Movers of the Day 21-Feb-2026

Tokens and coins that moved the most in the last 24 hours:

🌙 00:00 CET – Daily Wrap-Up: Market Consolidates Following Afternoon Peak – Top Movers of the Day

• Injective and Polygon: Since morning Injective has increased by 7.79%, Polygon by 1.45%.
  

Overview: The market exhibited a volatile but constructive narrative today. Following a choppy early session that tested support levels, a strong bullish trend emerged during the midday hours, pushing the index to its highest point of the day. However, this peak was met with profit-taking, leading to a disciplined correction in the late evening. The market currently resides in a consolidation phase, successfully holding above its morning lows despite the softened momentum toward the close.

🔍 Market Insight: Today’s price action reveals a selective appetite for risk, with independent strength shown by Injective (INJ) and Polygon (POL) contrasting with a relatively flat performance from the market leaders. The outperformance of the Blue Chips sector (NWSBE) suggests that investors are currently favoring established assets, as niche and high-beta sectors (NWSOT50) faced late-day pressure. While Bitcoin and Ether remained essentially stationary, providing a stable backdrop, the late-session quiet phase may signal a period of re-accumulation before the next directional break.

NWSBCT (Blue Chips Index): The technical chart for the NWSBCT index highlights a solid support floor at approximately 5.48. After a steady climb throughout the afternoon, the index encountered a resistance ceiling near 5.57. A subsequent rejection from these highs initiated a downward trend in the final hours, with the index currently testing the 5.51 zone. Maintaining this level will be crucial to preserving the day’s constructive technical structure.

This closing update covers the day’s final session, which ran from 9:00 a.m. to midnight CET. Top Movers include 24h performance, but the primary focus is on the asset with the most significant change since the 9:00 a.m. report. 2100NEWS Indices show changes from 9:00 to 00:00 CET. 2100NEWS Total Index (NWST1100) and Bitcoin & Ether sections always reflect complete 24-hour changes, regardless of report timing. Please note that conditions may have changed since publication. The classification of performance between Bitcoin and Ether (significant, slight, similar) is based on a statistical analysis of their historical volatility. Supplemental notes detail the criteria for highlighting these specific cryptocurrencies and indices. 

Injective (INJ)

Injective is a lightning fast interoperable layer one blockchain optimized for building the premier Web3 finance applications. Injective provides developers with powerful plug-and-play modules for creating unmatched dApps. INJ is the native asset that powers Injective and its rapidly growing ecosystem. Injective is incubated by Binance and is backed by prominent investors such as Jump Crypto, Pantera and Mark Cuban.

09:00 CET – Morning Pulse: Market Consolidates Following Late-Session Recovery – Top Movers of the Day

• DeXe and Sentient: Since midnight DeXe has increased by 5.86%, Sentient is 4.48% higher.
  

Overview: The market is currently in a phase of quiet stabilization following the high-velocity recovery observed late yesterday. Overnight price action was characterized by range-bound movement, as the index successfully defended its newfound levels. While the aggressive upward momentum has paused, the market shows resilience by maintaining a stable horizontal floor. The general narrative is one of consolidation as participants wait for a new catalyst to determine the next directional move.

🔍 Market Insight: Current data reflects a mixed sentiment with very low volatility among the market leaders. The NWST1100 Total Index is up marginally, but the flat performance of Bitcoin and Ether suggests a temporary lack of conviction in the broader market. While mid-cap indices (NWSMi500) are showing slight outperformance, the large-cap sector remains under minor pressure. While this may signal stabilization, historical patterns warn that such quiet phases often precede sharp moves. With upside progress stalling, the market may be vulnerable to a downside break.

NWSBCT (Blue Chips Index): The NWSBCT index highlights a period of technical consolidation on the chart. After the dramatic “V-shaped” recovery from yesterday’s low of 5.38, the index has settled into a tight range. Current resistance is firmly established at approximately 5.52, while the overnight floor near 5.49 has provided consistent support. The index’s ability to hold above the 5.50 psychological level during the early morning hours is a constructive sign, though a breakout above the 5.52 ceiling is required to confirm a continuation of the bullish trend.

DeXe (DEXE)

Dexe. Network is an online, decentralized and autonomous cryptocurrency portfolio environment, which operates through autonomous smart contracts, including tools for virtual currency allocation and automatic rebalancing, and eliminates the risk of transferring the details of digital wallets, such as providing private keys and APIs or any virtual currency data to third parties, as well as solving the problem that there is no decentralized interconnection between users and successful traders within the defi framework. Dexe is the erc-20 native functional token of the platform, and has the following use cases: Governance: dexe token holders can vote on network governance decisions, and must hold dexe to participate in Dao. Reward: traders receive commissions from policy subscribers based on the success of their strategies. Dexe smart contracts receive 30% of the funds from them to automatically buy back tokens from the market. One third of them are destroyed, one third are sent to the vault, and one third are distributed to dexe holders. Insurance: users can choose to mortgage dexe tokens accounting for up to 10% of their capital value to hedge losses.

Sentient (SENT)

Sentient is building the first open, community-built AGI platform, an open-source intelligence network that rivals and complements closed systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others; through the Sentient GRID, a broad partner network coordinates agents, models, data, tools, and compute so everything acts as one, forming a decentralized alternative to closed AGI labs; the company highlights closed-source AGI as a core societal risk in which a few corporations decide what AGI knows and who it serves, and counters this by making development transparent, accountable, and not controlled by a single entity, with the GRID positioned as an open network of intelligence and a practical step toward open-source AGI that delivers high quality results.

Stargate Finance (STG)

Stargate Finance is an omnichain-native asset bridge designed to solve the blockchain trilemma, which says that no blockchain can be decentralized, secure, and fast simultaneously. It does this by simplifying cross-chain DeFi transactions, which lets users transfer and swap their assets between different blockchains, layer-2 networks, and decentralized applications (dApps) almost instantly.