Day: February 19, 2026

Ether.fi moves Cash card product to OP Mainnet in major platform shift

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Ether.fi is migrating its non-custodial card and digital cash account product, ether.fi Cash, to OP Mainnet, shifting roughly 70,000 active cards and 300,000 user accounts onto Optimism infrastructure over the coming months. The move transitions millions in user total value locked from Scroll to OP Mainnet under a long-term OP Enterprise partnership. Optimism positions the migration as part of a broader push to establish OP Mainnet as a leading hub for payments and consumer crypto activity. Ether.fi Cash allows users to move from fiat to crypto, earn yield through DeFi…

Bitcoin $60K Retest Odds Rise As Bearish Options, ETF Outflows Show Fear

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Key takeaways: Professional traders are paying a 13% premium for downside protection as Bitcoin struggles to maintain support above $66,000. While stocks and gold remain strong, $910 million in Bitcoin ETF outflows suggest that institutional investor caution is rising. Bitcoin (BTC) price entered a downward spiral after rejecting near $71,000 on Sunday. Despite successfully defending the $66,000 level throughout the week, options markets reflect growing fear as professional traders avoid downside price exposure.  Even with relative strength in the stock market and gold prices, traders seem to be effectively betting…

Community Banks Saw $78M Net Outflows to Coinbase, KlariVis Study Finds

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New analysis from banking data company KlariVis found that 90% of community banks in its sample had customers transacting with Coinbase. Across 53 banks where transaction direction could be determined, $2.77 flowed to the crypto exchange for every $1.00 returning, resulting in a net $78.3 million deposit shift over 13 months. The study reviewed 225,577 Coinbase-related transactions across 92 community banks and found that transfers were heavily concentrated in money market accounts, where 96.3% of identifiable transaction volume represented funds leaving banks for the exchange. “In general, community banks can…

Caroline Pham: CFTC’s focus on foundational principles will enhance market integrity, why collaboration with SEC is essential, and the importance of a positive regulatory posture for crypto innovation

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The CFTC is focusing on returning to foundational principles to enhance market oversight. Emphasis is placed on ensuring financial markets serve the economy through price discovery and risk mitigation. Regulatory efforts should prioritize market integrity over sensational headlines. Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham leads the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). She previously served as global head of swap dealer and Volcker compliance at Citi. Pham launched the CFTC’s 12-month Crypto Sprint, achieving milestones like tokenized collateral guidance and listed spot crypto trading on CFTC-registered exchanges. Key Takeaways The CFTC…

Kraken xStocks Surpasses $25B in Tokenized Stock Volume

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Kraken’s tokenized equities platform, xStocks, has surpassed $25 billion in total transaction volume less than eight months after launch, underscoring accelerating adoption as tokenization gains traction among mainstream investors. Kraken disclosed Thursday that the $25 billion figure includes trading across centralized exchanges and decentralized exchanges, as well as minting and redemption activity. The milestone represents a 150% increase since November, when xStocks first crossed $10 billion in cumulative transaction volume. The xStocks tokens are issued by Backed Finance, a regulated asset provider that creates 1:1 backed tokenized representations of publicly traded…

BTC Lightning Network Tops $1B in Monthly Transaction Volume: River

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Monthly transaction volume on the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network, a secondary layer for BTC that enables payment use cases, surpassed the $1 billion milestone in November 2025, according to a report from Bitcoin financial services company River. Transaction volume on the Lightning Network hit an estimated $1.1 billion in November, across 5.2 million transactions, according to a report shared by Sam Wouters, River’s director of marketing. The report said: “Lightning adoption happened despite the price declining all of November and generally not doing much in 2025. The adoption was largely…

Bitcoin Faces 5th Consecutive Red Month: Where Is The Bottom?

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Bitcoin (BTC) is forming what may prove to be a fifth consecutive red monthly candle, which would be the longest losing streak since 2018. The silver lining is that data suggests that March may prove to be a profitable month for BTC. Previous multi-month downtrends were followed by 300% price gains Historical price data from CoinGlass confirms Bitcoin is now facing its fifth consecutive red month, down 15% this month after closing the previous four months in the red. The last time this happened was in 2018, when it entered…

SEC Leadership Speaks on ‘Number go Down‘ Regulatory Concerns

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Paul Atkins and Hester Peirce spoke at ETHDenver on Wednesday on the future of regulation at the SEC and its response to crypto market volatility. Paul Atkins, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the agency’s crypto task force head, Hester Peirce, said Wednesday they would support efforts to clarify how “tokenized securities interact with existing regulation,” better positioning industry developers. Speaking to attendees at the ETHDenver conference on the future of regulation, Atkins and Peirce addressed concerns about volatility in many cryptocurrency prices and how the…

Lei Yang: MegaETH achieves 55,000 transactions per second, Ethereum’s scaling strategy pivots back to layer one, and the challenges of layer two security

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MegaETH leverages Ethereum for its superior blockchain execution environment. A stress test on MegaETH achieved 55,000 transactions per second. Layer two solutions that replicate layer one services face security challenges. Key takeaways MegaETH leverages Ethereum for its superior blockchain execution environment. A stress test on MegaETH achieved 55,000 transactions per second. Layer two solutions that replicate layer one services face security challenges. Ethereum’s strength is crucial for the entire smart contract ecosystem. Ethereum’s scaling strategy is shifting from layer twos to enhancing layer one. Recent changes in Ethereum’s roadmap represent…

Tight Bitcoin Bollinger Bands Signal Big Move: Analyst

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A key volatility indicator for Bitcoin (BTC) has narrowed to its tightest measurement on record, a pattern that was followed by a multi-month rally in previous bull and bear markets. Will the Bollinger Bands indicator call the market bottom again? Record Bitcoin Bollinger Band compression hints at volatility Analyzing the monthly Bitcoin chart, crypto analyst Dorkchicken noted that BTC’s Bollinger Bands are currently at their “tightest” level on record. Such conditions have repeatedly led to bullish breakouts, with the only prior downtrend from similar conditions occurring in 2022, during the…