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Metaplanet has secured a new $130M Bitcoin-backed loan to add BTC, expand its options income business and support share buybacks, even as it reports large unrealized losses and launches Mars and Mercury preferred shares to address a market discount to its Bitcoin reserves.
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One analyst found that 40% of Bitcoin is held at a loss, while ETH and SOL data currently stand at 40% and 75% respectively. Should investors be worried?

Altcoin season has stayed distant as only a small group of names, including Kaspa, Ethena and Quant, have advanced on project-specific factors while most tokens have faced pressure from Bitcoin’s direction, weak risk appetite, and a Fear and Greed Index that has remained in extreme caution.
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London, UK – February 5-6, 2026 — The third edition of the Digital Assets Forum (DAF), organized by the European Blockchain Convention (EBC), will take place at Convene, 133 Houndsditch, in the heart of London’s financial district. After two sold-out, one-day editions, the forum now expands to two full days, reflecting accelerating institutional adoption and […]
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Since taking office, US President Donald Trump and his family have dived headfirst into a wave of crypto-focused business ventures, briefly seeing their wealth surge on the back of these deals. But that momentum has faded.  Today, both the Trump family’s gains —and those of their most devoted supporters— have been wiped out as market
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Prediction market platform Polymarket said it has received an Amended Order of Designation from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), paving the way for the platform to operate as a fully regulated exchange in the United States.
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Crypto majors rallied alongside a broad market surge, with BTC up 2% to $87,400, ETH up 4% to $2,920, BNB up 1% to $850, and SOL up 5% to $136, while KAS (+22%), ENA (+13%), and SUI (+11%) led the day’s top movers. The NASDAQ jumped 2.7% as stocks such as GOOG (+6%) and TSLA (+7%) posted strong gains. In policy and industry developments, the White House launched the “Genesis Mission,” described as a Manhattan Project–style initiative for AI, and Binance along with CZ faced new accusations of enabling crypto transactions for Hamas. Kraken hinted at a debit card debut expected today, and Tether purchased another 1 million Rumble shares, pushing the YouTube rival’s stock sharply higher. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank reiterated its warnings that the rapid growth o...