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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said Congress has a 90% chance of passing the Clarity Act by the end of April 2026. The statement came after a meeting between representatives of the industry.

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Bitcoin is trading at $67,411 on Feb. 20, 2026, at 8 a.m. EST, consolidating after a sharp recovery from its recent capitulation low. The broader structure remains corrective, and the burden of proof still rests on bulls to reclaim higher ground. Bitcoin Chart Outlook The daily chart tells a disciplined but unforgiving story.

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On Friday Feb. 20, Reece Merrick, a senior executive at Ripple, disclosed a major development on the XRP Ledger with regards to the Dubai Real Estate Tokenization Project.

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Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) latest pullback is reigniting a familiar warning from one of its most persistent critics. Economist Peter Schiff says the world's largest cryptocurrency could be at risk of a historic collapse if key technical levels fail.

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According to Whale Alert, a significant quantity of SOL staked has been unlocked. Whale Alert reported in recent hours that 1,511,243 SOL worth a $125,662,950 stake was unlocked in an unknown wallet.

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BlackRock's crypto fund adjustments amid market shifts highlight the growing integration of digital assets into traditional finance systems. BlackRock moves $270M in Bitcoin, Ether to Coinbase as weekly outflows spike.

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A 'major liquidation event' could push XRP below $1 before a slow, macro‑driven recovery fueled by future Federal Reserve rate cuts.

 

Technical traders see a compression setup, with $1.39 as key support and $1.44 as near-term resistance that could open a move toward $1.50 to $1.62 if reclaimed.

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Bitcoin Options Signal Potential $60K Retest for Traders

 

Market structure and on-chain activity are beginning to diverge, in a manner that typically precedes volatility, as XRP enters a new phase. Price action itself is still brittle: XRP is trying to level off after a lengthy bearish trend and a severe breakdown, but it is still trading below significant moving averages, indicating that overall momentum is still weak despite brief recovery attempts.

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Bitcoin network activity has fallen nearly 50% since 2021, revealing a sharp drop in on-chain engagement even as market caps climbed.

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Metaplanet (OTC:MTPLF) CEO Simon Gerovich fired back at critics claiming the company lacks transparency and mismanaged Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) purchases, defending a 23% stock decline versus BTC's 24% drop as proof the strategy works. The Transparency Defense Gerovich published a detailed rebuttal on X on Friday, addressing accusations that Metaplanet engaged in dishonest disclosures and concealed high-priced Bitcoin purchases.

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The H4 swing structure has shifted bullishly, and the $1.41 retracement level has been tested as support.

 

Michael Saylor kept buying while the market slid, and he did it out loud: “Neven been more bullish,” he said in an X post Thursday. His public posts and regulatory filings show Strategy continued to add to its Bitcoin pile even as price swings turned paper gains into big unrealized losses.

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Vitalik Buterin's ETH holdings remain massive, with market moves and on-chain activity hinting at strategic shifts in his crypto empire.

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BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, looks set to offload Bitcoin and Ethereum following the net daily outflows that the crypto ETFs recorded yesterday. This comes as $2.4 billion in crypto options expire, another development that could trigger market volatility.

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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has acknowledged that the company is bridging traditional finance and crypto, not battling the banking system.

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AI agents can now pay for services using XRP and RLUSD on the XRP Ledger, thanks to the x402 facilitator going live. The integration, announced by t54.ai, removes the need for API keys or accounts. This makes XRPL the latest chain to support machine-native payments alongside Coinbase and BNB Chain.

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TL;DR Bithumb's Feb. 6 promo glitch credited 2,000 BTC per user instead of 2,000 won, showing 620,000 BTC and a $43B paper error that sparked selling. Lawmakers say the FSC missed flaws despite three inspections since 2022; the Feb. 10 probe was extended toward end-February. Bithumb says most assets were recovered, leaving 125 BTC ($8.

 

Bitcoin trades around $67,000 as liquidations stand at $181.69 million over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin ETFs saw $165.8 million in net outflows on Thursday, while Ethereum ETFs reported $130.2 million in net outflows.

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The plunge has been seriously worrying financial markets since Wednesday. Analysts are trying to understand the reasons behind this spectacular drop that caught everyone off guard.

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Institutional interest in XRP appears to have returned as the coin registered significant inflows in the last 24 hours. As per SoSoValue data, spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded a total net inflow of $4.05 million.

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AI agents can now make payments using XRP and RLUSD through the new X402 integration on the XRP Ledger, marking a pretty significant step forward for automated cryptocurrency transactions. The announcement came today and it's got blockchain developers talking about what this could mean for the future of AI-driven commerce.

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Friday's crypto market opens with three defining shifts for XRP, ADA and BTC: technical activity confirms USDC is landing on Cardano, a high-level institutional alliance in Japan formalizes the XRP Ledger's enterprise roadmap and Bitcoin celebrates exactly five years as a trillion-dollar asset.

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Considering that Bitcoin (BTC) is, with its February 20 press time price of $67,307, trading at half the value it was in early October 2025, and has generally been on a downtrend, the battle between cryptocurrency bulls and bears has been surprisingly intense.