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THE ALIGNMENT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT.
Chainlink has no equity. No IPO. No stock. No conflicting interests.
Employees? Paid in LINK.
Builders? Compensated in LINK.
Biggest whales? They work at Chainlink Labs.
Every other project sold tokens AND equity. That means two classes of investors with two different goals.
Chainlink chose one class. One token. One outcome.
Still think LINK is just an oracle token?

Circle minted a total of 1,000,000,000 $USDC on Solana.

⚡️ NEW: A Bitcoin Policy Institute study of 36 frontier AI models found that 48.3% chose Bitcoin as their preferred monetary instrument over stablecoins and other forms of money.

🚨GOLDMAN’S $100/BBL OIL CALL FROM 2025 COMES BACK INTO FOCUS
During the Twelve-Day War between Iran and Israel in June 2025, Goldman Sachs warned oil could top $100/bbl if key shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted.
Now, fresh Iran‑Israel tensions have markets again watching that same risk as oil prices climb above $80.

Metaplanet is the #1 performer out of 4,000+ publicly listed companies in Japan since adopting BTC in April of 2024. So yes, #winning.

🚨GOLDMAN’S $100/BBL OIL CALL FROM 2025 COMES BACK INTO FOCUS
During the Twelve-Day War between Iran and Israel in June 2025, Goldman Sachs warned oil could top $100/bbl if key shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted.
Now, fresh Iran‑Israel tensions have markets again watching that same risk as oil prices climb above $80.

Commerce between China and Iran is declining:
China's exports to Iran fell to $6.93 billion in 2025, the lowest in at least 11 years.
This is down -63% from the ~$18.65 billion peak in 2017.
At the same time, China's imports from Iran are down to $3.04 billion, leaving China's trade surplus at $3.89 billion, the lowest since 2022.
Furthermore, despite absorbing ~33% of Iranian trade, Iran represents less than 1% of China's total commerce.
Furthermore, Iranian crude makes up ~13% of China's seaborne oil intake, even though China purchases ~90% of total Iranian oil exports.
Meanwhile, in 2021, C

YOUR MONEY IS LOSING PURCHASING POWER 📉
Since 2000, the USD has lost ~53% of its purchasing power. $1 then now requires ~$1.89. Cumulative inflation: +88.88%. Nearly 20% of all USD were created in 2020 alone.
Bitcoin’s counterpoint: fixed 21M supply, rule-based issuance, decentralized. Since 2020: BTC up ~1,200%.
Volatile? Yes.
Elastic fiat vs. scarce $BTC 🟠

🚨 UPDATE: Altseason discussions have hit rock bottom on social media, which historically has been a strong buy signal before major alt rallies begin, per Santiment.

🏦 SoFi and Mastercard are partnering to let banks settle card transactions using the SoFiUSD stablecoin, with 24/7 settlement across Mastercard's global network.

TOM LEE IS DOUBLING DOWN -- EVEN IN A “CRYPTO WINTER”
BitMine just made another aggressive move.
The firm purchased roughly 50,900+ ETH, bringing its total holdings to about 4.47M $ETH -- roughly 3.7% of circulating supply.
That’s not a small treasury bet.
Tom Lee says the buying is deliberate and expects stocks and crypto to be up in March, arguing markets are likely in the late stages of bottoming despite war headlines.
Zoom out and the positioning is clear.
BitMine continues to accumulate while sitting on hundreds of millions in cash, treating the pullback as an opportunity rather than a wa

LATEST: ⚡ YZi Labs has invested $100 million in Hash Global's BNB fund, with YZi Labs head Ella Zhang saying BNB is "powering the future of financial infrastructure."

Kalshi launches a prediction market for watches including Rolex, Omega, Cartier, and Tudor.

$1,000,000,000,000 has been wiped out from stocks since the US market opened.

THE DEPIN THESIS IS OFFICIALLY PROVEN.
Helium network utility just crossed one million daily active users.
This is no longer just a whitepaper concept.
Decentralized physical infrastructure is working at a massive global scale and the adoption curve is accelerating

MARA, THE SECOND LARGEST PUBLIC BTC HOLDER, MAY SELL RESERVES
MARA revises its 2026 digital asset strategy to allow sales of bitcoin held on its balance sheet, expanding beyond its 2025 policy that limited sales to newly mined BTC.
As of Dec. 31, 2025, MARA held 53,822 BTC worth $4.7B.
Of that, 9,377 BTC were loaned out and 5,938 BTC pledged against $350M in credit facilities.
The loaned BTC generated $32.1M in interest income.
MARA recorded a $422.2M fair value decline on its bitcoin holdings in 2025 amid lower market prices.

🚨 $1.8T NORTHERN TRUST ADDS TO $MSTR WHILE RETAIL PANIC SELLS
As retail investors dump $BTC exposure amid volatility, institutions are quietly accumulating it.
Northern Trust increased its MSTR stake by 11,629 shares in Q4 2025.
📊 As of March 3, 2026:
• 1,581,952 shares held
• Position valued around $210M
• Firm manages $1.8T in AUM
Smart money scaling in.
Retail capitulating.
The divergence is getting louder. 👀

What is the SUI Stack? SuiNetwork
Mysten Labs is quitely building the most advanced stack of open source software on top of their L1 which collaboratively will offer developers and enterprises the best of breed web 3 stack to integrate their businesses into a Agentic, tokenized, cross-chain asset and stable coin ecosystem. The stack is composed of:
Sui blockchain (Execution & Coordination Layer)
The core L1 blockchain itself - handles onchain programs (in the Move programming language), asset ownership, shared state, high-throughput parallel transactions, and overall network coordination.
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NEW: #Bitcoin futures open interest stands at $43.78B across 651,350 $BTC. 📈
Max pain levels cluster between 75K−75K−120K across major exchanges.

NEW: Paraguay’s National Electricity Administration signs an MOU to explore Bitcoin mining as a national strategy to monetize unused power.