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What is crypto futures trading? It’s a popular way for traders to speculate on cryptocurrency prices without actually owning the coins. Instead of buying Bitcoin or Ethereum directly, traders use futures contracts to bet on whether prices will rise or fall. In this guide, you’ll learn how cryptocurrency futures trading works, the key components of a futures contract, and the benefits and risks involved. By the end of it, you’ll discover whether this strategy fits your trading goals.What Is Crypto Futures Trading?Crypto futures trading lets you speculate on the future price movement of a cryptocurrency without having to own the asset…

The US Federal Reserve is seeking to codify a rule removing “reputation risk” from banking supervision, which some have blamed for a wave of crypto debanking in recent years. The Fed initially began making changes in June last year, announcing that it had directed its supervisors to stop pressuring banks to shut down client accounts over reputation risk, meaning banks can only make decisions on clients based on financial risk management. In a press release on Monday, the Fed said that it is requesting feedback on a proposal to turn this into law. The Fed has set a 60-day deadline for…

Three Solana-based platforms have announced they are shutting down after a Step Finance hack at the end of January that has been deemed unrecoverable. Solana portfolio dashboard and DeFi aggregator Step Finance announced on Monday that it would be winding down operations. The closure also extends to subsidiaries Solana NFT analytics and the ecosystem media outlet SolanaFloor, as well as lending and yield protocol Remora Markets.“Following the hack at the end of January, we explored every possible path forward, including financing and acquisition opportunities,” it stated, referring to a $27 million security breach of its treasury wallets in January. The team said…

The art world loves a party. This time it’s putting that energy to work. On February 26, during L.A. Art Week, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary will launch “Get Up Stand Up: Artists for Jamaica and Los Angeles,” a benefit auction aimed at long-term recovery efforts after Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica and the recent wildfires in Los Angeles. The event kicks off in Hollywood with a live sale led by Swiss auctioneer Simon de Pury, then continues online for two weeks. Tickets for the reception run $1,000. Bidding opens that evening at 8 p.m. Related Articles…

San Francisco, CA – Crypto has a habit of declaring the future early. In recent months, that instinct has fixated on autonomous AI agents, self-driving wallets and trading systems that can move capital without human oversight.At NEARCON 2026, Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi delivered a sharp debate over how soon those agents can be trusted with real money.The core disagreement wasn’t about whether agents will eventually manage capital; both believe they will, but about timing and risk tolerance.“Something that works with money 90% of the time is unusable for actual economic activity,” Qureshi said. Even 95% reliability,…

San Francisco, CA – NEAR is launching Near.com, a new crypto wallet and consumer app that aims to make blockchain technology feel as simple as using a traditional finance app, while positioning itself at the intersection of crypto and artificial intelligence (AI).Polosukhin previously co-authored the paper that introduced the transformer model, the architecture underpinning modern AI systems like ChatGPT and many other large language models, and has increasingly focused on how blockchain infrastructure can support the next wave of AI-driven applications.“We are entering the world where AI is becoming our interface to compute,” Polosukhin said during the presentation.NEAR token is…

Crypto trading platform Backpack Exchange on Monday announced that stakers of its forthcoming Backpack token will be able to earn equity in the exchange, as the company moves toward a potential initial public offering.“Users that stake the Backpack token for at least a year will have the opportunity to exchange those tokens for equity at a fixed ratio — 20% of the company today,” said Backpack CEO and founder Armani Ferrante in a post to X on Monday.20% of Backpack equity given to users who stake for a year.Don’t just use the next big thing.Own it. 🎒 pic.twitter.com/whdGUQ0XyH— Backpack 🎒…

In a ceremony held on Friday at the Musée Quai Branly in Paris, France officially returned a drum known as the “talking drum” or Djidji Ayôkwé, to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. The news was reported by French newspaper Le Monde. The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out from the slit are two planks, one of which supports a carving of a jumping leopard. The box itself is decorated with carved faces and geometric patterns. Related Articles The drum was once used by Côte d’Ivoire’s Atchan/Ebrié people to transmit messages between villages many…

Real-World Assets (RWAs) are digital tokens indicating ownership of tangible or intangible assets. LunarCrush, a platform that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, has unveiled the list of Top 10 Real-World Assets (RWAs) Projects based on social activity. Social Activity contains Engaged Posts and Interactions. These two calculations are used to check the Social activity of cryptocurrencies. Chainlink ($LINK) leads the Top 10 RWA Projects by social activity. TOP #RWA PROJECTS BY SOCIAL ACTIVITY$LINK $HBAR $ICP $INJ $ONDO $AVAX $EL $VET $ZBCN $XLM pic.twitter.com/NwGk6BRJTD— PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) February 23, 2026 In…

IoTeX offered a 10% white-hat bounty to the hacker or hackers who exploited a private key on its cross-chain bridge ioTube, siphoning millions of dollars, in exchange for the voluntary return of funds within 48 hours.With this move, IoTeX is offering the $440,000 if the malicious actor or actors return roughly $4.4 million they stole, according to an IoTeX X post, to which IoTeX co-founder and CEO Raullen Chai pointed “as a source of truth” on Monday.Chai told CoinDesk that the team sent an onchain message offering not to pursue legal action or share identifying information with law enforcement if…