Chung Daily Note - 2026/2/18

Twitter: @cchungccc

Happy Luna New Year!

Chung Daily Note curates key news and insights to save you time while also serving as a record of my research and analysis

Recap

🔥Highlight

@AnomaPay’s private red envelopes are live, making this Year of the Horse a celebration of freedom, independence, and privacy

📰 News

•Strategy acquired 2,486 BTC for ~$168.4M (~$67.7K per BTC)

•Logan Paul’s Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10 sold for $16.49M at Goldin, becoming the most expensive trading card ever sold at public auction

•Tom Lee’s BitMine bought 45,759 ETH worth $91M

•Billionaire Peter Thiel fully exits Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla, selling his entire stake

•Base is leaving the Optimism Superchain to build its own unified, Base-operated stack

📖 Good Reads

•@RayDalio - It’s Official: The World Order Has Broken Down

•@0xSigil - Web 4.0

•@Edwrdsr - Layer 001: Marketing is the New Software Engineering

🎉 New Protocols

•@AccrualHQ

•@Perpsdotfun

💰 Crypto Fundraising

•@Novig (DeFi) - 75m Series B led by @PanteraCapital

•@MYX_Finance (DeFi) - $TBD Strategic led by @Consensys

•@predofficial (DeFi) - 2.5m Seed led by @Accel

•@PlutonAIHQ (DeFi) - 2.7m Seed led by @kitchenvc

•@fireplacegg (DeFi) - 1.5m Pre-Seed led by @frachtisvc

💵 Airdrops

•@Backpack TGE verification is now live

•@perena announces token and airdrop

📺 Videos & Podcasts

•@therollupco - Santiago Santos: My New Crypto Investing Playbook

•@patfscott - Why Prediction Markets are a Breakthrough in Market Efficiency

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