🆕 Base App from Coinbase is discontinuing support for its content creator rewards program as part of a strategic shift aimed at fully focusing on tradable assets. link

🕵️ #XRP Ripple is adding hardware security modules, allowing banks and custodians to deploy storage services and offer staking without the need to operate their own validator infrastructure or manage keys. Cointelegraph link

🇺🇸🗽 On Feb. 9 (ET), U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded total net inflows of $145 million, led by Grayscale with $131 million in net inflows.

Ethereum spot ETFs saw total net inflows of $57.05 million, marking the first net inflow after three consecutive days of net outflows. link

🐳 Whale and institutional transactions:

1. Bitmine bought another 20,000 #ETH ($42.3 million);
2. Degen-retard.sol lost over $3.6 million on #SOL again. About two weeks ago, he bought 100,000 #SOL ($12.4 million) at approximately $124 and staked them. A few hours ago, he sold #SOL at a loss of over $3.6 million. Prior to this, he had already lost over $6.6 million on #SOL. link link

🕵️ Ethereum Foundation member ladislaus.eth stated that Ethereum is pursuing a significant architectural shift by moving block validation from re-executing every transaction to verifying zero-knowledge proofs. Under the L1-zkEVM 2026 roadmap, EIP-8025 (Optional Execution Proofs) would enable validators (zkAttesters) to confirm blocks by verifying cryptographic proofs without the need for a full execution client. The first L1-zkEVM workshop is set for February 11, 2026. link

🙅 $SXP delisted from Upbit spot link

🙅 $SXP delisted from Bithumb spot link

🥷 #ETH Ethereum Foundation sponsors the non-profit organization Security Alliance (SEAL), which focuses on cryptocurrency security issues. The goal is to "track and neutralize" attackers involved in stealing cryptocurrencies targeting Ethereum users. link

🙅 $OAS delisted from Bithumb spot link

🙅 $OAS has been delisted from the Upbit spot market. link

📊 A new ETH kit has emerged.

The new wallet 0x6C85 deposited 12.88 million #USDC on Hyperliquid to open a 20x leveraged long position on ETH. Currently, they have opened a long position on 34,290 #ETH (~$69 million). link

🐳 Whales (100-1k BTC) - Realized Price

“BTC traded below the Realized Price of whales holding between 100 and 1k BTC ($69K). The last time this occurred after an ATH was in June 2022, when price traded below it for roughly seven months.” link link

🆕 $ESP listed on Binance pre-market link

😱🤑 Fear & Greed Index for #ETH

🙋‍♂ Chromia has introduced Clawchain.ai, an on-chain agentic platform similar to Reddit that features autonomous trading. link

📊 A wallet associated with a deposit of 134.20M $ID worth $6.63M to Binance.

Address: 0xFf4E09583ab03410B1F2fAC3F2242ef7d1EC6CC3

Data: nansen_ai

👛 Ledger Brings OKX DEX Into Its Wallet In Push Toward Secure, Self-Custodial Trading: The Block

🎢 #BTC CQ: Tuesday usually has good trading environment. Lots of volatility, back or forth!

🕵️‍♂️ After losing $1.3M whale "0x15a4" deposit $3.85M $USDC into HyperLiquid and opened $ETH short position with 20x leverage.

🆕 $ESP listed on Bybit pre-market link

🕵️ 1,154.78 #BTC ($79,870,974)
aggregated inflows to Binance link