📢 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.

📢 The U.S. Treasury repurchased $2B of its own debt, bringing this week’s total buybacks to $6B.

📢 CryptoQuant notes that, compared to previous market cycles, $BTC has not yet fallen to the usual capitulation range of -70% to -80%.

📢 TRON has surpassed 100M monthly active addresses, with activity rising nearly 50% since January 2025.

📢 Tether Expands Institutional Settlement Network

• Tether invests in t-0 Network, a settlement platform powered by $USDT
• Built to connect licensed financial institutions
• Aims to improve cross-platform settlement and payment infrastructure

📢 Glassnode reports that $BTC’s Yardstick metric has dropped to its lowest level on record, a range that historically hasn’t persisted for long in previous cycles.

📢 Bit Digital Grows $ETH Stack Through Staking

• Nasdaq-listed Bit Digital holds 155,239 $ETH on its balance sheet
• Generated 344 $ETH from staking in January
• Highlights growing corporate exposure to Ethereum staking and treasury holdings

📢 About $178M in positions have been liquidated over the past four hours as market volatility increased.

📢 Hyperliquid topped 24-hour fee revenue with $5.5M, followed by Ethereum with $3.1M and TRON with $2.4M.

📢 Tokenized real estate totals about $392M spread across 58 properties, with roughly 80% located in the U.S. and the UAE.

📢 More than $750B has been erased from the crypto market over the last 30 days.

📢 According to Walter B., Big Tech is expected to invest around $650B into AI this year, focusing on data centers, chips, and supporting infrastructure.

📢 More than $98M in crypto long positions were liquidated during the sell-off, erasing about $90B from the total market in less than four hours.

📢 Bithumb Recovers Mistaken $BTC Giveaway

• Exchange recovered 618,212 $BTC mistakenly sent during a promo error
• Users were meant to receive ~$1.50 but some got 2,000 $BTC each
• Incident briefly triggered a price crash to $55K on Bithumb as users rushed to sell