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The United States and Iran signed a 60-day memorandum to continue nuclear negotiations, and Washington formally waived oil sanctions on Tehran for two months, opening a path for Iran to unlock as much as $10 billion in export revenue. Over the same period, the national average gasoline price slid to $3.93 a gallon, down 14% from a May peak, and Brent crude fell below $80 a barrel.

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Decentralized creator platform Spot has launched on the Solana mainnet, offering one-click membership subscriptions, live interactive experiences, and community-building tools without relying on centralized platforms such as YouTube and Patreon. The project says it aims to let creators “truly own” their audiences by using Solana’s high TPS and low fees to enable frequent, low-cost interactions. Spot is positioned as a Solana-native ecosystem project and has not announced any token issuance.

MEXC to Buy 1,000 BTC and Grow Guardian Fund to $500M Over Two Years Crypto exchange MEXC said it plans to expand its Guardian Fund to $500 million over the next two years and add 1,000 bitcoin to its reserves. The company described the move as a risk-management upgrade built around a dual reserve system using BTC and USDT to support liquidity and longer-term backing.

Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, has appointed RedStone as its oracle provider to power FX data and stablecoin pricing, including the first native feed for its pathUSD token. The integration will support local-currency pricing and settlement for Tempo applications, such as a global payroll platform and a financial institution testing tokenized deposits.

Bitcoin mining company MARA transferred 298 BTC, valued at $20.57M, to trading firm Cumberland approximately 6 hours ago. The transaction involved a single outbound transfer of funds from MARA to Cumberland.

2026-02-16 03:53:34 Two exceptionally rare Casascius physical Bitcoin coins, each containing 1,000 BTC, have been transferred from their original addresses after approximately 13 years of dormancy. These specific coins, created by early Bitcoin pioneer Mike Caldwell, had remained untouched since their minting, making their recent movement a notable event within the cryptocurrency community.

ZeroDayRAT Spyware Targets Android and iOS Devices, Enabling Full Phone Takeover and Banking Theft On February 14, 2026, researchers at iVerify reported a mobile spyware platform called ZeroDayRAT that can fully compromise Android and iOS devices. The tool is reportedly sold on Telegram and lets attackers control phones, capture GPS data, access notifications from banking and crypto apps, and intercept SMS one-time passwords.

Universal Digital's USDU becomes first US dollar stablecoin registered with UAE central bank Abu Dhabi-based Universal Digital has introduced USDU, a US dollar-backed stablecoin registered by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates as a Foreign Payment Token under the Payment Token Services Regulation.

Ark's Cathie Wood on Jan 16, 2026: Bitcoin beats gold on scarcity, 360% vs 166% On January 16, 2026, Ark Invest's Cathie Wood argued that Bitcoin is a superior scarce asset to gold due to its mathematically fixed supply. She cited gold's 166% rise alongside a 1.8% annualized supply increase, versus Bitcoin's 360% gain with 1.3% annualized supply growth, and noted BTC's correlations to gold (0.14) and bonds (0.06).