Crypto Market Fear Subsides Significantly, Today's Fear and Greed Index at 45

Public records indicate that in July 2025, India’s Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) imposed an interim ban on Jane Street Group, accusing the firm of manipulating Indian indices—including the Bank Nifty—through high-frequency trading strategies. Per SEBI’s allegations, on derivative expiration dates, Jane Street manipulated indices by purchasing underlying stocks and futures in the spot market to inflate index values, then profited from options positions (leaving small investors with unfavorable trading prices). SEBI has frozen roughly 4.843 billion Indian rupees (about $565 million) in Jane Street assets and barred the firm from trading in India’s securities market. Jane Street has recently faced a wave of market manipulation claims: - The court-appointed bankruptcy trustee for Terraform Labs has sued the firm in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging Jane Street used non-public insider information from Terra insiders to front-run

Feb 26: Antalpha transferred 1000 XAUT gold tokens (≈$5.16M) to Bybit 15 hours ago, per Onchain Lens monitoring—likely intended for sale.

On February 26, a fire broke out in Wenatchee, Washington, USA—suspected to be linked to local Bitcoin mining activities, per TheEnergyMag. Local fire departments have responded to the scene to handle the situation. Specific losses and casualty status have not been announced yet. Relevant authorities are investigating the fire’s cause and whether the mining farm complies with local safety regulations. As of now, the name of the involved mining farm and the direct cause of the fire remain undisclosed.

February 26: Per HyperInsight monitoring, as the market staged a strong rebound, the "Buddy" contract’s position finally turned a floating profit. As of press time, its long position has a floating profit of $773,000. Additionally, last night and this morning, "Buddy" closed its Bitcoin long position and continued to add to its Ethereum short position. It currently holds a 25x leveraged ETH short position with 6,230 coins, and a liquidation price of $1,926.

**February 26** — Dutch Finance Minister Eelco Heinen announced plans to revise a controversial crypto unrealized gains tax law passed earlier this month. The bill, approved by the Dutch House of Representatives on Feb. 12, mandates a 36% tax on **unrealized** crypto gains—meaning investors would owe taxes even if they haven’t sold their holdings. Heinen told RTL Nieuws: “This bill shouldn’t stand as is. It’s clear there are issues that need fixing.” The legislation still awaits Senate review and won’t take effect until at least Jan. 1, 2028. The Dutch Ministry of Finance says it will reassess the bill’s language and consult with lawmakers to decide whether to rewrite it entirely or make partial changes. (Source: DL News)

On February 26, Zen—head of Solana’s Meteora team and @realdezen on X—said his team has prioritized insider trading risks and implemented concrete safeguards since taking the reins in March 2023. Meteora, a permissionless platform, has focused over the past year on bolstering infrastructure robustness and reliability to enable project deployments without team oversight, Zen noted. As a result, the team only became aware of some projects after their launch or integration. In associated prediction markets, Meteora once ranked among the most speculated assets.