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What to Know: Bybit’s Stockholm Open partnership underscores a broader push for mainstream adoption and brand legitimacy across crypto. That push spotlights the need for scalable infrastructure that can handle mass-market volumes, an area where Bitcoin’s base layer still struggles. Bitcoin Hyper proposes an SVM-powered Layer 2 for Bitcoin, bringing high-speed smart contracts to BTC while settling to Layer 1. Crypto exchange Bybit has secured the title partnership for the Stockholm Open, a move that plants the industry’s flag squarely in the Nordic market. The tournament, now officially the ‘Bybit Stockholm Open,’ signals more than a standard sponsorship; it’s a calculated bid for legitimacy and mainstream reach in a high-income, tech-savvy region. Big swing. As crypt...

What to Know: The FCA’s High Court move against HTX highlights how regulators can target offshore entities and ‘persons unknown,’ increasing platform and promotion risk. Enforcement headlines often trigger a counterparty-risk repricing, pushing traders toward simpler, more transparent on-chain setups. Maxi Doge’s strategy centers on community retention mechanics, like competitions and staking, designed to keep engagement alive during choppy markets. UK crypto enforcement just got sharper teeth. On February 10, 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published details of its High Court proceedings targeting HTX (formerly Huobi), a move that underlines just how aggressively the regulator is willing to pursue offshore entities and even the ‘persons unknown’ it belie...

Pyth closed Q4 with rising data throughput and expanding institutional monetization. Institutional adoption accelerated following the launch of Pyth Pro. In Q4, Pyth Pro reached 54 active subscribers, up 92.9% from 28 in Q3 and eight in Q2, and generated $352,600 in quarterly revenue, surpassing $1 million in annual recurring revenue as of Jan. 5.
On Dec. 12, Pyth introduced the PYTH Reserve, a token buyback program directing protocol revenue toward open-market PYTH purchases, and the DAO executed its first buy, acquiring approximately 2.16 million PYTH. Together, these developments indicate a shift toward more durable, institution-led usage and revenue generation entering 2026.

Canton Network powers first private stablecoin payroll, boosts institutional adoption with privacy, stablecoin, and tokenization tech.
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Interactive Brokers adds nano Bitcoin and Ether futures through Coinbase Derivatives, building on its January stablecoin push.
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A crypto analyst has shared a comprehensive roadmap for XRP, outlining key milestones and projected prices at each stage. The report examines potential catalysts, institutional demand, liquidity, global settlements, and market conditions that could drive the XRP price towards $10,000.  XRP Short-Term Price At New Market Milestones Market analyst Crypto_Luke has outlined a detailed roadmap for XRP, showing potential milestones that could push the cryptocurrency to new highs. He identifies $3.84 as the first key target, a level that could break XRP’s 2018 all-time high. The analyst said that crossing this level could trigger price discovery, with XRP potentially surging to $18, marking the fifth wave of market momentum. Related Reading: Pundit Explains Why The XRP Pric...

Mantle closed Q4 2025 amid a broader market drawdown, with MNT’s circulating market cap declining 45.6% QoQ and onchain activity decreasing. Despite weaker usage and revenue metrics, DeFi TVL increased 37.3% following a $205 million treasury deployment into Mantle Index Four (MI4).

The quarter also marked a key infrastructure milestone with mETH Protocol’s Buffer Pool upgrade, which allocates approximately 20% of protocol TVL to Aave to improve ETH redemption efficiency and liquidity. Together, these developments reflect Mantle’s continued prioritization of DAO-led capital deployment, ETH-native yield strategies, and expanding onchain infrastructure.

SparkLend is the leading institutional-grade, blue-chip money-market protocol in DeFi, beating out Aave V3’s Prime Market instance in market size, variety of blue-chip assets offered, and maximum leverage on a risk-adjusted basis. This report is broken into two parts: A snapshot of the state of deposits, borrows, and rates on SparkLend that includes an explanation of SparkLend’s architecture and design choices, and a risk analysis of SparkLend comparing it to other lending and borrowing protocols on Ethereum, including Aave V3, Morpho, Euler V2, and Maple Finance. Together, these sections explain how and why SparkLend is where blue chip onchain institutional lending and borrowing happen.

India has widespread internet usage, but fixed broadband penetration remains below 5%, leaving households, schools, and small businesses without reliable connectivity. Centralized telecom expansion has prioritized high-return urban clusters, producing uneven coverage and persistent service quality issues, particularly in peri-urban and underserved regions. As AI adoption accelerates across the economy, demand is shifting toward sustained, low-latency connectivity that mobile networks struggle to support. Dabba Network addresses this gap through a decentralized execution model that aggregates Local Cable Operators to deploy and maintain last-mile infrastructure. In one year, the network scaled to 100,000 deployed hotspots, 500,000 daily active users, and $600,000 in m...

In Q4 2025, Polygon continued to scale real-world usage despite broader market weakness. While POL’s circulating market cap declined 55.1% QoQ amid a market-wide drawdown, onchain activity and application-level adoption accelerated. Average daily active addresses rose 57.3% QoQ, and transactions increased 38.1%, reflecting growing demand for low-cost, high-throughput settlement. Chain GDP grew 9.2% QoQ to $24.8 million, and applications continued to capture outsized value relative to network fees, underscoring Polygon’s role as an application-driven ecosystem.

Payments emerged as Polygon’s strongest growth area during the quarter. Payments-focused applications processed $3.57 billion in transfer volume, nearly doubling QoQ and rising more than 4x YoY, while stableco...