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Bitcoin is on course to print its fifth consecutive weekly loss, which would mark the first such streak since March to May 2022, when bitcoin went down for nine consecutive weeks.As of Thursday Asia time, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap is already down roughly 3% on the week, below $67,000, according to CoinDesk market data, and leaving it vulnerable to another weekly red close. Macro pressures are adding to the technical weakness. According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. has amassed its largest concentration of air power in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq invasion. While Washington…

PANews reported on February 19th that Arkham, an on-chain data platform, published an article on its X platform stating that Bitcoin treasury company Strategy has purchased approximately $54.52 billion worth of Bitcoin over the past five and a half years, with an average purchase price of approximately $76,027. Based on current prices, Bitcoin is now trading at approximately 12.4% below its average cost basis, corresponding to an unrealized paper loss of approximately $6.7 billion. Market analysts believe that Michael Saylor’s long-term adherence to a dollar-cost averaging strategy, along with his cost basis and floating profit/loss, is often considered an important…

Short-term Bitcoin buyers are becoming cautious, and accumulation is slowing even as net positions stay positive. Bitcoin climbed above $126,000 in early October and recently crashed to $60,000 before a modest recovery near $68,000. Despite the brutal swing, many entities are still buying the asset, betting on a much-anticipated price appreciation. But a certain cohort of BTC holders has reduced this pace. Demand Deceleration Data shared by Alphractal revealed that the Short-Term Holder Net Position Change over 90 days is declining, despite remaining in positive territory. This means that while short-term holders are still accumulating Bitcoin, the pace of accumulation…

The US CLARITY Act, a highly anticipated bill aimed at providing greater clarity for the US crypto industry, could make it through Congress in just over a month, according to crypto-friendly US Senator Bernie Moreno. “Hopefully by April,” Moreno told CNBC during an interview at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida on Wednesday.Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong joined Moreno for the interview, explaining that they were with representatives from the crypto, banking and US Congress at the World Liberty Financial (WLF) crypto forum to reach a solution on market structure.“A path forward” is in sight, says Moreno“One of the…

Crypto lender Ledn Inc. has sold $188 million in securitized bonds backed by Bitcoin-linked loans, marking a first-of-its-kind deal in the asset-backed debt market. The transaction includes two bond tranches, according to Bloomberg, one of which received an investment-grade rating and priced at a spread of 335 basis points over the benchmark rate, according to people familiar with the matter. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. served as the sole structuring agent and bookrunner. The bonds are secured by a pool of more than 5,400 consumer loans issued by Ledn, where borrowers used their Bitcoin holdings as collateral, according to an S&P…

A new tool from OpenAI evaluates AI agents’ ability to identify, patch, or exploit smart contract vulnerabilities.Researchers found that agents are better at exploiting vulnerabilities than finding or patching them.The release comes just days after a bug in AI-generated code cost Moonwell users nearly $2.7 million in crypto.OpenAI and crypto venture capital firm Paradigm on Wednesday released a tool that evaluates AI agents’ ability to identify, patch, or exploit smart contract vulnerabilities. The tool, EVMbench, draws from 120 vulnerabilities identified over 40 prior smart contract audits, as well as “vulnerability scenarios” drawn from audits of Paradigm’s forthcoming Tempo blockchain. The…

Panama City, Republic of Panama, February 18th, 2026, Chainwire Sai today launched Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading platform built to be as fast and intuitive as a centralized exchange with the transparency and self-custody of onchain settlement. The platform features gasless transactions, removing friction for traders while maintaining full onchain security. Sai also unveiled Let’s Go Saicho, a one-month onchain trading competition running February 18 through March 19, 2026, with $25,000 in total prizes. The campaign is structured in two phases designed to reward both performance and participation: a PNL competition for profitable traders, followed by a first-come, first-serve “Be…

The positive sentiment reflects strong and meaningful activity from the XRP community, despite the bears dominating the broader market. The crypto market may be in a bear season now, but some assets are in the spotlight, thanks to their strong communities. One such cryptocurrency is XRP, the native asset of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), otherwise known as the Ripple Network. Recent data from the asset management giant Grayscale ranked XRP as the second-most-discussed asset in the platform’s community, after bitcoin (BTC). This reflects strong and meaningful activity from the XRP community. The Second Most Talked-About Asset According to a voiceover…

The divergence between Bitcoin and tech stocks is a warning sign of a potential artificial intelligence-driven credit crisis that will result in more central bank money printing, says Arthur Hayes. “Bitcoin is the global fiat liquidity fire alarm. It is the most responsive freely traded asset to the fiat credit supply,” said the crypto entrepreneur in his latest blog post on Wednesday.Hayes went on to caution that the recent divergence between Bitcoin (BTC) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index “sounds the alarm that a massive credit destruction event is nigh.”When these two previously correlated asset classes diverge, “it warrants further investigation…

Dogecoin corrected some gains and traded below $0.1050 against the US Dollar. DOGE is now holding the $0.10 support and might aim for a fresh increase. DOGE price started a fresh downside correction below $0.1120. The price is trading below the $0.1050 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a declining channel forming with resistance at $0.1020 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could aim for a fresh increase if it remains stable above $0.10. Dogecoin Price Faces Resistance Dogecoin price started a downside correction after it failed to stay…