Institutional custodian Hex Trust has deepened its collaboration with Flare to roll out secure institutional access to FXRP minting and native FLR staking. Under the arrangement, Hex Trust handles custody, governance and compliance while Flare provides the protocol layer, enabling clients to mint and redeem FXRP and stake FLR directly through Hex Trust's platform. Hex Trust previously launched Wrapped XRP across multiple chains with $100 million in initial liquidity, and the firm plans to keep supporting additional Flare-based assets for institutional DeFi participation.

Vietnam's Ministry of Finance has unveiled a draft regime for digital-asset activity, proposing a 0.1% charge on transfers via licensed platforms and a 20% corporate income tax on domestic profits. A five-year pilot is slated to begin in September 2025 with transactions settled in Vietnamese dong, while exchange operators would face a VND 10 trillion (about $408 million) minimum capital requirement.

On Feb. 4, Crypto Patel said XRP/USD had entered a $1.50–$1.30 accumulation zone, with deeper bids planned at $0.90–$0.70 if $1.30 breaks. Charting Guy mapped a potential March bottom around $1.20, allowing for a wick near $1.00. At press time, XRP traded at $1.3888.

Late on February 4, 2026, Michael Burry posted $BTC Patterns on X, sharing a multi‑year chart with two red‑arrow markers. By the morning of February 5, Bitcoin briefly fell toward $69,000. The arrows referenced the decline from April 2, 2022 into mid‑May and early June, and the current downswing in early February 2026.

On February 5, 2026, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission opened a formal public review of SpaceX's proposal to deploy a non-geostationary orbital data center system for AI computing. SpaceX seeks approval to operate up to 1 million data-center-style satellites between 500 and 2,000 kilometers in altitude, linking them with optical inter-satellite connections and coordinating with its Starlink constellation. The initiative is intended to provide energy-efficient AI compute in space and is now subject to a comment period running through March 6.

Shiba Inu posted a death cross on the 30‑minute chart as the selloff extended into a third day. The token slipped from a Feb. 3 peak at $0.00000702 and saw sharper losses on Thursday, while crypto liquidations reached $1.06 billion in 24 hours, with $894 million longs and $162 million shorts, according to CoinGlass.

On February 5, 2026, Ether fell to around $2,048, leaving BitMine Immersion Technologies with more than $7 billion in unrealized losses on roughly 4.28 million ETH. The company kept buying, including a recent lot of about 41,788 ETH, while Tom Lee defended the treasury approach in X posts on February 3.

On February 5, 2026, Glassnode reported a renewed spike in Bitcoin’s forced-selling metric last seen on October 10, 2025. BTC briefly dropped below $70,000 and then recovered to $70,171.86, as whales sold 14,095 BTC and over 30,000 small retail wallets capitulated. Some analysts expect further liquidations, with a potential local bottom near $50,000.