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According to official news, the globally leading crypto asset trading platform Gate held a high-end industry exchange event during Consensus HK, continuously strengthening its role as a connector and its industry influence in the global Web3 ecosystem.Dr. Han, the founder and CEO of Gate, delivered a keynote speech on the main stage of the conference, sharing Gate's practical experiences in globalization, compliance, and Web3 infrastructure. This speech highlighted Gate's position as an industry link, demonstrating that Gate is promoting cooperation and implementation in the global Web3 ecosystem with a more open attitude. During the three days of Consensus HK, Gate also organized multiple exchange activities around core topics such as investment, technology, and institutional collaboration, facilitating deep cooperation among different circles and ecological roles.On February 10, Gate Ventures hosted the dinner "Gate Ventures Executive Dinner: The Convergence," gathering several industry leaders to discuss the global value chain. On February 11, Gate held a reception for a broader range of industry participants, focusing on cutting-edge topics such as AI, Web3, and RWA, sparking collisions and interactions of diverse viewpoints. On February 12, Gate held "Gate Institutional Circle: CrossEx · Next-Gen Cross-Exchange Trading Infrastructure," featuring thematic sharing, roundtable discussions, a dinner, and an awards ceremony to engage in deeper industry dialogue.By concentrating its layout at this important industry node of Consensus HK, Gate plays a key role in connecting capital, technology, and application ecosystems, further consolidating its participation and influence in the global Web3 ecosystem.

According to The Block, JPMorgan analysts have stated that their estimated production cost of Bitcoin—historically viewed as a "soft price support"—has decreased from $90,000 at the beginning of the year to $77,000, primarily due to a recent decline in network hash rate and mining difficulty.Analysts pointed out that the recent drop in Bitcoin's network hash rate has triggered the largest adjustment in mining difficulty since the Chinese mining ban in 2021, with a cumulative decline of about 15% so far this year. The decrease in difficulty provides breathing room for miners still in operation, as efficient miners are capturing market share lost by high-cost miners who have been forced to shut down. Analysts have observed a rebound in hash rate and expect that production costs may rebound during the next difficulty adjustment.The report attributes the decline in difficulty to two factors: first, the drop in Bitcoin prices has rendered high-cost miners unprofitable; second, winter storms in the U.S. have temporarily halted operations at large mining facilities in places like Texas. Some high-cost miners have maintained operations or transitioned to AI by selling off Bitcoin, exacerbating the price pressure since the beginning of the year. Analysts believe that the exit of high-cost miners has stabilized, and they maintain a "positive" outlook for the overall cryptocurrency market in 2026.

The cryptocurrency asset trading platform Gate has officially launched a new promoter task and incentive platform called Gate Booster. This platform is aimed at KOLs in the crypto industry, content creators, community builders, and various promotional partners. Through a standardized task mechanism and a transparent incentive system, it connects high-quality promotional resources with Gate ecosystem projects, driving user growth and long-term community development.It is reported that Gate Booster is positioned as a collaboration and task platform for promoters, supporting various types of tasks such as invitations, recommendations, and content dissemination. Promoters can obtain corresponding incentives through compliant original content output and user guidance, achieving a dual enhancement of influence and revenue. The platform includes posting tasks related to official events, new coin listings, and product features, as well as recommendation tasks that guide new users to register and complete specified actions through exclusive links or invitation codes. Rewards will be based on actual data statistics and settled according to the rules.From a long-term perspective, Gate Booster will provide promoters with priority participation opportunities in platform-level projects and will continuously invest in incentive budgets to ensure transparency in mechanisms and stability in settlements, further assisting individual and institutional promoters in enhancing their influence and commercial value in the Web3 field.

Nasdaq-listed company Cosmos Health announced that it has purchased $500,000 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to expand its digital asset program, bringing its total cryptocurrency investment to $2.5 million.Cosmos Health CEO Greg Siokas stated that the average purchase price for this Bitcoin acquisition was below $70,000, aiming to enhance portfolio diversification and strengthen the overall capital deployment strategy. The company is also evaluating the inclusion of other cryptocurrencies.

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) testified before the House Financial Services Committee that it will reduce regulatory burdens through three initiatives to "make IPOs great again," including: streamlining disclosures based on materiality, reducing politicized issues at shareholder meetings, and providing litigation alternatives for public companies. He emphasized that the federal regulatory framework for crypto assets is "seriously outdated," supports Congress in passing the CLARITY Act, and collaborates with the CFTC to develop token classification and on-chain trading exemption programs through "Project Crypto."At the same time, the SEC is conducting a comprehensive review and cutting costs of systems like the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), reducing PCAOB budgets and board compensation, and combating overseas manipulation and fraud through cross-border enforcement, reaffirming its core mission to protect investors and enhance market efficiency.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that to make Ethereum the ideal platform for AI, it cannot simply replicate existing solutions with a different logo.He emphasized that meaningful technological improvements, such as zero-knowledge privacy-preserving payments and reputation systems, should be made to create infrastructure and applications that are truly superior to existing solutions.

Strike founder Jack Mallers posted, "Bitcoin is not a software company. The reason it trades like a software stock is that many holders do not truly understand it. This pullback is indeed painful, but it may be clearing out the 'software capital' that is leveraged, allowing Bitcoin to be priced and traded according to its 'hard currency' attributes. Hold on. Buy the dip (BTFD). No one knows where the price will go, but based on historical data, if you believe Bitcoin won't drop to zero, then now is a good time to start dollar-cost averaging."

According to GMGN monitoring, the Solana ecosystem meme coin PIPPIN has been continuously rising since February 6, with its market capitalization increasing from a low of about $160 million to $450 million, and a 20% increase in the past 24 hours.ChainCatcher reminds users that meme coin trading is highly volatile, largely relying on market sentiment and conceptual speculation, and has no actual value or use case. Investors should be aware of the risks.

Bitcoin mining has entered a severe phase, with unit hash rate revenue dropping to a historical low of about $35/PH. Affected by a significant market correction, the price of Bitcoin has fallen over 50% from its 2025 peak of $126,000, currently hovering around the $60,000 range. Against this backdrop, the average production cost of a single Bitcoin across the network is approximately $87,000, about 45% higher than the current market price, marking the first large-scale "underwater operation" since the bear market of 2022.CryptoQuant defines the current phase as the "surrender phase," characterized by the accelerated shutdown of old mining machines and a noticeable contraction in overall network hash rate. As a result, the stock prices of listed mining companies such as MARA Holdings and Riot Platforms have dropped over 20% this week, with funds flowing towards more stable traditional assets like gold.Meanwhile, North America's mining hubs (especially Texas) are facing severe winter storms, forcing some mining farms to limit power usage to ensure the stability of the civilian power grid. Coupled with miner exits, the network experienced a historic difficulty adjustment of about 11% on February 9. However, due to the significant drop in coin prices, the profitability recovery effect from the difficulty adjustment is limited.The industry's "Miner Profitability Sustainability Index" has fallen to 21, indicating that, except for a few operators with low electricity costs and high efficiency, most miners have completely compressed profit margins. For companies with electricity prices above $0.05 per kilowatt-hour or those still using older model mining machines, this difficulty adjustment is unlikely to reverse the risk of total shutdown.To cope with the "2026 mining winter," leading companies are accelerating their transition to artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). IREN and Core Scientific have redirected some of their data center power capacity to support generative AI businesses to secure more stable long-term contract revenues. Recently, Bitfarms announced a complete exit from Bitcoin mining to focus on its AI strategic transformation.

According to official news, the four core infrastructures of the LX ecosystem are about to be fully launched. Among them, the underlying public chain LXChain, the LX exchange, and the block explorer LXExplorer will be launched simultaneously on February 11, 2026, while the multi-chain payment tool LXPay is scheduled to be released on March 1, 2026.This launch covers a full-chain layout from public chain, trading, data to payment: LXChain adopts DPOS consensus and supports block generation in 3 seconds; the LX exchange supports spot trading of mainstream assets and will debut the LB/USDT mainstream trading pair; LXExplorer provides transparent on-chain data queries; LXPay will initially integrate multiple EVM-compatible chains, gradually achieving multi-chain asset payment and management.LX, symbolized by the "Statue of Liberty," is positioned as a global aggregation carrier and a multi-chain issuance platform, practicing the concept of "freedom changes crypto, trust returns to the community." The landing of this product matrix marks its official entry into a new stage of integrated aggregation ecology.

According to GMGN monitoring, the Base ecosystem AI Agent token BNKR experienced a short-term surge, with its market capitalization exceeding $120 million, setting a new historical high. The current market cap is reported at $121 million, with a current price of approximately $0.0012, and a 24-hour increase of 30%.ChainCatcher reminds users that meme coin trading is highly volatile, largely relying on market sentiment and conceptual speculation, with no actual value or use case. Investors should be aware of the risks.

Matrixport's RWA platform Matrixdock has announced the official deployment of its gold token XAUm on the Solana blockchain. Each XAUm token is fully backed by 1 troy ounce of physical gold that meets LBMA standards and has a purity of 99.99%, with assets held in institutional-grade vaults and subject to independent third-party audits.In terms of ecological applications, XAUm has been natively integrated into Solana's DeFi system, with initial liquidity deployed on Raydium and price oracle services provided by Pyth, with plans to expand into the lending market in the future. On the security front, the Solana smart contracts supporting XAUm have been audited by Accretion and Sec3. Previously, Matrixdock supported the Kingdom of Bhutan as a technology provider in launching the sovereign gold-backed token TER on Solana, and this deployment marks a further step in bringing institutional-grade gold assets into the on-chain financial infrastructure space.

The ETF Store President Nate Geraci posted on the X platform that spot Ethereum ETF buyers are paying an average of $3,500 per token. The current price of Ethereum is $2,100, and it has performed poorly over the past six months.

MegaETH announced on the X platform that its mainnet is fully launched and the ecosystem frontend The Rabbithole has been introduced. Its main features include helping users discover running and upcoming applications, bridging and exchanging assets, and receiving notifications about ecosystem events.

According to GMGN monitoring, the Solana ecosystem meme coin PIPPIN has been continuously rising since yesterday morning, with its market capitalization increasing from around $180 million to $290 million. The current price is approximately $0.292, with a 24-hour increase of 54%. Previously, during the period from January 28 to February 1, the token's price had been on a downward trend, reaching a low of $0.15.ChainCatcher reminds users that meme coin trading is highly volatile, largely relying on market sentiment and conceptual speculation, and has no actual value or use case. Investors should be aware of the risks.

CoinVex ecological cooperation project EC Treasury announced the completion of a multi-million dollar financing round. This round was co-led by the well-known family office Eastern Fortune Investments and early-stage venture capital firm Ludus Ventures, further strengthening CoinVex's foundation in RWA asset on-chain, liquidity, and settlement capabilities.At the same time, EC Treasury announced a deep cooperation with the Hong Kong-listed company Ocean Group (HK 1991). Both parties will jointly promote the real-world asset (RWA) treasury plan by allocating diversified quality assets such as mainstream crypto assets, precious metals, and stocks, building a positive flywheel of "asset appreciation - market value enhancement," and facilitating more real assets to enter CoinVex's trading and liquidity system with higher efficiency.Eastern Fortune expressed optimism about EC Treasury's potential to enhance global asset allocation efficiency through innovative means; while Ludus Ventures pointed out that this move aims to support entrepreneurial teams with pioneering spirit in Web3 and emerging sectors.

According to tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the compliant blockchain ecosystem Rayls has been the project with the most new followers among X (Twitter) Top personalities. New influential figures following this project include cryptocurrency analyst Phyrex (@Phyrex_Ni), IcoBeast.eth (@icobeast), and crypto researcher Jason Chen (@jason_chen998).