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NEW: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong-based Laurore has emerged as the largest new shareholder of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), disclosing a $436 million stake, or 8.79 million shares, in a year-end SEC 13F filing.

GRAYSCALE INCREASES ADA HOLDINGS
Grayscale Investments raised ADA’s weighting in its Smart Contract Fund to 20.12%, up from 19.50%.
Another consecutive

🔥TIM DRAPER: BITCOIN COULD 4X BY 2028
VC investor Tim Draper says Bitcoin could quadruple by 2028, doubling down on his long-standing bullish stance.
He’s even inviting skeptics to bet against him on Polymarket.

BREAKING
CHINESE 🇨🇳 CONTROLLED HONG KONG BASED LAURORE HAS EMERGED AS THE LARGEST NEW SHAREHOLDER OF BLACKROCK BITCOIN ETF
CHINA IS BUYING THE $BTC DIP

BIG: Demand from accumulator addresses spike in the past 7 days.

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Precious Metals are SURGING again.
Gold is up 2.6% and has reclaimed $5,100, adding $900 Billion today.
Silver is up 9.42%% and has reclaimed $85, adding $400 Billion today.

Global investors are increasingly piling into Brazilian stocks:
Brazilian stocks have recorded +$6.6 billion in foreign inflows so far in 2026.
This already surpasses the +$4.9 billion recorded in the entire 2025.
As a result, the average daily trading volume for Brazilian equities jumped to $6.1 billion last month, the highest since November 2022.
Furthermore, the Brazil ETF, $EWZ, which covers 85% of the nation's stocks, surged +17% in January, its best monthly performance since 2020.
A weakening US Dollar and higher commodity prices are driving the historic move higher.
Brazil's bull market

COMPANIES ARE STOCKPILING XRP
11 companies are adding XRP to their corporate treasuries across fintech, tech, and transport. Over $2B+ already locked out of the open market.
Institutional adoption is happening FAST. XRP utility is taking over.

🔥 BIG: Hyperliquid and Phantom made Forbes’ 11th annual Fintech 50 list of top private U.S. fintech companies.

LATEST: 📈 Tokenized equities platform xStocks surpassed $25 billion in total transaction volume less than eight months after launch, reporting over 80,000 unique on-chain holders.

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE BOLD, NOT THE BUREAUCRATS.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says, "Capital goes where it’s welcome. Countries that embrace crypto will likely see the most economic growth in the next decade."
We’ve seen this movie before: money and talent flow to places with clear rules, low friction, and strong property rights -- think Singapore’s rise or America’s tech boom.
Crypto accelerates that dynamic. Digital assets move instantly across borders. When a country offers clear rules, friendly taxes, and real infrastructure, capital pours in: VC funding, talent, startups, trading vol

RIVER REPORT: Lightning Network volume has surged 400% in 2025.
An estimated $1.17B in monthly volume is now moving across the network, with roughly 5.22M transactions per month

SHARPLINK JUST STACKED NEARLY 868,000 ETH -- WORTH $1.68 BILLION.
SharpLink Gaming (Nasdaq: $SBET), the Consensys-backed #Ethereum treasury powerhouse, now holds 867,798 ETH as of Feb 15 -- making it one of the largest corporate ETH holders out there.
They're staking almost 100% of it (since day one), earning 13,615 ETH in rewards in under a year – all flowing straight to shareholders. 🤝
CEO Joseph Chalom (ex-BlackRock): "Even during volatile markets, we continue growing our $ETH concentration per share... institutions know they can trust us to keep generating long-term value."
Institutional

Retail investors are rushing into software stocks at a record pace:
Individual investors have bought software stocks for 7 consecutive weeks, the longest streak since at least 2017.
The magnitude, persistence, and breadth of buying activity have significantly exceeded all prior peaks, according to Citadel.
The pace of these purchases now equals 66% of the total net inflows posted during the entire 2025.
Furthermore, from January 2nd to February 13th, average retail daily demand for US equities was ~25% higher than the prior record in 2021 and DOUBLE the 2020 to 2025 average.
Retail is betting

🏦BANKS STILL BLOCKING CRYPTO USERS
Even with ETFs and growing institutional adoption, investors say banks are freezing or restricting accounts for crypto activity.
As crypto goes mainstream, parts of traditional finance still aren’t on board

🔥 BIG: $1T Société Générale has expanded its euro stablecoin EUR CoinVertible to the XRP Ledger.

BREAKING: CME Group to launch 24/7 crypto futures and options trading starting May 29.
With this, the gaps formed in BTC and ETH will no longer happen.