Crypto Market Fear Subsides Significantly, Today's Fear and Greed Index at 45

February 10 – AI firm Sahara AI has entered a deep partnership with Danal Fintech, one of South Korea’s largest payment technology companies, to co-develop a next-generation AI-powered payment system built on stablecoins. The two will leverage Danal’s extensive expertise in payments and settlement alongside Sahara AI’s full-stack Agent platform to AI-enable core use cases like cross-border payments and automated reconciliation—boosting the system’s reliability and operational efficiency in real-world financial scenarios. Separately, PayProtocol (a Danal subsidiary) plans to integrate Sahara AI’s investment assistant Sorin into the Paycoin App, delivering real-time market updates and asset analysis to millions of users. This collaboration marks Sahara AI’s official entry into large-scale traditional financial and payment scenarios.

Per Onchain Lens monitoring on February 10th, a whale address (0x960B...e2Ee) deposited 1.22 million USDC into Hyperliquid and opened long positions on BTC (5x leverage), INTC (2x leverage), and AMD (2x leverage). The whale is currently continuing to add to these positions.

February 10: Ethereum Foundation member ladislaus.eth noted the network is undergoing a key, largely under-the-radar architectural shift—moving from nodes re-executing every transaction in a block to verifying execution correctness via zkEVM proofs. Backed by EIP-8025 (Optional Proof of Execution), the proposal lets validators opt to validate multi-client zk proofs at the consensus layer instead of running a full execution layer (no upgrades or forks required). This mechanism is expected to slash node hardware and sync costs significantly, benefiting independent validators and home nodes. It also lays groundwork for future L1 execution scaling, ePBS (slated for the Glamsterdam upgrade), and native rollups. Ethereum’s L1-zkEVM roadmap targets 2026, with its first dedicated conference set for February 11.

On February 10, Upbit will add Dent (DENT) to its trading warning list. Currently, DENT’s deposit channel is closed. Upbit will review the reasons for the trading warning in line with its digital asset trading support termination policy. During the review, the warning period may be extended. If the underlying issues prompting the warning are not fully resolved, Upbit may terminate trading support for DENT.

On February 10, per Onchain Lens data, a new address deposited $1.98 million into HyperLiquid and opened a 20x long position on ETH, with an average entry price of $2,068.

On February 10, Techub News reported that Victory Securities Hong Kong officially disabled cryptocurrency trading for all users with mainland China identities as of the afternoon of February 9, 2026. The platform will only retain asset withdrawal permissions, ceasing support for new deposits and trades. This latest step—part of the firm’s ongoing tightening of services for mainland users (which previously included purchase restrictions and pausing new address verification)—aims to comply with regulations from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and relevant mainland China policies. Non-mainland tax resident users may continue using cryptocurrency trading services normally. Affected users can still withdraw their assets without disruption.