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Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) offers retail access to Stripe, Databricks, and 6 other private companies at $25/share. We break down the fees, risks, and how it compares to ARK and DXYZ.Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev kicked off the IPO roadshow for the company’s first-ever venture fund today, calling it “the next front in our mission to democratize finance for all.” Robinhood Ventures Fund I ($RVI) will give retail investors access to buy shares in private companies through a publicly traded closed-end fund, with no accreditation required.The fund will trade on the NYSE at an expected price of $25 per share,…

Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it produced an awkward result.Roskomnadzor began throttling Telegram on Feb. 10, citing “non-compliance.” Two days later, authorities fully blocked WhatsApp, removing its domains from Russia’s national registry and forcing users toward VPNs or MAX, a state-backed messenger that critics describe as surveillance infrastructure disguised as a chat app.The Kremlin had already mandated the preinstallation of MAX on all devices sold in Russia, effective Sept. 1, 2025.The move seemed tailor-made to vindicate decentralized messaging. Here was textbook censorship playing out in real time, consisting of DNS…

Two of Abu Dhabi’s major investment firms increased their exposure to bitcoin BTC$67,698.52 in the fourth quarter of 2025, buying into BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF as the market fell, according to recent regulatory filings.Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign wealth fund backed by the Abu Dhabi government, added nearly four million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) between October and December, bringing its total holdings to 12.7 million shares. The move came as bitcoin fell roughly 23% during the quarter.Mubadala made its first purchases in IBIT in late 2024 and has been adding since.Al Warda Investments, another Abu Dhabi-based investment…

Institutional investors are entering prediction markets, following a strategy seen earlier in the crypto space. Asset managers are filing for prediction-market tied exchange-traded funds as the space continues to gain traction. Sponsored SponsoredInstitutional Capital Moves Into Prediction Markets as ETF Race Begins On February 17, 2026, Bitwise Asset Management submitted a post-effective amendment to register six ETFs under a new brand called “PredictionShares.” The proposed funds, tied to event contracts on the outcome of US elections, would be listed and primarily traded on NYSE Arca. “PredictionShares will serve as a new Bitwise platform focused on providing exposure to prediction markets. Bitwise’s CIO Matt…

The divergence between Bitcoin and tech stocks is a warning sign of a potential artificial intelligence-driven credit crisis that will result in more central bank money printing, says Arthur Hayes. “Bitcoin is the global fiat liquidity fire alarm. It is the most responsive freely traded asset to the fiat credit supply,” said the crypto entrepreneur in his latest blog post on Wednesday.Hayes went on to caution that the recent divergence between Bitcoin (BTC) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index “sounds the alarm that a massive credit destruction event is nigh.”When these two previously correlated asset classes diverge, “it warrants further investigation…

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…

Dogecoin corrected some gains and traded below $0.1050 against the US Dollar. DOGE is now holding the $0.10 support and might aim for a fresh increase. DOGE price started a fresh downside correction below $0.1120. The price is trading below the $0.1050 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a declining channel forming with resistance at $0.1020 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could aim for a fresh increase if it remains stable above $0.10. Dogecoin Price Faces Resistance Dogecoin price started a downside correction after it failed to stay…

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…

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…

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…