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Russia offers the US $12 trillion in deals in exchange for lifting sanctions, According to The Economist reports.🇺🇸🇷🇺

🔸 Michael Saylor’s Strategy purchased 2,486 BTC valued at $169M.
🔹 Tom Lee’s BitMine purchased 45,759 ETH worth $91M.

Harvard Management Company reduced its iShares Bitcoin Trust holdings by 21% in Q4 2025 to 5.35M shares valued at $265.8M.
➡️It also initiated a new $86.8M position in iShares Ethereum Trust.
➡️ By Dec. 31, its combined Bitcoin and Ether ETF exposure totaled $352.6M.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says, “OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support.”

Vitalik Warns Prediction Markets Are Sliding Into “Corposlop,” Calls for a Shift to Hedging
🔸 Vitalik argues prediction markets are drifting toward short-term crypto price bets, sports betting, and similar things that have dopamine value but not any kind of long-term fulfillment or value.
🔹 Teams feel motivated to capitulate to these things because they bring in large revenue during a bear market where people are desperate, but could lead to corposlop.
🔸 He proposes refocusing market on hedging and personalized risk protection, potentially even replacing fiat-style stability with prediction

U.S. Supreme Court set February 20 as the next possible date for the Trump tariff ruling.

📢Tomasz Stanczak will step down as Co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation at the end of February 2026.
➡️Bastian Aue will take over the role alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang.

U.S. signed a trade deal with Taiwan, cutting tariffs to 15%. as Taiwan removes 99% of trade barriers and commits to buying $84B in U.S. goods.

📢 US Initial Jobless Claims data is released🇺🇸
🟢Actual: 227K
🔴Expected: 225K
🔴Previous: 231K

🔸 White House Advisor Kevin Hassett says there is plenty of room for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

🔹 Arkham to shut down its crypto trading platform, Arkham Exchange, due to insufficient trading volume.

EU proposes banning all crypto transactions with Russia to prevent sanctions evasion.🇪🇺🇷🇺

Trump said the U.S. economy could grow 15% if Kevin Warsh performs well as Fed Chair.