Asia-Pacific stocks closed sharply higher on Feb 3 as global markets steadied and worries over artificial intelligence spending eased, with Korea's KOSPI index up 6.84% to 5288.08, the biggest one-day gain since March 24, 2020, according to BlockBeats. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix were the largest contributors, and Samsung's shares rose as much as 10% intraday, marking its biggest one-day gain since March 2020. Japan's Nikkei 225 closed up 3.92% at 54720.66 to a record high, while the Taiwan Weighted Index added 1.81% to 32195.36, Jin10 reported.

Donald Trump said at a White House press conference on Feb. 3 that he is a strong cryptocurrency supporter, BlockBeats reports. He said he did not know about talk of a $500 million Abu Dhabi royal investment in WLFI and that his sons were handling it.

ING Deutschland opened retail access to crypto ETN/ETP investments on Feb. 3, BlockBeats reports. Direct Depot allows customers to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana via products from 21Shares, Bitwise and VanEck. ING said German ETNs may be exempt from capital gains tax after holdings exceed one year.

Binance Margin will remove multiple margin trading pairs at 14:00 on February 6, BlockBeats reports. Cross margin pairs to be delisted include KNC/BTC, COTI/BTC, BAT/BTC, DUSK/BTC, RLC/BTC, GRT/ETH, GLM/BTC and KAVA/BTC. Isolated margin pairs affected are KNC/BTC, COTI/BTC, BAT/BTC, DUSK/BTC, JST/BTC, RLC/BTC, GRT/ETH, GLM/BTC, KAVA/BTC and CTK/BTC.

US Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $561.8 million in net inflows on Feb. 3, ending a four-day outflow streak, Farside Investors data show. BlackRock's IBIT saw $142 million in inflows and Fidelity's FBTC posted $153.3 million. Ethereum ETFs posted a $2.9 million net outflow the same day, with ETHA at -$82.1 million and FETH at $66.6 million.

A large investor spent 2.98 million USDC to purchase 647.15 XAUT at $4,601 per token over a 2-hour period on Feb. 3, Onchain Lens data show. The on-chain data cited by BlockBeats shows the concentrated XAUT accumulation occurred within this short time window.

Trend Research deposited 20,000 ETH to Binance on Feb. 3, valued at $46.54 million, Onchain Lens data show. The transfer brings cumulative deposits to 93,588 ETH, worth $215.14 million.

Binance fixed a technical issue affecting withdrawals on Feb. 3 and resumed services, BlockBeats reports. The exchange had reported the malfunction about 20 minutes earlier, saying its team was working on a resolution.

A whale address (0x282...515A) deposited 18,100.2 ETH worth $41.992M to OKX over the past 15 hours and would face a loss of about $14.48M if sold, on-chain analyst Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) reported via BlockBeats on Feb. 3. The address has sold 51,780 ETH since Jan. 20 for a total of $133M at an average deposit price of $2,577, with an estimated cumulative loss of $28.11M. The address now holds only 1,128 ETH on-chain.