Tether Made ‘Unsolicited’ Bid for Majority Stake in $1B LatAm Agribusiness Adecoagro Adecoagro owns farmland and industrial facilities across Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

Grayscale Rolls Out Crypto Fund for Pyth, Expanding Investor Access in Solana Ecosystem The Grayscale Pyth Trust offers accredited investors exposure to PYTH, the governance token behind Solana’s leading oracle network.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: APT Drops 5.6% as Index Trades Lower From Monday Solana (SOL) joined Aptos (APT) as an underperformer, falling 5.1%.

MARA Holdings Closes Deal for Texas Wind Farm The acquisition adds 114 megawatts of wind capacity to MARA’s asset base as it expands into energy infrastructure.

Mastercard Says It Has Moved Beyond Experimentation in Crypto, Focused on ‘Real Solutions’ “What is stopping from going mainstream is really that consumers need to be able to find each other using what they already know,” Mastercard’s head of crypto and blockchain, Raj Dhamodharan told CoinDesk.

Blockchain Security Firm Blockaid Raises $50M to Tackle On-Chain Threats The funding will help the company scale operations as blockchain adoption accelerates.

Donald Trump’s Official Memecoin Rewards TRUMP Faithfuls With $50 Airdrop TRUMP is down 8% in the past 24 hours alongside a slide in the broader crypto market.

Bitcoin Staking Platform Core Joins Crypto Lender Maple and Custodians BitGo, Copper, Hex Trust The ability to earn yield on bitcoin and potentially unleash a new wave of liquidity into the DeFi ecosystem has become a hot topic of late.

Ether Rally Turns Into Crypto Market Slide With Bitcoin Slipping Below $96K Ether’s brief run to $2,850 on Monday was due to a catch-up trade that could reverse later, one trader said.

Brevan Howard Digital Deploys $20M on Ethereum-Based Kinto in Institutional DeFi Push The investment enables participation in Kinto’s mining program, which rewards asset deposits on the chain with token emission.

FTX Payout, Trump-Musk Interview, FOMC Minutes May Roil Crypto Markets This Week Bitcoin’s lackluster price action may receive a jolt from this week’s macroeconomic calendar.

Metaplanet Spends Another $26M Buying Bitcoin, Lifting Holdings Above 2K BTC The Tokyo-based company said it spent an average of 14.8 million yen per bitcoin.

India’s Directorate of Enforcement Seizes $190M in BitConnect Fraud Case BitConnect’s founder, Satish Kumbhani, is wanted in both India and the U.S.

U.S.-Listed Bitcoin Miners Are Growing Their Share of the Network Hashrate: Bernstein These companies grew their share of the Bitcoin network to about 29% in January from around 20% a year ago, the report said.

Solana, XRP Lead Crypto Drop With U.S. Closed for Presidents’ Day Crypto markets fell with XRP and SOL leading declines among major cryptocurrencies.

Hackers Impersonate Saudi Crown Prince to Promote Fake ‘Official’ Memecoins The promotional posts have been deleted and the Saudi Law Conference, whose account was compromised, issued a statement on it.

Javier Milei Faces Charges in Argentina Over LIBRA: AP Milei deleted posts promoting the token and claimed he was unaware of its development.

In a Lethargic Bitcoin Market, BTC $110K Option Play Emerges as Top Trading Strategy Traders continue to position for price gains through options even as BTC trades listless below $100K.

U.S. Crypto Task Force to Focus on Delivering National Bitcoin Reserve: Bernstein The Federal Reserve could issue debt or sell some of its gold reserves to fund purchases of BTC, the report said.

Argentina Opposition Threatens Milei With Impeachment Over LIBRA Token Tweet: Reuters An opposition lawmaker said the president should be impeached after promoting and then withdrawing his support for the token.