Bloomberg - Author on Grafa

Crypto exchange-traded funds began February with sharp divergence, as bitcoin and ether products suffered sustained outflows while XRP ETFs quietly attracted fresh capital.

Bitcoin’s January sell-off marked a decisive shift from buy-the-dip to sell-the-rip behaviour, as retail investors chased ETF inflows while professional desks quietly reduced risk, according to a monthly report from Finestel.

AI-focused cryptocurrencies extended losses on Monday as risk-off sentiment pushed the sector’s total market capitalisation down 3.4% to about $12.5 billion.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has shared an experimental devnet project called Percolator / SOV that combines memecoin trading with inverted perpetual futures on Solana.

Bitcoin investment products shed $264.4 million last week, a sharp slowdown from prior weeks, as altcoin funds recorded their first net inflows in three weeks, according to CoinShares.

A Chinese-language crypto guarantee service known as Xinbi processed about $17.9 billion in onchain transaction volume despite bans and enforcement actions targeting similar platforms, according to TRM Labs.

Kris Marszalek unveiled a new AI platform, ai.com, during a Super Bowl broadcast seen by more than 100 million viewers, marking one of the largest public launches of consumer AI agents to date.

Arthur Hayes said recent declines in bitcoin prices are being intensified by institutional dealer hedging tied to structured products linked to BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF.

Google searches for bitcoin surged to a 12-month high in early February after prices collapsed from about $81,500 to $60,000 in less than a week amid extreme volatility.

Kalshi said it is overhauling its anti-insider trading framework ahead of the Super Bowl, expanding surveillance, enforcement and compliance measures across its markets.