Author: Kryptonews

Vitalik Buterin just published a research proposal that sidesteps the question everyone keeps asking: can blockchains run AI models?Instead, the research claims Ethereum as the privacy-preserving settlement layer for metered AI and API usage. The post, co-authored with Davide Crapis on Ethereum Research, argues that the real opportunity isn’t putting LLMs on-chain.The real opportunity lies in building the infrastructure that enables agents and users to pay for thousands of API calls without compromising identity or creating surveillance trails through billing data.The timing is critical because agentic AI is moving from demonstrations to enterprise roadmaps. Gartner forecasts that 40% of enterprise…

Bitcoin miner outflows jumped to 28,605 BTC, worth about $1.8 billion, on Feb. 5, one of the largest single-day transfers since November 2024, as prices swung sharply during a volatile trading session.Another 20,169 Bitcoin (BTC), worth about $1.4 billion, left miner-linked wallets on Feb. 6, according to data from CryptoQuant. The last comparable spike occurred on Nov. 12, 2024, when outflows reached 30,187 BTC.The spike coincided with sharp price swings, with BTC trading at about $62,809 on Feb. 5 before rebounding to $70,544 a day later. Large miner wallet transfers during volatile sessions often draw scrutiny because they can signal…

Alameda Research has been repaying creditors with tokens of Solana (SOL) valued at $15 million as part of its ongoing repayment process. Arkham, a blockchain analytics platform, alerted about the most recent transfers, stating that the money was moved in a new monthly release. ALAMEDA DISTRIBUTING $15M SOL TO CREDITORSAlameda Research’s estate just distributed $15M SOL to creditors in their latest monthly tranche. They moved out $15.60M SOL to 25 separate addresses, as part of continual distributions that have been ongoing for 21 months now.Alameda… pic.twitter.com/09HIp4RVo8— Arkham (@arkham) February 12, 2026 As on-chain data shows, the estate has moved around…

ARK Invest, the investment firm led by Bitcoin bull Cathie Wood, snapped up a significant batch of crypto-linked stocks on Wednesday as BTC briefly dipped below $66,000.ARK purchased 433,806 shares of Robinhood (HOOD) for approximately $33.8 million, according to a trade notification reviewed by Cointelegraph.The asset manager also boosted its exposure to crypto exchange Bullish (BLSH) and USDC (USDC) issuer Circle (CRCL), acquiring 364,134 shares valued at $11.6 million and 75,559 shares worth $4.4 million, respectively.The purchases came as all three stocks traded lower on the day, with Robinhood shares sliding nearly 9%, according to TradingView data.ARK withheld from buying…

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesBAILEY’S BEQUEST. The Intuit Art Museum (IAM) in Chicago, one of the country’s top museums dedicated to self-taught artists, has been gifted 61 works through two donations, reports The Art Newspaper. The largest of the two, numbering 47 pieces, comes from the estate of late Chicago collector and founding supporter of the museum, Jan Petry (1939-2024). The second comes from the Los Angeles-based scholar and African American art collector Gordon W. Bailey. The gifts will help the museum’s goal to exhibit more works by women artists of color, and “bring new artists’ stories…

The United States National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) has proposed its first rules under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, sketching out how subsidiaries of federally insured credit unions could apply to become federally supervised payment stablecoin issuers. The NCUA, which oversees more than 4,000 federally insured credit unions serving roughly 144 million members and about $2.38 trillion in assets as of mid-2025, is using this proposal to set out the process and standards for licensing such issuers. Under the proposal, any payment stablecoin issuer that is a “subsidiary of an insured credit union” would need to…

Binance completed the $1 billion Bitcoin conversion for its emergency fund, committing to holding Bitcoin as its core reserve asset.Binance purchased another $304 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) on Thursday, completing the conversion of $1 billion in Bitcoin for its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) wallet, according to Arkham data.The fund now holds 15,000 Bitcoin, worth over $1 billion, acquired at an average aggregate cost basis of $67,000 per coin, Binance said in a Thursday X post. “With SAFU Fund now fully in Bitcoin, we reinforce our belief in BTC as the premier long-term reserve asset.”The last tranche of BTC…

Bitcoin BTC$68,128.13 is hovering near $67,800, up on the day, as crypto markets took in January’s stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report without an initial selloff.The resilience is feeding a shift in sentiment, with the muted reaction possibly a signal of seller exhaustion and growing appetite for risk, despite a tough macro backdrop. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) has gained 1.5% since midnight UTC with all but one token, BCH$508.90, advancing.The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, nearly double the expected 70,000. That data sharply reduced the odds of an early interest rate-cut by the Federal Reserve, pushing expectations out to July.Typically,…

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and prominent market analysts are confident: the coming years could validate the “Bitcoin Super Cycle,” fundamentally decoupling the asset from its traditional four-year patterns. This potential structural shift suggests that institutional liquidity and regulatory clarity may finally supersede the programmatic impact of supply issuance. Historically, Bitcoin’s price discovery has been tethered to the Halving Cycle, a recurring event that slashes miner rewards in half every four years. However, the market landscape has evolved significantly following the approval of US spot ETFs and the unprecedented influx of corporate capital. Industry observers argue that rising global liquidity…

Securitize is launching a stablecoin backed by tokenized private credit assets in partnership with Hamilton Lane, OKX Ventures and stablecoin infrastructure firm STBL, expanding efforts to bring institutional real-world asset yield onto blockchain rails.Securitize has partnered with stablecoin infrastructure provider STBL, Nasdaq-listed private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane and crypto exchange OKX’s investment wing, OKX Ventures, to support the launch of a new real-world asset (RWA)-backed stablecoin on X Layer.The new stablecoin will bring together institutional private credit, regulated tokenization and programmable settlement to support the “next generation onchain financial infrastructure,” said Securitize in a Thursday X post.The new…