Odaily Planet Daily reports that crypto asset management firm Bitwise Asset Management has agreed to acquire Chorus One, an institutional-grade staking service provider. Both parties have confirmed the transaction, but the specific acquisition amount was not disclosed. Chorus One primarily provides institutional-grade staking services for decentralized networks, and its website data shows that it currently manages approximately $2.2 billion in staked assets. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley stated that staking is "one of the most attractive growth opportunities" for clients holding spot crypto assets. The report points out that 2025 saw a record high in crypto industry mergers and acquisitions, with a total transaction value of approximately $37 billion, indicating a clear trend of industry consolidation. Chorus One CEO Brian Fabian Crain also stated that staking is better suited for integration into larger platform ecosystems. (bloomberg)

According to Lookonchain monitoring, on February 4th, the whale bc1pyd had been steadily accumulating BTC, but stopped buying in the past 8 hours and sold all 5,076 BTC (worth $384 million), resulting in a loss of approximately $118 million.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, three wallets that had been dormant for four years (likely controlled by the same entity) bought 5,970 ETH at an average price of $2,195 per ETH for $13.1 million eight hours ago.

Huoxun Finance reported on February 4th that, according to Bloomberg, a source familiar with the matter revealed that Anthropic is planning a deal that would allow some employees to sell their company shares at a valuation of at least $350 billion. This comes as the company is currently undergoing a funding round, expected to raise over $20 billion. The tender offer would allow Anthropic employees to sell a portion of their equity holdings. The company is one of the world's highest-valued artificial intelligence startups. The source stated that the $350 billion valuation is the same as the valuation discussed in the company's ongoing funding round, and is a pre-funding valuation, meaning it does not include the final amount raised.

According to Huoxun Finance on February 4th, Goldman Sachs stated that it continues to see significant upside risk to its December 2026 gold price forecast of $5400/ounce. The bank pointed out that, from a timing perspective, most of the price fluctuations in January were driven by Western capital flows rather than speculative activity. Silver's correction was significantly larger due to continued tight liquidity in the London market, amplifying two-way price volatility. In the silver market, in addition to volatility triggered by call option structures similar to those in gold, the continued tightening of liquidity in London added further factors to extreme price behavior.