In early 2025, on-chain investigator ZachXBT alleged that Axiom senior employee Broox Bauer abused internal tools to view private wallet data and track user activity. The claims include sharing screenshots of sensitive dashboards, compiling KOL wallet lists, and discussing a February 2026 plan to help a colleague earn $200,000 through access to Axiom's systems. The investigation also notes difficulty in definitively tying specific meme coin trades to insider activity without internal trading logs.

Bitcoin rebounded to $68,000 and added 4% on Thursday after earlier declines, but Glassnode said price action remains confined to a defensive consolidation between $60,000 and $69,000. Indicators show a 46% drawdown, roughly 9.2 million BTC held at a loss, and an Accumulation Trend Score below 0.5 since early February, suggesting upside depends on renewed spot absorption and stronger large-entity and institutional participation.

On Wednesday, Ethereum climbed back above $2,000, while its 30-day realized volatility on Binance rose to about 0.97, according to CryptoQuant, the highest since March 2025. On February 25, US spot ETH ETFs recorded over $157 million in net inflows, led by Fidelity's FETH. Santiment said ETH's 30-day MVRV is around -5.5%, signaling mild undervaluation.

Amid a broader market upswing, XRP added about 3% in the last 24 hours while the 30‑day average of large XRP transfers to Binance climbed to roughly 2.54 billion tokens, signaling renewed whale activity. Daily inflows around 50 million XRP, together with resistance near $1.40 and supports at $1.11 and $0.87, suggest bears still hold an edge despite the bounce. US spot XRP ETFs showed flat flows around late February, except for a $3 million inflow into Bitwise's XRP product.

The Ethereum Foundation has started staking part of its treasury, first depositing 2,016 ETH and signaling an intention to stake about 70,000 ETH in total. All rewards will return to the Foundation's treasury as it participates directly in Ethereum's proof-of-stake consensus using an open-source, distributed validator setup. ETH's price has meanwhile extended a short-term decline, though some analysts view current levels as a longer-term accumulation zone.

On a recent Tuesday, Bitcoin briefly slid to $62,700 after a 5% drop, while on-chain data showed capital flowing out of the network and aging supply. Realized Cap has fallen for a second month, and coins last moved 3–6 months ago now represent about 26% of supply, signaling weak new buyer activity. Analysts also point to a potential death cross on the three-day chart projected for late February 2025, echoing patterns seen before prior bear market capitulations.

Digital asset funds saw $288 million exit in the latest week, extending a five-week streak of outflows that has now reached $4 billion. Bitcoin products led with $215 million in redemptions, while XRP, Solana, and Chainlink posted modest inflows that failed to counter broad altcoin weakness. Concurrently, Bitcoin's drop below $65,000 triggered about $230 million in long liquidations amid rising geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty.

Vitalik Buterin sold 1,869 ETH valued at about $3.67 million over the past two days while ether fell from roughly $1,980 to $1,850. He previously moved 3,500 ETH from Aave and earlier disposals totaled 6,958 ETH. Despite recent sales, his holdings remain above 224,000 ETH.

Bitcoin briefly traded under $65,000 on Monday after a proposal by US President Donald Trump to lift global tariffs to 15%, while an analyst now places the market in a late-cycle stress phase. Based on this six-stage roadmap, the current sideways period could eventually give way to a capitulation leg, with revised potential downside targets between $35,000 and $45,000 amid deteriorating liquidity conditions.