Monthly Archives: February 2026

A Nevada judge declined to grant regulators’ bid to halt Coinbase’s event contract markets, as the exchange presses a CFTC preemption argument in federal court. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/nevada-loses-bid-to-halt-coinbase-prediction-markets?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

USDt added $12.4 billion in Q4 to reach a $187.3 billion market cap, increasing users and onchain activity even as rival stablecoins declined after October’s liquidation event. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-usdt-q4-2025-record-market-cap-onchain-activity?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bitcoin selling pressure sparked a retreat below the 2021 bull market high, with lower BTC price targets still expected to be hit. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-erases-15-months-bull-market-69k-comedown?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bitcoin ETFs may be sitting on their “biggest losses” since launching in January 2024, but there is a silver lining, according to an ETF analyst. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-etf-flows-performance-btc-downtrend-analyst?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The price difference between Bitcoin on Coinbase and Binance has dropped to its lowest level since December 2024. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-premium-gap-falls-to-yearly-low-signalling-institutional-selling-cryptoquant?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The massive dark web drug marketplace used cryptocurrency, the same technology that ultimately allowed FBI agents to locate and arrest its creator, who now faces 30 years in prison. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-made-undid-100m-incognito-dark-web-market?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Some crypto companies have proposed giving community banks a bigger stablecoin role as Senate negotiations stall over the contentious market structure bill. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-industry-proposes-compromises-advance-market-structure-bill?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bhutan has slipped to the seventh-largest nation-state Bitcoin holder, with its stash falling from 13,295 BTC in October 2024 to 5,700 BTC. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bhutan-reportedly-sells-more-bitcoin-from-its-reserve?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Payy’s new privacy layer 2 makes every ERC-20 transfer private by default without the need for new wallets or tokens. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/privacy-enabled-evm-l2-payy-launches-ethereum?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Social media sentiment has turned “extremely bearish” toward Bitcoin and Ethereum this week, according to analytics platform Santiment. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/xrp-traders-sentiment-high-bitcoin-ethereum-santiment?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound