The popular AI framework Virtuals Protocol will host an in-person meet-up in Hong Kong on Friday, January 17.

On February 5, Lookonchain monitoring data reveals a whale sold 96,584 ETH (at ~$2,210 each, totaling ~$213.45 million) and 334,634 SOL (at ~$93 each, totaling ~$31.19 million) over the past 4 days to repay a loan. The whale has incurred a total loss of $142 million in just 6 months.

On February 5, autonomous AI agent platform Feltsense announced the completion of a $5.1 million funding round. The round was led by MattPRD, founder of Moltbook, with participation from Crunchbase, the founders of Joinrepublic, and notable venture capital firms including DraperVC, PrecursorVC, and Liquid2V. The new capital will be used to build a fully autonomous AI agent platform.

February 5th: Per DeFiLlama data, Binance recorded a $50 million net inflow in the past 24 hours, with a net inflow of over $1.3 billion in the past seven days—pushing its total assets on the platform above $142.4 billion. Previously, FUD circulated in overseas crypto communities claiming Binance saw over $22 billion in asset outflows last week, but on-chain data debunked the rumor as false. CZ (Changpeng Zhao) noted recent overseas community activity has been targeted by smear attacks from competitors. In a post, he flagged an account “X” (863,000 followers, nicknamed “Wei”) as a potential scammer, which frequently shares forged AI images of him. “Who would pretend to be a BNB supporter, using fake AI-generated images for months just to spread FUD? I can’t think of any other angle—this seems like the work of a self-proclaimed competitor. They’re more focused on us than on their own operations.”

Spot gold dropped below $4,800 per ounce on Feb. 5, falling $170 in intraday trading for a 3.46% decline, per Bitget market data.

Feb. 5 — Per OnchainLens monitoring, a whale address has once again transferred 2,676 ETH (valued at roughly $5.69 million) to FalconX, pushing its cumulative losses past $20 million. The address currently holds just 854 ETH (≈$1.82 million). Full address: 0xaea5ad2ad59c0e75ba2ae3f26bccdcbccffdd5fd Notably, the address deposited 8,329 ETH into Galaxy Digital as recently as yesterday.

On February 5th, Multicoin Capital co-founder Kyle Samani responded to a "bear market rant" from community user Taran (@Taran_ss) — a post he quickly deleted — with the following comments: “Crypto isn’t nearly as fun as many people — myself included — once thought it would be. I used to buy into the Web3 vision, the dApp hype. Now I don’t. Blockchain is fundamentally an asset ledger: it’ll reshape finance, but that’s it. DeFi’s another area worth watching, sure. Crypto will keep improving, but all the truly interesting questions have already been answered — except for on-chain privacy/confidentiality. (I still think Zama will win that race.)” Earlier today, Samani announced his resignation from Multicoin Capital, noting he’ll remain Chairman of Forward Industries (the largest SOL treasury holder) while taking a break to explore new tech directions. In a follow-up tweet, Samani clarified he’s still extremely bullish on SOL and crypto, and will stay engaged in the space both per