On Friday, Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer lowered his Coinbase price target from $421 to $267, a cut of more than one-third, while maintaining a buy rating and estimating about 60% upside from roughly $164 per share. His revised forecasts follow Coinbase's fourth-quarter 2025 report, where net revenue fell to $1.71 billion and the firm posted a $667 million GAAP net loss, but showed growth in derivatives, stablecoin income and subscription revenue now representing 43% of net revenue. Other brokerages adjusted their targets as well, with some reaffirming bullish views and others turning more cautious on the stock.

Updated on February 14, 2026, Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood said at Bitcoin Investor Week that AI-driven productivity gains could spark rapid deflation and disrupt debt-laden economies. She argued Bitcoin, with its decentralized design and capped supply, can hedge both inflation and swift deflation to protect capital.

On February 14 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a long X post criticizing how prediction markets are evolving toward short-term, dopamine-driven bets. He argued that platforms are increasingly favoring crypto price and sports wagers with little long-term informational or societal value, diverging from his more positive view in December 2025. Buterin now urges a pivot toward generalized hedging tools that help manage real-world risks instead of focusing on ultra-short-term gambling-style products.

On 14 February 2026, the U.S. Senate was set to review a bill addressing Bitcoin and the broader crypto market structure. According to the article, the session is planned for 2:00 p.m. Monday, while White House official Patrick Witt said "trillions of dollars" in institutional capital are waiting for clearer rules.

Ali Martinez on X projected XRP could extend its slide toward $0.80, while Glassnode showed the options put/call ratio climbed from 0.17 in September to 0.76 across recent months. Coinalyze reported negative funding and shrinking open interest over the past two weeks, although CoinGlass mapped overhead short‑liquidation zones that may trigger a squeeze before any deeper move.

Litecoin recently ended the daily session with a bullish candle as price presses into the $57 resistance area. The move, highlighted by analyst CryptoWzrd, mirrors Bitcoin's upside but still needs confirmation from LTCBTC and intraday structure. A sustained break and hold above $57 could pave the way toward $64 and later the $68 resistance, provided momentum and market conditions remain supportive.

According to multiple reports, the U.S. military deployed Anthropic's AI model Claude during Operation Resolve in early January 2026, a high-risk mission in Caracas that led to the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. The system was reportedly integrated via Anthropic's partnership with Palantir, raising questions over whether its use in a lethal operation clashes with Anthropic's stated bans on violence, weapons work and surveillance. While the precise tasks carried out by Claude remain classified, some sources suggest it may have been limited to non-lethal support such as intelligence summarization, logistics and translation, amid growing tension between Anthropic and the Trump administration over military applications of AI.

X plans to introduce Smart Cashtags within weeks, according to statements from Nikita Bier. The feature will let the platform’s one-billion-plus users trade Bitcoin, other crypto assets, and stocks directly from the timeline. By turning cashtags into interactive tickers with live data and execution, X moves closer to its goal of an everything app.