Hive Digital Technologies and Riot Platforms lead this week’s crypto earnings reports. Both data center operators have expanded their operations, adding high-performance computing for AI applications to their bitcoin mining operations.
In macroeconomics, the Federal Reserve is expected to make headlines, with the minutes of the latest meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee to be released on Wednesday. The committee held rates steady in January, with two dissenting voices calling for a reduction.
The week also includes a number of speeches from Fed officials, including Raphael Bostic, Michelle Bowman and Neel Kashkari.
What to watch
(All times ET)
Cryptocurrency
- February 17, 7 p.m.: Rocket Pool will implement its Saturn One upgrade.
- February 18, 1 p.m.: Hedera will undergo a mainnet upgrade that should take approximately 40 minutes.
- February 19, 8 a.m.: Zama will host a live presentation of its 2026 roadmap.
- Macro
- February 16, 8:25 a.m.: Bowman’s speech from the US Fed
- February 17, 2:00 a.m.: UK unemployment rate for December is 5.1% (previously 5.1%)
- February 17, 8:30 a.m.: Canadian inflation rate year-on-year for January (previous 2.4%); Base rate over one year (previous 2.8%)
- February 18, 2 a.m.: UK year-on-year inflation rate for January estimated at 3% (previously 3.4%); Base rate over one year is. 3.1% (previous 3.2%)
- February 18, 2:00 p.m.: US FOMC minutes
- February 18, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. durable goods orders for December (previous 5.3%)
- February 18, 9:15 a.m.: US industrial production in monthly terms for January est. 0.3% (previous 0.4%).
- February 19: Bostic, Bowman and Kashkari from the US Fed speak throughout the day
- February 19, 8:30 a.m.: first unemployment claims in the United States for February 14, estimated at 225,000 (previous 227,000)
- February 20, 8:30 a.m.: American Core PCE MoM price index for December est. 0.4% (previous 0.2%); East. 2.9% over one year (previous 2.8%)
- February 20, 8:30 a.m.: QoQ Adv US GDP growth rate for Q4 est. 3. (previous 4.4%)
- February 20, 9:45 a.m.: US S&P global manufacturing PMI flash for February east. 52.6 (previous 52.4).
- February 20, 10 a.m.: Final Michigan Consumer Confidence in the United States for February, est. 57.3 (previous 56.4)
- Earnings (Estimates based on FactSet data)
- February 17: HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), pre-market, -$0.07
- February 18: Figma (FIG), post-market, $0.45
- February 19: Riot Platforms (RIOT), post-market, -$0.32
Votes and calls on governance
- February 17: Jito will host an X Spaces session with Hush Protocol.
- February 18: VeChain will host its monthly VeChain Builders space.
- Balancer votes to swap a signer on emergency subDAO multisigs to improve operational responsiveness and security coverage. Voting closes on February 17.
- ENS DAO votes to register the name on.eth and establish it as an onchain ledger for blockchain metadata. Voting closes on February 19.
- Aavegotchi DAO votes to consolidate assets from depleted wallets into the liquidity wallet to simplify operations. Voting closes on February 22.
- Fluid DAO votes to move 1 million GHO and 1 million FLUID from the treasury to the Multisig team to fund JupLend rewards and protocol incentives. Voting closes on February 22.
- GMX votes on a proposal to implement tiered trading fee reductions for punters and a punter-weighted trading ranking. Voting closes on February 22.
- Unlocks
- February 16: Arbitration to unlock 1.82% of its circulating supply worth $11.05 million.
- February 17: to unlock 17.24% of its circulating supply worth $20.84 million.
- February 20: to unlock 5.98% of its circulating supply worth $48.33 million.
- February 20: to unlock 10.64% of its circulating supply worth $10.77 million.
- Token Launches
- February 19: Resolv Completes Rollout of Updated USR/RLP Yield Distribution Metrics
- February 19: Injective to launch the community buyout cycle INJ #226
Conferences
