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.

Evernorth CEO Ashish Birla presented what he describes as the first institutional XRP treasury model, positioning the firm as an active, regulated vehicle on the XRP Ledger. The plan involves yield-bearing deployments, validators, and lending via XLS-66. A program aired on February 19, 2026 as Evernorth prepares a Nasdaq listing under ticker XRPN.

Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodities strategist Mike McGlone has shared a chart-based view suggesting Bitcoin's most frequently traded level since 2023 sits near $28,000, despite a cycle average around $66,000. He argues that Bitcoin's tight correlation with the Nasdaq-100 and a cooling in equity valuations point to a "reverse wealth effect," implying greater downside risk if stock markets fail to keep advancing.

On February 17, 2026, Adam Back reiterated that Bitcoin's consensus mechanism should not be interpreted as a democratic system, despite the "one-CPU-one-vote" wording in the 2008 whitepaper. His stance has resurfaced amid debate over BIP-110 and its User-Activated Soft Fork design, which highlights the primacy of validating nodes over miner hashpower in enforcing protocol rules. Back also warned that contentious soft forks without broad alignment could fragment the network and weaken Bitcoin's role as a monetary system.

Kraken internally transferred 46,024,240,350 SHIB from a cold address to a hot wallet to support exchange liquidity, a move valued near $301,900 at execution. The transaction ran on Ethereum with a reported fee of 2.03 Gwei, roughly $0.14, as SHIB traded around $0.00000669 on the day with a 2.29% gain.

Cardano's ADA has climbed back above a $10 billion market capitalization, trading 3.6% higher from the week's open at $0.2841. This recovery brings ADA close to the crypto top 10, but larger valuations for Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin and TRON mean the bar for entry has risen. Analysts highlight that sustained capital rotation into mid-cap layer-1s and stronger on-chain, fee-generating ecosystem activity are key for ADA to keep its position among leading networks.

On Sunday, Feb. 15, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse publicly disagreed with Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on X, sparking a legal-focused exchange referencing the SEC’s case against Ripple. Over the same period, Shiba Inu (SHIB) trading volume climbed 71.6% to $235.8 million as Shytoshi Kusama teased an “alpha” UX/UI overhaul and the mysterious “1326” ahead of the Feb. 17 “Eclipse” briefing. Meanwhile, Fundstrat cofounder and Bitmine chairman Tom Lee suggested the market has either already bottomed or will do so before April 2026, outlining his view on the end of the current crypto winter.