Odaily Planet Daily reports that Unicity Labs, a company developing autonomous internet protocols, has announced the completion of a $3 million seed funding round, led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Middle Eastern communications app Tawasal and Web3 early-stage investor Outlier Ventures. The company plans to use the new funds to build a peer-to-peer encrypted architecture that will enable autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and conduct transactions at machine speed, without the need for intermediaries or shared ledgers. (PRNewswire)

According to Huoxun Finance on February 20, Hyperbot data shows that Huang Licheng, nicknamed "Brother Machi," placed nine limit sell orders for ETH in the $1,966 to $2,002 range. Currently, his 25x leveraged long position in Ethereum still holds 7,800 ETH, with a liquidation price of $1,906, resulting in a floating loss of approximately $220,000.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale named "0x049" just closed out its long positions in ETH and BTC, incurring a loss of $598,369.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Bitmine disclosed that its total Ethereum staked amount has surpassed 3 million, reaching 3,040,483 as of February 16, 2026 (a total value of $6.1 billion at $1,998 per coin). The staked amount increased by approximately 1 million ETH in the past three weeks, and the current staked amount represents about 69% of its 4.37 million ETH holdings. According to Fundstrat data, as of February 13, 2026, Bitmine's stock had a 5-day average trading volume of $900 million, ranking 158th among 5,704 listed stocks in the US, ahead of CBRE (ranked 92,159th). (PRNewswire)

Huoxun Finance reported on February 20th that, according to CoinDesk, Bitcoin has fallen 23% in the first 50 trading days of 2026, marking its worst start to a year on record. Bitcoin fell 10% in January and further declined by 15% in February. If the decline continues, this will be the first time in history that Bitcoin has recorded two consecutive months of losses (January and February), and it could also be the weakest consecutive monthly performance since 2022. On-chain data platform Checkonchain points out that in typical declining years, the average index reading on the 50th day is 0.84, while the current reading is 0.77, highlighting the significant magnitude of this pullback. It is worth noting that Bitcoin fell 17% in 2025. Historically, years following a US presidential election typically outperform election years and most rising years, making this continued weakness particularly pronounced.