Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Stripe has shown preliminary interest in purchasing all or part of PayPal. Also on Tuesday, Stripe said it signed agreements for an employee liquidity tender valuing the company at $159 billion. PayPal's stock jumped on takeover chatter but remains down nearly 40% over the past year.

Coinbase has rolled out stock and ETF trading for all US users, letting them buy and sell thousands of securities alongside crypto in a single app. The new service features commission-free trades, fractional shares and instant funding with USD or USDC, and runs 24 hours a day, five days a week.

On January 31, 2026, Step Finance suffered a hack that drained around 261,854 SOL from its treasury, with losses estimated between $27 million and nearly $40 million. After about four weeks of unsuccessful attempts to secure bridge financing or a buyout, the team announced on February 23–24, 2026 that Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets would close, while the STEP token crashed over 96% and redemption plans began to take shape. STEP holders may participate in a buyback based on a pre-hack snapshot, and Remora rToken users are expected to redeem 1:1 for USDC through a separate process.

MoonPay has launched MoonPay Agents, a non-custodial software layer that lets AI agents open wallets, hold digital assets and transact with stablecoins directly onchain. The infrastructure is being introduced as financial institutions explore stablecoin rails and as forecasts project the AI agent market could reach $236 billion by 2034.

During Tuesday’s session, Bitcoin slid toward $62,000 after briefly trading just above $62,500, then steadied near $64,000. On Polymarket, odds for a February close above $80,000 or $90,000 are 2% or less, while the probability of $60,000 or below is around 23%. Sentiment has cooled after failed rebounds earlier in the month.

In February 2026, Lime co-founder Brad Bao was named a defendant in a $100 million federal RICO lawsuit in the Northern District of California tied to the Cere Network token. The suit alleges a pump‑and‑dump scheme and improper fund transfers; plaintiffs seek compensatory and punitive damages, while all claims remain unproven in court.

On Monday, Tice P. Brown, a beneficial owner of roughly 9.8% of Empery Digital, urged the board to liquidate the firm's 4,081 BTC treasury, return proceeds to investors, and remove CEO Ryan Lane along with the directors. According to his letter, Brown rejected a Feb. 18 offer to repurchase his shares at 100% mNAV, calling it a premium meant to protect management.

Developers have proposed XLS-56d to add Batch Transactions to the XRP Ledger, enabling atomic bundling of up to eight transfers for more predictable outcomes. The amendment remains under validator voting, and a bug discovered prior to activation led to a temporary veto recommendation. A software update is expected next week to deprecate the current version before a fixed release.