Merck, PepsiCo and Eaton have released their fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 financial results, showing differing levels of earnings and revenue outperformance versus forecasts. Merck met EPS expectations but beat on revenue, PepsiCo topped both metrics, and Eaton delivered slightly higher EPS in line with sales estimates while all three issued detailed 2026 outlooks.

qLABS has introduced the qONE ($qONE) token with a fixed, time-limited presale on Hyperliquid starting February 5 at 2:00 PM UTC, aiming to address quantum computing threats to blockchain security. The project offers a public round at a $10 million fully diluted valuation and a community round at an $8 million valuation, while positioning qONE as infrastructure for post-quantum protection across existing Web3 ecosystems. qONE's utility, tokenomics, and governance are designed to link token demand to real security usage rather than purely speculative trading.

On February 3, 2026, Ripple said it is supporting Billiton Diamond and Ctrl Alt in a UAE push that has brought tokenized certified polished diamonds worth over AED 1 billion ($280 million) to the XRP Ledger. According to a Tuesday press statement, Ctrl Alt will mint the assets and the platform records certification and inventory on-chain, with VARA approval pending. The effort is backed by DMCC.

A group of ten major European banks, including Italy's Banca Sella and UniCredit, plans to issue Qivalis, a MiCA-compliant stablecoin pegged to the euro and expected to go live in the second half of 2026. The initiative aims to bridge traditional finance and blockchain in a market where about USD 300 billion in stablecoins are mostly dollar-denominated, but some observers question its adoption prospects and transaction costs.

On Monday, February 2, BlackRock trimmed its exposure to Bitcoin and Ethereum by more than $600 million, offloading 6,306 BTC worth about $496.41 million and 58,327 ETH valued at roughly $138.23 million. These moves made the firm responsible for 78% of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and nearly 54% of Ethereum redemptions that day, while both BTC and ETH prices remained under pressure in early February.

Elon Musk has reiterated that plans to send Dogecoin to the moon via SpaceX remain in place, responding to a resurfaced 2021 post and indicating the mission could take place next year. The confirmation came after about five years without comments on Dogecoin's lunar plans and sparked optimism in the crypto community, though DOGE's price only saw a brief 2.39% uptick.

A UAE-backed investment vehicle acquired a 49% interest in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's cryptocurrency firm, for $500 million under a deal signed on January 16, 2025, four days before Donald Trump's second inauguration. The investment was structured in two $250 million tranches, altered the Trump family's equity stake, and granted the Emirati side a 49% holding via Aryam Investment 1. The company issues the USD1 stablecoin, which was later used to settle a $2 billion crypto investment, while separate U.S.-UAE agreements covered access to Nvidia AI chips in 2025.

Nintendo said it will maintain its goal of selling 19 million Switch 2 units in the year to March 2026, after shipments reached 17.37 million by December, including 7 million during the holiday quarter. In the fiscal third quarter, revenue rose to 806.32 billion yen and net profit to 159.93 billion yen, both up year on year.