XRP jumped after softer January CPI, briefly falling 0.95% before rebounding 3.76% to a $1.422 peak. It traded near $1.4092, up about 3.57%, with $1.36–$1.37 marked as intraday support and $1.42 as a potential breakout level. Attention now turns to the Fed Beige Book on March 4.

Tomasz Stańczak will step down as co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation at the end of February 2026 after a one-year term focused on operational reforms and governance changes. Leadership responsibilities will shift to Bastian Aue and Hsiao-Wei Wang as Stańczak returns to protocol development and AI-related work around Ethereum. The foundation is also preparing a combined LEAN Ethereum and core development roadmap for 2026 with an emphasis on post-quantum security and rollup coordination.

Geoff Kendrick of Standard Chartered has lowered the bank's end-2026 Bitcoin price target from $150,000 to $100,000 and cautions that BTC could briefly fall toward $50,000 before recovering. The revised outlook is linked to sustained U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF outflows, softer macroeconomic conditions and delayed expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts.

According to on-chain tracking cited by XRPWallets, 127,400,577 XRP worth $172.5 million was transferred from a Coinbase-linked address to Bitstamp on February 12, 2026. The receiving wallet has been monitored since late 2024 and is suspected by researchers of being associated with Ripple's liquidity operations, raising speculation that the funds may support cross-border payment flows instead of a simple exchange deposit.

Bitcoin is trading around $67,000 after retreating from a recent peak near $71,500, with traders watching U.S. labor figures and an upcoming CPI release that could sway rate expectations. Ripple has unveiled a partnership with Aviva Investors to tokenize traditional fund and insurance products on the XRP Ledger, signaling a push into the UK’s regulated insurance market. At the same time, Dogecoin cofounder Billy Markus has sharply criticized speculation on Polymarket that assigns odds to Jeffrey Epstein being identified as Satoshi Nakamoto.

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, XRP traded in a narrow 5% band between $1.396 and $1.47 that could determine whether its next major move is a rebound or a deeper slide toward $1. A long-dormant Bitcoin address from 2019 transferred 2,043 BTC valued at about $140.95 million, while Sam Bankman-Fried asserted that FTX was never actually bankrupt and claimed lawyers pushed the exchange into Chapter 11.

According to CoinGlass data, Bitcoin saw a sharp liquidation spike as $59.11 million in short positions were wiped out within four hours, versus just $828,780 in longs, creating a 7,132% imbalance. Over the past 24 hours, shorts made up $102.44 million of $120.19 million in total liquidations, highlighting heavy bearish mispositioning, but analysts caution that a lasting trend change still depends on genuine spot demand after the squeeze.

XRP has returned to its 200‑week moving average near $1.41 after a sharp slide from the $3.3–$3.6 range. Price action is probing this long‑term line with flat weekly closes, indicating neither a decisive rebound nor a breakdown. A weekly close back above could preserve the supercycle view, while failure may expose the $1 area.

In February 2026, XRP/BTC is holding above the monthly Bollinger midband, according to TradingView, keeping its bull-phase intact. Following a market sell-off yesterday and a 26% single-day USD drop this week, the pair rebounded, with technicals pointing to 0.00003293 BTC — a 51% upside — after wicks rejected the 0.000018 zone and a 24-hour bounce hit 11%.