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The U.S.-listed spot bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have seen record outflows over the past four months, confirming that a full-blown crypto market is underway.Investors have pulled $6.39 billion from bitcoin ETFs over four straight months of outflows, the longest monthly losing streak since the funds launched in January 2024, according to data source SoSoValue data.Ether ETFs have also fallen out of favor, bleeding $2.76 billion over the past 4 months.These huge outflows indicate that institutional appetite for digital assets has collapsed, which explains the price losses in the two tokens. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, peaked…

The way people pay for things has changed dramatically over the past few years. Digital and mobile wallets are no longer just an alternative to cash or cards. They have become the preferred payment method for billions of consumers across the globe, from everyday purchases to cross-border transactions.This shift is touching every region, every age group, and every corner of the financial ecosystem, from mainstream retail payments to decentralized crypto transactions. This article explores the key wallet usage statistics shaping 2026, covering market size, global adoption trends, regional breakdowns, consumer behavior, and the platforms driving it all forward.Market Size &…

Aayush Jindal, a luminary in the world of financial markets, whose expertise spans over 15 illustrious years in the realms of Forex and cryptocurrency trading. Renowned for his unparalleled proficiency in providing technical analysis, Aayush is a trusted advisor and senior market expert to investors worldwide, guiding them through the intricate landscapes of modern finance with his keen insights and astute chart analysis. From a young age, Aayush exhibited a natural aptitude for deciphering complex systems and unraveling patterns. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity for understanding market dynamics, he embarked on a journey that would lead him to become one…

Dubai, UAE, February 28th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has introduced a fixed-rate borrowing option under its Unified Trading Account (UTA) Loan product, bringing together leverage of up to 10 times and fixed borrowing periods of up to 180 days within a single unified account — a combination that remains rare in the digital asset market. Bybit’s Unified Trading Account is designed to allow users to manage spot trading, derivatives trading, and borrowing activities within a single account structure using shared collateral and integrated margin management. Through UTA Loan, users can borrow assets via…

Dubai, UAE, February 27th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today revealed the comprehensive results of its 2025 Security Initiative. Bybit has implemented an industry-leading, multi-layered defense architecture that has successfully protected thousands of users and set a new benchmark for proactive security in the digital asset space. In 2025, $17 billion in cryptocurrency was lost to scams and frauds, according to a report by Chainalysis. Redefining Industry Standards: The Triple-Tier withdrawal Fraudulent Defense Framework To move beyond reacting to scams after the damage is done, Bybit has pioneered a Dynamic Risk-Based protection system that…

[PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, CA, USA, February 26th, 2026] PACT, the leading on-chain credit and payments infrastructure protocol and #1 RWA protocol on Aptos, today announced that its native token, $PACT, is now supported on the world’s most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges, including Kraken, MEXC, and Gate. PACT Expands Access as It Builds the Future of On-Chain Finance PACT enables end-to-end, fully programmable credit infrastructure, supporting origination, servicing, repayments, covenants, waterfalls, and stablecoin settlement entirely on-chain. Unlike traditional RWA protocols that wrap off-chain credit in tokens, PACT embeds the credit system itself into blockchain rails. Today, PACT technology is used…

Another week has ended, and it is also the end of the month, which means a bigger batch of Bitcoin and Ether options contracts are expiring while spot markets cool off again. Around 115,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Feb. 27, with a notional value of roughly $7.8 billion. This event is much larger than usual because it is the end of the month, so there could be a little volatility on spot markets. Crypto markets have seen a little daylight with a mid-week lift, but total capitalization has remained the same as gains are starting to erode…

Australia’s crypto market is making progress in user growth and regulatory reforms, but there are still a range of issues to iron out in the sector, crypto executives told Cointelegraph.On the sidelines of the XRP Australia 2026 event in Sydney on Friday, Coinbase APAC managing director John O’Loghlen said the country has seen positive regulatory momentum and growing expertise among those tasked with policing the industry.“Multiple arms of government, mainly Treasury, who are writing the draft regulation and ASIC have thoroughly upskilled their teams and have pretty deep digital asset domain expertise internally. So I think there’s been pretty positive…

Google announced earlier this week that it was building a new data center in Minnesota that would be powered by a mix of wind, solar, and a very unique battery built by startup Form Energy that’s capable of discharging for days on end. Now we know the price tag for that feat of electrochemical engineering: about $1 billion, according to The Information. Form Energy’s massive iron-air battery is capable of delivering a continuous 300 megawatts of electricity over 100 hours. It works by breathing, in a sense — oxygen pumped into the cells rusts iron, which releases electrons. The battery…

XRP Ledger Foundation has confirmed it has patched a critical vulnerability found in an yet-to-be-enabled amendment of Ripple’s XRP Ledger, averting a potentially major exploit. On February 19, a security engineer at cybersecurity firm Cantina, Pranamya Keshkamat, and the Cantina AI security bot identified a “critical logic flaw” in the signature-validation logic of Ripple’s blockchain, XRP Ledger, reported the XRP Ledger Foundation on Thursday. The vulnerability in the signature validation code batch amendment would have allowed an attacker to execute transactions from victim accounts, including draining funds, without ever having the victim’s private keys. “The amendment was in its voting phase and had…