Form 13F reports for Q4 2025 are expected on February 14, with the SEC deadline rolling to February 17 due to the weekend and Presidents' Day. Crypto participants hope the disclosures might flag large ETF or equity position changes tied to the October 10 sell-off, when over $19 billion in leveraged bets were liquidated within roughly 24 hours.

Arweave has rejected claims that its network stopped producing blocks for over 24 hours after some explorers, notably ViewBlock, appeared to freeze at block #1,851,686 on February 6 2026. A team member said the issue stemmed from the explorer reading a local cache instead of the live block height, while Arscan showed uninterrupted block production up to February 7. Over the past year, Arweave processed more than two billion messages and rolled out performance upgrades, even as its AR token fell 6.51% on the day and 18% on the week amid broader market volatility.

On February 5, 2026, Bitcoin briefly slid to about $60k, reigniting arguments over whether the market is in a dip or a full crash. Social data from Santiment suggests traders only began using the word "crash" at that low, which coincided with a rebound and a 13% climb from the daily bottom. Compared with the over 70% drawdown following the 2022 FTX collapse, the latest move is framed as a sharp but still "dip-like" correction rather than a structural breakdown.

On February 6, 2026, StorX Network's SRX token traded around $0.06767 and climbed to a market capitalization near $49.1 million, overtaking Storj's roughly $47.6 million valuation after its 11.39% weekly drop. While major decentralized storage assets like BitTorrent, Arweave, and Walrus posted weekly losses of 13.65%, 23.31%, and 21.99%, SRX maintained steady liquidity with about $3 million in 24-hour volume. Messari's latest DePIN analysis suggests the sector could continue to attract capital even as broader crypto markets remain under pressure.

On February 6, 2026, the Ethereum Foundation introduced the One Trillion Dollar Security Dashboard as part of its broader Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative. The dashboard tracks six core security dimensions across the ecosystem and follows the Foundation's recent $50,000 maximum bug bounty payout for a high-severity ERC-4337 attack vector that has now been patched.

In Senate Banking Committee testimony on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act and told firms seeking minimal oversight to "move to El Salvador." Coinbase withdrew support in January 2026 over proposed limits on passive stablecoin yields, while Bitcoin is down over 32% this year near $63,100.

On February 5, 2026, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the Safeguarding Consumers from Advertising Misconduct (SCAM) Act, requiring social platforms to verify advertisers and exposing noncompliant companies to FTC and state attorney general actions. In 2025, Reuters reported Meta’s internal estimates tied roughly $16 billion of 2024 revenue to suspect ads, prompting calls for SEC and FTC probes, while major banking associations and AARP voiced support for the bill.

BBVA, Spain's second-largest bank, has joined Qivalis as its 12th member, a consortium of major European banks building a regulated euro-pegged stablecoin. The group, initially formed by nine banks in late 2025 and headquartered in Amsterdam, plans a commercial launch in the second half of 2026 after completing technical and regulatory work. The initiative aims to offer faster and cheaper euro-based payments and settlement of tokenized assets on blockchain, while challenging the dominance of USD-backed stablecoins in the roughly $300 billion stablecoin market.

On February 4, 2026, L2Beat's tracking showed that only about 27 of roughly 136 Ethereum L2 projects average at least 1.00 UOPS, leaving around 109 below that mark. Activity is concentrated on Arbitrum and Base, which handle about 90% of scaling traffic, while many smaller L2s see minimal engagement.