Today's Crypto Pulse
Bitcoin slides below $70k as energy‑price worries spark $1.8B in liquidations
Bitcoin fell under $70,000 amid heightened energy‑price uncertainty linked to U.S.–Iran tensions. The dip triggered roughly $1.8 billion in crypto liquidations, while institutional investors pulled more than $4.2 billion from digital‑asset positions.
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By the numbers: Strive acquires 2,500 Bitcoin for $185.2M
Sam Bankman-Fried Turns up Trump Support Following Ellison’s Release
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried intensified his public support for former President Donald Trump on X, praising Trump’s stance on crypto and recent foreign‑policy actions. The comments came days after former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison was released from prison following a 440‑day sentence. Bankman‑Fried also lambasted President Joe Biden and SEC chair Gary Gensler, while noting that Trump’s appointee Paul Atkins is viewed as more crypto‑friendly. Market‑prediction platform Polymarket currently assigns a 17% probability that Trump will pardon him before 2027.
Bitcoin and Gold Tumble, Digital Gold Proves Risky
Bitcoin just hit its lowest level since the 2025 tariff shock. The slide comes as gold and other precious metals also sell off sharply, a reminder that in stress moments, even “digital gold” trades like a risk asset. Macro pressure is back...
Bitcoin Drops to $78,000 as MicroStrategy-Fueled Rally Runs Out of Buyers, Traders Say
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Feb 1, 2026, reaching $78,000 – its first sub‑$80k level since April 2025 – after a 10% intraday drop to $75,710. The plunge erased about $111 billion in market capitalization and triggered $1.6 billion of leveraged liquidations. Analysts point...
Global Trustnet Strengthens Client Intake and Review Framework to Support Secure Platform Operations
Global Trustnet announced enhancements to its client intake and internal case review frameworks, emphasizing security, verification discipline, and structured governance. The new standardized onboarding workflow aims to improve data accuracy, traceability, and consistency as digital‑asset trading volumes rise. Parallel upgrades...
Tom Lee Loses $6B as Bitmine Drops 35%
TOM LEE HAS LOST $6 BILLION ON ETHEREUM Bitmine is down 35% on its average $ETH entry. https://t.co/it1Tn1J1yQ
Safe Assets Falter; Crypto Education Is Urgent Now
Global tensions cause more money to flow into "safe assets" like gold and silver first. Then they find out those are not as stable as they thought. Now is the best time to educate people about crypto. #BTC #BNB https://t.co/o67rIXBd7h
Blockchain Penetration Testing: Definition, Process, and Tools
Blockchain penetration testing simulates real‑world attacks on decentralized ledgers to expose flaws in smart contracts, consensus mechanisms, nodes, and wallets before they can be exploited. Recent incidents such as the $2.17 billion crypto thefts in 2025 and the 17‑hour Solana outage...
Beware: Malicious External Contract Interaction Echo
Yes, this is giving "interaction with [malicious] external smart contract" vibes a la The DAO 😬
BTC Drops to $76K, Sparking $2.4B Long Liquidations
TODAY: 🚨 BTC falls to ~$76K, triggering $2.4B+ in crypto liquidations over 24h dominated by longs. https://t.co/k11tpbDyEX
Bitcoin Hashrate Drops 12% in Worst Drawdown Since China Mining Ban: CryptoQuant
A severe winter storm across key U.S. mining regions forced several large Bitcoin miners to curtail operations, driving the network hashrate down 12% since November 11. The hashpower now sits near 970 exahashes per second, the lowest level since September...
Liquidity Crunch Persists Amid Government Shutdown, Market Turmoil
Remember the last time the Government shut down? Yes, the market did exactly this. It's all about liquidity still and the TGA is still trapped until this finally resolves. Meanwhile expect more ugliness. The beatings shall continue until morale improves.
BitMine Immersion Faces $6B Paper Loss as Ether Sell-Off Deepens
BitMine Immersion Technologies, a public crypto‑treasury firm tied to Tom Lee, now holds over 4.24 million ETH valued at roughly $9.6 billion. The surge in Ether’s price drop to about $2,300 has pushed its unrealized loss to more than $6 billion, down from...
Retail Traders Are Running for the Exit Amid Bitcoin's Selloff, While 'Mega-Whales' Are Quietly Buying the Dip
Glassnode on‑chain data shows that mega‑whales holding 10,000 BTC or more are quietly buying Bitcoin as the price fell below $80,000, while all smaller cohorts, especially retail wallets under 10 BTC, have been net sellers for over a month. The Accumulation Trend...
Solana DeFi Platform Step Finance Hit by $27 Million Treasury Hack as Token Price Craters
Step Finance, a Solana‑based DeFi portfolio tracker, disclosed a treasury breach that saw 261,854 SOL—about $27 million—unstaked and transferred. The hack triggered an over‑80% plunge in its governance token STEP within 24 hours. The platform has engaged cybersecurity firms but has not...
How Decentralized AI Training Will Create a New Asset Class for Digital Intelligence
Decentralized AI training networks are linking heterogeneous GPUs worldwide to train frontier‑scale models, while issuing tokens that grant contributors ownership stakes. Prime Intellect has already delivered 10‑billion‑parameter and 32‑billion‑parameter models using this approach, and protocols like Gensyn and Pluralis prove...
Bitcoin Falls Out of Global Top 10 Assets by Market Capitalization, Below Elon Musk's Tesla
Bitcoin’s market capitalization slipped to roughly $1.57 trillion, pushing it to the 13th‑largest asset worldwide, behind Saudi Aramco and Tesla. The cryptocurrency’s price dropped more than 11 % in a week, falling from about $90,000 to $78,500. The sell‑off was amplified by a...
Bitcoin Miners Are Making Millions by Shutting Down because of a Massive US Winter Storm
US winter storm forced Bitcoin miners, especially Foundry USA, to curtail operations, dropping network hashrate by roughly 40% (about 455 EH/s) between Jan 23‑25. The shutdown slowed block times to around 12 minutes, highlighting Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment lag. Miners profit from curtailment,...
The Market for Tokenized Equities Has Exploded by Almost 3,000% in a Single Year
Tokenized equities surged almost 3,000% in 2025, pushing the market close to the $1 billion milestone. The jump to $963 million was driven by new SEC guidance on broker‑dealer custody and a DTCC no‑action letter that legitimized token‑based settlement. Ondo Global Markets...
Crypto Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Strengthens Wallet Security with New BIP32 Derivation Rules
Ledger announced new BIP32 derivation rules that require hardened prefixes for its Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Bitcoin Cash applications. The change isolates each app’s key subtree, preventing cross‑application key exposure even if a single app is compromised. Enforcement begins on February 26...
VC Roundup: Crypto Funding Rebounds as Institutions Test Onchain Finance
Venture capital and institutional investors poured $1.4 billion into digital‑asset companies in early 2026, highlighted by Visa‑linked stablecoin issuer Rain’s $250 million raise at a $1.9 billion valuation and BitGo’s $200 million‑plus NYSE IPO. On‑chain finance startups such as Bitway, Everything, Veera and Prometheum...
NDSS 2025 – PropertyGPT
PropertyGPT leverages large language models to automatically generate formal verification properties for smart contracts, using a retrieval‑augmented pipeline that pulls similar human‑written properties from a vector database. The system iteratively refines generated properties with compilation and static‑analysis feedback to ensure...
XRP Slides 7% as Rapid Selling Breaks Major $1.79 Support
XRP dropped roughly 6.7% on Jan 31, sliding from $1.88 to near $1.75 after a Bitcoin‑driven crypto sell‑off triggered massive long liquidations. More than $70 million of XRP futures long positions were wiped out as price broke the key $1.79 support on...
Bitcoin 'Fear' Sentiment Hits a 2026 High as Price Downtrends Toward $80,000
Bitcoin slipped to $84,200, its lowest level since November 21, pushing the Santiment fear index to a 2026 peak. The surge in negative social‑media commentary marks a shift from cautious optimism to outright fear, a pattern often seen near market capitulation....
Inside the Rise of Apps That Let You Pay with Crypto, Even Where Merchants Don’t Accept It
Startups are piloting pay‑on‑behalf solutions that let consumers spend cryptocurrency at ordinary merchants without altering point‑of‑sale systems. Thailand’s PlebQR routes Bitcoin Lightning payments through local partners who settle in fiat, reporting over 1,270 transactions worth roughly $21,500 with a 75 %...
OrynteX Advances Multi-Asset Trading Platform With Ongoing System Enhancements
OrynteX announced a series of incremental enhancements to its multi‑asset trading platform, targeting improved reliability, execution consistency, and a unified user experience across stocks and cryptocurrencies. The updates are delivered through structured, governance‑driven processes that prioritize system stability over rapid...
Laura Walter Reveals Top Crypto Tax Strategy
What is the best crypto tax strategy? Laura Walter (Crypto Tax Girl) weighs in 👇 #tax #crypto #strategy
Bitcoin Knots vs Core V30: Key Differences Explained
Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30 - Part X w/ Jonny Bair (aka Bitmex Research) of Blocksize Wars https://t.co/Rw83t1G3pe
NYSE's 24/7 Plan Could Fix Key Problem for Stock Tokens, Ondo's De Bode Says
Ondo Finance’s Ondo Global Markets platform has amassed over $500 million in total value locked and $7 billion in trading volume since its September 2025 launch, making it the largest tokenized‑stock provider. The broader market of tokenized equities is approaching $1 billion and grew...
ETH Breaks Ascending Trendline Support, Price Slides Down
#ETH failed to hold the support at the ascending trendline, which caused it to move lower. https://t.co/8CMpEphZmj
Crypto's Future Extends Beyond Fintech, Says Ryan Watkins
The big narrative around crypto nowadays is how it would disrupt finance. But @RyanWatkins_ says on the longer term horizon, crypto is not just fintech 👇 https://t.co/okZVwnbYJS
The Institutional Phase of Tokenization: Why Environmental Credits Will Become the Largest Digital Asset Class of the Next Decade
Environmental credits are poised to become the largest tokenized asset class as institutions confront fragmented registries, costly MRV processes, and regulatory demand for transparent carbon data. Tokenization can streamline issuance, tracking, and retirement, turning manual spreadsheets into auditable digital tokens....
Low Inflation, Strong Claims, Bitcoin‑Friendly Fed Chair
🇺🇸 US inflation hits 1.23% according to Truflation. 🇺🇸 Initial Jobless Claims exceed expectations. Pro Bitcoin Kevin Warsh confirmed as the next Fed Chair. https://t.co/wH2hpnn63G
Crypto Shows Low Correlation, Gold Leads Bitcoin Bull Runs
Against consensus thinking these days, bitcoin, ether, Solana, and perhaps hyperliquid could be good diversifiers. Since early 2020, the correlation between the bitcoin price and the gold price has been very low, 0.14. Gold led bitcoin in the last two...
RoyalWelt Expands Regional Trading Capabilities to Support Broader Market Participation
RoyalWelt announced a multi‑region expansion of its equity and digital‑asset trading platform, emphasizing operational consistency, infrastructure scalability, and disciplined governance. The rollout introduces unified account views, standardized execution logic, and continuous performance monitoring to support users across diverse markets and...
Gold Leads Bitcoin Bull Runs Despite Low Correlation
Also important to note is that the correlation between the bitcoin and gold prices has been 0.14 since early 2020, and that the gold price led the last two significant bull moves in the bitcoin price in the last two...
Bitcoin Falls 17% After EMA Crossover Signal
#BTC Bitcoin has dropped -17% since the Bitcoin Bull Market EMAs crossed over $BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin https://t.co/J8aFoSg60I
How to Exchange XMR Without KYC: The Complete Guide to Private Monero Swaps in 2025
Monero’s privacy features have pushed users toward no‑KYC swap services as centralized exchanges increasingly delist or restrict the coin. Platforms such as GhostSwap allow instant BTC‑to‑XMR, ETH‑to‑XMR, and XMR‑to‑USDT trades without identity verification, using non‑custodial mechanisms. The guide highlights fee...
Live Debate on Bitcoin Protocol Attack and BIP110 UASF
Going live on the main stage w/ @BitMEXResearch to debate Mechanic & Luke over their attack on the #Bitcoin Protocol w/ a BIP110 #UASF moderated by @giacomozucco at @PlanBElsalvador 👇👇👇👇 https://t.co/LbpD6ji0W0
Crypto Heist Sparks Call for U.S. Bitcoin Reserve
Alleged crypto theft by son of government contractor raises a critical question: Is the U.S. ready for a strategic reserve? @kkirkbos says we may need a Bitcoin Fort Knox 👇 https://t.co/tti17Z1eKJ
US Treasury Sanctions Iran-Linked Crypto Exchanges for First Time
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two UK‑registered cryptocurrency exchanges, Zedcex Exchange Ltd. and Zedxion Exchange Ltd., marking the first time a digital‑asset platform has been targeted under the Iran sanctions regime. The designations cite...
Crypto Crash Swallows $400M Amid Political Uncertainty
Over $400M was just liquidated from the crypto markets And I’m still not sure if the government is shutdown or not and a new round of the Epstein files dropped. Happy Saturday. https://t.co/HqIVHpsy83
Most Bitcoin Bear Signals Flash, Yet Market Uncertain
#BTC Technically, Bitcoin Bear Market hasn’t been completely, completely confirmed But 10 out of 12 confirmed signals have indeed flashed Which means that over ~80% of the Bear Market signals have flashed $BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin
Sustainable Economic Ecosystem by an EDM Artist: The Rise of SONS and So-Li
The Share‑On Network System (SONS) and Social Libertarianism (So‑Li) introduced by EDM artist SHARON. propose a sustainable economic and governance layer for the MCAI framework. SONS replaces zero‑sum, speculative capital flows with transparent, shared‑ownership allocation, while So‑Li embeds accountability as...
2026 Poised to Become Bitcoin Bear Market Year
#BTC Thus far, looks like 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the Bitcoin Bear Market $BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin
Timeline Mismatch Undermines USDe Liquidation Claim
Dragonfly is/was one of the largest investors of okx. Data speaks. Time doesn’t match. Good to see people understanding facts. I will try not to comment on this topic further. Let others talk about us, and we focus on our work....
Bitcoin, Ether Fall as Shutdown Clock Hits and Markets Brace for a Messy Monday
Bitcoin hovered around $83,559 on Friday, gaining 1% but still down 6.8% for the week, while ether slipped to $2,686, off 1.9% daily and 9% weekly. Prices remained under pressure as the United States entered a partial shutdown after missing...
Invest When Hype Fades; Real Builders Keep Building
Received 400 applications for Easy Residence (@Yzilabs) next season. Every season has about 20 projects, aiming for 4-6 season's per year. I find it easier to invest when the market is less hot. All the hype goes away. Real builders...
Coinbase Insider Trading Lawsuit Against Armstrong, Directors Moves Forward
A Delaware Chancery Court judge refused to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit accusing Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and board member Marc Andreessen of insider trading surrounding the company's 2021 direct listing. The complaint alleges insiders sold roughly $2.9 billion of stock, including...
Why Coin Nerds Inc Is Becoming a Trusted Name in Digital Asset Trading
Coin Nerds Inc is positioning itself as a trusted digital‑asset trading platform by combining physical storefronts with a robust online service. The company emphasizes education, transparent operations, and blockchain‑aligned security to attract both novice and seasoned traders. By simplifying access...
Bitcoin's Youth Means We're Still Early
This can happen with even a physical asset, like gold and silver, with thousands years of history. Bitcoin is a 17 years old technology, heavily suppressed in most of its existence. Most other crypto are younger. We are still early.