📢 Circle and Tether collectively control 84.8% of the stablecoin market.

📢 BitMine has reached about 71% of its target to acquire 5% of Ethereum’s total supply.

📢 An unknown wallet sent 2.565 BTC (about $181K) to Satoshi Nakamoto’s Genesis address over the weekend.

📢 DeFiLlama data shows more than $64M in token unlocks scheduled for this week, with the largest being $15.71M from $CONX on February 13.

📢 Binance’s SAFU Fund has purchased an additional 4,225 $BTC worth about $299.6M, raising its total holdings to 10,455 BTC.

📢 Outflows from digital asset investment products eased to $187M despite ongoing price pressure, a pattern that has historically hinted at a possible turning point.

📢 Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought 1,142 BTC for $90MILLION at $78,815 per Bitcoin.

📢 BlackRock transferred 2,268 $BTC (about $155.94M) and 45,324 $ETH (around $91.77M) to Coinbase Prime.

📢 $250M $USDC (about $250.25M) was minted at the USDC Treasury.

📢 Miner Sells $BTC to Fund AI Expansion

• Cango Inc. sold 4,451 $BTC for about $305M
• Sale aimed at strengthening its balance sheet
• Funds will support the company’s AI infrastructure expansion

📢 TRON topped Hyperliquid in daily fee revenue, generating $1.1M over the past 24 hours.

📢 Ripple Expands Institutional Custody Push

• Ripple partners with Securosys and Figment to strengthen Ripple Custody
• Aims to speed up institutional crypto deployment
• Expands infrastructure supporting assets within the $XRP ecosystem

📢 The market cap of tokenized U.S. Treasuries has exceeded $10B, led by platforms like Ondo Finance, Securitize, Circle, and Superstate.

📢 $BNB futures have launched on ICE Futures U.S., the derivatives arm of the NYSE’s parent company.

📢 Artemis data shows Hyperliquid has exceeded Coinbase in notional trading volume with $2.6T versus $1.4T, while recording +31.7% YTD gains compared to Coinbase’s -27% performance.

📢 Bitmine Adds More $ETH to Treasury

• Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought 40,000 $ETH worth about $83.4M
• Purchase expands the company’s Ethereum treasury holdings
• Shows continued institutional confidence in $ETH

📢 Glassnode reports that $XRP has fallen below the average holder cost basis, sparking selling pressure as SOPR dropped from 1.16 to 0.96, echoing the consolidation period seen between September 2021 and May 2022.

📢 Bitcoin ETFs have posted two consecutive days of net inflows for the first time in three weeks, with $145M added on Monday.

📢 OKX CEO Star_OKX said DEXs focus on self-custody, while CEXs are responsible for enforcing AML rules, sanctions compliance, and user protection measures.

📢 Sam Bankman-Fried says FTX was not insolvent and alleges the bankruptcy filing was made by lawyers without his consent.