🇺🇸👀 #macro USA:
- Initial Jobless Claims = 212k (exp 216k / prev 208k)
- Continuing Jobless Claims = 1.833M (exp 1.858M / prev 1.864M)

🇺🇸🕵️ Eric Trump shows off their American Bitcoin mining facility, saying they increased their Bitcoin holdings by 58% QoQ.

America is embracing Bitcoin.

🧐 ZachXBT has announced that employees at Axiom are abusing the lack of access controls to internal tools. They are reportedly searching for confidential user data for insider trading.

🕵️ Axiom: "We are surprised and disappointed that some members of our team abused internal customer support tools to check user wallets. We have disabled access to these tools and will continue the investigation, as well as hold those responsible accountable."

🇺🇸💳 MetaMask and Mastercard launch the MetaMask Card across the US.

🕵️ 1,006.84 #BTC ($68,294,391)
aggregated inflows to Coinbase Pro link

🐳 Adam Back hinted live on CNBC that his company BSTR may be preparing to buy 13,000 more #BTC. link

📊 About 3 hours before ZachXBT revealed the crypto company accused of insider trading, two newly created anonymous wallets bet $59.8K on Axiom.

In just 3 hours, these two wallets (possibly insiders) made $109K.

Insiders making money on a bet about insider trading is interesting. link link

🤔 Decibel, a perpetuals exchange incubated by Aptos Labs, announced its official launch.

Decibel utilizes a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) model, where order placement, matching, settlement, and risk management are all executed on-chain via smart contracts on Aptos.

The Decibel Foundation stated that it plans to add spot markets, multi-collateral accounts, and tokenized RWA, expanding its business beyond crypto derivatives. #rwa link

📊👀 #BTC Glassnode: Smoothed Net Realized P&L exceeded $5M/hr. Price peaked at $69.4K and stalled.

Profit-taking continues to absorb momentum at the $70K threshold, consistent with a thin liquidity regime where even modest realization events are sufficient to suppress recovery attempts.

🐳 Feb 26 Update:

Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +5,847 $BTC (+$394.06M)
7D NetFlow: +5,195 $BTC (+$350.12M)

Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +51,705 $ETH (+$105.48M)
7D NetFlow: -42,931 $ETH (-$87.58M)

Solana ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +325,262 $SOL (+$28.3M)
7D NetFlow: +592,226 $SOL (+$51.52M) link

👨‍💻 Morgan Stanley to develop a proprietary solution for Bitcoin custody and exchange. link

🇺🇸🤔 Indiana lawmakers approve a bill that will allow public retirement and savings plans to invest in bitcoin and bitcoin ETFs. The bill now goes to the governor's desk, where it is expected to be signed into law. #regulation

🧑‍💻 Starknet is introducing strkBTC: a new wrapped Bitcoin token with built-in privacy capabilities. link

🐳 BlackRock keeps adding more $BTC.

In the past hour, BlackRock received 4,309 $BTC ($289.6M). link

🕵️ Tether invested $200 million in digital marketplace Whop, valuing it at $1.6 billion. Whop is set to integrate Tether's wallet tools to enable its users to transact in $USDT and $USAT. link

💵 250,000,000 #USDC (249,973,500 USD) minted at USDC Treasury link

🏦 Wall Street giant Citi Bank announces, "Later this year, Citi will be launching our infrastructure that integrates Bitcoin into traditional finance."

"Making Bitcoin Bankable"

💰 Prevalon Energy and Anchorage Digital discloses allocations to Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC). link

📊 #BNB Binance has exceeded $70 billion in trading volume for commodities after launching futures for gold and silver.

📊 Senator Elizabeth Warren calls to pass a bill banning insider trading and prohibiting Congress from owning stocks.