Espresso (ESP) surged more than 123% over the last 24 hours, hitting a record high of $0.219 as simultaneous listing announcements from South Korea’s top exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, triggered an explosive wave of accumulation. While technical indicators suggest the rally is currently overextended, the token’s massive volume spike indicates strong buyer conviction as it defies a broader market downturn.

Seeker (SKR) surged more than 41% today, hitting an intraday high of $0.032 as a major listing on South Korea’s largest exchange, Upbit, triggered a massive wave of accumulation. While technical indicators point toward a potential retest of its all-time high, the token’s performance stands in stark contrast to a broader market Extreme Fear phase, with traders eyeing the $0.035 resistance level and a sustained breakout into the $0.040 range.

The administrator handling Terraform Labs’ wind-down has filed a lawsuit against Jane Street alleging use of non-public information ahead of TerraUSD’s May 2022 collapse, putting Terra Classic (LUNC) under renewed scrutiny. LUNC trades near $0.00003509 after a $0.0000343–$0.00003516 24-hour range, with analysts watching a potential push toward $0.00003925 and 2026 projections between $0.0000242 and $0.000510.

On February 24, 2026, Bitwise filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch exchange-traded funds linked to 2028 US presidential election contracts. The PredictionShares products would bundle event-driven contracts into an ETF wrapper amid regulatory scrutiny of prediction markets. The SEC has not indicated whether the proposals will be approved.

Jane Street significantly raised its IBIT and MSTR shareholdings in Q4 and February 2026, including a 53.78% jump to 20.3M IBIT shares valued at $1B. These stakes may primarily serve as market maker inventory tied to derivative strategies, rather than reflecting a simple long-term bullish bet on BTC.

Speculation about a potential Nobel Peace Prize nomination for U.S. President Donald Trump has inspired the Ethereum-based meme token N4T, launched in November 2025 and themed around support for his diplomatic work. The token, which caps supply at 1 billion with roughly 98% burned and liquidity locked for up to 12 months, has reached about $1.6 million in market capitalization. N4T uses a "one token, one vote" governance model and aims to present aggregated holdings as a public signal of backing for Trump's prospective Nobel recognition.

On February 24, 2026, the XRP Ledger Foundation announced rippled v3.1.1, which disables the Batch and fixBatchInnerSigs amendments due to a severe bug and advises validators to acknowledge new GPG keys as Ripple rotates its signing key. A devnet reset is scheduled for March 3, 2026, while mainnet and other XRPL-related networks will continue operating normally.

In late 2024 and into 2025, Bitcoin's price path diverged sharply from gold, weakening the narrative that it behaves like "digital gold." According to CryptoQuant's CEO, the correlation that had stayed mostly positive from 2022 to mid-2024 turned negative around the 2024 US elections, with BTC later suffering a major correction while gold climbed to new highs. As of press time, Bitcoin trades near $63,000 and far below its peak, while gold hovers around record levels and commands a market cap about 30 times larger.