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Strategy (MSTR) continued with its customary bitcoin purchases in the last week, adding 2,486 BTC for $168.4 million.The company’s holdings are now 717,131 bitcoin acquired for $54.52 billion, or an average of $76,027 per coin. Bitcoin’s current price sits at $68,000, putting the company at a loss of about $8,000 per coin, or a total of about $5.7 billion.Last week’s buys were funded via $90.5 million in common stock sales and $78.4 million in sales of the company’s STRC preferred series of stock, according to a Tuesday morning filing.MSTR shares are lower by 3.2% in premarket trading and down more…

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Quantum computing is often framed as a distant storm on the horizon, and not yet relevant to today’s cryptographic systems. In 2026, that framing is dangerously misguided. The Ethereum Foundation’s recent decision to launch a dedicated Post-Quantum (PQ) cryptography team, backed by $2 million in funding, is a watershed moment for the industry. The world’s most influential smart contract ecosystem is no longer treating quantum risk as theoretical; it is acting on the correct assumption that cryptographic…

Jake Claver is again laying out the conditions he says must line up for XRP to reach triple digits, framing the bet not as a chart call but as a sequencing problem tied to institutional tokenization, on-chain liquidity, and regulated market plumbing. In a “Memes and Markets” interview on Feb. 16 with Ben Leavitt and Keith D, Claver defended his so-called “Domino Theory”. Claver told the hosts he didn’t enter crypto until 2020, built a broader portfolio first, then consolidated into XRP after the 2022 drawdown because he viewed it as the “for sure thing.” The hosts pushed on his…

Steak ‘n Shake said its same‑store sales have “risen dramatically” since it launched a burger‑to‑Bitcoin strategy in May 2025 that routes every Bitcoin payment into a corporate treasury reserve. In a Monday post on X, the US fast-food chain said that it had successfully combined a “decentralized, cash-producing operating business with the transformative power of Bitcoin,” and thanked Bitcoiners for making it possible. The chain did not provide figures or define what it meant by “risen dramatically.”Steak ‘n Shake began accepting Bitcoin at participating locations on May 16, 2025, in a phased rollout.Since then, Steak ‘n Shake has repeatedly tied higher…

Monero activity has remained steady even as major cryptocurrency exchanges have pushed the privacy coin off their platforms, according to new research by TRM Labs.Data shows transaction usage in 2024 and 2025 stayed above levels seen before 2022, suggesting demand did not fade even after many big trading platforms removed or restricted the token over traceability concerns, TRM Labs said.In 2024, major exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, moved to delist or phase out Monero (XMR) over compliance concerns. Pressure increased this year when Dubai’s financial regulator banned privacy coins like Monero and Zcash (ZEC) on licensed platforms in the Dubai…

Bitcoin BTC$68,115.86 is struggling to build any upward momentum, even as the key panic gauge pulls back from its early-month high and hints at renewed stability.Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility, the fear or panic gauge, which reflects investors’ expectations for price swings over 4 weeks, has dropped to an annualised 52%, according to data source Volmex. The decline has reversed the early-month spike, which saw the index rise from roughly 48% to nearly 100% as bitcoin crashed to nearly $60,000.The receding volatility suggests that panic has ebbed and that investors are no longer chasing options or hedging instruments as frantically as…

The decentralized lending protocol ZeroLend has announced a complete cessation of its operations. The project’s founder, known by the pseudonym Ryker, attributed the decision to low liquidity in the supported networks and a lack of profitability. pic.twitter.com/osiCjk68xj— ZeroLend (@zerolendxyz) February 16, 2026 According to the developer, some of the supported blockchains have become inactive, and oracles have stopped supplying data to them. This has made reliable market management impossible. The situation was exacerbated by constant attacks from hackers, scammers, and the low margins of the business. The team strongly recommended that clients withdraw their assets. Some user funds are locked…

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career…

Ethereum price is hovering just below the $2,000 mark, a level that now feels more like a ceiling than support. Summary ETH has continued to decline in recent sessions, now down 40% monthly. A key on-chain metric shows that Ethereum price may be bottoming. Technical structure remains bearish unless bulls reclaim the $2,150–$2,200 zone. Ethereum was trading around $1,981, rising nearly 1% in the past 24 hours. Over the last week, the coin has moved in a tight band between $1,907 and $2,098, reflecting a pause after a period of heavy selling. The market’s recent slide has been sharp. In…

Trump family-backed American Bitcoin Corp. (ABTC) has pushed its Bitcoin reserves above the 6,000 BTC mark, building one of the largest corporate treasuries in the public market and placing the firm among the top 20 listed Bitcoin holders worldwide. Blockchain data tracked by Arkham Intelligence shows American Bitcoin now holds 6,060 BTC, valued near $413 million. The company added or mined roughly 217 BTC over the past month, expanding its reserve during a period as bitcoin tries to reclaim levels above $70,000. The accumulation reflects a strategy that blends mining output with direct market purchases, a model that has gained…