According to CoinMarketCap, Ripple's USD-backed stablecoin RLUSD has reached a $1.56 billion market cap with 1.55 billion tokens in circulation. A $40 million mint on Ethereum two days ago and sustained daily volumes above $43 million leave RLUSD less than $500 million from the $2 billion mark, with early Q2 2026 cited as a potential milestone.

On Feb. 23, Bloomberg Intelligence senior strategist Mike McGlone said on X that Bitcoin's January push toward $90,000 may already be this year's top if market stress returns. He flagged $90,000 as a key 2026 threshold, reiterated a "normal reversion" case to $10,000, sketched a $28,000–$66,000 mean zone, and said holding the mid-$70,000s or breaking below $64,000 could signal whether crypto leads risk assets lower.

In early 2026, Shiba Inu's market value was about $3.65 billion, according to CoinMarketCap, while the token traded near $0.0000062 by late February. With 589 trillion in circulation and burns near 172 million per cycle, reaching $0.01 would imply a $5.8 trillion capitalization, pointing investors to tokenomics rather than headline price.

On Feb. 22, 2026, Michael Burry outlined wins and misses on X, admitting he passed on a 2013 Bitcoin purchase when the price was below $200 after a meeting at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He also shared a BTC Patterns chart pointing to a $126,000 peak in October 2025, a slide toward about $73,000, and potential stress near $50,000. Separately, he disclosed bearish puts on Nvidia and Palantir amid what he calls an AI bubble.

Over the weekend, NBA Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen reignited a discussion on Bitcoin's market structure, prompting veteran trader Peter Brandt to outline a $250,000 BTC target for 2029. Brandt bases his view on a multi‑year, curved "banana" growth channel that has framed Bitcoin's price since 2012 and places the current market in the mid‑range after a peak near $92,000 in January 2026. He argues that if Bitcoin continues to track this logarithmic corridor, the upper boundary could move into the mid‑six‑figure zone by the end of the decade.

XRP is quoted below $1.45 as weekly Bollinger Bands widen and price presses the lower boundary near $1.32. The 20-week moving average sits around $2 and has capped rebounds since a peak above $3 in late 2025. A daily lower band near $1.274 flags potential for a 10% move while candles cluster around $1.30.

Dogecoin’s first U.S. spot ETFs, launched on Nov. 24, 2025, have gathered about $8.8 million in assets while DOGE trades near $0.096, below the $0.10 and $0.15 levels. Net inflows totaled $6.67 million by Feb. 19, but there has been an 18-day stretch with no new inflows and recent daily trading volume of roughly $247,000, highlighting subdued institutional interest compared with leading Bitcoin and Ethereum funds.

On Feb 18, on-chain activity showed USDCx minting on Cardano, with seven mints and supply above 32 million units. On Feb 20, 2026, SBI Ripple Asia and AWAJ signed an MOU to develop XRPL-based financial services. Bitcoin marks five years since first reaching a $1 trillion market cap in February 2021, trading near $67,800.

On Thursday, Feb. 19, XRP dropped under its 200-week moving average around $1.419 for the first time since November 2024, shifting its structure from consolidation to a broader correction. Key supports now sit near $1.1211 and $1.00, while resistance is clustered around $1.49–$1.50, just as the advance estimate of US Q4 2025 GDP is due on Friday, Feb. 20. Model projections and consensus suggest slower growth than Q3, and traders are watching whether the data will stabilize risk assets or deepen selling pressure across high-beta tokens such as XRP.