According to Odaily Planet Daily, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins stated, "Now is the right time to allow cryptocurrency into 401k retirement accounts."

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale (0xf6b...d52E) deposited $1.6 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a long position in copper with 4x leverage.

According to an official announcement, Bitget has launched USDT-based GWEI and BIRB perpetual contracts, both with a maximum leverage of 20x. A contract trading bot will also be available simultaneously. Additionally, participants can join the BIRB CandyBomb event to unlock airdrop rewards by completing specific contract trading volume tasks. A single participant can receive up to 290 BIRB, with a total prize pool of 115,000 BIRB. The event ends on February 5th at 18:00 (UTC+8).

According to Gate Research, approximately $9.8 billion worth of BTC and ETH options will be settled this Friday. Currently, the implied volatility (IV) for BTC and ETH is 38% and 54% respectively, with ETH IV falling to an extremely low level at the 1.6th percentile over the past year. BTC and ETH Skew have remained negative for the past week, indicating that downside protection demand is dominant; short-term risk aversion has clearly increased, while long-term risk pricing remains stable. In terms of block trades, in the past 24 hours, the BTC and ETH options market has seen predominantly put spreads; the largest structure was a BTC sell order (BTC-30JAN26-85000-P), with approximately 500 BTC traded and a net premium income of approximately $180,000. An ETH long volatility strategy (ETH-6FEB26-3150-C) was traded, with approximately 2,000 ETH traded and a net premium expenditure of approximately $90,000. Gate recently launched a convenient options trading tool – Combination Strategy Ordering – to help users efficiently manage different market conditions such as narrow range trading, gradual rises, or gradual falls. This feature supports various common multi-leg option strategies, including spreads and straddles, allowing users to create multi-leg options at once and visually display the overall cost, profit/loss structure, and risk exposure in a combined format. Users can quickly build and manage multi-leg strategies without having to operate on each leg individually, significantly reducing operational complexity and improving trading efficiency.

According to data from Solanacompass, the number of validator nodes on the Solana blockchain has plummeted from a peak of 2,560 to the current 795 since March 2023, a drop of 68%. This trend has raised concerns about the network's decentralization, as increased operating costs and zero-fee competition have made it difficult for small node operators to survive. Moo, an independent validator node operator, stated on the X platform that many small validators are considering closing their nodes, not because they have lost confidence in Solana, but because it is economically unsustainable. Moo pointed out that large validators charging 0% fees make it unprofitable for small validators, turning decentralization into a "charitable act." Furthermore, Solana's decentralization metric, NakamotoCoefficient, has also dropped from 31 in March 2023 to 20, a decrease of 35%. This metric measures the degree of blockchain decentralization; the decline indicates that the distribution of staking supply on Solana has become more concentrated, reducing the network's decentralization. The surge in operating costs is likely the main reason for the decrease in validator nodes. According to the technical documentation for Solana's validator node Agave, in addition to hardware and server costs, validators must hold at least 401 SOL annually to pay voting fees, requiring an initial investment of approximately $49,000 in SOL tokens to maintain operations. The Solana Foundation has not yet commented on this.