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RIVER REPORT: Lightning Network volume has surged 400% in 2025.
An estimated $1.17B in monthly volume is now moving across the network, with roughly 5.22M transactions per month

SHARPLINK JUST STACKED NEARLY 868,000 ETH -- WORTH $1.68 BILLION.
SharpLink Gaming (Nasdaq: $SBET), the Consensys-backed #Ethereum treasury powerhouse, now holds 867,798 ETH as of Feb 15 -- making it one of the largest corporate ETH holders out there.
They're staking almost 100% of it (since day one), earning 13,615 ETH in rewards in under a year – all flowing straight to shareholders. 🤝
CEO Joseph Chalom (ex-BlackRock): "Even during volatile markets, we continue growing our $ETH concentration per share... institutions know they can trust us to keep generating long-term value."
Institutional

Retail investors are rushing into software stocks at a record pace:
Individual investors have bought software stocks for 7 consecutive weeks, the longest streak since at least 2017.
The magnitude, persistence, and breadth of buying activity have significantly exceeded all prior peaks, according to Citadel.
The pace of these purchases now equals 66% of the total net inflows posted during the entire 2025.
Furthermore, from January 2nd to February 13th, average retail daily demand for US equities was ~25% higher than the prior record in 2021 and DOUBLE the 2020 to 2025 average.
Retail is betting

🏦BANKS STILL BLOCKING CRYPTO USERS
Even with ETFs and growing institutional adoption, investors say banks are freezing or restricting accounts for crypto activity.
As crypto goes mainstream, parts of traditional finance still aren’t on board

🔥 BIG: $1T Société Générale has expanded its euro stablecoin EUR CoinVertible to the XRP Ledger.

BREAKING: CME Group to launch 24/7 crypto futures and options trading starting May 29.
With this, the gaps formed in BTC and ETH will no longer happen.

When the market moves sideways, utility matters.
Take BNB as an example, we analyzed the total return from holding just 1 BNB throughout 2025. Incentives alone added ~12% extra return: Airdrops (HODLer), Launchpool, and Megadrop turned BNB into a yield-generating asset.
Utility + incentives > price action alone.
Check out our analysis below on why utility tokens can outperform even in flat markets 👇

ROBINHOOD BLOCKCHAIN HITS 4M IN 1 WEEK
Robinhood says its Arbitrum-based testnet processed 4M transactions in seven days.
Built to bring stocks and ETFs onchain, CEO Vlad Tenev says “the next chapter of finance runs onchain.”

NEW: Social sentiment turns bearish on Bitcoin and Ethereum while XRP hits 5-week bullish high, driven by recent partnership announcements per Santiment.

THE UAE MINED $450M BITCOIN
The UAE has so far mined $453.6M Bitcoin through their partners Citadel. It appears that they are holding the majority of the Bitcoin they produce, with their most recent outflows 4 months ago.
Excluding energy costs, the UAE is currently in profit of $344M on their Bitcoin.

The US economy is now reliant on older Americans like never before:
Americans aged 55+ now represent 45.3% of all US consumer spending, the highest in at least 28 years.
This is nearly DOUBLE the ~28.0% seen in the early 2000s.
By comparison, those aged 54 and younger are down to just 54.7%, from ~72.0% in 2000.
The gap between the two groups has narrowed by ~35 percentage points over the last 25 years and is on track to converge for the first time in history.
This comes as 73.7% of all US wealth is held by those over 55, up from 56.2% in 2000, according to Fed data.
The US wealth divide is ac

NEW SOLO BITCOIN BLOCK FOUND ON SELF-HOSTED UMBREL NODE
A solo miner running a self-hosted Umbrel instance just mined a full Bitcoin block, earning over $212,000 in block rewards and fees.
Proof that even small, independent operators can still win big.

Institutional investors have rarely ever been this bearish on the US Dollar:
US Dollar net exposure by global fund managers is down to -35 points, the lowest in at least 14 years.
This is below the April 2025 bottom when President Trump surprised markets with "Liberation Day."
By comparison, at the start of 2025, net exposure was +30 points, one of the highest readings in the data set.
Furthermore, 87% of fund managers surveyed anticipate central banks worldwide to continue reducing their Dollar holdings in their foreign reserves.
The US Dollar is facing historic bearish sentiment.

ALTCOIN SELL PRESSURE JUST HIT A 5-YEAR EXTREME
For 13 straight months, altcoins have seen continuous net selling on CEX spot markets.
Retail is largely out, smart money has rotated, and there’s still no clear sign of institutional accumulation.
This isn’t just a dip.

SUI JUST HIT A MASSIVE INSTITUTIONAL MILESTONE
First spot SUI ETFs are LIVE today.
• Canary launches SUIS, direct spot exposure with staking
• Grayscale drops GSUI, another big step for institutional adoption
Regulated ETFs + staking exposure = a whole new level of access to SUI.

The Lightning Network ecosystem is EXPLODING 👀
Over 217 companies and projects, and still growing.

BREAKING: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announces it sold 77% of its Amazon, $AMZN, stake in Q4 2025, worth $1.7 billion.
Buffett also sold $2.7 billion of Apple last quarter.

Over the past two years, individuals have sold more than 1.2 million Bitcoin.
That’s over 6% of the circulating supply, and more than is attributed to Satoshi's holdings.
Retail is distributing as ETFs and public companies are absorbing.

BITCOIN ON TRACK FOR ITS LONGEST LOSING STREAK IN 7 YEARS
The selling just isn’t stopping.
February is already down -13%.
If it closes red, Bitcoin will print 5 straight monthly losses — the LONGEST streak since 2018.
Total drawdown already sits near -40% in ~5 months.
One of the STEEPEST sustained selloffs in Bitcoin history.🔥