🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!

🚨 A bill was just introduced in New York with the focus of "establishing a New York State cryptocurrency and blockchain study task force."

🇺🇸 President Trump has nominated former crypto firm Bitfury CLO Jonathan Gould to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as the country’s bank regulator.

🚨 Ethereum briefly spiked 3.5% as 21Shares plans to add staking to its spot Ether ETF.

🇺🇸#ETF FLOWS: Around 2,620 BTC and 15,720 ETH were sold on Feb. 12.

🇺🇸 Texas Senator Charles Schwertner refiles the state’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill, allowing it to invest in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency with a market cap of at least $500B with no buying limit.

🔥 Mastercard has tokenized 30% of its transactions in 2024 and acknowledges stablecoins’ potential to disrupt traditional finance.

🚨Deutsche Bank-backed Taurus adds Solana to its digital asset custody and tokenization services.

🚨CZ refuses to drop a contract address, clarifying he’s just sharing a photo of his dog, #Broccoli —not launching a meme coin.

🇺🇸North Carolina could invest up to $2.6 billion in #Bitcoin if the bill passes.

🔥GameStop is considering investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies according to CNBC.

🚨 SEC acknowledges Grayscale's 19b-4 filing for its spot Dogecoin ETF.

#Cointelegraph #news_update