Bitcoin ETFs Log $1B Inflows During 50% Drawdown

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds pulled in more than $1 billion of net inflows over three trading sessions this week, a reversal that came even as Bitcoin remained well below its peak. The US-listed spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs logged a combined $1.02 billion in inflows from Tuesday to Thursday, according to data from SoSoValue. The funds pulled in $506.51 million on Wednesday, the largest single-day total during the three days. On Friday, ETF analyst Nate Geraci said in a post on X that investors appeared to be “buying the dip” amid…

TeraWulf Reports $35.8M Q4 Revenue Amid Mining Losses

TeraWulf, a publicly listed US digital infrastructure company, missed fourth-quarter earnings estimates as its mining revenue dropped amid falling Bitcoin prices in late 2025. TeraWulf (WULF) released 2025 earnings on Thursday, reporting a fourth-quarter loss of $1.66 per share, compared with a loss of $0.21 per share a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by Yahoo Finance had expected a $0.16 loss. Revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 totaled $35.8 million, including $26.1 million from digital assets and $9.7 million from high-performance computing (HPC), down from $50.6 million in the third quarter. Analysts…

MARA Posts $1.7B Q4 Loss as Bitcoin Slump Hits Earnings

MARA Holdings (MARA) reported a fourth quarter 2025 net loss of $1.71 billion, or $4.52 per diluted share, compared with net income of $528.3 million, or $1.24 per diluted share, in the same period a year earlier.  Its shareholder letter filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said revenue in Q4 fell 6% to $202.3 million from $214.4 million in Q4 of 2024, as a lower average Bitcoin (BTC) price outweighed the impact of a higher hashrate.  For the full year 2025, Marathon booked a net loss of…

Police Lost $1.4M in Seized BTC After Storing it in an External Cold Wallet

Two people have been arrested in South Korea in relation to a case in which police lost 22 seized Bitcoin, now worth $1.4 million, after storing the coins in a third-party cold wallet. The news of the lost 22 Bitcoin (BTC) was first reported by local media in early February, with more details about the case being uncovered as an investigation by the Gyeonggi Northern Provincial Police Agency into the matter continues. According to a report from South Korean publication Dong-A Ilbo on Wednesday, investigators found that there were multiple…

AI Tool Helps Avert Critical XRP Ledger Security Flaw

XRP Ledger Foundation has confirmed it has patched a critical vulnerability found in an yet-to-be-enabled amendment of Ripple’s XRP Ledger, averting a potentially major exploit.  On February 19, a security engineer at cybersecurity firm Cantina, Pranamya Keshkamat, and the Cantina AI security bot identified a “critical logic flaw” in the signature-validation logic of Ripple’s blockchain, XRP Ledger, reported the XRP Ledger Foundation on Thursday.  The vulnerability in the signature validation code batch amendment would have allowed an attacker to execute transactions from victim accounts, including draining funds, without ever having…

Australian Crypto Executives Signal Crypto Growth Despite Challenges

Australia’s crypto market is making progress in user growth and regulatory reforms, but there are still a range of issues to iron out in the sector, crypto executives told Cointelegraph. On the sidelines of the XRP Australia 2026 event in Sydney on Friday, Coinbase APAC managing director John O’Loghlen said the country has seen positive regulatory momentum and growing expertise among those tasked with policing the industry. “Multiple arms of government, mainly Treasury, who are writing the draft regulation and ASIC have thoroughly upskilled their teams and have pretty deep…

Solana (SOL) Upside Builds, $100 Breakout Hopes Strengthen Across Market

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SBI Holdings, Startale Group to issue first trust-based yen stablecoin JPYSC under Japan’s framework

Startale Group, a Tokyo-based blockchain infrastructure firm behind Japan’s largest public network Astar, and SBI Holdings, one of the country’s leading financial conglomerates, have unveiled JPYSC, a trust bank-backed Japanese yen stablecoin designed for institutional and cross-border applications, according to a Friday announcement. The JPYSC stablecoin will be issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank under Japan’s regulatory framework, making it the first trust bank-backed yen stablecoin in the market. SBI VC Trade will handle distribution while Startale oversees technical development. The partners are targeting a second-quarter launch, pending final regulatory…

Bitcoin Selling Pressure Eases But More Pain Likely Ahead

Bitcoin investors could finally be taking a break from selling, relieving some downward pressure on Bitcoin — though months of consolidation will likely lie ahead, says analyst Willy Woo. “This bearish sell-down by investors seems to have exhausted,” said Woo on X on Friday. This gives the price “a reprieve to consolidate sideways for maybe a month,” or even a rebound to the mid $70,000 level, “which would likely be rejected,” he said.  Bitcoin (BTC) prices have been range-bound between $60,000 and $70,000 for the past three weeks, and fell…

Ether May Be Priced In For Uncertainty: Analyst

Ether’s price has already factored in much of the short-term macro risk and upcoming industry catalysts, setting it up for a period of sideways trading, according to a crypto analyst. “A lot of near-term uncertainty is priced into Ethereum,” Swyftx lead analyst Pav Hundal told Cointelegraph on Thursday. “It would not surprise me at all if ETH remains pretty subdued over the next few weeks.”  Hundal added that geopolitical tensions, including escalating issues around Iran, as well as progress on the US CLARITY Act, have largely already been factored into…