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Bitcoin has reclaimed the $67,000 level after a short-term rally of over 5% in the past 24 hours and is now approaching its 200-week moving average, which has historically served as a key support line. Cointelegraph reported that despite the U.S. government's announcement of additional tariffs, Bitcoin has maintained its upward momentum. This has brought the 200-week exponential moving average (EMA), currently around $68,330, back into focus. The report noted that BTC lost this support level earlier in the year amid a sharp price decline. A weekly close above this line could signal further upside for the cryptocurrency.

Nasdaq-listed GD Culture Group (GDC) plans to sell a portion of its Bitcoin holdings to fund a share buyback program, CoinDesk reported. The plan, which has received board approval, follows a significant drop in the company's stock price amid the recent Bitcoin downturn. The company authorized a $100 million share repurchase program and will sell some of its Bitcoin to finance it. GD Culture Group currently holds 7,500 BTC, valued at $497 million, with an unrealized loss of approximately $344 million. GDC shares rose around 7% on Feb. 25, buoyed by a slight rebound in Bitcoin. However, the stock remains down approximately 70% from its peak in September 2025.

Whale Alert reported that 250 million USDC has been minted at the USDC Treasury.

According to Dune data, stablecoin transfer volume surpassed $10 trillion in January, marking the highest level since April 2022. Of this total, 56% originated from decentralized exchange (DEX) liquidity pools. Centralized exchanges (CEXs) hold approximately $80 billion in stablecoins, representing the largest share among labeled addresses.

Crypto media outlet Altcoin Daily, which has 1.66 million subscribers on YouTube, stated on its official X account that the probability of Bitcoin reaching $1 million is higher than it going to $0. This echoes a previous prediction from MicroStrategy (MSTR) founder Michael Saylor, who said that if Bitcoin does not go to zero, it will reach $1 million.

Negentropic, the shared X account of Glassnode co-founders Jan Happel and Yann Allemann, has reignited a controversy surrounding alleged BTC selling pressure from U.S. market-making giant Jane Street. The theory posits that Jane Street orchestrated price drops through algorithmic selling at 10 a.m. U.S. time each day. This narrative is linked to a recent lawsuit filed by the bankrupt developer of Terra, Terraform Labs, against Jane Street over the collapse of TerraUSD (UST) and Luna (LUNA). Proponents of the theory claim that once the suit was filed, the selling pressure ceased and BTC began to rebound. Negentropic emphasized that the Bitcoin flash crashes, which had been occurring daily at 10 a.m., miraculously disappeared once the lawsuit became public. Jane Street has previously dismissed such claims as baseless.

The Solana-based prediction market protocol TBD has raised $3 million in a seed round, The Block reported. The round was led by CMT Digital and ParaFi, with participation from Jump Crypto.

Bitfinex's exchange token, LEO, is trading at a 60% premium to its fair value, driven by expectations that the exchange will recover Bitcoin stolen in a 2016 hack to fund token buybacks and burns. According to The Block, Vetle Lunde, head of research at K33, explained that in 2022, the U.S. government seized 94,636 BTC from the proceeds of the 2016 Bitfinex hack. This amount constitutes approximately 30% of the U.S. government's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR), which currently holds around 328,372 BTC. Lunde noted that while a court has suggested the seized BTC could be returned in-kind to the hack victims, nothing has been confirmed. Bitfinex has previously pledged to use 80% of any recovered stolen BTC for buybacks and burns. Lunde concluded that the market's hope for this recovery and subsequent buyback is what has created the current 60% premium on LEO's fair value.

LBank Labs announced the addition of perpetual futures pairs for several U.S. stocks, including PYPL, PDD, UBER, MA, CRWD, JD, IEFA, IBM, KO, PG, LMT, and TLT. The futures pairs support up to 50x leverage. In a statement, LBank Labs said the trend of convergence between the cryptocurrency and traditional financial markets is becoming increasingly clear, adding that stock perpetual futures are establishing themselves as a key component of the centralized exchange (CEX) derivatives ecosystem.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $67,000. BTC is trading at $67,033.49 on the Binance USDT market.

Some traditional funds, including foundations, are considering increasing their allocation to cryptocurrencies as expected returns from traditional financial assets decline, CoinDesk reported. At the iConnections conference in Miami on Feb. 24, chief investment officers from various investment firms agreed that the strategies that drove profits over the past decade may not be effective in the next. They noted that stock valuations are high, credit spreads are near all-time lows, and the private investment market is approaching saturation. In response, endowments from top U.S. universities like Yale and Harvard have been indirectly investing in crypto for several years, and the launch of spot crypto ETFs in the U.S. has simplified the investment pathway for these funds.

Crypto ETP issuer 21Shares is launching a product for European investors to invest in preferred stock issued by Strategy, Cointelegraph reported. The product, the 21Shares Strategy Yield ETP, is scheduled to list on Euronext Amsterdam on Feb. 26 under the ticker STRC NA.

John Collison, co-founder of global payment processing firm Stripe, predicted that e-commerce driven by artificial intelligence agents will grow explosively in the coming years, with stablecoins and high-performance blockchains set to play a significant role. Speaking on a podcast, he explained that AI agents will increasingly handle users' economic activities, from payments to capital allocation, The Block reported. Collison added that cryptocurrency-specific platforms are structurally suitable and advantageous for this type of commerce.

Prominent crypto trader and analyst Michaël van de Poppe has suggested that Bitcoin could begin to target a recovery to $70,000 following the options expiry on Friday. In a post on X, he noted that the broader market is showing signs of recovery, which he sees as a positive signal for Bitcoin. Van de Poppe predicted that if Bitcoin can maintain a price above $65,000, a rebound toward the $70,000 level will likely begin after the expiry.

U.S. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at an event sponsored by Unicoin, a cryptocurrency company currently being sued by the agency, CoinDesk reported. CoinDesk highlighted the irony of the situation, noting that Unicoin is a platinum sponsor for the "DC Blockchain Summit" in Washington this March, where the SEC Chairman is a featured speaker. The CEO of Unicoin has claimed the chairman is being deceived by his underlings regarding the ongoing lawsuit but dismissed the possibility of speaking with him at the event. The SEC sued Unicoin last year on fraud charges, alleging the company raised over $100 million by selling unregistered securities while misleading investors that its planned token would be backed by real assets like real estate.

Tether Investments, the investment arm of the world's largest stablecoin issuer Tether, announced on Feb. 25 that it has made a strategic equity investment in the online marketplace Whop. According to The Block, the investment will enable Whop to introduce stablecoin payments using Tether's Wallet Development Kit (WDK). As a result, creators and users on Whop will be able to settle transactions using stablecoins such as USDT and UAST.

Two new anonymous Bitcoin wallets have withdrawn a total of 687.72 BTC, worth approximately $45.72 million, from Binance, according to Onchain Lens. The addresses withdrew 362.26 BTC and 325.453 BTC six and 28 minutes ago, respectively. Withdrawals from exchanges are typically interpreted as an intention to hold.

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has selected four firms—Revolut, Monee, ReStabilise, and VVTX—to issue stablecoins as part of a regulatory sandbox. The pilot project, which begins in the first quarter of this year, is designed to help shape the country's final stablecoin regulations ahead of a broader crypto regulatory framework set to take effect in October 2027.

Assets under management (AUM) for Ethereum (ETH) spot ETFs have fallen by 65% in approximately four months, Unfolded reported. Current AUM stands at $10.7 billion, down nearly $20 billion from an all-time high of $30.6 billion.

Seoul's Gangnam Police Station only recently discovered that 22 BTC, worth approximately 2 billion won ($1.5 million), seized during an investigation in 2021 was stolen in 2022, the Dong-A Ilbo reported exclusively. The station reportedly failed to follow official protocols for storing seized cryptocurrency. According to the report, the assets, which were voluntarily submitted during a criminal case, were kept in an external cold wallet instead of being secured in a designated cold wallet inside a separate safe, a procedure mandated by the National Police Agency in 2021 and further detailed in March 2022. The funds were lost in May 2022. The Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency is now investigating the incident and has arrested two suspects for embezzlement.

Bitcoin is facing strong selling pressure from increased exchange deposits by large whales and continued outflows from spot ETFs, with both options markets and on-chain indicators preparing for downside risk, Bitfinex said in a weekly report. The report noted that market uncertainty has increased following a Supreme Court ruling against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy. According to the report, large holders account for 64% of inflows to exchanges, and spot ETFs have seen a net outflow of $2.6 billion this year. Bitfinex added that recent inflows are not enough to be considered a trend reversal. "From a medium-term perspective, the key resistance level appears to be $78,000, with support at the realized price of $53,000," the report concluded.

Enso (ENSO) has experienced a flash crash on the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, plummeting over 25% in approximately 20 minutes. The token dropped from the 3,970 won level at approximately 12:15 p.m. UTC to its current price of around 2,820 won.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $66,000. BTC is trading at $66,014.24 on the Binance USDT market.

Bitcoin-related stocks TeraWulf (WULF), Cipher Digital (CIFR), and Hut 8 (HUT) are showing more positive price movements than Bitcoin itself, CoinDesk reported, citing a 10x Research report. In February alone, TeraWulf surged 31%, while Cipher Digital and Hut 8 rose 8% and 6%, respectively. 10x Research explained that these companies are rallying based on their energy competitiveness, not just their involvement in BTC mining. CoinDesk added that Bitcoin is trading between major resistance at $72,000 and key support at $60,000, despite a recovery in spot ETF inflows.

Marc Zeller, founder of the Aave governance group Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), has sharply criticized a new $51 million funding request from Aave developer Aave Labs, The Block reported. Zeller argued that despite securing $86 million through various channels since 2017, Aave Labs has delivered underwhelming results for its cost and lacks financial transparency. He also re-raised allegations that the developer misappropriated $5.5 million without a governance vote. The criticism comes just one day before a Snapshot vote on the "Aave Will Win" governance proposal concerning the protocol's transition to V4, heightening tensions within the community.