Vitalik’s Take on Prediction Markets, Harvard Selling BTC for ETH, Logan Paul’s Record Pokemon Sale


Vitalik’s Take on Prediction Markets, Harvard Selling BTC for ETH, Logan Paul’s Record Pokemon Sale


Author: Decrypt Media February 17, 2026 Duration: 54:37

Crypto majors are slightly red down 1%; BTC -1% at $68K; ETH even at $1,970; SOL even at $85; XRP -2% at $1.45. Stable (+12%), NEXO (+7%) and PI (+5%) led top movers. Logan Paul’s rare Pokemon card sold for a record $16.5M at auction. Ethereum Foundation co-ED Tomasz Stańczak will step down at the end of February, with Bastian Aue taking over alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang. Kraken will sponsor Trump Accounts for newborns in Wyoming. Steak ‘n’ Shake said that its Bitcoin adoption has driven a dramatic increase in sales over the past 9 months. Vitalik Buterin argued prediction market hedging could “replace fiat currency”, proposing personalized baskets of prediction market shares pegged to users’ actual spending patterns instead of dollar-pegged stablecoins. Polymarket launched 5-minute Bitcoin up/down markets powered by Chainlink, and short-duration contracts are already driving 25% of daily trading volume. 


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