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Cryptocurrency researcher anıl posted on the X platform that, based on historical data, when the MVRV Z-Score drops below 0, especially below -0.20, Bitcoin is at its price low point. In this cycle, the lowest value Bitcoin reached was +0.26, which means the classic "green zone" has not yet been tested. In every previous major cycle, the Z-Score has entered negative territory. If this value enters negative territory again, it could signal the most attractive medium to long-term risk-reward ratio range for Bitcoin.

Ethereum consensus layer core contributor Greg posted on the X platform revealing the insider details of the resignation of Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Tomasz Stańczak. He expressed that he was not surprised by this event, as there has long been power struggles within the Ethereum Foundation. The organizational inertia of "this is how the Ethereum Foundation operates" makes reforms difficult to implement. Over the past year, core figure Vitalik Buterin has been mostly absent, leading to issues such as resource inefficiency and project stagnation within the foundation.The internal reforms initially promoted by Tomasz Stańczak were not widely accepted, which may have led to his departure. In fact, he has extensive industry experience, including backgrounds in Nethermind, Flashbots, and venture capital. Although potential conflicts of interest were disclosed in advance, some community members still have doubts about this.Additionally, Tomasz Stańczak sincerely hopes to return to technical development, but he is likely to encounter resistance in the reform process at the Ethereum Foundation, which may force him to leave. In the future, it will be necessary to introduce leaders with real business experience and decision-making power to drive the organization’s effective operation.

According to Jinshi, the U.S. January seasonally adjusted core CPI annual rate fell from 2.6% to 2.5%, reaching a new low since March 2021, in line with market expectations.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has made several optimizations to its CFD contract products to comprehensively enhance user trading transparency and decision-making efficiency. Users can upgrade the Bitget App to version 2.77.0 to enjoy the updated experience. This upgrade mainly includes:Added asset favorites: Quickly locate preferred assets and view dynamic details in real-timeSupport for commonly used order volumes: Pre-set commonly used order volumes for one-click convenient orderingNew comprehensive position details: Display of positions for the same asset type, providing real-time feedback on position statusAdded one-click close position: Supports closing all positions, enhancing decision-making efficiencyIn addition, new users can also participate in the CFD new customer lottery event. By completing specified registration, trading, and other tasks, they can participate in the scratch-off lottery, with a maximum individual prize of 1,000 USDT. The prize pool is limited and operates on a first-come, first-served basis. The event ends on March 13 at 0:00 (UTC+8).

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated during an online event for the XRP community that XRP remains Ripple's "North Star." The company will focus primarily on business integration this year, and large acquisitions are unlikely in the short term, though it does not rule out reassessing merger and acquisition opportunities in the second half of 2026.Garlinghouse pointed out that Ripple invested approximately $4 billion into the crypto ecosystem last year through investments, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships, including the $1.25 billion acquisition of Hidden Road and the $1 billion acquisition of the fund management platform GTreasury. Compared to the aggressive expansion in 2025, the company will focus more on integrating existing businesses and resources this year. He also mentioned that future mergers and acquisitions will still revolve around strengthening the XRP ecosystem and practical applications, but the overall pace will be more cautious.

The original Layer 1 public chain Sonic, created by the Fantom team, stated that it plans to promote the upgrade of the value accumulation mechanism of the native token S through the establishment and acquisition of core protocol applications and infrastructure, and hinted at possible related mergers and acquisitions in the future.Sonic Labs pointed out in its latest statement that the team will focus on key infrastructure at the intersection of token utility, liquidity, and use cases, reducing the outflow of value from the ecological application layer by internalizing and commercializing core economic activities. At the same time, Sonic will maintain its openness and permissionless characteristics for developers. The team stated that the previous model of relying on "user growth --- increased transactions --- higher Gas consumption --- token value return" has become difficult to sustain. With the development of Rollup, modular architecture, and high-performance public chains, the increase in block space supply has led to continuous compression of transaction fees, making it insufficient to rely solely on Gas revenue to support the long-term value of L1. Sonic is a high-performance public chain compatible with EVM, aiming to achieve near-instant confirmation and extremely high throughput, and is currently attempting to reshape the value capture path of Layer 1 through deeper ecological integration.

According to Jinshi reports, JPMorgan stated that if the U.S. core CPI is close to or below analysts' expectations, the probability of the S&P 500 index rising is expected to reach 70%.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Gate held a high-end networking reception during Consensus HK, inviting over a thousand industry guests to participate. Gate's founder and CEO Dr. Han delivered a keynote speech titled "What's the Next Big Thing in Crypto," sharing his latest insights on the development trends in the digital asset industry.Dr. Han pointed out that the crypto market may face a structural turning point in 2026: RWA and TradFi assets will accelerate their on-chain integration, leading to a deep fusion of traditional finance and the crypto system; AI Agents aimed at Web3 will enter a practical stage, becoming a key infrastructure to enhance interaction efficiency and asset management capabilities; at the same time, DEX, CEX, and AI will accelerate integration, gradually forming an integrated platform model.Based on this trend, Gate continues to advance its layout around the scaling and integration of Web3. While strengthening GateAI's intelligent analysis and risk control capabilities, it has upgraded the decentralized trading platform Gate DEX and expanded its TradFi product matrix, enriching multi-asset trading and allocation scenarios. Under a unified account system, Gate accelerates the integration of CEX, DEX, and AI capabilities, lowering the participation threshold across markets and promoting the collaborative development of traditional finance and the crypto system.

According to the official announcement, Bitcoin Core v29.3 has been officially released, and users can download it from the official website.

xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba announced his departure. In a tweet, Jimmy Ba stated that today is his last day at xAI, expressing gratitude to Musk for bringing the team together to complete this journey, feeling proud of the achievements of the xAI team, and stating that he will continue to stay in close contact as a friend.According to previous reports from ChainCatcher, xAI co-founder Wu Yuhua announced his departure yesterday.

According to official news, the four core infrastructures of the LX ecosystem are about to be fully launched. Among them, the underlying public chain LXChain, the LX exchange, and the block explorer LXExplorer will be launched simultaneously on February 11, 2026, while the multi-chain payment tool LXPay is scheduled to be released on March 1, 2026.This launch covers a full-chain layout from public chain, trading, data to payment: LXChain adopts DPOS consensus and supports block generation in 3 seconds; the LX exchange supports spot trading of mainstream assets and will debut the LB/USDT mainstream trading pair; LXExplorer provides transparent on-chain data queries; LXPay will initially integrate multiple EVM-compatible chains, gradually achieving multi-chain asset payment and management.LX, symbolized by the "Statue of Liberty," is positioned as a global aggregation carrier and a multi-chain issuance platform, practicing the concept of "freedom changes crypto, trust returns to the community." The landing of this product matrix marks its official entry into a new stage of integrated aggregation ecology.

As global macro uncertainties persist, major risk assets experienced phase fluctuations at the beginning of February. In terms of stock indices, the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently broke through the 50,000 point mark, while the S&P 500 and NASDAQ showed volatile movements, with increased index fluctuations, and market attention on the short-term trends of core indices continues to rise.Against the backdrop of expanding demand for index trading, Gate's index contracts have performed particularly well. According to CoinGlass data, in the past 4 hours, the top three in terms of open interest growth all came from the Gate platform, with US30 (Dow Jones Industrial Average) seeing an open interest increase of 1233.34% in 4 hours; NAS100 (NASDAQ 100 Index) recorded a growth of 814.95% during the same period; and SPX500 (S&P 500 Index) increased by 188.29%. The data indicates that funds are accelerating towards mainstream index contracts, with short-term trading sentiment significantly heating up.Currently, Gate contracts comprehensively cover traditional financial assets including stocks (48 types), metals (11 types), forex (3 types), commodities (2 types), and indices (13 types), supporting 24/7 continuous trading with a maximum leverage of 100 times. Gate is continuously building a multi-asset contract system that covers mainstream TradFi assets, creating the industry's most comprehensive trading area for index and traditional financial asset contracts.

According to The Block, research firm Bernstein analyzed that the stock price of IREN, a Bitcoin mining company transitioning to AI computing services, fell sharply after releasing its financial report. The main reason was market disappointment over the lack of new large AI partnership announcements, rather than a deterioration in fundamentals.The company's stock price dropped about 18% after the earnings report, to approximately $39.79. Bernstein analysts believe that the volatility of Bitcoin-related earnings is no longer the core investment logic for IREN, and investors are more focused on its progress in transitioning to AI cloud infrastructure. Although IREN's Bitcoin mining revenue decreased quarter-over-quarter this quarter, its AI cloud revenue more than doubled compared to the previous quarter. The company has secured approximately $2.3 billion in annual recurring revenue contracts for AI cloud services and expects this to grow to $3.4 billion by the fourth quarter of 2026, equivalent to deploying about 140,000 GPUs.Bernstein maintains an "outperform" rating on IREN with a target price of $125, viewing this decline as a reset of expectations rather than a signal of deteriorating execution capability.

According to Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao has resigned from her maintainer position and revoked her cryptographic signing key. She has long focused on areas such as mempool validation, transaction forwarding, and fee estimation, and her resignation does not affect Bitcoin's consensus rules, network security, or transaction processing.The report notes that resigning and revoking keys is a common practice in open-source projects. Bitcoin Core maintainers are a trusted small group of developers responsible for code review, update approval, and digitally signing official releases using keys. Zhao has contributed to Bitcoin Core development for over six years, but her work did not involve changing the underlying protocol rules of Bitcoin. Zhao did not respond regarding the specific reasons for her departure.

According to CoinDesk, WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg, whose assets reach $150 billion, stated that cryptocurrency has now become a core part of its business.The company's layout in the tokenization field is close to profitability, with tokenized assets growing from about $30 million to approximately $750 million, while also expanding into emerging blockchains like Solana. Jonathan Steinberg views cryptocurrency as the cornerstone of modern financial infrastructure and points out that initiatives such as tokenized funds, the WisdomTree Connect platform, and strategic investments in compliant tokenization technology are key to the company's long-term growth.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform discussing the design ideas of creator coins, pointing out that the overall effectiveness of the crypto industry in the content incentive field has been limited over the past decade. The core issue is not a lack of content supply, but rather an insufficient mechanism for filtering and discovering high-quality content. In the current context where AI can generate a large amount of content at a low cost, the industry's goal should shift from "incentivizing more content" to "identifying and amplifying high-quality content."Vitalik believes that Substack is a relatively successful case of creator incentives, with the key being the platform's active selection and support of quality creators, rather than relying solely on mechanism design. He points out that existing creator coin projects generally have a structural issue of "high social influence users dominating the rankings," which does not truly reflect content quality.On the proposal level, Vitalik suggests establishing a non-tokenized creator DAO, where members vote to select creators and maintain clear content positioning and scale control to build a stable brand and commercial bargaining power. At the same time, creators should be allowed to issue personal tokens; if they join the creator DAO, the DAO's earnings can be used to buy back and destroy the creator tokens, transforming the role of speculators into "high-quality creator predictors," thereby reducing pure speculative cycles and improving the efficiency of high-quality content filtering.Vitalik stated that future effective governance mechanisms may increasingly combine prediction markets and multi-party governance structures to enhance the system's resistance to manipulation and goal consistency.

According to Arkham data, at 10:35, 130 BTC (worth approximately 10.21 million USD) was transferred from Core to an anonymous address (starting with bc1qxrvv6...).

According to on-chain data monitoring, Trend Research, under Yili Hua, has currently collateralized a total of 175,800 WETH on Aave V3, worth approximately $445 million, and borrowed about 274 million USDT, with a loan health ratio of 1.34.During the market downturn, margin can still be supplemented. Yesterday, Trend Research withdrew a total of 109 million USDT from Binance and deposited it into Aave to reduce the liquidation risk of their Ethereum positions.