SBI Holdings, with Startale, plans to debut a yen‑pegged stablecoin (JPYSC) in Q2 2026 via Shinsei Trust, pending approvals under Japan's Payment Services Act. On Feb. 27, 2026, Charles Edwards said Ethereum could overtake Bitcoin within five years due to quantum‑resilience focus. Cexplorer flags USDC's Cardano launch within two days after 42 mints.

On-chain data shows a wallet labeled "0xf2af…48420" has sent more than 24 billion Shiba Inu tokens to Binance after holding SHIB for over two years, while still keeping about 25.47 billion SHIB. The address also holds BNB, ETH and LINK with a total portfolio around $459,000, and this sizable transfer comes as SHIB's price has fallen 11.43% since the start of 2026 and some large holders appear to be trimming exposure.

On Thursday, XRP was trading near $1.44 and moved back above its 200-week moving average around $1.42, a level traders are watching as key support. Bitcoin hovered close to $68,072 on Binance but briefly dropped to $47,511 on the Lighter platform after a reported 1,000 BTC order typo, with losses estimated at about $8 million. Meanwhile, Circle's USDCx stablecoin on Cardano's testnet has processed 111 transactions, signaling active infrastructure testing ahead of an expected mainnet launch.

On Feb. 25, 2026, XRP advanced 6% to close at $1.44 after opening near $1.35. Daily Bollinger Bands place resistance around $1.51, with the middle and lower bands at $1.42 and $1.34, while the 14-day RSI at 44.75 remains neutral, leaving scope for a push toward the $1.50 area.

The crypto market is heading into a major Deribit expiry with $8.4 billion in open interest while Bitcoin trades near the $60,000 level and faces key U.S. macro data. Cardano has been listed on Bitstamp by Robinhood in Singapore as large ADA holders accumulate hundreds of millions of tokens despite a steep price decline, Peter Brandt has rejected calls for a rapid move to $150,000 in BTC, and Dogecoin has confirmed a weekly death cross below $0.15.

According to CoinMarketCap, Ripple's USD-backed stablecoin RLUSD has reached a $1.56 billion market cap with 1.55 billion tokens in circulation. A $40 million mint on Ethereum two days ago and sustained daily volumes above $43 million leave RLUSD less than $500 million from the $2 billion mark, with early Q2 2026 cited as a potential milestone.

On Feb. 23, Bloomberg Intelligence senior strategist Mike McGlone said on X that Bitcoin's January push toward $90,000 may already be this year's top if market stress returns. He flagged $90,000 as a key 2026 threshold, reiterated a "normal reversion" case to $10,000, sketched a $28,000–$66,000 mean zone, and said holding the mid-$70,000s or breaking below $64,000 could signal whether crypto leads risk assets lower.

In early 2026, Shiba Inu's market value was about $3.65 billion, according to CoinMarketCap, while the token traded near $0.0000062 by late February. With 589 trillion in circulation and burns near 172 million per cycle, reaching $0.01 would imply a $5.8 trillion capitalization, pointing investors to tokenomics rather than headline price.

On Feb. 22, 2026, Michael Burry outlined wins and misses on X, admitting he passed on a 2013 Bitcoin purchase when the price was below $200 after a meeting at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He also shared a BTC Patterns chart pointing to a $126,000 peak in October 2025, a slide toward about $73,000, and potential stress near $50,000. Separately, he disclosed bearish puts on Nvidia and Palantir amid what he calls an AI bubble.