Cryptocurrency 12 February 2026 - 17 February 2026

TON Strategy Shares Flat as Toncoin’s Gram Catches Traders Off Guard
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TON Strategy Shares Flat as Toncoin’s Gram Catches Traders Off Guard

TON Strategy Company fell 1.4% to $4.17 on the Nasdaq late Tuesday morning, missing out on a big move higher in Toncoin. Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced the TON token will be renamed Gram. Shares ranged from $4.17 to $4.44, with volume at about 123,500 just after 11 a.m. EDT. Durov said “TON’s native currency is becoming Gram,” according to The Defiant. The token swap will take about three weeks and bring back the Gram name from TON’s first Telegram-linked white paper, The Defiant said.
June 2, 2026
Bitcoin can’t crack $70,000 as $60K capitulation data fuels bear market talk
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Bitcoin can’t crack $70,000 as $60K capitulation data fuels bear market talk

On Tuesday, bitcoin slipped roughly 0.9% to trade near $67,852 after yet another unsuccessful attempt to stay above the $70,000 level. The cryptocurrency reached as high as $69,999 during the session but then dropped to $67,329. Ether was last seen around $1,970. The market’s still chewing over what to make of that early-February tumble. Bitcoin hit a low of $60,033 this year and is hanging around 45% off its $126,251 peak, Lee Hardman at MUFG pointed out in his Feb. 17 note. Right now, the token is sitting under its estimated mining cost—about $87,000, according to Hardman.
February 17, 2026
MegaETH pushes “real-time” Ethereum as Transak on-ramp and MEGA buybacks take shape
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MegaETH pushes “real-time” Ethereum as Transak on-ramp and MEGA buybacks take shape

MegaETH’s chief strategy officer Namik Muduroglu says the Ethereum layer-2 project is chasing a “real-time” experience, touting 10-millisecond “lock times” and pointing to recent stress tests that pushed throughput to 55,000 transactions per second—something enabled by centralising block production for sheer speed. “Staying removed from the application layer is a losing strategy for blockchain teams,” Muduroglu said. “The era of infrastructure for the sake of infrastructure is over.” This shift is key, with much of Ethereum’s main action now shifting over to layer 2 networks—these are secondary chains designed for quicker transactions, but ultimately tie everything back to Ethereum, which remains the core ledger. Even with those speedier rails, though, the broader issue persists: attracting regular users, actually funding wallets,
February 17, 2026
XRP price today: Ripple token holds $1.48 as Standard Chartered slashes 2026 target
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XRP price today: Ripple token holds $1.48 as Standard Chartered slashes 2026 target

New York, February 16, 2026, 16:09 — The market has wrapped up trading for the day. XRP, Ripple's payments token, was trading close to $1.48 on Monday as Standard Chartered sharply reduced its end-2026 price forecast to $2.80, slashing it from $8. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets research, wrote, “We expect further declines near-term and we lower our forecasts across the asset class.”
February 16, 2026
Elon Musk’s X says “Smart Cashtags” will bring crypto and stock trading to timelines in weeks
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Elon Musk’s X says “Smart Cashtags” will bring crypto and stock trading to timelines in weeks

X is gearing up to introduce “Smart Cashtags” in the next couple of weeks, according to head of product Nikita Bier. The tool, Bier says, will let users buy and sell stocks and crypto right from their timelines. Although Bier is keen to see crypto gain traction on the platform, he sounded a warning: any app rewarding users for spamming or harassing people will be hit with stricter API restrictions. Elon Musk now faces added pressure as he works to transform X—still known to many as Twitter—into something beyond a social platform. Letting users trade directly from their feed? That would move X decisively into financial services territory.
February 15, 2026
Coinbase posts $667 million loss as crypto rout drags revenue down — and the Q1 clue traders seized on
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Coinbase posts $667 million loss as crypto rout drags revenue down — and the Q1 clue traders seized on

Coinbase Global posted a fourth-quarter loss of $667 million, hit by a broad selloff in crypto that slashed trading activity and hammered its results. Net revenue dropped roughly 22% year-over-year to $1.71 billion, while total revenue landed at $1.78 billion. “Crypto is cyclical, and experience tells us it’s never as good, or as bad as it seems,” the company said in its report. Looking ahead, Coinbase expects first-quarter subscription and services revenue between $550 million and $630 million. Crypto prices stumbled hard late in 2025, wiping out gains from early October, after President Donald Trump rolled out new tariffs on Chinese goods and dangled the threat of export controls, according to Reuters. Coinbase didn’t escape the fallout — transaction revenue
February 12, 2026
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