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20 Feb 2026, 20:05
SCOTUS Overturns Trump's Tariffs: BTC Drops
SCOTUS canceled Trump's IEEPA tariffs. BTC fell from 122K to 107K, now at 67K$. There are strong support levels in the technicals. While institutions continue accumulating, quantum security will ta...
20 Feb 2026, 20:00
Avalanche: Can AVAX’s 25% volume surge break its multi-year downtrend?
AVAX approaches the October 10 crash resistance as volume surges and taker buy pressure strengthens.
20 Feb 2026, 20:00
China shipped 13,000 humanoid robots in 2025, but most were bought by the government as showpieces
China’s humanoid robots were the talk of the internet after this year’s Spring Festival Gala, where dozens of them kicked, flipped, and danced their way through a four-hour state television broadcast watched by hundreds of millions of people. A year ago, the picture looked quite different. At the 2025 gala, earlier robot models wobbled through a folk dance with handkerchiefs. Around the same time, a widely covered robot marathon ended in stumbles, crashes, and mechanical failures in front of the cameras. Skepticism was common. This year’s performance changed the tone. The robots moved with coordination and speed, and the public took notice. Unitree, whose robots featured heavily at the gala, told local media shortly after the show that it expects to ship between 10,000 and 20,000 units in 2026. The broader numbers back up China’s lead. More than 14,500 humanoid robots were delivered worldwide last year, up from roughly 3,000 in 2024, according to company reports and estimates from Omdia, a research firm. Agibot and Unitree alone accounted for more than 10,000 of those. Tesla shipped 150 of its Optimus robots over the same period. Price is part of why China is pulling ahead Unitree advertises its G1 humanoid at a base price of $13,500. Government backing and a deep domestic supply chain keep costs down. Much of that supply chain sits in the Yangtze River Delta, a stretch of industrial territory running from Shanghai through Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In the Wujin district of Changzhou alone, local suppliers claim they can provide around 90% of the parts needed to build a humanoid robot. Several of them already supply components for Tesla’s Optimus. But selling robots and actually finding work for them are two different things. Industry insiders say the Chinese government was the largest single buyer of humanoid robots last year and will likely hold that position through this year and next. Local governments around the country have poured money into the sector, setting up testing centers and buying units to meet political targets around technology development. Shanghai runs a facility that can deploy up to 100 humanoids at once, letting companies collect data from real-world tasks. The catch is that real work is rarely what these robots are doing. Agibots have become a fixture at government functions in Shanghai. A rental company called Botshare, which launched in December, charges retailers as little as 2,200 yuan a month to station a humanoid at the entrance of their store, mostly to greet customers as they arrive. An Agibot costs more than 100,000 yuan to buy outright, around $14,500. Wang Zhongyuan, a researcher at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, said in a speech last year that public enthusiasm will not last if mass production runs ahead of actual demand. Robots that are everywhere but useful nowhere, he warned, will cause the bubble to burst. Right now, only a small share of deployed humanoids are doing anything close to real labor. Those that do end up in factories tend to carry boxes and work at about 30 to 40% of the speed of a human doing the same job. Tesla, BMW, and Mercedes are building the market themselves Automakers in the United States, Germany, and China are approaching the problem from a different angle. Rather than waiting for consumers or governments to create demand, they are putting robots to work inside their own factories first, using production lines that already run around the clock and generate the kind of repetitive tasks that robots are best suited for. Mercedes-Benz is running tests with a humanoid called Apollo at its plant in Hungary, working alongside U.S. startup Apptronik. BMW finished an 11-month trial at its Spartanburg plant in South Carolina late last year, where a robot from Figure AI worked in the body assembly process. Tesla is moving faster than most. The company announced it will stop making the Model S sedan and Model X SUV in the second quarter of this year. The production lines at its Fremont, California plant that built those vehicles will be converted into a mass-production base for Optimus. As reported by Cryptopolitan previously, XPeng plans to start producing its own humanoid , called AIRON, this year with an initial run of 1,000 units, then scale to 1 million by 2030. Li Auto, which dropped its humanoid project two years ago, said last month it is starting again and has already reorganized its team around the effort. Hyundai’s Atlas robot is scheduled to begin working at its Metaplant America facility in 2028. The group is targeting 30,000 units produced per year once it reaches full scale. The case for carmakers entering robotics is not complicated. They already run large, complex factories. They can absorb robots as internal customers before selling them to anyone else. And with thin margins squeezing the traditional auto business, a market that Morgan Stanley projected could hit $5 trillion by 2050, larger than the global car industry today. China’s gala robots made for a stunning television moment. The harder part, turning that moment into a sustainable industry, is still being worked out. If you're reading this, you’re already ahead. Stay there with our newsletter .
20 Feb 2026, 20:00
Crypto slides, but tokenized RWAs and VC push ahead
As Bitcoin and altcoins continue to sell off, venture capital is raising millions for blockchain-based financial infrastructure, while real-world assets continue to draw capital.
20 Feb 2026, 19:30
Robinhood Layer 2 Testnet Hits 4 Million Transactions in Week One
Robinhood’s new Ethereum Layer 2 testnet processed four million transactions in its first week. The Arbitrum-based chain is designed to power tokenized equities, ETFs, and other real-world assets. CEO Tenev Bets Big on Tokenized Finance as Testnet Gains Early Traction Robinhood’s push into blockchain infrastructure is off to a fast start. CEO Vlad Tenev said
20 Feb 2026, 19:30
Thinking Of Buying The Bitcoin Dip? Here’s What This Metric Says
With the Bitcoin price steadily trading sideways over the past few weeks, determining a buying entry has become extremely difficult. However, a key on-chain metric is now in the spotlight, providing valuable insights into the matter and allowing investors to pinpoint when to re-enter the market. Is Buying Bitcoin Now The Right Time? The ongoing volatility across the broader cryptocurrency market has capped Bitcoin’s upside attempts, keeping it well below the $70,000 mark. In this unfavorable environment, investors and traders are watching closely for a definitive signal like a price bottom before they can reenter the market. While investors ponder reentering the market, Joao Wedson, a market expert and founder of Alphractal, has published a chart that suggests that now is not the ideal time. After a period of bearish action, Bitcoin’s on-chain metrics are beginning to display signs of stabilization. However, a definitive buy signal has yet to emerge from the waning price performance. The sole metric here is the Bitcoin Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) Trend Signal. Currently, this metric is on a downward trend, indicating that market players are either taking lesser profits on their transactions or experiencing losses more frequently. However, for a confirmed bottom signal to occur, it must drop further below the lower dotted line on the chart, and a crossover between the metrics must take place. Even with pockets of accumulation and recent price consolidation, the indicator that has historically signaled significant market bottoms has not been activated. Meanwhile, the expert claims that it is possible that a price bottom earlier than in past market cycles, when compared to the time often needed. Furthermore, it is possible there may be multiple purchase signals, one for the upcoming months and another for a later stage of the cycle. In the meantime, Wedson has declared that the best strategy for reacting to the current market state is to continue monitoring the Alpha metrics. BTC Latent Profits Are Fading Following an analysis of the Bitcoin Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL), Darkfost discloses that latent profits are melting away as BTC’s correction expands. The metric is an effective measure for gauging the weight of profits and losses in the market and offers a clear view of the market when it reaches bearish levels. Currently, the metric has fallen to 0.18, and a drop into negative territory signals that latent losses dominate the market, typically marking the last phase of capitulation . This positioning implies that the average latest profit is 18%, nearing 0. Meanwhile, the six-month average is positioned at 0.42, which shows how fast these corrections have grown, pushing the NUPL down rapidly. When the metric falls this quickly and reaches such levels, it is a sign that Bitcoin is still in a bear phase . With reduced latent profits, investors become unstable. Darkfost stated that a trend reversal under these circumstances seems difficult and will take some time to materialize.
