A certain whale withdrew 769.89 BTC after 3 months of inactivity, equivalent to around $50.62 million

Feb. 6: Second round of US-Iran talks in Oman concludes, per market sources (FX168)

On February 6, Onchain Lens monitoring shows Tether issued an extra 1 billion USDT on the Tron network. Over the past week, Tether and Circle have collectively issued 4.75 billion USDC across the Tron and Solana networks.

Feb. 6 — Bloomberg reports that as the AI race heats up, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are planning to invest roughly $650 billion in data centers, chips and infrastructure this century — an unprecedented level of spending. Driven by expectations of a winner-takes-all dynamic in the AI market, related spending is projected to rise by around 60% year-over-year. Amazon alone aims to put $200 billion into the effort, while Alphabet plans $185 billion, Meta $135 billion and Microsoft about $105 billion. This large-scale buildout is straining energy supplies, the workforce and chip production, sparking concerns about bottlenecks — yet no company wants to fall behind.

On Feb. 6, Amazon’s pre-market trading price dropped 7.3% to $206.39, per Bitget market data. Several major investment banks — including Goldman Sachs and Citi — have cut their price targets for the e-commerce giant.

**February 6th: BTC Drop Linked to IBIT Hedge Fund Leveraged Options Liquidations?** Parker White, CIO and COO of DeFi Dev Corp, said Tuesday that Bitcoin’s recent sharp decline may stem from forced liquidations of leveraged options positions held by an IBIT hedge fund—with a large-scale move potentially disclosed imminently. Overseas crypto communities have shown partial agreement with the speculation. Haseeb, partner at Dragonfly, called the comment “a relatively reasonable explanation for what unfolded in the market.” The market is now awaiting relevant documents to surface in three months to verify the claim—a key advantage of on-chain markets. Ki Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, noted it’s hard to fathom institutions dumping such a large volume of Bitcoin all at once unless forced. The chilling reality of Bitcoin’s forced sell-off is its tendency to trigger a chain reaction: liquidations drive price drops, push miners to bankruptcy, and force even long-holding retail investo

On February 6, data from MerkleMonitor indicates the 1inch team’s investment fund withdrew 20 million 1INCH (valued at $1.86 million) from Binance to an on-chain address two hours prior. Back in November 2023, the fund transferred 5 million USDC to Binance. Over the past three months, it has continuously withdrawn a total of 58.66 million 1INCH (valued at $5.53 million) from the exchange to on-chain addresses.