Hive Digital Technologies and Riot Platforms lead this week’s cryptocurrency-related earnings reports. The two data center operators have expanded their operations, adding high-performance computing for artificial intelligence applications to their bitcoin mining operations.
In macroeconomics, the Federal Reserve is likely to steal the headlines as minutes from the most recent meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee will be released on Wednesday. The committee held rates steady in January, with two dissenting voices calling for a reduction.
The week also includes a series of speeches from Federal Reserve officials, including Raphael Bostic, Michelle Bowman and Neel Kashkari.
What to watch
(All times ET)
Crypto
- February 17, 7 pm: Rocket Pool will roll out its Saturn One update.
- February 18, 1 pm: Hedera will undergo a mainnet upgrade that is expected to take approximately 40 minutes to complete.
- February 19, 8 am: Zama will host a live presentation of its 2026 roadmap.
- Macro
- February 16, 8:25 am: US Federal Reserve Bowman speech
- February 17, 2:00 am: UK unemployment rate for December estimated at 5.1% (previously 5.1%)
- February 17, 8:30 am: Canada’s year-over-year inflation rate for January (previously 2.4%); Annual base rate (previously 2.8%)
- February 18, 2am: UK year-on-year inflation rate for January estimated 3% (previously 3.4%); Estimated annual base rate 3.1% (previous 3.2%)
- February 18, 2:00 pm: US FOMC Minutes
- February 18, 8:30 am: US monthly durable goods orders for December (previous 5.3%)
- February 18, 9:15 am: US industrial production in monthly terms for January estimated at 0.3% (previously 0.4%).
- February 19: Speeches by US Fed’s Bostic, Bowman and Kashkari throughout the day
- February 19, 8:30 am: US Initial Jobless Claims for February 14 estimated at 225,000 (was 227,000)
- February 20, 8:30 am: US core PCE price index on a monthly basis for December estimated at 0.4% (previously 0.2%); YoY est. 2.9% (previous 2.8%)
- February 20, 8:30 am: US GDP growth rate Anticipated quarterly rate for estimated fourth quarter 3. (Previous 4.4%)
- February 20, 9:45 am: US S&P Global Manufacturing PMI for February estimated at 52.6 (previously 52.4).
- February 20, 10 a.m.: Final US Michigan Consumer Confidence for February estimate 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
Governance votes and calls
- February 17: Jito will host an X Spaces session with Hush Protocol.
- February 18: VeChain will host its monthly VeChain Builders Space.
- Balancer is voting to change a signer in emergency subDAO multisigs to improve operational responsiveness and security coverage. Voting ends on February 17.
- ENS DAO is voting to register the on.eth name and establish it as an on-chain registry for blockchain metadata. Voting ends on February 19.
- Aavegotchi DAO is voting to consolidate assets from depleted wallets into the Liquidity wallet to simplify operations. Voting ends on February 22.
- Fluid DAO is voting to withdraw 1 million GHO and 1 million FLUID from the treasury to Team Multisig to fund JupLend rewards and protocol incentives. Voting ends on February 22.
- GMX is voting on a proposal to implement tiered trading fee discounts for stakeholders and a stakeholder-weighted trading leaderboard. Voting ends on February 22.
- Unlock
- 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 releases
- February 19: Resolv to complete implementation of updated USR/RLP performance distribution parameters
- February 19: Injective to start INJ Community Buyback Round #226
Conferences
