Opinion raises $20M in a Pre-Series A Round

The round was led by Hack VC, with participation from Jump Crypto, Decasonic and Primitive Ventures.

Opinion is a leading prediction market platform on BNB Chain. Previously, it raised YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Animoca Brands, and Amber Group.

> Platform Volume 30d: $3.11B (#3 prediction platform after Polymarket and Kalshi)
> Open Interest: $120M
> TVL: $120M

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🔗 coindesk.com/business/2026/02/04/opinion-raises-usd20-million-as-prediction-markets-draw-capital-in-a-weak-crypto-market

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Top 7 Upcoming Airdrops to Expect in Q1

We’ve compiled a list of the most anticipated airdrops for Q1 of 2026. Here are the top projects to watch: Rainbow, Opinion, MegaETH, Paradex, USD.AI, edgeX and Backpack

• $RNBW TGE & Airdrop → Feb 5
• $OPN Booster Campaign on Binance Wallet → Feb 6
• $MEGA Mainnet launch → Feb 9
• $DIME TGE → Late Feb / Early March
• $CHIP ICO & Airdrop → Late Q1
• $EDGE TGE deadline → March 31
• Backpack allocates 25% Airdrop

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Ripple Prime enabled support for Hyperliquid

This integration enables institutional clients to access onchain derivatives liquidity while cross-margining DeFi exposures with all other asset classes supported by Ripple Prime, including digital assets, FX, fixed income, OTC swaps, and cleared derivatives.

Clients can access Hyperliquid liquidity while benefiting from a single counterparty relationship, centralized risk management, and consolidated margin across their entire portfolio.

🔗 coindesk.com/business/2026/02/04/opinion-raises-usd20-million-as-prediction-markets-draw-capital-in-a-weak-crypto-market

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Bitcoin Dips Below $71K, Triggering Over $855M in Liquidations

Spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen about $2.9B in outflows in recent sessions, and geopolitical tensions can cause this dip.

Hyperliquid led the exchanges with $194M in liquidations, followed by Bybit with $175M and Binance with $149M.

🔗 coinglass.com

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Hyperliquid plans revenue boost by deploying HYPE as options collateral

Hyperion's strategy does not include directional trading or speculating. Instead, the company wishes to provide collateral for the writing and settling of options and then earn revenue on premiums and fees.

The capital earned would be added to the revenue generated from staking Hyperion's HYPE tokens. The Rysk protocol is helping Hyperion with the launch of an on-chain options vault.

🔗 theblock.co/post/388522/hyperliquid-treasury-seeks-revenue-boost-using-hype-holdings-as-options-collateral

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SBI Holdings & Startale launches Layer 1 for Tokenized Securities & RWA - Strium

Strium Network is a Layer 1 blockchain focused on building Asia’s exchange-layer infrastructure for tokenized securities and onchain RWAs.

Leveraging SBI Holdings’ ecosystem of more than 80 million existing customers and expertise across securities, banking, and financial services, Strium is uniquely positioned to bridge institutional demand, professional trading activity and real world market participation onchain.

🔗 startale.com/en/blog/strium-announcement

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Crypto Predictions by Opinion

Prediction markets are signaling rock-solid conviction in Bitcoin holders alongside grounded expectations for new launches. The odds suggest MicroStrategy is extremely unlikely to sell any BTC in the first half of 2026 (<10% chance).

Meanwhile, sentiment regarding upcoming TGEs is realistic: the market favors conservative valuations for Backpack and StandX (leaning toward sub-$1B FDV), and "diamond hands" sentiment extends to the creator himself, with a massive ~95% consensus that Satoshi Nakamoto will not move any Bitcoin this year.

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US Pension Funds lost over $340M after investing in Strategy

US public pension funds are facing massive losses on their Strategy (MicroStrategy) investments amid Bitcoin's price meltdown.

Key metrics:
11 state pension funds hold nearly 1.8M shares of Strategy
Collective paper losses: ~$343M
10 out of 11 funds are down 60% on their positions
Strategy's stock has lost 67% of its value in 6 months

Biggest Losers:
New York State Common Retirement Fund: -$53M
Florida Retirement System: -$46M
North Carolina: -$30M Wisconsin: -$26M

These pension funds serve millions of teachers, police officers, firefighters, and government workers who are now watching their retirement savings shrink.

🔗 dlnews.com/articles/markets/public-pension-funds-down-bad-as-bitcoin-price-melts

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Tether announces $100M strategic equity investment in Anchorage Digital

Anchorage Digital Bank N. A is America’s first federally regulated digital asset bank offering staking, custody, governance, settlement, and stablecoin issuance to institutions and innovators globally.

Both companies are focused on strengthening the core infrastructure required for digital assets to operate safely, at scale, and within clear regulatory frameworks.

🔗 tether.io/news/tether-announces-100-million-strategic-equity-investment-in-anchorage-digital

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🚨 Bitcoin Dips Below $67K, Triggering Over $460M in Liquidations for 1 hour

Over the past hour, the crypto market saw over $470M in liquidations. In the last 24 hours, total liquidations reached $1.44B. The largest single liquidation order occurred on Aster exchange at $11.36M for BTCUSDT.

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Top L2s by Revenue in 24 hours – Base is the Absolute Leader

While most of L2s struggle with users and revenue flow, Base generates over $500K in just daily revenue – mostly driven by the exploding AI Agent economy now.

Vitalik Buterin dropped a bombshell statement, stating that L2s are failing and that the original vision of "Rollup-centric Ethereum" no longer makes sense. If L2s don't specialize (e.g., in privacy, AI, or specific apps) or reach Stage 1 decentralization, they are just "copy-paste chains" with no future.

The market clearly votes for utility over decentralization right now, and Base is currently leading this race with a huge gap.

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🚨 $2.68B liquidated in 24 hours – while BTC briefly went under $60k

Bybit leads liquidations at $693M, followed by Hyperliquid at $657M and Binance at $405M – cascading margin calls, with 86% of all liquidations being longs.

Bitcoin has now lost 51% from its $126k ATH – erasing $1.2T in value. Shaking around $60k now, its the deepest drawdown for $BTC since the 2022 bear market.

What could trigger this:
- Treasury Secretary Bessent testified on Feb 4 that the government has "no statutory authority to purchase cryptocurrencies with taxpayer funds" – killing the strategic BTC reserve narrative
- Kevin Warsh's Fed Chair nomination signals sustained hawkish policy
- $544M in spot $BTC ETF outflows yesterday alone; $1.6B net outflows in January
- Strategy $MSTR now underwater on its entire 713k $BTC position with avg cost ~$76k, and reporting $12.6B Q4 loss 
- $BTC broke below its 365-day moving average for the first time since March 2022

Fear & Greed Index at 9. Such an Extreme Fear has historically preceded the strongest recoveries.

But first, the market needs to find a floor.

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🚨 Binance buys $236M worth of Bitcoin for SAFU fund

Binance SAFU Fund bought another 3,600 $BTC ($236.9M), bringing its total purchase to 6,230 $BTC ($410M).

🔗 intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/1BAuq7Vho2CEkVkUxbfU26LhwQjbCmWQkD

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🚨 Hyperliquid is testing native Prediction Markets on Testnet

Recently, Hyperliquid $HYPE announced HIP-4 and new fully collateralized outcome contracts that would enable prediction markets and options-style derivatives with fixed price ranges, dated markets and non-linear payoffs, without margin trading or liquidations.

🔗 x.com/mlmabc/status/2019719732681908679

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Relay raises $17M in a Series B Round

Series B led by Archetype and Union Square Ventures alongside the release of Relay Chain. Relay is an interoperability infrastructure that enables cheap, fast, and reliable cross-chain transactions. Applications like Phantom, MetaMask, OpenSea, and Coinbase Wallet use Relay to give their users instant cross-chain capabilities.

🔗 radar.relay.link/relay-raises-17m-series-b

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DAT Companies are in $25B of Unrealized Losses

According to fresh data from Artemis, the Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) sector is facing a massive drawdown.

DATs are down about $25B cumulatively, with ZERO companies currently above their cost basis.

🟠 Strategy (MicroStrategy): $8.9B loss
The largest corporate BTC holder is taking the biggest hit but shows no signs of selling.

🔵 Bitmine: $8.6B loss
Heavy exposure to $ETH has resulted in significant unrealized losses.

⚫️ Others:
• Twenty One $BTC -$1.9B
• Bitcoin Standard $BTC -$1.7B
• Sharplink $ETH -$1.5B
• Metaplanet $BTC -$1.4B
• Forward $SOL -$1.1B
• Ether Machine $ETH -$1B
• Strive $BTC -$538M
• Solana Company $SOL -$342M

This is the first real bear market test for most DAT treasuries.

If prices don’t recover soon, some of these companies may be forced to sell at a loss, triggering a cascade.

Data source 🔗 Artemis

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Too Much Winning – How Major Crypto Dumped after Trump’s Inauguration 🇺🇸

A year ago today, Trump took Oval office and Bitcoin hit an all-time high. The market priced in a Golden Era, fueled by an aggressive list of campaign promises that sent valuations high – executive orders, strategic reserves, and regulatory clarity.

Instead, we got tariffs, hawkish Fed picks, and a Treasury Secretary who said there's "no statutory authority" to buy crypto with taxpayer funds.

We are now in a max pain zone compared to the inauguration hype, with corporate treasuries sitting on $25B in unrealized losses.

Here's the reality check since Inauguration Day (Jan 20, 2025 vs Feb 6, 2026):

📉 Trump $TRUMP -92.5%
🐶 Dogecoin $DOGE -73.6%
🟣 Solana $SOL -66.8%
⚫️ XRP $XRP -52.5%
🔵 Ethereum $ETH -39.2%
🟠 Bitcoin $BTC -33.3%
🟡 BNB $BNB -5.7%

The campaign promised a Bitcoin strategic reserve.
The reality delivered the worst drawdown since 2022.

This is the gap between narrative and execution, expectations and reality.

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