At the start of February, Binance shifted one trillion Shiba Inu tokens, valued at about $6.78 million, from cold storage to a hot wallet while SHIB trades near its weakest level in almost two months. Adam Back has publicly acknowledged that Blockstream met Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 via Joi Ito but stated there were no financial ties, and a Satoshi-era Bitcoin whale has realized roughly $128.8 million in losses after heavy ETH liquidations linked to Aave debt. Bitcoin remains under $80,000, with ETH and SHIB hovering near key support zones as market uncertainty persists.

Bitcoin entered February 2026 about $45,000 below its cycle peak after a 10.1% January slide to roughly $78,700. Historical CryptoRank data show February delivered +13.4% average and +11.6% median returns, topping most months except April and October. Strategy's 712,647 BTC stack near $73,000-$76,000 is seen as a pivotal support zone for any rebound.

On the first trading day of February, XRP's monthly close below its mid-Bollinger Band raises the risk of a drawdown toward $0.37, implying roughly 77% downside from the current level. At the same time, an early-Bitcoin-era wallet moved 99,999 ETH worth $242.7 million to Binance, coinciding with an 8.5% Ethereum price drop to around $2,411. Cardano heads into February with a historical average return of 24.4%, positioning ADA as a potential outperformer while broader crypto markets remain cautious.

After a sharp weekend sell-off, Shiba Inu has dropped back into the same price band near $0.00000750 that preceded major rallies in 2021 and 2024. If the market repeats even the midpoint of those past percentage moves, technical projections imply SHIB could climb about 700% toward the $0.00006 area. The token is currently trading around $0.0000078 and remains in a weekly structure that has previously produced large bullish swings.

According to CoinGlass data, XRP trades around $1.74, roughly 2.14% above the long max pain level at $1.7224 and 20.13% below the key short pain point at $2.09478. With short positions reportedly about 10 times larger than longs and price consolidating between $1.72 and $1.76 after losing the $1.89 support, the setup points to a possible February squeeze if funding stabilizes and market sentiment improves.

On Jan. 30, a CNBC Crypto World ticker briefly displayed XRP at $126.01, far above its market level, while veteran trader Peter Brandt reiterated a theoretical Bitcoin retracement zone near $25,000. Separately, OKX moved 41,128,246,331 SHIB from a cold to a hot wallet as broader crypto liquidations reached $1.7 billion and an $8.8 billion options expiry approached.

On-chain whale wallet 0x9ee, once sitting on $61 million in unrealized gains, has seen its PnL swing to a loss of $13.46 million as XRP and ETH leveraged longs come under severe pressure. With an XRP entry at $2.29 and ETH bought at $3,190.28, both positions are now deep in the red, account collateral is fully consumed, and liquidation thresholds around $1.66 for XRP and $2,632 for ETH are looming. The wallet's leverage of 24.58x and ROE near -288% leave the trader facing a critical choice between adding margin or exiting before forced liquidation.

Early Wednesday, Bitcoin briefly climbed from $89,200 to $90,170, a move of just 0.88%, yet it unleashed one of 2026's most extreme liquidation skews. The $90,000 level saw $6.63 million in shorts wiped out against only $4,640 in longs, generating an hourly imbalance of 142,580% and putting bears at renewed risk if the threshold fails to hold as resistance.

According to market commentators, Bitcoin could climb toward $110,000 by Q2 2026 if miner capitulation and capital rotation from metals play out as before. XRP is testing a multi‑year resistance that underpins a speculative path to $27, while Ethereum has seen 2,218,771 ETH worth $6.52 billion locked into staking with little immediate price reaction. Key levels around $90,000 for BTC, $1.40 to $3.40 for XRP and support near $2,850 for ETH are in focus as January draws to a close.