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.

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.