Crypto Inc

The Evolution of Money

$BTC

🔍🐳 Whale and institutional activity:
– Two wallets associated with Pumpfun sold >$10.5 million in #PUMP;
– A whale withdrew 10 million #RAVE (~$6.5 million) from Bitget;
– Vitalik withdrew 3,500 #ETH ($6.95 million) from Aave and sold 428.57 ETH;
– Bitdeer sold all of their mined #BTC.

Over 1,600 AI agents have registered on #Avalanche, making #avax the largest AI hub for bots.

Some are trading.
Some are providing the #AVAX testnet.
Some are sending encrypted messages.
All are working on real-world use cases.

#AVAX

$AVAX

📆🍒 Key Events of the Week Ahead

Monday, February 23:
🔓 Unlocks: Spacecoin (#SPACE) - 3.75% ($7.92 million)
👋 #NFT Gemini Nifty Gateway NFT platform to close
👋 #TT ThunderCore to shut down TT Wallet
⌚️ #DOLZ DOLZ to complete auction for Veronica Leal's "Oriental Desire" NFT collection
👍 #IMX Immutable launches StoneHold open beta
👍 #ACH Alchemy Pay to launch Alchemy Chain on testnet
🇺🇸 #NEAR NEARCON 2026 kicks off in San Francisco

Tuesday, February 24:
👍 #HUDL HUDL hallmark
🍿 #AURY Aurory to make announcement
🇺🇸 #NEAR NEARCON 2026 Concludes in San Francisco
🇺🇸 CB Consumer Confidence (Feb)

Wednesday, February 25:
🔓 Unlocks: Humanity (#H) - 1.31% ($21.44M)
- Plasma (#XPL) - 4.15% ($8.80M)
🔁 #HBAR Hedera to Release Mainnet Update
👍 #ZBCN Zebec Network to Launch SuperApp Desktop
🇺🇸 Trump's Speech

#market

🔍🐳 Whale and institutional transactions:

1. Bitmine bought another 17,722 #ETH ($34.74 million);
2. Garrett Jin deposited 11,318 #BTC ($760.6 million) on Binance. However, it appears he didn't sell it immediately. This could be an OTC trade, or he's simply holding it on Binance.

3. A whale spent 10.26 million #USDC to buy 121,368 #SOL at an average price of $84.57.

📊Smarter Web Company: The market is in a bearish phase that has lasted approximately 14 months. Previous major bearish cycles for BTC against the precious metal also lasted approximately 14 months. In all cases, growth began after the decline.

🐳Analyst: Large holders realized $208 million in profits in the BTC market

🇺🇸The US court's decision on tariffs did not affect the cryptocurrency market

🤔Michael van de Poppe reported a sharp increase in realized losses on Bitcoin

🏦 BNP Paribas selected Ethereum for a pilot project tokenizing money market funds

👨‍💻Expert: Anticipation of US military action against Iran and the lack of positivity in the crypto market could resume and intensify the price collapse.

🇺🇸Trump announced an additional 10% tariff on all goods worldwide.

💰Bitmine purchased 10,000 ETH

👨‍⚖️The SEC has published new information regarding refunds for Terra (LUNA) users: the deadline has been extended. The Commission ordered the company to pay a total of $123,095,287.

👨‍⚖️The Supreme Court overturned Trump's global tariffs.
Markets rise amid expectations of $150 billion in refunds.

📊Aave becomes the first lending protocol to surpass $1 billion in RWA.

👨‍💻BlackRock transfers $270 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase.

📈XRP prepares for mass institutional adoption thanks to Evernorth strategies.

💸Ethereum spot ETFs end four-week run of capital outflows

📉XRP price plummeted on February 19, wiping out more than $5 billion in market cap in about 24 hours.

👨‍💻Ripple increases RLUSD liquidity

📊Matrixport: Cryptocurrency markets approaching a critical turning point.

💻SocGen uses XRP Ledger to distribute Eurostablecoin

🚀Matt Hougan upbeat on Bitcoin and altcoins: "The bear market may end sooner than expected."

$ADA now makes up 20% of Grayscale's smart contract fund. Cardano continues to strengthen its position among the leading smart contract platforms.

If you had $25,000, which coin would you put it all in?

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🇩🇪Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, has partnered with Ripple Payments to dismantle legacy structures in the international money transfer industry.

💰Bank of America increased its stake in BitMine more than 17-fold, to 3.1 million shares. BitMine is the largest corporate holder of Ethereum.

👨‍💻The DAO Security Fund has committed $150 million
to Ethereum security.

📉OP tokens have faced intense selling pressure.

💻Coinbase expands cryptocurrency-backed loans, adding XRP, ADA, DOGE, and LTC.

👨‍💼Analyst: A "Bearish Pennant" Formed on the Ethereum Chart with a Target of $1100

👥Some Fed Members Supported an Interest Rate Hike

🤔CryptoQuant: BTC's Short-Term Sharpe Ratio Dropped to a Level Historically Preceding Price Lows

🤝ether.fi Integrates with
Optimism to Develop On-Chain Neo-Banking

📊Aptos Foundation
Proposed Capping the Supply at 2.1 Billion APT

📊👀 #ADA Cardano Status in Q4 2025: - Average daily NFT trading volume increased by 133.4% compared to the previous quarter, and average daily DEX trading volume increased by 17.3% to $4.4 million (Minswap remains the dominant DEX, accounting for 72.4% of network trading volume); - Treasury balance increased by 4.46% to 1.67 billion ADA; - Average daily transactions on Cardano decreased by 27.4%, and average daily active addresses decreased by 30%.

🔍🐳 Whale and institutional transactions:

1. Bitmine bought 35,000 #ETH ($69.37 million);
2. After a month of inactivity, whale 0xF4EE is selling #ETH again: he transferred 12,840 #ETH ($25.35 million) to OKX.

Grayscale Investments has again increased its #ADA exposure.

The #ADA weighting in its Smart Contracts Fund is now 20.12%, up from 19.50%. This is another consistent increase.

🇺🇸Wells Fargo analysts: Large tax refunds in the US could boost risky assets like Bitcoin.

🐳Major players continue to buy BTC.

👨‍💼CIO Bitwise: DeFi will pull the crypto market out of the bear market.

📊The volume of SOL transferred to exchanges reached $202 million, increasing selling pressure.

👨‍💻Glassnode: The price of XRP is approaching its bottom.

🇺🇸The US state of Arizona has taken another step toward creating a digital asset reserve fund that will include BTC and XRP.

🤔Arthur Hayes stated that the divergence between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100 index could push the price below $60,000.

💻Zora launched "attention markets" on Solana for trading internet trend tokens

📉Coinbase: The Base Network will gradually abandon the Optimism Stack and begin developing its own tech stack

🏦Bridge, the firm that issues the Stripe stablecoin, has received approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank.

The last time Bitcoin was in the red for five months in a row, it was immediately followed by a strong bullish trend.

📊 In January 2026, spot trading volume on major exchanges increased by approximately 10% compared to December 2025, with the highest growth seen on Bitfinex (+67%), Uniswap (+62%), and Upbit (+44%).
Derivatives trading volume increased by approximately 0.5% compared to the previous month, led by Hyperliquid (+46%), Cryptocom (+18%), and Gate (+11%).

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These altcoins are still awaiting ETF approval.

$BTC, $ETH, $SOL, and $XRP have all already received their spot ETFs.

The SEC currently has over 100 applications pending, covering 35 assets. The next wave includes $ADA, $AAVE, $DOT, $AVAX, $CRO, $SUI, $SEI, and $ZEC.

Decisions are expected by March 27. Some ETFs may include staking rewards, which would be a first for US markets.

⚡️ 2025 will be the biggest crisis in the history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

Retailers panic-sold while institutional investors bought.

Customers around the world reported on large-scale technical problems in the work of bad services Google, AWS and Cloudflare.

👨‍💻Strategy added 2,486 BTC to its reserves

💰Italian bank Intesa
Sanpaolo spent $96 million on a Bitcoin ETF

📊Polygon surpassed Ethereum in daily fees

💸Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced he invested $200 million of his own money in Midnight (NIGHT)

🍔Fast food chain Steak 'n Shake reported a sales increase after launching Bitcoin payments

🏦Philippine digital bank Maua is targeting US markets to raise $1 billion

👥TON Foundation announced a partnership with Banxa to enable stablecoin payment processing

🤔CryptoQuant analyst: Bitcoin bear market will last until the end 2026 or mid-2027

🇺🇸On February 18, a WLFI conference on crypto assets will be held at Trump's residence. This closed-door event will feature American politicians, heads of banks, crypto companies, and institutions.