Month: February 2026

Investment products linked to digital assets experienced their fourth consecutive week of outflows, recording $173 million and pushing cumulative losses over four weeks to $3.74 billion. Early in the week, inflows reached $575 million amidst brief optimism, but continued price weakness, which ended up triggering $853 million in outflows...

Renowned investor Kevin O’Leary said Monday that fears over quantum computing would deter institutional investors from increasing exposure to Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Will Quantum Computing Slow Down Institutional Investment? O’Leary took to X, adding a clip from his recent interview with Fox Business, where he revealed he’s still long...

Vitalik Buterin has reignited debate about decentralization, neutrality, and free expression within the crypto industry, declaring that while Ethereum is permissionless and censorship-resistant, he himself is free to criticize applications built on it. Vitalik Buterin draws line between protocol neutrality…...

XRP price shows mild signs of recovery even as Standard Chartered slashes its 2026 price target to $2.80, reshaping short-term expectations. XRP was trading around $1.48 at press time, up 1.5% in the last 24 hours. Earlier this month, the…...

Crypto wealth platform Nexo has officially returned to the United States, announcing on Feb. 16, 2026, a full relaunch of its investment and credit products through a compliant, regulated framework after years away from the market. The move marks a…...

Crypto lender Nexo has officially reentered the United States market, marking a return three years after it withdrew operations and paid a $45 million fine to settle charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  The company confirmed on Monday that 2026 represents its formal comeback to the...

The European Union is preparing a sweeping ban on cryptocurrency transactions involving Russian entities, even as Russian financial firms accelerate efforts to institutionalize crypto investment products at home. EU targets Russian crypto with sweeping ban According to a recent Financial…...

“The folks saying this [crypto] winter is worse than 2018 or 2022 don’t remember 2018 or 2022,” said Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan on Tuesday. In 2018, “we had $3,000 Bitcoin and a ‘global computer’ [Ethereum] with no applications and limited throughput,” he said before adding, “In 2022,...

German central bank president Joachim Nagel said he sees “merit in euro-denominated stablecoins,” and argues that they could serve as a cheaper and more efficient means for cross-border payments by both firms and individuals. During his speech at the New…...

BofA’s February survey shows investor positioning in the U.S. dollar has fallen to its most negative level since at least early 2012....