Token Metrics Daily Pulse

Daily Pulse is your morning crypto briefing, summarizing key overnight changes, their significance, and upcoming alerts. No predictions or hype—just 10 essential points, verified and sourced. New episodes daily. Subscribe at tokenmetrics.com.

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BTC mining difficulty just spiked 15%. Price didn't.

ETF outflows hit $4B in five weeks. Mining difficulty jumped 15%. Bitcoin sits at $67,526. Miners are more bullish than markets. Today's key developments: • $4B in Bitcoin ETF outflows over five weeks. Another $166M walked out the door yesterday. • Bitcoin mining difficulty spiked 15% to 144.4T, the largest increase since 2021. Hashrate rebounded to 1 ZH/s. • Options markets still pricing panic premiums even as Bitcoin bounces above $68,000. Put skew remains elevated. 📰 Read the full Daily Puls...

Feb 20, 2026•11 min

BTC's $40K put is now the 2nd biggest options bet

BTC ETFs bled $133M. Fear & Greed screams Extreme Fear. And the $40K put is now Bitcoin's second-largest options position. Meanwhile, Base just dumped the OP Stack. Someone's rewriting the L2 map. Today's key developments: • Bitcoin's $40,000 put is now the second-largest options position ahead of next week's February expiry. ETFs bled $133M while sentiment sits in Extreme Fear. • Coinbase is abandoning Optimism's OP Stack for Base, building its own unified tech stack. OP token plunged doubl...

Feb 19, 2026•6 min

Thiel dumped every ETHZilla share. Now what.

Peter Thiel sold 100% of his ETHZilla stake. BTC ETFs bled $105M. Nine of ten narratives are red. Only Prediction Markets are up. Today's key developments: • Peter Thiel's Founders Fund dumped every single share of ETHZilla, the Ethereum treasury firm, per SEC filings. Zero shares remaining. • Bitcoin ETFs logged $105M in net outflows, but a mystery buyer showed up in IBIT (BlackRock's fund) going the other direction. • Stripe's stablecoin subsidiary Bridge received conditional OCC approval for ...

Feb 18, 2026•8 min

BTC long-term holders are cracking at $68K

BTC long-term holders showing strain. $54K flagged as next support. Only 1 narrative in the green this week: Prediction Markets. Today's key developments: • Bitcoin's long-term holders are showing weakening accumulation, with on-chain data pointing to $54,000 as the next support if $65,000 breaks. • Ethereum's tokenized RWA market topped $17 billion, up nearly 315% year over year, even as the RWA narrative's market cap dropped 16.18% in the past week. • Crypto slides alongside tech stocks and go...

Feb 17, 2026•7 min

Harvard dumped BTC, bought ETH. Here's why.

Bitcoin at $68,160. Weekly RSI echoing mid-2022. Harvard trimmed BTC 20%, added ETH. Every narrative except RWA is bleeding red. Today's key developments: • Bitcoin's weekly RSI is echoing mid-2022 bear market levels as ETF outflows and crowded shorts leave the market primed for a volatility event. • Harvard cut its Bitcoin ETF position by 20% and opened a new Ethereum position in its Q4 filing. • Tokenized RWAs climbed 13.5% while the broader crypto market shed $1T in value. Wintermute launched...

Feb 16, 2026•5 min

BTC down 45% from peak. CryptoQuant says it's not the bottom.

Bitcoin clawed back to $70K after an $8.7B wipeout. Fear & Greed screams extreme fear. Wall Street's still buying while offshore retreats. Someone's reading this wrong. Today's key developments: • Wall Street keeps buying Bitcoin futures while offshore traders on Deribit pull back. The CME-Deribit basis gap is widening, showing a clear regional split in risk appetite. • Elon Musk's X will launch in-app crypto and stock trading within "a couple weeks" via Smart Cashtags. Users will see live t...

Feb 15, 2026•9 min

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