On the fateful Tuesday, February 24th, the vigilant eyes of Whale Alert, that digital sentinel of the crypto realm, spotted a leviathan of a transaction. A staggering 95,935,471 XRP, valued at over $127 million, slithered from one shadowy wallet to another, leaving the masses to speculate like peasants at a royal feast.
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Crypto’s Secret Symphony: Bitcoin and Ethereum Shine The cryptic realm breathes with a vitality unseen, as Bitcoin and Ethereum, those steadfast sentinels, weave a tapestry of incremental growth over recent years. Alas, the market’s price, a fickle lover, fails to acknowledge these triumphs, as per the musings of the sagacious CryptoQuant analyst J.A. Maartunn.
Proof crypto market is healthy
Though the year 2026 began with a somber sigh, stablecoins, those digital phantoms, now circulate with a supply of 300 billion dollars-a sixfold leap since 2020. Their weekly volume, a restless beast, doubles to 60 billion from 30 billion, as if dancing to a new rhythm.
Bitcoin, though trailing behind the S&P 500 and gold, charms institutional investors with its ETF allure, a sly wink to the future.
Maartunn, ever the alchemist, points to other metrics: Ethereum, though dominant, cedes ground to BNB Chain, which surges 133% year-over-year, a phoenix rising from the ashes of skepticism.
DEX volumes, those capricious tides, swell for BNB Chain, reaching 100% growth in 2025. At its zenith last July, Binance Smart Chain claimed 30% of the DEX throne, a fleeting yet glorious reign.
Solana, the prodigal son of daily active users, boasts 4.1 million souls, a stark contrast to the meager one million of 2020, as if the network itself has learned to breathe again.
XRP Ledger, prediction markets, and Real World Assets (RWA) protocols-each a thread in the grand tapestry-echo the same refrain: fundamentals thrive, even as prices waver like autumn leaves.
#11 Bottom line:
Price action is weak.
Fundamentals are not.Stablecoins >$300B.
BNB Chain +133% stablecoin growth.
$70B commodities on Binance.
RWA TVL +210%.Price can dip further, but underlying fundamentals are growing.
– Maartunn (@JA_Maartun) February 24, 2026
State of market: Bitcoin price outlook
Bitcoin, that mercurial sovereign, recently relinquished a critical support zone around $64,000, triggering a cascade of altcoin despair. As of this writing, the top coin languishes at $62,911.98, a 4.98% descent in 24 hours. With tariffs looming like storm clouds, further declines seem inevitable.
Yet, amid the gloom, Michael Saylor, the self-proclaimed prophet of BTC, whispers of a rebound, a sentiment shared by the ever-optimistic Fred Krueger. For in the world of crypto, hope is a currency as volatile as the market itself.
Permit me to present a most solemn account of the CoinDesk 20 Index’s daily performance, wherein we observe the rise and fall of its constituents with the gravity of a country ballroom’s unspoken rivalries.
On this day in 2010, Bitcoin’s first logo was revealed.
In a world where everyone pretends to understand blockchain, Stable Sea and dLocal have decided to play matchmaker. The pair is venting their pride by promising that international companies can now send their millions through digital tokens and then let local banks do the heavy lifting.
Cipher Digital (formerly Cipher Mining-remember those good old days?) reported a drop in shares of about 5% in premarket trading after unveiling its not-so-thrilling fourth-quarter results. Turns out, pivoting from bitcoin mining to high-performance computing (HPC) doesn’t automatically result in a financial windfall. Who knew? The company missed Wall Street’s expectations, posting fourth-quarter revenue of just $60 million, a disappointing number compared to the predicted $84.4 million. And let’s talk about earnings per share (EPS), or rather, the lack thereof: they reported a loss of $0.14, which is bigger than the forecasted $0.06 loss. Oops.
Derivatives data, that labyrinth of leverage, offers further gloom. Open interest, the market’s pulse, has dwindled, suggesting that the overleveraged have been purged in a grim ritual. Funding rates, those feverish bets on a rebound, have cooled to a glacial indifference. Meanwhile, large wallet activity has surged, as if the whales, those enigmatic leviathans of the crypto sea, are preparing to pivot their sails toward uncharted waters. The result? A market now cloaked in caution: buyers, timid as mice, retreat, while sellers, relentless as a hound, chase their prey.
Base, that noble Ethereum Layer-2 chain, now hosts this marvel, promising developers the ability to run “confidential AI workloads” onchain. A charming oxymoron, if ever there was one. Why rely on centralized infrastructure when you can trust the collective wisdom of smartphones, each a tiny, glowing vault of your deepest secrets? Acurast’s solution? Let’s not call it a privacy safeguard-let’s call it a bureaucratic sleight of hand, where Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) become the latest buzzword for “we hope nothing goes wrong.”
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This rapid fire exchange of ETH into stablecoins seems less like a gradual rotation and more like an extravagant supply injection. How thoughtful of them.
