Monthly Archives: February 2026

Standard Chartered slashed its forecast for T-bill demand from stablecoins to $800 billion to $1 trillion by 2028, but maintained its $2 trillion stablecoin market call. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/standard-chartered-2t-stablecoin-forecast-2028-t-bill-demand-trim?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Citrini Research’s 2028 scenario imagines AI turbocharging corporate profits, while hollowing out consumer demand and quietly migrating global payments to stablecoins on cheap chains. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/fictional-2028-ai-memo-mass-layoffs-stablecoin-adoption?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The Austrian Financial Market Authority has frozen new business at KuCoin EU months after granting the exchange a MiCA license, citing gaps in key AML and sanctions roles. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/austria-regulator-slaps-new-business-ban-kucoin-eu?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Strategy bought 592 Bitcoin for $39.8 million in its 100th purchase, increasing holdings to 717,722 BTC. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/strategy-100th-bitcoin-purchase-592-btc?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Base rode SocialFi, memecoins and AI agents to the top of Ethereum’s layer-2 ladder before turning inward to rebuild its core stack. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/socialfi-memecoins-ai-pushed-base-l2-ladder?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The mounting unrealized losses of Bitmine shareholders and Ether’s 60% decline are signaling a critical inflection point that may define Ether’s medium-term momentum, analysts said. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitmine-shareholders-8-8b-paper-loss-downturn-ether?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Crypto investment products posted outflows for a fifth straight week, marking the longest exit streak since the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in 2024. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-etp-five-week-exit-fresh-288-million-outflows?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Continued selling from treasury companies and US Bitcoin ETFs threatens a deeper retracement for BTC, but some analysts see it as a sign of a healthy flush in speculative leverage. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-treasury-selling-streak-btc-66-000?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The Bank of Korea proposed a bank-led consortium and a statutory interagency body for issuer approvals, citing the US GENIUS Act as a model, according to local media. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/south-korea-central-bank-renews-bank-led-won-stablecoin-push?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Gemini’s Tyler Winklevoss said he’s “optimistic” amid peak crypto pessimism, but SEC filings, layoffs and public data on Winklevoss Capital’s BTC sales paint a different picture. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/tyler-winklevoss-optimistic-gemini-cuts-exits-btc-holdings?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound