Happy Tuesday, and the market mostly just sat there, which after the past four weeks counts as a victory. Toward the end of the day, news of an incoming, very boots-on-the-ground-sounding deployment rumor helped turn equities red.

Trump said he was pausing U.S. strikes for the week, but Israel and other Gulf states are not holding back. Then the report found the Pentagon was planning to deploy an advanced force of 3,000 elite U.S. troops.

Energy was the only sector that mattered, up +2.5% as oil stayed elevated and refiners caught a bid. Marathon Petroleum, APA Corporation, CF Industries, and LyondellBasell all surged more than +5% as the tape rewarded anything tied to the energy supply chain.

At the end of the day, Trump spoke at the White House, saying he and his cabinet had delivered a 15-point plan to end the war, and Iran agreed on many points. Though Marines are on the way, Trump is still playing the media game, and oil futures fell back below $90/barrel. 👀

GameStop Pivot Gains Traction: The retail icon traded flat after-hours following a fourth-quarter report that painted a holding company model over a video game selling company, with $GME ( ▲ 1.18% ) revealing a massive $9B cash pile and a pivot toward high-margin collectibles.

The RIP: $0.49 adjusted EPS vs. $0.37 estimate. $1.10B revenue vs. $1.47B estimate, down 14.8% year-over-year. $368.4M in Bitcoin holdings disclosed, down from $519.4M in Q3.

While legacy hardware and software sales continued to crater, a sharp reduction in costs drove an adjusted profit beat that exceeded the most bullish analyst targets. CEO Ryan Cohen’s "owner’s mentality" is now backed by enough liquidity to acquire a consumer company twice $GME's current size. Though, the company doesndoesn'tt have an earnings call, leaving investors in the dark over what it plans to spend the money on. 🎮

Braze Rallies on AI Adoption: shares of the customer engagement platform climbed 18% after-hours following a fourth-quarter beat characterized by record product velocity and a massive 50% surge in quarterly bookings.

The RIP: ($0.29) GAAP EPS vs. ($0.17) estimate. $205.2M revenue vs. $198.4M consensus, up 28% year-over-year. $100M new share buyback program authorized by the board.

The launch of the BrazeAI Agent Console drove significant enterprise wins, offsetting a slight contraction in net retention to 109%. While widening GAAP operating losses remains a point of skepticism, management's aggressive FY27 revenue guidance of $884M suggests that the "AI-first" pivot is successfully capturing market share from legacy marketing clouds. 📱

The architecture giant surged 5.3% on Tuesday $ARM ( ▲ 16.38% ) after unveiling its first-ever in-house processor, the AGI CPU, marking a historic shift from licensing designs to competing directly in the physical chip market.

$71M invested in new Austin testing labs to scale production. $135B in potential Meta capex provides a massive debut customer funnel. 2x performance-per-watt advantage claimed over traditional x86 racks.

By securing Meta as its flagship customer and gaining commitments from OpenAI and Cloudflare, Arm is positioning itself as a primary beneficiary of the "quiet supply crisis" in general-purpose compute. The move transforms $ARM into a vertically integrated silicon power, leveraging TSMC's 3nm node to target the $1T data center market while challenging the long-standing dominance of Intel and AMD.

You can buy Bitcoin. You can buy Ethereum.

But you can't buy Kraken, Ripple or Consensys on any exchange.

These are the companies powering the crypto ecosystem- exchanges, custody, staking, analytics, security and developer infrastructure. Most are still private and most investors never get access.

That’s where C1Fund ($CFND) comes in.

C1 Fund (NYSE: CFND) is a closed-end fund that provides public market exposure to leading private digital assets services & technology companies including Alchemy, Figment, Consensys, Ripple, Kraken, and more.

As institutions and global banks continue to integrate digital assets into core operations, the infrastructure layer is becoming increasingly critical — and most of the value creation still happens before companies go public.

Recently, BitGo, a CFND portfolio company, completed a $212M+ IPO at a $2B+ valuation — marking the fund’s first IPO exit within six months of its own listing.

Unlike funds that hold crypto tokens, CFND provides equity exposure to the companies building the ecosystem behind it.

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Crypto heavyweights saw significant volatility as a new draft of the CLARITY Act proposed a blanket ban on stablecoin interest, threatening a key revenue stream for $COIN ( ▲ 0.03% ) and its partner Circle. CoinDesk dropped the news of the rumored change to the act, dropped in the Senate today. CNBC wrote the legislation could ban issues from paying yield, but no one has gotten their hands on the full legislation yet.

The RIP: Coin was falling 9.3% daily decline for Coinbase shares.19.2% plunge for $CRCL as regulatory headwinds intensified. $1.3B in combined interest income from USDC reserves reported in recent quarters. $CRCL ( ▲ 2.66% ) fell big time. Tether, the largest issuer of stablecoins, said it would finally get a real, big boy audit.

The proposal to prohibit any "economically equivalent" interest payments directly strikes at the yield-sharing models that have driven USDC adoption. While $COIN CEO Brian Armstrong argues the ban primarily hurts domestic retail users, the market is pricing in a structural reset for exchange margins as the SEC and CFTC prepare to codify these restrictive "anti-evasion" rules. Banks, of course, argue it hurts their interests and competitive advantage. ⚖️

Celsius was a top trending stock Tuesday- for all the wrong reasons. They faced a major upset in their energy drink empire, with the drop of a near exact replica from one of America’s favorite discount brands.

The energy drink disruptor tumbled $CELH ( ▼ 3.01% ) on Tuesday as retail giant $COST ( ▲ 0.11% ) launched a direct private-label competitor under the Kirkland Signature brand, sparking fears of a high-margin margin squeeze.

The RIP: $0.71 per can for Kirkland vs. $1.58 per can for Celsius. 200mg caffeine and zero sugar profile identical across both products. 15% estimated revenue exposure for Celsius tied to the Costco channel.

The launch of a $16.99 24-pack effectively halves the price of Celsius’s core offering, targeting the same health-conscious demographic with near-identical flavors. While $CELH maintains a powerful distribution moat through its PepsiCo partnership, the loss of pricing power at its most productive retail partner suggests a structural headwind for domestic volume growth in 2026. 🥤

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Macro: Import Price Index (MoM) (Feb) (8:30 AM ET), Cushing Crude Oil Inventories (10:30 AM ET), 5-Year Note Auction (1:00 PM ET). 📊
Pre-Market Earnings: $CHWY, $PDD, $ONDS Ondas Inc, $BZUN Baozun, $NRSN NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd, $PAYX Paychex, $CNTN Canton Strategic Holdings Inc., $CTAS Cintas, +2 more. ☀️
After-Market Earnings: $BYND Beyond Meat Inc, $NNDM Nano Dimension Ltd - ADR, $FFAI Faraday Future Intelligent Electri, $IZEA IZEA Worldwide Inc, $PSTV Plus Therapeutics Inc, $KULR Kulr Technology Group Inc, $TXMD TherapeuticsMD Inc, $BPTH Bio-Path Holdings Inc, +32 more. 🌙

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