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According to TheEnergyMag, a fire occurred in Wenatchee, Washington, which is suspected to be related to local Bitcoin mining activities.Local fire departments have arrived on the scene, and specific damage details and whether there were any casualties have not yet been released. Relevant authorities are investigating the cause of the fire and whether the mining site complies with local safety regulations. As of now, the name of the involved mining site and the direct cause of the fire have not been disclosed.

The professional trading terminal for prediction markets, Fireplace, has completed a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round, led by Frachtis, with participation from several VCs and angels including White Star Capital.The funds from this round will be used to build a cross-platform trading infrastructure for institutional prediction markets, including cross-scenario aggregation, smart order routing, real-time data, institutional-grade execution, charting tools, as well as features like wallets, whale and "insider" tracking.

According to Arkham data, at 16:55, 23,500 SOL (worth approximately $2,006,900) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 2DtqsL3R...) to Fireblocks Custody.

The Binance compliance team's investigators found that entities related to Iran received over $1 billion in funds through the exchange, with these transactions conducted via Tether on the Tron chain, potentially violating sanctions laws. After the investigators disclosed these findings through an internal report, at least 5 people began to be fired at the end of 2025.Additionally, in the past three months, at least four senior compliance personnel have either left or been dismissed, and Binance's Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman plans to leave later this year, although his departure is unrelated to the firing of the investigators. A Binance spokesperson stated that the company cannot comment on ongoing investigations according to policy and is committed to complying with all applicable sanctions laws and regulations in the markets where it operates. It is reported that Binance acknowledged in 2023 that it violated anti-money laundering, customer identification laws, and sanctions regulations, agreeing to pay a $4.3 billion fine.

According to Arkham data, at 03:44, 30,037.82 SOL (worth approximately $2.3472 million) was transferred from Fireblocks Custody to Binance.

According to Arkham data, at 23:56, 28,054 SOL (worth approximately $2.26 million) was transferred from Fireblocks Custody to an anonymous address (starting with G3gghj...).

According to reports, Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou will attend the Consensus HK fireside chat on February 12, 2026, at 11:20 AM (HK time), sharing his latest thoughts on industry evolution around the theme ------ “When DeFi Expands into TradFi: Designing a New Financial Platform for the Next Decade.”The dialogue will be hosted by Aoyan Ashraf, Head of Global News at CoinDesk, focusing on the integration path between decentralized finance and traditional financial systems, as well as how digital asset infrastructure transitions from "fringe experiments" to mainstream financial architecture.

According to CoinDesk, two insiders revealed that as the cryptocurrency exchange platform Kraken prepares to go public in the U.S. early this year, Kraken has fired Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Stephanie Lemmerman.Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 and served as the CFO of the exchange for one year and four months. One insider stated that she is currently serving as a strategic advisor at Kraken.Insiders revealed that former Vice President of Business Development Robert Moore has essentially taken over her position. The leadership page on the website of Kraken's parent company, Payward Inc., has been updated to show that Moore is now the Deputy CFO, while Lemmerman's name does not appear on that page.

The digital asset custody platform Fireblocks announced an integration partnership with the Bitcoin Layer 2 network Stacks, aiming to provide institutional users with access to native Bitcoin DeFi services. This feature is expected to officially launch in Q1 2026.This integration will allow Fireblocks' over 2,400 institutional clients to participate in the Stacks-based DeFi ecosystem without having to sell their BTC holdings. This includes STX token custody, sBTC minting and cross-chain transactions, BTC collateralized lending through Zest and Granite, as well as participation in Hermetica's BTC yield vault and Bitflow's native trading and liquidity services.

According to Arkham data, at 11:06, 18.1427 million TRUMP (worth approximately 81.64 million USD) was transferred from Official Trump Meme to Fireblocks Custody.

According to Arkham data, at 20:13, 20,000 SOL (worth approximately $2.33 million) was transferred from Fireblocks Custody to an anonymous address (starting with 54gykQcG...).

According to Arkham data, at 13:29, 4.175 billion PUMP (worth approximately 11.07 million USD) were transferred from Fireblocks Custody to Binance.

According to Arkham data, at 01:20, 23,675.9 SOL (worth approximately 3 million USD) was transferred from Fireblocks to Binance.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin spoke at Space, stating:"Personally, I have been using Farcaster quite a bit in 2023 and 2024, and I recently started paying attention to decentralized social media for two reasons. One is that I think the quality of conversations on Twitter is particularly poor, and it is not suitable as the world's chat center, so we need more options. The other is the 'network effect'; perhaps your new product has a better algorithm and better privacy protection, but if you don't have users, all of that is meaningless.Firefly has two features that can break through this dilemma. It is a decentralized social media platform, but it is also a multi-platform entry point. It can be a Twitter client or a Farcaster client, allowing users to use Firefly without leaving Twitter, which solves the 'network effect' problem."

According to Arkham data, at 01:33, 94.5909 million PUMP (worth approximately 2.4351 million USD) was transferred from Fireblocks Custody to Binance.

According to Arkham data, at 18:32, 16,223.53 SOL (worth approximately $2.09 million) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with FRXxxHtJ...) to Fireblocks Custody.

U.S. President Trump said on Wednesday that, despite the Justice Department conducting a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Powell, he currently has no plans to fire him, and it is "too early to determine what action he will ultimately take." When asked if he would attempt to remove Powell from his position, Trump told Reuters, "I have no such plans at the moment."When asked if the investigation gave him reason to take action, Trump added, "For now, we are taking a strategy of holding off on him, and we are studying what to do next. But I can't disclose details. It is still too early." (Jinshi)

According to Arkham data, at 00:44, 50,000 SOL (worth approximately $7.4 million) was transferred from Fireblocks Custody to an anonymous address (starting with 3hYrj...).

According to the Binance Wallet announcement, the third round of the Fogo (FOGO) Pre-TGE Prime Sale has successfully concluded, with a subscription multiple of 40.8 times, raising a total of 316,385 BNB.

According to Arkham data, at 23:38, 17,700 SOL (worth approximately $2.51 million) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with Bzm37...) to Fireblocks Custody.