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.

Bitcoin fell to a year-to-date low of $74,500 on Monday, trimming roughly 38% from its peak. Global crypto exchange-traded products logged heavy withdrawals last week led by large US spot ETFs, while spot market data showed aggressive buying as price rebounded toward about $79,420.

PayPal's share price fell 20% on Tuesday after the firm posted Q4 2025 revenue of $8.68 billion, below the $8.80 billion consensus and with adjusted EPS of $1.23 missing projections. The company reported mixed margin performance, slower growth in key metrics, and announced that CEO Alex Chriss will be replaced by HP's Enrique Lores as of March 1, while also issuing a softer earnings outlook for 2026.

Keys.lol presents Bitcoin's roughly $1.5 trillion market as a kind of free lottery by continuously generating batches of private keys and corresponding addresses. Each page refresh reveals 90 new keys, but the astronomical size of Bitcoin's keyspace makes the odds of hitting one of the 58 million funded addresses effectively zero, highlighting why brute-force attacks are not a realistic threat.

On Monday, the Nevada Gaming Control Board filed a civil enforcement action in the First Judicial District Court against Coinbase Financial Markets, alleging it offered unlicensed wagers on sports event contracts. The regulator is seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to halt Coinbase's operation of a derivatives exchange and prediction market tied to sporting bets, shortly after Coinbase announced prediction markets across all 50 U.S. states through a partnership with Kalshi.

On Tuesday, Bitcoin slipped below $73,000 amid rising volatility while US debt remained around $38.5 trillion and the 10-year Treasury yield hovered near 4.28%. Data on the ICE BofA US Corporate Option-Adjusted Spread, currently near 0.75, suggests credit stress may still be underpriced, and past cycles show BTC has often bottomed several months after spreads begin to widen. Onchain metrics also reveal increased whale deposits to Binance and a cooling spent output profit ratio, which some analysts say could precede an accumulation window later in 2026.

On February 3, 2026, crypto-linked equities and major tokens sold off alongside broader tech weakness. According to the report, Galaxy (GLXY) plunged 20%, Coinbase (COIN) fell over 7%, and ETH- and BTC-focused treasuries dropped nearly 10% intraday, while BTC, ETH, and SOL recorded 4%+ daily declines as TOTAL slipped 3%.