Solana staking protocol Fragmetric completes $7 million seed round

On February 25th, per OnchainLens data, two newly created addresses withdrew 687.72 BTC from Binance—valued at roughly $45.72 million.

**Feb. 25 — U.S.-listed firm GD Culture (GDC) announced that its board of directors has authorized the sale of 7,500 Bitcoin held in the company’s reserves.** **Proceeds from the sale will fund the stock buyback program GDC unveiled on Feb. 18, 2026. Management will set the timing and quantity of the transaction based on the company’s and shareholders’ best interests, with funds earmarked for repurchasing common stock and covering related expenses.**

Feb. 25: U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the U.S. is exploring how to implement a 15% tariff and will issue a notice regarding this tariff.

February 25 — Moody’s, a top credit rating agency, issued an in-depth industry report warning that the U.S. tech sector’s frenzied race to build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is creating significant financial risks. The five major U.S. hyperscale cloud providers have collectively committed to uncommenced future data center leases totaling $662 billion — obligations not currently recognized as current liabilities or reflected on their balance sheets. As these leases take effect over the next few years, more than $500 billion in data center-related activity will be formally recorded on their balance sheets. In the report, Moody’s analyzed financial disclosures from Amazon, Meta, Alphabet (Google’s parent), Microsoft, and Oracle, noting that the unprecedented scale of AI data center construction is straining traditional accounting metrics. By end-2025, the five tech giants’ total undiscounted future lease commitments reached $969 billion — with over two-thirds ($662 bi

**February 25th** FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) posted a message and tagged former President Donald Trump, claiming the *Cryptocurrency Market Structure Act* (aka the CLARITY Act) would be a "significant milestone in cryptocurrency development and a major achievement for President Trump." "I once pushed for a similar bill to free crypto from former SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s control—but Gensler helped the Biden DOJ send me to prison instead," SBF wrote. Currently incarcerated, SBF is waging a futile campaign to secure a presidential pardon. Trump pardoned SBF’s former prison mate, ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, on December 2nd last year. Since then, SBF has repeatedly tweeted in support of Trump’s policies to curry favor and seek a pardon or commutation. SBF’s family has publicly lobbied Trump since early 2025 and actively arranged meetings with his allies. A White House spokesperson confirmed earlier today, however, that Trump has no intention of pardonin