Over the past week, XRP’s on-chain activity has weakened, with the number of active addresses dropping by almost 26% from around 55,000 to roughly 40,700. The contraction in participation, highlighted by recent data, may signal softer short-term demand, while XRP trades near $1.45 amid mixed daily, weekly, and monthly price performance. Traders are watching whether this decline in network usage will persist or reverse alongside broader market conditions.

On February 17, analyst Matthew Hyland highlighted a rare cluster of bullish signals on the monthly chart of altcoin dominance versus Bitcoin and Ethereum. His analysis points to an Adam and Eve-style double bottom, RSI bullish divergence, and a MACD bull cross, suggesting a possible shift toward an altcoin outperformance cycle if confirmed. At the same time, Bitcoin was trading near $67,997.80 with recent declines across daily, weekly, and monthly timeframes.

Harvard Management Company's 13F report dated December 31, 2025 indicates that BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) remains its largest disclosed crypto-related holding at roughly $265.8 million. The filing also notes a reduction of about 21% in IBIT shares during Q4 and the launch of an approximately $86.8 million allocation to the iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA), suggesting a broader institutional shift toward a multi-asset crypto approach.

According to the report, scammers are mailing hardware wallet users letters that mimic Trezor and Ledger notices, pushing recipients to scan QR codes and enter recovery phrases. The messages cite urgent security checks and route to clone setup pages that accept 12-, 20-, and 24-word seeds. Hardware wallets are not compromised, but revealing a seed enables immediate wallet takeover.

On February 16, CryptoQuant analyst Woo Minkyu reported that Bitcoin's adjusted SOPR fell back to roughly 0.92–0.94, a band historically associated with bear‑market stress. The metric sits below 1.0, and analysts caution that failing to reclaim 1.0 could signal a broader downturn; BTC was $68,852.57, down 1.2% on the day, up 0.4% on the week, and off 27.1% for the month.

On February 13, analyst EGRAG CRYPTO outlined two long-term XRP price structures based on Fibonacci extensions, with either a deeper pullback toward $0.60 targeting about $11 or a shallower retrace near $0.90 aiming for roughly $8.50. XRP is currently trading around $1.40, and these scenarios imply different risk–reward profiles for traders depending on how much drawdown the market accepts before the next potential rally.

A solo Bitcoin miner successfully mined block #936100 and received 3.153 BTC in total rewards, valued at roughly $213K. The payout combined the standard 3.125 BTC block subsidy with about 0.028 BTC in transaction fees, underscoring that individual miners can still secure blocks despite large industrial pools dominating the network.

On February 11, Lookonchain and Whale Alert flagged an Ethereum transaction that attached a 64.09 ETH fee, roughly $125,000, to a single transfer. The transaction moved just 0.000000000024433988 ETH, with blockchain records indicating an unusually high gas configuration.

Goldman Sachs’ latest 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission details roughly $153 million of exposure to XRP-focused exchange-traded products, forming part of a broader $2.36 billion cryptocurrency position. The bank’s XRP holdings are split across four ETFs, while larger allocations remain in Bitcoin and Ethereum products, and the ETF inflows have so far had limited direct impact on XRP’s market price.