Hive, Riot financial disclosures, Federal Reserve interest rate meeting minutes: Upcoming Week in Cryptocurrency

A preview of events for the week beginning Feb. 16.

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Hive Digital Technologies and Riot Platforms are the main focus of this week’s cryptocurrency earnings announcements. These two data center operators have broadened their activities by integrating high-performance computing for AI purposes into their bitcoin mining processes.

In the realm of macroeconomics, the Federal Reserve is expected to be in the spotlight, with the release of minutes from the latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting scheduled for Wednesday. The committee maintained interest rates in January, with two members dissenting in favor of a decrease.

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The week will also include multiple speeches from Federal Reserve officials, such as Raphael Bostic, Michelle Bowman, and Neel Kashkari.

Highlights to Monitor

(All times ET)

Crypto

• Feb. 17, 7 p.m.: Rocket Pool will execute its Saturn One upgrade.
• Feb. 18, 1 p.m.: Hedera will undergo a mainnet upgrade anticipated to take about 40 minutes to finish.
• Feb. 19, 8 a.m.: Zama will present its 2026 roadmap in a live session.

• Macro
  • Feb. 16, 8:25 a.m.: U.S. Fed Bowman speech
  • Feb. 17, 2:00 a.m.: U.K. unemployment rate for December estimated at 5.1% (Previous 5.1%)
  • Feb. 17, 8:30 a.m.: Canada’s inflation rate year-over-year for January (Previous 2.4%); Core rate year-over-year (Previous 2.8%)
  • Feb. 18, 2 a.m.: U.K. inflation rate year-over-year for January estimated at 3% (Previous 3.4%); Core rate year-over-year estimated at 3.1% (Previous 3.2%)
  • Feb. 18, 2:00 p.m.: U.S. FOMC Minutes
  • Feb. 18, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. durable goods orders month-over-month for December (Previous 5.3%)
  • Feb. 18, 9:15 a.m.: U.S. industrial production month-over-month for January estimated at 0.3% (Previous 0.4%).
  • Feb. 19: Speeches by U.S. Fed Bostic, Bowman, and Kashkari throughout the day
  • Feb. 19, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. initial jobless claims for Feb. 14 estimated at 225K (Previous 227K)
  • Feb. 20. 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Core PCE price index month-over-month for December estimated at 0.4% (Previous 0.2%); Year-over-year estimated at 2.9% (Previous 2.8%)
  • Feb. 20, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. GDP growth rate quarter-over-quarter advance for Q4 estimated at 3. (Previous 4.4%)
  • Feb. 20, 9:45 a.m.: U.S. S&P Global manufacturing PMI flash for February estimated at 52.6 (Previous 52.4).
  • Feb. 20, 10 a.m.: U.S. Michigan consumer sentiment final for February estimated at 57.3 (Previous 56.4)
• Earnings (Estimates based on FactSet data)
  • Feb. 17: HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), pre-market, -$0.07
  • Feb. 18: Figma (FIG), post-market, $0.45
  • Feb. 19: Riot Platforms (RIOT), post-market, -$0.32

Governance votes & calls

• Feb. 17: Jito will conduct an X Spaces session with Hush Protocol.
• Feb. 18: VeChain will hold its monthly VeChain Builders Space.
• Balancer is conducting a vote to replace a signer on the Emergency subDAO multisigs to enhance operational responsiveness and security. Voting concludes on Feb. 17.
• ENS DAO is holding a vote to register the on.eth name and establish it as an on-chain registry for blockchain metadata. Voting ends on Feb. 19.
• Aavegotchi DAO is voting to consolidate assets from depleted wallets into the Liquidity wallet to streamline operations. Voting concludes on Feb. 22.
• Fluid DAO is voting to withdraw 1 million GHO and 1 million FLUID from the treasury to the Team Multisig for JupLend rewards and protocol incentives. Voting ends on Feb. 22.
• GMX is voting on a proposal for implementing tiered trading fee discounts for stakers and a staker-weighted trading leaderboard. Voting ends on Feb. 22.

• Unlocks
  • Feb. 16: Arbitrum ARB$0.1143 will unlock 1.82% of its circulating supply valued at $11.05 million.
  • Feb. 17: YZY$0.3275 will release 17.24% of its circulating supply worth $20.84 million.
  • Feb. 20: ZRO$1.6665 will unlock 5.98% of its circulating supply valued at $48.33 million.
  • Feb. 20: KAITO