Shares of ETHZilla rose more than 13% to around $3.91 on Tuesday as the company rebrands to Forum and pivots from pure ether accumulation. The firm sold about $40 million in ETH in October and 24,291 ETH worth roughly $74.5 million in December to fund buybacks and retire debt. It is now targeting double-digit yields from tokenized home loans and other real-world assets.

On 25 February 2026, Michael Saylor said the next generation of programmable digital credit would be implemented on Solana, according to comments at an industry event. He described credit as tokenized and code-driven with configurable volatility, liquidity cadence and yields from 5% to 25%. Following the remarks, SOL traded around $89.13, up 13.76% in 24 hours, with market cap near $50.7 billion.

On February 25, 2026, Thrive Capital committed roughly $1 billion to OpenAI. In December, the firm agreed to a deal at a $285 billion valuation, and OpenAI is now raising up to $800 billion, implying Thrive's position could approach triple its entry. Thrive also closed its Thrive X fund at over $10 billion, nearly twice its prior vehicle.

On February 25, 2026, Ethereum rose 10% in a single session, pushing its price to $2,046.23 and lifting its market capitalization to $245 billion. Bitcoin advanced 6% to $68,170 at the same time, while Ethereum's 24-hour trading volume reached $21.19 billion and its market share climbed to 10.46% of the total crypto market.

On February 25, 2026, Kalshi said it closed two insider trading cases and reported them to the CFTC, issuing multi‑year bans and financial penalties. One case involved a California gubernatorial candidate; the other named a Mr. Beast video editor. The platform also recorded $8.5B in February trading volume, approaching January’s $9.5B peak.

Dogecoin jumped above $0.10 as a sharp bout of liquidations wiped out $1.57 million in short positions within a single hour. Over the last 24 hours, the price reached about $0.1038 with a 12.7% gain while total liquidations climbed to $5.14 million, most of them coming from overleveraged bearish traders.

On February 25, Bitcoin buyers pushed BTC back above $69,000 and Ether rebounded toward $2,000 amid a sharp improvement in risk appetite. Multiple large-cap altcoins, including XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, BCH, ADA, HYPE and XMR, are attempting technical recoveries toward key moving averages and resistance zones. Whether bulls can hold these levels and invalidate the recent downtrends will depend on how prices react around nearby support and resistance in the coming sessions.

Hut 8 reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $279.7 million on Dec. 31, reversing income of $152.2 million a year earlier, while quarterly revenue climbed to $88.5 million. Compute revenue rose to $81.9 million over the same period, and the miner agreed to a 15-year, $7 billion AI data center lease backed by Google as it shifts deeper into high-performance computing. The company ended the year with about $1.4 billion in cash and Bitcoin reserves and access to up to $400 million in revolving credit.