✦ Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz has called on global leaders to take action against the hacker organization Lazarus Group.
✦ On-chain analyst Ali has reported that whales have collectively purchased 930,000 Litecoin (LTC) over the past two weeks.
✦ On-chain analyst Yu Jin has reported that the Bybit hacker has begun using the Chainflip cross-chain exchange tool to convert ETH into assets on other blockchains.
✦ President Donald Trump announced to reporters his intention to visit Fort Knox to ensure the gold reserves are indeed there.
✦ Stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa has announced the completion of a $10 million seed funding round, led by Tether.
✦ Whale Alert reported that approximately 2 hours ago, 17,362 MKR tokens were burned from an unknown wallet. The value of the burned tokens is estimated at $20,210,634.
✦ Vitalik Buterin clarified misunderstandings about his role on the Ethereum Foundation board. He stated that he does not hold 3 out of 5 seats as rumored, but since 2017, he has held only one seat on a three-member board.
✦ Farside Investors reported a net inflow of $4.6 million into the U.S. Ethereum spot ETF the previous day.
✦ Arbitrum DAO has announced that the community has approved the allocation of 35 million ARB tokens into various stable assets, with a total investment value of approximately $15.5 million.
✦ The Russian power company Rosseti Group disclosed losses exceeding 1.3 billion rubles (approximately $14.2 million) in 2024 due to illegal cryptocurrency mining activities.
✦ According to CoinMarketCap data, the global crypto market cap is $3.16T, a 1.41% decrease over the last day.
✦ An engineer from xAI has revealed that the training involved in Grok 3 is ten times more extensive than that of Grok 2.
✦ The digital asset market saw its first significant outflows in 19 weeks, totalling $415 million, as Bitcoin (BTC) led the decline with $430M in outflows.
✦ Monitoring by lmk.fun (formerly Scopescan) has revealed that a wallet transferred 500 ETH, valued at approximately $1.38 million.
✦ Japanese publicly traded company Metaplanet has announced an investment of 4 billion yen to acquire an additional 269.43 BTC.
✦ The Data Nerd reported that 11 hours ago, U.S. President Donald Trump's crypto project, WLFI, invested $1.36 million to purchase 2.53 million MOVE tokens.
✦ The DIN team seeks assistance after losing contact with its founder, Harold, who was in Myanmar and reported losing a multi-signature wallet and laptop.
✦ Solana's inbound bridge volume has reached an impressive milestone, surpassing $10.1 billion since 2021.
✦ on February 13, 21.co strategy analyst Tom Wan revealed on social media that Tether holds 83,700 bitcoins, valued at approximately $8 billion, representing 0.4% of the total bitcoin supply.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.15T, down by -2.65% over the last day, according to CoinMarketCap data.
✦ Four Russian nationals were arrested in Phuket, Thailand, on suspicion of belonging to the 8Base group, which used the Phobos ransomware to attack 17 Swiss companies from April 2023 to October 2024.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.24T, up by 1.49% over the last day, according to CoinMarketCap data.
✦ Japanese tech investor SoftBank Group reported a net loss of 369.2 billion yen (approximately $2.4 billion) for the quarter ending in December.
✦ The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is set to release the January 2025 unadjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) year-on-year data tonight at 21:30 UTC+8.
✦ According to CoinMarketCap data, the global crypto market cap is $3.18T, a 1.42% increase over the last day.
✦ Within three weeks of U.S. President Donald Trump launching a meme coin, over 700 altcoins and junk coins have been sent to his digital wallet. The official wallet now contains 736 different memecoins.
✦ Bitcoin's hashrate hit a record 809 EH/s, leading to an expected 5% increase in mining difficulty in the next adjustment tonight.
✦ On February 4, data from IntoTheBlock revealed that Uniswap tokens worth $25 million were withdrawn from trading platforms, marking the highest outflow since 2021.
✦ Video-sharing platform and cloud service provider Rumble (NASDAQ: RUM) has announced the completion of a $775 million strategic investment from Tether.
✦ A Reuters report, cited by Odaily, reveals that U.S. President Trump nominated Troy Meink, Air Force Chief of Staff and senior official at the U.S. National Spy Satellite Agency, who allegedly arranged a multi-billion-dollar satellite contract that favored SpaceX.
✦ On-chain data reveals that Bonk completed the burn of 2.025 trillion tokens five hours ago, valued at approximately $34.41 million.
✦ James Watt, an Indiana resident, was sentenced to three years of probation for forging approximately 30,000 ID cards. Over four years, he received 14 bitcoins (about $1.4 million) from a website specializing in fake IDs.
✦ Alibaba's stock rose over 6% pre-market amid rumors of a $1 billion investment for a 10% stake in DeepSeek, valuing the company at $10 billion. Both parties have yet to respond.
✦ over 17,000 bitcoins, valued at more than $1.6 billion, were withdrawn from centralized exchanges on Wednesday, marking the largest single-day exodus since April 2024.
✦ According to PANews, recent data reveals that DeepSeek has surpassed 20 million daily active users just 20 days after its launch.
✦ Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz expresses disappointment over Ethereum Foundation's lack of communication despite the project's contributions to the ecosystem.
✦ Bitcoin miners witnessed a remarkable revenue increase of 41% to $3.7 billion in the last quarter of 2024, as reported by H.C. Wainwright.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.22T, up by 3.17% over the last day, according to CoinMarketCap data.
✦ Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company plans to invest approximately $75 billion in capital expenditures by 2025 to advance artificial intelligence (AI) products.
✦ According to CoinMarketCap data, the global crypto market cap is $3.21T, a 3.26% increase over the last day.
✦ Sol Strategies, a publicly traded Canadian company, acquired an additional 40,300 SOL from January 19 to 31, 2025, at a total cost of approximately 14.34 million CAD (9.94 million USD).
✦ Tron and Movement Labs have denied involvement in a token swap agreement with the WLFI crypto project, which is associated with former U.S. President Donald Trump's initiatives.