Israeli authorities detained a military reservist and a civilian after allegedly using classified information to bet on Polymarket about strikes on Iran. Prosecutors plan charges including security offenses, bribery, and obstruction, while reports indicate a June 2025 betting account earned over $152,300, though its link to the arrests remains unclear.

In January, CFTC chair Mike Selig launched the Innovation Advisory Committee with 12 charter members, later expanding it to 35 members on Thursday. The enlarged panel is now majority composed of crypto-related executives, including CEOs from Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Solana Labs, Uniswap and several major financial market operators, who will advise on emerging products and platforms.

Institution-focused crypto lender BlockFills halted customer deposits and withdrawals last week while Bitcoin dropped from $78,995 to $60,000. The firm says the ongoing suspension aims to protect clients and restore liquidity, though trading to open and close positions in spot and derivatives remains available to affected institutional users.

On Wednesday, Coinbase said it introduced Agentic Wallets, a crypto wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents spend, earn and trade with user-defined permissions. The feature builds on AgentKit and routes payments via x402, which has reportedly processed 50 million transactions, and supports operations on Base, including 24/7 liquidity management and automated rebalancing.

Former SafeMoon CEO Braden Karony has been sentenced in February 2026 to 100 months in prison for diverting $9 million from the platform's liquidity pool in 2021 to fund personal luxury purchases. He was also ordered to forfeit about $7.5 million, while ex-CTO Thomas Smith has pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing, and platform creator Kyle Nagy remains at large. The case adds to a growing list of high-profile crypto executives convicted over misconduct during the 2021‑2022 market cycle.

On Tuesday, Bitcoin mining rig maker Canaan saw its Nasdaq-listed shares slide 6.87% to $0.56, extending its decline away from the $1 level it must regain by July to avoid a potential delisting. This came even as the firm reported fourth-quarter revenue of $196.3 million, up 121.1% year-on-year, record computing power shipments and a Bitcoin treasury that reached 1,750 BTC alongside 3,950 ETH.

The Ethereum Foundation is sponsoring Security Alliance (SEAL) to strengthen defenses against wallet drainers and social engineering attacks on Ethereum users. As part of the effort, SEAL and the foundation have launched a Trillion Dollar Security dashboard to monitor risks across six key areas of the Ethereum ecosystem. SEAL reports that coordinated security work has coincided with phishing and drainer losses falling to $84 million in 2025 from nearly $1 billion over several years.

Base App will discontinue its Creator Rewards program and remove its Farcaster-powered social feed to concentrate on tradable assets. According to the app's X account, roughly $450,000 was distributed to 17,000 creators over seven months, with final payouts set for Feb. 18. The app opened to the public in December.

On a Friday post, CoinShares researcher Christopher Bendiksen argued that just 10,230 of 1.63 million quantum-exposed Bitcoin sit in addresses large enough to be attractive for an attack. He claimed most at-risk coins are in smaller wallets that would each take around a thousand years to crack, even under highly optimistic assumptions about quantum computing progress.