US Stocks Close Higher Tuesday, Mainstream Crypto Stocks Slightly Up

February 25th: Per Onchain Lens monitoring, two long-dormant crypto whale addresses have begun accumulating XAUT (the gold-backed token) today. - Whale address 0xCE7, dormant for 3 years, withdrew 2,311 XAUT (valued at ~$11.82 million) from Bitfinex over the past 11 hours. - Whale address 0x95c, dormant for 2 years, withdrew 2,169 XAUT (valued at ~$11.1 million) from Bitfinex 12 hours ago.

As of February 25th, Onchain Lens reports a newly created wallet withdrew 17,390 AAVE (valued at approximately $2 million) from Binance 7 hours ago.

February 25th — Coinbase Institutional, the institutional division of Coinbase, noted in a social media post that Bitcoin (BTC) options market data reveals: - The most concentrated support cluster lies around the $60,000 level, while the first key resistance zone is near $82,000. - $82,000 is the first critical threshold to unlock further upside, and $60,000 is a pivotal support to stem accelerated downside. Additionally, negative gamma is clustered in the $60,000–$70,000 range, whereas positive gamma is concentrated above the $85,000 and $90,000 levels. This signals two market trends: - Downside momentum could accelerate toward the $60,000 level. - An upside push to $90,000 may trigger consolidation.

Feb. 25 — Bitcoin rebounded above $66,000 on Tuesday, climbing roughly 3% in 15 minutes, per HTX market data. The leading cryptocurrency is currently trading at $66,015.

February 25th — Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that payment processor Stripe is weighing a full or partial acquisition of PayPal assets. Discussions are in early stages, and a deal is not guaranteed, the sources added. Representatives for Stripe and PayPal declined to comment. On Tuesday, PayPal’s stock dropped 6.7% to $47.02 in New York trading, valuing the company at roughly $43.3 billion. Founded in the late 1990s, PayPal was a digital payments pioneer but has struggled to modernize its payment technology in recent years amid competition from Apple, Google and other rivals. Stripe — founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison — has emerged as one of the industry’s most coveted players. Earlier Tuesday, the company disclosed a $159 billion valuation via an employee tender offer.

Per Coinglass data, $106 million in total liquidations hit the entire crypto network in the past 4 hours as of February 25th. Long positions accounted for $5.39 million of the liquidations, while short positions made up $101 million.