🗣 FYI: Bitcoin was not hijacked. Roger Ver, Coinbase, and a number of other large corporate players tried to hijack Bitcoin themselves almost a decade ago and failed. Listen. link

😱 Fed Governor Waller says crypto dips have "happened before" and big crashes are normal. "Years ago if you said Bitcoin was $10,000, you'd say oh my god this is crazy." #macro

🚀 Odds of Coinbase $COIN beating quarterly earnings surge to 73%

🧑‍💻 MegaETH has introduced The Rabbithole. Mainnet is now fully open to the public. link

🕵️ #BTC Overall, the situation remains favorable in the spot market, derivatives market, ETF, and based on on-chain indicators. Profitability is decreasing, capital inflow is negative, and demand for hedging remains high after the reassessment towards the downside. Although some signals indicate a possible easing of selling pressure, sustained recovery likely depends on a resurgence in spot demand capable of stabilizing prices above recent lows. #etf link

🕵️ Bitmine bought 40,613 $ETH for $83.45M last week. They now hold a total of 4,325,738 $ETH valued at $9.19B and have 2,897,459 $ETH ($6.2B) in staking. link

🇭🇰🐳 Tracing the Crypto Market Selloff: Hong Kong Hedge Funds, or TradFi Cross-Asset Whales? Bitcoin’s early February 2026 drop to around $60,000 coincided with broader cross-asset deleveraging, fueling speculation about a large fund liquidation. While some attributed losses to ETF-based volatility strategies, others suggested a TradFi player unwinding cross-asset positions. However, industry insiders report no evidence of a major crypto fund collapse, indicating that macro pressure and ETF flows are amplifying the selloff amid low liquidity. #etf link

🕵️ A Polymarket trader, 0x1D8A, spent $2.34M betting on the Seahawks to win the 2026 Super Bowl yesterday. He redeemed $3.41M within two hours, resulting in a profit of $1.07M. link

🕵️ BlackRock just deposited another 2,268 $BTC ($155.94M) and 45,324 $ETH ($91.77M) to Coinbase Prime. link

🗣 Former Multicoin co-founder Kyle Samani criticized Hyperliquid, calling it “everything wrong with crypto” due to its closed-source and permissioned nature, which he claims enables crime. His remarks faced backlash from the crypto community, with trader Cobie mocking them as clownish behavior shortly after leaving the crypto space. link

🏆 From February 2 to 6 (ET), Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded net outflows of $318 million. Ethereum spot ETFs had net outflows of $166 million. SOL spot ETFs saw net outflows of $8.92 million. XRP spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $39.04 million last week. Additionally, on February 6 (ET), Bitcoin spot ETFs had total net inflows of $371 million, while Ethereum spot ETFs had total net outflows of $16.7455 million. link

🥷 SlowMist reports supply chain poisoning in OpenClaw's ClawHub plugin center. Weak reviews allowed numerous malicious skills to infiltrate and spread harmful code. Koi Security scanned 2,857 skills, identifying 341 malicious ones. SlowMist analyzed over 400 IOCs, revealing organized batch attacks targeting a few fixed domains/IPs via two-stage loading, which includes initial obfuscation and dynamic payload retrieval. An example includes the "X (Twitter) Trends" skill, which hides a Base64 backdoor that downloads and executes malware to phish passwords, collect files, and upload them to C2. link

💰 #AI CEO Cryptocom acquired the domain AI.com for approximately $70 million, fully paid in cryptocurrency. This sale is considered the largest publicly disclosed domain sale in history. theblock link

🇰🇷🐳 According to Yonhap, Korea's FSS announced its 2026 plan on February 9. This includes investigations into high-risk crypto manipulations such as whale activities, containment/ramp schemes, API orders, and SNS misinformation using AI text and surge detection tools. The plan also involves creating a new Digital Asset Basic Act group for phase-2 legislation support, issuance and trading disclosure, licensing manuals, and refined exchange fee management and disclosure. link

🕵️ Someone created a new wallet and spent 10M $USDC to buy $WLFI. So far, they have bought 47.6M $WLFI at an average price of $0.109, with 4.83M $USDC still left to potentially buy more. link

🔓 According to Tokenomist, upcoming single large unlocks in the next 7 days (unlock amount > $5M) include CONX, AVAX, APT, and STRK. Linear large unlocks in the next 7 days (daily unlock amount > $1M) include RAIN, SOL, CC, TRUMP, RIVER, WLD, and DOGE, with total unlock value exceeding $278 million.

🕵️ Infini Exploiter moved 9,154 $ETH, worth $19.33M, using Tornado Cash. link

💰 #BTC Michael Saylor hints at buying more Bitcoin

📈 Morgan Stanley appoints Amy Oldenburg as Head of Digital Asset Strategy. Oldenburg, who previously worked for Morgan Stanley in emerging markets, emphasizes the importance of holding keys and coins when institutions turn against you. She is also focused on how digital asset treasuries can better utilize the assets they hold on balance sheets, such as Bitcoin.

🕵️ Arthur Hayes is selling DeFi tokens. In the past 15 minutes, he moved out 8.57M $ENA ($1.06), 2.04M $ETHFI ($954K), and 950K $PENDLE ($1.14M) — likely to sell. link

🤔 According to FT, Tether is accelerating its expansion, aiming to evolve from a crypto infrastructure provider into a diversified group. Its portfolio now includes about 140 investments, with a headcount of around 300, and it plans to hire 150 more staff. Sources indicate that new CFO Simon McWilliams is strengthening governance and centralizing finance and operations in London. link

🛡️ Illinois Proposes Budget-Neutral Community Bitcoin Reserve

🐳 In the past 24 hours, a whale "0x28e" withdrew 50,415 $ETH ($104.54M) and moved it to multiple wallets, of which "0x3E1" holds 50,155 $ETH ($104.53M). Addresses: - 0x28eFfAd61aeCF3a9e68AEb2e6d5AB742220aEc7e - 0x3E134a497fB015716e48d3F02c13EDbFC9cF94dC

📊 The market is stacked with shorts. Long exposure is thin.

📊 Bitcoin – Short-Term Holders Update The supply held by Short-Term Holders is declining. At the same time, the 90-day net position change shows a clear lack of interest from new addresses to accumulate at these levels. This signals weak marginal demand and reinforces a market environment where continuation is unlikely without a reset in price or sentiment. On-chain data remains very clear.

📊 Data from multiple major exchanges show abnormal price fluctuations in #BTC and #ETH between 00:05 and 00:17 today, with peak-to-trough moves of approximately 1%–5%. The market speculates that the move may be related to irregular grid-trading activity by some market makers. link

📊 Despite starting and ending the week well, the BTC ETFs experienced a weekly net outflow of over $358 million.

🗣 Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas suggests that those who cannot handle the volatility of Bitcoin should consider buying bonds instead. link

📊 February 5th was the most IBIT options volume ever traded in its history. link

⚠️ Every maxi this past week: "I cannot afford to lose." link

😱 #BTC Google searches for Bitcoin formed a 12-month high before suddenly crashing.

🇹🇷👮 Tether assisted Turkish authorities in freezing $544M (approx. €460M) in crypto assets linked to illegal betting as part of a money laundering investigation. Additionally, Tether revealed it has aided law enforcement in over 1,800 cases across 62 countries, freezing a total of $3.4B in illicit $USDT. #regulation link

🗣 James Lavish believes Bitcoin is experiencing "information arbitrage" and predicts it will trade above $1,000,000 in the early 2030s. He emphasizes that many people do not yet grasp how Bitcoin differs from other assets, viewing it as the ultimate store of value and debasement asset. link

📊 US investors are buying after Bitcoin touched $60K. The Coinbase premium is now positive for the first time since mid-January. link

💼 Binance added 3,600 Bitcoin worth $233.37 million more to their SAFU Fund. link

🐳 Whales are accumulating $ETH. 0x46DB withdrew 19,503 $ETH ($40M) from #OKX over the past 13 hours. 0x28eF withdrew 9,576 $ETH ($19.78M) from Binance over the past 8 hours. link link

🇺🇸🏦 White House Stablecoin Talks Are Back Tuesday and the Banks Just Joined the Room, Per Eleanor Terrett. #stablecoin

📊 According to Arscan data, the Arweave (AR) network has not produced a new block for over 24 hours. The last recorded block, #1,851,686, was generated at 11:18:15 (UTC+8) on Feb. 6. link

🧑‍💻 21Shares files for an ONDO ETF. #etf

🏦 BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes stated that the recent BTC selloff was likely driven by dealer hedging related to iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) structured products. He is compiling a list of bank-issued notes to identify potential trigger points for rapid price swings, emphasizing the need for market participants to adapt as dynamics change. link

📊 According to FT, Cryptocom co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek has acquired the domain AIcom for about $70 million, marking the largest disclosed domain name deal on record. The purchase, made entirely in cryptocurrency, reflects a long-term bet on AI as a significant technological wave. Marszalek plans to launch a new AI platform promoted via a Super Bowl ad, featuring a consumer-focused AI agent capable of messaging, app usage, and stock trading. #ai link

🐳 A whale deposited $2.5M $USDC into HyperLiquid and opened an $ETH long position with 10x leverage. The whale had previously lost over $2.568M. link

🐳 FYI: Swedish public company H100 Group ($H100) buys 4.39 additional Bitcoin and now holds 1,051 BTC. Bitcoin 100 Ranking: 47 link

🇺🇸📉 The US strategic Bitcoin reserve is down nearly $5B since its inception as $BTC slides 45% from its peak.

📊 #ONDO #RWA Ondo has announced Ondo Perps, a new platform for perpetual futures on stocks and commodities. They plan to eventually create a unified app for 24/7 trading of cryptocurrencies, stocks, ETFs, and derivatives.

🕵️ Some dormant wallets are waking up and buying $ETH on the dip. Address: 0x55C1 Woke up after 2 years and withdrew 10,000 $ETH ($19.24M) from Binance 6 hours ago. Address: 0x1342 Woke up after 1 year and withdrew 1,892 $ETH ($3.75M) from Binance 30 mins ago. link link

😱 #BTC Bitcoin saw its biggest one-day fall since the FTX crash yesterday. HODL

🙋‍♂️ Kraken announced the launch of Kraken Listings for asset listings, integrations, and reward incentives. Currently, Kraken supports 1,466 trading pairs and has listed over 300 tokens in 2025, distributing $2 million in rewards. Recently listed tokens include $HYPE, $SKR, $BNB, $BGB, and $HSK. link

🇺🇸🏦 US Senator Cynthia Lummis has called on banks to adopt stablecoins and digital assets, stating that it "opens up more opportunities for existing financial institutions." #stablecoin link

🕵️‍♂️ Trend Research accelerates the sale of #ETH to repay loans. Over the past 10 hours, Trend Research has sold 170,033 #ETH ($322.5 million) and still holds 293,121 #ETH ($563 million). link