🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 Coinbase expands its crypto-backed loan offerings to XRP, DOGE, ADA and LTC, allowing users to borrow up to $100k in USDC instantly without selling. 🔹 President Trump says the US trade deficit has dropped 78% due to tariffs and will turn positive this year for the first time in decades. 🔸 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says there’s now “a path forward” for the crypto market structure bill where we can get a win-win-win outcome. 🔹 Trump-backed World Liberty Financial plans to tokenize Trump International Hotel & Resort in Maldives, in partnership with Securitize and DarGlobal. 🔸 Altcoin sell pressure has reached a five-year

🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today:

🔸 Coinbase expands its crypto-backed loan offerings to XRP, DOGE, ADA and LTC, allowing users to borrow up to $100k in USDC instantly without selling.

🔹 President Trump says the US trade deficit has dropped 78% due to tariffs and will turn positive this year for the first time in decades.

🔸 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says there’s now “a path forward” for the crypto market structure bill where we can get a win-win-win outcome.

🔹 Trump-backed World Liberty Financial plans to tokenize Trump International Hotel & Resort in Maldives, in partnership with Securitize and DarGlobal.

🔸 Altcoin sell pressure has reached a five-year extreme, with 13 straight months of net spot selling on centralized exchanges and limited signs of institutional accumulation.

🔹 Search interest for “Bitcoin going to zero” is now higher than it was in 2022.

🔸 OpenAI and Paradigm launched EVMbench, a test for AI finding and exploiting smart contract bugs.

🔹 Base is transitioning off the OP Stack to its own unified stack, but will continue working with Optimism for mission-critical support during the transition.

🔸 The XRP Ledger has rolled out a members-only DEX designed for regulated institutions.

🔹 The European Central Bank aims to issue a digital euro by mid-2029; a pilot is planned for 2027.

— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) Feb 19, 2026