February 26th, according to public information, in July 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) issued an interim ban on Jane Street Group, accusing it of manipulating the Indian index (such as the Bank Nifty index) through high-frequency trading strategies.The SEBI allegation stated that Jane Street on derivative expiration dates manipulated the index by buying underlying stocks and futures in the spot market to drive up the index, and then profited on options (causing small investors to trade at unfavorable prices). SEBI froze about 4.843 billion rupees (approximately $565 million) of assets and prohibited Jane Street from trading in the Indian securities market.Recently, allegations of market manipulation by Jane Street have been frequently exposed. The court-appointed bankruptcy trustee of Terraform Labs has filed a lawsuit against Jane Street in the New York Federal Court, accusing it of engaging in frontrunning trades using non-public insider information provided by Terra insiders during the Terra crash and profiting from it.Furthermore, the crypto community has accused Jane Street of manipulating the market for Bitcoin ETFs and Silver ETFs through market-making.

February 26, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Antalpha sent 1000 XAUT gold tokens to Bybit 15 hours ago (approximately $5.16 million), possibly for sale.

February 26th, according to TheEnergyMag, a fire occurred in Wenatchee, Washington, USA, suspected to be related to local Bitcoin mining activities. The local fire department has arrived at the scene for disposal, and specific loss and whether there are casualties have not been announced yet.Relevant authorities are investigating the cause of the fire and whether the mining farm complies with local safety regulations. As of now, the name of the involved mining farm and the direct cause of the fire have not been disclosed.

February 26th, according to HyperInsight monitoring, along with the market's strong rebound, the "buddy" contract finally saw a floating profit in its position, as of the time of writing, its long position's floating profit is $773,000.In addition, last night and this morning, the "buddy" closed the Bitcoin long position and continued to add to the Ethereum long position. It currently holds a 25x ETH long position, with a quantity of 6230 coins, and a liquidation price of $1926.

February 26th - Dutch Finance Minister Eelco Heinen stated that he plans to amend a controversial law passed earlier regarding the taxation of unrealized gains from cryptocurrency. The law, approved by the Dutch House of Representatives on February 12th, requires investors to pay a 36% tax on the unrealized gains of their cryptocurrency holdings, even if the assets are not sold. Heinen, in an interview with RTL Nieuws, said, "This law should not pass as it stands now. It is clear that there are issues that need to be addressed."The law still needs to be reviewed by the Dutch Senate and is not set to take effect until January 1, 2028, at the earliest. The Ministry of Finance has stated that they will reassess the content of the law and engage in discussions with the parliament to decide whether it should be entirely rewritten or partially revised. (DL News)

February 26th, Zen, head of the Solana protocol's Meteora, @realdezen, stated that since taking over in March of last year, the team has always taken insider trading risks seriously and has implemented practical protective measures.Zen described Meteora as a permissionless platform, with the team's main focus over the past 12 months being to enhance infrastructure robustness and reliability to achieve project deployment without the need for manual intervention. Therefore, the team only learned of relevant situations after some projects had already launched or been integrated. In the related prediction markets, Meteora has at one point become the most speculated object with the highest probability and ranking.

February 26, according to Coinglass data, the total value of positions liquidated across the entire network yesterday was $698 million, with short positions accounting for $5.886 billion.It is worth noting that this is the first time in over a month and a half that the value of short liquidations has exceeded that of long liquidations, with the last occurrence being on January 13.

February 26th, WLFI proposed a Governance Staking System aiming to incentivize more users to participate in governance. According to the proposal, in the future, using unlocked WLFI tokens for governance voting will require staking, with a minimum lock-up period of 180 days.The system will introduce a tiered node structure: regular stakers can receive approximately a 2% annualized reward; users staking 10 million WLFI (about 1 million USD) can become nodes, with the privilege to exchange USDT, USDC, and other stablecoins for USD1 at a 1:1 ratio; users staking 50 million WLFI (about 5 million USD) can become super nodes, gaining the opportunity to collaborate directly with the WLFI team. The proposal requires a minimum voting token of 1 billion WLFI to be valid, with a 7-day voting period. If approved, the implementation will proceed in three stages.

February 26th, according to GMGN market data, the ARC token experienced a "haircut" in its price last night and this morning, with its market capitalization falling from $131 million to $56.65 million, a 44.89% decline over 24 hours.Furthermore, according to onchainschool.pro monitoring, a whale address that received $1.7 million worth of ARC tokens started continuous selling yesterday and has sold its entire position as of the time of writing.In addition, the ARC contract saw $3.4924 million in liquidations within 12 hours, with long positions liquidated totaling $3.0054 million.

February 26th, according to an official announcement, Binance has officially launched five new official WhatsApp channels, including Mandarin Chinese, Africa, Arabic, Argentina, and Brazil channels.The announcement states that these WhatsApp-verified channels will only support one-way communication and are the only channel for Binance to enter WhatsApp in Africa, the Middle East, North Africa (MENA), Latin America, as well as the non-mainland Chinese-speaking community.