Cardano's ADA has climbed back above a $10 billion market capitalization, trading 3.6% higher from the week's open at $0.2841. This recovery brings ADA close to the crypto top 10, but larger valuations for Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin and TRON mean the bar for entry has risen. Analysts highlight that sustained capital rotation into mid-cap layer-1s and stronger on-chain, fee-generating ecosystem activity are key for ADA to keep its position among leading networks.

On Sunday, Feb. 15, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse publicly disagreed with Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on X, sparking a legal-focused exchange referencing the SEC’s case against Ripple. Over the same period, Shiba Inu (SHIB) trading volume climbed 71.6% to $235.8 million as Shytoshi Kusama teased an “alpha” UX/UI overhaul and the mysterious “1326” ahead of the Feb. 17 “Eclipse” briefing. Meanwhile, Fundstrat cofounder and Bitmine chairman Tom Lee suggested the market has either already bottomed or will do so before April 2026, outlining his view on the end of the current crypto winter.

More than 260,000 ETH, valued at about $543 million at the time of transfer, were moved to Binance in several large transactions tied to wallets associated with Garrett "Bullish" Jin. The inflows arrive while Ethereum trades near $2,074 and consolidates in a $1,900–$2,150 price range that is shaping up as a key decision zone for the market.

XRP jumped after softer January CPI, briefly falling 0.95% before rebounding 3.76% to a $1.422 peak. It traded near $1.4092, up about 3.57%, with $1.36–$1.37 marked as intraday support and $1.42 as a potential breakout level. Attention now turns to the Fed Beige Book on March 4.

Tomasz Stańczak will step down as co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation at the end of February 2026 after a one-year term focused on operational reforms and governance changes. Leadership responsibilities will shift to Bastian Aue and Hsiao-Wei Wang as Stańczak returns to protocol development and AI-related work around Ethereum. The foundation is also preparing a combined LEAN Ethereum and core development roadmap for 2026 with an emphasis on post-quantum security and rollup coordination.

Geoff Kendrick of Standard Chartered has lowered the bank's end-2026 Bitcoin price target from $150,000 to $100,000 and cautions that BTC could briefly fall toward $50,000 before recovering. The revised outlook is linked to sustained U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF outflows, softer macroeconomic conditions and delayed expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts.

According to on-chain tracking cited by XRPWallets, 127,400,577 XRP worth $172.5 million was transferred from a Coinbase-linked address to Bitstamp on February 12, 2026. The receiving wallet has been monitored since late 2024 and is suspected by researchers of being associated with Ripple's liquidity operations, raising speculation that the funds may support cross-border payment flows instead of a simple exchange deposit.

Bitcoin is trading around $67,000 after retreating from a recent peak near $71,500, with traders watching U.S. labor figures and an upcoming CPI release that could sway rate expectations. Ripple has unveiled a partnership with Aviva Investors to tokenize traditional fund and insurance products on the XRP Ledger, signaling a push into the UK’s regulated insurance market. At the same time, Dogecoin cofounder Billy Markus has sharply criticized speculation on Polymarket that assigns odds to Jeffrey Epstein being identified as Satoshi Nakamoto.

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, XRP traded in a narrow 5% band between $1.396 and $1.47 that could determine whether its next major move is a rebound or a deeper slide toward $1. A long-dormant Bitcoin address from 2019 transferred 2,043 BTC valued at about $140.95 million, while Sam Bankman-Fried asserted that FTX was never actually bankrupt and claimed lawyers pushed the exchange into Chapter 11.