In a CNBC interview, Fundstrat's Tom Lee argued that conditions were aligning for a crypto market bottom after Bitcoin fell from $90K to $75K and then recovered to $78K. However, Galaxy's Alex Thorn and Nansen's Aurelie Barthere warned that macro risks and weak catalysts could still push BTC toward its 200-week moving average near $50K.

Ether fell 28% in a week to $2,110 as risk-off sentiment in US markets and a drop in leveraged positions hit the asset. At the same time, ETH perpetual futures funding turned negative, spot ETFs saw $447 million in outflows over five days, and decentralized exchange volumes on Ethereum dropped 47%, signaling softer demand despite some viewing negative funding as a potential entry point.

On February 2, 2026, analyst Trader Tardigrade highlighted that Dogecoin's weekly Price Momentum Oscillator has again fallen to levels that previously preceded rallies of 21,000% between 2015 and 2018 and 800% from 2022 to 2024. Dogecoin is also trading within a year-long falling wedge, with indicators like RSI and MACD suggesting a potential bottom, while traders watch resistance near $0.115, $0.28 and $0.48 ahead of a possible move toward $0.75. Elon Musk's renewed comments about sending DOGE to the "literal moon" are adding a familiar social backdrop, and some investors are also eyeing the Bitcoin Hyper presale, which has raised almost $31 million for a Solana-inspired Bitcoin Layer-2.

On Feb 3, 2026, a guide introduced the Wei Name Service (WNS), a minimal Ethereum naming experiment. It provides human-readable .wei addresses via a single NFT contract and IPFS frontends, with pricing from 0.0005 ETH per year for five-character names to 0.5 ETH per year for one-character registrations.

BitRiver has entered bankruptcy proceedings, with courts placing parent Fox Group of Companies under observation. The miner faces a claim of more than $9 million from Infrastructure of Siberia over undelivered equipment, site shutdowns including a 40 MW facility, and its CEO Igor Runets is under house arrest on tax evasion charges.

Grok's AI model, prompted with tailored questions, outlines bullish price paths into 2026–2027 for XRP, Solana and Bitcoin, with potential targets of $8, $500 and $250,000 respectively. The projections hinge on an extended crypto bull market, stronger U.S. regulatory clarity, ETF demand, post-halving supply dynamics and rising institutional use of networks like Solana for real-world asset tokenization.

Ethereum core developers added "Frame Transactions" (EIP-8141) to the shortlist of Hegota headliner proposals after a pull request merged on January 29, 2026, and Vitalik Buterin joined the discussion by linking the design to ERC-4337 paymaster-style mempool rules. At the time the headliner debate was circulating in developer channels, ETH traded around $2,304.7 with a 24-hour move of -0.6%, while desks weighed the implications for mempool policy, order flow segmentation, and protocol-level MEV protection narratives.

Galaxy Digital's stock fell about 17% on Tuesday after the firm posted a Q4 2025 net loss of $482 million and earnings of -$1.08 per share following a 22% drop in the value of its digital asset investments. The company swung from a strong third-quarter profit, while trading volumes slid roughly 40%, even as its loan book hovered near $1.8 billion and it advanced large-scale infrastructure and capital-raising plans for 2026.