Bitcoin wiped out its weekend gains, plummeting from a high of $68,600 to a low of $64,161. The reversal was fueled by macroeconomic instability following U.S. President Trump’s announcement of a 15% blanket tariff on imports.

The Arizona State Legislature has advanced a bill to create a digital assets strategic reserve fund, which would hold seized or surrendered cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and XRP.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies says it now holds 4.423 million ethereum, pushing total crypto and cash reserves to $9.6 billion as it doubles down on its bid to control 5% of the ETH supply.

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted $316 million in weekly outflows, extending a five-week slide. Ether funds also remained under pressure, while solana and XRP ETFs managed modest net inflows.

Bitcoin is trading at $66,304 at 8:45 a.m. EST on Feb. 23, 2026, carving out a consolidation range after a violent macro unwind. The market is stabilizing, but the broader structure remains technically fragile unless key resistance levels are reclaimed with conviction.

Strategy beefs up its bitcoin stash with a $39.8 million buy while the market catches its breath.

A new Elliptic investigation identifies five major cryptocurrency platforms ena

Binance has reported a 96.8% decrease in sanctions-related transaction exposure

The cryptocurrency market faced a sharp downturn on Monday, Feb. 23, triggered by President Trump’s threat of a 15% global tariff on U.S. imports.

While global investment flows focus on U.S. markets, excess liquidity has accumulated in emerging markets, causing Latin American exchanges to soar. Latin American indices have outperformed both broader emerging‑market benchmarks and the S&P 500, rising over 20 % this year after a rally that delivered a 55.67 % gain in 2025.

The central bank will focus on designing a regulatory framework for the so-called institutional VASPs, defined as organizations that operate infrastructure and provide crypto services to other institutions. The move would bring clarity to companies like Fireblock, Ripple, and Bitgo in the Brazilian market.

Ethereum controls roughly 60% of real-world asset ( RWA) tokenization today, but Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan questions whether layer one (L1) blockspace is truly the commodity many investors assume it to be.

Openclaw, the open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, has been quietly turning bots into digital currency power users — but in crypto, every shiny new plugin deserves a skeptical eye.

Bitcoin declined over $2,500 on Sunday night and dipped under $65K, as investors covered from the uncertainty of a new global 15% tariff regime imposed by President Donald Trump. A possible attack on Iran is also moving risk markets down.

Elizabeth Warren is pressing U.S. financial regulators to rule out any taxpayer-funded rescue of cryptocurrency billionaires as $2 trillion collapse fuels fears of federal intervention in digital asset markets.