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.

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.