2026/2/18 📈 Happy Luna New Year!

Today's Newsletter

💡@AnomaPay’s private red envelopes are live, making this Year of the Horse a celebration of freedom, independence, and privacy

📰 News

• Strategy acquired 2,486 BTC for ~$168.4M (~$67.7K per BTC)

• Logan Paul’s Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10 sold for $16.49M at Goldin, becoming the most expensive trading card ever sold at public auction

• Tom Lee’s BitMine bought 45,759 ETH worth $91M

• Billionaire Peter Thiel fully exits Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla, selling his entire stake

• Base is leaving the Optimism Superchain to build its own unified, Base-operated stack

👍 Good Reads

• @RayDalio - It’s Official: The World Order Has Broken Down

• @0xSigil - Web 4.0

• @Edwrdsr - Layer 001: Marketing is the New Software Engineering

🔔 New Protocols

• @AccrualHQ

• @Perpsdotfun

💰 Crypto Fundraising

• @Novig (DeFi) - 75m Series B led by @PanteraCapital

• @MYX_Finance (DeFi) - $TBD Strategic led by @Consensys

• @predofficial (DeFi) - 2.5m Seed led by @Accel

• @PlutonAIHQ (DeFi) - 2.7m Seed led by @kitchenvc

• @fireplacegg (DeFi) - 1.5m Pre-Seed led by @frachtisvc

💵 Airdrops

• @Backpack TGE verification is now live

• @perena announces token and airdrop

🖥 Videos & Podcasts

• @therollupco - Santiago Santos: My New Crypto Investing Playbook

• @patfscott - Why Prediction Markets are a Breakthrough in Market Efficiency

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