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Espresso [ESP] Airdrop Registration is closing today

Registration for Espresso $ESP airdrop is closing today, on Feb 9 midnight, 12am UTC.

• About 1M wallets are eligible for initial airdrop, with over 40 eligibility criteria.
• 10% of $ESP tokens are allocated for this airdrop.

Espresso builds a shared sequencing and confirmation layer for L2 rollups, so chains can focus on building user experiences rather than competing for fragmented liquidity. It raised $60M total from a16z Crypto, Greylock Partners, and Electric Capital, and $4M via public raise on Kaito.

Check your wallets for potential drop here 🔗 claim.espresso.foundation

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Based introduces BASED tokenomics with 23.5% allocated to Airdrop

$BASED total supply is 1B, with 235M allocated to Based community members who participated in Season 1 and Season 2 points campaigns, PUP holders, BasedPal NFT holders, and launch partners supporting the TGE.

Moreover, from Jan 5 to May 4, a total of 50M Diamonds will be issued for Season 3, with 15M distributed retrospectively based on user activity as of February 12, and the remaining 35M released from February 13 at a fixed daily rate of 432,098 Diamonds.

75M reserved for the Ethena community in recognition of their strategic investment and the collaboration on HyENA. TGE is set to launch in March 2026. Users can calculate their potential airdrop here.

ℹ️ Backed by Ethena Foundation, Based is a consumer-focused platform combining trading, prediction markets, payments, and on-chain commerce into a single ecosystem.


🔗 x.com/BasedFnd/status/2020489920222282164

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🚨 Binance buys ~$300M worth of Bitcoin for SAFU fund

Binance SAFU Fund bought another 4,225 $BTC ($299.6M), bringing its total purchase to 10,455 $BTC ($734M).

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

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Giannis Antetokounmpo has stake of over $100M in Kalshi

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo announced Friday that he has become a shareholder in Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction market platform, through his company Ante Inc. The deal was signed on Thursday, the day of the NBA trade deadline, and that Antetokounmpo’s stake falls below 1% of the company; at Kalshi’s $11B latest valuation, a 1% stake is worth over $100M.

The company did not disclose the exact size of the stake, or how far it falls below the 1% threshold. Kalshi was running event contracts on Antetokounmpo’s own trade destination earlier that week, garnering over $23M in volume.

Kalshi said under the platform’s rules, Antetokounmpo is prohibited from trading on NBA markets and any markets involving him personally.


🔗 theblock.co/post/388940/kalshi-says-nba-star-giannis-antetokounmpos-stake-is-below-1-controversial-deal-was-signed-thursday

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Espresso’s [ESP] Pre-TGE Prime Sale on Binance Wallet

During Prime Sale Campaign, users can subscribe to an allocation to Espresso, within the Binance Wallet.

Pre-TGE subscription details
• Activity Start: Feb 10, at 12:00 UTC
• Subscription cap per user: 3 BNB

ℹ️ Espresso builds a shared sequencing and confirmation layer for L2 rollups, so chains can focus on building user experiences rather than competing for fragmented liquidity. It raised $60M total from a16z Crypto, Greylock Partners, and Electric Capital, and $4M via public raise on Kaito.


🔗 x.com/BinanceWallet/status/2020815231358758987

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Top 7 Crypto Sites by Visits in January: Prediction Markets Flip Major Exchanges

Polymarket (38.4M visits) has officially overtaken Coinbase (27.7M) in monthly visits, and got very close to Robinhood (40.9M).

This confirms that prediction markets are no longer a niche - they are now a primary source of information and speculation, beating out traditional CEXs.

Data source 🔗 Similarweb

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⚡️BREAKING: Strategy acquired 1,142 BTC for ~$90M at an average price of ~$78,815 per BTC

As of February 8, Strategy holds 714,644 BTC purchased for ~$54.35B at an average of ~$76,056 per BTC.

At the current BTC price of $69,014, Strategy has an unrealized profit of approximately $5B.


🔗 x.com/saylor/status/2020846107685695931

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Backpack might be looking to raise $50M at a $1B valuation

Backpack, a centralized crypto exchange built by former FTX and Alameda leaders, is negotiating terms for new financing of up to $50M at a $1B valuation, Axios has learned from sources familiar with the deal.

Meanwhile, Polymarket odds give only 26% chance of keeping $1B valuation at TGE.

Previously, Backpack raised $37M from Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Placeholder VC, Wintermute, Robot Ventures, and others.


According to Axios, Backpack claims it generated over $100M in revenue in 2025. For comparison, Lighter earned around same $100M in 2025, while Hyperliquid generated around $840M in revenue last year.

Now team prepares for upcoming TGE and initial airdrop:
• Total supply is 1B tokens
• 25% of tokens to be distributed at TGE
• 24% (240M tokens) allocated to points holders
• 1% (10M tokens) reserved for MadLads NFT holders

Check good Backpack airdrop calculator here 🔗 backpack-calculator.swishi.xyz

🔗 axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/02/09/backpack-exchange-50m-raise-unicorn-valuation

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Espresso [ESP] has been listed on Binance Futures Pre-Market

Binance Futures has launched #ESPUSDT perpetual contract pre-market trading with up to 5x leverage today, on February 10, at 08:10 UTC.

Pre-market on Binance:
🔘Current price: $0.094
🔘Current FDV: $337M

ℹ️ Espresso builds a shared sequencing and confirmation layer for L2 rollups, so chains can focus on building user experiences rather than competing for fragmented liquidity. It raised $60M total from a16z Crypto, Greylock Partners, and Electric Capital, and $4M via public raise on Kaito.


🔗 binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/d60d3f7a16144a26ade3e9a84cd9156f

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Hyperliquid outperforms Coinbase in Trading Volume

Hyperliquid now have $2.6T in notional trading volume compared to Coinbase's $1.4T - that's nearly 2x the volume of one of crypto's largest centralised platforms.

Year-to-date, Hyperliquid is up 31.7% while Coinbase has dropped -27%. That's a 58.7% divergence in just weeks, signalling a clear shift in where traders are putting their capital.


🔗 x.com/artemis/status/2020965276234154248

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Top 7 Uprising Projects of Hyperliquid Ecosystem

The Hyperliquid ecosystem is quietly building the foundation for the next DeFi wave. The on-chain data confirms massive adoption:

🔹 Total Cumulative Volume: $3.85T
🔹 Total Deposits: $348.5B
🔹 Total Trades: 1.01M


$HYPE Performance: The native token is currently trading at ~$31.00, surging +40% from its local bottom in just 17 days, significantly outperforming the broader market.

HIP-4 upgrade was just announced, enabling fully collateralized Outcome trading. This major upgrade unlocks native prediction markets and options-style derivatives with fixed price ranges - allowing for complex payoffs without margin liquidations.

Here are some of the most promising ecosystem projects: Based, tradeXYZ, HyENA, Valantis, HyperLend, Felix and Dreamcash.

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Polymarket launches Attention Markets with Kaito AI

Attention Markets will quantify the volume and changes in public attention based on data from social media.

By pulling data across platforms including X, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, Kaito has been able to measure not only how much people talk about something - a metric tracked as “mindshare” - but also whether that talk is positive or negative - tracked as “sentiment.”


This data will enable Polymarket to create new markets such as “Will Anthropic’s mindshare be higher than OpenAI next month?” or “Will sentiment on Elon Musk go up this month?”

🔗 forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2026/02/10/polymarket-to-offer-attention-markets-in-partnership-with-kaito-ai

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Circle Ventures invests in edgeX ahead of token launch

Circle Ventures has invested an undisclosed sum in decentralized trading platform edgeX ahead of the project’s planned token launch and upcoming integration of native USDC and Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) on the EDGE Chain.

The investment comes as edgeX prepares to launch its token before March 31. The platform previously raised a pre-seed round led by Amber Group, which incubated the project, in December 2024.

ℹ️ edgeX is an orderbook-based perpetual DEX incubated by Amber Group with $181M TVL and $117B in 30D Volume

Trade and earn points ahead of upcoming airdrops using our invite link EdgeX


🔗 x.com/edgeX_exchange/status/2021223589890973842

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Tether announces Strategic Investment in LayerZero Labs

Tether has announced a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, the company behind the interoperability infrastructure powering USDt0. This technology enables digital assets to move securely across blockchains without liquidity fragmentation.

USDt0, built on LayerZero, has already processed over $70B in cross-chain transfers in under a year. The investment reinforces Tether's commitment to infrastructure that reduces market fragmentation and positions stablecoins as true global settlement instruments.

According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, this technology will be critical for the future agentic AI economy, which will require instant micropayments at unprecedented scale. instruments. According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, this technology will be critical for the future agentic AI economy, which will require instant micropayments at unprecedented scale.


🔗 tether.io/news/tether-announces-strategic-investment-in-layerzero-labs-creator-of-the-interoperability-infrastructure-used-by-usdt0

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🚨 BREAKING: The $1M X Creators Article winner Beaver exposed as serial memecoin rug puller

Just days after banking $1M for his viral Deloitte takedown (45M+ views), Bubblemaps uncovers on-chain proof linking his wallets to repeated Pump.fun rugs.

Key case: $SIAS
- Creator wallet deploys
- 4 connected snipers grab early supply
- Fake hype pumps to $6M MC
- Dev dumps everything → instant crash to zero
- Socials nuked
- Estimated exit: ~$600k from snipes + $25k traded openly

Pattern repeats: Dozens of dead tokens traced back to same clusters. No denials - just "cry me a river" + admitting bigger ones exist.


🔗 x.com/bubblemaps/status/2021209399377990103

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MegaETH Mainnet launch without MEGA token

Yesterday, February 9, marked the mainnet launch of MegaETH - a high-speed L2 blockchain designed to scale Ethereum. The project has raised $107M, but has chosen a unique, performance-based path to market.

The network is currently live without a native token (Gas = ETH). The $MEGA TGE will occur 7 days after the network hits one of the following KPIs:
• Liquidity: $USDM circulation must exceed $500M (with min. 25% locked in dApps).
• Adoption: 10+ active apps (reaching 100k+ txs & 25k users each) OR 3 apps generating $50k+ in daily fees.


With 53% of the supply allocated to KPI Staking, the incentives are heavily aligned with network growth.

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USD.АI [CHIP] will launch token sale on Coinlist on Feb 22

Purchase will launch on Feb 22, 23:00 UTC and end on Feb 27.

Token sale details

• Sale price: $0.03 ($300M valuation)
• Sale target: $21M
• Vesting: 100% unlock at TGE, expected on March 2

ℹ️ USD.АI is a permissionless lending protocol built to finance AI infrastructure. The protocol enables GPU operators to tokenize their hardware as collateral and access financing instantaneously. It raised $17.4 backed by YZi Labs, Bullish, Framework Ventures, CMT Digital and others.


🔗 x.com/CoinList/status/2021301209529774279

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Aztec [AZTEC] has been listed on Binance Futures Pre-Market

Binance Futures has launched #AZTECUSDT perpetual contract pre-market trading with up to 5x leverage today, on February 11, at 04:30 UTC. Recently, Aztec raised $59.1M via public auction.

Pre-market on Binance:
🔘Current price: $0.018
🔘Current FDV: $186M

ℹ️ Aztec Network is a private ZK-rollup on Ethereum, enabling decentralized applications to access privacy and scale. It raised $119.1M in four funding rounds backed by Paradigm, a16z, ConsenSys, Coinbase Ventures, Variant and others.


🔗 binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/2bf6526552a8464da4420fd0d5a412a9

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Binance & Franklin Templeton are launching an institutional collateral program

Franklin Templeton and Binance $BNB have launched a new institutional off-exchange collateral program that allows eligible clients to use tokenized money market fund shares issued via Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform as collateral when trading on Binance.

The program is designed to improve capital efficiency while reducing counterparty risk by keeping assets held off-exchange in third-party custody, with collateral value mirrored within Binance’s trading environment using Ceffu’s custody layer.

🔗 binance.com/en/blog/vip/1487561092272022488

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Opinion [OPN] debuts on Bybit Futures Pre-Marke with $550M FDV

Bybit Futures has launched #OPNUSDT perpetual contract pre-market trading today, on February 11, at 10:30 UTC.

Pre-market price:
🔘Current price: $0.55
🔘Current FDV: $550M

ℹ️Opinion is a leading prediction market platform on BNB Chain. It raised $25M in two funding rounds backed by YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Animoca Brands, and Amber Group.

> Platform Volume 30d: $2.89B (#3 prediction platform after Polymarket and Kalshi)
> Open Interest: $140M
> TVL: $140M

Use our referral link to join and get a 5% fee discount 🔗 app.opinion.trade?code=vjbNFc


🔗 announcements.bybit.com/en/article/listing-of-opnusdt-on-bybit-perpetual-pre-market-on-feb-11-2026-10-30am-utc-blt926944077c9a0e72

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