The digital asset market, a fickle lover, staged a dramatic reversal on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, effectively snapping a bruising downtrend that had dragged Bitcoin below the $63,000 support level just 24 hours prior. By 1:40 p.m., the top cryptocurrency surged past $69,000, hitting a localized peak of $69,562 on Bitstamp-a rapid-fire gain of more than 7%, a feat akin to a cheetah sprinting through a financial savannah.
In late 2025, Brad Garlinghouse announced the Hidden Road acquisition, now rebranded as Ripple Prime. Congrats, Brad! Now your new toy is just a fancy name for “we bought this and hope no one notices the XRP price is melting like a snowman in July.” Investors thought, “Sure, let’s pour billions into this corporate spa day for executives while our tokens go on a keto diet.”
This announcement shows the UK is speeding up its work to become a leading, well-regulated center for digital assets, and it anticipates that stablecoins will be a key part of how we pay for things in the future.
In Goldman’s latest chart-topping game of ‘Which Stock Can We Bet Against Today?’, MSTR claims the top spot, with short interest occupying 14% of its market cap, leaving Charter Communications-bless its heart-at 12%. And the rest? CoreWeave and Coinbase are also in the running, with short interest hovering around 11%. A veritable race to the bottom, one might say. Then there’s the usual suspects: Western Digital, Dell, Palo Alto Networks, all at a meager 8%. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Apex stablecoin issuer Tether, that paragon of digital virtue, is shrinking like a sun-bleached specter in a Soviet commune. Crypto liquidity, once a robust beast, now writhes in a state of existential dread. A contraction in stablecoin supply? Why, it’s as if the market itself has taken a vow of silence, muttering incantations of doubt into the void.
The deal values the startup at $1.6 billion, Whop CEO Steven Schwartz said in an X post.
But as we move into March, the winds may be changing. Technical reversal signals are sneaking their way onto multiple charts, with a little help from declining exchange inflows and a healthy, if not overly enthusiastic, demand for ETFs. Here are 3 tokenized asset projects that just might be starting to turn the tide.
At the striking hour of 10:51 on the 25th of February, XRP was observed trading at a most respectable $1.44194, having ascended by a notable 7.02% in the preceding 24 hours. The day’s proceedings witnessed a high of $1.44570 and a low of $1.34092, with the price pressing ever upward, as if propelled by the very winds of fortune. The hourly candles, in their wisdom, revealed a sharp expansion to the upside, with XRP breaking higher after a period of stabilization above recent support. One might almost imagine the shorts quaking in their boots, their positions squeezed with a merciless efficiency.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin was limping toward $67,400, a 5.6% gain that feels less like a rally and more like a “let’s pretend we’re okay” moment. Meanwhile, Ethereum managed a 9.6% bounce, which is impressive if you’ve never owned a pet goldfish and still believe in miracles. Both are now trading above $1,950, a number that might as well be written in invisible ink given how quickly it could vanish.
Yet, lo! The technical indicators, those fickle courtiers of the market, now whispered of hope. A single day’s rise, though meager, was hailed as a miracle, a sign that the divine hand of fortune might yet favor the faithful.
