Coinbase announced on the Trading on Coinbase.com, Coinbase Exchange, and Coinbase Prime will be suspended and the SNT order book has been moved to limit mode, where limit orders can be placed and canceled, and matches may occur.

Taiko, an Ethereum Layer 2 project based on zkRollup, posted on the development.

Kraken announced that it has obtained a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from the Dutch Central Bank, which will allow the exchange to provide services in the Netherlands. Kraken has previously obtained licenses in Spain, Italy and Ireland. In November last year, Kraken was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for operating without registration. The company later said its business had not been affected by the lawsuit.

The supply of ether (ETH) staked on the Ethereum network has reached 25% of its total supply. The milestone comes nearly a year after Ethereum’s Shapella upgrade, with more than 30.1 million ETH, worth approximately $73 billion, currently staked. Since the Shapella upgrade, the number of staked ether has surged, with the total staked now exceeding 942,023 validators. However, as the number of people participating in staking has increased, the staking reward has dropped from a peak of 8.6% to less than 4% currently.

Disney announced that it will invest US$1.5 billion in the game company Epic Games to obtain part of its equity. The partnership is not only financial, the two parties will "work together to create a new open, persistent and social universe that further expands Disney's popular stories and experiences." The trailer states that "a new universe is about to be born" where players can "play, see, create and shop" while "exploring a place where magic and epic meet." In a statement, Disney emphasized that the company has long used Epic's Unreal Engine in film and television editing and theme park projects such as "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge." Disney's new game universe will also be built using Unreal Engine, the company said.

The famous movie star Stephen Chow changed his avatar to a Nobody NFT picture on the suggestions. Later, he posted again to encourage everyone to change their avatars, and pointed out that many people expressed opinions without changing their avatars.

The official website shows that the iZUMi Finance iPoints points system has supported Manta Pacific. Users can earn iPoints through Swap transactions or adding liquidity to iZUMi. iZUMi Finance will allocate MANTA Grant rewards to users based on points. The first snapshot ended at 0:00 on February 5, Singapore time, and the second round of airdrops and snapshots is expected to begin in March.

Investing app Robinhood has partnered with Consensys’ MetaMask ecosystem to launch Robinhood Connect integration with MetaMask’s Buy Crypto aggregator. The move aims to reduce barriers for U.S. users to purchase cryptocurrencies. Robinhood Connect is a platform that allows users to buy and exchange cryptocurrencies into self-hosted wallets and decentralized applications. MetaMask’s Buy Crypto aggregator allows individuals to buy cryptocurrencies from multiple providers, is available in 189 different countries, and adheres to Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance regulations in the user’s region.

Polygon announced the first list of 17 projects selected for its founder support program "Village Startup Support". These projects cover a variety of fields, including tokenized investment strategy AlphaCaptureXYZ, RWA hotel room booking resale market Buktrips, blockchain game ChainersGame, Web3 lifestyle application DEFIT, environmentally friendly game Ecoland World, decentralized and cross-border Platform game store Isotopic, Web3 game NFT rental IQLabs, on-chain knowledge hosting center Lorefy, Web3 loyalty program Metasky, play and earn role-playing game MetaToyDragonZ, "Zapier" Nerif Network for Web3, NFT ticket and membership solution Moongate, zkAttestation Protocol Padolabs, cross-border payment service platform Save Chain, DeFi platform Synergy AI with AI analysis tools, savings and loan product Tropykus, DID-driven Layer-0 Tria.