US mortgage lender Rate introduced RateFi, a nationwide program that lets qualified borrowers count verified cryptocurrency holdings toward mortgage reserve requirements without selling them. The product runs within the lender's non-qualified mortgage framework, applies AML/KYC checks, and still requires cash conversion for down payments or closing costs.

ProShares launched the GENIUS Money Market ETF under ticker IQMM, investing solely in short‑term U.S. Treasurys and designed to qualify as reserve assets for stablecoin issuers. The fund uses a floating NAV, intraday trading, and same‑day settlement, with prospectus notes that yields could be lower versus broader money market mandates.

Societe Generale's SG-FORGE has deployed its euro-denominated stablecoin, EUR CoinVertible, on the XRP Ledger, marking its third public blockchain, according to a Wednesday announcement. Ripple's custody support may enable future integration into Ripple products, and about 70.51 million tokens are currently in circulation. The asset is backed 1:1 by bank cash deposits or high-quality securities.

Strategy acquired 2,486 BTC between Feb. 9 and 16 for $168.4 million, lifting its holdings to 717,131 BTC and funding the buys via at-the-market share sales. Bitmine Immersion Technologies purchased 45,759 ETH, taking its total to 4,371,497 ETH, with 3,040,483 staked. The additions arrived as Bitcoin and Ether traded lower.

The Decibel Foundation said on Thursday it will introduce USDCBL, a protocol-native, dollar-denominated token issued via Bridge, ahead of the project's February mainnet for its Aptos-based perpetuals exchange. The stablecoin will act as collateral, with reserves in cash and short-term U.S. Treasurys whose yield remains within the protocol; the team also reported 650,000+ testnet accounts and over 1 million daily trades, figures not independently verified.

The Bank of England has set up a six-month Synchronisation Lab to test synchronized settlement of tokenized assets in British pounds using its next-generation RTGS core ledger, RT2. Starting in spring 2026, 18 firms from market infrastructure, banking, fintech and decentralized technology will explore delivery-versus-payment and payment-versus-payment use cases across tokenized securities, collateral, foreign exchange and digital money.

Bithumb stated that an internal error during a promotional campaign led to an abnormal amount of Bitcoin being credited to certain users, who then triggered short-lived price swings by selling the funds. The exchange said it quickly froze the affected accounts, stressed that customer assets were not lost and confirmed that trading, deposits and withdrawals continue to operate normally.

A group of European tokenization and market infrastructure firms has asked EU legislators to rapidly amend the DLT Pilot Regime, arguing that current asset limits, volume caps and license durations are holding back regulated onchain markets. They warn that without a narrow technical fix, tokenized asset activity may shift to the United States, where regulators and major exchanges have already moved to clarify how tokenized securities can be issued, custodied and settled within existing frameworks.

VistaShares launched BTYB on the New York Stock Exchange, an actively managed ETF that primarily invests in US Treasurys while employing options to provide weekly income and Bitcoin-linked exposure. The fund targets approximately 80% in Treasurys and about 20% tied to BTC via a synthetic covered-call strategy.