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XRP is on track to close its fifth consecutive month in negative territory, a rare stretch of sustained losses that has not been seen since late 2016. Despite holding at around $1.30, the token has declined nearly 30% in February alone, according to CoinGecko data, extending a broader five-month decline of roughly 50%. XRP Flashes Pre-Bull Run Pattern The last time XRP recorded five straight red monthly candles was between October 2016 and February 2017. During that period, the price slipped from $0.00885 to $0.00557, a decline of 37%, before finding a bottom near $0.0055 in March 2017. By May 2017,…

📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote America pushed talks with Japan about jumping into currency markets together back in January 2026. The discussions came after the yen took a pretty brutal beating against the dollar, and both countries got nervous about what that meant for global financial stability. The yen’s slide hit levels that made policymakers sweat. US Treasury folks reached out to their Japanese counterparts fast. They wanted to hash out coordinated moves to prop up the yen if things got worse. Currency intervention means governments buy or sell foreign exchange reserves to push their currency’s…

A new report by Citrini Research has been partially blamed for a software and payments stock sell-off on Monday, where it outlined extreme scenarios in which AI could severely disrupt the economy, from wiping out a sizable share of the workforce and slashing consumer spending to threatening the $13 trillion US mortgage market.Citrini was little-known up until Monday, when its “Global Intelligence Crisis” report amassed over 22 million views on X alone, discussing how AI agents could drive corporate profits so high that human labor could become increasingly redundant and trigger a recession. The report lays out a chilling June…

Dogecoin started a fresh decline below the $0.10 zone against the US Dollar. DOGE is now consolidating losses and might face hurdles near $0.0950 and $0.10. DOGE price started a fresh decline below the $0.10 level. The price is trading below the $0.0950 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance at $0.0958 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could extend losses if it stays below $0.10 and $0.1020. Dogecoin Price At Risk of Downside Break Dogecoin price started a fresh decline after…

The court-appointed administrator leading crypto company Terraform Labs through its bankruptcy has sued trading firm Jane Street, accusing it of insider trading that worsened the collapse of the multibillion-dollar Terra ecosystem.On Monday, Todd Snyder, Terraform’s court-appointed administrator, sued Jane Street, its co-founder Robert Granieri, and employees Bryce Pratt and Michael Huang in a Manhattan federal court, accusing them of “misappropriating confidential information and manipulating market prices.”The heavily redacted complaint claimed Jane Street used connections with “Terraform insiders to learn material non-public information” about the company and used the information to sell off tokens tied to the Terra blockchain that worsened…

The GuidanceThe SEC clarified the liquidity buffer brokers need when handling stablecoins.It’s a key change that will attract institutions to the sector.US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicts the niche to hit $3 trillion by 2030.A version of this story appeared in The Guidance newsletter on February 23. Sign up here.Stablecoins are getting another facelift — or, rather, haircut.Late last week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that broker-dealers needn’t treat dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies with the same risk profile as before. Instead, Commissioner Hester Peirce clarified that the SEC would not object if a broker-dealer applied a 2% haircut to stablecoins.It’s…

In brief Bitcoin deposits on exchanges have dropped from their daily peak of around 60,000 BTC on February 6. Yet while sell pressure is easing, the biggest overall depositors are the largest holders, or whales. The price of Bitcoin is down 46% since peaking above $126,000 last October. A major influx of Bitcoin deposits to centralized exchanges has slowed, reducing sell pressure on crypto’s top asset by market cap. But the largest investors, or whales, have kept their foot on the gas, according to a new report from CryptoQuant.The Bitcoin deposited on exchanges had reached around 60,000 BTC on February…

Cluster Mempool1 is a complete reworking of how the mempool handles organizing and sorting transactions, conceptualized and implemented by Suhas Daftuar and Pieter Wuille. The design aims to simplify the overall architecture, better align transaction sorting logic with miner incentives, and improve security for second layer protocols. It was merged into Bitcoin Core in PR #336292 on November 25, 2025.  The mempool is a giant set of pending transactions that your node has to keep track of for a number of reasons: fee estimation, transaction replacement validation, and block construction if you’re a miner.  This is a lot of different…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Strategy CEO Phong Le is calling for a rethink of how banks are required to capital-charge bitcoin exposure under Basel-style rules, arguing that current risk-weighting treatment materially shapes whether regulated institutions can engage with digital assets at all. The catalyst was a chart shared on X that labels bitcoin “unsecured crypto exposure” with a “typical risk weight” of 1,250% under an “Illustrative Basel III-Style” standardized approach, alongside 0% weights for cash, physical gold, and US Treasuries. A Capital Penalty For Bank Bitcoin Exposure Le framed the issue…

Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) announced today that it has completed its acquisitions of BTC Inc. and UTXO Management GP, LLC (“UTXO”), finalizing merger agreements previously announced earlier this month. The transaction was structured entirely through the issuance of Nakamoto common stock. BTC Inc. and UTXO securityholders received 364,795,104 shares of Nakamoto stock, at a combined value of $81,632,852 based on Nakamoto’s closing price on February 19, 2026, of $0.248. In a form 8-K filing yesterday, Nakamoto disclosed that the two businesses reported a combined revenue of $80.5 million, $34.2 million in EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, and Amortization), and $40.1…