Back on October 28, 2025, T. Rowe has signed up for a miscellaneous crypto basket, including multiple major-cap altcoins. With HBAR making the cut, the price was $0.225 back then. However, the popular Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) altcoin severely backtracked since then, losing the grip on the $0.10 major demand territory.
HBAR Price Stalls; Altseason In Hazardous Territory
T.Rowe’s massive exchange-traded fund (ETF) basket includes Litecoin (LTC), Cardano (ADA), Ripple (XRP), Avalanche (AVAX) & a few select others aside from the two most popular crypto currencies, BTC & ETH. This could trigger capital rotation into aforementioned major-caps, even though the altcoin season is currently stacked against the odds.
As the market turmoil continues, major-cap altcoins like Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) soak up most of the selling power from the short-sellers. On the other hand, HBAR’s ETF product by Canary Capital witnessed $949.12K of cumulative inflows on Wednesday, breaking a six-day silence with no inflows on traditional stock markets.
Amidst the market super-storm, there’s quite a few dates HBAR holders are looking forward to.
Namely, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission is set to give a decision on T. Rowe’s ETF by February 26, 2026. This comes just one day after Hedera’s 0.7 mainnet upgrade activated on February 18, bringing crucial overhauls to fee structures for reduced writes & faster finality.
Bears Takeover Futures With HBAR Kept In Tight Range
Being in highly-oversold territory, HBAR’s price is capped in a close range between $0.0818 to $0.1058 on the daily time-frame. This indicates the altcoin could be trading in consolidation mode for quite a bit longer, as the narrowing Bollinger Bands (BOLL) suggest at the moment.
Thursday’s fearful market sentiment had bears dominating the leveraged markets. HBAR’s liquidations on Futures have been brutal for the bulls, soaking up $371.78K out of $375.78K in excessively-leveraged liquidated positions on HBAR’s price.
Additionally, real-time data from CoinGlass flashed a negative Open Interest (OI) weighted funding rate, which typically means short-sellers could push HBAR below the $0.0818 lower-bound Bollinger Band (BOLL), unless overshadowed by strong bull buying power.
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It’s the classic calm before the storm. Price coils tight while the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (HBAR in the basket) awaits the SEC’s Feb 26 verdict. No real inflows yet, so no fireworks—but approval means broker desks start loading up quietly.
Not instant moonshot. It’s active (picks up to 15 assets), so allocations build over time. But huge unlock: easy TradFi access flips HBAR from niche to mainstream. Think BTC/ETH ETF slow grind—steady buys that compound and crush resistance like $0.10.
Straight facts from filings. S-1 dropped late 2025, NYSE Arca proposal live, SEC pushed the clock to Feb 26, 2026. Basket lists HBAR alongside BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and more. Active-managed fund from a TradFi titan with $1.8T firepower—legit door to pensions and retail without wallets.
