Day: 2 February 2026

South Korea is intensifying oversight of its cryptocurrency markets by deploying artificial intelligence to detect and stop unfair trading practices in real time. According to a local report, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has begun upgrading its virtual asset trading analysis platform, VISTA, by integrating advanced AI capabilities to spot ...

Bitcoin fell below the $80,000 support level on Saturday following the confirmation of Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve Chair.  Source: QCP Asia  BTC and ETH face pressure after fed announcement   The move triggered a wave of deleveraging, with BTC briefly hitting $74,500 and Ethereum slipping below $2,170. ...

Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB), backed by Whampoa Group and Mumtalakat, has launched a first-of-its-kind regulated platform that integrates fiat currencies and stablecoins into a single banking network.  Stablecoins are increasingly used in real financial operations, but managing them alongside fiat remains fragmented. SGB Net brings USD and leading stablecoins together ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has floated a new model for creator tokens that blends decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) with prediction markets, aiming to fix what he sees as a growing quality problem in creator economies. In a post shared on X on Sunday, Buterin argued that most existing creator token ...

Michael Saylor-led Strategy Inc. has slipped into unrealized losses after Bitcoin dropped below the company’s average purchase price, reigniting debate around its aggressive BTC accumulation strategy. Bitcoin fell to around $75,300 over the weekend, dipping beneath Strategy’s average holding cost of roughly $76,037 per coin. As a result, the firm’s ...

Russia’s leading cryptocurrency mining firm, BitRiver, is on the brink of bankruptcy after the Sverdlovsk Arbitration Court initiated a supervisory procedure against its parent company, GC Fox, which owns 98% of BitRiver.  Source: kommersant Court moves and ownership uncertainty   The proceedings follow a $9.2 million claim from En+’s subsidiary, ...

Curve Finance has warned its community to reassess any governance votes tied to CrossCurve after the cross-chain protocol confirmed its bridge was compromised in an attack that reportedly drained about $3 million across several networks. In a post on X, Curve said users who allocated votes to CrossCurve pools “may ...

Igor Runets, founder and CEO of Russian Bitcoin mining giant BitRiver, has reportedly been detained by authorities and charged with multiple counts of tax evasion, according to local media reports. Igor Runets, founder and CEO of Russian Bitcoin miner BitRiver, has reportedly been detained and charged with tax evasion. Documents ...

Vitalik Buterin has shared a clear, stripped-down vision for how On-Chain governance mechanisms are likely to evolve, arguing that the most effective designs will follow a two-layer structure focused on accountability and preference-setting. In a recent discussion, Buterin said the future of On-Chain mechanism design is not as complicated as ...

A sharp market sell-off that erased about $250 billion from the crypto market over the weekend is being driven by tightening U.S. liquidity, not flaws within crypto itself, according to Raoul Pal, founder and CEO of Global Macro Investor. https://t.co/M5mLAi3XLA — Raoul Pal (@RaoulGMI) February 1, 2026 Pal pushed back ...