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According to official social media news, HTX DAO recently released its 2025 annual report.The report shows that the current total market capitalization of $HTX is approximately $1.74 billion, with over 870,000 holders by the end of 2025. In 2025, $HTX will burn a value of over $91 million, with the current cumulative burn amount close to 10% of the total supply.In terms of governance rights, HTX DAO launched HIP rules, the $HTX holding voting tool, and initiated the coin listing recommendation governance mechanism in 2025, achieving a breakthrough in decentralized governance from 0 to 1. In terms of revenue rights, $HTX is empowered through Huobi HTX's Launchpool product, enabling dual earnings from earning tokens and mining, distributing over 4.2 million USDT in token rewards and nearly 2.9 million USDT in mining rewards throughout the year. Additionally, HTX DAO held over 40 offline events throughout the year, covering several major cities globally, bringing it closer to community members around the world.HTX DAO stated, "Thank you to all community members, builders, and partners for your long-term support and participation. In 2026, HTX DAO will continue to focus on long-term value creation and promote further upgrades in ecology and governance capabilities."

According to official news, the globally leading crypto asset trading platform Gate held a high-end industry exchange event during Consensus HK, continuously strengthening its role as a connector and its industry influence in the global Web3 ecosystem.Dr. Han, the founder and CEO of Gate, delivered a keynote speech on the main stage of the conference, sharing Gate's practical experiences in globalization, compliance, and Web3 infrastructure. This speech highlighted Gate's position as an industry link, demonstrating that Gate is promoting cooperation and implementation in the global Web3 ecosystem with a more open attitude. During the three days of Consensus HK, Gate also organized multiple exchange activities around core topics such as investment, technology, and institutional collaboration, facilitating deep cooperation among different circles and ecological roles.On February 10, Gate Ventures hosted the dinner "Gate Ventures Executive Dinner: The Convergence," gathering several industry leaders to discuss the global value chain. On February 11, Gate held a reception for a broader range of industry participants, focusing on cutting-edge topics such as AI, Web3, and RWA, sparking collisions and interactions of diverse viewpoints. On February 12, Gate held "Gate Institutional Circle: CrossEx · Next-Gen Cross-Exchange Trading Infrastructure," featuring thematic sharing, roundtable discussions, a dinner, and an awards ceremony to engage in deeper industry dialogue.By concentrating its layout at this important industry node of Consensus HK, Gate plays a key role in connecting capital, technology, and application ecosystems, further consolidating its participation and influence in the global Web3 ecosystem.

With the U.S. non-farm payrolls for January exceeding expectations by an increase of 130,000 last night, the significant rise of 130,000 has led to a revision in market expectations regarding the pace of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Driven by this macroeconomic variable, global core stock indices have entered a volatile range, attracting a large amount of capital for hedging and position adjustments.Against this backdrop, the open interest in Gate index contracts has seen explosive growth. According to CoinGlass data, in the past 4 hours, the top four positions in open interest growth were all held by this platform: HK50 (Hang Seng Index) increased by 1841.43%, US30 (Dow Jones Industrial Average) increased by 1126.15%, NAS100 (Nasdaq 100 Index) grew by 392.29%, and SPX500 (S&P 500 Index) grew by 237.01%.Currently, Gate contracts comprehensively cover traditional financial assets including stocks (48 types), metals (11 types), foreign exchange (3 types), commodities (2 types), and indices (13 types), supporting continuous trading 24/7, 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.

The founder and CEO of OKX, Star, stated on social media, "Cryptocurrency has gone through the Bitcoin phase (2008--2015), followed by the smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApp) phase (2016--2024). The experimental phase is over. We are now entering the on-chain finance era (2025--present).In the next decade, a significant portion of the global economy will migrate on-chain. Financial services for the internet generation should be available 24/7, low-cost, and instant, as convenient as sending an email."

According to Bloomberg, Coinbase's global CEO Brian Armstrong has seen his personal wealth shrink by more than $10 billion from a peak of $17.7 billion last July due to the continued decline in cryptocurrency prices, and he has fallen out of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index's global top 500 list.Recently, JPMorgan lowered its target price for Coinbase by 27%, citing weak cryptocurrency prices, declining trading volumes, and slow growth in stablecoins, which further impacted Armstrong's wealth valuation.

According to CoinDesk, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee stated at the Consensus Hong Kong conference that the Hong Kong government is committed to building Hong Kong into a global innovation center for digital assets.John Lee emphasized that Hong Kong, leveraging its unique advantages of "one country, two systems," combined with deep financial market liquidity, innovative products, and a world-class investor protection system, is actively constructing a regulatory framework to promote the sustainable development of the Web3 ecosystem.He revealed that the Hong Kong Monetary Authority will soon issue the first batch of stablecoin licenses next month, and the Securities and Futures Commission is also working to enhance liquidity in the virtual asset market. He also expressed a welcome to global enterprises and institutions to join hands with Hong Kong to build a brighter digital future together.

According to Jinshi News, S&P Global (SPGI.N) fell by as much as 18% in pre-market trading, and is currently down by 16%.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8:30 AM Eastern Time on February 9, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by globally listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $92.83 million, a decrease of 24.5% compared to the previous week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced on February 9 that it invested $90 million (an increase of 19.5% compared to last week's purchase) to acquire 1,142 Bitcoins at a price of $78,815, bringing its total holdings to 714,644 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase any Bitcoin last week, marking four consecutive weeks without purchases.Additionally, five other companies purchased Bitcoin last week. The Japanese food brand DayDayCook announced on February 5 that it invested $9.12 million to buy 105 Bitcoins at a price of $86,868, bringing its total holdings to 1,888 Bitcoins; the entrepreneurial education platform Genius Group Limited announced on February 6 that it sold 96 Bitcoins at a price of $73,238, generating a total revenue of $7.03 million, reducing its total holdings to 84.15 Bitcoins; the Swedish health tech company H100 invested $3 million on February 6 to purchase 4.39 Bitcoins at a price of $66,620, increasing its total holdings to 1,051.05 Bitcoins; the UK Bitcoin company BHODL announced on February 6 that it spent $70,000 to buy 1 Bitcoin at a price of $66,950, bringing its total holdings to 161.388 Bitcoins; and the French Bitcoin reserve company Capital B announced on February 9 that it invested $370,000 to purchase 5 Bitcoins at a price of $73,893, increasing its total holdings to 2,828 Bitcoins.The Canadian Bitcoin ecosystem company Metador Technologies announced the launch of an ATM equity issuance program, aiming to raise approximately $21.98 million for the purchase of Bitcoin. Metador Technologies plans to hold 1,000 Bitcoins by the end of 2026.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the globally listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 974,480 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.035% compared to the previous week, with a current market value of approximately $6.736 billion, accounting for 4.9% of the circulating market value of Bitcoin.

According to DefiLlama data, Bitget has seen a net inflow of $640 million in the past 7 days, ranking first among global centralized exchanges (CEX); at the same time, it ranks third in the monthly net inflow ranking.

AIX has officially announced that the project will be listed on exchanges this March, with its global expansion strategy launched simultaneously. The team has disclosed three core strategic directions: • Strengthen community consensus and token liquidity • Empower community incentives through AIX quantitative trading and computing power • Expand ecosystem application scenarios An exclusive project incentive program is under preparation, and details will be announced to early supporters later, which is expected to unlock significant value growth potential. 

According to official social media news, HTX DAO will appear as a gold sponsor at the 2026 Global Web3 Developer Conference (GWDC) at booth A1. Huobi HTX Global Advisor and core builder of HTX DAO, Sun Yuchen, will be present to deliver a keynote speech. HTX DAO ambassador Molly will also present an in-depth sharing titled "The Path of DAO: Decentralization without Dogma."This Global Web3 Developer Conference is hosted by Web3Labs and will be held from February 8 to 9, 2026, at Cyberport in Hong Kong. The conference will gather industry representatives from public chains, trading platforms, AI × Web3, RWA, infrastructure, investment institutions, and developer communities, aiming to create a Web3 developer event with diverse perspectives.

Bitget officially launches the Bitget Fan Club program, aimed at deeply integrating global users into the long-term ecological construction of the platform through a structured community co-construction mechanism.The Bitget Fan Club is open for recruitment to global users, who will participate in activities such as product experience feedback, community discussions, content co-creation, and ecological construction as "Bitget Fans." Unlike traditional point or referral mechanisms, this program adopts a tiered participation model, emphasizing sustained and genuine contributions. Members can gradually unlock more official recognition and exclusive rights as their level of participation deepens.According to the introduction, Bitget Fan Club members can enjoy benefits including official identity badges, token airdrops, product feedback channels, priority experience qualifications, and invitations to online and offline events. High-level members will also have the opportunity to participate in product direction discussions, community decision-making, and official content collaboration. The program has clear upgrade rules and a regular evaluation mechanism to ensure transparency and participation quality.

According to Financefeeds, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged three cryptocurrency market makers—ZM Quant, Gotbit, and CLS Global—with market manipulation. The SEC alleges that these three companies used algorithms to conduct fraudulent trading, creating artificial trading volume to deceive retail investors. Additionally, the SEC has also sued nine individuals, including promoters and company employees, accusing them of hiring manipulation services and executing meaningless trades, violating anti-fraud and registration provisions of the securities laws.As part of the investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a sting operation using a fictitious token called NexFundAI, revealing these companies' willingness to engage in fraudulent trading. This case has led to the indictment of 15 entities and triggered related criminal proceedings.

According to The Block, the Avalanche Policy Alliance has announced the establishment of a new advisory committee, which will be led by Ava Labs' General Counsel Lee Schneider. The members include UK House of Lords member Chris Holmes and several senior figures within the Avalanche ecosystem.The advisory committee will focus on three core issues in 2026: global token classification and intermediary definitions, and internet access protection. Schneider stated that the inspiration for the committee's formation comes from the four major entities already present in the Avalanche ecosystem (Ava Labs, the Avalanche Foundation, and two treasury companies), aiming to ensure a unified effort across the ecosystem from a policy perspective and to promote the broader development of the blockchain and crypto industry.Schneider emphasized that global regulatory coordination is crucial; while the rules in different jurisdictions do not need to be identical, establishing common overarching principles will help the industry's development. He pointed out that if the regulatory differences among major jurisdictions are too great, blockchain or crypto companies will face operational disconnection when expanding into new markets or launching globally applicable products.