SoDEX testnet airdrop snapshot is finished, locking eligibility. $SOSO claim and DefiLlama listing open February 13. Weekly SoPoints distribution continues; testnet upgrade scheduled February 12.
The release of thousands of Epstein-related court records, with 47k temporarily removed for review, briefly rattled crypto markets. Bitcoin dropped but rebounded to $74,290; total market cap sits at $2.53T. Analysts see limited short-term impact, with macro factors still in focus.
Step Finance, a top DeFi dashboard on Solana, shut down after a $40M internal security breach. STEP token fell 34% to $0.0006013. A buyback plan based on pre-hack snapshot is underway; Remora rTokens remain 1:1 backed. The incident highlights operational security risks in DeFi.
Zcash staged a 3% intraday recovery on Jan. 12, rising to $397.35 after a 19% weekly plunge. Trading volume surged 25% to $686.46M. RSI moved off oversold levels, but Dubai's ban on privacy coins adds regulatory overhang. The $400 level is the key battleground.
A 13F filing is a useful public record of institutional exposure to crypto ETFs and related stocks, but it only shows quarter-end long positions and can be up to 45 days old when published.
Global crypto market cap rises to $3.21T with BTC and ETH up slightly. Monero leads gainers at +23%, Litecoin drops 3.3%. Fear & Greed Index at 27; key macro events ahead.
Pepeto's presale countdown reached zero on July 23, 2026, with $10.3M raised against a $10.63M target. Archived snapshots show this pattern has repeated at least three times before, each time followed by a price-tier rollover rather than a permanent closure. The countdown likely triggers a tier adjustment, not the end.
Worldcoin announced a 43% reduction in daily WLD unlocks from July 24, 2026, dropping from ~5.1 million to ~2.9 million tokens. Community token unlocks halved, TFH & investor unlocks cut 32%. WLD price jumped 3% to $0.28.
