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Your look at what’s coming in the week starting Feb. 23
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The week will primarily focus on earnings reports from companies associated with cryptocurrency, while the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs from Friday are also expected to reverberate through the markets.
Mining companies such as MARA Holdings (MARA) and Hut 8 (HUT) are set to present, contributing to discussions regarding diversification into high-performance computing facilities and backing for AI. Additionally, in the AI sector, Nvidia (NVDA), a producer of chips for the AI market and the largest publicly traded firm by market capitalization, will announce its earnings on Wednesday.
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Circle Internet (CRCL), the issuer of the second-largest stablecoin, USDC, is also scheduled for Wednesday.
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In the broader economic context, several members of the U.S. Federal Reserve are expected to deliver speeches in the upcoming days. Additionally, the U.S.-Iran discussions are set to resume in Geneva on Thursday, even as both parties enhance their military readiness.
What to Watch
(All times ET)
- Crypto
- Feb. 23: Alchemy Chain’s testnet is set to launch.
- Feb. 25, 1 p.m.: SwissBorg will conduct its “largest keynote ever.”
- Feb. 25, 1 p.m.: Hedera mainnet will upgrade to version 0.7
- Feb. 27: The Sandbox Season 7 commences.
- Macro
- Feb. 23, 8:00 a.m.: Fed Governor Christopher Waller will deliver a speech on the economic outlook at the National Association for Business Economics.
- Feb. 23, 10:00 a.m.: U.S. Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index for February (Prev. -1.2)
- Feb. 24, 8:15 a.m.: U.S. ADP employment change weekly (Prev. 10.25K)
- Feb. 24, 9 a.m.: S&P Case-Shiller home price YoY (Prv. 1.4%)
- Feb. 24, 10:00 a.m.: U.S. CB consumer confidence est. 86 (Prev. 84.5)
- Feb. 24, 1:00 p.m.: U.S. money supply for January (M2) (Prev. $22.4T)
- Feb. 25, 5:00 a.m.: Eurozone core inflation rate YoY final est. 2.2% (Prev. 2.3%)
- Feb. 25, 4:30 p.m.: U.S. Fed balance sheet for week ending Feb. 25 (Prev. $6.61T)
- Feb. 25, 8:30 p.m.: Bank of Japan Board Member Hajime Takata to speak at a meeting with local leaders in Kyoto
- Feb. 26, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. initial jobless claims for week ending Feb. 21 (Prev. 206K)
- Feb. 26, 10:00 a.m.: U.S. Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman will testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
- Feb. 26, 6:50 p.m.: Japan Tokyo core CPI YoY for February est. 2% (Prev. 2%)
- Feb. 27, 8:00 a.m.: German inflation rate YoY prelim. for February (Prev. 2.1%)
- Feb. 27, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. PPI MoM for January est. 0.3% (Prev. 0.5%); Core PPI MoM est. 0.3% (Prev. 0.7%)
- Feb. 27, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. PPI YoY for January est. 2.9% (Prev. 3%)
- Feb. 27, 8:30 a.m.: Canada GDP growth rate annualized for Q4 (Prev. 2.6%); QoQ (Prev. 0.6%)
- Earnings (Estimates based on FactSet data)
- Feb. 24: Cipher Mining (CIFR), pre-market, $0.03
- Feb. 25: Circle Internet (CRCL), pre-market, $0.16
- Feb. 25: Core Scientific (CORZ), post-market, -$0.18
- Feb. 25: Hut 8 (HUT), pre-market, -$0.13
- Feb. 25: Nvidia (NVDA), post-market, $1.50
- Feb. 26: MARA Holdings (MARA), post-market, -$0.11
- Feb 26: TeraWulf (WULF), post-market, -$0.15
- Feb. 26: American Bitcoin (ABTC), pre-market, $0.01
- Feb. 26: Figure Technologies (FIGR), post-market, $0.20
- Feb. 26: Sui Group (SUIG), post-market, $0.01
- Feb. 26: Block (XYZ), post-market, $0.49
Token Events
- Governance votes & calls
- Feb. 23: DYdX Foundation will conduct its February analyst call.
- Feb. 26: Lido DAO will organize a tokenholder update call.
- Feb. 26: Maple Finance will hold an investor call.
- Uniswap DAO is voting to enable protocol fees across all V3 pools and eight layer-2 networks. Voting concludes on Feb. 23.
- ZKsync DAO is voting to allocate $4.1 million in ZK tokens for the 2026 audit reimbursement program (ZARP v2) to support future protocol security audits and retroactively reimburse eligible costs from 2025. Voting ends on Feb. 23.
- GMX DAO is voting to eliminate CEX supply overhang by restructuring liquidity, imposing a temporary $5 buy-wall, and suspending staking rewards until the token price reaches $90. Voting wraps up on Feb. 24.
- The Sandbox DAO is voting to suspend operations and transfer authority to the project team to realign with “The Sandbox 3.0”. The proposal currently faces approximately 98% opposition from voters. Voting concludes on Feb. 25.
- Decentraland DAO is voting to create a customizable “Windfall Lotto Scene” template for landowners. Voting ends on Feb. 25.
- Unlock DAO is voting to allocate 2 million UP from the treasury to seven active community members to ensure a quorum on future proposals. Voting wraps up on Feb. 26.
- Unlocks
- Feb. 25: Humanity (H) will unlock 4.37% of its circulating supply valued at $17.71 million.
- Feb. 28: Grass (GRASS) will unlock 13.15% of its circulating supply valued at $10.09 million.
- Feb. 28: Jupiter (JUP) will unlock 7.94% of its circulating supply valued at $39.34 million.
- March 1: will unlock 1.13% of its circulating supply valued at $40.97 million.
- Token Launches
- No launches scheduled.
Conferences
- Feb. 17 – 21: ETHDenver
- Feb. 23-26: Strategy World 2026 (Las Vegas)
- Feb. 23-24: NEARCON (San Francisco)
- Feb. 24-27: GFTN Forum Japan (Tokyo)
- Feb. 27: Wave of Innovation (Sydney, Australia)
- March 1-2: Crypto Expo Europe (Bucharest, Romania)
