XRP remains under pressure as market depth thins and exchange flow signals are tracked for parallels to the 2024 expansion. The token pulled back from a move above $3.00 in 2025 and now sits between support at $1.30–$1.40 and resistance at $1.80–$2.20. Traders are monitoring liquidity compression and volatility risk before committing capital.

Deutsche Bank plans to leverage Ripple's blockchain-based infrastructure to speed up and reduce the cost of its cross-border payments. Around Feb. 19, XRP slipped under its 200-week moving average near $1.419 and lost support at $1.42, while the UAE has reportedly mined about $453.6 million in Bitcoin and holds over $1 billion in BTC, a push Binance's Changpeng Zhao says he supported. These developments highlight institutional interest in Ripple's solutions, shifting XRP price dynamics, and the UAE's growing role in Bitcoin mining.

On February 20, 2026, Sam Bankman-Fried published a "10 Myths" thread from detention, asserting FTX was solvent and customers would receive 119–143% of their holdings. Critics dispute the math, noting claims are valued at the November 11, 2022 bankruptcy date, while court records show his November 2023 conviction and March 2024, 25-year sentence.

In February 2026, the Dubai Land Department launched the second phase of its real estate tokenization pilot after roughly $5 million in property was tokenized into about 7.8 million tradable tokens. Infrastructure partner Ctrl Alt will issue Asset-Referenced Virtual Asset management tokens on the XRP Ledger, with Ripple Custody securing onchain transactions, while DarGlobal and Trump-backed World Liberty Financial plan to tokenize the development phase of a Trump-branded resort in the Maldives through Securitize.

Bitcoin has fallen 29% over the last 30 days, with VanEck's latest Bitcoin ChainCheck report arguing that leveraged positions have been cleared and "mid-cycle" sellers are largely spent. The asset manager also notes a sharp pullback in hash rate and mining profitability, while on-chain activity and transaction counts remain comparatively strong.

On 20 February 2026, major U.S. financial institutions were reported to hold 136,702,386 Bitmine shares worth about $2.86 billion, backing the company's large-scale Ethereum accumulation strategy. Bitmine currently controls 4,371,497 ETH, equal to 3.62% of the circulating supply, and aims to reach roughly 6 million ETH, while staking operations are projected to generate up to $252 million in annual rewards after its MAVAN infrastructure goes live in Q1 2026.

According to a recent analysis by Fortune, Bitcoin and Ethereum are enduring one of their toughest year openings on record, with Bitcoin about 46% below its all-time high and Ethereum roughly 60% under its peak. Since January, the S&P 500 is up approximately 0.4%, the Dow Jones has gained 2.3%, and gold and silver have advanced around 17% and 14%, underscoring a divergence from crypto.

BitGo and Figure have completed what they describe as the first issuance, settlement, and trading of tokenized equity securities on Figure's SEC-registered Alternative Trading System in the U.S. The transaction used blockchain-based settlement with institutional custody to represent equity ownership on-chain, aiming to reduce clearing friction and settlement risk within a regulated market structure. The firms say the model compresses the traditional equity lifecycle by enabling near-instant reconciliation instead of multi-day clearing cycles.