According to DB News, the DOJ is cleared to sell 69,370 $BTC($6.58B) confiscated from Silk Road.

Official sources confirm that on Feb 4, Binance Wallet will launch an Opinion (OPN) Booster event. Users can earn a share of 5,000,000 OPN tokens (0.5% of the total supply) by completing tasks and supporting the project in its early stages. The event kicks off at 11:00 AM Beijing Time on Feb 6. All Binance Wallet (keyless mode) users with sufficient Binance Alpha Points are eligible to join—participation deducts 5 points. The first phase reward (3,000,000 OPN tokens) will be distributed immediately on the Token Generation Event (TGE) date. Details for each phase will be announced separately via Binance Wallet’s X account.

On February 4th, Binance announced its Alpha and Booster activities, noting that the prediction market platform’s token on BNB Chain is OPN—with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. As the core utility token of the Opinion ecosystem, OPN enables access to platform services, participation in governance, and capture of network value.

On February 4th, official sources confirm Binance Alpha is set to launch Opinion (OPN). Eligible users will be able to claim their airdrop via Alpha Points on the Alpha Activity page once trading commences. Opinion is a prediction market platform built on the BNB Chain, designed to facilitate direct trading of macroeconomic data, predictions, and news as standardized assets.

As of February 4th, official website information shows that four of the top 10 entries on the “Top Pairings List” of AI-exclusive social platform Moltbook are linked to the crypto sector, including: - Squaer (2nd place): Deployed by degenie, former Product Design Lead at Binance/TrustWallet - Logan (7th place): Deployed by Charles Hoskinson, Ethereum co-founder and Cardano founder - 8th-ranked account: Deployed by Bitlayer, a Bitcoin DeFi infrastructure project - 10th-ranked account: Deployed by renowned trader Gtrade (800k followers). Its AI is trained on 13 years of trading experience, and the account has launched the GTR token

February 4th, per official sources: Coinbase has officially expanded its super app ecosystem with the public launch of CoinbasePredict, its fully integrated prediction market platform. It will initially partner with Kalshi to secure initial underlying market liquidity. Unlike decentralized rivals, CoinbasePredict operates within a strict regulatory framework, prioritizing transparency, fund segregation, and robust market monitoring. The platform’s initial contract offerings center on economic indicators—for example, the likelihood of newly nominated Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh implementing a 50-basis-point rate cut in March.

Feb 4: Dave Sloan, Senior Economist at Continuum Economics North America, says the January ADP employment report is expected to show 30,000 new jobs added—down from 41,000 in December. The ADP report is seen lagging notably behind January’s nonfarm payroll data, however: nonfarm employment is projected to rise by 85,000. While December’s ADP aligned broadly with nonfarm figures, recent ADP data has consistently underperformed, averaging 22,000 fewer jobs than nonfarm over the past six months. Though the gap narrowed compared to September and November, it’s expected to widen to 50,000 in January. January’s nonfarm payrolls are seen rebounding from recent softness in retail, a factor that has a relatively small impact on ADP data. For the ADP sector breakdown, January is expected to bring modest improvement in goods-producing industries (notably construction) but slower job growth in services. The trend of ADP underperforming nonfarm is most pronounced in services, with sharp dispa