On February 14, 2026, SpaceX was reported to be preparing a 2026 IPO that could use a dual-class share structure, aiming to maintain Elon Musk’s voting influence. Secondary-market trades last year put the firm around $800 billion, and market reports suggest a listing could approach $1.5 trillion as Starlink’s 9,400 satellites and 9 million users bolster growth.

On February 14, 2026, Tesla signaled plans to scale its U.S. solar manufacturing to as much as 100 gigawatts of annual capacity, a level that would surpass current domestic panel output. The initiative would deepen Tesla's shift beyond electric vehicles into energy generation and storage, while raising questions for investors about capital needs, execution risk, and pressure on its core automotive margins.

Midnight’s NIGHT token recently bounced from the $0.50 support level after being rejected at $0.56 and briefly sliding to $0.47. The price then advanced to a local high of $0.58 and was changing hands around $0.56 with a 12.35% daily gain, while its market cap briefly touched $1 billion before easing to $941 million.

Two Democratic senators on the Senate Banking Committee have asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to determine by March 5 whether CFIUS should review a reported 49% stake worth about $500 million in Trump-linked World Liberty Financial acquired by a UAE government-linked entity. Their request follows a separate House investigation launched last week by Rep. Ro Khanna, intensifying congressional scrutiny of the firm's foreign ties and national security implications.

Former SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony was sentenced to 8 years in prison in Brooklyn federal court after a jury conviction in May 2025 for his role in a multi-million dollar crypto fraud involving SafeMoon’s liquidity pools. He was ordered to forfeit about $7.5 million, with additional restitution to victims still to be set, while prosecutors say more than $9 million in cryptocurrency was misappropriated to fund luxury cars and real estate.

On Feb. 14, 2026, Vitalik Buterin cautioned that prediction markets are skewing toward short-term crypto and sports bets and urged a shift to long‑term hedging tools. He outlined using markets to offset real‑world risks and stabilize purchasing power. Over the past year, sector volumes grew roughly fourfold, according to CertiK.

X outlined plans on February 14, 2026 to let users execute stock and crypto trades directly from their feeds by tapping ticker symbols like $BTC or $TSLA. The in-feed tool is part of a broader push that includes money-transmission licenses in more than 40 U.S. states, a Visa payments tie-up, and internal tests of the X Money wallet.

On 14 February 2026, Coinbase Global Inc. disclosed it had filed a formal response on 6 February 2026 to the Federal Reserve concerning its proposed Reserve Bank Payment Account framework. The structure, if adopted, could permit eligible non-bank institutions to hold accounts directly with a Reserve Bank and access core U.S. payment settlement systems without intermediary banks. The framework is still under review and has not yet received regulatory approval.