails with blockchains. MoonPay maintains a broad regulatory footprint, including a New York BitLicense, a New York Limited Purpose Trust Charter, and money transmitter licenses across the United States, as well as MiCA authorization in the EU.

MoonPay is how the world moves value.

Contact

Masha BalanovichWallet in Telegrammasha@wallet.tg

This article is not intended as financial advice. Educational purposes only.

Las Vegas, Nevada, February 11th, 2026, Chainwire

Ault Capital Group today announced the public testnet launch of Ault Blockchain, a Layer 1 network designed for trading, settlement, and institutional-grade onchain infrastructure. This launch marks the first public release of the protocol and opens access to developers, infrastructure operators, and early network participants.

Ault Blockchain is built as a Cosmos-based Layer 1 with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility, enabling Ethereum-native smart contracts and tooling to run without modification. The network is governed by Ault DAO, which oversees protocol rules, economic parameters, and long-term upgrades through onchain governance.

The public testnet provides a live environment for evaluating core network functionality, validator performance, and infrastructure design. This early access seeks community engagement and feedback by contributors who add value to the network’s development and stability. 

In contrast to typical launch models, Ault Blockchain will not conduct a public token sale. Instead, the native AULT token will be distributed exclusively through a protocol-controlled emissions schedule tied to measurable network participation, including consensus security and licensed infrastructure operations rather than speculative activity.

Milton “Todd” Ault III, founder and executive chairman of Ault Capital Group, said: “Ault Blockchain was built the opposite way most networks are built. We started with real financial use cases and then designed the blockchain to support them. Participation is based on defined roles and verifiable work, not speculation, with transparent economics that are meant to support long-term network health from day one.”

The network launch is supported by a group of established infrastructure and development partners. B-Harvest serves as Ault Blockchain’s primary development partner, contributing to protocol engineering and core network architecture. Xangle focuses on development of Ault’s official explorers and relevant hubs.QuickNode provides RPC infrastructure to support network access and reliability. Finally Protofire supports Safe-related tooling across EVM environments. 

Ault Blockchain introduces a licensed participation framework for infrastructure operators. Licensed Mining Nodes are authorized to perform defined off-chain services, beginning with cryptographic randomness at launch. In parallel, Proof-of-Stake validators and delegators secure network consensus and collect transaction fees under transparent, DAO-governed economics. After launch, the core team will shift its focus to the core team’s roadmap including spot trading on decentralized exchanges, lending services, perps trading, and other advanced workloads are being explored and may deploy over time as the network evolves. 

Ault Blockchain’s testnet launch follows the completion of an initial protocol security audit and precedes further validator onboarding and ecosystem testing. Ault Blockchain’s mainnet launch will occur after additional testing milestones are met. At genesis, the chain will launch with its core protocol modules, EVM compatibility, an initial validator set, and onchain governance in place, marking a new era for institutional finance.

To learn more about Ault Blockchain, visit https://Aultblockchain.com and read project documentation to view the testnet scanner go to the following link . https://ault-evm-testnet.explorer.xangle.io/home

About Ault Blockchain

Ault Blockchain is a finance-first, institutional-grade Layer-1 blockchain designed to support trading, settlement, and data-driven workloads. Built on the Cosmos SDK with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility, the network enables unmodified Ethereum smart contracts while providing fast finality and native cross-chain interoperability. 

Governed onchain by Ault DAO and supported by a licensed infrastructure framework, Ault Blockchain aligns network economics with verifiable participation rather than speculative token distribution. With real-world financial and analytics applications launching from day one, Ault Blockchain is optimized for next-generation onchain finance.

About Ault DAO

Ault DAO is the decentralized governance body responsible for overseeing the Ault Blockchain protocol. The DAO was created by and is overseen by Ault DAO, LLC, a Wyoming DAO LLC. Through onchain governance, the DAO manages protocol parameters, validator participation, and network upgrades, ensuring transparent and community-driven decision-making aligned with the network’s long-term objectives.

About Ault Capital Group

Ault Capital Group is a diversified investment and holding company focused on technology-driven businesses, digital assets, and financial infrastructure. Through its operating companies and strategic investments, Ault Capital Group supports platforms across blockchain, data infrastructure, and emerging technologies. The firm emphasizes disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation.

Contact

Joseph Spazianoinfo@ault.com

This article is not intended as financial advice. Educational purposes only.

A Russian crypto entrepreneur who faces up to 20 years in prison could become part of a potential prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington, according to a recent statement made in Russian.

Anatoly Legkodymov, known for organizing a cryptocurrency exchange platform, is currently serving a sentence in Russia while U.S. authorities consider a request from France seeking his extradition. If approved, the move could expose him to further prosecution abroad, a prospect his supporters argue would raise serious legal and humanitarian concerns.

Speaking at a press conference covered by Russian outlets, Ivan Melnikov, vice president of the United Coordinating Center for the Support of Compatriots Abroad, said extraditing Legkodymov to France would amount to double punishment for the same conduct. He urged authorities to consider a diplomatic solution instead.

Supporters describe Legkodymov as a technology entrepreneur rather than a political figure, a developer who built a business in the fast-moving and often legally ambiguous world of digital assets. They say he has become entangled in overlapping jurisdictions and shifting regulatory standards that many crypto founders struggle to navigate. According to those close to him, the potential penalties he faces are severe and disproportionate, especially for someone they portray as an IT specialist focused on innovation rather than wrongdoing. In their view, his case highlights the growing legal and personal risks confronting entrepreneurs operating across borders in the digital asset industry.

Russian human rights advocates have proposed resolving the dispute through a prisoner swap. Under the suggested framework, Legkodymov could be exchanged for U.S. citizen Andre Khachatoorian, who is serving a prison sentence in Russia on smuggling charges. Khachatoorian reportedly has serious health issues and has been incarcerated for several years.

Participants at the press conference noted that former President Donald Trump has previously expressed openness to humanitarian appeals involving detained citizens. They suggested that facilitating an exchange could serve both humanitarian and diplomatic purposes, easing tensions while addressing concerns raised by families on both sides.

Khachatoorian’s mother has reportedly appealed directly to Trump in the past, and advocates say he responded with general sympathy. While no formal negotiations have been announced, those close to Legkodymov hope that renewed attention to the case could prompt discussions.

For now, the future of the crypto entrepreneur remains uncertain. But amid shifting geopolitical dynamics and a history of high-profile prisoner exchanges, supporters believe his case could ultimately be resolved not only in courtrooms, but at the negotiating table.

The Tokenbot (CLANKER) token is in the spotlight as its market heats up, according to a revelation today from market analyst Nansen. The price of CLANKER has surged remarkably today (printed +18% during the early part of the day), an indicator that the asset is gaining market attention, as per the analyst’s market monitoring. 

Tokenbot (CLANKER) is a crypto AI token built on the Base Blockchain, designed to enable people to seamlessly deploy decentralized applications, including creating and launching tokens in various blockchain networks, among others. 

The notable surge in the asset’s price captured the attention of the analyst, who believes that the jump is a major indicator of the asset’s network health and looming price movements for CLANKER.

$CLANKER on @base is up 18% over the past 24h. Here's the holder change analysis over the past 24h:– Top 100 Addresses: Added 2.93%– Smart Money: Added 0.87%– Public Figures however, started taking profits: reducing their position by 8.09% pic.twitter.com/JPXuapJnvS

— Nansen 🧭 (@nansen_ai) February 11, 2026

Tokenbot Smart Money Sentiment on The Surge 

In his post shared on the X social media today, the analyst highlighted key catalysts behind the impressive spike. First, Nansen identified that whales’ activity has significantly increased in Tokenbot’s network. The analyst spotted that the number of top 100 large wallet addresses rose by 2.93% over the past 24 hours, a development suggesting an increased level of user engagement on the crypto AI network. More active addresses imply that more customers are engaging with decentralized applications on the network.

Also, over the past 24 hours, smart money has increased by 0.87%, according to the analyst’s observation. This means that sentiment around CLANKER shows increased interest from smart money – capital coming from high-net-worth institutions and experienced individual customers, commonly recognised as whales in the landscape of cryptocurrency. The increase in smart money in the network signals massive confidence from large investors, an activity that points out an upcoming price upturn movement for CLANKER soon. 

However, data from Nansen shows that strategic investors have started taking profits, capitalizing on CLANKER’s price rise. The asset’s value has been up 18.7%, 4.9%, and 30.6% over the past week, month, and year, respectively (according to data from Coingecko), a reflection of its recent market gains.

The current price of Tokenbot is $35.87. CLANKER Accumulation Zone and Short-Term Consolidation 

Technical analysis shows that smart money is accumulating CLANKER’s at around the $35.0 and $36.4 zone, an accumulation region that is anticipated to bolster the next upside leg. Smart investors are developing their positions around this price range. This behaviour indicates that substantial purchasing appetite, which supports CLANKER’s price at this zone; a sign of renewed enthusiasm in Tokenbot’s strength. 

Due to profit-taking activity from some investors, short-term consolidation within this zone is anticipated before the price rise. Such retracement enables the market to consolidate gains and prepare for a new rally. This consolidation provides an entry point for new purchasers; as a result, this phase is crucial for sustaining Tokenbot’s bullish trend. 

Der Kryptomarkt ist durch Zyklen gekennzeichnet, mit Schwankungen, die auf Charts betrachtet werden können, die Investoren helfen, in volatilen Zeiten Investitionsentscheidungen zu treffen. Sui (SUI), eine Layer-1-Blockchain, die erhebliche Medienaufmerksamkeit erhalten hat, ist ein solides Beispiel für diesen Trend. Sui's Design verwendet einen objektorientierten Ansatz und bietet schnelle Transaktionsverarbeitungszeiten; somit ist es eines der heißesten neuen Projekte, die heute in der Kryptowährungsbranche diskutiert werden.

Zusätzlich zu der hohen Medienpräsenz, die Sui derzeit erhält, hat Ali Martinez, der technische Analysen für Kryptowährungen durchführt, ein kritisches Niveau für Sui gefunden. Seine aktuellste Drei-Tage-Chartanalyse zeigt, dass das Preisniveau von $0,75 ein mögliches „starkes Einstieg“ ist, was zu einem großen Anstieg des Preises von Sui führen könnte.

Gibraltar, British Overseas Territories, February 11th, 2026, Chainwire

Aurora Labs has announced the release of the Intents Widget, a new integration layer designed to make NEAR Intents easily accessible inside third-party applications. Alongside the widget, Aurora Labs is introducing Intents Widget Studio, a browser-based configurator that allows teams to set up and deploy the widget, providing a plug-and-play experience for developers.

NEAR Intents is already used in production by wallets and trading applications, processing approximately $2.5 billion in monthly volume. Until now, integrating Intents directly into an application required bespoke frontend and backend work. The Intents Widget addresses this gap by providing a ready-made UI and configuration layer that abstracts routing, wallet flows, and cross-chain execution.

With the Intents Widget, applications can allow users to connect their wallet and fund actions from any supported chain or token in a single flow, without relying on manual bridges or multi-step swap processes. The widget uses the same NEAR Intents infrastructure currently operating at scale, while significantly reducing integration time for builders.

The accompanying Intents Widget Studio enables non-technical users to configure the widget directly in the browser. Teams can select supported chains and assets, define default routes, customize the interface, add partner fees, and generate production-ready embed code. Developers can then complete the integration using API keys or opt for API-only flows for advanced customization.

For teams that require deeper control, Aurora Labs has released full technical documentation covering API-level integrations, custom routing, execution logic, and post-swap workflows. This allows projects to start with the widget and progressively move toward more tailored implementations as needed.

The Intents Widget is designed to support a range of production use cases, including:

Universal Top-Up flows for wallets, allowing users to fund balances across chains without leaving the app

Frictionless Onboarding for trading and derivatives platforms, enabling instant cross-chain collateral funding

Rather than introducing a new bridge, wallet, or trading venue, the Intents Widget positions NEAR Intents as a neutral execution and liquidity access layer that can be embedded across ecosystems. By lowering the barrier to adoption, Aurora Labs aims to encourage broader use of intent-based execution while reducing user friction at the moment of funding.

In addition, Aurora Labs has released a Claude Code skill to help developers get started with the Intents Swap Widget in a minute. With the Claude skill, teams can install, set up, and configure the intents widget. This further reduces integration friction and accelerates time to production for builders adopting NEAR Intents.

The Intents Widget and Widget Studio are now available at https://intents.aurora.dev, with documentation accessible at https://aurora-labs.gitbook.io/intents-swap-widget/.

About Aurora

Aurora Protocol is the underlying technology that empowers builders to launch, scale, and go multichain. With its infrastructure, builders can deploy their EVM-compatible blockchains on NEAR Protocol, gaining instant scalability, speed, and security without the heavy infrastructure overhead. The protocol is governed by Aurora DAO, responsible for the $AURORA utility token, the body responsible for voting on key strategic proposals, treasury allocation, and future protocol upgrades. Aurora Labs is the development company that builds, maintains and updates the Aurora Protocol, implementing the decisions made by the DAO.

Contact

Monica Tartaumonica.diana.tartau@aurora.dev

This article is not intended as financial advice. Educational purposes only.

Prediction markets vaulted into the mainstream in 2025, growing rapidly in size even as fresh security and regulatory questions piled up, according to a new deep-dive from CertiK. The 2026 Skynet Prediction Markets Report finds annual trading volume surged roughly fourfold last year, a jump CertiK pegs at $63.5 billion, even as activity concentrated around a handful of major platforms.

The report’s Skynet Top Board evaluation framework shows trading has consolidated around three leaders that now account for the lion’s share of global volume: Kalshi, Polymarket and Opinion. Each, CertiK notes, is taking a distinct path, from Kalshi’s federally regulated, exchange-style approach to Polymarket’s hybrid Web2/Web3 architecture and Opinion’s chain-native model, and those differences are shaping how risk shows up on the platforms.

The sector’s breakneck growth has not been without cost. In December 2025, Polymarket disclosed that a small number of user accounts were compromised after a vulnerability in a third-party authentication provider was exploited, showing how hybrid architectures can create centralized failure points even when underlying smart contracts remain intact. CertiK uses that incident to warn that integrations with Web2 services can erode many of the decentralization benefits users expect.

Security and Regulation

On the chain side, CertiK’s research flags persistent threats that keep security teams awake: oracle manipulation, misused administrative keys and front-running remain material vulnerabilities for on-chain markets. The report also highlights distorted activity driven by incentives. Research cited by CertiK estimates that, during peak airdrop periods, artificial volume reached as high as 60 percent on some venues, skewing liquidity signals and making it harder to read genuine market sentiment, even while probability outputs across major platforms generally stayed useful for forecasting.

Regulation is similarly mixed. After a high-profile legal battle, Kalshi has successfully challenged federal regulators and won recognition that event contracts can be lawful financial instruments under U.S. federal law; that federal clarity, however, has not insulated platforms from local action. Several European countries have moved to block or ban Polymarket as an unauthorized gambling service, most visibly Portugal and Hungary in recent weeks, and emerging state-level restrictions inside the United States threaten to create a fragmented compliance landscape for operators and users alike. The contrast between federal acceptance and regional prohibition is already reshaping where and how firms can operate.

Looking forward, CertiK frames prediction markets as evolving infrastructure for pricing uncertainty across domains from politics to weather and corporate events. The firm anticipates more jurisdictions will formalize rules in 2026, technical improvements such as privacy and oracle hardening will accelerate, and institutional adoption will broaden, provided platforms can mature their security posture and navigate an increasingly complex regulatory map.

The report closes with context about its own author. CertiK, founded in December 2017 by academics from Yale and Columbia, has grown into one of the largest blockchain security firms, applying formal verification and active monitoring to protect smart contracts and protocols. CertiK says it has worked with thousands of enterprise clients, secured vast sums of digital assets and discovered hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities; its client roster includes names such as Binance, Ethereum Foundation, BNB Chain and others.

The firm’s analysis of the prediction markets sector is both a reflection of how fast the space has scaled and a call to action for developers, operators and regulators to raise the bar on safety. As prediction markets continue to attract capital and users, CertiK’s findings make clear that growth alone won’t be enough. Without better defenses and clearer rules, the very mechanisms that make these markets useful for forecasting could also become vectors for manipulation and regulatory conflict.

Preface

In an interview, we sat down with Adam Popat, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SettleMint. While discussion, we spoke about Saudi Arabia’s groundbreaking national real estate tokenization initiative, a few other associated aspects and different angles of the real estate tokenization. While sharing his ideas with blockchainreporter.net, Adam Popat shared that how regulatory alignment, blockchain infrastructure, and fractional ownership are set to reshape the real estate markets and accelerate the global adoption of tokenized assets.

Interview Section

Q1. Saudi Arabia launching the world’s earliest national-level real estate tokenization infrastructure, what makes it a landmark for worldwide blockchain and real estate adoption?

Globally, most real estate tokenization initiatives struggle with regulatory uncertainty, fragmented registries, and a lack of legal finality. Saudi Arabia addressed these challenges from day one by embedding blockchain infrastructure directly into its national real estate, legal, and regulatory framework.

What truly makes this a landmark is not just the technology itself, but the way the Kingdom aligned the right public-sector stakeholders under a single, coordinated national vision. Real estate tokenization only works at scale when land registries, regulators, policymakers, and market operators move in lockstep, and that’s exactly what happened here.

Importantly, this has not been achieved anywhere else in the world at this stage or at this scale. For the first time, everyday citizens are being brought into a tokenized real estate ecosystem, enabling broad participation and unlocking immense value that has traditionally remained illiquid and inaccessible. This alone sets a new global benchmark for blockchain-enabled real estate adoption.

Beyond Saudi Arabia, the initiative has wider significance because it demonstrates how distributed ledger technology can move beyond isolated pilots to support legally binding ownership, regulated markets, and mass participation. In doing so, it accelerates global blockchain adoption and creates a repeatable reference.

Q2. What were the key regulatory and technical challenges that SettleMint faced in shifting from concept to a practical national infrastructure to power a tokenized real estate marketplace with RER-REGA?

On the regulatory side, the primary challenge was ensuring that tokenized assets were not treated as parallel representations, but were fully anchored to the sovereign real estate registry under REGA’s governance. That meant designing the platform so that digital ownership, transfers, and fractionalization align precisely with existing property laws, registry processes, and regulatory oversight, delivering legal finality rather than symbolic digitization.

On the technical side, the challenge was building blockchain infrastructure capable of operating as critical national infrastructure. This required integrating a permissioned, governed distributed ledger with the Real Estate Registry (RER) while preserving the registry as the ultimate source of truth. The system had to meet stringent requirements around security, performance, auditability, resilience, and controlled governance.

This was enabled through SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform, which provides the foundational layer to model real estate assets, govern their full lifecycle, and enforce regulatory and operational controls by design. The platform allowed digital assets to be issued, transferred, and managed in alignment with registry processes, while maintaining strict access control, auditability, and upgrade governance required for a national system.

SettleMint’s role was to translate regulatory intent into executable infrastructure: enabling REGA and RER to retain authority and oversight, while providing a scalable blockchain orchestration layer that could support national adoption, market confidence, and long-term extensibility.

Q3. How is “registry-as-a-truth model” differ from existing tokenized pilots?

Most existing tokenization pilots operate with a parallel-ledger model, where tokens are created and traded on a blockchain, but the official land registry remains off-chain and authoritative. In those cases, the token is only a representation of an interest, and legal ownership still requires separate reconciliation with the registry.

A registry-as-a-truth model fundamentally reverses that approach. The national real estate registry remains the single, authoritative source of truth for ownership, and tokenization is tightly integrated into that registry workflow rather than running alongside it.

In this model, any issuance, transfer, or fractionalization of tokens is governed by registry rules and regulatory oversight, ensuring that token movements directly reflect legally recognized ownership changes. There is no dual system and no ambiguity about which record prevails. This is what delivers legal finality, trust, and scalability.

Q4. While Saudi Arabian real estate and capital markets are now available for foreign investors, what can tokenization do to practically decrease barriers hindering foreign direct investment (FDI)?

While Saudi Arabia has recently opened its real estate and capital markets to foreign investors, tokenization helps remove many of the practical frictions that still slow down or limit foreign direct investment.

First, tokenization lowers entry barriers through fractional ownership. Rather than requiring large, single-asset commitments, foreign investors can participate with smaller ticket sizes and build diversified exposure across assets, locations, and risk profiles.

Second, tokenization simplifies and accelerates execution. By digitizing ownership, transfers, and settlement within a regulated framework, it reduces manual processes, long settlement cycles, and operational uncertainty, key deterrents for cross-border investment.

Third, anchoring tokenized assets to the national real estate registry under regulatory oversight enhances trust and legal clarity. Foreign investors gain confidence that their ownership rights are enforceable, auditable, and fully aligned with local law.

Together, these factors turn formal market access into practical, scalable participation, making Saudi real estate more accessible, transparent, and investable for global capital.

Q5. As a crucial element, how does fractional ownership promise to reshape investment reach for retail investors and global institutions?

Fractional ownership reshapes investment reach by decoupling asset value from investor eligibility and introducing new layers of liquidity, access, and transparency.

For retail investors, it significantly lowers minimum investment thresholds, enabling participation in high-quality, income-generating assets that were previously out of reach. When combined with secondary trading, investors gain flexibility to rebalance or exit positions without waiting for full asset sales, improving liquidity and portfolio diversification.

For global institutions, fractional ownership enables precise capital deployment across multiple assets, geographies, and risk profiles. Active secondary markets further enhance capital efficiency by allowing institutions to adjust exposure dynamically, manage risk more effectively, and improve balance-sheet liquidity.

For developers, fractional ownership unlocks easier and faster access to capital. By reaching a broader, global investor base and enabling continuous capital formation rather than one-off asset sales, developers can reduce funding concentration risk and accelerate project timelines.

For ministries and regulators, digitized fractional ownership generates real-time, auditable insights into market activity. Transaction data, ownership distribution, and capital flows can be monitored continuously, supporting better policy design, risk oversight, and data-driven decision-making.

Q6. The platform incorporates blockchain title control, smart contracts, escrow-linked payments, and AVMs. How do the respective elements collectively enhance investor confidence and transparency?

The combination of blockchain title control and smart contracts establishes a strong foundation of trust and execution certainty. Blockchain-based title control creates a tamper-resistant, auditable record of ownership, while smart contracts automate transfers, compliance rules, and distributions. Together, they reduce manual intervention, limit disputes, and give investors clear visibility into how ownership and transactions are governed.

Escrow-linked payments further strengthen confidence by tightly coupling capital movement with asset transfer. Funds are released only when predefined conditions are met, ensuring fair, synchronized settlement and significantly reducing counterparty and settlement risk for all parties involved.

Automated valuation models (AVMs) adds a transparency layer by providing continuous, data-driven insights into asset value and performance. Instead of relying on periodic or opaque valuations, investors gain near real-time visibility into risk and pricing, enabling more informed decision-making. Collectively, these elements create a transparent, auditable, and investor-safe ecosystem.

Q7. Keeping in view Saudi Arabia’s emphasis on Shariah-compliant asset frameworks, how does SettleMint guarantee alignment with Shariah principles alongside global interoperability?

SettleMint supports Saudi Arabia’s Shariah-compliant asset frameworks by providing technology that enables compliant structuring, enforcement, and oversight, while remaining interoperable with global markets.

Shariah alignment is achieved at the asset and contract level. SettleMint enables the tokenization of real, underlying assets and ownership rights, allowing institutions to structure products based on Shariah-approved models such as partnership, co-ownership, or asset-backed leasing, under the supervision of recognized Shariah boards.

Compliance is maintained through programmable rules embedded in smart contracts. Ownership rights, profit-sharing logic, transfer restrictions, and investor eligibility can be enforced digitally, helping ensure that assets continue to operate within approved parameters throughout their lifecycle rather than relying solely on manual controls.

Governance and auditability are strengthened through transparent, tamper-evident records. Regulatory approvals, Shariah certifications, and transaction histories can be recorded and reviewed in real time, supporting ongoing oversight by regulators and scholars.

At the same time, SettleMint’s blockchain-agnostic and standards-based architecture allows Shariah-compliant assets to integrate with international custody, settlement, and reporting frameworks. This ensures Saudi-issued assets can participate in global capital markets without compromising local compliance requirements.

Q8. Why are interoperability standards such as eIDAS2.0 and W3C Verifiable Credentials crucial for investment and credibility across borders?

Interoperability standards such as eIDAS 2.0 and W3C Verifiable Credentials are crucial because they create a shared, trusted framework for digital identity and compliance across jurisdictions, which is essential for cross-border investment.

They enable the mutual recognition of identities and credentials, reduce repetitive KYC and onboarding processes, and provide legal and cryptographic assurance that investors, issuers, and intermediaries are authentic and compliant. This significantly increases trust and credibility when capital moves across borders.

SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) complements these standards through built-in compliance modules that integrate identity verification, investor eligibility, and regulatory controls directly into asset workflows. By supporting standards-based credentials and programmable compliance rules, DALP helps ensure that assets remain compliant across jurisdictions while scaling efficiently into global investment ecosystems.

Concluding Remarks

Real estate tokenization framework in Saudi Arabia is marking a pivotal shift from experimental pilots large-scale blockchain infrastructure. As highlighted by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SettleMint, the integration, regulation, and blockchain technology sets a global benchmark for tokenized real-world assets (RWA). What’s more, this also opens new pathways for retail investors, institutions, and cross-border capital to participate with confidence and transparency.

Bitcoin ($BTC) investors are experiencing one of the biggest realized loss scenarios in history. Hence, the 7-day moving average of Bitcoin’s realized losses has reached the staggering $2.3B. As per the data from CryptoQuant, the current realized losses of Bitcoin ($BTC) resemble the notorious Luna collapse of 2022. However, this downturn takes place at a separate price point as $BTC is changing hands at $67,000, in comparison with $19,000, the price when Luna entered the crisis.

Bitcoin Realized Loss (7DMA) hit $2.3B – a level exceeded only once: during the Luna crash in June 2022.But here's the key difference: back then it was $19K and a systemic collapse. Now it's $67K and a correction from ATH. Same scale of pain, completely different context.new… pic.twitter.com/4HBcDlEtA3

— Axel 💎🙌 Adler Jr (@AxelAdlerJr) February 11, 2026

Bitcoin Incurs $2.3B in Realized Losses Amid Widespread Investor Capitulation

The market data discloses that Bitcoin ($BTC) has hit the $2.3B mark in terms of 7-day moving average of overall realized losses. The respective level has only been surpassed once before. That was the time when Luna crashed in June 2022. Nevertheless, the current position of $BTC is different as now it is trading at $67K, while its price during the Luna collapse was $19K. Even then, the investor pain is analogous irrespective of the different market conditions.

Specifically, the Luna crash occurred as a systemic incident that led to cascading failures within the crypto market. It reportedly wiped out billions in terms of value while also shaking investor confidence. Contrarily, the present realized losses of $2.3B underscores a severe correction from the ATH of Bitcoin. This distinction presents a difference between the two market outlooks.

Huge realized losses often indicate capitulation, with investors selling their holdings at loss following failure to endure volatility. In line with the previous market data, such surges have denoted transitional periods in the market cycles of Bitcoin, often paving the way for renewed growth or stabilization.  Particularly, the $2.3B mark signifies the broader selling pressure while also highlighting the vast scale of capital engaged in the current market outlook of Bitcoin ($BTC) in comparison with earlier years.

Market Volatility Persists While Correction Highlights Growth Instead of Breakdown

According to CryptoQuant’s data, $BTC is changing hands well above the former cycle peaks at $67K, suggesting that the present correction may be a part of a positive market reset. Moreover, unlike the Luna collapse, which exposed systemic vulnerabilities, the losses of today emerge from corrections and profit-taking at notably high valuations. Overall, this points out that the market maturity of Bitcoin is increasing, even while volatility stands as a defining factor.

How many times have you watched a crypto run explode and thought, “I was looking at this early”? That moment usually hurts more than missing it completely. Most people don’t lose in crypto because they are late. They lose because they wait for stability. By the time certainty shows up, the upside is already gone.IPO Genie ($IPO) may be entering that moment right now.

The presale has officially crossed $1 million raised. In crypto, seven figures is where quiet projects stop being ignored and start being chased. Momentum becomes visible. Prices stop waiting.

With 2026 already shaping up as the next major cycle, many early buyers are now asking one question: Is IPO Genie becoming one of the best crypto for 2026 bullrun, while the entry is still early? Let’s explore!

$1M Raised: IPO Genie Hits Its First Real Breakout

IPO Genie has now raised over $1,000,000 in its presale, and this marks a major turning point for the project. This level of funding shows that confidence in IPO Genie is no longer limited to early testers. Larger buyers are stepping in, and participation is clearly accelerating.

As the presale has progressed, wallet activity has increased, average purchase sizes have grown, and phases have begun filling faster. Demand is no longer building quietly. It is now visible on-chain and reflected in how quickly allocations are being absorbed.

This milestone has changed the tone around IPO Genie. Investors are no longer questioning interest in the project. Instead, the focus has shifted to how long current presale prices will remain available before the next phase moves higher.

Crossing $1M has pushed IPO Genie into a new stage of momentum. Early access is still open, but it is no longer unlimited and that shift matters.

Presale Momentum Is Tightening the Entry Window

IPO Genie’s presale momentum is clearly accelerating after crossing the $1M raised mark, and the numbers now back it up. The current presale phase is already 44% filled, showing that allocations are being absorbed at a faster pace.So far, over 9.26 billion $IPO tokens have been sold, with more than 1,369 investors already participating. As demand continues to rise, phases are moving closer to completion, and each phase closes permanently once filled.

IPO Genie operates on a phase-based pricing model, meaning every completed phase locks in a higher price for the next one. There are no rollbacks. Late buyers simply enter at higher levels.

This is why timing now matters more than perfection. As many early investors put it, “the cheapest phase rarely follows validation.” With $1M already raised, that validation is now in place, and the entry window is steadily tightening.

What’s Driving IPO Genie’s Momentum

Capital usually follows clarity, and that is exactly what is happening with IPO Genie. The project’s momentum is tied to what it is building, not short-term noise. More investors are paying attention because the platform solves real access problems in early-stage investing.

IPO Genie offers pre-IPO and private-market style access without the usual restrictions. Users do not need accreditation or large capital to participate. Holding $IPO unlocks early opportunities that were once limited to insiders and institutions.The platform also integrates AI-powered deal discovery and scoring. Each opportunity is reviewed using market data, team credibility checks, smart contract screening, and risk analysis. Investors can see clear scores instead of relying on hype.

IPO Genie also focuses on flexibility. Tokenized participation removes long lockups and allows users to stay in control. On top of that, $IPO holders benefit from staking rewards, tier unlocks, reduced fees, and governance rights.

This mix of access, data, and control is why many now view IPO Genie as the best AI crypto for 2026 bullrun, built to last beyond a single cycle.

The Math at Today’s Price: 100× vs 1,000×

At the current presale price of $0.00012010 per $IPO, even small entries still control a large number of tokens.

For example:

$100 today buys approximately 833,000 $IPO

$500 buys around 4.16 million $IPO

$1,000 buys over 8.3 million $IPO

Now let’s keep it simple.

If $IPO reaches a 100× valuation:

$100 → $10,000

$500 → $50,000

$1,000 → $100,000

If it reaches a 1,000× valuation:

$100 → $100,000

$500 → $500,000

$1,000 → $1,000,000

No promises. No guarantees. Just clear math.

This is why early pricing combined with high token supply access creates asymmetric upside, especially for investors positioning ahead of a broader market cycle and searching for the best crypto for 2026 bullrun.

Why the $1M Moment Put IPO Genie on the Radar

Crossing $1M changed how IPO Genie is being discussed.

Some analysts now say this level of funding shows “real market confidence forming earlier than expected.” Others believe that “breaking seven figures places IPO Genie firmly on the shortlist for the 2026 cycle.”

Influencers have echoed similar views.Michael Wrubel has previously described IPO Genie as “a game-changer for retail access to private markets.”

Heavy Crypto highlighted how “most value is created before IPOs, and IPO Genie is opening that door to everyday investors.”

Momentum is also visible on-chain and publicly. With over $1M raised in its presale, IPO Genie confirmed progress on its next pre-IPO opportunity in a recent tweet on its official page, showing continued deal-sourcing activity heading into Q1 2026.

As the crypto market rotates toward utility and access, many believe private-market exposure combined with crypto liquidity fits perfectly into the next bull phase. This $1M mark looks less like a peak and more like the foundation layer.

Final Call: Before the Next Phase Price Locks In

IPO Genie has already raised over $1M, and momentum is clearly building. The current presale phase is filling, and the next price increase is locked in once it closes. When that happens, today’s entry-level disappears for good.This is often the point investors look back on and say, “I saw it early.” IPO Genie still offers early pricing, growing demand, and strong 2026 bull-run positioning.

For anyone searching for the best crypto for 2026 bullrun, the window is still open, but not for long.

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The crypto sector is going through an extended dip as the key crypto assets have seen notable price dips over the past 24 hours. Hence, the total crypto market capitalization is 2.86% down at $2.31T. In addition to this, the 24-hour crypto volume has witnessed a 11.78% decrease, reaching $99.11B. Concurrently, the Crypto Fear & Greed index sits at 9 points, showing “Extreme Fear” among the market participants.

Bitcoin ($BTC) Drops by 3.48% and Ethereum ($ETH) Undergoes 5.05% Slump

Specifically, the price of Bitcoin ($BTC), the flagship crypto asset, is $67,351.93. This shows a 3.48% dip while $BTC’s market dominance is almost 58.5%. Along with this, the top altcoin, Ethereum ($ETH), is changing hands at $1,964.16, showing a 5.05% decrease. In the meantime, the market dominance of $ETH accounts for up to 10.3%.

$TRUMP, $IRIS, and $BOME Emerge as Leading Crypto Gainers of Day

Apart from that, the top crypto gainers of the day include PEPE ($TRUMP), IRISnet ($IRIS), and Book of Meme 3.0 ($BOME). Particularly, $TRUMP has seen a noteworthy 1011.23% increase, with its price reaching $0.0001177. Following that, an 838.37% rise has placed $IRIS’ price at $0.005003. Subsequently, with a 644.42% increase, $BOME is now hovering around $0.000000006933.

DeFi TVL Plunges by 1.57% While NFT Sales Volume Shows 11.32% Spike

Simultaneously, the DeFi TVL has dropped by 1.57%, attaining the $96.931B mark. In addition to this, the top DeFi project in the case of TVL, Aave, has slumped by 2.51%, hitting the $27.925B figure. Nonetheless, when it comes to 1-day TVL change, Prism DEX occupies the leading position in the DeFi sector, accounting for a stunning 3034385% jump over the past twenty-four hours.

In the same vein, the NFT sales volume is 11.32% up at $9,168,908. Additionally, the top-selling NFT collection, Flying Tulip PUT, has recorded a 21.30% rise, reaching $2,865,217.

South Korea Questions Bithumb CEO as CleanSpark, IREN Keep Incurring Losses Following Revenue Misses

At the same time, the crypto sector has also gone through many other key developments across the globe over 24 hours. In this respect, the policymakers of South Korea have questioned Lee Jae-won, the CEO of Bithumb, following the exchange unintentionally transacted $40B in $BTC, a number which is over twelve times the actual holdings.

Moreover, the shares of CleanSpark and IREN, the popular Bitcoin miners, keep falling following revenue misses. Furthermore, SafePal has unveiled a $3M Solana Builder’s Grant to back network growth across Solana during 2026.

Einführung

Heute nutzen Millionen von Menschen dezentrale Finanzsysteme (DeFi) für Investitionen, Handel, Kreditvergabe und -aufnahme. Die Dezentralisierung hat denen zugutegekommen, die mit Vermittlern wie Banken unzufrieden sind. Der jüngste Aufwärtstrend im Wert von Bitcoin und die exponentiellen Renditen, die verschiedene Altcoins in 2017 und 2021 erzielt haben, zogen Investoren aus verschiedenen Bereichen an. Es wäre keine Übertreibung zu sagen, dass Kryptowährungen über Nacht Millionäre gemacht haben, etwas, das wie ein Märchen klang, bevor die Blockchain-Technologie entstand. Neben den zahlreichen Vorteilen ist der Kryptomarkt voller Gefahren, die in jeder Ecke lauern und bereit sind, über die Opfer herzufallen, die es versäumen, wachsam zu bleiben. Eine dieser Gefahren ist der Sybil-Angriff.

The current Bitcoin ($BTC) plunge has gained market-wide attention, leading to several speculations. Specifically, Anthony Pompliano has triggered a debate on this scenario, saying that the ongoing drawdown of Bitcoin ($BTC) stands as the strongest pullback. As per CryptosRus, Pompliano asserted in his latest interview that the market data displays a structural shift, with notable changes in the volatility. However, despite the frustrating sheer 10% daily drop, the long-term data is relatively less alarming than the emotions.

POMP: THIS IS THE STRONGEST “DRAWDOWN” WE’VE SEENAnthony Pompliano says something that doesn’t feel true… but the data backs it up.From peak to now, this is the least severe major pullback #Bitcoin has ever had.It doesn’t feel calm when $BTC drops 10% in a day. But zoom… pic.twitter.com/L1STFHplGl

— CryptosRus (@CryptosR_Us) February 11, 2026

Pompliano Considers Current Bitcoin Drawdown Stronger Based on Data Rather Than Emotion

Anthony Pompliano is of the view that the current downtrend of Bitcoin ($BTC) feels like the strongest drawdown that has ever taken place in its trajectory. The respective claims take into account the performance metrics of Bitcoin ($BTC) in the past. In this respect, from the peak price levels to the current scenario, $BTC has gone through a huge pullback in comparison with the previous market cycles.

At the same time, the wider market trend highlights a less extreme momentum in downside movements over time. Particularly, volatility compression appears as one of the top indicators. It says that the flagship crypto asset has shifted to being a 40-volatility asset, down from an 80-volatility asset.

Bitcoin Stands Strong in Long-Term Outlook Irrespective of Short-Term Uncertainty

This reportedly marks a key structural evolution. Thus, for investors tired of notable fluctuations while considering Bitcoin as a high-risk gamble, the respective shift serves as a rising market efficiency instead of weakening momentum in a wider picture. A noteworthy factor backing this is the launch of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) along with cutting-edge financial instruments. As a result, $BTC is not just held and bought definitely among the long-term believers, becoming an actively traded asset among retail participants, hedge funds, and institutions alike.

According to CryptosRus, Pompliano has connected the stability of Bitcoin to the wider macroeconomic narrative. As per him, AI is becoming a robust deflationary factor within the U.S. market and its productivity gains could significantly offset massive monetary expansion. Overall, while Bitcoin’s short-term price trajectory may test its patience, the data increasingly backs Pompliano’s argument that Bitcoin currently looks stronger than before.

Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer in the digital assets industry, has announced a landmark investment in LayerZero Labs, an omnichain interoperability protocol that permits secure, trustless communication and asset transfers across different blockchain networks. The main purpose of this investment is to ensure secure, seamless, and multi-chain transfers across different blockchains.

Tether Announces Strategic Investment in LayerZero Labs, Creator of the Interoperability Infrastructure Used by USDt0Learn more: https://t.co/xAxCtquIij

— Tether (@tether) February 10, 2026

This infrastructure facilitates users with the most advanced foundational rail for digital assets payments, settlements, and control for real-world use cases. Basically, it is combined with the Wallet Development Kit (WDK) that permits artificial intelligence (AI) agents to control their own autonomous wallets and transact with stablecoins and digital assets at scale. Tether has released this news through its official social media X account.

LayerZero’s Omnichain Infrastructure Drives Seamless Cross-Chain Liquidity

LayerZero Labs is basically the builder of one of the most globally adopted connecting structures in the market nowadays, and facilitating with advanced technology as a background. LayerZero’s interoperability infrastructure has been benefitted by Everdawn Labs to build and join the market USDtO and XAUtO to be live in the market conditions at large-scale cross-chain.

LayerZero’s  Omnichain Fungible Token standard, these implementations explained the seamless conversion of stablecoins and tokenized assets across different blockchains without the loss of liquidity. The successful services provided by USDtO in the transfer of more than $70 billion in cross-chain value are giving a clear signal for serving as real-world proof of global-scale interoperability in just 12 months.

Tether Signals Strong Confidence in LayerZero’s Cross-Chain Technology

Tether’s investment in LayerZero Labs has its own worth in the entire market for building an infrastructure that provides significant support in major asset transfers. On the other hand, this investment also indicates the strong confidence of Tether in LayerZero Labs’ engineering abilities, such as its execution track record and its role in advancing infrastructure for interoperability. Furthermore, it connects with Tether’s wider range of strategy of helping systems, which reduce partitions, enhance liquidity efficiency, and enable stablecoins to function properly.  

Tether Endorses LayerZero as the Backbone of Interoperable Finance

Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, declared his thoughts in a statement. He said, “Tether invests in infrastructure that is already delivering real-world utility. LayerZero Labs has built interoperability technology that allows digital assets to be transferred in real-time across any transport layer and distributed ledger, enabling a fundamental utility within the financial industry. This enables digital assets to serve the infinite agentic AI economy that will require such primitives to orchestrate micro-payments at an unprecedented scale.”

The CEO of LayerZero, Bryan Pellegrino, also expressed his opinion. He said, “Tether is a company the world envies. They have turned a vision of borderless money into a reality. The success of USDt0 was an important stepping stone. Having Tether deepen its commitment with this investment is the ultimate validation. We are thrilled to continue building the rails for global permissionless markets together.”

Road Town, British Virgin Islands, February 11th, 2026, Chainwire

STON.fi, the leading AMM protocol on The Open Network (TON), announced that TON-native representations of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are now available within the ecosystem in a fully non-custodial DeFi format. The integration gives TON users direct access to the two largest crypto assets, including the ability to swap them and provide liquidity, while maintaining full control over their funds.

BTC and ETH are represented on TON as wrapped assets issued in TON-native format, each fully backed 1:1 by the underlying tokens and managed through smart contracts. Ethereum is available as wrapped ETH (WETH), while Bitcoin is accessible via cbBTC, a Bitcoin-backed token issued by Coinbase and fully collateralized with BTC on a one-to-one basis. This structure allows both assets to be used across decentralized applications within TON ecosystem without interacting directly with their native blockchains.

Through STON.fi, users can deploy WETH and cbBTC across TON DeFi, including swapping and providing liquidity via WETH/USDt and cbBTC/USDt pools. At the same time, Omniston, STON.fi’s liquidity aggregation protocol, enables swaps to WETH and cbBTC from any TON-native token, routing liquidity across the ecosystem. Applications integrated with Omniston instantly gain access to WETH and cbBTC liquidity, enabling swaps across hundreds of TON-based dApps without additional integrations and expanding the range of available DeFi strategies within the ecosystem.

“Bringing BTC and ETH into TON DeFi is about expanding real utility, not just asset coverage,” said Slavik Baranov, CEO of STON.fi Dev. “This launch enables users to actively use Bitcoin and Ethereum inside TON ecosystem rather than holding them passively. By making these assets usable in TON-native DeFi, we’re strengthening the overall depth of the ecosystem.”

As TON continues to develop as a blockchain closely integrated with Telegram — a messenger used daily by hundreds of millions of people — access to major crypto assets directly within Telegram-native and TON-based applications has become a natural part of the ecosystem’s evolution. Bitcoin and Ethereum sit at the core of the global crypto economy, and their availability on TON allows users to access these assets directly within the apps they already use, without leaving the ecosystem, through decentralized and permissionless infrastructure.

To learn more about how WETH and cbBTC integration works on STON.fi, users can visit: https://ston.fi/eth-ton and https://ston.fi/btc-ton.  

About STON.fi

STON.fi is the leading non-custodial swap dApp and a suite of swap-enabling protocols within The Open Network (TON) ecosystem, known for its deep liquidity, wide token coverage, and dominance in total value locked (TVL) and trading volume. With over $6.8 billion in total trading volume and more than 31 million operations, STON.fi dominates TON DeFi ecosystem in token coverage, liquidity depth, and active user participation. Backed by top investors such as CoinFund, Delphi Ventures, The Open Platform, Karatage, TON Ventures, and others, STON.fi continues to advance decentralized finance through open development and innovations such as Omniston — a decentralized liquidity aggregation protocol.

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The interoperability landscape is undergoing a huge transformation. The distance between established liquidity pools and high-performing new networks is shrinking substantially. A new announcement by Wormhole, a leading cross-chain messaging protocol, has stirred the DeFi Ecosystem. Wormhole’s official announcement to launch the USD* developed by Perena on Monad facilitated through Wormhole’s innovative Native Token Transfers (NTTs). The goal of this integration is to allow tokens to retain their inherent characteristics as they transfer across different blockchain architectures.

Enhancing Liquidity on Monad via Perena

The Monad project has been called the “Killer” of Solana and the next evolution to Ethereum’s Virtual Machine, with promises of parallel processing of transactions and capabilities to handle higher transaction volumes. But a network can only be as strong as it has enough liquidity to support its operations.

With the introduction of USD*, a stablecoin built and operated by Perena and distributed via Wormhole, sufficient “fuel” will be available for early-stage DeFi applications. This development facilitates the growth of decentralized finance on the Monad network.

The Wormhole Native Token Transfer (NTT) solution creates a new means of transferring assets such as US dollars between blockchains. This solves the problem of delays and fragmentation that currently occur with existing methods for bridging assets (like wrapped tokens) by not requiring a large number of ‘canonical’ and ‘non-canonical’ stablecoins to do so, which enhances the user experience and reduces friction when traders transfer funds across blockchains.

The Role of Wormhole NTT in Cross-Chain Security

The basis for all technical integrations within this integration will be based around the Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers (NTT) framework. As an open-source standard, any developer has the ability to create a multichain token while keeping complete control of its token contract across every single network. This is very important when it comes to security and compliance for both Perena and USD*. 

Wormhole’s NTT removes the need for a centralized liquidity pool, eliminating a common single point of failure seen in many bridge hacks. To maintain a consistent USD* supply across all chains, it uses a burn-and-mint or lock-and-mint mechanism.

A New Standard for Stablecoin Utility

With USD* launch on Monad, it represents not only a technical connection but also an indication of the level of confidence in the Monad ecosystem. It is critical that we have stable assets that serve as ‘native’ assets to use on the platform where many developers will be coming to build high-speed DEXs and lending platforms.

Over the last quarter, there has been an increase of more than 30% in the amount of demand for cross-chain stablecoin liquidity per DefiLlama.co. This emphasizes the importance of the Wormhole-Perena partnership.

Utilizing the Portal Bridge (the primary user interface of Wormhole), users can now easily move into the Monad ecosystem. Through this integration, Monad can succeed as an independent high-performing platform and as part of the broader global digital economy.

Conclusion

Perena’s USD integration on Monad through Wormhole NTT marks an important development towards cross-chain interoperability. Wormhole aims to create a standard for how assets can be transferred between multiple chains with a focus on security, the native token’s inherent characteristics and usability. As Monad continues down the road of becoming a mainnet and beyond, the development of a stablecoin infrastructure will play an integral role in drawing both institutional and retail investment.

4AI, eine bekannte auf Web3 zentrierte KI-Infrastrukturplattform, hat sich mit MWX, einem beliebten dezentralen KI-Marktplatz, zusammengetan. Die Partnerschaft hat zum Ziel, kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) für die fortschrittliche Web3-KI-Landschaft zu stärken. Wie 4AI in seiner offiziellen X-Ankündigung erwähnte, ermöglicht die Zusammenarbeit den Unternehmen, nahtlos Automatisierung über Ökosysteme hinweg zu koordinieren und bereitzustellen. Darüber hinaus versucht die gemeinsame Anstrengung, durch die Integration von realen Anwendungsfällen KI-gestützte Dienstleistungen anzubieten, um Innovation, Skalierbarkeit und Effizienz für KMU zu verbessern.

Doppler Finance, ein dezentrales Finanzprotokoll, das auf dem XRP Ledger (XRPL) aufgebaut ist und es XRP-Inhabern ermöglicht, Erträge auf ihre Vermögenswerte durch DeFi-Strategien zu erzielen, hat heute eine strategische Zusammenarbeit mit OpenEden, einer Tokenisierungsplattform, die RWAs mit DeFi-Märkten verbindet, bekannt gegeben. Diese Partnerschaft ermöglichte die Integration der Tokenisierungsplattform von OpenEden mit den DeFi-Produkten von Doppler Finance und der XRP-Infrastruktur, um die Tokenisierung und den Zugang zu DeFi-Erträgen im Web3-Umfeld zu beschleunigen.

OpenEden ist eine anerkannte Tokenisierungsplattform, die sich auf die Tokenisierung verschiedener realer Vermögenswerte spezialisiert hat, wie z.B. US-Staatsanleihen, Regierungsanleihen, Anleihen und mehrere andere RWAs. Durch die Umwandlung solcher Finanzprodukte in digitale Token auf seiner Blockchain macht OpenEden solche RWAs (reale Vermögenswerte) für institutionelle Investoren und sogar für Einzelhandelskunden on-chain zugänglich. Zu den wichtigsten Angeboten der Plattform gehören USDO (ertragbringender Stablecoin) und TBILL (tokenisierte US-Staatsanleihen), die es den Nutzern ermöglichen, auf tokenisierte Vermögenswerte zuzugreifen, die innovative Erträge on-chain generieren.

Alchemy Pay und HTF Securities haben einen entscheidenden Schritt unternommen, um ihre regulierte Präsenz im digitalen Vermögensmarkt von Hongkong zu vertiefen, und angekündigt, dass die Lizenz vom Typ 4 (Beratung in Wertpapieren) von HTF formell angehoben wurde, um virtuelle Vermögensberatungsdienste abzudecken. Alchemy Pay erklärte, dass das Upgrade, das in Zusammenarbeit mit HTF Securities Limited und unter der Aufsicht der Wertpapier- und Futures-Kommission durchgeführt wurde, das lizensierte Unternehmen autorisiert, regulierte Beratungen zu virtuellen Vermögenswerten sowohl für institutionelle als auch für private Kunden in Hongkong anzubieten.