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The number of addresses withdrawing XRP from the South Korean exchange Upbit has reached an all-time high of 3,200, The Crypto Basic reported. According to data from CryptoQuant, this figure is a significant increase from the fourth quarter of 2025, when daily withdrawal addresses numbered between just one and 53. Even during previous surges on Dec. 15 and Dec. 17, the figures peaked at 2,750 and 3,051, respectively. Analyst CryptoMāshī suggested the trend indicates that large-scale investors may be accumulating significant amounts of XRP offline, potentially signaling sharp price movements ahead. The analyst explained that while the reasons for the withdrawals could vary—including shifts to long-term investment, arbitrage, or staking—a reduced supply on exchanges eases immediate selling pressure and can help stabilize the price.

A newly created wallet address starting with 0x9D2 has sold its entire HYPE holdings for $41.27 million, just three days after acquiring the position for $44.99 million. The sale resulted in a loss of $3.72 million, according to Onchainlens.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao commented on the recent sharp decline in gold and silver prices from their all-time highs, noting that such volatility can occur even with physical assets that have thousands of years of history. He explained that Bitcoin is a technology that is only 17 years old and has faced a suppressed environment for most of its existence, while other cryptocurrencies are even younger. Zhao concluded that the industry is still in its early stages. His remarks followed a market downturn where gold fell by approximately 15% and silver by as much as 38%, wiping out an estimated $15 trillion in market capitalization.

Jupiter (JUP), a Solana-based decentralized exchange, has launched explore.ag, a new explorer for the Solana ecosystem. The platform provides insights into projects' financial metrics, social media presence, user activity, and product and token information.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $83,000. BTC is trading at $82,988.01 on the Binance USDT market.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has unfollowed Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko on X, PA News reported. The move follows Yakovenko sharing a post by OKX founder Xu Mingxing that blamed Binance for the cryptocurrency flash crash on Oct. 10, 2025.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two UK-registered cryptocurrency exchanges, Zedcex and Zedxion. The action was taken because the two exchanges allegedly helped launder funds for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This marks the first time OFAC has sanctioned cryptocurrency exchanges in connection with Iran.

Cryptocurrency venture capital investment totaled $1.4 billion in January, DL News reported. While the number of deals fell from 85 to 60, the total investment amount increased by 14% compared to the same period last year. Major funding rounds included stablecoin payment infrastructure firm Rain ($250 million), cryptocurrency custody company BitGo ($213 million), and UK-based fintech firm LMAX ($150 million).

Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the next Federal Reserve Chair, has been named in files related to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, Yahoo Finance reported. His name was included on an invitation list for a Christmas event on the island of St. Barts in 2010. The Epstein files have generated controversy over allegations that President Trump was aware of and potentially involved in Epstein's underage sex trafficking crimes. The U.S. Department of Justice has previously released hundreds of thousands of documents related to the case. These files reportedly show that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Tether co-founder Brock Pierce held discussions about Bitcoin at Epstein's Manhattan mansion.

The value of donations held by the crypto-focused Super PAC Digital Freedom Fund has decreased by $5 million due to the drop in BTC's price, Bloomberg reported. The fund was established last August by the Winklevoss brothers, co-founders of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. It raised a total of $22 million during the last five months of the previous year but did not immediately convert the funds to cash, holding them through Dec. 31.

CoinMarketCap's Altcoin Season Index has fallen to 25, a drop of seven points from the previous day. The index measures whether market conditions favor altcoins over Bitcoin. An altcoin season is declared if 75% of the top 100 cryptocurrencies, excluding stablecoins and wrapped tokens, outperform Bitcoin over the past 90 days. A score closer to 100 indicates a stronger altcoin season.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the top three global crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 49.5% long / 50.5% short Binance: 49.96% long / 50.04% short OKX: 49.9% long / 50.1% short Bybit: 49.92% long / 50.08% short

Over the past 24 hours, liquidations in the cryptocurrency perpetual futures market were led by ETH, which saw $147 million in liquidations, with long positions accounting for 82.95% of the total. BTC followed with $87.71 million in liquidations, of which 62.6% were short positions. Meanwhile, XAG liquidations reached $34.30 million, with long positions comprising 80.26%.

The U.S. government has entered a partial shutdown after a delay in the final House vote on a federal budget bill, financial news outlet Jin10 reported. While the Senate had previously passed the bill, the shutdown could not be averted as members of the House of Representatives are not scheduled to return until Feb. 2.

Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Lighter has launched Lighter EVM, a rollup that supports the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The new platform allows developers to deploy general-purpose smart contracts directly. Lighter also announced plans to support DeFi applications such as Uniswap and Aave in the future.

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $252.9 million on Jan. 30, marking the second consecutive trading day of withdrawals, according to data from Farside Investors. The outflows were led by BlackRock's ETHA with $157.2 million and Fidelity's FETH with $95.7 million.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $509.7 million on Jan. 30, marking the fourth consecutive day of net outflows, according to data from Farside Investors. The outflows were driven primarily by BlackRock's IBIT, which saw an outflow of $528.3 million. Meanwhile, other funds saw modest inflows, including Fidelity's FBTC (+$7.3 million), Ark Invest's ARKB (+$8.3 million), and VanEck's HODL (+$3 million).

Addresses holding between 100,000 and 100 million ADA have accumulated 455 million ADA over the past two months, according to on-chain analytics firm Santiment. The firm added that a scenario in which whales are buying while retail investors are selling creates ideal conditions for a cryptocurrency market rebound.

The looming threat of a partial U.S. government shutdown, set to begin Jan. 31, has exposed structural limitations in prediction markets like Polymarket, CoinDesk reported. While the U.S. Senate has passed a budget bill, a vote in the House of Representatives has not yet been completed, making a shutdown imminent. CoinDesk noted that although a brief weekend shutdown would have a limited impact on the American public, it has created chaos for contracts on prediction platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi. The core issue is that different contracts use varying criteria to define what officially constitutes a shutdown, leading to conflicting interpretations and resolutions for the same outcome. This situation highlights the critical importance of contract specificity and reveals a key vulnerability in the prediction market ecosystem.

A bearish outlook is prevailing in the Bitcoin options market as the cryptocurrency shows signs of short-term weakness, according to an analysis by Cointelegraph. The report noted that on Jan. 30, the Bitcoin options delta skew surged to 17%, its highest level in one year. Cointelegraph explained that in a neutral market, put options typically trade at a 6% premium over call options of the same size, meaning the current level indicates extreme fear among traders. Furthermore, approximately $860 million in leveraged Bitcoin long positions were liquidated between Jan. 29 and 30, suggesting the price drop was larger than many traders had anticipated.

Noah Harasz, Head of Tournaments at Numeraire, announced at the NumerCon2026 event that the project will buy back one million NMR tokens within the next two weeks. Based on NMR's current trading price of approximately $9.76, the buyback is valued at around $9.75 million.

Xu Mingxing, founder of the crypto exchange OKX, which has Chinese roots, has publicly blamed Binance for the sharp crypto market downturn on Oct. 10 of last year. In a post on X, Xu argued that the crash stemmed from an irresponsible marketing campaign by certain companies, leading to tens of billions of dollars in forced liquidations and fundamentally damaging the crypto market's microstructure. He pointed out that Binance offered a 12% annual interest rate for USDe depositors and accepted it as collateral on par with USDT and USDC, even though he considers USDe to be more like a tokenized hedge fund product. This, he claimed, encouraged users to repeatedly convert stablecoins to USDe and use it as collateral to borrow more USDT, rapidly increasing systemic risk. When market volatility hit, USDe de-pegged, triggering a cascade of forced liquidations. Xu added that he expects a significant amount of false information and organized FUD targeting OKX in the near future because of his criticism, but stressed that it is right to speak honestly about systemic risks.

An anonymous whale who acquired Uniswap (UNI) at its launch and held the tokens for approximately five years has sold the entire position for $10.62 million, according to on-chain analyst EmberCN. The sale, which occurred earlier today, netted the investor a profit of around $1.72 million, representing a 19% return over the five-year period. This same investor also recently sold 101,000 ETH, which had been held for a similar duration. That sale generated a profit of approximately $269 million, a return of over 400%. The whale reportedly acquired both the ETH and UNI tokens in 2020.

The Sui (SUI) Foundation stated in an official blog post that artificial intelligence has evolved beyond providing advice and suggestions to a stage of taking direct action. The foundation argued that this shift makes the "execution infrastructure" on which AI operates increasingly important. According to the post, the modern internet was not designed for autonomous software, as it was built on the premise of human control, making it unsuitable for independent AI activity. In response, the Sui Foundation is focusing on building infrastructure for agent execution, which would allow AI agents to operate within clear parameters and produce single, verifiable outcomes. The foundation identified four fundamental functions that AI agent systems must have: a shared and verifiable state, flexible rules and permissions based on data, atomic execution across workflows, and a clear rationale for all actions taken.

The DAO, the project at the center of the 2016 hack that prompted the hard fork creating Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, has announced its return a decade after the incident. According to DL News, crypto entrepreneur and official spokesperson Griff Green revealed on his blog that The DAO Security Fund plans to deploy over 75,000 ETH to bolster the Ethereum network. The funds, sourced from dormant assets of investors who never reclaimed their ETH post-hack, will be staked to generate yield. These returns will then be reinvested to further enhance ecosystem security, aiming to help establish Ethereum as a core component of global financial infrastructure.