Hive Digital Technologies and Riot Platforms headlined crypto-related earnings reports this week. The two data center operators have expanded their reach to add high-performance computing for artificial intelligence applications to their Bitcoin mining operations.
On the macroeconomic front, the Federal Reserve is likely to dominate the headlines, with minutes from the latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting set to be released on Wednesday. The committee kept interest rates steady in January, but there were two different voices calling for lower rates.
Several Fed officials are also speaking this week, including Raphael Bostic, Michelle Bowman and Neel Kashkari.
What to see
(All times are Eastern Time)
cryptocurrency
- February 17, 7 p.m.: Rocket Pool implements Saturn I upgrade.
- February 18, 1 pm: Hedera will undergo a mainnet upgrade, which is expected to take approximately 40 minutes to complete.
- February 19, 8 a.m.: Zama will present its 2026 roadmap live.
- Macro
- February 16, 8:25 a.m.: Fed Bowman speaks
- February 17, 2:00 a.m.: UK unemployment rate in December is estimated at 5.1% (previous value: 5.1%)
- February 17, 8:30 am: Canada’s January inflation rate year-on-year (previous value 2.4%); core interest rate year-on-year (previous value 2.8%)
- 2 a.m. on February 18: The British inflation rate in January is expected to be 3% year-on-year (previous value: 3.4%); the core interest rate is expected to be 3.1% year-on-year (previous value: 3.2%)
- February 18, 2:00 pm: U.S. FOMC meeting minutes
- February 18, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. durable goods orders in December month-on-month (previous value 5.3%)
- February 18, 9:15 am: U.S. industrial production in January is expected to be 0.3% month-on-month (previous value: 0.4%).
- February 19: Fed Bostic, Bowman and Kashkari speak throughout the day
- February 19, 8:30 am: The number of people filing for unemployment benefits in the United States on February 14 is expected to be 225,000 (previous value: 227,000)
- 8:30 am on February 20: The US core PCE price index in December is expected to be 0.4% month-on-month (previous value: 0.2%); year-on-year expected 2.9% (2.8% in the same period last year)
- February 20, 8:30 am: US fourth-quarter GDP growth forecast 3 (previous value 4.4%)
- February 20, 9:45 am: The preliminary estimate of the S&P Global Manufacturing PMI for February in the United States is 52.6 (the previous value was 52.4).
- February 20, 10 a.m.: The final value of the Michigan consumer confidence index in February was 57.3 (previous value 56.4)
- income (Estimate based on FactSet data)
- February 17: HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), pre-market, -$0.07
- February 18: Figma (FIG), post-listing, $0.45
- February 19: Riot Platforms (RIOT), post-market, -$0.32
Governance votes and calls
- February 17: Jito co-hosts the X Spaces conference with Hush Protocol.
- February 18: VeChain holds its monthly VeChain Builder Space event.
- Balancer is voting to swap signers on emergency subDAO multisigs to improve operational responsiveness and security coverage. Voting ends on February 17th.
- The 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 19th.
- The Aavegotchi DAO is voting to consolidate assets from depleted wallets into liquid wallets to simplify operations. Voting ends on February 22nd.
- Fluid DAO is voting to withdraw 1 million GHO and 1 million FLUID from the vault to Team Multisig to fund JupLend rewards and protocol incentives. Voting ends on February 22nd.
- GMX is voting on a proposal to implement tiered transaction fee discounts for stakers and staker-weighted transaction rankings. Voting ends on February 22nd.
- Unlock
- February 16: Arbitration Unlocking 1.82% of its circulating supply, worth $11.05 million.
- February 17: Unlocking 17.24% of its circulating supply, worth $20.84 million.
- February 20: Unlocking 5.98% of its circulating supply, worth $48.33 million.
- February 20: Unlocking 10.64% of its circulating supply, worth $10.77 million.
- Token issuance
- February 19: Decision to complete rollout of updated USR/RLP yield distribution parameters
- February 19: Injective launches INJ community buyback round 226