Author: Kryptonews

The current impasse over stablecoin yields in the U.S. Senate’s crypto market structure bill is now in writing, and the crypto side is holding the line on needing some forms of rewards for stablecoin users.A White House meeting between Wall Street bankers and crypto executives hit a wall this week, despite officials in President Donald Trump’s administration urging the sides to find a compromise. The banks held their line that no stablecoin yield or reward is acceptable, arguing that such yields threaten the depository activity at the heart of the U.S. banking system, explaining their position in a one-page paper…

Bitcoin (BTC) rallied to $69,482 on Friday, and the rally coincided with data showing steady accumulation from smaller-sized holders in February. Analysts say the breakout may evolve into a broader bullish trend, although other data suggest that a longer period of price consolidation will underlie the emerging bull trend.Key takeaways:BTC broke above the $69,000 resistance and its descending channel, triggering $92 million in short liquidations within four hours.Small wallets added $613 million in February, while the whale wallets stalled with $4.5B billion in outflows.Short-term holder profit-ratio indicator hit its lowest level since November 2022, underscoring weak sentiment over the past…

Today, we are announcing a transition in the executive leadership team at the Ethereum Foundation. After extensive contributions to the Foundation’s mission and operations, Tomasz Stańczak has decided to step down from his role as Co-Executive Director. The Foundation’s Board has appointed Bastian Aue to serve as interim Co-Executive Director, effective immediately. Tomasz joined the management team during a critical period of growth and maturation for the Foundation. His strategic guidance helped expand our ability to reach out to broad groups of people and teams, and for the EF to understand businesses in the ecosystem more deeply. He also brought…

Bitcoin (BTC) charged above $69,000 on Friday as US CPI data showed cooling inflation, leading traders to hope for a short-term BTC price recovery.Key takeaways:Traders favor a short-term BTC price relief rally, but bulls must first take out the resistance at $68,000 to $70,000. Bitcoin market analysis forecasts a short squeeze toward $80,000 if bulls succeed in confirming the $65,000 level as support. BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewBitcoin price must take out resistance at $68,000Bitcoin attempted a breakout on Thursday but “got slammed back down at the $68K level,” said analyst Daan Crypto Trades in a Friday post on X, adding:“That’s…

Bitcoin experienced a severe technical dislocation this week, with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) crashing to 23.3: its lowest level since August 2023. This rare breach of the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) pushed the asset into deep oversold territory, prompting analysts to flag a potential structural bottom despite immediate bearish pressure. Bitcoin 1 Week RSI has been below 30 just 4 times in its history. It’s not always the absolute low but historically there has never been a better buy signal than this. Do what you want with this info. pic.twitter.com/OxV9LguAHw — denome (@denomeme) February 13, 2026 EXPLORE: What is…

Anchorage Digital has partnered with Kamino and Solana Company to roll out a structure that allows institutions to borrow against staked Solana without moving assets out of regulated custody, potentially addressing a key friction between traditional finance and decentralized lending markets.In a Friday announcement, Anchorage said the initiative expands its Atlas collateral management platform by integrating with Kamino, a Solana-based decentralized lending protocol. The effort is being carried out in collaboration with Solana Company, a publicly traded Solana (SOL) treasury created in partnership with Pantera Capital and Summer Capital. Under the structure, institutions can use natively staked SOL as collateral for…

Since George Washington, it has been customary for presidents to have an official portrait—usually an oil painting—unveiled shortly after they leave office. That was to be the case for President Donald Trump, who sat for a portrait by artist Ronald Sherr just after leaving office in 2021. There is just one complication: Trump now wants a new one. Sherr’s portrait was ready to be accepted by the National Portrait Gallery, which maintains the nation’s presidential portraits, in 2022. But by then Trump had already announced his bid for the presidency in 2024. The gallery does not typically hang a presidential…

Bitcoin (BTC) is approaching “undervalued” territory for the first time in three years as a classic indicator nears its inflection point.Key points:Bitcoin has not been so “undervalued” versus its market cap since March 2023, research shows.The MVRV ratio is approaching its key breakeven level for the first time in over three years.MVRV analysis sees Bitcoin in the process of reversing its downtrend.Bitcoin value metric echoes $20,000 priceResearch from onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant released on Friday reveals key developments on Bitcoin’s market value to realized value (MVRV) ratio metric.A classic BTC price gauge, the MVRV ratio compares Bitcoin’s market cap to…

Shares of Coinbase (COIN) jumped 12% Friday despite the crypto exchange missing fourth-quarter earnings expectations, as analysts reacted to the report with a mix of caution on short-term pressures and optimism about the company’s evolving business model.The company posted net revenue of $1.71 billion, below Wall Street estimates of $1.81 billion, while its core operating profit (adjusted EBITDA) came in at $566 million, missing the consensus of around $653 million.Coinbase reported a net loss of $667 million under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), primarily due to a $718 million unrealized loss on its crypto investment portfolio and a $395 million…

tl;dr I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. The future is bright for builders, for Ethereum, for the EF, and for me. Future of Ethereum As competing ideas emerge and fail and the markets jump up and down, we have never been given too much certainty. The conviction about Ethereum that comes from a deep understanding of its technology, its governance, its meaning for the future, and the values we share will always make us converge intermittently, even when our…