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Is XRP's recovery sustainable or is this just a dead cat bounce?

Strategy, MARA Holdings and Galaxy Digital are among crypto-related stocks posting double-digit percentage gains early Friday.

Ether price still risks declining toward the $1,000-$1,400 range, according to a confluence of bearish technical and onchain indicators. Ether (ETH) has fallen by 30% over the past seven days, sliding to $1,900 from $2,800. The drop was accompanied by a sharp decline in futures activity, with Ether’s open interest falling by more than $15 billion over the same period. Analysts are now focusing on the long-term technical zones and onchain indicators that may signal a major turning point for ETH price. Key takeaways: Read more

The company said it will focus on building data centers for high-performance computing and artificial-intelligence workloads.

The weaker results were tempered by continued progress in the bitcoin miner’s shift toward AI infrastructure.

Hedera (HBAR) was also among the top performers, rising 13.1% from Thursday.

Crypto super PACs are getting millions of dollars in contributions to spend supporting candidates who will advance their policies in Washington. Political action committees (PACs) representing the interests of the crypto industry have already secured millions of dollars in funding as the US heads toward its midterm elections. Super PACs are the uber-rich, no-limits, non-disclosure counterparts to crypto PACs. Last year, the industry spent at least $245 million in campaign contributions alone. The main super PAC funded by the cryptocurrency industry, Fairshake, raised some $133 million in 2025, bringing its total cash on hand up to over $190 million. Venture capital firm a16z contributed an initial $24 million, while Coinbase and Ripple each donated $25 million. Read more

Crypto sentiment platform Santiment founder Makim Balashevich reveals the most bullish scenario that could play out for Bitcoin in 2026

Crypto sentiment platform Santiment founder Makim Balashevich reveals the most bullish scenario that could play out for Bitcoin in 2026

Crypto sentiment platform Santiment founder Makim Balashevich reveals the most bullish scenario that could play out for Bitcoin in 2026

It was a catastrophic week in terms of price movements, but HYPE has defied the trend and stands out as a top performer.

The bank trimmed its Coinbase revenue and earnings forecasts amid a brutal risk-off environment for crypto and delays around U.S. market structure legislation.

Bitcoin Core maintainer Gloria Zhao has stepped down and revoked her PGP signing key after six years as one of the project’s most influential mempool and policy engineers. Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao has stepped down as a maintainer and revoked her Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) signing key, ending about six years as one of the project’s gatekeepers.  On Thursday, Zhao submitted her last pull request to the Bitcoin GitHub repository, removing her key from the trusted keys and withdrawing herself as one of the few maintainers able to update Bitcoin’s software. Becoming the first known female maintainer in 2022, she focused on mempool policy and transaction relay: the rules and peer‑to‑peer logic that decide which transactions get into nodes’ waiting rooms and how quickly they propagate across the network.  Read more

A wallet attributed to President Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial, which is managed by his sons, withdrew approximately 173 wrapped Bitcoin from Aave V3 on Feb. 5 and sold them to repay $11.75 million in stablecoin debt. This sequence reveals the mechanics of voluntary deleveraging: as Bitcoin's drawdown below $63,000 forces whales to sell collateral […] The post Is President Trump selling Bitcoin? WLFI pays off Aave debt with WBTC to avoid liquidation but risk remains appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Metaplanet, Asia's largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin, is currently deep in the red, with its average acquisition cost per bitcoin at roughly $107,000.

Trump-linked tokens have fallen on news of an investigation into World Liberty Financial’s dealings with a member of the UAE royal family.

Privacy coins often appear after hacks, but they are only one link in a longer laundering chain that includes swaps, bridges and off-ramps. Privacy coins are just a step in a broader laundering pipeline after hacks. They serve as a temporary black box to disrupt traceability. Hackers typically move funds through consolidation, obfuscation and chain hopping and only then introduce privacy layers before attempting to cash out. Privacy coins are most useful immediately after a hack because they reduce onchain visibility, delay blacklisting and help break attribution links. Read more

Thursday marked one of the worst days in crypto history, with majors plunging 15-20% before modest relief.

Ethereum has entered an aggressive deleveraging phase, breaking decisively lower after weeks of distribution near the upper boundary of its medium-term range. A key macro driver behind this move appears to be the recent escalation of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, which has pushed broader risk assets into de-risking mode and amplified existing technical […]

Trend Research has been reducing its Ether exposure, as ETH price closed in on some of the investment company's critical liquidation levels below $1,700. Ethereum investment vehicle Trend Research continued to reduce its Ether exposure, as the latest market crash pushed the treasury company to sell off its assets to pay back loans. It held about 651,170 Ether (ETH) in the form of Aave Ethereum wrapped Ether (AETHWETH) on Sunday. That amount dropped by 404,090, to about 247,080 on Friday, at the time of writing. Trend Research transferred 411,075 ETH to cryptocurrency exchange Binance since the beginning of the month, according to blockchain data platform Arkham. Read more