📢 Arkham data shows Vitalik Buterin sold 2,961.5 $ETH, worth about $6.6M, over the past three days.

📢 CryptoQuant data shows Ethereum’s transfer count reached 1.17M (14-day SMA), a level last seen around major market tops in 2018 and 2021. Historically, similar spikes have coincided with heightened volatility and possible distribution.

📢 Bitcoin veteran Garrett Jin has begun re-accumulating $ETH, withdrawing 80,000 ETH (about $167.8M) from Binance, a notable on-chain move drawing attention.

📢 For the first time in 18 month, $BTC traded below $70,000

📢 Roughly $570B has been erased from the crypto market year-to-date, pushing the total market cap down about 19%.

📢 Crypto investment awareness in India is only 15%, despite the country ranking among the highest in overall adoption.

📢 Currently, Strategy sits on a ~$4.5B unrealized loss on 713,502 $BTC while, Bitmine holds roughly $7.5B unrealized loss on 4.2M $ETH.

📢 $BTC drops below $69,000

📢 SBI and Startale Launch Strium Layer-1 Blockchain🇯🇵

• SBI Holdings and Startale Group unveil Strium, a new layer-1 blockchain
• Built to support institutional FX trading and real-world asset markets
• Shows growing focus on blockchain use in traditional finance sectors

📢 More than $1B in crypto positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours as $BTC dropped.

📢 Polymarket Upgrades with $USDC Settlement

• Polymarket partners with Circle to improve stablecoin infrastructure
• Introduces $USDC settlement for prediction market trades
• Aims to make transactions faster and more reliable for users

📢 Gemini Pulls Back from Key Markets

• Gemini is exiting the UK, Europe, and Australia
• Move comes amid growing regulatory and operational pressure
• Signals a strategic pullback as crypto firms rethink global expansion

$BTC hovering around $65,000

📢 Tether Backs U.S. Crypto Banking Expansion

• Tether invests $100M into Anchorage Digital
• Anchorage is the first federally regulated crypto bank in the U.S.
• Investment aims to strengthen institutional infrastructure around assets like $USDT

📢 Glassnode reports that more than 9.3M $BTC are currently in loss, marking the highest level of underwater supply since January 2023.

📢 Antpool data indicates that several leading ASIC mining rigs have hit their shutdown cost levels, while others are nearing breakeven.

📢 CZ said he is collaborating with multiple countries to help launch their own stablecoins, emphasizing that every national currency should have an on-chain version.

📢 Binance’s SAFU Fund has purchased an additional 3,600 $BTC (about $233M), raising its total holdings to 6,230 BTC.

📢 McDonald’s market capitalization has grown larger than Ethereum ($ETH).

📢 DeFiLlama data shows Perp DEX trading volume exceeded $70B on Feb 5 during the market sell-off, marking the second-highest level since the October 2025 “1011” flash crash.