According to Santiment, the top 100 Pepe wallets accumulated a combined 23.02 trillion tokens during the October market downturn, while PEPE's market cap sits about 73% below its peak nearly nine months ago. A market commentator said PEPE remains below major moving averages, with $0.0000031 marked as key support and $0.00000726 needed to hint at a reversal. PEPE traded near $0.0000035 after a 4% daily drop.

Trend Research, led by Jack Yi, has fully closed what was described as Asia's largest leveraged Ethereum long, resulting in an on-chain realized loss of about $869 million. Just days before the final exit, Yi reiterated a bullish outlook, projecting ETH above $10,000 and Bitcoin over $200,000 while noting market liquidity concerns. On-chain metrics show accumulating Ethereum addresses now hold 27 million ETH, roughly 23% of the circulating supply, and have historically added during periods when price trades below their realized level.

Robinhood has activated the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum, to support tokenized real-world and digital assets and give developers early access ahead of a planned mainnet later this year. Infrastructure providers including Alchemy, Allium, Chainlink, LayerZero, and TRM are integrating, with more partners expected during the early test phase.

Artemis data indicates that decentralized perpetuals exchange Hyperliquid has processed $2.6 trillion in trading volume, almost twice Coinbase's $1.4 trillion over the same period. Hyperliquid's token has risen 31.7% year-to-date in 2026, while Coinbase has fallen 27.0%, and the platform reported $822 million in revenue in 2025 and $79.1 million so far this year. Ripple's Ripple Prime brokerage is adding support for Hyperliquid, even as the exchange addresses an insider-trading case tied to leveraged shorts in its HYPE token.

Ethereum has logged its largest exchange outflow since October, with more than 220,000 ETH withdrawn in recent days while the price trades between $1,800 and $2,000. On February 5, Binance alone saw daily net outflows of about 158,000 ETH, coinciding with a broader market pullback that pushed ETH down nearly 14% over the past week. Analysts are now closely monitoring the $2,000 threshold, warning that a breakdown could trigger a retest of last week's lows even as on-chain metrics suggest an accumulation phase.

ADA slid over 10% in the past week, moving from near $0.30 to $0.23 before consolidating around $0.26. According to Alphractal founder Joao Wedson, ADA open interest fell from $1.6 billion to $334 million, and by 2026 its exchange distribution shifted to Binance at 22% and Gate.io at 31%.

In January, one crypto user lost $12.25 million after copying an incorrect wallet address, and another user lost $50 million in a similar incident in December. Signature phishing attacks in January stole $6.27 million from 4,741 victims, a 207% rise from the previous month, while a separate address poisoning case in November led to a loss of about $3.08 million in PYTH tokens. Non-custodial wallet Safe has warned of a coordinated campaign using thousands of lookalike multisig addresses, and says it has flagged around 5,000 malicious addresses in its interface.

Bitcoin recovered nearly 2% after briefly falling below $70,000, but analysts argue the move sits within a broader bearish setup. One trader expects BTC to oscillate between roughly $57,000 and $87,000 before eventually breaking lower toward the $44,000–$50,000 area, while others highlight its position below the 50-week EMA near $95,300 as a sign of continued vulnerability.

In Q4 2025, crypto and blockchain venture capital reached $8.5 billion across 425 deals, according to Galaxy Digital's research led by Alex Thorn. Later-stage startups attracted 56% of this capital, with 11 mega-rounds over $100 million accounting for $7.3 billion. US-based companies captured 55% of total funding, while crypto-focused VC funds raised $1.98 billion in the quarter.