Cryptonews

Traders are glued to their screens, waiting for someone to make a move. It’s like watching a suspenseful movie but with less popcorn and more anxiety. 🍿

Meet Brian Sewell: 54-year-old Washington County resident, part-time fraud artist, and full-time disappointment to his parole officer. His 7-year crypto Ponzi scheme collapsed faster than a soufflé in a hurricane 🌪️.

Artemis, a cryptocurrency metrics platform, has issued its latest stablecoin report, describing the rise of crypto cards in the payments arena. 🧠

Behold! An “exclusive NFT collection” shall descend upon the earth like manna from a blockchain heaven, accompanied by “premium merchandise” to drape the masses in licensed fervor. A grand gambit, one might say, to transmute crypto-curios into objects of mainstream desire-or at least to trick the rubes into buying hoodies with penguin logos. 🎩💸

On the daily timeframe, most top caps are pulling back, which sounds ominous until you realize this follows a rally so strong it made your grandma’s knitting circle look like a crypto meetup. Assets reclaimed key levels like they were late for tea with the Queen 🫖👑.

KBC Group announces that, beginning the week of 16 February 2026, private investors in Belgium can buy and sell crypto assets via Bolero, the bank’s online execution-only investment platform, under the European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR); KBC has submitted a full Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) notification to the competent Belgian authority and is the first Belgian bank to meet these requirements. Customers will trade bitcoin ( BTC) and ether ( ETH) within Bolero’s closed-loop model and must pass a knowledge and experience test before trading. 🤔

Faux Renaissance of Finance

In this animated scene, moves by influential traders added a dash of spice, causing Ethereum to waltz around key resistance levels, leaving us to ponder-will it gallantly break through or find itself in a retreating, rather demure quadrille?

XRP’s at $2.06, down 1.9% in the last day. It’s been bouncing between $2.03 and $2.18 for a week, which is basically crypto’s version of a nap. The token’s up 7% monthly, but let’s not get carried away-it’s still 43% shy of its July high. Recovery? More like a slow, awkward walk toward the exit.

XRP lags behind the broad crypto river, which slides roughly one percent. The market sighs, and the little traders blink, clutching hopes like coins clinking in a pocket. 🤖😂