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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele holds a 91.9% approval rating in a poll of 1,200 people, with security gains cited as the key driver. On February 5, 2026, he responded on X, while Bitcoin usage remains limited despite 2021 legal‑tender status and amid ongoing IMF talks over policy and the Chivo wallet.

After XRP fell to around $1.15 and later traded near $1.42, a commentator known as Stellar Rippler urged holders to withdraw assets from centralized exchanges. He alleges the drop was engineered and claims institutions have rights to buy escrowed XRP under NDAs. He also flagged reported withdrawal difficulties for users on Binance and Coinbase.

On Feb. 6, 2026, Shiba Inu team member Lucie relayed a Safe Labs alert about an address poisoning and social engineering campaign aimed at Safe Wallet multisig users, with 5,000 lookalike addresses already flagged as malicious. Users are urged to verify full recipient addresses, rely on address books or allow lists, and send small test transfers first, as a recent case saw a crypto holder lose 50 million USDT after copying a spoofed address from transaction history.

Security firm Socket reported that attackers have compromised official dYdX-related packages on npm and PyPI, stealing wallet seed phrases and other credentials from developers and users. The malicious code allegedly enabled complete wallet takeover, crypto theft, and remote execution of additional malware by communicating with a typosquatted domain linked to dYdX services.

MultiversX has integrated Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, allowing AI agents to access and operate crypto wallets directly on its blockchain. Through this setup, software agents can check balances, validate conditions and execute on-chain transactions without human intervention. The move positions the network as infrastructure for autonomous economic activity and advances machine-to-machine payments on public blockchains.

On February 4, 2026, Arkham reported that Bhutan moved $22.4M in Bitcoin from sovereign wallets over the past week, including a transfer five days earlier to QCP Capital-labeled addresses. The country's crypto portfolio has fallen from $1.4B to $412M, and it remains the seventh-largest government BTC holder.

On February 4, 2026, CoolWallet announced support for TRON’s Energy rental, a move highlighted by TRON DAO to lower TRX network fees. The hardware wallet says users keep self-custody via its device and mobile app while paying for Energy in TRX or USDT on TRON, aiming to make transfers and DeFi activity more cost-efficient.

Crypto project Payy has launched a privacy-enabled Ethereum layer-2 network that makes all ERC-20 transfers private by default without requiring new wallets or tokens. Users can already add the network to MetaMask and other EVM wallets, with Payy targeting both institutions moving capital onchain and crypto natives seeking easier privacy when handling stablecoins and other ERC-20 assets.

On February 4, 2026, Stacks announced an integration with Fireblocks that will let the platform's 2,400+ institutional clients deploy BTC into Bitcoin-native DeFi on Stacks. According to the announcement, Fireblocks secures more than $5 trillion in annual digital asset transfers, and the integration will use enterprise-grade infrastructure for custody, settlement, trading, and payments.

Fireblocks said Wednesday it will integrate Stacks, a Bitcoin-aligned DeFi layer, to offer institutional lending and yield opportunities. Leveraging Stacks' roughly 29-second blocks helps bypass Bitcoin's ~10-minute interval while still settling to the BTC ledger for finality. Fireblocks expects the rollout in early 2026, without a specific launch date.