Dragonfly raises a $650M Fund IV amid crypto’s institutional vs retail sentiment gap, the industry exodus including Kyle Samani’s departure from Multicoin, OpenClaw’s OpenAI acquisition and crypto Twitter harassment, X402 payment standards for AI agents, Polymarket’s controversial 5-minute Bitcoin betting markets, and the brewing federal vs state regulation battle over prediction markets.
Posted February 20, 2026 at 12:49 pm EST.
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