Before March gets off to a turbulent start tomorrow due to the unrest in the Middle East (my gold will be happy!?), I am enjoying the fact that February just ended so green.

A whole 0.96%📈 positive return was achieved in February.

(According to getquin even 1.6%📈🧐)

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Winners and losers February 2026,

sorted by percentage return

Individual stocks:

$CVX (+1.25%) + 7,5% 📈

$ONDS (-3.47%) + 7,3% 📈

$PNG (-3.92%) + 3,5% 📈

$RBRK (-4.99%) - 1,5% 📉 (added 27.02.)

$LMND (-6.88%) - 10,8% 📉 (added 24.02.)

$RKLB (+0%) - 13,8% 📉

$SOFI (-6.9%) - 22,1% 📉

$IREN (-6.09%) - 26,4 % 📉

Derivatives:

$DE000PF5R6A4 (+2.81%) + 47% 📈 (Has been running since 10.02.2026)

$DE000VH5Y352 (-3.24%) - 27,4% 📉 (Has been running since 02.02.2026)

Crypto:

$BTC (-0.55%) - 15,4% 📉

$ETH (+1.86%) - 18,9% 📉

Precious metals:

$4GLD (+1.81%) + 7,9% 📈

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Since the beginning of the year

The year started with just under €15,000.

Annual target: €25,000.

Almost 28% of this has already been achieved. So I'm on the right track.

Positive return of + 7.86% 📈

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Distribution of assets

What does your February look like?

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/bitcoin-plunges-as-us-and-isra-MSfIUjUOQpOKHHKNvhYycg

$BTC (-0.55%) and $ETH (+1.86%) send it down already.

Apart from the financial and economic situation, we hope for the best from a human perspective, although this is virtually impossible in war.

Expect a deep red start to the day on Monday.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Ethereum is planning big changes: The second largest blockchain in the world wants to significantly faster and at the same time quantum secure against future threats - and at the same time, co-founder Vitalik Buterin calls for a new balance in DeFi, moving away from half-hearted projects towards real, secure decentralized financial systems. These are important signals for crypto investors and developers alike.

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⚡ 1. $ETH (+1.86%)
should become faster and quantum-safe

Ethereum has a long-term four-year roadmap that envisages some fundamental changes:

🚀 Drastically reduce block time

• Ethereum currently needs around 12 seconds per block.
• The goal is to reduce it to up to 2 seconds - for faster transactions and a better user experience.
• This is to be achieved by decoupling slot time and finality.

🧠 Finality in seconds instead of minutes

• The time until a transaction is considered irrevocable (finality) still takes around 16 minutes.
• A range between 6 and 16 seconds - significantly faster than before.

🛡️ Quantum security to protect the future

• Ethereum is planning the use of post-quantum secure cryptographyto protect the blockchain against the threat of future quantum computers.

🧩 Seven forks by 2030

• Over the next four years seven fork upgrades are planned, roughly every six months - including already confirmed steps such as Glamsterdam and Hegotá.

➡️ This technical vision, known as Strawmapis designed not only to make Ethereum faster, but also to increase its security and resilience in the long term.

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🧠 2 Vitalik Buterin calls for stricter DeFi standards

In addition to the technical roadmap, Vitalik Buterin emphasizes that Decentralized finance (DeFi) must become more mature and secure:

🎯 No support for unsafe projects

• In future, the Ethereum Foundation will only secure, truly decentralized protocols support.
• Projects that have admin keys or centralized control points are considered a risk and will not receive funding.

🚶 The so-called "walkaway test"

• Buterin demands that DeFi protocols continue to functioneven if their developers are no longer around - a sign of true decentralization.

➡️ In this way, Ethereum wants to prevent many so-called DeFi projects from ultimately becoming heavily dependent on centralized components.

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📊 3. why this is important for investors & developers

💡 Positive implications

• Higher block speed makes Ethereum more attractive for applications and users - and could more usage and demand generated.
• Quantum security addresses a long-term risk that many crypto investors underestimate.
• Stricter DeFi standards could protect the industry from security incidents and loss of trust.

⚠️ Risks & challenges

• Implementation over seven forks and years is complex and technically demanding.
• Transitions to new forms of cryptography can lead to network risks if they are not implemented properly.
• Stricter DeFi criteria could slow down innovations that do not comply with the new standards in the short term.

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📌 Conclusion

Ethereum is on the verge of a major transformation:

✅ Block times are to drop massively - from 12 s to 2 s.

✅ Transaction finality is to be achieved at the second level.

✅ The blockchain should be quantum-safe become quantum secure.

✅ DeFi ecosystems should meet real decentralized finance standards to comply with them.

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Sources:

IT Blotwise: Ethereum plant schnellere und quantensichere Blockchain

yahoo finanzen: Vitalik Buterin: „Die meisten DeFi-Projekte sind Täuschung“ – Das ist wirklich wichtig

Hello everyone,

I would like to hear your opinions. Of course there's a lot on the Internet, but I would be more than happy to have an exchange here in the community.

What are your current thoughts on the chewing of $BTC (-0.55%) or perhaps $ETH (+1.86%) .

The price has halved in the last few months.

What do you think about the other coins like $SOL (+1.8%) , $ADA (+0.18%) or also $XRP (+0.14%)

Looking forward to your opinions.

Investment products for digital assets recorded outflows of 288 million US dollars last week. This was the fifth consecutive week of net outflows, bringing the total to USD 4.0 billion - still below the USD 6 billion reached in the same period last year. After several weeks of record activity, trading volumes in ETPs slumped significantly to USD 17 billion, the lowest level since July 2025, indicating waning investor interest.

The regional picture is divergent: In the US, outflows totaled USD 347 million, while other regions saw inflows totaling USD 59 million. This was led by Switzerland with USD 19.5 million, Canada with USD 16.8 million and Germany with USD 16.2 million.

$BTC (-0.55%) The US dollar dominated the negative sentiment with outflows of USD 215 million, while short bitcoin products saw inflows of USD 5.5 million - the highest figure among all asset classes. $ETH (+1.86%) The short bitcoin fund recorded outflows of USD 36.5 million, followed by multi-asset products with USD 32.5 million and $TRX (-0.04%) (Tron) with 18.9 million US dollars. Low inflows were recorded for XRP (USD 3.5 million), $SOL (+1.8%) (3.3 million US dollars) and $LINK (+1.09%) (Chainlink) (USD 1.2 million), but not enough to offset the net outflows from altcoins.

$BITC (-3.04%)
$CETH (-5.47%)
$XRRL (-3.4%)
$SLNC (-5.5%)

A few days ago, Bloomberg analyst Mike McGlone pointed out that Tether's stablecoin $USDT (+0%) is not far behind Ethereum in terms of market capitalization. The gap is still around 50 billion US dollars - but it is shrinking. Should there be a further decline on the crypto market, Ether could lose its second place in the ranking.

However, this would not be the "death of Ethereum", but an expression of a structural shift. $ETH (+1.86%) Ethereum is stable, has the largest developer base in the ecosystem and remains the center of the smart contract economy.

The real story is stablecoins. They have long been the most widely used instrument in the crypto market and have $V (+1.51%) (Visa) and $MA (+0.71%) (Mastercard) in terms of transaction volume. According to Accenture, they could process payments worth over USD 13 trillion by 2030 - with potentially billions in fees lost to the traditional banking system.

The question is therefore not so much whether USDT will "flip" Ethereum, but rather: Are we witnessing the quiet dominance of the digital dollar infrastructure? (Author: Jérémy Le Bescont, Editor-in-Chief of CoinShares)

$CETH (-5.47%)

$ETH (+1.86%)

https://www.maresmedia.se/spanische-grossbank-bbva-bringt-anleihen-auf-die-oeffentliche-ethereum-blockchain

At its core, a smart contract is nothing more than a piece of code that exists on a blockchain and is automatically executed as soon as predefined conditions are met - without intermediaries, without delays and without discretion. They form the building blocks of decentralized applications and enable everything from lending and borrowing to trading and beyond - in a permissionless and transparent way.

And they are growing. In the fourth quarter of 2025 $ETH (+1.86%) set a record with 8.7 million newly implemented smart contracts - the highest quarterly figure in the history of the network. Today, around 43 percent of the total ETH supply is in smart contracts, a share that has risen steadily over the years. Staking accounts for a significant proportion of this, but DeFi activities are also a major contributor. DeFi (Decentralized Finance) refers to an ecosystem of blockchain-based financial applications that enables traditional financial services such as loans, trading or interest rate products without banks or central intermediaries. Ethereum currently holds 58 percent of the total capital locked in $DEFI (-6.15%) locked capital (total value locked), which corresponds to around 55 billion US dollars.

Despite this growth, the use of smart contracts is still at a comparatively early stage. Much of what these platforms are intended to enable - from large-volume financial settlements to tokenized real-world assets - is still under construction. If the infrastructure continues to mature, future growth momentum could be significantly steeper than it has been to date.

$CSSC (-4.62%)
$CETH (-5.47%)

$BTC (-0.55%) recorded the weakest investor sentiment last week. A total of USD 133 million flowed out of corresponding investment products. At the same time, there were also outflows from short Bitcoin products, totaling USD 15.4 million over the past two weeks - a pattern that has historically often been observed near local lows.

Also $ETH (+1.86%) was also affected by outflows, with withdrawals totaling USD 85.1 million. $HYPE (+1.42%) The US dollar market also saw outflows, albeit at a much lower level of USD 1 million.

In contrast, sentiment towards $XRP (+0.14%), $SOL (+1.8%) and $LINK (+1.09%) remained constructive. These assets recorded inflows of USD 33.4 million, USD 31 million and USD 1.1 million respectively in the past week.

$XRRL (-3.4%)
$SLNC (-5.5%)
$CTEN (-4.4%)
$GB00BMY36D37 (-3.69%)

After a long hodl and staking I threw everything out. Maybe I'll get back in at a lower point in time or leave it alone.