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Kyrgyz crypto firms pay more taxes than a major commodity market
The cryptocurrency market brings Kyrgyzstan more tax money than the country’s largest bazaar and all patent-paying businesses put together.
The calculation comes amid efforts to update the nation’s crypto regulations and threats of penalties over its role in Russia’s sanctions evasion through crypto.
Kyrgyz crypto industry pays nearly $23 million in annual taxes
Kyrgyzstan’s nascent market for digital assets has quickly become one of its fastest-growing economic sectors, regional media noted this week.
In the first three quarters of 2025, its turnover surpassed $7.9 billion, and industry watchers are convinced there’s room for further growth.
Official data revealed that the total volume of Kyrgyz crypto transactions exceeded $20.5 billion last year, resulting in $22.8 million of tax income for the state.
According to Temir Kazybaev, Chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s Association of Virtual Asset Market Participants, tax revenue from the crypto business is already larger than that from the country’s largest trading hub for commodities and the total received from voluntary patent fees.
Speaking to the English-language Times of Central Asia, he elaborated:
“Just over $7.9 million in taxes was collected from the Dordoi bazaar over the year. Patent tax collection totaled $13.6 million. In other words, the entire market and all individuals in Kyrgyzstan working under a patent paid as much tax as was collected from cryptocurrency turnover.”
Dordoi is a major wholesale and retail market in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, which is not only the largest in the country, but also one of Asia’s biggest public marketplaces.
Kazybaev highlighted the significant shift in public opinion about the industry in Kyrgyzstan, where most people viewed the crypto market as a scam or a pyramid scheme only a few years ago.
“That perception is changing. People and businesses now see it as an opportunity,” he said, emphasizing the role of the country’s President Sadyr Zhaparov in that regard.
The representative of the crypto sector also noted the positive trend in the development of the market’s infrastructure, providing another set of industry figures.
More than 200 cryptocurrency exchanges and 11 mining companies are currently registered in Kyrgyzstan, he detailed.
The head of the crypto association mentioned the recent launch of the gold-backed stablecoin USDKG as a boosting factor for the crypto space, acknowledging its growing recognition in the country.
“The development of virtual assets is a critical area … and our association is deeply involved” in it through educational events, he remarked, adding his organization is training compliance officers and accountants working in the crypto sphere.
Kyrgyzstan government upgrades country’s crypto regulations
The numbers signaling the growing significance of Kyrgyzstan’s crypto market come amid efforts to update the nation’s regulatory framework.
While cryptocurrency transactions have been legalized already, Bishkek is still working to enhance the rules, the Times of Central Asia pointed out.
Earlier in February, the media revealed that Kyrgyz authorities had added specific legal definitions for cryptocurrencies and stablecoins and regulated the state’s involvement in crypto mining.
A bill signed by President Zhaparov empowers his administration to determine the exact procedures for the issuance and circulation of digital assets.
The rules concern coins issued in Kyrgyzstan that are backed by other assets under the strict control of the government, such as the dollar-denominated USDKG and another stablecoin called KGST, which is tied to the Kyrgyz som, the national fiat currency.
Kyrgyzstan is becoming a stablecoin hotspot in its region. It’s also home to the largest non-dollar cryptocurrency of this kind, the Russian ruble-pegged A7A5, which has processed transactions worth over $100 billion in the first year since its launch in early 2025.
The coin, created by a Russian company but issued by a Kyrgyz-registered entity, has caused a lot of headaches for Bishkek lately due to its suspected use by Russia for sanctions evasion.
As a result of their alleged role in facilitating Russian crypto transactions, Kyrgyz financial institutions and crypto platforms have been sanctioned by the EU, the U.S., and the U.K.
The latest European package of punitive measures against Russia and its supporters is reportedly targeting two of Kyrgyzstan’s banks based on the same allegations.
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The calculation comes amid efforts to update the nation’s crypto regulations and threats of penalties over its role in Russia’s sanctions evasion through crypto.
Kyrgyz crypto industry pays nearly $23 million in annual taxes
Kyrgyzstan’s nascent market for digital assets has quickly become one of its fastest-growing economic sectors, regional media noted this week.
In the first three quarters of 2025, its turnover surpassed $7.9 billion, and industry watchers are convinced there’s room for further growth.
Official data revealed that the total volume of Kyrgyz crypto transactions exceeded $20.5 billion last year, resulting in $22.8 million of tax income for the state.
According to Temir Kazybaev, Chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s Association of Virtual Asset Market Participants, tax revenue from the crypto business is already larger than that from the country’s largest trading hub for commodities and the total received from voluntary patent fees.
Speaking to the English-language Times of Central Asia, he elaborated:
“Just over $7.9 million in taxes was collected from the Dordoi bazaar over the year. Patent tax collection totaled $13.6 million. In other words, the entire market and all individuals in Kyrgyzstan working under a patent paid as much tax as was collected from cryptocurrency turnover.”
Dordoi is a major wholesale and retail market in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, which is not only the largest in the country, but also one of Asia’s biggest public marketplaces.
Kazybaev highlighted the significant shift in public opinion about the industry in Kyrgyzstan, where most people viewed the crypto market as a scam or a pyramid scheme only a few years ago.
“That perception is changing. People and businesses now see it as an opportunity,” he said, emphasizing the role of the country’s President Sadyr Zhaparov in that regard.
The representative of the crypto sector also noted the positive trend in the development of the market’s infrastructure, providing another set of industry figures.
More than 200 cryptocurrency exchanges and 11 mining companies are currently registered in Kyrgyzstan, he detailed.
The head of the crypto association mentioned the recent launch of the gold-backed stablecoin USDKG as a boosting factor for the crypto space, acknowledging its growing recognition in the country.
“The development of virtual assets is a critical area … and our association is deeply involved” in it through educational events, he remarked, adding his organization is training compliance officers and accountants working in the crypto sphere.
Kyrgyzstan government upgrades country’s crypto regulations
The numbers signaling the growing significance of Kyrgyzstan’s crypto market come amid efforts to update the nation’s regulatory framework.
While cryptocurrency transactions have been legalized already, Bishkek is still working to enhance the rules, the Times of Central Asia pointed out.
Earlier in February, the media revealed that Kyrgyz authorities had added specific legal definitions for cryptocurrencies and stablecoins and regulated the state’s involvement in crypto mining.
A bill signed by President Zhaparov empowers his administration to determine the exact procedures for the issuance and circulation of digital assets.
The rules concern coins issued in Kyrgyzstan that are backed by other assets under the strict control of the government, such as the dollar-denominated USDKG and another stablecoin called KGST, which is tied to the Kyrgyz som, the national fiat currency.
Kyrgyzstan is becoming a stablecoin hotspot in its region. It’s also home to the largest non-dollar cryptocurrency of this kind, the Russian ruble-pegged A7A5, which has processed transactions worth over $100 billion in the first year since its launch in early 2025.
The coin, created by a Russian company but issued by a Kyrgyz-registered entity, has caused a lot of headaches for Bishkek lately due to its suspected use by Russia for sanctions evasion.
As a result of their alleged role in facilitating Russian crypto transactions, Kyrgyz financial institutions and crypto platforms have been sanctioned by the EU, the U.S., and the U.K.
The latest European package of punitive measures against Russia and its supporters is reportedly targeting two of Kyrgyzstan’s banks based on the same allegations.
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India gives tech platforms 9 days to label all AI content and remove deepfakes within 3 hours
India just threw down a challenge that might be impossible to meet. Starting February 20, social media companies operating in the country must label every piece of fake AI content and take down illegal deepfakes within three hours. The technology to do this properly doesn’t exist yet.
The rules, announced Tuesday, put pressure on platforms like Meta, Google, and X to deploy systems that catch and mark AI-generated images, videos, and audio before users see them. Companies must also stop people from removing or hiding these labels. Even with billions in resources, these tech giants struggle to make their current detection tools work reliably.
Most big platforms already use something called C2PA, which plants invisible information inside files to show how they were made. It’s like a nutrition label for digital content. When it works, you can see if a photo came from a real camera or an AI generator. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn try to flag this content, but the labels are easy to miss, and plenty of fake stuff slips through.
The system has major holes. Open-source AI tools and apps that make fake nude photos often skip the labeling process completely. Even when labels exist, they disappear during file uploads on many sites. C2PA’s supporters have spent years saying the technology just needs wider adoption to succeed. India is about to test that claim with 500 million social media users.
Why India’s market power changes everything
India has 481 million Instagram users, 403 million on Facebook, 500 million watching YouTube, and 213 million using Snapchat. X considers India its third-biggest market. When a country this large makes new rules, global tech companies typically adjust their systems everywhere, not just in one place.
This push comes after India spent months dealing with a deepfake crisis. Cryptopolitan reported last October that Bollywood actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan sued over fake videos using their faces, seeking nearly half a million dollars in damages. The couple claimed YouTube’s AI trainers grabbed public content without permission to train systems that later created fake media with their images. Cases like these, along with viral fake videos of actress Rashmika Mandanna, pushed officials to act.
The timing lines up with India’s AI ambitions. Google is building a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam that will become the company’s largest facility outside America. The site will have gigawatt-scale computing power and is set to open in July 2028. With that kind of AI infrastructure arriving, regulators want content safety rules in place first.
Critics warn of “rapid fire censorship”
The tight deadlines worry free speech advocates. The Internet Freedom Foundation says the three-hour takedown window will force companies to use automated systems that delete too much content by mistake. They call it creating “rapid fire censors” because there’s no time for humans to review reports properly.
Platforms like X, which haven’t set up any AI labeling yet, now have just nine days to build entire systems from scratch. Meta, Google, and X all declined to comment. Adobe, the company behind C2PA, stayed silent too.
Officials writing the rules seem to know current technology isn’t ready. The requirements say platforms should use detection methods “to the extent technically feasible” – legal language that admits perfection isn’t expected. India’s leaders believe pressure will drive innovation. They’re betting that when you force tech companies to either build better systems or lose access to hundreds of millions of users, they’ll figure it out fast.
Whether better AI detection technology actually exists to be built, or if India just ordered companies to deliver something that can’t be made yet, remains to be seen. We’ll find out in nine days.
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The rules, announced Tuesday, put pressure on platforms like Meta, Google, and X to deploy systems that catch and mark AI-generated images, videos, and audio before users see them. Companies must also stop people from removing or hiding these labels. Even with billions in resources, these tech giants struggle to make their current detection tools work reliably.
Most big platforms already use something called C2PA, which plants invisible information inside files to show how they were made. It’s like a nutrition label for digital content. When it works, you can see if a photo came from a real camera or an AI generator. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn try to flag this content, but the labels are easy to miss, and plenty of fake stuff slips through.
The system has major holes. Open-source AI tools and apps that make fake nude photos often skip the labeling process completely. Even when labels exist, they disappear during file uploads on many sites. C2PA’s supporters have spent years saying the technology just needs wider adoption to succeed. India is about to test that claim with 500 million social media users.
Why India’s market power changes everything
India has 481 million Instagram users, 403 million on Facebook, 500 million watching YouTube, and 213 million using Snapchat. X considers India its third-biggest market. When a country this large makes new rules, global tech companies typically adjust their systems everywhere, not just in one place.
This push comes after India spent months dealing with a deepfake crisis. Cryptopolitan reported last October that Bollywood actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan sued over fake videos using their faces, seeking nearly half a million dollars in damages. The couple claimed YouTube’s AI trainers grabbed public content without permission to train systems that later created fake media with their images. Cases like these, along with viral fake videos of actress Rashmika Mandanna, pushed officials to act.
The timing lines up with India’s AI ambitions. Google is building a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam that will become the company’s largest facility outside America. The site will have gigawatt-scale computing power and is set to open in July 2028. With that kind of AI infrastructure arriving, regulators want content safety rules in place first.
Critics warn of “rapid fire censorship”
The tight deadlines worry free speech advocates. The Internet Freedom Foundation says the three-hour takedown window will force companies to use automated systems that delete too much content by mistake. They call it creating “rapid fire censors” because there’s no time for humans to review reports properly.
Platforms like X, which haven’t set up any AI labeling yet, now have just nine days to build entire systems from scratch. Meta, Google, and X all declined to comment. Adobe, the company behind C2PA, stayed silent too.
Officials writing the rules seem to know current technology isn’t ready. The requirements say platforms should use detection methods “to the extent technically feasible” – legal language that admits perfection isn’t expected. India’s leaders believe pressure will drive innovation. They’re betting that when you force tech companies to either build better systems or lose access to hundreds of millions of users, they’ll figure it out fast.
Whether better AI detection technology actually exists to be built, or if India just ordered companies to deliver something that can’t be made yet, remains to be seen. We’ll find out in nine days.
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Africans are paying more to convert stablecoins into actual currency
Digital currencies were supposed to make sending money across borders cheaper and faster. The cost of converting these digital dollars into actual currency, however, is still higher than expected for African users.
According to recent research, while the median conversion cost across Africa is about 3%, some countries face significantly worse rates, with Botswana experiencing costs as high as 19.4%.
The data presents a concerning picture. The median cost for Botswana residents to convert their digital currency into local currency in January 2026 was 19.4%. Research that examined almost 94,000 pricing checks across 66 currency corridors in Africa revealed this to be the highest rate.
Source: borderless.xyz
Competition drives the price gap
Research from payments company Borderless.xyz found that while the technology itself works fine, moving money around the world for almost nothing, the real problem happens at the end of the line. That final step, when digital money becomes cash you can actually spend, is where costs pile up.
Across Africa, the typical cost for this conversion sits at about 3%, or 299 basis points. Compare that to Latin America, where users pay around 1.3%, or Asia, where the cost drops to just 0.07%. African customers are clearly getting a worse deal.
Congo wasn’t far behind Botswana, with conversion costs running over 13%. These high prices show up in places where only one or two companies handle these transactions. Without competition, there’s nothing stopping them from charging whatever they want.
South Africa tells a different story. There, multiple companies compete for business, and conversion costs stayed around 1.5% in early 2026. The pattern is clear: more competition means lower prices. The technology isn’t the issue; it’s about how many companies are fighting for customers.
This creates a strange situation. Mobile technologies and services in Africa generated $220 billion in economic value in 2024. But that growth isn’t helping everyone equally. People in certain countries are stuck paying premium prices while their neighbors get better deals.
Researchers created a measurement called the “TradFi Premium” to compare digital currency rates with traditional bank exchange rates. Around the world, the difference between the two is tiny, just 0.05%. In Africa, that gap jumps to 1.2%, or 119 basis points. African users are paying extra just to access the same digital money that costs almost nothing elsewhere.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 24, economist Vera Songwe talked about how digital currencies are cutting costs in a region where traditional money transfer services often charge 6% or more, about $6 for every $100 sent. She’s right about some places. However, the new data shows this only works where companies actually compete.
The findings reveal that in some African countries, using digital currencies actually costs more than the old-fashioned wire transfer services everyone thought they would replace. That is the opposite of what was supposed to happen.
More providers needed to lower costs
More technology is not the answer. The only thing these pricey avenues need is more businesses eager to conduct business there. Customers are forced to pay the established price when a market is controlled by a single provider.
Government rules matter too. Countries without clear regulations for digital currencies end up stuck in place. New companies will not enter markets where the legal situation remains unclear, and without new companies, prices stay high.
The blockchain technology works exactly as promised, it moves money across borders quickly and cheaply. But until more providers enter markets like Botswana and Congo, and until governments create clear rules that encourage competition, many African users will keep paying far more than they should. The revolution in money transfers is here, but it’s not reaching everyone yet.
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According to recent research, while the median conversion cost across Africa is about 3%, some countries face significantly worse rates, with Botswana experiencing costs as high as 19.4%.
The data presents a concerning picture. The median cost for Botswana residents to convert their digital currency into local currency in January 2026 was 19.4%. Research that examined almost 94,000 pricing checks across 66 currency corridors in Africa revealed this to be the highest rate.
Source: borderless.xyz
Competition drives the price gap
Research from payments company Borderless.xyz found that while the technology itself works fine, moving money around the world for almost nothing, the real problem happens at the end of the line. That final step, when digital money becomes cash you can actually spend, is where costs pile up.
Across Africa, the typical cost for this conversion sits at about 3%, or 299 basis points. Compare that to Latin America, where users pay around 1.3%, or Asia, where the cost drops to just 0.07%. African customers are clearly getting a worse deal.
Congo wasn’t far behind Botswana, with conversion costs running over 13%. These high prices show up in places where only one or two companies handle these transactions. Without competition, there’s nothing stopping them from charging whatever they want.
South Africa tells a different story. There, multiple companies compete for business, and conversion costs stayed around 1.5% in early 2026. The pattern is clear: more competition means lower prices. The technology isn’t the issue; it’s about how many companies are fighting for customers.
This creates a strange situation. Mobile technologies and services in Africa generated $220 billion in economic value in 2024. But that growth isn’t helping everyone equally. People in certain countries are stuck paying premium prices while their neighbors get better deals.
Researchers created a measurement called the “TradFi Premium” to compare digital currency rates with traditional bank exchange rates. Around the world, the difference between the two is tiny, just 0.05%. In Africa, that gap jumps to 1.2%, or 119 basis points. African users are paying extra just to access the same digital money that costs almost nothing elsewhere.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 24, economist Vera Songwe talked about how digital currencies are cutting costs in a region where traditional money transfer services often charge 6% or more, about $6 for every $100 sent. She’s right about some places. However, the new data shows this only works where companies actually compete.
The findings reveal that in some African countries, using digital currencies actually costs more than the old-fashioned wire transfer services everyone thought they would replace. That is the opposite of what was supposed to happen.
More providers needed to lower costs
More technology is not the answer. The only thing these pricey avenues need is more businesses eager to conduct business there. Customers are forced to pay the established price when a market is controlled by a single provider.
Government rules matter too. Countries without clear regulations for digital currencies end up stuck in place. New companies will not enter markets where the legal situation remains unclear, and without new companies, prices stay high.
The blockchain technology works exactly as promised, it moves money across borders quickly and cheaply. But until more providers enter markets like Botswana and Congo, and until governments create clear rules that encourage competition, many African users will keep paying far more than they should. The revolution in money transfers is here, but it’s not reaching everyone yet.
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Best Crypto to Buy: Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Outshines Cardano (ADA) as the Whale Favorite in 2026
With whales realigning their strategies for 2026, investors are now focusing more and more on projects that have growth potential and value-grab mechanisms. While projects like Cardano (ADA) continue to stay relevant through their long-term growth, whales are now focusing more and more on new projects that have better growth asymmetry. Among such projects, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is now turning out to be the top crypto, gaining significant traction due to its decentralized lending system and revenue-generation mechanism.
Cardano’s Quiet Momentum
Cardano (ADA) is showing some quiet signs of growth, up by 3% over the past 24 hours and breaking through short-term support levels as overall sentiment improves. Cardano is also seeing some institutional investment, with Grayscale increasing its ADA allocation to 19.5% of its Smart Contract Fund. From a technical perspective, ADA is likely to retest the $0.30 level. If it breaks through, it can rise to $0.35, but if it rejects, it may fall to around $0.25. While Cardano is quietly growing, bigger whale interest is flowing to Mutuum Finance (MUTM), priced cheaper at just $0.04.
P2C for Efficiency, P2P for Customization
Mutuum Finance is a decentralized finance system that allows users to act as lenders, borrowers, or liquidators in a secure environment with the help of smart contracts. The unique feature of Mutuum Finance is its two-fold approach to decentralized lending: it supports Peer to Contract (P2C) and Peer to Peer (P2P) lending.
In the case of P2C, users contribute mainstream assets like USDC or ETH to liquidity pools and earn interest based on the pool’s usage. A user puts $20,000 USDC into a Mutuum Finance P2C pool. If the average usage of the pool supports 10% APY, the user will receive $22,000 after a year without any further action required. The borrowers will take loans from the pool by depositing crypto assets at, say, 150% over-collateralization or higher, with interest rates automatically adjusting to match supply and demand dynamics.
Meanwhile, the P2P model accommodates more speculative or niche tokens, which do not fit well in the pooled model. For instance, a user has $15,000 in a volatile asset like PEPE and needs cash without necessarily selling the asset. The user connects with a lender who is willing to lend $7,500 in USDC in exchange for PEPE as collateral. They agree on a 6-month loan with a 13% APY and overcollateralized by 200%.
The borrower receives $7,500 in USDC for cash needs and still has the opportunity to benefit from the appreciation of PEPE, while the lender earns $487.50 in interest when the loan is repaid. Collectively, these models show how Mutuum Finance will bring together scalable and automated lending for stable assets with customizable and risk-adjusted lending for speculative tokens, making it the top crypto choice for serious DeFi investors.
Early Investor Incentives and Community Rewards
Mutuum Finance has introduced several incentives and rewards to encourage early investors and create community engagement. For example, the daily leaderboard showcases the top buyer of the day and rewards them with a $500 MUTM bonus. Furthermore, there is a $100,000 giveaway in which ten lucky winners will receive $10,000 in MUTM tokens.
This not only rewards early investors but also encourages community engagement as the platform gets closer to its mainnet launch. This focus on community incentives further positions MUTM as the best crypto to buy for investors seeking both growth and engagement.
Mutuum Finance: The Next DeFi Breakout
For investors looking to invest in the next big thing in DeFi, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) appears to be an attractive investment option. Currently priced at $0.04 in Phase 7 of the presale, MUTM boasts lending capabilities, as well as yield farming with mtTokens and risk management tools. Having raised over $20.4 million and with close to 19,000 token holders, the platform has gained significant traction in the market.
The token’s gradual and consistent increase further underscores its potential for growth. While it started at $0.01 in Phase 1, it has gradually risen to $0.04 in Phase 7 and is expected to increase further in the upcoming Phases until launching on exchanges at $0.06. Investors in the current phase have the opportunity to maximize their returns before the eventual launch.
For instance, an investor may invest $3,000 in MUTM at $0.04. This gives them 75,000 MUTM tokens. However, when the token eventually lists on the exchange at $0.06, they stand to gain $4,500, which is a $1,500 profit before any eventual gains from the eventual price increase of the token. This is the tangible benefit of investing in MUTM in the current phase, making it one of the most promising DeFi coins to invest in today, and solidifying its status as the top crypto in the current market.
As whales are positioning for 2026, they are focusing on utility coins that are going to grow significantly in the near future instead of slow-moving established coins. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is quickly turning out to be the highest-performing cryptocurrency in the market, beating Cardano by launching its dual lending system already and generating revenue for investors while also providing attractive community incentives. Currently priced at just $0.04 in presale and backed by over $20.4 million in capital, MUTM is the best crypto to buy for investors seeking to generate explosive returns on their investment before the next capital rotation cycle begins.
For more information about Mutuum Finance (MUTM) visit the links below:
Website: https://mutuum.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mutuumfinance
Cardano’s Quiet Momentum
Cardano (ADA) is showing some quiet signs of growth, up by 3% over the past 24 hours and breaking through short-term support levels as overall sentiment improves. Cardano is also seeing some institutional investment, with Grayscale increasing its ADA allocation to 19.5% of its Smart Contract Fund. From a technical perspective, ADA is likely to retest the $0.30 level. If it breaks through, it can rise to $0.35, but if it rejects, it may fall to around $0.25. While Cardano is quietly growing, bigger whale interest is flowing to Mutuum Finance (MUTM), priced cheaper at just $0.04.
P2C for Efficiency, P2P for Customization
Mutuum Finance is a decentralized finance system that allows users to act as lenders, borrowers, or liquidators in a secure environment with the help of smart contracts. The unique feature of Mutuum Finance is its two-fold approach to decentralized lending: it supports Peer to Contract (P2C) and Peer to Peer (P2P) lending.
In the case of P2C, users contribute mainstream assets like USDC or ETH to liquidity pools and earn interest based on the pool’s usage. A user puts $20,000 USDC into a Mutuum Finance P2C pool. If the average usage of the pool supports 10% APY, the user will receive $22,000 after a year without any further action required. The borrowers will take loans from the pool by depositing crypto assets at, say, 150% over-collateralization or higher, with interest rates automatically adjusting to match supply and demand dynamics.
Meanwhile, the P2P model accommodates more speculative or niche tokens, which do not fit well in the pooled model. For instance, a user has $15,000 in a volatile asset like PEPE and needs cash without necessarily selling the asset. The user connects with a lender who is willing to lend $7,500 in USDC in exchange for PEPE as collateral. They agree on a 6-month loan with a 13% APY and overcollateralized by 200%.
The borrower receives $7,500 in USDC for cash needs and still has the opportunity to benefit from the appreciation of PEPE, while the lender earns $487.50 in interest when the loan is repaid. Collectively, these models show how Mutuum Finance will bring together scalable and automated lending for stable assets with customizable and risk-adjusted lending for speculative tokens, making it the top crypto choice for serious DeFi investors.
Early Investor Incentives and Community Rewards
Mutuum Finance has introduced several incentives and rewards to encourage early investors and create community engagement. For example, the daily leaderboard showcases the top buyer of the day and rewards them with a $500 MUTM bonus. Furthermore, there is a $100,000 giveaway in which ten lucky winners will receive $10,000 in MUTM tokens.
This not only rewards early investors but also encourages community engagement as the platform gets closer to its mainnet launch. This focus on community incentives further positions MUTM as the best crypto to buy for investors seeking both growth and engagement.
Mutuum Finance: The Next DeFi Breakout
For investors looking to invest in the next big thing in DeFi, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) appears to be an attractive investment option. Currently priced at $0.04 in Phase 7 of the presale, MUTM boasts lending capabilities, as well as yield farming with mtTokens and risk management tools. Having raised over $20.4 million and with close to 19,000 token holders, the platform has gained significant traction in the market.
The token’s gradual and consistent increase further underscores its potential for growth. While it started at $0.01 in Phase 1, it has gradually risen to $0.04 in Phase 7 and is expected to increase further in the upcoming Phases until launching on exchanges at $0.06. Investors in the current phase have the opportunity to maximize their returns before the eventual launch.
For instance, an investor may invest $3,000 in MUTM at $0.04. This gives them 75,000 MUTM tokens. However, when the token eventually lists on the exchange at $0.06, they stand to gain $4,500, which is a $1,500 profit before any eventual gains from the eventual price increase of the token. This is the tangible benefit of investing in MUTM in the current phase, making it one of the most promising DeFi coins to invest in today, and solidifying its status as the top crypto in the current market.
As whales are positioning for 2026, they are focusing on utility coins that are going to grow significantly in the near future instead of slow-moving established coins. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is quickly turning out to be the highest-performing cryptocurrency in the market, beating Cardano by launching its dual lending system already and generating revenue for investors while also providing attractive community incentives. Currently priced at just $0.04 in presale and backed by over $20.4 million in capital, MUTM is the best crypto to buy for investors seeking to generate explosive returns on their investment before the next capital rotation cycle begins.
For more information about Mutuum Finance (MUTM) visit the links below:
Website: https://mutuum.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mutuumfinance
UNI surges 30% as Uniswap partners with Securitize to tokenize BUIDL
Uniswap and Securitize Markets have announced a strategic partnership that has overseen the integration of BlackRock’s $2.4 billion USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) on UniswapX for trading, causing UNI to surge 30% in the last 24 hours.
Decentralized crypto exchange protocol Uniswap has joined forces with tokenization platform Securitize Markets to expand tokenization of real-world assets by bringing them onchain. The deal aims to bring BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) shares on UniswapX, unlocking onchain trading of BUIDL. BUIDL has $2.4 billion in net assets under management as of February 11.
UNI surges 30% as Uniswap partners with Securitize to tokenize BUIDL
Today, we are announcing a strategic integration in collaboration with @Securitize, to make @BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) available to trade via UniswapX through Securitize pic.twitter.com/eXfnLTUkVU
— Uniswap Labs 🦄 (@Uniswap) February 11, 2026
Uniswap published a press release on February 11 highlighting that BUIDL’s integration into UniswapX will unlock new liquidity options for BUIDL holders while bridging traditional finance with the decentralized economy.
Uniswap’s native crypto asset, UNI, is up 30% over the last 24 hours, bringing its seven-day surge to 4.26%, according to data from CoinMarketCap. The crypto asset is trading at $3.86 after spiking to $4.37 on Wednesday.
Hayden Adams, Founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs, said the partnership aligns with Uniswap’s broader vision to “make exchanging value cheaper, faster, and more accessible.” Adams added that the integration will create “efficient markets, better liquidity, and faster settlement.” The deal stipulates that Securitize Markets will facilitate trading for BUIDL investors using the Uniswap RFQ framework.
Carlos Domingo, CEO of Securitize, said the partnership’s main objective is to merge the trust and regulatory standards of traditional finance with the speed and openness of onchain activities. The publication emphasized that trading BUIDL is now available 24/7, 365 days a year, but access is limited to whitelisted investors for now. The partnership comes less than two weeks after Securitize reported 841% revenue growth over the previous nine months, ahead of its Nasdaq public listing.
Robert Mitchnick, Global Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, said the alliance is a significant step toward integrating tokenized assets into decentralized finance. He added that BUIDL’s integration into UniswapX represents a significant
Tokenization is set to expand in 2026 under Ethereum’s dominance
The news comes as tokenization of real-world assets continues to expand, with firms such as São Paulo-based cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin predicting that tokenization will explode in 2026. BlackRock recently expanded BUIDL’s reach by launching the product on Aptos, Polygon, Optimism, Binance’s BNB Chain, and the Solana network. The global asset management firm also integrated with DeFi protocols such as Euler via wrapped fund versions.
BlackRock recognized Ethereum’s dominance in its 2026 tokenization outlook, given its extensive use in creating decentralized applications and token infrastructure. According to a previous report by Cryptopolitan, BlackRock’s strategist Jay Jacobs said Ethereum is on track to benefit significantly as tokenization continues to gain steam. BlackRock’s 2026 thematic outlook labeled Ethereum as the “toll road” of tokenization, giving the network a near-monopoly in the sector.
According to onchain data, Ethereum accounts for nearly 61% of all tokenized assets worth over $200 billion. BNB Chain accounts for only 10%, while Solana claims third place with a market share of 4.52%. Other networks have also joined the tokenization bandwagon through strategic partnerships with traditional finance entities. Ripple has been making strides to expand tokenization on the XRP Ledger.
The company recently formed a strategic partnership with the UK-based $345 billion asset management firm Aviva to pursue the tokenization of traditional fund structures. Aviva Investors will leverage the XRP Ledger to issue and manage tokenized funds for its investors.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong also said tokenization expands access to global markets by minimizing entry barriers and enabling investors to create wealth regardless of location. He highlighted that capital markets overwhelmingly benefit the rich, a challenge that tokenization could potentially solve, according to the CEO.
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Decentralized crypto exchange protocol Uniswap has joined forces with tokenization platform Securitize Markets to expand tokenization of real-world assets by bringing them onchain. The deal aims to bring BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) shares on UniswapX, unlocking onchain trading of BUIDL. BUIDL has $2.4 billion in net assets under management as of February 11.
UNI surges 30% as Uniswap partners with Securitize to tokenize BUIDL
Today, we are announcing a strategic integration in collaboration with @Securitize, to make @BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) available to trade via UniswapX through Securitize pic.twitter.com/eXfnLTUkVU
— Uniswap Labs 🦄 (@Uniswap) February 11, 2026
Uniswap published a press release on February 11 highlighting that BUIDL’s integration into UniswapX will unlock new liquidity options for BUIDL holders while bridging traditional finance with the decentralized economy.
Uniswap’s native crypto asset, UNI, is up 30% over the last 24 hours, bringing its seven-day surge to 4.26%, according to data from CoinMarketCap. The crypto asset is trading at $3.86 after spiking to $4.37 on Wednesday.
Hayden Adams, Founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs, said the partnership aligns with Uniswap’s broader vision to “make exchanging value cheaper, faster, and more accessible.” Adams added that the integration will create “efficient markets, better liquidity, and faster settlement.” The deal stipulates that Securitize Markets will facilitate trading for BUIDL investors using the Uniswap RFQ framework.
Carlos Domingo, CEO of Securitize, said the partnership’s main objective is to merge the trust and regulatory standards of traditional finance with the speed and openness of onchain activities. The publication emphasized that trading BUIDL is now available 24/7, 365 days a year, but access is limited to whitelisted investors for now. The partnership comes less than two weeks after Securitize reported 841% revenue growth over the previous nine months, ahead of its Nasdaq public listing.
Robert Mitchnick, Global Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, said the alliance is a significant step toward integrating tokenized assets into decentralized finance. He added that BUIDL’s integration into UniswapX represents a significant
Tokenization is set to expand in 2026 under Ethereum’s dominance
The news comes as tokenization of real-world assets continues to expand, with firms such as São Paulo-based cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin predicting that tokenization will explode in 2026. BlackRock recently expanded BUIDL’s reach by launching the product on Aptos, Polygon, Optimism, Binance’s BNB Chain, and the Solana network. The global asset management firm also integrated with DeFi protocols such as Euler via wrapped fund versions.
BlackRock recognized Ethereum’s dominance in its 2026 tokenization outlook, given its extensive use in creating decentralized applications and token infrastructure. According to a previous report by Cryptopolitan, BlackRock’s strategist Jay Jacobs said Ethereum is on track to benefit significantly as tokenization continues to gain steam. BlackRock’s 2026 thematic outlook labeled Ethereum as the “toll road” of tokenization, giving the network a near-monopoly in the sector.
According to onchain data, Ethereum accounts for nearly 61% of all tokenized assets worth over $200 billion. BNB Chain accounts for only 10%, while Solana claims third place with a market share of 4.52%. Other networks have also joined the tokenization bandwagon through strategic partnerships with traditional finance entities. Ripple has been making strides to expand tokenization on the XRP Ledger.
The company recently formed a strategic partnership with the UK-based $345 billion asset management firm Aviva to pursue the tokenization of traditional fund structures. Aviva Investors will leverage the XRP Ledger to issue and manage tokenized funds for its investors.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong also said tokenization expands access to global markets by minimizing entry barriers and enabling investors to create wealth regardless of location. He highlighted that capital markets overwhelmingly benefit the rich, a challenge that tokenization could potentially solve, according to the CEO.
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Google launches in-AI shopping through Search and Gemini
Google is now letting users buy products directly inside Search and Gemini AI.No more bouncing to other sites. You type a question, get an AI answer, and click “buy.”It’s all built to pull in money right from people using AI.
You can now shop from Walmart, Wayfair, and Etsy inside Gemini. And it’s not some vague test. Google told advertisers directly in a letter sent Wednesday that this thing is rolling.
It’s part of what Google calls AI Mode inside its search engine. Advertisers and stores can now place products directly inside those AI answers. The new system even includes Direct Offers, which let brands attach discounts right inside those responses.
So if you’re asking Gemini for “cheap office chairs,” it can show you a chair, the sale price, and a “buy now” button, all inside the chat.
Google adds Direct Offers, retail checkout, and partner integration
Vidhya Srinivasan, who runs ads and commerce at Google, said they’re not just putting ads into AI results. “We aren’t just bringing ads to AI experiences in Search; we are reinventing what an ad is.”
To pull that off, Google started working earlier this year with Shopify, Walmart, and Target to create a new system for AI-powered shopping. It covers checkout, payments, and digital identity.
That means if someone asks Gemini to find them a toaster, Gemini can now not just show one but help you buy it immediately using that same interface. You never leave the app.
Srinivasan said this “is helping to lay the foundation for a future where all commercial experiences can be seamless and agentic.” That means the company wants AI to act like your personal shopper; finding, deciding, and buying for you.
Inside Gemini, this goes even deeper. A feature called Personal Intelligence rolled out last month for paid users. It watches your emails, your photos, your history, all to build a better understanding of what you like and might want to buy. This is only live right now for the AI Pro and Ultra subscribers inside Gemini.
People can choose whether or not to turn it on. It’s opt-in, not forced. But it’s made to track preferences and tailor responses. For example, if you’ve searched for baby toys in the past and allowed Personal Intelligence to read your activity, it might suggest kids’ items first when you ask about gifts.
Google also has plans to open Personal Intelligence to free users. They’re testing it now inside AI Mode Search, and there’s code inside the latest Android Gemini app that hints at something called GL Intelligence. That’ll be for Gemini Live, which is their spoken voice assistant.
Even though Personal Intelligence inside Gemini Live isn’t fully active yet, Google is clearly building toward it. The rollout hasn’t hit all users. But the company is getting ready to embed this smart profile feature into every part of its AI platform.
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You can now shop from Walmart, Wayfair, and Etsy inside Gemini. And it’s not some vague test. Google told advertisers directly in a letter sent Wednesday that this thing is rolling.
It’s part of what Google calls AI Mode inside its search engine. Advertisers and stores can now place products directly inside those AI answers. The new system even includes Direct Offers, which let brands attach discounts right inside those responses.
So if you’re asking Gemini for “cheap office chairs,” it can show you a chair, the sale price, and a “buy now” button, all inside the chat.
Google adds Direct Offers, retail checkout, and partner integration
Vidhya Srinivasan, who runs ads and commerce at Google, said they’re not just putting ads into AI results. “We aren’t just bringing ads to AI experiences in Search; we are reinventing what an ad is.”
To pull that off, Google started working earlier this year with Shopify, Walmart, and Target to create a new system for AI-powered shopping. It covers checkout, payments, and digital identity.
That means if someone asks Gemini to find them a toaster, Gemini can now not just show one but help you buy it immediately using that same interface. You never leave the app.
Srinivasan said this “is helping to lay the foundation for a future where all commercial experiences can be seamless and agentic.” That means the company wants AI to act like your personal shopper; finding, deciding, and buying for you.
Inside Gemini, this goes even deeper. A feature called Personal Intelligence rolled out last month for paid users. It watches your emails, your photos, your history, all to build a better understanding of what you like and might want to buy. This is only live right now for the AI Pro and Ultra subscribers inside Gemini.
People can choose whether or not to turn it on. It’s opt-in, not forced. But it’s made to track preferences and tailor responses. For example, if you’ve searched for baby toys in the past and allowed Personal Intelligence to read your activity, it might suggest kids’ items first when you ask about gifts.
Google also has plans to open Personal Intelligence to free users. They’re testing it now inside AI Mode Search, and there’s code inside the latest Android Gemini app that hints at something called GL Intelligence. That’ll be for Gemini Live, which is their spoken voice assistant.
Even though Personal Intelligence inside Gemini Live isn’t fully active yet, Google is clearly building toward it. The rollout hasn’t hit all users. But the company is getting ready to embed this smart profile feature into every part of its AI platform.
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ChatGPT selfie trend raises fresh biometric privacy concerns in Kenya
OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform has sparked a viral social media sensation, with Kenyans re-feeding their personal data, including selfies, weeks after Sam Altman’s Worldcoin deleted all biometric data collected from Kenyan citizens.
To generate a caricature, ChatGPT relies on content actively provided by the user, such as uploaded images, prompts, and descriptive information. Data Commissioner Immaculate Kassait warned Kenyan citizens that this practice shares biometric data freely, training AI models like OpenAI’s without user compensation.
Kenyans freely give their biometrics to Altman’s bot
This trend follows Kenya’s battle to delete its data from Worldcoin. Worldcoin is a crypto-backed digital identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. It is designed to verify that users are real humans by scanning their irises with specialised hardware in exchange for a digital ID and crypto tokens.
Worldcoin’s operations in Kenya began in 2023 with the deployment of its signature “orb” devices, spherical scanners that captured iris and facial scans from participants. In exchange, users were offered 25 free Worldcoin tokens (Ksh 8,256 at the time) at the time. This incentive drew large crowds but also deep concern from privacy advocates and regulators.
Kenya’s regulatory pushback was swift. In August 2023, the government suspended the project amid fears the data could be misused or transferred outside the country without sufficient safeguards.
In May last year, the High Court ruled that the company behind Worldcoin violated the Data Protection Act of 2019 by collecting sensitive personal data without proper consent and without conducting a mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA).
Last month, Cryptopolitan reported that the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) confirmed that all iris scans and other biometric identifiers gathered during Worldcoin’s 2023 enrolment exercise had been erased from the project’s systems.
However, with the new AI caricatures is obtaining the very data that was deleted. During the process of creating it, ChatGPT requests a clear selfie, good lighting, a visible face, and no heavy filters.
“I need your actual face […] once I have it, I can exaggerate the right features, sharpen the attitude, and dial the realism just right,” the bot states.
To Ms Kassait, the AI caricatures trend is part of a phenomenon called surveillance capitalism. According to Harvard, it is a new form of capitalism that converts human behaviour into data for tracking, analysis, and monetisation.
“What you have just done is share your biometrics. In the future, somebody doing analytics can actually tell every single thing about you. You clicked, you didn’t ask what the purpose is,” she added. To that end, she encouraged users to carefully read the platform’s terms before sharing.
OpenAI expands Ad model as financial pressures mount
The caricature trend emerges as AI companies face financial pressures. OpenAI recently introduced advertising in ChatGPT responses and launched a cheaper $8 monthly Go tier to increase revenue.
OpenAI has approximately $13 billion in revenue and around $1.4 trillion in compute commitments. The AI company announced a string of partnerships in recent months. Among them, Nvidia said it would commit $100 billion to support OpenAI as it builds and deploys at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems.
More recently, OpenAI announced a $10 billion deal with chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 750 megawatts of Cerebras’ AI chips. It also has other agreements with AMD and Broadcom.
Meanwhile, Anthropic and OpenAI are publicly clashing over their business strategies, especially the role of advertising in AI products. Anthropic paid for high-profile Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI’s move to start showing ads in ChatGPT, using the tagline “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.”
Anthropic has committed $50 billion to building data centers in the US, but it will also spend money buying computers from players like Microsoft and Google. According to Anthropic, unlike OpenAI, it’s doing more with less.
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To generate a caricature, ChatGPT relies on content actively provided by the user, such as uploaded images, prompts, and descriptive information. Data Commissioner Immaculate Kassait warned Kenyan citizens that this practice shares biometric data freely, training AI models like OpenAI’s without user compensation.
Kenyans freely give their biometrics to Altman’s bot
This trend follows Kenya’s battle to delete its data from Worldcoin. Worldcoin is a crypto-backed digital identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. It is designed to verify that users are real humans by scanning their irises with specialised hardware in exchange for a digital ID and crypto tokens.
Worldcoin’s operations in Kenya began in 2023 with the deployment of its signature “orb” devices, spherical scanners that captured iris and facial scans from participants. In exchange, users were offered 25 free Worldcoin tokens (Ksh 8,256 at the time) at the time. This incentive drew large crowds but also deep concern from privacy advocates and regulators.
Kenya’s regulatory pushback was swift. In August 2023, the government suspended the project amid fears the data could be misused or transferred outside the country without sufficient safeguards.
In May last year, the High Court ruled that the company behind Worldcoin violated the Data Protection Act of 2019 by collecting sensitive personal data without proper consent and without conducting a mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA).
Last month, Cryptopolitan reported that the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) confirmed that all iris scans and other biometric identifiers gathered during Worldcoin’s 2023 enrolment exercise had been erased from the project’s systems.
However, with the new AI caricatures is obtaining the very data that was deleted. During the process of creating it, ChatGPT requests a clear selfie, good lighting, a visible face, and no heavy filters.
“I need your actual face […] once I have it, I can exaggerate the right features, sharpen the attitude, and dial the realism just right,” the bot states.
To Ms Kassait, the AI caricatures trend is part of a phenomenon called surveillance capitalism. According to Harvard, it is a new form of capitalism that converts human behaviour into data for tracking, analysis, and monetisation.
“What you have just done is share your biometrics. In the future, somebody doing analytics can actually tell every single thing about you. You clicked, you didn’t ask what the purpose is,” she added. To that end, she encouraged users to carefully read the platform’s terms before sharing.
OpenAI expands Ad model as financial pressures mount
The caricature trend emerges as AI companies face financial pressures. OpenAI recently introduced advertising in ChatGPT responses and launched a cheaper $8 monthly Go tier to increase revenue.
OpenAI has approximately $13 billion in revenue and around $1.4 trillion in compute commitments. The AI company announced a string of partnerships in recent months. Among them, Nvidia said it would commit $100 billion to support OpenAI as it builds and deploys at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems.
More recently, OpenAI announced a $10 billion deal with chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 750 megawatts of Cerebras’ AI chips. It also has other agreements with AMD and Broadcom.
Meanwhile, Anthropic and OpenAI are publicly clashing over their business strategies, especially the role of advertising in AI products. Anthropic paid for high-profile Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI’s move to start showing ads in ChatGPT, using the tagline “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.”
Anthropic has committed $50 billion to building data centers in the US, but it will also spend money buying computers from players like Microsoft and Google. According to Anthropic, unlike OpenAI, it’s doing more with less.
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Market Vector memecoin index plunges 74% since January 2025
Memecoin trading is sending a bear market signal, based on the performance of legacy memes. Despite the rise in small-scale token launches, meme tokens crashed in the past year.
The memecoin market showed the first indications of a shift in sentiment, and may be considered a sign that crypto is in the depths of a bear market. Memes usually measure exuberance and the inflow of mainstream retail money. However, there are significant outflows from legacy memes, including the original Dogecoin (DOGE).
Dogecoin was expected to become a mainstream asset, especially after the major boost from Elon Musk. However, after years of trading, DOGE unraveled and slid to $0.08, as its narrative strength weakened.
Some of the legacy meme coins and tokens have been mostly abandoned from social media narratives. According to Alphractal data, FLOKI dominates 39.7% of meme trading, BONK holds 32.2%, and DOGE stands at 30%. The trading profile of those meme tokens is very different from the Solana meme complex, where small-scale tokens survive for days or even hours, with extremely low volumes as traders constantly chase new additions.
Memecoin index erases bull market gains
The memecoin index by Market Vector erased over 74% of its value since January 2025. The index contains leading meme tokens like DOGE, SHIB, PEPE, MAGA, BONK, and the more recently added Pudgy Penguins (PENGU), a representative of the Solana ecosystem.
The Market Vector memecoin index slid by over 74% since January 2025. | Source: Market Vector
In the past year, the index rapidly unraveled, signaling no enthusiasm for an altcoin market. Memes were widely popular during the 2021 bull market, but incurred the deepest losses during the 2023 bear market.
Meme tokens were used to replace other altcoins, which came under scrutiny for potentially being used as unregistered securities. Memes did not make claims to intrinsic value and avoided investigation, which affected other types of tokens.
Meme activity is also seen as an indicator of market reawakening, as well as the beginnings of a bear market. Memes usually reach their peak before altcoins and signal a shift in sentiment. Memes are also an early signal for a general market weakness and lack of positive sentiment. Fewer whales and retail investors want to lock funds for months, awaiting a meme recovery for older tokens.
Memecoin activity shifts to Solana
The reason for the slow performance of legacy meme projects is the shift to the Solana ecosystem.
Over 81% of meme tokens are on Solana, though most of the assets have a minimal market capitalization. Unlike long-term projects like BONK, the new waves of memes track new social media trends more closely.
Solana took up over 81% of meme tokens, though most assets are short-lived and with low liquidity. | Source: Dune Analytics
New tokens also do not try to form communities or wait for expansion, instead relying on rapid trading and often leading to rug pulls.
New token activity has not been affected by the bear market, as retail has switched to the trenches to avoid getting caught in a downward spiral in BTC and other larger tokens.
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The memecoin market showed the first indications of a shift in sentiment, and may be considered a sign that crypto is in the depths of a bear market. Memes usually measure exuberance and the inflow of mainstream retail money. However, there are significant outflows from legacy memes, including the original Dogecoin (DOGE).
Dogecoin was expected to become a mainstream asset, especially after the major boost from Elon Musk. However, after years of trading, DOGE unraveled and slid to $0.08, as its narrative strength weakened.
Some of the legacy meme coins and tokens have been mostly abandoned from social media narratives. According to Alphractal data, FLOKI dominates 39.7% of meme trading, BONK holds 32.2%, and DOGE stands at 30%. The trading profile of those meme tokens is very different from the Solana meme complex, where small-scale tokens survive for days or even hours, with extremely low volumes as traders constantly chase new additions.
Memecoin index erases bull market gains
The memecoin index by Market Vector erased over 74% of its value since January 2025. The index contains leading meme tokens like DOGE, SHIB, PEPE, MAGA, BONK, and the more recently added Pudgy Penguins (PENGU), a representative of the Solana ecosystem.
The Market Vector memecoin index slid by over 74% since January 2025. | Source: Market Vector
In the past year, the index rapidly unraveled, signaling no enthusiasm for an altcoin market. Memes were widely popular during the 2021 bull market, but incurred the deepest losses during the 2023 bear market.
Meme tokens were used to replace other altcoins, which came under scrutiny for potentially being used as unregistered securities. Memes did not make claims to intrinsic value and avoided investigation, which affected other types of tokens.
Meme activity is also seen as an indicator of market reawakening, as well as the beginnings of a bear market. Memes usually reach their peak before altcoins and signal a shift in sentiment. Memes are also an early signal for a general market weakness and lack of positive sentiment. Fewer whales and retail investors want to lock funds for months, awaiting a meme recovery for older tokens.
Memecoin activity shifts to Solana
The reason for the slow performance of legacy meme projects is the shift to the Solana ecosystem.
Over 81% of meme tokens are on Solana, though most of the assets have a minimal market capitalization. Unlike long-term projects like BONK, the new waves of memes track new social media trends more closely.
Solana took up over 81% of meme tokens, though most assets are short-lived and with low liquidity. | Source: Dune Analytics
New tokens also do not try to form communities or wait for expansion, instead relying on rapid trading and often leading to rug pulls.
New token activity has not been affected by the bear market, as retail has switched to the trenches to avoid getting caught in a downward spiral in BTC and other larger tokens.
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Court upholds suspension and orders six-month probe into Nexperia
China-linked Wingtech has lost its court fight to take back control of Nexperia, the Dutch semiconductor company caught in a long and messy power struggle.
The Amsterdam appeals court rejected Wingtech’s request and kept earlier emergency measures in place, extending a crisis that has already disrupted chip flows to parts of Europe’s car industry.
The judges confirmed that Nexperia’s Chinese chief executive, Zhang Xuezheng, will stay suspended. Control remains with EU-based directors while a formal investigation begins.
In a press release, the court said it “finds that there are valid reasons to doubt the sound policy and conduct of business at Nexperia and orders an investigation.” The decision means outside investigators will now review how Nexperia has been run.
Court upholds suspension and orders six-month probe into Nexperia
The Dutch government stepped in last September and temporarily seized control of Nexperia, which is based in Nijmegen.
Officials said Zhang’s actions created a threat to Europe’s security of supply. His shares were transferred to a trust. He kept the economic benefits but lost voting control.
On Wednesday, the Enterprise Chamber said it found “indications of negligent conduct involving a conflict of interest.”
The court said there were signs that a director, facing possible sanctions, changed the company’s strategy without consulting other board members.
It said agreements with the Ministry of Economic Affairs were not followed, the authority of European officials was reduced, and their resignations were announced. The court will appoint two investigators who will work for about six months. The investigation will also review the conduct of the Dutch management of Nexperia, which was one of Wingtech’s main requests.
Since the intervention, the European and Chinese parts of Nexperia have stopped working together. That breakdown caused chip shortages that affected the car sector.
The Hamburg plant halted shipments of silicon wafers to China for final assembly, stating it was not being paid. Customers responded by buying wafers from the European side and sending them to China themselves for assembly to bypass the internal conflict.
Lawyers trade accusations as US sanctions tighten pressure
During a January hearing, lawyers for Nexperia alleged that Zhang was transferring equipment to China and using company assets to support Wing Systems, another business he owns. They argued that Wingtech was “doing everything it can to destabilise” the company.
They also claimed it had “pressured virtually all of Nexperia’s business partners not to do business with it” and had urged the Chinese government to impose export restrictions that would harm Nexperia, referencing the Dutch economy minister’s defense statement.
Zhang denied those claims in court, saying European executives mismanaged the company. He stated that he strengthened production in China to build a resilient supply chain against geopolitical shocks.
The dispute also intersects with US trade policy. In late 2024, the United States placed Wingtech on its “entity” list.
That required US companies to obtain licenses before trading with it. In September, the US Commerce Department said the restrictions would extend to Nexperia as a subsidiary.
Court documents showed that US officials warned the Dutch government that removing Zhang was necessary to avoid the listing.
After the ruling, Nexperia said its underlying business remains healthy and resilient and that it is focused on stabilising its supply chain and meeting customer demand worldwide.
Wingtech said it regretted the decision but remained confident that a full and impartial inquiry would show its actions were appropriate.
It added that the ruling prolongs significant uncertainty for a business already under strain since October 2025 and said it had not been presented with evidence justifying what it described as extraordinary measures.
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The Amsterdam appeals court rejected Wingtech’s request and kept earlier emergency measures in place, extending a crisis that has already disrupted chip flows to parts of Europe’s car industry.
The judges confirmed that Nexperia’s Chinese chief executive, Zhang Xuezheng, will stay suspended. Control remains with EU-based directors while a formal investigation begins.
In a press release, the court said it “finds that there are valid reasons to doubt the sound policy and conduct of business at Nexperia and orders an investigation.” The decision means outside investigators will now review how Nexperia has been run.
Court upholds suspension and orders six-month probe into Nexperia
The Dutch government stepped in last September and temporarily seized control of Nexperia, which is based in Nijmegen.
Officials said Zhang’s actions created a threat to Europe’s security of supply. His shares were transferred to a trust. He kept the economic benefits but lost voting control.
On Wednesday, the Enterprise Chamber said it found “indications of negligent conduct involving a conflict of interest.”
The court said there were signs that a director, facing possible sanctions, changed the company’s strategy without consulting other board members.
It said agreements with the Ministry of Economic Affairs were not followed, the authority of European officials was reduced, and their resignations were announced. The court will appoint two investigators who will work for about six months. The investigation will also review the conduct of the Dutch management of Nexperia, which was one of Wingtech’s main requests.
Since the intervention, the European and Chinese parts of Nexperia have stopped working together. That breakdown caused chip shortages that affected the car sector.
The Hamburg plant halted shipments of silicon wafers to China for final assembly, stating it was not being paid. Customers responded by buying wafers from the European side and sending them to China themselves for assembly to bypass the internal conflict.
Lawyers trade accusations as US sanctions tighten pressure
During a January hearing, lawyers for Nexperia alleged that Zhang was transferring equipment to China and using company assets to support Wing Systems, another business he owns. They argued that Wingtech was “doing everything it can to destabilise” the company.
They also claimed it had “pressured virtually all of Nexperia’s business partners not to do business with it” and had urged the Chinese government to impose export restrictions that would harm Nexperia, referencing the Dutch economy minister’s defense statement.
Zhang denied those claims in court, saying European executives mismanaged the company. He stated that he strengthened production in China to build a resilient supply chain against geopolitical shocks.
The dispute also intersects with US trade policy. In late 2024, the United States placed Wingtech on its “entity” list.
That required US companies to obtain licenses before trading with it. In September, the US Commerce Department said the restrictions would extend to Nexperia as a subsidiary.
Court documents showed that US officials warned the Dutch government that removing Zhang was necessary to avoid the listing.
After the ruling, Nexperia said its underlying business remains healthy and resilient and that it is focused on stabilising its supply chain and meeting customer demand worldwide.
Wingtech said it regretted the decision but remained confident that a full and impartial inquiry would show its actions were appropriate.
It added that the ruling prolongs significant uncertainty for a business already under strain since October 2025 and said it had not been presented with evidence justifying what it described as extraordinary measures.
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Best Crypto to Invest In: This Token’s 1,150% Forecast is Pulling Investors Away from Solana (SOL)
The crypto market is a fluid environment, and the pace of change is not always loud. At times, the action is quiet as players position themselves for the next big move. While Solana (SOL) is still a dominant player, its gains cannot be compared with those of earlier-stage projects. As a result, there is a renewed interest in the best crypto to invest in, with Mutuum Finance (MUTM) currently being touted as a 1,150% growth opportunity that is pulling investors away from Solana and other big cryptos.
Solana in Consolidation
Solana (SOL) has seen a significant downturn in the past few months, with the price currently 62% off the highs as the asset’s momentum remains subdued. As the asset stabilizes, there has been a significant outflow of 1.07 million coins from exchanges, accompanied by a further $11.9 million ETF outflow. While the asset was recently trading through the $98 to $100 range, the current level of support is the $78 level. While the asset is still recovering from the loss of the range, a breakout will require a push through the $120 level on the weekly charts. As the asset struggles, there is strong interest in Mutuum Finance as the best crypto to invest in for 2026.
MUTM V1 Protocol Rollout and Passive Income Mechanics
The recent launch of the Mutuum Finance V1 Protocol represents an important milestone, moving from the development phase to live testing. The protocol is live on the Sepolia testnet, allowing users to interact with the lending and liquidity features. This phase will help the team fine-tune the performance and security of the protocol, while also providing early supporters with hands-on experience of the protocol.
Among the key features investors will interact with are the mtTokens. These are yield-bearing assets that users receive after providing assets to liquidity pools. These tokens appreciate as the borrowers start making interest payments. For example, if a user supplies $10,000 to the liquidity pool, which earns 5.5% APY, the user will earn $550 in the first year. As the borrowing demand increases and interest soars, e.g., to 10%, the user will earn $1,000 or more, providing them with a scalable and reliable source of passive income.
Other features that are available during the testnet include debt tokens and a liquidator bot. The testnet supports ETH, LINK, USDT, and WBTC tokens. The testnet allows users to interact with the protocol without putting their assets on the line, while still realizing the potential of the protocol before mainnet launch.
Why Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Stands Out
Mutuum Finance (MUTM) represents a strong investment opportunity. Currently, the token is available in Phase 7 of the presale, priced at $0.04. This allows the initial supporters to gain exposure to the protocol before the exchange listing. Token market expectations suggest that the exchange listing will result in the token reaching $0.50, fueled by the presale’s continued success, the live testnet, and the multiple income streams available to the user. This means that an investor who puts $500 into the project during the current presale stage will see their investment grow 1,150% to become $6,250 shortly after the token’s debut. There are nearly 19,000 participants in the presale, having successfully raised more than $20.4 million, showing the high confidence in MUTM as the next big crypto in the market.
Multichain Expansion
The long-term strategy of Mutuum Finance also includes the deployment of the protocol in a multichain environment. This will allow the platform to increase the scope of its lending ecosystem to a wider variety of blockchains. This will encourage new users to the platform, increasing the scope of the MUTM token in the ecosystem.
For instance, an investor who invests $1,200 today receives 30,000 MUTM. If the token increases in value to $0.09 after launch, the investor’s 30,000 MUTM will be worth $2,700. When the platform extends to a multichain environment and the token increases in value to $1, boosted by a wider market reach and adoption, the same units of the token will be worth $30,000. This shows the potential of the token to increase in value and the benefits of the multichain strategy for the platform.
As the Solana price retraces, investors are looking towards new projects with better growth potential. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is becoming the new hot token with the potential for 1,150% growth based on the live platform and mtToken passive income. The token is a great opportunity for investors to get in on the best crypto to invest in at a price of $0.04. With the platform raising over $20.5 million in funding and high adoption rates in the community, the token is becoming the next big crypto in the market, cementing itself as a must-watch next big crypto for 2026.
For more information about Mutuum Finance (MUTM) visit the links below:
Website: https://mutuum.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mutuumfinance
Solana in Consolidation
Solana (SOL) has seen a significant downturn in the past few months, with the price currently 62% off the highs as the asset’s momentum remains subdued. As the asset stabilizes, there has been a significant outflow of 1.07 million coins from exchanges, accompanied by a further $11.9 million ETF outflow. While the asset was recently trading through the $98 to $100 range, the current level of support is the $78 level. While the asset is still recovering from the loss of the range, a breakout will require a push through the $120 level on the weekly charts. As the asset struggles, there is strong interest in Mutuum Finance as the best crypto to invest in for 2026.
MUTM V1 Protocol Rollout and Passive Income Mechanics
The recent launch of the Mutuum Finance V1 Protocol represents an important milestone, moving from the development phase to live testing. The protocol is live on the Sepolia testnet, allowing users to interact with the lending and liquidity features. This phase will help the team fine-tune the performance and security of the protocol, while also providing early supporters with hands-on experience of the protocol.
Among the key features investors will interact with are the mtTokens. These are yield-bearing assets that users receive after providing assets to liquidity pools. These tokens appreciate as the borrowers start making interest payments. For example, if a user supplies $10,000 to the liquidity pool, which earns 5.5% APY, the user will earn $550 in the first year. As the borrowing demand increases and interest soars, e.g., to 10%, the user will earn $1,000 or more, providing them with a scalable and reliable source of passive income.
Other features that are available during the testnet include debt tokens and a liquidator bot. The testnet supports ETH, LINK, USDT, and WBTC tokens. The testnet allows users to interact with the protocol without putting their assets on the line, while still realizing the potential of the protocol before mainnet launch.
Why Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Stands Out
Mutuum Finance (MUTM) represents a strong investment opportunity. Currently, the token is available in Phase 7 of the presale, priced at $0.04. This allows the initial supporters to gain exposure to the protocol before the exchange listing. Token market expectations suggest that the exchange listing will result in the token reaching $0.50, fueled by the presale’s continued success, the live testnet, and the multiple income streams available to the user. This means that an investor who puts $500 into the project during the current presale stage will see their investment grow 1,150% to become $6,250 shortly after the token’s debut. There are nearly 19,000 participants in the presale, having successfully raised more than $20.4 million, showing the high confidence in MUTM as the next big crypto in the market.
Multichain Expansion
The long-term strategy of Mutuum Finance also includes the deployment of the protocol in a multichain environment. This will allow the platform to increase the scope of its lending ecosystem to a wider variety of blockchains. This will encourage new users to the platform, increasing the scope of the MUTM token in the ecosystem.
For instance, an investor who invests $1,200 today receives 30,000 MUTM. If the token increases in value to $0.09 after launch, the investor’s 30,000 MUTM will be worth $2,700. When the platform extends to a multichain environment and the token increases in value to $1, boosted by a wider market reach and adoption, the same units of the token will be worth $30,000. This shows the potential of the token to increase in value and the benefits of the multichain strategy for the platform.
As the Solana price retraces, investors are looking towards new projects with better growth potential. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is becoming the new hot token with the potential for 1,150% growth based on the live platform and mtToken passive income. The token is a great opportunity for investors to get in on the best crypto to invest in at a price of $0.04. With the platform raising over $20.5 million in funding and high adoption rates in the community, the token is becoming the next big crypto in the market, cementing itself as a must-watch next big crypto for 2026.
For more information about Mutuum Finance (MUTM) visit the links below:
Website: https://mutuum.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mutuumfinance
Hong Kong SFC approves crypto margin lending and perpetual contracts framework
Hong Kong’s financial watchdog has issued regulatory frameworks and guidance that will let licensed brokers lend money for cryptocurrency purchases and permit professional traders to access advanced digital asset products, marking a significant step in the city’s push to become a major crypto hub.
The Securities and Futures Commission announced the changes on Wednesday. The new regulations will permit authorized brokerage firms to provide financing for virtual assets to certain customers, while also creating a legal framework for perpetual contracts, a popular type of crypto derivative.
Margin lending is limited to Bitcoin and Ether
These changes are part of what officials call the “ASPIRe” program. The letters stand for Access, Safeguards, Products, Infrastructure, and Relationships. Regulators say the current stage aims to build a market suitable for institutional players, moving past earlier efforts that centered mainly on protecting everyday consumers.
The margin lending rules allow brokers to offer financing to securities margin customers who have solid credit histories. To manage the risks that come with cryptocurrency’s price swings, only Bitcoin and Ether can be used as collateral in the beginning.
The lending framework borrows heavily from existing rules for securities margin accounts. Brokers will need to follow specific requirements in three main areas:
Collateral Quality: Assets must be easy to sell and properly valued.
Prudent Haircuts: Large discounts must be applied to crypto collateral values to cushion against price drops.
Concentration Limits: Firms must avoid excessive exposure to individual customers or specific assets.
The regulator designed these crypto-specific requirements to fit within the current financial system’s oversight structure. Officials say the goal is to enable borrowing that serves a market purpose while avoiding threats to overall financial stability.
Professional investors gain access to perpetual contracts
The approval of a framework for leveraged perpetual contracts represents perhaps the biggest change. These financial products track asset prices continuously and never expire. Until now, they have been mostly available through offshore platforms operating without regulatory oversight.
By creating local rules for these instruments, the watchdog hopes to bring high-volume trading back home.
Only professional investors can access these products. The regulator chose what it calls a principles-based approach for the contracts. This puts responsibility on platforms to give clear information to users and run strong internal systems for managing risk, including tools that automatically close out losing positions.
To help build trading activity in this new market, the regulator will permit affiliates of licensed trading platforms to serve as market makers. To avoid problems where the platform benefits unfairly at customer expense, these units must operate independently and follow strict conflict-of-interest rules.
The strategy shows a clear preference for depth over breadth. Rather than allowing many different tokens, the focus stays on the two main assets, Bitcoin and Ether.
The decision to allow affiliated market makers stands out. In traditional finance, outside firms usually provide liquidity. In digital markets, exchanges often fill this role themselves. By formalizing this through independent units, regulators are essentially taking a common crypto industry practice and adding professional standards to ensure tighter price spreads and better price discovery occur without compromising fairness.
This shift also directly challenges overseas platforms. By legitimizing perpetual contracts, which rank among the most heavily traded crypto instruments, Hong Kong is pulling back capital that previously went to unregulated venues.
This could create a cycle where regulatory safety draws in institutional money, which in turn helps reduce the volatility that originally made regulators cautious.
The new measures arrive alongside other important developments in the region’s financial technology sector:
Stablecoin Licensing: The Monetary Authority is expected to issue its first stablecoin licenses in March, providing the settlement infrastructure needed for efficient margin operations.
Regulatory Clarity: Officials plan to submit a draft law covering crypto advisory services later in 2026.
Global Compliance: To guarantee tax reporting and international cooperation, the territory is attempting to conform to the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework.
Stablecoin integration, professional derivatives access, and margin lending approvals all work together to provide a comprehensive digital asset market that functions with the dependability of a conventional stock exchange.
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The Securities and Futures Commission announced the changes on Wednesday. The new regulations will permit authorized brokerage firms to provide financing for virtual assets to certain customers, while also creating a legal framework for perpetual contracts, a popular type of crypto derivative.
Margin lending is limited to Bitcoin and Ether
These changes are part of what officials call the “ASPIRe” program. The letters stand for Access, Safeguards, Products, Infrastructure, and Relationships. Regulators say the current stage aims to build a market suitable for institutional players, moving past earlier efforts that centered mainly on protecting everyday consumers.
The margin lending rules allow brokers to offer financing to securities margin customers who have solid credit histories. To manage the risks that come with cryptocurrency’s price swings, only Bitcoin and Ether can be used as collateral in the beginning.
The lending framework borrows heavily from existing rules for securities margin accounts. Brokers will need to follow specific requirements in three main areas:
Collateral Quality: Assets must be easy to sell and properly valued.
Prudent Haircuts: Large discounts must be applied to crypto collateral values to cushion against price drops.
Concentration Limits: Firms must avoid excessive exposure to individual customers or specific assets.
The regulator designed these crypto-specific requirements to fit within the current financial system’s oversight structure. Officials say the goal is to enable borrowing that serves a market purpose while avoiding threats to overall financial stability.
Professional investors gain access to perpetual contracts
The approval of a framework for leveraged perpetual contracts represents perhaps the biggest change. These financial products track asset prices continuously and never expire. Until now, they have been mostly available through offshore platforms operating without regulatory oversight.
By creating local rules for these instruments, the watchdog hopes to bring high-volume trading back home.
Only professional investors can access these products. The regulator chose what it calls a principles-based approach for the contracts. This puts responsibility on platforms to give clear information to users and run strong internal systems for managing risk, including tools that automatically close out losing positions.
To help build trading activity in this new market, the regulator will permit affiliates of licensed trading platforms to serve as market makers. To avoid problems where the platform benefits unfairly at customer expense, these units must operate independently and follow strict conflict-of-interest rules.
The strategy shows a clear preference for depth over breadth. Rather than allowing many different tokens, the focus stays on the two main assets, Bitcoin and Ether.
The decision to allow affiliated market makers stands out. In traditional finance, outside firms usually provide liquidity. In digital markets, exchanges often fill this role themselves. By formalizing this through independent units, regulators are essentially taking a common crypto industry practice and adding professional standards to ensure tighter price spreads and better price discovery occur without compromising fairness.
This shift also directly challenges overseas platforms. By legitimizing perpetual contracts, which rank among the most heavily traded crypto instruments, Hong Kong is pulling back capital that previously went to unregulated venues.
This could create a cycle where regulatory safety draws in institutional money, which in turn helps reduce the volatility that originally made regulators cautious.
The new measures arrive alongside other important developments in the region’s financial technology sector:
Stablecoin Licensing: The Monetary Authority is expected to issue its first stablecoin licenses in March, providing the settlement infrastructure needed for efficient margin operations.
Regulatory Clarity: Officials plan to submit a draft law covering crypto advisory services later in 2026.
Global Compliance: To guarantee tax reporting and international cooperation, the territory is attempting to conform to the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework.
Stablecoin integration, professional derivatives access, and margin lending approvals all work together to provide a comprehensive digital asset market that functions with the dependability of a conventional stock exchange.
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Analysts raise targets as AI fuels Cloudflare’s growth
Cloudflare’s stock jumped 12% this week after the company beat expectations and gave a strong forecast. Traders were already watching for signs that AI demand would boost its business. The earnings call confirmed it. Every major number came in above estimates. That’s what set this whole thing off.
Revenue hit $615 million, up 34% from last year. Profit came in at 28 cents per share, higher than the 27 cents analysts had guessed. That part’s straightforward. But the reason people are piling into Cloudflare goes deeper than just those numbers.
Analysts raise targets as AI fuels Cloudflare’s growth
CEO Matthew Prince told analysts on Tuesday that a big change is happening. He said more people are building AI tools that run tasks for users. These systems rely on fast and secure networks, which is exactly what Cloudflare offers. Matt said:-
“If AI agents are the new users of the internet, Cloudflare is the platform they run on and the network they pass through. This creates a virtuous flywheel.”
The company raised its guidance too. For the first quarter, Cloudflare expects revenue between $620 million and $621 million, higher than the expected $614 million.
For the full year, the company projects between $2.79 billion and $2.80 billion, above the previous estimate of $2.74 billion.
Another reason for the spike is what happened with Moltbot. That’s an open-source AI assistant built on Anthropic’s Claude model. When it blew up last month, Cloudflare’s platform handled it.
That gave it real proof of how well it supports AI agents. The company quickly rolled out Moltworker, its own product designed to run Moltbot safely.
The interest in edge computing is also growing fast. AI needs to be run close to the user. It needs to scale up and down without delays. Cloudflare already built the tools for that. RBC Capital Markets said:-
“The continued proliferation of AI agents benefits Cloudflare and its Workers platform as AI agents require low-latency, secure inferencing that often scales up and scales down and is close to the user or ‘edge’ of the network.”
Matthew also said they ended 2025 with 4.5 million active human developers. That’s a massive group using Cloudflare to build and deploy tools.
Wall Street took notice.TD Cowen kept its Buy rating and raised its target to $265, saying Cloudflare is growing thanks to AI. The stock was at $199.04 when they made that call. But not everyone sees the same upside.
InvestingPro data shows the stock is already trading above Fair Value. Price targets range from $120 to $300.
KeyBanc held its Overweight rating with a $300 target, saying Cloudflare beat Q4 expectations by $24 million. Citizens stayed at Market Outperform and set their target at $270, citing stronger sales and Matthew’s leadership.
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Revenue hit $615 million, up 34% from last year. Profit came in at 28 cents per share, higher than the 27 cents analysts had guessed. That part’s straightforward. But the reason people are piling into Cloudflare goes deeper than just those numbers.
Analysts raise targets as AI fuels Cloudflare’s growth
CEO Matthew Prince told analysts on Tuesday that a big change is happening. He said more people are building AI tools that run tasks for users. These systems rely on fast and secure networks, which is exactly what Cloudflare offers. Matt said:-
“If AI agents are the new users of the internet, Cloudflare is the platform they run on and the network they pass through. This creates a virtuous flywheel.”
The company raised its guidance too. For the first quarter, Cloudflare expects revenue between $620 million and $621 million, higher than the expected $614 million.
For the full year, the company projects between $2.79 billion and $2.80 billion, above the previous estimate of $2.74 billion.
Another reason for the spike is what happened with Moltbot. That’s an open-source AI assistant built on Anthropic’s Claude model. When it blew up last month, Cloudflare’s platform handled it.
That gave it real proof of how well it supports AI agents. The company quickly rolled out Moltworker, its own product designed to run Moltbot safely.
The interest in edge computing is also growing fast. AI needs to be run close to the user. It needs to scale up and down without delays. Cloudflare already built the tools for that. RBC Capital Markets said:-
“The continued proliferation of AI agents benefits Cloudflare and its Workers platform as AI agents require low-latency, secure inferencing that often scales up and scales down and is close to the user or ‘edge’ of the network.”
Matthew also said they ended 2025 with 4.5 million active human developers. That’s a massive group using Cloudflare to build and deploy tools.
Wall Street took notice.TD Cowen kept its Buy rating and raised its target to $265, saying Cloudflare is growing thanks to AI. The stock was at $199.04 when they made that call. But not everyone sees the same upside.
InvestingPro data shows the stock is already trading above Fair Value. Price targets range from $120 to $300.
KeyBanc held its Overweight rating with a $300 target, saying Cloudflare beat Q4 expectations by $24 million. Citizens stayed at Market Outperform and set their target at $270, citing stronger sales and Matthew’s leadership.
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Hyperliquid raises HYPE holdings to 17.6M amid market volatility
Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR) has purchased an additional 5 million HYPE tokens on Wednesday at an average price of about $25.9. The firm’s purchase was worth $129.5 million.
The digital asset treasury (DAT) revealed that its latest purchase pushed its total holdings to roughly 17.6 million HYPE tokens. Hyperliquid also disclosed that it still retains about $125 million in deployable capital, excluding reserves.
Hyperliquid purchases HYPE despite continued market volatility
Hyperliquid’s decision to retain $125 million in cash suggests that the company is managing risk and also preserving liquidity. The initiative allows the DAT to operate and pursue opportunities without being overexposed to HYPE. The firm added that the deployable capital is supported by a $1 billion Equity Line of Credit (ELOC) facility.
Hyperliquid’s purchase comes as the HYPE token has been dropping for the past few weeks. At the time of publication, the asset is trading at around $29, down nearly 2.4% in the past 24 hours. HYPE has also plummeted 12% over the past 7 days but gained more than 24.5% over the past 30 days.
“We are encouraged by our early execution since going public. We are establishing HSI as the leading public vehicle for capital-efficient HYPE exposure amid Hyperliquid’s accelerating dominance in on-chain finance.”
–David Schamis, CEO of Hyperliquid Strategies.
As of the end of 2025, Hyperliquid had established a balance sheet of 12.5 million HYPE tokens. The firm’s holdings also had $300 million in cash contributed by investors.
Schamis also stated that the firm’s robust balance sheet, emerging staking yields, disciplined capital deployment, and capital allocation allow it to deliver long-term shareholder value despite unrealized mark-to-market losses caused by crypto volatility. He acknowledged that the firm remains highly optimistic about its trajectory, including builder codes, RWA tokenization, and sustained growth and fee generation.
Hyperliquid also reported that its perpetual decentralized exchange generated more than $800 million in annual fees last year. The firm also processed billions in daily trading volumes.
The DAT acknowledged that its builder code adoption by major platforms, including MetaMask, Phantom, Rabby, and Rainbow, helped drive its ecosystem growth. The firm noted that the builder code enabled permissionless front-end integrations and generated tens of millions in fees.
Hyperliquid also championed its expansion in RWA perps via HIP-3. The firm launched more than 100 perps for equities, commodities, FX, pre-IPO, and more last year.
Hyperliquid relaunches its website to enhance transparency
Hyperliquid’s assets at year-end reached $616.7 million, with nearly $290 million in cash. The company also had $327.6 million in HYPE tokens based on the asset’s price of $25.48 per token at the time.
The DAT had roughly $590 million in stockholders’ equity and no debt at the end of 2025. The firm also generated $900,000 in interest income and $500,000 in staking revenue from its HYPE holdings.
Hyperliquid reported a net loss of $317.9 million for the H2 of 2025, driven by $262.4 million in unrealized losses on HYPE tokens due to market volatility. The firm also had a one-time $35.6 million IPR&D write-off tied to the acquisition of Sonnet BioTerapeutics Holdings.
Hyperliquid is also relaunching its website today, which will include a dedicated section tracking the firm’s Adjusted Net Asset Value. The firm stated that it will update the new section regularly to enhance transparency for its stockholders. The DAT also plans to use its website to disclose information that may be considered non-public and to comply with obligations under Regulation FD.
On-chain data revealed that Hyperliquid hit $2.6 trillion in notional trading volume earlier in the month. The firm also surpassed Coinbase, which had $1.4 trillion in assets under management.
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The digital asset treasury (DAT) revealed that its latest purchase pushed its total holdings to roughly 17.6 million HYPE tokens. Hyperliquid also disclosed that it still retains about $125 million in deployable capital, excluding reserves.
Hyperliquid purchases HYPE despite continued market volatility
Hyperliquid’s decision to retain $125 million in cash suggests that the company is managing risk and also preserving liquidity. The initiative allows the DAT to operate and pursue opportunities without being overexposed to HYPE. The firm added that the deployable capital is supported by a $1 billion Equity Line of Credit (ELOC) facility.
Hyperliquid’s purchase comes as the HYPE token has been dropping for the past few weeks. At the time of publication, the asset is trading at around $29, down nearly 2.4% in the past 24 hours. HYPE has also plummeted 12% over the past 7 days but gained more than 24.5% over the past 30 days.
“We are encouraged by our early execution since going public. We are establishing HSI as the leading public vehicle for capital-efficient HYPE exposure amid Hyperliquid’s accelerating dominance in on-chain finance.”
–David Schamis, CEO of Hyperliquid Strategies.
As of the end of 2025, Hyperliquid had established a balance sheet of 12.5 million HYPE tokens. The firm’s holdings also had $300 million in cash contributed by investors.
Schamis also stated that the firm’s robust balance sheet, emerging staking yields, disciplined capital deployment, and capital allocation allow it to deliver long-term shareholder value despite unrealized mark-to-market losses caused by crypto volatility. He acknowledged that the firm remains highly optimistic about its trajectory, including builder codes, RWA tokenization, and sustained growth and fee generation.
Hyperliquid also reported that its perpetual decentralized exchange generated more than $800 million in annual fees last year. The firm also processed billions in daily trading volumes.
The DAT acknowledged that its builder code adoption by major platforms, including MetaMask, Phantom, Rabby, and Rainbow, helped drive its ecosystem growth. The firm noted that the builder code enabled permissionless front-end integrations and generated tens of millions in fees.
Hyperliquid also championed its expansion in RWA perps via HIP-3. The firm launched more than 100 perps for equities, commodities, FX, pre-IPO, and more last year.
Hyperliquid relaunches its website to enhance transparency
Hyperliquid’s assets at year-end reached $616.7 million, with nearly $290 million in cash. The company also had $327.6 million in HYPE tokens based on the asset’s price of $25.48 per token at the time.
The DAT had roughly $590 million in stockholders’ equity and no debt at the end of 2025. The firm also generated $900,000 in interest income and $500,000 in staking revenue from its HYPE holdings.
Hyperliquid reported a net loss of $317.9 million for the H2 of 2025, driven by $262.4 million in unrealized losses on HYPE tokens due to market volatility. The firm also had a one-time $35.6 million IPR&D write-off tied to the acquisition of Sonnet BioTerapeutics Holdings.
Hyperliquid is also relaunching its website today, which will include a dedicated section tracking the firm’s Adjusted Net Asset Value. The firm stated that it will update the new section regularly to enhance transparency for its stockholders. The DAT also plans to use its website to disclose information that may be considered non-public and to comply with obligations under Regulation FD.
On-chain data revealed that Hyperliquid hit $2.6 trillion in notional trading volume earlier in the month. The firm also surpassed Coinbase, which had $1.4 trillion in assets under management.
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Japan’s FSA proposes mandatory cybersecurity standards for crypto exchanges
Japan’s Financial Services Agency recently released a new framework policy draft that will set new mandatory cybersecurity standards for cryptocurrency exchanges. This marks a turning point from individualized, asset-focused security to defense protocols for the complete ecosystem (per exchange) as cyberattacks continue to escalate across the digital asset sector.
The policy guidelines were announced on February 10, 2026, introducing mandatory Cybersecurity Self-Assessments (CSSA) for all registered crypto exchanges operating in Japan.
The FSA will accept public comments until March 11, giving key players like exchanges and security experts three weeks to provide feedback before the regulations are finalized for implementation in Japan’s 2026 fiscal year (beginning April 1).
Cold wallets no longer sufficient as indirect attacks increase
The FSA observed an increase in sophisticated indirect attacks in recent times. As the situation worsens, the use of cold wallets alone may not be able to guarantee safe asset management, thus signaling a shift in the evolution of Japan’s regulatory philosophy.
While offline cold wallets protect assets from direct remote hacking, the agency acknowledged that modern threat actors have adapted to this by targeting the human and operational infrastructure supporting digital asset management.
Other analysts noted that the CSSA framework will require exchanges to systematically evaluate different aspects of their security domains, be it technical infrastructure (such as wallet security and network architecture), human and operational risks (including employee training and phishing protocols), third party vendor management, and data integrity protections, which have to be compliant with Japan’s Personal Information Protection Act.
This shift comes as a result of several high-profile breaches in 2024 that exposed these vulnerabilities. The guidelines in particular focus on attacks that bypass technological defenses by compromising employees through phishing campaigns or infiltrating service providers and contractors who maintain access to exchange systems.
Three-pillar framework demands industry-wide participation
The successful implementation of this new policy rests on three pillars that combine to create a multi-layer defense system. They include self-help, mutual help, and public help, and these pillars will address different aspects while working together to strengthen the industry’s security system.
The “self-help” pillar places primary responsibility on individual exchanges to secure their own operations. It will start in the fiscal year 2026 (April 1) and will require all registered cryptocurrency exchanges to conduct the mandatory assessments mentioned earlier.
The “mutual assistance” pillar uses collective intelligence backed by industry collaboration. The FSA will help strengthen the security committee functions of the Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association (JVCEA), while encouraging exchanges to actively participate in information sharing so that threats, attack patterns, and defensive strategies can be communicated better across the sector.
As such, if one exchange identifies a new social engineering strategy or another vulnerability, that intelligence will become available to protect other operators before they experience something similar.
Finally, the “public help” pillar will see the FSA continuing the international joint blockchain research on emerging threats that it began in the fiscal year 2025, as well as involving the entire crypto exchange sector in the “Delta Wall,” a joint cybersecurity exercise for financial organizations, within three years of the policy’s adoption.
What’s next for exchanges operating in Japan?
During the 2026 fiscal year, the FSA plans to conduct real penetration tests on specific operators and may hire ethical hackers to attempt intrusions into live exchange systems.
These authorized attacks will identify vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them, with findings shared confidentially to help affected exchanges patch any weaknesses. This will help provide an objective measure of monitoring that may have been overlooked during self-assessments.
The three-pillar structure creates accountability at every level, with exchanges bearing primary responsibility for their own security (self-help), the industry sharing collective intelligence and raising standards (mutual help), and governmental oversight, testing and support (public help).
The FSA believes this will herald a stronger, more adaptive ecosystem capable of defending itself against current threats and future ones.
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The policy guidelines were announced on February 10, 2026, introducing mandatory Cybersecurity Self-Assessments (CSSA) for all registered crypto exchanges operating in Japan.
The FSA will accept public comments until March 11, giving key players like exchanges and security experts three weeks to provide feedback before the regulations are finalized for implementation in Japan’s 2026 fiscal year (beginning April 1).
Cold wallets no longer sufficient as indirect attacks increase
The FSA observed an increase in sophisticated indirect attacks in recent times. As the situation worsens, the use of cold wallets alone may not be able to guarantee safe asset management, thus signaling a shift in the evolution of Japan’s regulatory philosophy.
While offline cold wallets protect assets from direct remote hacking, the agency acknowledged that modern threat actors have adapted to this by targeting the human and operational infrastructure supporting digital asset management.
Other analysts noted that the CSSA framework will require exchanges to systematically evaluate different aspects of their security domains, be it technical infrastructure (such as wallet security and network architecture), human and operational risks (including employee training and phishing protocols), third party vendor management, and data integrity protections, which have to be compliant with Japan’s Personal Information Protection Act.
This shift comes as a result of several high-profile breaches in 2024 that exposed these vulnerabilities. The guidelines in particular focus on attacks that bypass technological defenses by compromising employees through phishing campaigns or infiltrating service providers and contractors who maintain access to exchange systems.
Three-pillar framework demands industry-wide participation
The successful implementation of this new policy rests on three pillars that combine to create a multi-layer defense system. They include self-help, mutual help, and public help, and these pillars will address different aspects while working together to strengthen the industry’s security system.
The “self-help” pillar places primary responsibility on individual exchanges to secure their own operations. It will start in the fiscal year 2026 (April 1) and will require all registered cryptocurrency exchanges to conduct the mandatory assessments mentioned earlier.
The “mutual assistance” pillar uses collective intelligence backed by industry collaboration. The FSA will help strengthen the security committee functions of the Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association (JVCEA), while encouraging exchanges to actively participate in information sharing so that threats, attack patterns, and defensive strategies can be communicated better across the sector.
As such, if one exchange identifies a new social engineering strategy or another vulnerability, that intelligence will become available to protect other operators before they experience something similar.
Finally, the “public help” pillar will see the FSA continuing the international joint blockchain research on emerging threats that it began in the fiscal year 2025, as well as involving the entire crypto exchange sector in the “Delta Wall,” a joint cybersecurity exercise for financial organizations, within three years of the policy’s adoption.
What’s next for exchanges operating in Japan?
During the 2026 fiscal year, the FSA plans to conduct real penetration tests on specific operators and may hire ethical hackers to attempt intrusions into live exchange systems.
These authorized attacks will identify vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them, with findings shared confidentially to help affected exchanges patch any weaknesses. This will help provide an objective measure of monitoring that may have been overlooked during self-assessments.
The three-pillar structure creates accountability at every level, with exchanges bearing primary responsibility for their own security (self-help), the industry sharing collective intelligence and raising standards (mutual help), and governmental oversight, testing and support (public help).
The FSA believes this will herald a stronger, more adaptive ecosystem capable of defending itself against current threats and future ones.
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Mistral invests €1.2B in Sweden to boost Europe’s AI sovereignty
French artificial intelligence firm Mistral has unveiled a €1.2 billion investment in AI infrastructure in Sweden, marking one of the continent’s most ambitious moves yet to secure AI data centres, compute capacity, and digital sovereignty.
The investment comes as European governments and technology firms race to reduce dependence on US-based cloud and AI providers, against a backdrop of growing geopolitical and technological rivalry.
Building AI infrastructure to secure sovereignty
Mistral stated that the money would be used to build large-scale AI data centers, advanced computational power, and AI capabilities hosted locally in Europe. Arthur Mensch, the company’s CEO, referred to this investment as a strategic rather than symbolic move.
“This is a concrete first step towards creating independent capabilities in Europe around AI,” stated Mensch.
“With a complete vertical offering that has processed and stored data locally, we contribute to European strategic autonomy as well as competitiveness.”
– Mensch
He added that the planned project will “provide infrastructure for a European AI cloud that can serve industries, public agencies, and research organisations at a massive scale.”
Recently, Lenovo said it is aiming to partner with Mistral AI and other providers rather than build its own large language models (LLMs) as part of its plan to repeat its 2025 success this year.
Through partnerships with leading AI companies, Lenovo is saving itself from having to navigate complex global regulations while still providing regions with the needed AI solutions.
Lenovo ended 2025 as a leader in the PC industry, shipping 71 million units. However, increased memory and storage prices could pose a challenge in 2026.
Why Mistral is choosing Sweden to scale compute power
Mistral, a France-based AI company, has chosen to build one of its new, large-scale data centers in Sweden because of its inexpensive energy supply, cooler climate, and reliable digital infrastructure, all important considerations when deploying energy-intensive AI systems.
Mistral will work with EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company, to build these centers.
This new data center is set to open in 2027 and will provide Mistral with a location to train and operate its next generation of AI models. The Swedish data center will be Mistral’s first investment in infrastructure outside of France.
Nordic countries are becoming increasingly popular for companies seeking to build AI infrastructure. In July of this year, OpenAI announced it would build a data center in Norway as part of its Stargate initiative.
Mistral, established in 2023, initially developed large language models. It subsequently branched out into infrastructure when it introduced Mistral Compute in June, which provides GPUs as well as API-driven and fully-managed products from a platform-as-a-service perspective.
The company secured €1.7 billion in September at an estimated valuation of €11.7 billion, receiving investments from Nvidia, Microsoft, and ASML, among others.
Even with additional funding totalling approximately $2.9 billion raised by Mistral, the company is significantly smaller than its many competitors in the US. OpenAI plans to raise up to $100 billion for future initiatives, while Anthropic intends to raise $10 billion.
As Director of Innovation at Mistral, Mensch emphasises that the response from Europe requires “scale and speed,” adding, “this is about building the capability of Europe to control its own technology future.”
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The investment comes as European governments and technology firms race to reduce dependence on US-based cloud and AI providers, against a backdrop of growing geopolitical and technological rivalry.
Building AI infrastructure to secure sovereignty
Mistral stated that the money would be used to build large-scale AI data centers, advanced computational power, and AI capabilities hosted locally in Europe. Arthur Mensch, the company’s CEO, referred to this investment as a strategic rather than symbolic move.
“This is a concrete first step towards creating independent capabilities in Europe around AI,” stated Mensch.
“With a complete vertical offering that has processed and stored data locally, we contribute to European strategic autonomy as well as competitiveness.”
– Mensch
He added that the planned project will “provide infrastructure for a European AI cloud that can serve industries, public agencies, and research organisations at a massive scale.”
Recently, Lenovo said it is aiming to partner with Mistral AI and other providers rather than build its own large language models (LLMs) as part of its plan to repeat its 2025 success this year.
Through partnerships with leading AI companies, Lenovo is saving itself from having to navigate complex global regulations while still providing regions with the needed AI solutions.
Lenovo ended 2025 as a leader in the PC industry, shipping 71 million units. However, increased memory and storage prices could pose a challenge in 2026.
Why Mistral is choosing Sweden to scale compute power
Mistral, a France-based AI company, has chosen to build one of its new, large-scale data centers in Sweden because of its inexpensive energy supply, cooler climate, and reliable digital infrastructure, all important considerations when deploying energy-intensive AI systems.
Mistral will work with EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company, to build these centers.
This new data center is set to open in 2027 and will provide Mistral with a location to train and operate its next generation of AI models. The Swedish data center will be Mistral’s first investment in infrastructure outside of France.
Nordic countries are becoming increasingly popular for companies seeking to build AI infrastructure. In July of this year, OpenAI announced it would build a data center in Norway as part of its Stargate initiative.
Mistral, established in 2023, initially developed large language models. It subsequently branched out into infrastructure when it introduced Mistral Compute in June, which provides GPUs as well as API-driven and fully-managed products from a platform-as-a-service perspective.
The company secured €1.7 billion in September at an estimated valuation of €11.7 billion, receiving investments from Nvidia, Microsoft, and ASML, among others.
Even with additional funding totalling approximately $2.9 billion raised by Mistral, the company is significantly smaller than its many competitors in the US. OpenAI plans to raise up to $100 billion for future initiatives, while Anthropic intends to raise $10 billion.
As Director of Innovation at Mistral, Mensch emphasises that the response from Europe requires “scale and speed,” adding, “this is about building the capability of Europe to control its own technology future.”
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Next Big Crypto: Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Is Positioning for Strong Market Performance as Solana (SO...
Solana (SOL) has been at the center of some of the strongest growth within the cryptocurrency market over recent periods. However, with momentum on this asset now appearing to slow, there is a sense that investors are looking to understand where the next big wave of growth is likely to be. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is being viewed as the next big crypto, given the decentralized finance approach, value accrual, and overall utility within the cryptocurrency market. With these factors now in place, MUTM is being viewed as the crypto to buy now.
Solana (SOL) Cooling Phase, Momentum on Pause
Solana (SOL) is currently in a cooling phase, with price action trending lower on the 4-hour chart. The fact that there has been some movement on this asset, from the recent low at $67.5, suggests that there is some corrective action in place. However, it also demonstrates that selling pressure on this asset is not easing, at least not at present. With momentum on this asset on pause, Mutuum Finance offers a high upside.
Earn Interest While Unlocking Capital
One of the main features of the platform is the use of mtTokens. These are interest-generating tokens that are created after a user has deposited their assets into a P2C Lending Pool. The tokens have the ability to grow in value based on the interest that the underlying assets are able to generate. If a user were to deposit $10,000 worth of USDC into a pool that earns a 10% APY, the user would receive 10,000 mtUSDC. Over the course of a year, the user’s tokens would grow to 11,000 mtUSDC, which equates to a $1,000 gain. In addition to the user’s ability to generate interest, the tokens also have the ability to be transferred and used to borrow or stake other assets within the DeFi market. These features make MUTM a strong crypto to buy now for investors seeking utility and growth.
Mutuum Finance: High Growth Potential of the Early-Stage DeFi Project
For the investor looking to capitalize on high-growth potential, the investment opportunity presented by Mutuum Finance (MUTM) has strong potential. With the token priced at $0.04 in Phase 7 of presale, the price will rise to $0.045 in Phase 8. From a price of $0.01 in Phase 1, the earliest backers have already gained a 300% return on their investment.
For the investor looking to get in today, strong upside remains before MUTM enters the open market at $0.06. Take the example of an investor who puts a small $500 into the presale today. This position will grow by $250 by the time of launch, amounting to $750. Mutuum Finance has already shown a lot of promise, with the presale attracting over 18,980 investors who have collectively raised over $20 million. This demonstrates that the market sees MUTM as the next big crypto and a must-consider crypto to buy now.
Multichain Deployment: Expanding Revenue and Rewards
Mutuum Finance plans a multichain strategy to improve the tokenomics of the protocol. The protocol is designed to operate on more than one blockchain network, which enables it to earn revenue from different blockchain networks. If the protocol earns $350,000 in fees on the Ethereum network over a given period, and expands to two more networks that bring in $175,000 in fees each, the total amount of fees reaches $750,000. The protocol could then commit 30% of this to its buy-back and redistribution mechanism. This initiative buys back MUTM tokens from the market and gives them to stakers as staking dividends. As such, $225,000 would be directed to these stakeholders, on top of their lending yields. This creates a cycle of value for users while increasing the utility for the MUTM token.
As Solana’s popularity fades, investors are turning their attention to other promising projects in the crypto market, such as Mutuum Finance (MUTM). This is because MUTM is the next big crypto with its active DeFi lending protocol, interest-earning mtTokens, and its multichain strategy. Currently priced at just $0.04 in its presale, which is already 300% above its presale opening price, and backed by more than $20 million in funding, MUTM is the crypto to buy now as the next crypto boom approaches.
For more information about Mutuum Finance (MUTM) visit the links below:
Website: https://mutuum.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mutuumfinance
Solana (SOL) Cooling Phase, Momentum on Pause
Solana (SOL) is currently in a cooling phase, with price action trending lower on the 4-hour chart. The fact that there has been some movement on this asset, from the recent low at $67.5, suggests that there is some corrective action in place. However, it also demonstrates that selling pressure on this asset is not easing, at least not at present. With momentum on this asset on pause, Mutuum Finance offers a high upside.
Earn Interest While Unlocking Capital
One of the main features of the platform is the use of mtTokens. These are interest-generating tokens that are created after a user has deposited their assets into a P2C Lending Pool. The tokens have the ability to grow in value based on the interest that the underlying assets are able to generate. If a user were to deposit $10,000 worth of USDC into a pool that earns a 10% APY, the user would receive 10,000 mtUSDC. Over the course of a year, the user’s tokens would grow to 11,000 mtUSDC, which equates to a $1,000 gain. In addition to the user’s ability to generate interest, the tokens also have the ability to be transferred and used to borrow or stake other assets within the DeFi market. These features make MUTM a strong crypto to buy now for investors seeking utility and growth.
Mutuum Finance: High Growth Potential of the Early-Stage DeFi Project
For the investor looking to capitalize on high-growth potential, the investment opportunity presented by Mutuum Finance (MUTM) has strong potential. With the token priced at $0.04 in Phase 7 of presale, the price will rise to $0.045 in Phase 8. From a price of $0.01 in Phase 1, the earliest backers have already gained a 300% return on their investment.
For the investor looking to get in today, strong upside remains before MUTM enters the open market at $0.06. Take the example of an investor who puts a small $500 into the presale today. This position will grow by $250 by the time of launch, amounting to $750. Mutuum Finance has already shown a lot of promise, with the presale attracting over 18,980 investors who have collectively raised over $20 million. This demonstrates that the market sees MUTM as the next big crypto and a must-consider crypto to buy now.
Multichain Deployment: Expanding Revenue and Rewards
Mutuum Finance plans a multichain strategy to improve the tokenomics of the protocol. The protocol is designed to operate on more than one blockchain network, which enables it to earn revenue from different blockchain networks. If the protocol earns $350,000 in fees on the Ethereum network over a given period, and expands to two more networks that bring in $175,000 in fees each, the total amount of fees reaches $750,000. The protocol could then commit 30% of this to its buy-back and redistribution mechanism. This initiative buys back MUTM tokens from the market and gives them to stakers as staking dividends. As such, $225,000 would be directed to these stakeholders, on top of their lending yields. This creates a cycle of value for users while increasing the utility for the MUTM token.
As Solana’s popularity fades, investors are turning their attention to other promising projects in the crypto market, such as Mutuum Finance (MUTM). This is because MUTM is the next big crypto with its active DeFi lending protocol, interest-earning mtTokens, and its multichain strategy. Currently priced at just $0.04 in its presale, which is already 300% above its presale opening price, and backed by more than $20 million in funding, MUTM is the crypto to buy now as the next crypto boom approaches.
For more information about Mutuum Finance (MUTM) visit the links below:
Website: https://mutuum.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mutuumfinance
Uniswap wins the first round in court against the Bancor patent lawsuit
Decentralized exchange Uniswap has won a significant procedural victory in the early stages of claims brought by entities affiliated with rival project Bancor. The ruling, issued by a federal judge in New York, could shape future disputes over software patents.
The lawsuit, filed in May 2025 by Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin Ltd., alleged that Uniswap’s decentralized exchange used patented mechanisms, specifically the constant product automated market maker (CPAMM) model, without authorization. Bancor argues that its model was covered by its patent and sought damages for infringement.
Following this announcement, sources cited a written opinion made public on Tuesday, February 10, which noted that John Koeltl, a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, approved the defendant’s motion to drop the case earlier raised by Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin Ltd. against Universal Navigation Inc. and the Uniswap Foundation.
According to the judge’s memorandum opinion, the patents at issue “claim abstract ideas” and thus do not qualify for patent protection under US law. Necessary elements, such as an “inventive concept” that would elevate them into patentable subject matter, were not present, the court found.
Uniswap wins the first round in court against the Bancor patent lawsuit
In Uniswap’s case, reports noted that the court found the patents merely cover the abstract idea of cryptocurrency exchange rate calculations. Their finding implied that these patents failed to meet the US Supreme Court’s two-step framework for patent eligibility.
While this ruling represents a legal victory for Uniswap, it is worth noting that this decision remains subject to further appeal. In the meantime, reports mentioned that the case was dismissed without prejudice, giving the plaintiffs 21 days to file a revised complaint. Upon expiration of this period, the dismissal will be considered final.
On the other hand, Hayden Adams, the CEO of Uniswap, shared a brief post on X just after the court’s ruling, stating, “A lawyer just told me we won.” Given that a final judgment has not yet been issued, reporters reached out to Bprotocol Foundation and Uniswap for comments on the matter. However, they declined to respond to the request.
Even so, sources cited an earlier statement in which Bancor alleged that Uniswap had breached patents related to a constant-product automated market maker system used in decentralized exchanges. The argument centered on whether Uniswap’s protocol improperly used patented technology to automate token pricing and manage liquidity pools.
Still, Koeltl maintained his argument that “the patents dealt with the abstract idea of calculating currency exchange rates to carry out transactions.” He further elaborated that, “currency exchange is a basic economic practice. Figuring out pricing information is considered abstract based on established Federal Circuit rules.”
Judge Koeltl warns against applying an abstract idea to blockchain technology
Koeltl rejected the argument that implementing a pricing formula on blockchain technology makes the patents eligible for protection. According to him, the patents use established blockchain and smart contract technology to address economic issues predictably.
To further elaborate on his argument, the New York federal judge noted that simply applying an abstract idea in a certain technical setting is ineligible for a patent.
Moreover, the court ruled that the abstract idea lacked a sufficient inventive concept to render the abstract idea patent-eligible. Besides patent eligibility concerns, the court determined that the updated complaint failed to adequately allege direct infringement.
Meanwhile, the memorandum highlighted that the plaintiffs failed to show how Uniswap’s public code included the reserve ratio constant specified in the patents.
Reports noted that the judge also found no merit in the claims of induced or willful infringement, concluding that the complaint failed to convincingly demonstrate that the defendants were aware of the patents prior to the lawsuit.
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The lawsuit, filed in May 2025 by Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin Ltd., alleged that Uniswap’s decentralized exchange used patented mechanisms, specifically the constant product automated market maker (CPAMM) model, without authorization. Bancor argues that its model was covered by its patent and sought damages for infringement.
Following this announcement, sources cited a written opinion made public on Tuesday, February 10, which noted that John Koeltl, a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, approved the defendant’s motion to drop the case earlier raised by Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin Ltd. against Universal Navigation Inc. and the Uniswap Foundation.
According to the judge’s memorandum opinion, the patents at issue “claim abstract ideas” and thus do not qualify for patent protection under US law. Necessary elements, such as an “inventive concept” that would elevate them into patentable subject matter, were not present, the court found.
Uniswap wins the first round in court against the Bancor patent lawsuit
In Uniswap’s case, reports noted that the court found the patents merely cover the abstract idea of cryptocurrency exchange rate calculations. Their finding implied that these patents failed to meet the US Supreme Court’s two-step framework for patent eligibility.
While this ruling represents a legal victory for Uniswap, it is worth noting that this decision remains subject to further appeal. In the meantime, reports mentioned that the case was dismissed without prejudice, giving the plaintiffs 21 days to file a revised complaint. Upon expiration of this period, the dismissal will be considered final.
On the other hand, Hayden Adams, the CEO of Uniswap, shared a brief post on X just after the court’s ruling, stating, “A lawyer just told me we won.” Given that a final judgment has not yet been issued, reporters reached out to Bprotocol Foundation and Uniswap for comments on the matter. However, they declined to respond to the request.
Even so, sources cited an earlier statement in which Bancor alleged that Uniswap had breached patents related to a constant-product automated market maker system used in decentralized exchanges. The argument centered on whether Uniswap’s protocol improperly used patented technology to automate token pricing and manage liquidity pools.
Still, Koeltl maintained his argument that “the patents dealt with the abstract idea of calculating currency exchange rates to carry out transactions.” He further elaborated that, “currency exchange is a basic economic practice. Figuring out pricing information is considered abstract based on established Federal Circuit rules.”
Judge Koeltl warns against applying an abstract idea to blockchain technology
Koeltl rejected the argument that implementing a pricing formula on blockchain technology makes the patents eligible for protection. According to him, the patents use established blockchain and smart contract technology to address economic issues predictably.
To further elaborate on his argument, the New York federal judge noted that simply applying an abstract idea in a certain technical setting is ineligible for a patent.
Moreover, the court ruled that the abstract idea lacked a sufficient inventive concept to render the abstract idea patent-eligible. Besides patent eligibility concerns, the court determined that the updated complaint failed to adequately allege direct infringement.
Meanwhile, the memorandum highlighted that the plaintiffs failed to show how Uniswap’s public code included the reserve ratio constant specified in the patents.
Reports noted that the judge also found no merit in the claims of induced or willful infringement, concluding that the complaint failed to convincingly demonstrate that the defendants were aware of the patents prior to the lawsuit.
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Aviva Investors and Ripple partner to pursue tokenization solutions
Ripple has announced a partnership with Aviva Investors to tokenize fund structures on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The partnership positions Ripple’s XRPL to benefit from institutional capital as Ripple expands its ties with the $345 billion asset management firm.
U.S.-based technology firm Ripple and global asset management firm Aviva Investors have entered into a partnership to tokenize fund structures. The two entities aim to collaborate throughout 2026 and beyond to develop tokenization solutions for traditional fund structures. As of 2025, Aviva Investors has $345 billion in net assets under management.
Aviva Investors and Ripple partner to pursue tokenization solutions
In a press release dated February 11, Ripple announced that it will support Aviva Investors in the initiative as part of the FinTech company’s broader vision to bring traditional financial assets with real utility to its native, decentralized, open-source blockchain, the XRP Ledger.
The publication detailed that the partnership is the first of its kind for both Ripple and Aviva Investors. The aim of the partnership deal aligns with Aviva investors who seek to integrate tokenized solutions into their existing product offering.
Aviva Investors will leverage the XRP Ledger to issue and manage tokenized funds, according to the announcement. The asset management firm seeks to leverage XRPL’s fast, secure, and low-cost blockchain transactions to power tokenization. The announcement also highlighted the lack of mining activity on the XRP Ledger and described it as advantageous for settling transactions, thereby supporting energy efficiency.
The announcement also noted that the XRPL network offers compliance capabilities that will pave the way for institutional operations under a regulated environment. Jill Barber, Chief Distribution Officer at Aviva Investors, said that the firm believes tokenization has many benefits in the world of investing, “including improvements in terms of both time and cost efficiency.”
The official highlighted Aviva Investors’ strong commitment to innovation and to adopting technological advancements that benefit the company’s operations. He added that tokenization will be hugely beneficial to the asset management firm’s clientele.
Nigel Khakoo, Vice President, Trading and Markets, at Ripple, said that tokenization is undergoing a transformation from experimentation to large-scale production.
He added that “Institutions like Aviva Investors are now focused on how to deploy regulated financial assets at scale.” According to the official, tokenised fund structures will deliver significant technological efficiencies to the investment sector over the next decade.
Ripple backs Auction house Billiton Diamond and the Ctrl Alt deal
Ripple’s footprints in the tokenization world can also be traced in the UAE. Auction house Billiton Diamond and UK-based tokenization service provider Ctrl Alt announced a partnership to tokenize about $280 million in diamonds. The assets are backed by approved inventory partners working with Billiton and are held in the United Arab Emirates.
Ripple’s Senior Executive Officer, Reece Merrick, announced on X that Ripple will support the partnership by providing the infrastructure needed to transfer physical commodities onchain.
According to an official statement by the two partnering entities, Ctrl Alt will be responsible for the tokenization process, including onchain asset minting. He also added that the initiative represents Ripple technology’s capabilities to bridge the gap between the digital economy and physical assets.
The partnership also comes at a time when tokenized assets have been named the fastest-growing frontier in the crypto industry following a wide-scale institutional influx. A previous Cryptopolitan report noted that tokenized assets now rank among the rapidly evolving sectors that have gained institutional attention in recent times.
The report noted that large corporations such as BlackRock and JPMorgan have rolled out blockchain-based versions of traditional investment products and payment systems.
The value of real-world assets on the blockchain network surged by 232% year over year in 2025. The year saw several entities transition from small pilots to tokenizing financial assets, including Treasuries, corporate bonds, private credit, and commodities. The report cited stablecoin’s growth in the sector, represented by a sudden increase in market capitalization from $216 billion to $306.4 billion.
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U.S.-based technology firm Ripple and global asset management firm Aviva Investors have entered into a partnership to tokenize fund structures. The two entities aim to collaborate throughout 2026 and beyond to develop tokenization solutions for traditional fund structures. As of 2025, Aviva Investors has $345 billion in net assets under management.
Aviva Investors and Ripple partner to pursue tokenization solutions
In a press release dated February 11, Ripple announced that it will support Aviva Investors in the initiative as part of the FinTech company’s broader vision to bring traditional financial assets with real utility to its native, decentralized, open-source blockchain, the XRP Ledger.
The publication detailed that the partnership is the first of its kind for both Ripple and Aviva Investors. The aim of the partnership deal aligns with Aviva investors who seek to integrate tokenized solutions into their existing product offering.
Aviva Investors will leverage the XRP Ledger to issue and manage tokenized funds, according to the announcement. The asset management firm seeks to leverage XRPL’s fast, secure, and low-cost blockchain transactions to power tokenization. The announcement also highlighted the lack of mining activity on the XRP Ledger and described it as advantageous for settling transactions, thereby supporting energy efficiency.
The announcement also noted that the XRPL network offers compliance capabilities that will pave the way for institutional operations under a regulated environment. Jill Barber, Chief Distribution Officer at Aviva Investors, said that the firm believes tokenization has many benefits in the world of investing, “including improvements in terms of both time and cost efficiency.”
The official highlighted Aviva Investors’ strong commitment to innovation and to adopting technological advancements that benefit the company’s operations. He added that tokenization will be hugely beneficial to the asset management firm’s clientele.
Nigel Khakoo, Vice President, Trading and Markets, at Ripple, said that tokenization is undergoing a transformation from experimentation to large-scale production.
He added that “Institutions like Aviva Investors are now focused on how to deploy regulated financial assets at scale.” According to the official, tokenised fund structures will deliver significant technological efficiencies to the investment sector over the next decade.
Ripple backs Auction house Billiton Diamond and the Ctrl Alt deal
Ripple’s footprints in the tokenization world can also be traced in the UAE. Auction house Billiton Diamond and UK-based tokenization service provider Ctrl Alt announced a partnership to tokenize about $280 million in diamonds. The assets are backed by approved inventory partners working with Billiton and are held in the United Arab Emirates.
Ripple’s Senior Executive Officer, Reece Merrick, announced on X that Ripple will support the partnership by providing the infrastructure needed to transfer physical commodities onchain.
According to an official statement by the two partnering entities, Ctrl Alt will be responsible for the tokenization process, including onchain asset minting. He also added that the initiative represents Ripple technology’s capabilities to bridge the gap between the digital economy and physical assets.
The partnership also comes at a time when tokenized assets have been named the fastest-growing frontier in the crypto industry following a wide-scale institutional influx. A previous Cryptopolitan report noted that tokenized assets now rank among the rapidly evolving sectors that have gained institutional attention in recent times.
The report noted that large corporations such as BlackRock and JPMorgan have rolled out blockchain-based versions of traditional investment products and payment systems.
The value of real-world assets on the blockchain network surged by 232% year over year in 2025. The year saw several entities transition from small pilots to tokenizing financial assets, including Treasuries, corporate bonds, private credit, and commodities. The report cited stablecoin’s growth in the sector, represented by a sudden increase in market capitalization from $216 billion to $306.4 billion.
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Ault Capital Group teases mainnet deployment as testnet opens to the public for the first time
Ault Capital Group launched the public testnet of the Ault Blockchain, inviting engagement and feedback from contributors.
The project does not currently have plans for a public token sale; the AULT token will be distributed through a protocol-controlled emissions schedule.
The initial protocol security audit precedes further validator onboarding, ecosystem testing and mainnet launch.
Ault Capital Group announced today that it will launch the public testnet of its Layer 1 network Ault Blockchain, which it is pushing as an institutional-grade onchain infrastructure for trading and settlements.
The mainnet launch adds to the buzz around its token rollout model, which differs from the standard route where projects hold public token sales. Instead, the AULT token will be distributed exclusively through a protocol-controlled emissions schedule.
Ault Blockchain pushes out testnet
The testnet launch is the first time the public will be able to test core network functionality, validator performance, and infrastructure design in an environment that simulates live conditions.
Project documentation shows that Ault will be looking out for community engagement and feedback.
While much of the testnet rollout is according to industry standard, the launch model is different from typical models as the Ault Blockchain will not conduct a public token sale. Instead, it will distribute the AULT token exclusively through a protocol-controlled emissions schedule.
After the launch, the core team plans to shift its focus to the roadmap, with milestones such as spot trading on decentralized exchanges, lending services, perps trading, and other advanced workloads on the radar.
Ault Blockchain’s testnet launch comes after the completion of an initial protocol security audit and precedes further validator onboarding and ecosystem testing. Ault Blockchain’s mainnet launch is expected to be on ice until 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, ready to stake a claim at the evolving institutional finance sector.
What is the Ault Blockchain?
The Ault Blockchain is being developed by Ault Capital Group, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data, Inc., and has been in the development phase since around the middle of 2025.
The network is a finance-first, institutional-grade Layer-1 blockchain designed to support trading, settlement, and data-driven workloads. It operates on the Cosmos SDK with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility, and enables unmodified Ethereum smart contracts while providing fast finality and native cross-chain interoperability.
With real-world financial and analytics applications expected to launch from day one, Ault Blockchain is tipped to be optimized for next-generation onchain finance.
Milton “Todd” Ault III, founder and executive chairman of Ault Capital Group, is proud of what they have built. “Ault Blockchain was built the opposite way most networks are built.
The network is governed onchain by Ault DAO, a decentralized governance body created by and overseen by Ault DAO, LLC, a Wyoming DAO LLC. The DAO manages protocol parameters, validator participation, and network upgrades based on the network’s long-term objectives.
The project does not currently have plans for a public token sale; the AULT token will be distributed through a protocol-controlled emissions schedule.
The initial protocol security audit precedes further validator onboarding, ecosystem testing and mainnet launch.
Ault Capital Group announced today that it will launch the public testnet of its Layer 1 network Ault Blockchain, which it is pushing as an institutional-grade onchain infrastructure for trading and settlements.
The mainnet launch adds to the buzz around its token rollout model, which differs from the standard route where projects hold public token sales. Instead, the AULT token will be distributed exclusively through a protocol-controlled emissions schedule.
Ault Blockchain pushes out testnet
The testnet launch is the first time the public will be able to test core network functionality, validator performance, and infrastructure design in an environment that simulates live conditions.
Project documentation shows that Ault will be looking out for community engagement and feedback.
While much of the testnet rollout is according to industry standard, the launch model is different from typical models as the Ault Blockchain will not conduct a public token sale. Instead, it will distribute the AULT token exclusively through a protocol-controlled emissions schedule.
After the launch, the core team plans to shift its focus to the roadmap, with milestones such as spot trading on decentralized exchanges, lending services, perps trading, and other advanced workloads on the radar.
Ault Blockchain’s testnet launch comes after the completion of an initial protocol security audit and precedes further validator onboarding and ecosystem testing. Ault Blockchain’s mainnet launch is expected to be on ice until 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, ready to stake a claim at the evolving institutional finance sector.
What is the Ault Blockchain?
The Ault Blockchain is being developed by Ault Capital Group, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data, Inc., and has been in the development phase since around the middle of 2025.
The network is a finance-first, institutional-grade Layer-1 blockchain designed to support trading, settlement, and data-driven workloads. It operates on the Cosmos SDK with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility, and enables unmodified Ethereum smart contracts while providing fast finality and native cross-chain interoperability.
With real-world financial and analytics applications expected to launch from day one, Ault Blockchain is tipped to be optimized for next-generation onchain finance.
Milton “Todd” Ault III, founder and executive chairman of Ault Capital Group, is proud of what they have built. “Ault Blockchain was built the opposite way most networks are built.
The network is governed onchain by Ault DAO, a decentralized governance body created by and overseen by Ault DAO, LLC, a Wyoming DAO LLC. The DAO manages protocol parameters, validator participation, and network upgrades based on the network’s long-term objectives.
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