Amundi increased its holdings in Strategy by 584,100 shares, worth $72.3 million.

BNB Chain had 4.86 million active addresses in the past 24 hours, ranking first among public chains. During the same period, Solana had approximately 1.97 million active addresses, Ethereum approximately 535,100, and Base approximately 311,800. BNB Chain's 24-hour active address count was approximately 2.47 times that of Solana and 9.08 times that of Ethereum. (Source: DeFiLlama)

Midnight, a privacy-focused blockchain, has upgraded its mainnet to Ledger 9, adding support for privacy asset transfers. This upgrade introduces inter-contract call execution functionality, as well as new cryptographic standards such as Keccak-256 and ECDSA.

Shares of U.S. chipmakers generally fell in pre-market trading, with Intel (INTC.O) down 1.4%, Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) down 1.7%, Qualcomm (QCOM.O) down 1.1%, Micron Technology (MU.O) down 0.9%, and Arm (ARM.O) down 1.4%.

US President Trump stated that he was unaware of any UAE-related investments entering his family's crypto company. (Watcher.Guru)

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is allowing banks to submit applications for crypto asset business before the new crypto asset regulatory regime comes into effect. Companies that submit their applications and meet specific requirements before February 28, 2027, may continue to operate during the review period.