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Trump family hosts Wall Street and crypto at Mar-a-Lago


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February 19, 2026

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🏦 Traditional finance firms and watchdogs embrace crypto as ties tighten
🧊 Five-week outflow streak looms if ETFs don't rebound by Friday
⚛️ Ethereum Foundation makes quantum readiness a top 2026 protocol priority
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Trump family courts Wall Street leaders at Mar-a-Lago crypto forum

The Trump family's crypto platform hosted an exclusive World Liberty Forum at Mar-a-Lago, drawing major crypto leaders, Wall Street executives, and US officials to mingle and discuss the industry's growing acceptance. Attendees included Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon (who said he now owns a small amount of Bitcoin), and leaders from Nasdaq and the NYSE, alongside regulators and Republican senators. At the event, World Liberty announced a partnership with Securitize to tokenize loan revenue interests tied to a planned Trump-branded Maldives resort, offering accredited US investors exposure to fixed yield and revenue streams.

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Bitcoin ETFs see $133M outflows as sentiment stays in 'extreme fear'

US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $133.3 million in net outflows on Wednesday, bringing weekly withdrawals to $238 million and putting the market on track for its first five-week outflow streak since March 2025. BlackRock's IBIT led the day's redemptions as Bitcoin briefly dipped below $66,000 and overall trading activity stayed muted. The broader mood remains sour, with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index stuck in "Extreme Fear" even as analysts debate whether BTC could fall further before a potential recovery in 2026.

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Ethereum Foundation lists 'quantum readiness,' gas limits as 2026 priorities

The Ethereum Foundation says its 2026 protocol priorities include faster transactions, improved smart wallets via native account abstraction, better cross-chain interoperability, and long-term "quantum readiness" through post-quantum security work. It plans to keep scaling Ethereum's gas limit toward and beyond 100 million, with some community members pointing to 180 million as a 2026 baseline, and flagged the Glamsterdam upgrade (targeted for the first half of 2026) as a key milestone. The foundation also called 2025 one of its most productive years, citing the Pectra and Fusaka upgrades and a gas limit increase from 30 million to 60 million.

Why address poisoning works without stealing private keys

Address poisoning scams don't break cryptography or steal private keys. Instead, attackers "pollute" a victim's transaction history with a lookalike address—often matching the first and last characters—by sending tiny (or zero-value) transfers. Later, the victim mistakenly copies that poisoned address from their wallet's recent activity and sends real funds to the scammer.

The article highlights major losses, including a $50 million USDT incident in 2025 and a February 2026 case draining about 3.5 wBTC, showing how simple interface deception can be devastating. Wallet features like truncated address displays, copy buttons, and unfiltered spam transactions make these fakes seem trustworthy, especially on permissionless blockchains where anyone can send tokens to any address. Suggested defenses include verifying full addresses, using whitelists/address books, avoiding copying from transaction history, and adding wallet safeguards like spam filtering and similarity warnings.