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Sign: Sovereign Infrastructure of Digital Trust

Sign Protocol was born from the EthSign project, which started with a simple idea — to move document signing to the blockchain. Sign is a multichain protocol for attestation, allowing for the creation of verifiable claims about anything from diplomas to corporate documents, and verifying them without intermediaries.

The architecture of Sign is built around two key products. Sign Protocol is a universal layer of attestation where any information can be recorded with cryptographic guarantees of authenticity. TokenTable is a platform for token distribution, through which assets exceeding 4 billion dollars for 200 projects, including Starknet and ZetaChain, have already passed.

But the most interesting aspect is Sign's ambitions in sovereign infrastructure. The protocol builds what its creators call a "digital lifeline" for states — systems of national digital identities, state registries, and even CBDCs that are resilient to failures of traditional centralized systems. Partnerships have been signed with Sierra Leone and the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic.

#signdigitalsovereigninfra $SIGN @SignOfficial

Midnight Network is a blockchain project by Input Output Global, the creators of Cardano, which seeks to resolve the fundamental contradiction between the transparency of distributed ledgers and the right to privacy. Its chief architect Charles Hoskinson calls Midnight the answer to the need for "rational privacy" — an approach where the user decides what information to disclose and what to keep hidden, while still being able to prove facts without revealing details.

In anticipation of the 2026 launch, Midnight made an unexpected institutional breakthrough, attracting Google Cloud, MoneyGram, Vodafone, and Worldpay as federated node operators. These are not just technical partnerships — MoneyGram sees Midnight as a foundation for global payments that comply with regulatory requirements, while Worldpay integrates the stablecoin USDG for corporate settlements while maintaining KYC.

Midnight offers the market what institutions have long awaited — a blockchain that can prove everything necessary to regulators without turning business life into a showcase. This may be the most pragmatic attempt to build a bridge between the world of crypto-anarchy and the world of compliance.

#night $NIGHT @MidnightNetwork

The Fed signals: rates may go down. Bitcoin broke $72,000
The crypto market came to life on Wednesday. Bitcoin broke through key resistance at $72,000, altcoins followed: SPX6900 +20%, Zcash, Decred, Aerodrome Finance — more than 10%. The total market capitalization increased by 6.5%, open interest in futures surpassed $95 billion.
The main trigger was the statement by Stephen Miran, a senior official at the Fed appointed by Trump. He publicly advocated for a rate cut, despite inflation risks and the war with Iran. According to him, the labor market needs support, and inflation remains within acceptable limits.
The latest Fed protocols show that some officials are even ready to raise rates — inflation has been above 2% for four years. Moreover, Trump is preparing a new universal tariff of 15%, and oil and gas prices are creeping up due to the Iranian conflict.
But markets currently trust signals, not protocols. The second factor is news about possible negotiations with Iran. Intelligence confirmed that Tehran has approached the U.S. While both sides are confident of victory, the mere fact of contact reduces the level of panic.
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The largest miners are giving up: Core Scientific and MARA are preparing to sell bitcoin
Bitcoin is stuck below $70,000, and miners can no longer wait. Core Scientific has already sold 1,924 BTC, leaving a pitiful 613 coins in its treasury. The company has dropped to 59th place in the ranking of corporate holders. Plans are to sell almost everything by the end of the year, with the bulk in the first quarter. The money will go to data centers for AI.
MARA Holdings is going even further. In an SEC report dated March 2, the company officially expanded its strategy for 2026: it is now allowed to sell bitcoin not only from current mining but also from its balance sheet. Those very 53,822 BTC, which MARA proudly held as the largest reserve among public miners, are no longer sacred.
In 2025, MARA already attempted to actively manage its treasury: 9,377 BTC went to loans, 5,938 to collateral under $350 million credit lines. They earned $32.1 million in interest. But there were also losses: $422 million drop in fair value due to the decline in BTC price and $22 million losses from structured deals through Two Prime. The trading division was ultimately closed with a total loss of $69.1 million.
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The Bank of Japan is moving into blockchain: tests on reserve settlements and tokenized deposits
Governor Kazuo Ueda announced at FIN/SUM 2026 experiments with distributed ledgers for settlements on deposits that financial institutions hold at the central bank. This is about the wholesale level: interbank settlements, securities transactions, tokenized versions of reserves.
Japan is also participating in the international track — the Agora project, where several central banks and large banks are testing cross-border payments through smart contracts and atomic transactions.
Ueda emphasized that the technology of distributed ledgers has already moved out of the experimental stage and is being implemented in finance. DeFi protocols have shown that blockchain is programmability.
At the same time, Japan remains cautious. The pilot for the retail digital yen has been ongoing since 2023, but there is no decision on its launch — the country is too attached to cash.
The key challenge, according to Ueda, is compatibility. Without the central bank's participation, users will see a difference in costs between payment instruments on different systems. This is unacceptable.
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Mike McGloon from Bloomberg: the gold rally is over.
Gold has risen 161% since the beginning of 2022, setting record after record. The peak was $5151 per ounce on March 3. The driver is geopolitical instability triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But Bloomberg's chief commodity strategist Mike McGloon says this cycle is over.
According to him, "the golden pillars are collapsing." The U.S. has achieved a series of geopolitical victories: Assad's departure in Syria, Maduro's fall in Venezuela. If a strike on Iran leads to regime change or weakens Tehran, the last bastion of instability will disappear. And that means the main driver of gold will also vanish.
McGloon predicts that current prices for gold, silver, and oil could represent multi-year peaks.
Meanwhile, the Israeli stock market closed at a record high on Monday – investors believe in the imminent victory of the alliance.
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46% of bitcoins are at a loss. The market is approaching levels of 2022
CryptoQuant reports: 9.09 million BTC — almost half of the total supply — are currently trading below the price of the last movement. This is the second-largest concentration of losses since July 2020. The only time it was higher was in 2022, when around 10 million coins were underwater after the collapse of Luna and FTX.
The figures are nearly equal. The losses are not borne by those who bought at historical peaks, but by those who entered during the rally of 2024–2025 and did not manage to exit.
When almost half of the supply is in the red, the market freezes. Some holders are waiting for a rebound, while others sell, realizing losses. Those with the highest entry price lose confidence faster.
In 2022, the peak of losses occurred at the end of the year. Then the concentration went down — and recovery began. The current question is whether the peak has been passed or if new lows are ahead.
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Crypto funds turned around: +$1 billion after five weeks of outflows
CoinShares recorded the first weekly inflows since January. Crypto-ETPs attracted $1 billion, of which $882 million went into Bitcoin funds. The five-week streak of outflows amounting to $4 billion has been broken.
James Butterfill from CoinShares says there is no single catalyst. Rather, it was a combination: prices broke key levels, large holders started accumulating, and clients stopped asking 'how to exit' and began looking for 'where to enter'.
American spot Bitcoin ETFs took on the main load: +$787 million for the week. This marks the end of a five-week outflow that exceeded $3.8 billion.
Ethereum and Solana also joined in: ETH funds +$117 million (the best week since January), SOL funds +$54 million. LINK and XRP added $3.4 million and $2 million respectively.
But the year is still in the red: Bitcoin ETPs are in the negative zone by $408 million, Ethereum by $430 million. Solana and XRP, on the contrary, are in the positive: +$156 million and +$153 million since the beginning of the year.
Total assets under management in crypto-ETPs slightly decreased to $127.7 billion. But the direction has changed. The market has at least stopped leaking.
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ROBO — is the bloodstream of the Fabric Foundation, a project that ambitiously attempts to create the world's first open economy of robots.
The technology is built around the operating system OM1 — a kind of Android for robotics, allowing different machines from UBTech, AgiBot, and Fourier to speak the same language. On top of it operates the FABRIC protocol, which coordinates the actions of robots through blockchain, creating a decentralized nervous system for hardware.
The ROBO economy is tied to the Proof of Robotic Work mechanism. Robots perform real tasks — delivery, cleaning, warehouse operations — and receive payment in tokens. Communities can collectively finance the purchase of entire fleets through coordination pools, staking ROBO and receiving a share of the future earnings of their machines.
The tokenomics impresses with its scale: with a total supply of 10 billion ROBO, a significant portion is reserved specifically for stimulating machine labor. A part of the protocol's revenues is directed towards buying tokens from the market, creating constant pressure on the price.
#robo $ROBO @Fabric Foundation

Mira: A Trust Layer for Artificial Intelligence
Mira is an ambitious project positioning itself as an infrastructural bridge between artificial intelligence and blockchain. Its mission is to solve the fundamental problem of modern neural networks: their tendency for hallucinations, biases, and unpredictability. Mira offers a decentralized verification protocol, where the results of AI models are cross-verified through a network of independent nodes before reaching the end user. This creates "cryptographic integrity" for artificial intelligence — something akin to bitcoin, but not for money, rather for trust in computations.
@Mira - Trust Layer of AI $MIRA #Mira

CryptoQuant: the bottom is not here yet. Bitcoin continues to shed leverage, but there is no capitulation
Open interest in futures on CME has fallen by 47% — almost like in 2022, when the decline was 45%. The futures yield curve has been moving down since 2025, repeating the trajectory that preceded the bear markets of 2019 and 2022. But there is a nuance.
The slope of the curve is still positive. In previous cycles, the final bottom was formed only when the curve went into negative territory — that is, when the demand for leverage completely disappeared and acute capitulation began.
This is not the case now. The market is gradually reducing leverage, positions are being reloaded, but without panic. This is a classic picture of a consolidative or mid-cycle bear market. Capitulation is likely still ahead.
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Morgan Stanley has submitted an application to create a national trust bank for cryptocurrency storage
The bank with $7 trillion under management officially enters the infrastructure. On February 18, Morgan Stanley submitted an application to the OCC for a national trust bank license to provide digital asset custody services. Included are Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
The decision has not been made lightly. The OCC and the Fed have already clarified the rules: banks can store crypto for clients. Before Morgan Stanley, similar licenses were obtained by Anchorage, Ripple, Fidelity, Paxos, BitGo, Crypto.com, and Circle.
The application follows a record quarter for the bank: net revenue Q4 2025 — $17.9 billion, +10% year over year. Asset management drives growth, but to remain competitive, a crypto infrastructure is needed. Morgan Stanley understands this.
Earlier this year, the bank already submitted applications to the SEC for spot ETFs for BTC, ETH, and SOL. Now — the next step: self-custody.
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The USA struck Iran. The crypto market lost $70 billion in an hour
February 28, 7 AM UTC. The news of the USA's strike on Iran came out — and the market collapsed. In 60 minutes, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization fell from $2.24 trillion to $2.17 trillion. A decrease of $70 billion.
Bitcoin dropped to $64,000.
Gold, on the contrary, went up. Pax Gold and Tether Gold added more than 3%. Spot gold — $5278 per ounce, +2%.
Liquidations — $100 million in the first minutes after the news. By the evening, long positions were wiped out by nearly $445 million. BTC and ETH were the most affected — traders went long before the weekend and didn’t manage to exit.
This is not the first time. In April 2024, when Iran struck Israel, bitcoin also fell to $61,000. But then, after a few months, new highs were reached. The only question is how long this round will last.
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The number of wallets with 100+ BTC will soon reach 20,000. Santiment: this is a bullish signal, but the price is still under pressure.
The number of Bitcoin wallets holding at least 100 coins is approaching a round figure. Currently, there are 19,993.
Santiment sees this as a sign of a healthier distribution. Less consolidation at the very top, more mid-level players. When the number of such wallets increases after a price drop — it’s a bullish signal.
But there is a nuance. The overall percentage of supply held by this group remains unchanged. This means that old whales are still selling, and new ones are simply taking their place. Santiment directly states: "That’s why prices remain suppressed."
Van de Poppe is waiting for a "higher low" to resume the trend. For now, he says, "everything is fine." But fine does not mean "time to buy."
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Bloomberg and Kaiko are pouring licensed data into the blockchain.
Bloomberg and Paris-based data provider Kaiko announced a partnership aimed at making licensed financial data available directly on the blockchain. This is not about retail traders. It is about banks, asset managers, and everyone building tokenized RWA.
The problem they are addressing: in tokenized ecosystems, participants often use different price feeds, identifiers, and reference data. This creates reconciliation risks, operational friction, and disputes. A common licensed data source in the network eliminates this inconsistency.
The first application is tokenized markets for treasury bonds and repos in the US on the Canton blockchain (a permitted network for institutional investors). Kaiko already launched its data feed service there in August.
Kaiko CEO Ambre Subiran says: "We are expanding the availability of market data from traditional markets to support the next generation of tokenized infrastructure".
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PPI soared above forecasts, stocks fell. The market is once again talking about stagflation
The Producer Price Index (PPI) for January came in hot. The overall figure is +2.9% compared to the expected +2.6%. The core is +3.6% versus +3.0%. Services jumped by 0.8% against a forecast of 0.3% — more than double.
Markets reacted instantly. The S&P 500 fell by 0.87%, Dow Jones by 1.38%, Nasdaq by 1.09%. Futures were already in the red before the publication, but the data intensified the movement.
Why this matters. PPI is wholesale inflation, what companies pay before passing costs onto consumers. A high PPI means that CPI may not rush downwards. This means the Fed won't be able to cut rates quickly.
But the main point is the combination. Producer inflation is rising while GDP is slowing. This is a classic signal of stagflation. In such a situation, central banks have no good options: neither to tighten (inflation will return) nor to hold (the economy cools further).
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Bitcoin did not hold $68,000. The bear market is not over yet
Yesterday was a test. The price went above $70,000, tried to break the 200-week EMA and the old historical maximum of 2021. It did not break. Today — a pullback below $67,000, losses over 1%, resistance remains resistance.
Rekt Capital notes: the 200-week EMA now acts as a ceiling. Historically, as long as Bitcoin is below it, pressure remains.
The shortest bear market in Bitcoin's history lasted 365 days. The current one has been going on for about 140. Talks of an end are premature.
In past cycles, the drop from the peak was almost 80%. Now the maximum is about 53% from October's $126,000. “One jump — and everyone talked about the day. Don't be fooled.”
Bitcoin has shown character, but has not given confirmation. For now, this is just a bounce within the bear market. Patience.
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Bitcoin bounced from $62,000 with increasing volumes. Technically, it looks like a local bottom.
The price reacted exactly where it should have. The Fibonacci retracement level of 0.786 coincided with daily support around $62,000. Bitcoin moved up — quickly, impulsively, with a noticeable increase in volumes. This is not a dead bounce of short coverings. This is demand.
In technical analysis, such things mean a lot. When the price rises on volumes, and not just shifts from hand to hand, there is a chance that the minimum is indeed local.
But it's too early to celebrate. The next test is the point of control (POC), the level of the largest volume in the current range. If Bitcoin closes the day above, the balance will shift in favor of the bulls. If not — sellers are still at the helm, and the $62,000 zone may be tested again.
Against this backdrop, Arizona is pushing a law on the strategic reserve of digital assets, while Nakamoto expands Bitcoin media for $107 million. The institutional background is strengthening, even as the price swings.
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Bitcoin bounced back to $68,000 after Trump's speech and the return of institutions
After five weeks of outflows and a drop to $60,000, Bitcoin turned around. In a day +6%, the cryptocurrency market capitalization increased by 4.5% to $2.35 trillion. The Fear and Greed Index rose from 8 to 11 — still extreme fear, but the peak of panic seems to have passed.
Trump's speech about the state of the country was read as a signal of stability: low inflation, strong employment. Nasdaq and S&P 500 closed in the green, and Bitcoin followed suit.
The court limited Trump's powers to impose tariffs through a state of emergency. Although a 15% fee under a different basis was still introduced, the market perceived the legal victory as a reduction in trading uncertainty.
ETFs recorded their first inflows in five weeks: $258 million. Fidelity took $83 million, BlackRock — $79 million.
Geopolitics also played a role: tensions with Iran stabilized after news of diplomacy.
What's next
The next target is $68,500. This is the lower boundary of the previous range, lost in mid-February. If we close above, there will be a chance to return to $71,300 and cancel the bearish structure.
If not, the bounce will remain just a bounce, and the $64,000–$65,000 zone will once again become a risk zone.
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«Institutional exit is not the end, but a cleansing» — Eric Jackson on the Bitcoin ETF sell-off
The Bitcoin ETF has been recording outflows week after week. Since October, the asset has dropped from $126,000 to $63,000, in sync with the technology index IGV. However, EMJ Capital founder Eric Jackson sees this not as a thesis collapse, but as a filtration of weak hands.
According to him, in 2017 retail sold at $20,000. In 2021, funds exited at $69,000. Now — ETF allocators are recording losses at $63,000. With each cycle, one category of investors leaves, and a new one arrives — with a longer horizon.
What’s next? Sovereign funds. Corporate treasuries. Pension capital. Money that does not rebalance every quarter and does not correlate with software stocks. Money that is held for decades.
Jackson acknowledges: for now, Bitcoin is behaving not as a store of value, but as a high-bet technology position. But this is temporary. Once the IGV sell-off is over, and the supply of stablecoins on exchanges starts to rise again, the triggers will activate.
Outflows on Monday exceeded $200 million. The price has dropped below $63,000. But for long-term bulls, this is not a reason for panic, but a reason to take a closer look.
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