"Two Abu Dhabi-based funds disclose $1B+ in IBIT"Feb 18, 2026

Today's blockchain and crypto news Bitcoin is up slightly at $67,432 Ethereum is up slightly at $1,981 And Binance Coin is up slightly at $615 Two Abu Dhabi-based funds disclosed over $1B in BlackRock's IBIT Zora to launch attention markets Bridge says it has conditional approval from the OCC Moonwell takes on bad debt in oracle error. Ark Invest adds COIN, Bullish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  It's 8 a.m. Eastern, February 18th, and this is your daily crypto report. Bitcoin is up slightly at $67,432. Ethereum is up slightly at $1,981. And Binance Coin is up slightly at $615.

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  Well, two Abu Dhabi-based funds. disclosed they held over one billion dollars of BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF iShares Bitcoin Trust at the end of last year. Based on filings from Tuesday, the piece notes IBIT is the largest spot BTC ETF with roughly fifty-eight billion dollars in assets under management, though its value has fallen with Bitcoin's recent price decline. Well, Zora, a socialfi platform closely tied to Base, announced Tuesday it's launching a new attention markets product on Solana that lets users speculate go long or short on which online topics and trends will gain traction with markets that can be created around any meme idea or moment, linked to related content, traded as paired markets that move together, tracked with real-time P and L, and exited at any time.

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  The promo materials show bets on longevity paired with tokens. The front-end examples showed attention markets up five thousand five hundred percent, though with limited volume. Zora has a history of crypto creator economy experiments from an early NFT marketplace to base-based creator coins that let traders speculate on individual posts and creator profiles. Well, Bridge, the stablecoin platform Stripe acquired last year, said it received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national bank charter that if finalized would let it custody crypto, issue stablecoins, and manage stablecoin reserves, positioning it to offer enterprises, fintechs, crypto businesses, and financial institutions a clearer federal framework for building with digital dollars.

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  Bridge is part of a broader push by crypto firms to become federally regulated alongside Ripple, Circle, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos, which the article says also received conditional OCC approval in December. Well, Moonwell took about one point seven eight million dollars in bad debt after a misconfigured oracle on Base mispriced Coinbase, wrapped ETH at roughly one dollar and twelve cents instead of around two thousand two hundred dollars, which let liquidation bots repay tiny amounts of debt and seize outsized collateral in its base core market. In its post-mortem, Moonwell said the February fifteenth incident happened when governance proposal enabled chain link O E V wrapper contracts across Base and Optimism markets. But one configuration mistakenly used only the an incorrect exchange rate without multiplying by the feed,

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  leading to liquidation and the bad debt across multiple assets the team Says monitoring caught the issue within minutes and they cut supply and borrow caps for the affected market to halt new borrows and deposits while noting no other markets on base or OP mainnet were impacted. The episode also sparked a broader debate after the related poll request listed Claude Opus 4.6 as a co-author with the auditor pointing out on X that AI assistance was involved fueling vibe coding criticism in DeFi. And finally, Kathy Woods, Ark Invest bought nearly 50,000 shares of Coinbase on Tuesday for about $7 million, splitting the purchase across three ETF, also rotating some capital into bullish during a more than 10 trading day buying streak through mid-February. The

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  buys come as markets digest Coinbase's fourth quarter 2025 results showing $1.8 billion in revenue, down 5% quarter-over-quarter. Coinbase shares closed up 1% Tuesday, 56% below the all-time high. That's all for us today. Visit us at DailyCryptoReport.io and listen to us everywhere else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report.

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