🔮 TD Cowen: Despite CFTC intervention, states maintain an advantage in legal battles in prediction markets. theblock regulation #regulation link

🗽 The Ethereum Foundation released its 2026 protocol priorities update, outlining three tracks: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1.

The update highlights continued efforts to push the gas limit toward 100M+, advance ePBS and further blob parameter increases, develop a zkEVM attester client, and continue security work focused on censorship resistance and post-quantum readiness. link

📉 The crypto market is neutral.

BTC Dominance - 57.67%

Market Cap - $2.32T
BTC - $66,983 (-0.95%)
ETH - $1,972 (-1.36%)
BNB - $607 (-1.72%)
SOL - $81 (-4.11%)
INJ - $3.41 (+9.71%)

🤔 #APT Aptos plans to revise the tokenomics to scale the deflation of APT. Cointelegraph link

🤝 #RWA Kraken acquires tokenization platform Magna ahead of potential IPO. cointelegraph link

💳 #ETHFI #SCR
Etherfi will migrate credit cards from ether.fi Cash on Scroll to the main OP Mainnet.
The Block link

📊 An analysis found that Kalshi’s implied forecasts for the federal funds target rate had an average absolute error over a 150-day horizon comparable to that of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s professional forecasters. The author argued that macro expectation data from markets like Kalshi, which is backed by real capital and continuously updated, could provide researchers and policymakers with a new real-time benchmark for expectations. #macro link

There’s not much left for the price to reach the target.

#GALA #Crypto #SignalsToday

@Signals2day

📊 Brian Armstrong claims that banking trading groups are responsible for the deadlock situation with the market structure bill. link

🐳 Three days ago, a whale deposited $8.58M $USDC into Lighter_xyz and yesterday opened a $BTC long position with 20x leverage.

Stats:

- Amount: 1,000 $BTC
- Value: $67.12M
- Entry price: $67,096
- Liquidation price: $58,409.82 link

🇺🇸🏆 On Feb. 18 (ET), U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net outflows of $133 million. The BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT saw the largest single-day net outflow at $84.19 million.

Spot Ethereum ETFs posted total net outflows of $41.83 million, with the BlackRock spot Ethereum ETF ETHA logging the largest single-day net outflow at $29.93 million. #etf link

🧑‍💻 DerivaDEX is launching a derivatives exchange licensed in Bermuda and managed by a DAO. link

🧑‍💻 DerivaDEX is launching a derivatives exchange licensed in Bermuda and managed by a DAO. link

📊 #BTC Bitcoin’s short-term Sharpe ratio has reached a level typically associated with generational buying opportunities. The chart indicates that each previous extreme negative reading was followed by significant recoveries to new highs. link link

🙅 $J, $WEN, $PERP delisted from Bybit spot link

🕵️ CEO of Robinhood, Vlad Tenev, stated that in the first week of testing on the Robinhood Chain network, 4 million transactions were made.

The Block link

🇰🇷🕵️ #RWA Kresus has raised approximately $13 million from Hanwha Investment & Securities. The funding will be used to support the infrastructure of corporate wallets and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platforms. link

Market review 19.02.2026

https://youtu.be/ypywY0LBZoc

⛏️ The UAE has mined $453.6M worth of Bitcoin via Citadel. Most of the $BTC is still being held, per Arkham.

🔝 Top five #DeFi projects for staking to earn yields (up to 25% APY) and qualify for potential airdrops. cryptorank

🕵️ Aptos Foundation has released a tokenomics update with several key proposals. These include reducing the staking reward APR from 5.19% to 2.6% via governance, initially increasing gas fees by 10x (with gas paid in APT and fully burned), establishing a protocol-level hard cap of 2.1 billion APT, and permanently locking and continuously staking 210 million APT held by the Foundation.

Additionally, future grants will transition to KPI-linked "performance-triggered" distributions, and a programmatic buyback mechanism will be explored. link