👻 Threading Daily — 23.02.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- Stocks lower on increasing war rhetoric
- Record fund inflows to Europe equities
- Turkish Lira hits all time low against USD
- US military assets move to Middle East
- Iran shuts part of Strait of Hormuz
- Trump gives Iran 10-15 days to strike a deal
- US withdraws all forces from Syria
- OpenClaw founder to join OpenAI
- Nvidia, Meta announce multi year partnership
- OpenAI finalising $100b round
- Amazon suffered outages due to its AI coding bot

🔖Crypto News
- Crypto underperforms, outflows & US-Iran blamed
- Vitalik criticizes Sigil’s ‘Web 4.0’ agents
- ETH Foundation releases 2026 priorities update
- Russia could block foreign crypto exchanges
- Societe Generale launches Euro Stablecoin
- Kraken’s xStocks surpass $25b transaction volume
- Uniswap weighs protocol fee expansion
- Aptos releases tokenomics update
- Kraken parent buys token vesting platform Magna
- Hacker returns $21m stolen BTC to S Korea
- 100k+ sign up for Pengu card in 2 days
- Zora launches ‘attention markets’ on SOL
- Scaramucci’s son buys Pokemon card for $16m
- Polymarket buys API startup Dome
- Ether.fi shifts card product to OP mainnet

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- Why AI Needs Crypto — Flynnjamm
- Neobank Ecosystem Map — stablewatchHQ
- Onchain Payments Market Map 2026 — dberenzon
- An Incomplete Map of the Crypto Card Universe — Stablecon × Artemis

🔖Raises
- PRED (Seed) $2.5M, Sports Prediction Platform < Accel, Base
- Novig (Series B) $75M, Sports Prediction Market < Pantera
- MYX Finance (Strategic), Decentralized derivative exchange < ConsenSys
- NEWITY (Strategic) $11M, Fintech companies < CMT
- Unicity (Seed) $3M, AI agent market < Blockchange, Outlier

🔖Early Projects
- @moltenagentic, Bio: Search, for AI Agents. Adopted protocol asset on @base: 0x59c0d5c34C301aC0600147924D6C9be22a2F0B07
- @BirchHill_io, Bio: Institutional Onchain Finance Company
- @sapiom, Bio: Sapiom gives AI agents trusted access to the API Economy sapiom.ai

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