Two Democratic senators on the Senate Banking Committee have asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to determine by March 5 whether CFIUS should review a reported 49% stake worth about $500 million in Trump-linked World Liberty Financial acquired by a UAE government-linked entity. Their request follows a separate House investigation launched last week by Rep. Ro Khanna, intensifying congressional scrutiny of the firm's foreign ties and national security implications.

Former SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony was sentenced to 8 years in prison in Brooklyn federal court after a jury conviction in May 2025 for his role in a multi-million dollar crypto fraud involving SafeMoon’s liquidity pools. He was ordered to forfeit about $7.5 million, with additional restitution to victims still to be set, while prosecutors say more than $9 million in cryptocurrency was misappropriated to fund luxury cars and real estate.

On Feb. 14, 2026, Vitalik Buterin cautioned that prediction markets are skewing toward short-term crypto and sports bets and urged a shift to long‑term hedging tools. He outlined using markets to offset real‑world risks and stabilize purchasing power. Over the past year, sector volumes grew roughly fourfold, according to CertiK.

X outlined plans on February 14, 2026 to let users execute stock and crypto trades directly from their feeds by tapping ticker symbols like $BTC or $TSLA. The in-feed tool is part of a broader push that includes money-transmission licenses in more than 40 U.S. states, a Visa payments tie-up, and internal tests of the X Money wallet.

On 14 February 2026, Coinbase Global Inc. disclosed it had filed a formal response on 6 February 2026 to the Federal Reserve concerning its proposed Reserve Bank Payment Account framework. The structure, if adopted, could permit eligible non-bank institutions to hold accounts directly with a Reserve Bank and access core U.S. payment settlement systems without intermediary banks. The framework is still under review and has not yet received regulatory approval.

On 14 February 2026, U.S.-listed crypto ETFs showed a clear rotation as Bitcoin traded at $69,789.66. According to the article's data, Bitcoin funds swung from a $817.8 million outflow on January 29 to mixed inflows and redemptions into mid-February. Ethereum's sustained redemptions eased, Solana flows stayed modest, and XRP attracted fresh capital.

On Friday, shares of Strategy (MSTR), formerly MicroStrategy, climbed 8.85% to close at $133.88 while trading between $125.76 and $135.25 on volume of about 24.6 million shares. Over the same period, Bitcoin gained nearly 5% to around $69,701 as investors reacted to U.S. inflation data and assessed the company's new STRC preferred stock dividend terms and ongoing accumulation strategy.

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. Victims are infected through links in smishing texts, phishing emails, fake app stores, and messaging apps.