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Crypto funds saw $173 million outflows last week as Bitcoin and Ether slipped, while XRP and Solana bucked the trend across global markets.

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Solana price is catching its breath after a ferocious multi‑month rally, slipping back toward the mid‑$80s as traders reassess how much upside is left in one of this cycle's most aggressive beta plays.

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Ramil Ventura Palafox got slammed with 20 years behind bars. The 61-year-old dual US-Philippines citizen ran Praetorian Group International like his personal piggy bank, stealing over $200 million from roughly 90,000 people who thought they were getting rich off Bitcoin trades.

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TradFi institutions such as financial giant Morgan Stanley are ramping up their exposure to Solana (SOL), signaling rising confidence in the blockchain's potential. This move comes as the real-world asset (RWA) tokenized value on the Solana network reached an ATH of $1.66 billion.

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Bitcoin is down 22% year-to-date and risks its worst first quarter since 2018. But history shows early losses don't always decide the year.

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Tokenized US Treasuries are close to $11 billion, but the chain war is shifting from issuance to distribution and utility. Where yield tokens actually sit, how often they move, and whether they plug into stablecoin settlement and collateral workflows are what matters.

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Michael Saylor has posted “99>98” on X. Bitcoin price is down by 2.78% over the last 24 hours.

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If Bitcoin is not able to go beyond the $69,500 resistance zone, it could witness another decline. The major support is at $66,500, and if the price goes below this, then BTC might struggle to recover in the near term.

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Mastercard, BlackRock, and Franklin Templeton are signaling rising institutional interest in the XRP Ledger.

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Onchain analyst Willy Woo says markets are starting to price in the quantum threat, putting 4 million “lost” BTC and a 12‑year valuation uptrend versus gold into question.

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Bitcoin faces quantum computing scrutiny and heavy leveraged short positioning, with SOPR stabilization, ETF inflows and CME gap levels shaping whether a 10% move triggers a cascade of liquidations.

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Bitcoin has fallen more than 50% from its recent cycle high, and market sentiment remains cautious. Several analysts believe BTC is still in a broader downtrend, while others see early signs of a possible bottom formation.

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Harvard trimmed its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund holdings by 21% in Q4 and opened an $86.8 million Ethereum ETF position.

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says retail users kept buying Bitcoin and Ethereum on price dips, with most Coinbase client balances in February at or above December levels.

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Solana forms head and shoulders breakdown as traders track $50 to $60 support and $114.35 breakout target.

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XRP has erased more than $11 billion in market value over the past 24 hours amid intensifying selling pressure across the broader cryptocurrency market.

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Strategy says it can withstand a bitcoin price drop to $8,000 and still cover its roughly $6 billion in net debt.

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Investor attention is turning to the evolving relationship between SBI Holdings and Ripple, as new comments from the Japanese group's CEO spotlight the scale of the partnership's impact on the broader crypto ecosystem and the primary keyword sbi holdings ripple. Excitement in the XRP community surged after Yoshitaka Kitao, CEO and President of SBI Holdings, corrected claims about the firm's crypto exposure. An X user alleged that the Japanese financial group holds $10,000,000,000 in XRP, partly tied to its expansion in Asia via the Coinhako deal.

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Bitcoin is sitting at a “critical point,” with traders split between two familiar scripts: a full capitulation event, or the early innings of a durable bottoming process. In a Feb. 15 video explainer, CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn argued the data is starting to line up for the latter, but with a clear caveat that any bottom is more likely to be a grind than a snapback.

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The world's largest corporate holder of BTC is making its belief known.

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XRP, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency in the world, is back in focus after a bold XRP price prediction from Michel Oliver, head of Tokentus Investment AG. He said XRP could reach between $7 and $9 in the next bull market.

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XRP price slipped to $1.45 ahead of the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's tariffs. The Ripple dropped 6% in 24 hours as selling pressure increased across the market.

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The XRP price's recent attempt to rebound was halted after a sudden wave of selling pressure on Upbit. The Ripple token's push to break out of the long-standing bearish trend quickly reversed, dragging the price down to the $1.4 level.

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XRP price jumped after Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse joined the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Global Markets Advisory Committee, a move seen as strengthening Ripple's regulatory standing in Washington.

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XRP recorded $1.2 billion in 24-hour trading volume across top exchanges in South Korea, outpacing BTC and ETH locally by a wide margin.