Day: February 12, 2026

Elizabeth Warren slams SEC’s Atkins over weak enforcement against Trump-linked crypto firms

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Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled SEC Chair Paul Atkins on lax crypto enforcement during his testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday. The Democrat said that under Atkins’ leadership, the SEC has weakened investor protections and pursued fewer enforcement actions than at any time in the past decade. She also questioned whether fraudsters and major crypto donors tied to Trump were receiving favorable treatment. “The SEC no longer actively pursues any cases against firms with known Trump ties,” Warren said, citing public data showing SEC actions…

Bitcoin Bulls Have A Crunch Weekly Close Ahead, Says Analysis

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Bitcoin (BTC) battled a key 200-week trend line around Thursday’s Wall Street open as “bearish acceleration” fears persisted. Key points: Bitcoin threatens to add the 200-week exponential moving average to its list of new resistance levels. History offers lessons for what happens when price rejects from the key 200-week trend line. Mayer Multiple values continue to show BTC in deep “oversold” territory. Bitcoin’s fate hangs on $68,300 reclaim Data from TradingView showed BTC price action focusing on the area around $67,000 for a second day. BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView…

Bitcoin Promotion Error Sparks Regulatory Reckoning in South Korea

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Key takeaways A simple data-entry error allowed 620,000 nonexistent BTC to appear in user accounts for 20 minutes because trades update a private database first, with onchain settlement happening later. Around 1,788 BTC worth of trades were executed before the exchange locked everything down. What could have been dismissed as a harmless error turned into a serious operational and regulatory event. Regulatory filings showed Bithumb held only 175 BTC of its own in Q3 2025, while it held custody of over 42,000 BTC for customers. This highlights how heavily the…

Bitcoin drops to $66K as Standard Chartered cuts year-end targets across digital assets

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Bitcoin dropped 2% on Thursday, sliding toward $66,000 by midday and dragging the broader crypto market lower. Ethereum hovered near $1,900, while Solana fell to $78, and XRP declined to $1.35. The overall market was mixed, with some altcoins in the red and others showing modest gains. The move triggered over $80 million in liquidations in the past hour and more than $280 million over the past 24 hours, per Coinglass. Meanwhile, open interest on Bitcoin positions across exchanges has dropped to its lowest level since November 2024, now sitting…

Bitcoin Exchanges Point To “Early Signs” Of Recovery Amid Sentiment Crash

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Bitcoin (BTC) market sentiment has begun to recover as exchange traders reconsider selling. Key points: Bitcoin taker flow finally sees positive values after a month of seller dominance. “Aggressive” sell pressure is fading at current price levels, analysis says. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index hits record lows despite BTC price stabilization. Bitcoin exchanges eye “early signs of stabilization” New findings from onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant released on Thursday show net taker flow flipping positive for the first time in a month. “Bitcoin market sentiment is showing early signs of…

Trove Markets discreetly refunds influencers via stablecoins after ICO crash

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Trove Markets, a decentralized exchange platform, refunded select influencers in stablecoins following the collapse of its native token, according to blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps. BREAKING: @TroveMarkets quietly refunded KOLs while presale participants lost everything Onchain proof and leaked chats 🧵 pic.twitter.com/GD7cYX8790 — Bubblemaps (@bubblemaps) February 12, 2026 The project raised $11.5 million in an initial coin offering, initially marketed to launch on Hyperliquid. But shortly before the token generation event, Trove announced on X that it would instead launch on Solana. Around the same time, a third-party liquidity provider offloaded…

Binance opens deposits for Ripple’s flagship stablecoin on XRP Ledger

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Binance has completed its integration of Ripple USD (RLUSD) on the XRP Ledger network, opening deposits for the stablecoin on the platform, according to a Thursday announcement. The exchange said withdrawals will become available once sufficient liquidity has been established. Users can now access deposit addresses through their wallets on the platform. RLUSD is a dollar-pegged digital asset issued by Ripple Labs, designed to maintain a one-to-one value with the US dollar. The stablecoin operates natively on the XRP Ledger and the Ethereum blockchain, providing a regulated, multi-chain solution for…

Is This Crypto Winter Different? Key Observers Reevaluate Bitcoin

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Bitcoin market observers believe that the recent price slump may actually reflect the asset’s wider adoption by institutions, which still don’t see it as a risk-off asset. It’s been rough out there for crypto in recent months. Since October, when Bitcoin’s price reached a high of over $120,000, BTC has been gradually sliding. In recent weeks, it dropped sharply, down over 25% on the month. Amid the sell-off, market observers have been looking for explanations. Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan attributed the fall to the notorious four-year cycles that…

Bitcoin and Ethereum could drop further as investor risk appetite fades, StanChart warns

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Crypto market faces pressure amid declining appetite for risk and delayed monetary policy adjustments. Standard Chartered has lowered near-term forecasts for digital assets, projecting that Bitcoin could fall to $50,000 while Ethereum may test $1,400 as investor willingness to take on risk continues to fade. In a recent note, Geoff Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, highlighted several factors that could pressure the crypto market in the near term, including weak price action, subdued ETF inflows, and unsupportive macroeconomic conditions. He noted that the current sell-off, though…

Bitcoin Miner Outflows Surge in January BTC, But Filings Show Steady Market

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Bitcoin miner outflows jumped to 28,605 BTC, worth about $1.8 billion, on Feb. 5, one of the largest single-day transfers since November 2024, as prices swung sharply during a volatile trading session. Another 20,169 Bitcoin (BTC), worth about $1.4 billion, left miner-linked wallets on Feb. 6, according to data from CryptoQuant. The last comparable spike occurred on Nov. 12, 2024, when outflows reached 30,187 BTC. The spike coincided with sharp price swings, with BTC trading at about $62,809 on Feb. 5 before rebounding to $70,544 a day later. Large miner…