BitMine acquired 41,788 ETH worth around ~$104M last week

The company holds 4,285 million ETH valued at ~$9.9B.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitmine-immersion-technologies-bmnr-announces-eth-holdings-reach-4-285-million-tokens-and-total-crypto-and-total-cash-holdings-of-10-7-billion-302676048.html

Arcium launches privacy-preserving Mainnet Alpha on Solana as Umbra debuts shielded finance layer

In October, the protocol secured nearly $155 million in ICO commitments via MetaDAO.
The project previously raised $5.5 million in a strategic round led by Greenfield Capital in 2024 to develop its confidential computing network, bringing total funding at the time to $9 million.

Arcium was founded by the team behind Elusiv, a zero-knowledge privacy protocol built on Solana.

https://www.theblock.co/post/387564/arcium-launches-privacy-preserving-mainnet-alpha-on-solana-as-umbra-debuts-shielded-finance-layer

HyperCore will support outcome trading (HIP-4). Outcomes are fully collateralized contracts that settle within a fixed range. They are a general-purpose primitive that are useful for applications such as prediction markets and bounded options-like instruments.

https://x.com/HyperliquidX/status/2018327360723202167

Circle minted 750M USDC on Solana

https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/circle

The crypto market is growing
BTC Dominance - 58.90%

Market Cap - $2.66T
BTC - $78,575 (+4.09%)
ETH - $2,324 (+4.96%)
BNB - $770 (+3.49%)
SOL - $103 (+4.69%)
HYPE - $37.76 (+20.78%)

https://dropstab.com

White House officials met with crypto, banking reps to discuss stablecoins

https://cointelegraph.com/news/white-house-officials-meeting-market-structure-bill

Coinbase prediction market is now live

https://www.coinbase.com/predictions

Tether has introduced an open-source Bitcoin mining OS called MiningOS

https://x.com/tether/status/2018406288816836847

Top 100 gainers in 24h

https://dropstab.com/top-performance

President Trump says "I'm a big crypto person."
"I helped crypto more than anybody because I believe in it."

https://x.com/watcherguru/status/2018444374892568868

TRIA trading has started on Bybit, KuCoin, and others

Price: ~$0.0158
FDV: ~$158 million

Tria a self-custodial neobank and payments infrastructure that makes digital money usable.

Tria has raised $12 million from Sandeep Nailwal, P2 Ventures, and others.

https://www.bybit.com/en/trade/spot/TRIA/USDT

Elon Musk: “SpaceX is going to put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon.
Maybe next year.”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2018584584603029628

The Arbitrum Governance account has been compromised. Do not click any links or interact with posts from that account until further notice.

https://x.com/arbitrum/status/2018658275588485142

MetaMask adds tokenized US stocks, ETFs, and commodities via Ondo Global Markets

https://metamask.io/en/news/metamask-adds-tokenized-us-stocks-etfs-and-commodities-via-ondo-global

The crypto market is down
BTC Dominance - 58.51%

Market Cap - $2.62T
BTC - $76,720 (-2.26%)
ETH - $2,284 (-2.18%)
BNB - $762 (-1.16%)
SOL - $99 (-4.63%)
MORPHO - $1.34 (+7%)

https://dropstab.com

Vitalik Buterin: “The original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path.”

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2018711006394843585

Senate Democrats are planning to reconvene tomorrow for a closed-door meeting on crypto market structure, according to two sources familiar with the plans.

https://x.com/EleanorTerrett/status/2018739981628448918

Circle minted 2,750,000,000 USDC in the last week

https://solscan.io/account/7VHUFJHWu2CuExkJcJrzhQPJ2oygupTWkL2A2For4BmE

Crypto.com is launching a dedicated platform, OG, for prediction markets just days before the Super Bowl

https://x.com/business/status/2018711374218608972

The probability of the Opinion token launching before February 17 has dropped from 75% to 18% (based on Polymarket odds)

https://polymarket.com/event/will-opinion-launch-a-token-by

Aave DAO has released an ARFC proposal titled “Focussing the Aave V3 Multichain Strategy – Phase 1”, outlining a plan to streamline Aave V3’s multichain footprint.

The first phase proposes freezing the Aave V3 deployments on zkSync, Metis, and Soneium, while introducing a requirement that any future Aave V3 deployment be backed by a minimum annual revenue guarantee of $2 million from the target chain, in order to better align deployment costs, risks, and expected returns.

https://snapshot.org/#/s:aavedao.eth/proposal/0x62340121a7428f902f3232030350eb2d2bb753dc10ab0657a16ffd4d85cb530b