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CoinDesk is hosting its second annual Consensus Hong Kong conference, and as always, we’ll have a number of policy-focused sessions. Are you in town? Find me on stage or around the show floor and say hi!You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions.The narrativeCoinDesk’s annual Consensus Hong Kong conference will kick off this Wednesday with a speech from Hong Kong Chief Executive John KC Lee.Why it mattersHong Kong is playing an interesting role in the intersection of financial services between the global East and…

Ibiza, Spain, February 8th, 2026, Chainwire Investing Yachts today introduced its real-world asset (RWA) yacht charter model, a blockchain-based approach designed to tokenize exposure to potential double-digit revenue generated by luxury yacht charter operations via their upcoming $YATE token. Being their ultimate goal to democratize access to all private equity sectors. Positioning itself at the intersection of yachting and on-chain finance, Investing Yachts is built to remove traditional barriers associated with yacht investing—such as high minimum capital requirements, illiquidity, and operational complexity—by offering a token-based structure intended to be tradable on markets and supported by a managed charter fleet. How the…

Retail investors are scrutinizing the crypto market for signs that it may have bottomed out to gauge when to buy more crypto assets, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment.“Retail traders are trying to meta-analyze the market, looking for signs of others quitting to time their own entries, which often happens near bottoms,” Santiment said in a report on Saturday.Santiment has linked this to the word “capitulation,” which has become a top-trending crypto term on social media, according to the platform’s data. Source: CryptoQuantThe term describes investors selling their holdings out of fear that the market won’t recover, a scenario that…

CRV Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $0.27-$0.28 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $0.30-$0.34 range• Bullish breakout level: $0.32 • Critical support: $0.22 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Curve Recent analyst coverage suggests cautious optimism for CRV’s near-term prospects. Joerg Hiller forecasted on February 5, 2026: “CRV price prediction shows potential recovery from extreme oversold conditions at $0.26, targeting $0.30-$0.34 range as Curve battles critical support levels amid bearish momentum.” Earlier in the week, Tony Kim provided additional context: “CRV price prediction shows potential recovery from oversold levels, with analysts targeting $0.39 short-term and $0.40-$0.46 medium-term as…

Nasdaq-listed Forward Industries (FWDI) is uniquely positioned to consolidate the beaten-down digital asset treasury space because it carries no corporate debt and is completely unlevered, giving it room to play offense while peers retrench, according to Ryan Navi, the company’s chief investment officer. “Scale plus an unlevered balance sheet is a real advantage in this market. We can play offense when others are playing defense,” Navi told CoinDesk in an interview.”Forward Industries has strategically avoided leverage and debt by design, giving us the flexibility to responsibly deploy leverage when market opportunities arise, Navi said. “The foundation we’ve built for Forward…

Key takeaways:Bitcoin’s derivatives signal caution, with the options skew hitting 20% as traders fear another wave of fund liquidations.Bitcoin price recovered some of its Thursday losses, but it still struggles to match the gains of gold or tech stocks amid low leverage demand.Bitcoin (BTC) has gained 17% since the $60,150 low on Friday, but derivatives metrics suggest caution as demand for upside price exposure near $70,000 remains constrained. Traders fear that the liquidations of $1.8 billion of leveraged bullish futures contracts in five days indicate that major hedge funds or market makers may have blown up. Aggregate liquidations in Bitcoin…

Circle submitted its formal response to Switzerland’s Federal Council consultation on stablecoin regulation on February 6, warning that the proposed framework could effectively shut out foreign-issued stablecoins from the Swiss market—including Circle’s own USDC.The USDC issuer’s central objection: Switzerland’s draft rules would treat all non-Swiss stablecoins the same as unbacked crypto assets, regardless of whether they’re fully reserved and regulated elsewhere. With the global stablecoin market now exceeding $300 billion, Circle argues this approach risks cutting Switzerland off from a major chunk of cross-border payment activity.What Switzerland Is ProposingThe consultation, which closed February 6, 2026, covers proposed amendments to Switzerland’s…

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1944.26, up 6.7% (+121.31) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday.All 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: XRP (+20.1%) and HBAR (+13.1%).Laggards: AAVE (+1.9%) and BNB (+3.0%). The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.

APIA, Samoa, Feb. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, announced the launch of Phemex TradFi, a new futures trading offering that allows users to access traditional financial assets, including stocks and precious metals, on a 24/7 basis. Futures linked to commodities, foreign exchange, and global indices will be introduced in subsequent phases. The launch marks Phemex’s entry into multi-market derivatives, enabling traders to manage exposure to both crypto and traditional assets within a single, USDT-settled futures framework. To support early adoption, Phemex is introducing a 0-Fee TradFi Futures Carnival, offering three months of zero trading fees, starting…

Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.6 on February 5, positioning its latest AI model as a direct play for financial services workflows. The headline number: a 23 percentage point improvement over Claude Sonnet 4.5 on the company’s internal Real-World Finance benchmark, which tests roughly 50 investment and financial analysis use cases.The model now scores 60.7% on Vals AI’s Finance Agent benchmark—a 5.47% jump from Opus 4.5—which evaluates performance on SEC filing research. It also hits 76% on TaxEval, another external benchmark testing tax-related reasoning.Where Analysts Actually WorkThe real story here isn’t just benchmark scores. Anthropic is pushing Claude directly into the…