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The US state of Nevada has sued Kalshi after the prediction market company lost its court challenge to stop the state’s regulator from taking action over its sports prediction markets.The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday denied Kalshi’s bid to stop Nevada’s gaming regulator from taking action on its sports event contracts, removing a block on the regulator launching a civil suit against the company.After the decision, the Nevada Gaming Control Board promptly filed a civil enforcement action in state court against Kalshi, which it said sought to block the company “from offering unlicensed wagering in…

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The positive sentiment reflects strong and meaningful activity from the XRP community, despite the bears dominating the broader market. The crypto market may be in a bear season now, but some assets are in the spotlight, thanks to their strong communities. One such cryptocurrency is XRP, the native asset of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), otherwise known as the Ripple Network. Recent data from the asset management giant Grayscale ranked XRP as the second-most-discussed asset in the platform’s community, after bitcoin (BTC). This reflects strong and meaningful activity from the XRP community. The Second Most Talked-About Asset According to a voiceover…

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Terrill Dicki Feb 18, 2026 01:10 India partners with NVIDIA to build sovereign AI infrastructure with 20,000+ Blackwell Ultra GPUs, targeting $27.7B market by 2032 under IndiaAI Mission. India just made its biggest bet yet on AI sovereignty. At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, the country unveiled partnerships with NVIDIA to deploy over 20,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs across multiple data centers—the hardware backbone for what officials are calling the IndiaAI Mission.The $1 billion government initiative, approved in March 2024, aims to transform India from an AI consumer into a producer. With domestic AI market projections ranging from $27.7…

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📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote The Financial Conduct Authority slapped Dipesh Kerai and Bhavesh Hirani with penalties totaling £108,731 for insider trading in Bidstack Group shares. Hirani worked as interim CFO at Bidstack back in December 2021 when he got his hands on confidential info about a big deal with a major video game publisher. He didn’t keep it to himself. Instead, Hirani shared the sensitive details with Kerai before anyone else knew about it. The two men then bought 1.3 million Bidstack shares, pretty much betting the farm on information that wasn’t public yet. When…

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Plays are now more than just digits on a screen. In the growing world of fantasy sports betting, sites like Betr and Underdog are part of the scene, giving pick styles and draft games without changing the whole market. Their role gives a look, but the industry push now relies on sites that mix depth, fun, and rising worth. Spartans sits at the heart of this shift. Its sports spot covers world leagues with live odds, in play spots, and many bet choices, while the 33% CashRake plan puts steady gifts right into normal play. Making a steady arena where…

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📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote eToro hit $868 million in net contribution for 2025. The brokerage firm saw a 10% bump from last year’s numbers, pretty much riding the wave of expanded stock and derivative trading. The company’s GAAP net income rose 12% to $216 million, driven by growth across stocks, derivatives, and savings products. Adjusted EBITDA jumped to $317 million, though crypto income took a hit from reduced retail trading volumes. eToro’s shares climbed about 10% in early trading after the results dropped. CEO Yoni Assia said the firm expanded access to 25 stock exchanges…

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George Town, Cayman Islands, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire Zircuit, a security-first digital asset company backed by YZiLabs, Dragonfly, and Pantera, today announced the launch of Zircuit Finance. Incubated by a team from Quantstamp, Zircuit Finance is a secure platform for institutional-grade strategies, a stablecoin vault designed to generate yield on USDC and USDT, with a stated target range of 8–11% APR, subject to market conditions and variability. Historically, access to professional asset managers and institutional strategies required significant minimum investments and long lockups. Zircuit Finance removes those barriers with a simplified, cross-chain interface that provides access to institutional-grade yield strategies…

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Bitmine has 3,040,483 staked ETH, representing $6.1 billion at $1,998 per ETH; MAVAN staking solution on track to launch Q1 2026 Bitmine now owns 3.62% of the ETH token supply, over 72% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 7 months Bitmine recently closed on initial $200 million investment into Beast Industries Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $9.6 billion, including 4.371 million ETH tokens, total cash of $670 million, and other crypto holdings Bitmine leads crypto treasury peers by both the velocity of raising crypto NAV per share and by the high trading…

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Karavas, Cyprus, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire At a time when much of the blockchain industry is still recovering from one of its harshest downturns, a small number of companies are quietly moving in the opposite direction: expanding, building, and positioning themselves for the next era of adoption. Public Masterpiece, a Cyprus-based real-world asset tokenization company, has announced PMT Chain, its own purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain. Alongside the announcement, the company confirmed a strategic repositioning: PMT, once short for Public Masterpiece Token, will now stand for Public Masterpiece Technology. The timing is notable. Crypto did not simply experience a correction, but…

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