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Monero usage remains above 2022 levels despite being delisted by major exchanges and banned in regulatory hubs like Dubai. Darknet adoption is rising with 48% of new 2025 marketplaces supporting Monero exclusively, while Bitcoin remains the primary choice for ransomware payments. Researchers identified that specific node clusters could potentially monitor transaction propagation, posing a risk to user anonymity despite on-chain encryption. Monero is still being used at scale, even after years of delistings, regulatory bans, and a high-profile attempt to disrupt the network, according to new research from TRM Labs. TRM said Monero transaction activity in 2024 and 2025 stayed…

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has become the public market’s most widely traded Bitcoin proxy, using equity, convertible notes, and preferred stock to build a balance sheet dominated by the top crypto.However, as Bitcoin trades near $68,000 and Strategy shares hover below $130, investors are paying closer attention to the mechanisms that allow the company to continue buying BTC without becoming a forced seller.Industry experts such as Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone have warned that Bitcoin could decline to $10,000.While this drawdown scenario presents challenges for the firm, the Michael Saylor-led firm appears confident in its ability to navigate these issues even…

Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it produced an awkward result.Roskomnadzor began throttling Telegram on Feb. 10, citing “non-compliance.” Two days later, authorities fully blocked WhatsApp, removing its domains from Russia’s national registry and forcing users toward VPNs or MAX, a state-backed messenger that critics describe as surveillance infrastructure disguised as a chat app.The Kremlin had already mandated the preinstallation of MAX on all devices sold in Russia, effective Sept. 1, 2025.The move seemed tailor-made to vindicate decentralized messaging. Here was textbook censorship playing out in real time, consisting of DNS…

Monad price moved within the $0.020 and $0.23 range on Tuesday. The layer 1 project eyes traction as $100 million in private credit becomes verifiable on-chain. MON price could retest resistance at $0.030. Monad’s native token, MON, was trading near $0.021 after falling about 7% over the past 24 hours. Data from CoinMarketCap showed the decline followed renewed profit-taking after prices revisited the $0.025 level. Continued weakness in Bitcoin and other major altcoins could add further pressure on MON in the near term. However, some analysts see potential for a rebound as Monad positions itself as a platform for institutional-grade…

The Bitcoin “buy zone” meme just got real again, here’s what it means in the ETF eraA certain kind of Bitcoin post shows up right on schedule. It usually arrives right after price stops feeling fun.This week it came from PricedinBTC, dressed up as a neat table titled “Forward Returns by Drawdown Level.”The headline numbers do the heavy lifting, buying at a 50% drawdown supposedly delivers around a 90% win rate over the next year, with average returns near 125%. The caption ends with “LOCK IN,” the kind of line that sounds like advice and reads like a challenge.Bitcoin returns…

A botched home invasion in the Paris suburbs on Feb. 12 marked a tactical shift in crypto’s physical-threat or “wrench attack” landscape.The target, according to French media reports, was the CEO of Binance France. Binance confirmed an employee was targeted and said the employee and family are safe.Two phones were stolen before the suspects were arrested at Lyon Perrache station. The assailants reportedly entered the wrong residence first before moving to their intended target. This detail suggests reconnaissance and intent, not opportunism.The incident is more concerning than the rising baseline of wrench attacks.This was a named executive at a recognizable…

The fiscal mathematics of the United States are drifting toward a threshold that markets can no longer afford to ignore, and a level that, relative to GDP, hasn’t transpired since the last world war.Washington’s latest budgetary outlook suggests the nation is on a trajectory to accumulate nearly $64 trillion in federal debt over the next decade.The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) most recent decade-long outlook indicates a sustained increase in national obligations.US National Debt ProjectionThe CBO projects federal deficits will total approximately $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2026. That gap is expected to widen toward $3.1 trillion by 2036.These figures would…

Raydium price pumped more than 15% as bulls tested the $0.75 level. Gains come amid a notable jump in perpetuals volume on the Solana-based decentralized exchange. RAY’s daily trading volume exploded by more than 500%. Raydium trends as one of the top gainers in the crypto market in early trading on February 17, 2026, with the RAY token up 15% in the past 24 hours. The token’s dramatic surge aligns with an explosion in daily trading volume and a retest of $0.75, which sees bulls now target a potential rebound to the critical price level of $1. All this comes…

On some Ethereum L2s, bots now burn over half the gas just searching for MEV, and they don’t pay proportionally for it. That’s a scaling and market-fairness problem rooted in market structure.The privacy conversation in crypto has finally escaped the “anonymous money” framing that dominated the last cycle. In early 2026, the urgency is economic and rooted in immediate financial realities.The industry faces a structural problem: on-chain transparency generates extractable value at massive scale, and that extraction has grown into a scaling bottleneck rather than remaining a purely philosophical concern.Flashbots has documented how MEV-related “search spam” can consume more than…

Monero (XMR) faces short-term selling pressure below key moving averages. On-chain activity remains strong despite exchange delistings. Support lies at $300 while the immediate resistance sits near $381. After reaching an all-time high near $798 in January, Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency has experienced significant short-term volatility. In the last month alone, XMR has retraced over 44% from its recent highs. The coin is currently trading around $331, after modest gains over the past 24 hours, but still well below its peak. Growing selling pressure Recent price action shows that XMR is struggling below key moving averages, including the 50-day and 200-day…