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XRP sentiment hits a 5-week high as money rotates away from Bitcoin and Ethereum

XRP is attracting institutional money and a burst of bullish positioning, even as much of the crypto industry remains stuck in a risk-off tape. According to a CoinShares report, XRP is the best-performing crypto token this...

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Bitcoin eyes new liquidity as the Fed’s $18.5 billion repo spike reignites money printer chatter

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, continued its price struggles as traders weighed two stress-tinged signals from the US financial ecosystem. This week, there was a sudden $18.5 billion Federal Reserve overnight repo operation,...

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The Bitcoin CME gap will now close forever in May leaving a return to $84k hanging

CME Group has spent most of its life as the financial plumbing moving the gears behind wheat hedges, rate bets, equity futures, the quiet machinery that keeps risk moving. Now it is taking a very...

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Sui ETFs just launched — and the volume is collapsing because nobody’s showing up

Two spot Sui ETFs began trading in US markets on Feb. 18. Canary’s SUIS is listed on Nasdaq, while Grayscale’s GSUI appeared on NYSE Arca. Both products offer staking-enabled exposure to Sui, the layer-1 blockchain...

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Bitcoin-backed loans with sub-prime-style incentives, but with liquidation triggers hit Wall Street

Ledn’s $188 million securitization marks the moment Bitcoin-backed consumer credit started looking like mainstream asset-backed debt. Ledn Issuer Trust 2026-1 packages 5,441 fixed-rate balloon loans into rated, tradable notes with investment-grade and subordinated tranches, custody...

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Ethereum’s 2026 roadmap just hit — but ETH won’t recover until one metric flips

Ethereum’s new roadmap lands in a market that is less interested in vision and more interested in evidence. That is the core tension behind the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Priorities Update for 2026, which breaks the...

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Crypto income is being sold on Wall Street but a discreet switch decides who gets in

Bitwise’s February announcement arrived as two moves packaged as one. The crypto asset manager announced a partnership with Morpho to launch curated yield vaults and simultaneously acquired Chorus One’s institutional staking business. It looks like...

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Understanding XRP network health in 2026 without the counting noise

XRP network health scorecard: wallets, trustlines, DEX volume, uptime Key takeaways Ripple and Aviva Investors said Feb. 11 they intend to tokenize traditional fund structures onto the XRP Ledger “over 2026 and beyond.” Messari’s State...

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Bitcoin whales added 200,000 BTC in a month — but short-term demand is fading at the same time

Bitcoin’s ongoing price struggles is turning into a market defined less by “bad news” and more by mechanics, the kind that can keep a downtrend alive even when selling looks tired. According to CryptoSlate’s data,...

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A $1.2T shift toward Bitcoin may be starting — and one grim index says altcoins may never rally

Bitcoin’s grip on the crypto market is tightening again, and the numbers behind that shift help explain why a broad basket of altcoins is unlikely to beat the top crypto. Data from CoinMarketCap indicate that...

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Crypto VC funding surging again sounds like a rally, until you trace where the money actually lands

Dragonfly Capital closed its fourth fund at $650 million this week, the same size as its 2022 vehicle, raised into a venture market Fortune calls a “mass extinction event.” The headline reads like a vote...

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If CLARITY stalls, on-chain perps stay offshore — and US traders get pushed out

Hyperliquid launched a policy center in Washington on Feb. 18, seeded with 1 million HYPE tokens worth roughly $28 million, led by Jake Chervinsky, the crypto lawyer who spent years building the industry’s Capitol Hill...

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Bitcoin faces a new selloff if oil holds $70 after spike and the Fed turns less patient

Oil isn’t supposed to be the story in 2026. The macro narrative powering “cuts soon, liquidity soon” trades relies on disinflation staying intact. However, Brent jumped 4.35% to $70.35 on Feb. 18, and WTI surged...

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Crypto privacy has turned into an economic crisis as MEV bots siphon millions and most users still leak everything

On some Ethereum L2s, bots now burn over half the gas just searching for MEV, and they don’t pay proportionally for it. That’s a scaling and market-fairness problem rooted in market structure. The privacy conversation...

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US debt will match WWII-era extreme at $64 trillion within a decade – how does Bitcoin benefit?

The fiscal mathematics of the United States are drifting toward a threshold that markets can no longer afford to ignore, and a level that, relative to GDP, hasn’t transpired since the last world war. Washington’s...

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Crypto investor hunted down in botched France home invasion as crypto “wrench attack” spike spreads

A botched home invasion in the Paris suburbs on Feb. 12 marked a tactical shift in crypto’s physical-threat or “wrench attack” landscape. The target, according to French media reports, was the CEO of Binance France....

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Saylor says Strategy can survive Bitcoin crashing to $8,000 – but can it escape the slow bleed of dilution?

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has become the public market’s most widely traded Bitcoin proxy, using equity, convertible notes, and preferred stock to build a balance sheet dominated by the top crypto. However, as Bitcoin trades near...

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This censorship crackdown and WhatsApp ban exposed the decentralization gap the crypto industry keeps missing

Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it produced an awkward result. Roskomnadzor began throttling Telegram on Feb. 10, citing “non-compliance.” Two days later, authorities fully blocked...

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