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Shiba Inu faces bearish pressure with a pattern of lower highs and ongoing selling within a descending channel. Despite a recent bounce, risks of further declines remain unless it breaks key resistance levels around $0.0000062.

2026 Year of the Horse (Bing Wu Year) meme coins mainly feature Chinese themes, with "I’m on my horse" gaining the most attention, once soaring over 700%, with a market capitalization surpassing $52 million. The token name combines a Chinese swear word pun, quickly becoming popular in Chinese-speaking communities. Other popular ones include "Horse to Success" (a lucky phrase emphasizing the New Year atmosphere), "Dark Horse" (a narrative of reverse rise), "Crying Horse" (self-deprecating trapped emotions), "Teng Little Horse" (cute pet style), and others.

BlackRock increased its stake in Bitmine Immersion Technologies by 165.6% in Q4 2025, now holding 9.05 million BMNR shares valued at \$246 million, betting on Bitmine’s rapidly growing Ethereum treasury, which holds 4.3 million ETH—3.5% of total supply—plus nearly \$10 billion in combined assets. Yet the institutional endorsement arrives as Ethereum itself trades at \$1,958, just 5% above critical support, with whales offloading 160,000 ETH in nine days. The contradiction captures crypto

Midnight (NIGHT) increased by 2% during the Friday morning trading session, shortly after founder Charles Hoskinson announced plans to launch the mainnet at the end of March during the Consensus 2026 event. This information has further boosted market sentiment, helping NIGHT sustain its short-term recovery momentum.

Several Taiwanese financial institutions, including private banks and pure online banks, have completed negotiations with partnered VASPs over the past year to submit applications to the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) for a trial virtual asset custody business. However, they have been repeatedly rejected. The FSC's reason is that "the number of warning accounts is too high," and they require banks to significantly reduce the number of warning accounts before their applications can have a chance of success.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), supported by Trump, plans to launch the World Swap foreign exchange trading platform, co-founder Zak Folkman announced at the Hong Kong Consensus Conference. The platform will use WLFI's USD1 stablecoin as the settlement currency, aiming to transfer foreign exchange trading onto the blockchain. The global forex market has a daily trading volume of over $7 trillion, with most transactions currently conducted off-chain.

Protect Progress plans to spend $1.5 million on efforts to oppose Rep. Al Green in Texas. The cryptocurrency industry remains a significant investor in political campaigns in the U.S. Christian Menefee supports blockchain innovation and could benefit from pro-crypto funding. The pro-crypto polit

David Schwartz, Ripple’s Emeritus Chief Technology Officer, ignited a fresh crypto civil war on February 12, 2026, by declaring Bitcoin a “technological dead end” that now relies entirely on adoption and network effects rather than innovation. His remarks came during a heated exchange over XRP Ledger decentralization, where Schwartz pointed to Bitcoin’s 2010 and 2013 coordinated rollbacks as proof that no blockchain is truly immune to governance intervention. Hours later, XRP community influ

Cryptocurrency finance company ETHZilla launches Eurus Aero Token I, supported by two leased commercial jet engines to a leading American airline. Each token is priced at $100, with a minimum purchase of 10 tokens, aiming to hold until 2028. ETHZilla purchased these two engines in January for $12.2 million, funded by the sale of part of its ETH reserves.

The Northern District of Ohio Prosecutor's Office warned on Thursday to be cautious of love scams during Valentine's Day, as crypto fraud and organized crime networks target the peak sales season. Authorities urge the public to stay vigilant, as scammers exploit online relationships to steal money, often building trust over weeks or months before luring victims into crypto payments and fake investment schemes. San Jose widow Margaret Loke lost nearly $1 million in the scam.

Stablecoins tightened their grip on crypto casinos and prediction markets in 2025, with dollar-pegged tokens like USDT and USDC emerging as the default chips for online wagering. This year is poised to play out in much the same fashion. Stablecoins Projected to Command Majority of Crypto

Hyperliquid Strategies confirms quarterly losses of $318 million, of which $262 million is attributed to unrealized losses on the HYPE token. The sharp decline in token valuation directly impacts the balance sheet, and market volatility has intensified losses. Although there have been no large-scale liquidations, the valuation impact reveals how token concentration can amplify downside risk.

In the turbulent segment of Web3, trends are replacing each other every month, a few times a year. This highlights the role of evergreen concepts, which remain relevant since the inception of Bitcoin and early altcoins. Hardware cryptocurrency wallets are textbook examples of such concepts.

World Liberty Financial will host its inaugural World Liberty Forum at Mar-a-Lago on February 18, 2026, assembling 300 global leaders including Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, and CFTC Chairman Michael Selig. The gathering comes as the Trump family’s crypto venture has generated \$1.4 billion in 16 months—more than Trump’s real estate empire produced in eight years—through WLFI token sales, a \$500 million UAE stake acquisition, and a rapidly growing USD