👻 Threading Daily — 16.02.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- Silver below $80, Gold below $5k
- Stocks and commodities all fall in large reversal
- Real estate, freight stock slump on AI anxiety
- We have to make a deal with Iran: Trump
- Trump to end Minnesota immigration blitz
- US, Taiwan sign trade deal
- Google upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think
- Anthropic raises at $380b valuation
- ByteDance launches Seedance 2.0 AI model

🔖Crypto News
- Crypto lower amid macro sell-off
- StanChart expects more pain in crypto
- Tokenized gold market cap hits $6b
- Bhutan sells $6.7m BTC
- UK selects HSBC for tokenised bond
- X will launch in-timeline smart cashtags stock & crypto
- Tether testing its QVAC AI assistant
- Tether will flip BTC & ETH: Bloomberg
- Coinbase surprises with $664m Q4 loss
- Aave plans to send 100% of protocol rev to DAO
- 20k+ AI agents deployed since ERC-8004 launch
- WLFI plans a FX remittance platform
- Stripe acquires PartyDAO
- Myriad intros more details about roadmap
- Atkins calls prediction markets a ‘huge issue’
- Binance's France CEO targeted in home invasion

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- Tokenization Was Step One. The Credit Market is Step Two — 0xprince
- It’s Official - The World Order Has Broken Down — Ray Dalio
- AI Agent Payment Infrastructure - The Direction of Crypto and Big Tech — Tiger Research
- Vitalik Warns Prediction Markets Are Sliding Into “Corposlop,” Calls for a Shift to Hedging

🔖Raises
- Levl (Seed) $7M, Stablecoin Payments Infrastructure < Galaxy, Variant
- Record $3.2M, Entertainment economic infrastructure < Sony
- YOAKE (Strategic) $3.2M, Web3 Animation Project < Sony

🔖Early Projects
- @OndoPerps, Bio: Perpetual futures on U.S. stocks, ETFs, & commodities 24/7 with up to 20x leverage. Coming soon. Available solely outside the U.S. ondoperps.xyz
- @takesmarket, Bio: Follow people, share predictions, and see which takes are winning. Everyone has takes. Back yours. takesmarket.com
- @LevlFi, Bio: Levl - Global Payments, Banking 2.0. Backed by @Galaxyhq & @FalconXGlobal levl.ch

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