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NEW YORK, Feb. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of Vistagen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VTGN) between April 1, 2024 and December 16, 2025, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”), of the important March 16, 2026 lead plaintiff deadline.

SO WHAT: If you purchased Vistagen common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.

WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Vistagen class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=50827 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 16, 2026. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.

WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved, at that time, the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs’ Bar. Many of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.

DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants provided investors with material information concerning Vistagen’s plan to develop and commercialize its drug fasedienol, an investigational pherine candidate in development for the acute treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD). Defendants’ statements included, among other things, Vistagen’s positive assertions of fasedienol’s future trial success based on the prior positive results associated with the PALISADE-2 clinical trial, in addition to notable enhancements and operational changes made to the execution of the PALISADE-3 clinical trial supported a strong likelihood of Phase 3 success and positioned it as a confirmatory study.

According to the lawsuit, defendants provided these overwhelmingly positive statements to investors while, at the same time, disseminating false and misleading statements and/or concealing material adverse facts concerning its Phase 3 PALISADE-3 trial study of fasedienol. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.

To join the Vistagen class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=50827 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] for information on the class action.

No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor’s ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.

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Nvidia and CoreWeave have a close relationship.

CoreWeave (CRWV 6.13%) was one of 2025's artificial intelligence (AI) success stories. The company launched an initial public offering in March and then saw its shares soar more than 300% in the months to follow. Investors got excited about CoreWeave because the company is providing a service that's greatly needed as the AI revolution unfolds: access to top-performing AI chips. Customers clearly love the offering as they're flocking to CoreWeave and driving its sales to triple-digit gains.

Still, CoreWeave stock stumbled later in the year amid general concern about the risk of a slowdown in AI spending -- so the stock pared gains, finishing 2025 with a 79% increase. But in recent days, Nvidia (NVDA 0.72%) delivered some big news that's clearly positive for CoreWeave. Is the stock now a buy? Let's find out.

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CoreWeave and Nvidia First, it's important to note that CoreWeave and Nvidia have a particularly close relationship. CoreWeave's business is essentially built around Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs), the key AI chips needed for the development and deployment of AI. Other companies make AI chips, but Nvidia's so far have steadily been ahead of the pack in terms of power and efficiency.

Some companies buy GPUs from Nvidia and set up their own data centers, but this is costly and requires a lot of time. CoreWeave gives customers a shortcut. The company, known as a GPU-as-a-Service provider, offers customers access to its massive fleet of Nvidia GPUs as needed -- so customers can literally rent by the hour and gain access for a short period of time or for a great deal of time.

As we can see through CoreWeave's surging revenue -- it more than doubled to reach $1.3 billion in the recent quarter -- this service has been in high demand.

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A $2 billion investment from Nvidia But the relationship with Nvidia doesn't end there. Nvidia owns shares of CoreWeave as part of its investment portfolio -- in fact, it's the company's biggest holding. And this brings me to the recent news. Nvidia just invested another $2 billion in CoreWeave Class A common stock, an effort to help the company reach its infrastructure buildout goals.

Does this make CoreWeave a buy? For aggressive investors looking for growth -- yes. Nvidia has proven itself to be a key financial supporter of CoreWeave, and this may reduce the risk that CoreWeave will fail to fund its buildout. And Nvidia also has a deep understanding of the AI market, so the company might be good at selecting potential winners. Though CoreWeave still comes with too much risk for the cautious investor, aggressive investors should consider buying and holding a few shares of this exciting AI player.

Adria Cimino has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Nvidia. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Advanced Micro Devices is swiftly becoming a major source of parallel processing power for hyperscalers.

Throughout the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, Nvidia (NVDA 0.72%) has been the 800-pound gorilla in the world of high-performance parallel processors. The company's pioneering role in designing graphics processing units (GPUs) gave it a massive first-mover advantage in the generative AI race that it has largely maintained.

That left Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 6.09%) as a far more minor player in the GPU landscape -- but one with ambitious goals. While it has taken some time for AMD to scale up its data center presence, the company is beginning to prove that its offerings can hold their own. Now, it's looking like 2026 could be a transformative year for the company, which could make AMD a lucrative investment opportunity.

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AMD is beginning to win over the hyperscalers AMD's chips are handling a growing fraction of hyperscaler workloads. That's an important validation for the company's efforts to compete with the GPU leader. Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Oracle, and OpenAI are all complementing their existing Nvidia GPU stacks with AMD's Instinct accelerators.

This demonstrates that AI's largest developers view AMD's chips as credible alternatives to incumbent chip designs. It also shows that its wares are capable of handling large-scale AI applications and are not simply being deployed in testing or edge cases.

AMD's chips are being used for both training and inference workloads. In the long run, these dynamics may be able to yield better unit economics across memory and storage for big tech -- making AMD a lower-cost alternative to Nvidia, which currently commands enormous pricing power.

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AMD looks poised for explosive revenue and earnings growth While Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem remains the industry standard for powering hyperscaler workloads, AMD's competing ROCm software platform offers developers a new level of control, given its open-source approach. This is the opposite of Nvidia's lock-in strategy.

This flexibility is more than just a technological difference -- it could be a competitive advantage for big tech. By integrating AMD into a meaningful portion of their overall AI stacks, customers gain negotiating leverage over other suppliers. While it may not be obvious yet, AMD is starting to show some signs of disrupting Nvidia's structural moat.

Smart investors realize that AMD is not simply a cheaper alternative to Nvidia. The company's growing ability to win big contracts with hyperscalers could pave the way to further, sustained deal flow.

AMD's true value proposition lies in its ability to complement other architectures across various aspects of the AI value chain. AMD is more than just a GPU designer. The company is cross-selling CPUs and networking products to help developers build robust, end-to-end integrated systems.

Industry research suggests that the hyperscalers are going to spend over $500 billion on AI infrastructure this year. Given AMD's attractive cost profile and its comprehensive product suite, I would not be surprised to see big tech continue shifting its AI chip mix through further AMD deployments.

Even nominal market share gains for AMD could fuel meaningful revenue acceleration and profit margin expansion as the AI chip market continues to grow. AMD is slowly becoming a major beneficiary of AI diversification strategies.

This is what makes 2026 particularly interesting. AMD's evolving position in the data center market could result in the stock seeing significant valuation expansion throughout this year and beyond as the market continues to realize the company is not just a minor contender in the GPU arena but a core pillar supporting the AI infrastructure boom.

Adam Spatacco has positions in Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Oracle. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Broadcom's recent price dip makes the stock worth a close look.

Broadcom (AVGO +0.17%) shares have pulled back about 20% from the highs they hit in December, which could be a huge gift to investors. The company has one of the biggest growth opportunities in the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure space, and it is just getting started.

Famed portfolio manager Cathie Wood recently predicted that AI infrastructure spending would rise from around $500 billion to $1.4 trillion in 2030. While that would be good news in and of itself for Broadcom, what stood out even more was her prediction of how that spending would get spread out. The growth of spending on networking components was predicted to outpace the growth of compute, while AI ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) were forecast to take some meaningful market share away from graphics processing units (GPUs).

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A networking and ASICs leader If Wood's prediction were to come to fruition, it would be a huge growth driver for Broadcom. The company is a leader in both networking components and ASIC technology.

Broadcom has a robust networking portfolio, consisting of components such as Ethernet switches, optical receivers, digital signal processors (DSPs), and network interface cards (NICs). These components are necessary to manage data flow and help transfer data and distribute AI workloads across servers. As AI chip clusters become increasingly larger and more complex, the importance and need for these components should grow.

While AI data center networking is a big opportunity, Broadcom has an even bigger one with custom AI chips. The company is at the forefront of helping customers create AI ASIC accelerators, which are custom, hardwired chips designed to handle specific tasks. While customers supply the designs, Broadcom provides the building blocks and intellectual property to turn these blueprints into physical chips. Meanwhile, its relationship with leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing helps Broadcom procure the capacity to manufacture these chips at scale.

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Broadcom helped Alphabet with its highly successful tensor processing units (TPUs), which are ramping up rapidly for both Alphabet's own needs as well as for those of its top cloud computing customers. Anthropic recently placed a $21 billion TPU order with Broadcom to deploy the chips through Google Cloud.

Meanwhile, other customers are working to design their own custom AI ASICs, including Meta Platforms and OpenAI. Citigroup analysts recently projected that Broadcom's AI revenue would climb fivefold over the next two years, from $20 billion to $100 billion.

With Broadcom set to see absolutely explosive revenue growth in the coming years (it only produced $63.9 billion in total revenue this past fiscal year), the stock's recent dip is a gift for investors.

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, /PRNewswire/ - DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced the appointment of Rob Le Busque as President of Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), effective immediately. Le Busque will report to T.R. Newcomb, Chief Revenue Officer.

Rob Le Busque (CNW Group/DXC Technology Company) In his new role, Le Busque will be responsible for shaping DXC's APJ growth strategy, strengthening executive client relationships, and driving go-to-market execution and sales excellence across the region. He will align teams around priority industries and strategic accounts while leading complex, multi-year engagements that expand new and existing client partnerships to drive profitable growth.

"Rob brings a powerful combination of regional expertise, commercial leadership, and deep commitment to customers," said T.R. Newcomb, Chief Revenue Officer at DXC. "From leading large, diverse markets to building trusted relationships with some of the region's most influential organizations, he has consistently delivered growth and results at scale. His understanding of the APJ market and his ability to connect strategy, sales, and execution make him the right leader to accelerate our momentum and help customers modernize and operationalize AI with confidence."

Most recently, Le Busque served as Asia Pacific Regional Vice President at Verizon Business, the enterprise services and solutions division of Verizon Communications. During his tenure, he drove sustained growth across consulting, managed services, and cybersecurity while building trusted relationships with many of the region's largest public and private sector organizations.

Le Busque brings deep expertise in large-scale digital initiatives and cybersecurity, with a strong track record of delivering strategic outcomes and leading diverse, high-performing international teams. He also served on the board of the American Chamber of Commerce Australia and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD).

About DXC

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is a leading global provider of information technology services. We're a trusted operating partner to many of the world's most innovative organizations, building solutions that move industries and companies forward. Our engineering, consulting and technology experts help clients simplify, optimize and modernize their systems and processes, manage their most critical workloads, integrate AI-powered intelligence into their operations, and put security and trust at the forefront. Learn more on dxc.com.

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Wall Street analysts project strong earnings growth over the next few years.

Tesla (TSLA +3.38%) stock remains volatile but has quietly risen 134% over the past three years, significantly outperforming the S&P 500. The stock dipped following the company's fourth-quarter financial update, as investors weighed the prospect of higher capital spending and the near-term impact on profits.

However, the stock's high valuation continues to reflect Tesla's long-term opportunity in offering more profitable artificial intelligence (AI) services, including its Optimus humanoid robot. As Tesla prepares to start Optimus production by the end of this year, sentiment around the stock could shift, putting it on track to double over the next few years.

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Optimus production could start by end of 2026 Autonomous cars and robots have the potential to add trillions of value to the economy in the coming decades. Tesla's high valuation suggests it is well positioned to grab its share. The company will showcase version 3 of Optimus in the first quarter, which is expected to reveal significant progress in its development with more human-like movements.

Tesla is preparing to start producing Optimus later this year. It is ending production of its Model S/X vehicles to repurpose those production lines for Optimus. This opens the door for Tesla to eventually scale output to 1 million units annually.

There are several companies worldwide developing humanoids. But Tesla has the production capacity and AI training capabilities to be a major player. The key advantage for Tesla is access to real-world video data from its vehicle fleet, which helps teach Optimus nuanced decision-making that other robot makers lack.

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Why the stock can double from here One reason the stock trades at a rich valuation is Tesla's transition to a services business model, and the same applies to Optimus. The lifetime value of a product that can work 24/7 and never get tired (other than occasional maintenance) is extremely high. This is why Tesla will likely monetize Optimus like a service, similar to its robotaxis and full self-driving (FSD) subscriptions.

At full production capacity, Optimus is expected to become a highly profitable, recurring revenue business. While it will take several years before Optimus meaningfully impacts Tesla's financials, the stock market is forward-looking. As production of Optimus inches closer, the stock could begin discounting future earnings from this new product and move higher, similar to how it performed last year as Tesla launched its robotaxi service.

Patience is key. I wouldn't buy Tesla stock expecting it to double this year. But if Tesla delivers on Wall Street's expectations for earnings to grow 25% on an annualized basis over the next few years, that's enough fuel for the stock to potentially double.

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The law firm of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announces that purchasers or acquirers of Klarna Group plc (NYSE: KLAR) securities pursuant and/or traceable to Klarna’s offering documents issued in connection with Klarna’s September 10, 2025 initial public offering (“IPO”), have until Friday, February 20, 2026 to seek appointment as lead plaintiff of the Klarna class action lawsuit. Captioned Nayak v. Klarna Group plc, No. 25-cv-07033 (E.D.N.Y.), the Klarna class action lawsuit charges Klarna as well as certain of Klarna’s top executives and directors, authorized representatives, and underwriters of the IPO with violations of the Securities Act of 1933.

If you suffered substantial losses and wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Klarna class action lawsuit, please provide your information here:

https://www.rgrdlaw.com/cases-klarna-group-plc-class-action-lawsuit-klar.html

You can also contact attorney J.C. Sanchez of Robbins Geller by calling 800/449-4900 or via e-mail at [email protected].

CASE ALLEGATIONS: Klarna provides payment, advertising, and digital retail banking solutions to consumers and merchants. According to the Klarna class action lawsuit, on or about September 10, 2025, Klarna conducted its IPO, issuing approximately 34 million shares to the public at the offering price of $40.00 per share.

The Klarna class action lawsuit alleges that the IPO’s offering documents were materially false and/or misleading and/or omitted to state that Klarna materially understated the risk that its loss reserves would materially go up within a few months of the IPO, which defendants either knew of or should have known of given the risk profile of many individuals agreeing to Klarna’s buy now, pay later loans.

The Klarna investor class action further alleges that on November 18, 2025 Bloomberg News published an article entitled “Klarna Revenue Surges Yet Longer Loans Trigger Provisions,” reporting that Klarna “posted a net loss of $95 million, as the firm set aside more money for potentially souring loans. [Klarna] said provisions represented 0.72% of gross merchandise volume, up from 0.44% a year ago. Provisions for loan losses came in at $235 million, above analyst estimates of $215.8 million.”

By the commencement of the Klarna shareholder class action lawsuit, Klarna’s stock price was trading as low as $31.31 per share, significantly below the $40 per share IPO price.

THE LEAD PLAINTIFF PROCESS: The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 permits any investor who purchased or acquired Klarna securities pursuant and/or traceable to the IPO to seek appointment as lead plaintiff in the Klarna class action lawsuit. A lead plaintiff is generally the movant with the greatest financial interest in the relief sought by the putative class who is also typical and adequate of the putative class. A lead plaintiff acts on behalf of all other class members in directing the Klarna investor class action lawsuit. The lead plaintiff can select a law firm of its choice to litigate the Klarna shareholder class action lawsuit. An investor’s ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff of the Klarna class action lawsuit.

ABOUT ROBBINS GELLER: Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP is one of the world’s leading law firms representing investors in securities fraud and shareholder litigation. Our Firm has been ranked #1 in the ISS Securities Class Action Services rankings for four out of the last five years for securing the most monetary relief for investors. In 2024, we recovered over $2.5 billion for investors in securities-related class action cases – more than the next five law firms combined, according to ISS. With 200 lawyers in 10 offices, Robbins Geller is one of the largest plaintiffs’ firms in the world, and the Firm’s attorneys have obtained many of the largest securities class action recoveries in history, including the largest ever – $7.2 billion – in In re Enron Corp. Sec. Litig. Please visit the following page for more information:

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Slide Insurance Holdings is rated a speculative buy, as intrinsic undervaluation and robust underwriting discipline offset short-term catastrophe risks. SLDE's strong ROE, disciplined risk selection, and competitive reinsurance structure underpin durable profitability, even in a volatile coastal insurance market. Geographic expansion, proprietary tech-enabled underwriting, and active share repurchases support long-term growth and signal management confidence.

Prologis can make a lot of money developing AI data centers over the coming decade.

AI stocks have been the hot trade over the past year. Companies like Nvidia have made a mint by developing GPUs and other chips for data centers training AI models. The semiconductor's data center revenue has exploded 66% over the past year. That has helped drive a nearly 50% surge in Nvidia's stock price in the last 12 months.

However, the Nvidias of the world aren't the only ticket to AI profits. AI companies need physical real estate to house all their Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and other tech hardware to support their AI ambitions. That's opening the doors to a generational value-creation opportunity for Prologis (PLD +0.11%) to leverage its expertise in constructing powered building shells to cash in on the AI megatrend.

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Right in Prologis' wheelhouse Prologis is one of the world's largest real estate investment trusts (REITs). It has a nearly irreplaceable portfolio of roughly 5,900 buildings totaling 1.3 billion square feet across 20 countries. Prologis has developed many of these buildings from the ground up.

The leading industrial REIT's development experience has led it to build a vast land bank to support its future growth. It has enough land to support $42.6 billion in total future investments. Prologis has also become a leader in installing solar and battery storage systems at its sites to provide for its customers' power needs, installing over 1 gigawatt (GW) across its portfolio.

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Prologis's experience in constructing powered building shells has led it to start investing developing data centers. It's building these facilities on some of its land bank.

A generational value-creation opportunity The world needs to invest a staggering $7 trillion in data centers by 2030 to keep pace with the growth in compute power, according to McKinsey Research. Prologis is working to secure a slice of this massive opportunity. It has started developing modern AI-enabled buildings to suit the needs of large-scale data center operators. It will build facilities from the ground up or convert existing warehouses to data centers.

Prologis believes that it can build up to 10 GW of data center capacity over the next decade. That would require an investment of $30 billion to $50 billion. The company estimates that this investment has the potential to create $7.5 billion to $25 billion in value for its shareholders. That's due to the very lucrative economics of data center development projects. While each project costs $150 million to $500 million (much higher than a warehouse, which costs between $25 million and $75 million), the development yields are also much higher at 7.5% to 10% compared to 6%-7% for a warehouse development.

Leveraging its expertise to cash in on AI's real estate needs Companies need physical space in data centers with secure power sources to support their AI operations. That has opened the doors to a very lucrative opportunity for Prologis to leverage its development experience, power expertise, and land bank to build data centers. These investments should be highly profitable for the REIT, making it a great way to grab some AI profits without chasing high-flying AI stocks like Nvidia.

Matt DiLallo has positions in Prologis. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Nvidia and Prologis. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

ConocoPhillips stock is soaring to start 2026, but investors have other reasons to consider this oil giant beyond Venezuela.

The bullish case for oil stocks received a significant boost earlier this month when U.S. forces captured the now former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, sparking hope that the petroleum-rich country will eventually be open to Western oil majors.

Count ConocoPhillips (COP +1.37%) among the domestic oil equities in rally mode to start 2026. January isn't over yet, but this stock is higher by more than 8%. How much, if any, of that move is attributable to Venezuela is up for debate.

Regime change is afoot in Venezuela, but that's not a primary catalyst for shares of ConocoPhillips. Image source: Getty Images.

Yes, there's been not-so-gentle cajoling from President Trump toward U.S. oil giants, including ConocoPhillips, to be prepared to invest in the South American country. Maybe they will. Perhaps they won't, but the point is that investors ought to be careful when considering this stock as a Venezuelan play, and that's not an indictment of the company.

ConocoPhillips has Venezuelan scores to settle Investors who have been actively keeping up with the situation in Venezuela by now likely know that Chevron (CVX +3.15%) is the only domestic oil company operating there, but we're talking about ConocoPhillips here.

Like rival ExxonMobil (XOM +0.51%), Conoco was banished from the country in 2007 when then-President Hugo Chavez nationalized the nation's energy industry. So while access to any member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is coveted, history alone could give Conoco pause about rushing back to Venezuela. Then there's the matter of derivatives of that history.

When accounting for interest, Conoco has legal claims against Venezuela totaling $12 billion. Exxon's amount to $20 billion, but that company is hoping to recoup $12 billion, too. At $12 billion apiece, Conoco and Exxon are two of Venezuela's biggest non-sovereign creditors. That's not chump change. In fact, $12 billion is nearly 10% of Conoco's market capitalization as of Jan. 28.

There's speculation that Exxon and Conoco would tie future investment in Venezuela to recouping those debts, but the White House views that as a long-term matter, not something to grapple with in the near term. Said another way, the Trump administration wants U.S. oil companies to invest in Venezuela, but it's not going to play debt collectors to make that happen.

Conoco keeps a low risk profile Investors experienced in the oil patch know this segment is ripe with idiosyncratic risk, or issues that are germane to a specific industry. It's difficult, perhaps impossible, to eliminate all idiosyncratic risk in the oil industry, but producers can take steps to minimize broader turbulence. Conoco does that, and not at the expense of shareholders, as the stock outpaced Chevron over the past five years.

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For example, Conoco's largest production region is the lower 48 states. Its other significant regional exposures include Alaska, Canada, and Europe. While it does explore and produce in some potentially politically volatile corners of the globe, it's not biting off excessive risk on that front.

That may be a sign that Conoco's Venezuela story will be penned over years, not weeks or months, if it's written at all.

, /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announces that purchasers or acquirers of Blue Owl Capital Inc. (NYSE: OWL) securities between February 6, 2025 and November 16, 2025, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), have until this upcoming Monday, February 2, 2026 to seek appointment as lead plaintiff of the Blue Owl class action lawsuit. Captioned Goldman v. Blue Owl Capital Inc., No. 25-cv-10047 (S.D.N.Y.), the Blue Owl class action lawsuit charges Blue Owl and certain of Blue Owl's top executives with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

If you suffered substantial losses and wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Blue Owl class action lawsuit, please provide your information here:

https://www.rgrdlaw.com/cases-blue-owl-capital-inc-class-action-lawsuit-owl.html 

You can also contact attorney J.C. Sanchez of Robbins Geller by calling 800/449-4900 or via e-mail at [email protected].

CASE ALLEGATIONS: Blue Owl is an alternative asset manager.

The Blue Owl class action lawsuit alleges that throughout the Class Period defendants failed to disclose that: (i) Blue Owl was experiencing a meaningful pressure on its asset base from business development company ("BDC") redemptions; (ii) as a result, Blue Owl was facing undisclosed liquidity issues; and (iii) consequently, Blue Owl would be likely to limit or halt redemptions of certain BDCs.

The Blue Owl class action lawsuit further alleges that on October 30, 2025, Blue Owl reported financial results for the third quarter of 2025, including: fee-related earnings of only $376.2 million, which missed consensus estimates; fee-related earnings margins of 57.1% which missed expectations by roughly 20 basis points; and performance revenue, which fell 33% year over year to only $188,000. On this news, the price of Blue Owl stock fell, according to the complaint.

Then, on November 5, 2025, the complaint alleges two of Blue Owl's direct lending businesses, Blue Owl Capital Corporation ("OBDC") and Blue Owl Capital Corporation II ("OBDC II"), announced that they had entered into a definitive merger agreement, that "OBDC II does not anticipate conducting additional tender offers prior to the merger," that the "proposed merger enhances liquidity for shareholders of the combined company," that under the terms of the proposed merger, "shareholders of OBDC II will receive newly issued whole shares of OBDC for each share of OBDC II based on the exchange ratio determined prior to closing," and that "[t]he exchange ratio will be calculated based upon (i) the NAV [net asset value] per share of OBDC and OBDC II, each determined before merger close and (ii) the market price of OBDC common stock ('OBDC Price') before merger close." On this news, the price of Blue Owl stock fell nearly 5%, the Blue Owl class action lawsuit alleges.

Finally, the Blue Owl class action lawsuit alleges that on November 16, 2025, Financial Times published an article entitled "Blue Owl private credit fund merger leaves some investors facing 20% hit," which provided an interview with the chief financial officer of OBDC, Jonathan Lamm, revealing that "[i]f shareholders were to vote down the deal, [Lamm] acknowledged that Blue Owl Capital Corporation II might be forced to limit redemptions." The article allegedly further reported details of two critical aspects of the merger: (i) OBDC II investors would indeed be blocked from making any redemptions until the merger completes in 2026; and (ii) as part of the merger, OBDC II shareholders would see the value of their investments fall by about 20% because they would be forced to exchange OBDC II shares for OBDC shares at a rate based on OBDC's market price, but because OBDC shares trade at a discount of about 20% to the stated value of its assets, OBDC II shareholders would see the value of their investments reduced by that amount. On this news, the price of Blue Owl stock fell nearly 6%, according to the complaint.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- As Florida continues to experience the coldest air in the state since 2018, Duke Energy is asking all customers to voluntarily reduce their energy use from 5 to 9 a.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026.

This is due to extremely cold temperatures that are driving unusually high demand for electricity across the southeast. It is meant to help protect the grid and keep electricity flowing for as many customers as possible.

Below are ways customers can lower their energy use:

Reduce your thermostat to the lowest comfortable setting. The closer you match your thermostat to outdoor temperatures, the less energy you use. Avoid using appliances such as washing machines, dryers and dishwashers between 5 and 9 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Turn off any unnecessary devices, unused plug-ins and lights. Electric vehicles owners: charge midday when demand is lower. "We know power is an essential part of our customers' everyday lives, and we recognize that reducing electricity usage isn't an easy ask," said Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida state president. "We appreciate our customers' cooperation and understanding as we work to continue providing safe, reliable service for our more than 2 million customers during this cold spell."

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The crypto market keeps reaching new local lows, according to CoinStats.

XLM chart by CoinStatsXLM/USDThe rate of Stellar (XLM) has declined by 2.11% since yesterday. Over the last week, the price has fallen by 16.6%.

Image by TradingViewOn the hourly chart, the price of XLM is about to break the local support at $0.1743. If bears' pressure continues and the daily bar closes below that mark, one can expect a test of the $0.17 zone tomorrow.

Image by TradingViewOn the bigger time frame, the rate of XLM is on the way to the support at $0.16. The volume remains high, which means buyers are not ready yet to seize the initiative.

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In this case, an ongoing decline to the aforementioned level is the more likely scenario for the next days.

Image by TradingViewFrom the midterm point of view, sellers are also more powerful than buyers. If a breakout of the $0.16 level happens, the accumulated energy can be enough for a more profound drop to the $0.14-$0.15 zone.

XLM is trading at $0.1736 at press time.

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A further drop remains the more likely scenario for most of the coins, according to CoinStats.

Top coins by CoinStatsBTC/USDThe rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has declined by 5.35% over the last day.

Image by TradingViewOn the hourly chart, the price of BTC is about to fix below the local support at $77,181. If it happens, the decline may lead to a test of the $75,000-$76,000 zone tomorrow.

Image by TradingViewOn the bigger time frame, the rate of the main crypto is far from the main levels. In this case, one should focus on the candle closure in terms of yesterday's bar low.

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If it happens below $75,555, the decline is likely to continue to the $70,000 zone.

Image by TradingViewFrom the midterm point of view, the nearest level at $73,794 plays an important role in terms of further price movements. If a false breakout happens, there is a possibility to see a bounce back to the $76,000-$78,000 range.

Bitcoin is trading at $77,118 at press time.

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261,854 SOL tokens, valued at approximately $30 million, were unstaked and transferred.Step Finance has initiated an investigation and notified authorities.Market reactions indicate a drop in SOL’s price and trading volume. Step Finance’s treasury and fee wallets were compromised, with 261,854 SOL tokens (worth around $30 million) stolen, as reported by SolanaFloor and Step Finance’s official post on X.

This breach highlights ongoing security challenges within DeFi, affecting market trust and causing an 80-93% drop in STEP token value post-disclosure.

Step Finance Hack: $30M in SOL Tokens Unstaked An attack on Step Finance resulted in the unstaking and transfer of 261,854 SOL tokens, valued at approximately $30 million. The incident was first reported by SolanaFloor. Step Finance has announced an investigation into the breach and stated:

The hack on Step Finance’s treasury wallets alarms DeFi users about security issues prevalent in the ecosystem. Immediate market reactions are expected as more details emerge.

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“We are investigating the attack on treasury and fee wallets, have notified authorities, implemented remediation, and are working with cybersecurity firms; more details forthcoming; user funds not exposed.” SOL’s Market Impact and Price Trends After Breach Did you know? Historical trends suggest investments in cybersecurity and the development of safeguard technologies could shape future outcomes.

Solana (SOL) currently trades at $101.33, with a market cap of approximately CoinMarketCap. Recent data (CoinMarketCap) indicates a 24-hour trading volume of roughly $7082 million, marking a 6.57% decrease. Price trends show a 2.25% drop in the past day and a more significant 17.04% decline over the week. The trading volume decrease and continual price drops point to heightened risks. The blockchain’s infrastructure may face increased scrutiny as trading dynamics shift.

Solana(SOL), daily chart, screenshot on CoinMarketCap at 17:39 UTC on February 1, 2026. Source: CoinMarketCap Coincu’s research highlights the potential for increased regulatory scrutiny as DeFi attacks rise. This data points toward potential shifts in regulatory approaches and technological advancements for securing decentralized assets.

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Altcoin season may still be ahead, according to a growing body of technical signals suggesting the market is preparing for another explosive expansion.

A new chart analysis shared by one market observer points to a familiar historical sequence that preceded major altcoin rallies, raising expectations that the next cycle could dwarf prior runs.

Data highlighted by analyst Mark Chadwick shows altcoins following the same structural pattern seen before the 2017 and 2021 surges. In both cases, the market formed a macro base, transitioned into a golden cross, and then entered a parabolic expansion phase.

The results were dramatic. Altcoins recorded gains of roughly 82x in 2017 and about 115x in 2021. This time, the setup is emerging after a multi-year compression period, with momentum reset and the broader trend structure still intact.

Chadwick suggests that early positioning feels uncomfortable, whereas late participation has historically felt obvious. This dynamic has often marked the beginning of past alt seasons.

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In support, analyst Javon Marks cites altcoin dominance charts that typically evolve through three major phases. These phases often resemble wedge-like formations followed by decisive breakouts.

According to Marks, the second-phase breakout is when alt season typically begins in earnest. Current dominance levels are now hovering in an area consistent with another Phase Two breakout, implying that a third phase dominated by altcoins could follow.

However, metrics from Alphractal indicate that most altcoins now have a Long Short Ratio above 1, signaling crowded long positioning.

Even large-cap assets are affected. XRP, for instance, currently shows an LSR of 3.06, an unusually elevated reading.

The data also reveal a pattern in which long bias increases as market capitalization decreases, and this setup has historically preceded heightened volatility and pressure on long positions.

Ultimately, the charts suggest that while the structural conditions for an altcoin season may be forming, the path forward could be volatile before any sustained expansion unfolds.

The XRP price was caught in the latest crypto market-wide selloff, falling to an intraday low of $1.57 within the past 24 hours. The sudden drop brings into focus XRP’s higher-timeframe structure, which is teasing a break below the 33-month exponential moving average. 

According to a technical assessment shared on X by crypto analyst Egrag Crypto, the recent drop below the 33-month exponential moving average does not automatically signal the end of XRP’s cycle, but XRP must close above an exact level to avoid a macro bearish confirmation.

The 33 EMA Breakdown Signal At the time of writing, XRP is back to trading around $1.65, stabilizing after a volatile few hours that forced many traders to reassess the broader structure. However, according to technical analysis by Egrag Crypto, the most recent crash saw XRP breaking a bit below the 33 EMA on the monthly candlestick timeframe chart.

Egrag based the recent price action around one critical condition: a confirmed monthly close below $1.60 and the 33 EMA. According to the analyst, such a close would mark a macro bearish confirmation based on historical structure, not sentiment or opinion. 

The chart he shared highlights how XRP has respected the 33 EMA as a long-term trend reference across multiple cycles, with violations often preceding extended corrective phases. As shown in the chart below, the XRP price has been trading above the 33-EMA since early 2025, even during periods of corrections. However, XRP is now trading dangerously close to this EMA, and there is now a risk of a breakdown.

XRP Price Chart. Source: @egragcrypto On X

What This Means For XRP’s Price Structure There’s a risk that XRP can transition into a macro bear structure. At the same time, there’s enough reason to suggest an upside bounce for the cryptocurrency. A major point in Egrag’s analysis is historical performance that shows XRP’s strongest upside expansions did not require a clean bull-market environment.

XRPUSD now trading at $1.66. Chart: TradingView Therefore, there are two historical analogs of how XRP can play out from its current range around $1.60. The first is a repeat of the 2021-style move. This move, measured from similar structural conditions, would imply an upside expansion of roughly 340% with a price target around the $7 region.

The second one is a repeat of the 2017 cycle. Comparison to the 2017 cycle projects a much larger structural expansion of about 1,600%, which would align with the $27 zone highlighted on the chart above. In both cases, the rallies originated from oversold conditions and compression ranges, not from a strong bullish macro confirmation like many would expect.

According to the analysis, a breakdown below $1.60 could still lead to panic selling and reinforce fear narratives of a macro bear market, yet those same conditions have previously been the zones where late sellers exit just before volatility expands upward.

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Pi Network’s token price is tanking. The digital currency project faces another massive unlock of roughly 137 million tokens next month, and traders aren’t happy about it.

The February release comes right after Pi Network dumped over 139 million tokens into the market in January. That’s a lot of new supply hitting exchanges in just two months. Investors are getting nervous about what all these tokens will do to prices. The project launched with promises of creating an easy-to-use cryptocurrency, but these phased unlocks are testing everyone’s patience. Market watchers say the sheer volume of tokens getting released could flood the market and push prices down even further.

Things look pretty rough already.

January’s token dump already hammered Pi Network’s price, and now everyone’s bracing for round two. The token’s been trading around $0.0025 lately, which shows just how cautious investors have become. And February 15 is the date everyone’s circling on their calendars – that’s when the next wave hits. Traders are basically holding their breath, waiting to see if the market can absorb all this new supply without completely cratering.

Michael Li from Crypto Insights thinks Pi Network’s unlock strategy is weird compared to other projects. “The scale of these releases is unusual,” Li said. “Markets can react in unpredictable ways when you’re talking about this much supply hitting at once.” He’s not wrong – most crypto projects try to space out their token releases more gradually.

But Pi Network’s team isn’t saying much about any of this. They’ve been pretty quiet about how the February unlock might mess with their long-term plans. That silence is making investors even more jittery. Without clear communication from leadership, people are left guessing about what comes next.

The project’s community is scrambling to figure out damage control. Online forums are buzzing with ideas about how to keep the token’s value from completely tanking. Some users want Pi Network to delay the release or spread it out over more time. Others think the team should buy back tokens to offset the new supply. It’s basically a grassroots effort to save their investment.

Crypto exchanges are getting ready for chaos too. Binance saw trading volume jump 15% after January’s unlock, and they’re expecting even more action next month. That kind of volatility usually means wider price spreads and more opportunities for day traders to make quick profits. But it also means regular investors might get burned if they’re not careful.

Pi Network did announce one thing – they’re hosting a live Q&A session on February 10. The development team will answer community questions about the upcoming unlock. It’ll stream on their official channels, which is probably the first real communication they’ve had with investors in months. Better late than never, but people are frustrated it took this long.

Sandra Lee, a blockchain analyst who spoke with CoinTelegraph, thinks the unlocks could actually test how strong Pi Network’s market really is. “Some investors are scared, but others might see this as a chance to buy tokens at cheaper prices,” Lee said. She’s probably right that strategic communication from the team could make or break how this whole thing plays out.

The timing couldn’t be worse for Pi Network. Crypto markets have been pretty volatile lately, and adding more supply pressure isn’t helping anyone’s confidence. The project’s original vision was to create a user-friendly digital currency that regular people could actually use. But right now, it feels more like a speculative trading vehicle that’s hemorrhaging value.

Community discussions are getting heated as February 15 approaches. Some members think the price dips are temporary and that more tokens in circulation will eventually help with adoption. Others are calling for the team to halt future unlocks until market conditions improve. The debate shows just how divided the community has become over the project’s direction.

Exchanges like Coinbase are also watching Pi Network closely. They know that increased volatility usually means more trading fees for them, but it also creates customer service headaches when prices swing wildly. The February unlock could test their systems if trading volume spikes like it did in January.

Pi Network’s leadership team hasn’t given any hints about whether they might adjust their unlock schedule. The February release was planned months ago, but market conditions have changed since then. Without flexibility from the development team, investors are basically stuck riding out whatever happens next.

The project’s whitepaper originally outlined these phased unlocks as necessary for building liquidity and encouraging participation. But the reality is hitting different than the theory. When you dump this many tokens into a relatively small market, prices tend to suffer. And Pi Network’s market isn’t exactly huge to begin with.

As February 15 gets closer, the crypto community is watching Pi Network as a case study in token economics. How the project handles this unlock could influence how other cryptocurrencies approach their own supply management. The stakes are higher than just Pi Network’s price – it’s about whether phased unlocks actually work in practice.

For now, Pi Network investors are basically playing a waiting game. The February unlock is happening whether they like it or not. The only question is how bad the damage will be and whether the project can recover from it. Based on January’s performance, the outlook isn’t exactly optimistic.

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By the end of 2025, a corner of the market most Ethereum traders rarely watch had built a position large enough to matter for everyone else.

Everstake’s annual Ethereum staking report estimates that public companies’ “digital asset treasuries” collectively held roughly 6.5–7.0 million ETH by December, which is more than 5.5% of the circulating supply.

Graph showing the cumulative ETH digital asset treasury holdings by public companies from March 2025 to December 2025 (Source: Everstake)The number is huge, but the more important part is why these companies chose ETH in the first place.

Bitcoin’s corporate-treasury playbook is built around scarcity and reflexivity: buy coins, let the market re-rate the equity wrapper at a premium, then issue stock to buy more coins.

Ethereum adds a second leg that Bitcoin can’t. Once ETH is acquired, it can be staked, meaning it can earn protocol-native rewards for helping secure the network. Everstake frames that reward stream at roughly 3% APY for treasury-style operators.

A corporate ETH treasury is trying to be a listed vehicle that holds ETH, earns additional ETH through staking, and convinces equity investors to pay for that packaged exposure. The main bet is that the wrapper can compound its underlying holdings over time, and that public markets will finance the growth phase when sentiment is favorable.

The basic mechanics of stakingEthereum runs on proof-of-stake. Instead of miners competing with computers and electricity, Ethereum uses “validators” that lock ETH as collateral and run software that proposes and attests to blocks.

When validators do the job correctly, they receive rewards paid by the protocol. When they go offline or misbehave, they can lose part of their rewards and, in more severe cases, a portion of the locked ETH through slashing.

Staking is attractive to institutions because the rewards are native to the protocol, not dependent on lending assets to a borrower. It still carries operational risk, but that is dampened by the fact that the core source of yield is the network itself.

Everstake’s report says that by the end of 2025, about 36.08 million ETH was staked, which it describes as 29.3% of supply, with net growth of more than 1.8 million ETH over the year.

That matters for treasuries because it shows staking has become a large, established market rather than a niche activity.

The ETH treasury flywheel: premium financing plus protocol yieldEverstake describes two levers that treasury companies are trying to pull.

The first is mNAV arbitrage. If a company’s stock trades at a premium to the market value of its underlying assets, it can issue new shares and use the proceeds to buy more ETH.

If the premium is large enough, that can increase ETH per share for existing shareholders even after dilution, because investors are effectively paying more for each unit of Ethereum exposure than it costs to acquire ETH directly.

The loop works as long as the premium holds and capital markets stay open.

The second lever is staking rewards. Once the ETH is held, the company can stake it and receive additional ETH over time.

Everstake frames the staking leg as roughly 3% APY, with the key point being low marginal costs once infrastructure is in place. A treasury that stakes wants to compound in token terms, not just ride price appreciation.

Together, the pitch for treasury staking is straightforward. The premium finances growth when markets are optimistic, and staking produces steady accumulation when markets are quieter.

Both mechanisms aim at the same output: more ETH per share.

The three treasury staking playbooksEverstake’s report concentrates the sector into three large holders and assigns each a role in the story.

It estimates BitMine holds about 4 million ETH, the figure that dominates Everstake’s “hockey stick” chart. Everstake also says BitMine is moving toward staking at an even bigger scale, including plans for its own validator infrastructure and disclosures that “hundreds of thousands of ETH” were staked via third-party infrastructure by late December 2025.

SharpLink Gaming holds about 860,000 ETH, staked as part of an active treasury approach where staking rewards are treated as operating income and remain on the balance sheet.

The Ether Machine holds about 496,000 ETH, with 100% staked. Everstake cites a reported 1,350 ETH in net yield during a period as evidence of what a “fully staked” model looks like.

Those numbers are evidence that the strategy is being institutionalized. These aren’t small experiments for the companies. Their positions are large enough that staking venue, operational posture, disclosure practice, and risk controls become part of the product.

Where institutions stake, and why “compliance staking” existsThe most practical insight in Everstake’s report is that staking is splitting into lanes.

Retail often stakes through exchanges for simplicity, and DeFi-native users chase liquidity and composability through liquid staking tokens.

Institutions often want something closer to traditional operational separation: defined roles, multiple operators, auditability, and a structure that fits existing compliance expectations. Everstake points to Liquid Collective as a compliance-oriented staking solution and uses its liquid staking token LsETH as a proxy for institutional migration.

The report says LsETH grew from about 105,000 ETH to around 300,000 ETH and links that growth to outflows from Coinbase exchange balances as a sign of large holders moving away from exchange custody while still preferring “enterprise-grade” staking structures.

It adds an exchange snapshot that reinforces the point. Everstake says Coinbase’s share fell by roughly 1.5 million staked ETH, from 10.17% to 5.54%, while Binance increased from 2.02 million to 3.14 million ETH, with the share rising from 5.95% to 8.82%.

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The figures matter less as a verdict on either venue and more as evidence that staking distribution changes meaningfully when large players reposition.

For treasury companies, that staking-lane question is structural.

If the strategy depends on staking rewards to support compounding, then operator diversification, slashing protection, downtime risk, custody architecture, and reporting practices stop being back-office details and become core parts of the investment case.

The rails underneath the trade: stablecoins and tokenized TreasuriesEverstake doesn’t treat corporate treasuries as a standalone phenomenon, but ties them to Ethereum’s institutional pull in 2025: stablecoin liquidity and tokenized Treasury issuance.

On stablecoins, Everstake says total stablecoin supply across networks surpassed $300 billion, with Ethereum L1 plus L2s holding 61%–62%, or about $184 billion. The argument is that Ethereum’s security and settlement depth keep attracting the on-chain dollar base that institutions actually use.

On tokenized Treasuries, Everstake says the market was approaching $10 billion and puts Ethereum’s ecosystem share at about 57%. It frames Ethereum L1 as a security anchor for major issuers and cites products such as BlackRock’s BUIDL and Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money fund.

This context is important for the treasury trade.

A public company trying to justify a long-term ETH position and a staking program needs a narrative that goes beyond crypto speculation.

Tokenized cash and tokenized Treasuries are easier to defend as structural adoption than most other on-chain categories, and their growth makes it simpler to explain why the asset securing the ledger might matter over a longer horizon.

The risks that can break the Ethereum staking modelEverstake includes a warning about concentration and correlated failures.

It cites a Prysm client outage in December 2025, saying validator participation dropped to around 75% and 248 blocks were missed, and uses the event to argue that client herding can create network-wide fragility.

That risk matters more if large public treasuries consolidate into similar infrastructure choices, because their staking decisions can influence concentration. It also matters because staking returns are only clean when operations are resilient.

While downtime, misconfiguration, and slashing might sound abstract to companies, they are as much part of the business as staking is.

The second risk is capital markets, because mNAV arbitrage is a good mechanism only when markets are strong. If the equity premium compresses, issuing stock becomes dilutive rather than accretive, and the loop stops working.

Staking yield doesn't fix that on its own, because yield is incremental while equity financing is the growth engine.

A third risk is governance and regulation.

Treasury companies operate inside disclosure and custody regimes that can tighten quickly. The strategy depends on maintaining a structure that auditors, boards, and regulators can tolerate, especially if staking becomes a material contributor to reported income.

The ETH treasury trade is built on a simple proposition: accumulate ETH, stake it to grow holdings in token terms, and use public-market access to scale faster than a private balance sheet could.

Whether it survives as a durable category will depend on two measurable things: how well these companies operationalize staking without creating hidden fragility, and how consistently their equity wrappers can hold premiums that make the financing loop work.

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New study shows excess leverage flushed in Q4, as realized price metrics and profitability data point to a healthier Bitcoin structure.

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading in a very tight range below $79,000 amidst macro tailwinds. Most crypto assets followed a similar trajectory. But experts are constructive on BTC.

In a joint report by Coinbase and Glassnode, the firms stated that the largest cryptocurrency appears to be on firmer ground than many altcoins that are still dealing with the fallout from last October’s sharp selloff.

Bitcoin’s Healthier Start to 2026 Coinbase and Glassnode believe that the crypto markets are entering 2026 in a healthier condition after excess leverage was largely flushed out of the system during the fourth quarter. The two firms said this view is reflected across several on-chain technical indicators. One of them, the entity-adjusted Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL), revealed that investor sentiment fell from the “Belief” phase to “Anxiety” following the October sell-off and stayed there through the quarter.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s realized price has continued to rise into early 2026. This shows that the market’s overall cost basis is increasing over time. Bitcoin’s spot price remains above this realized price, which means the average holder is still in profit rather than at a loss.

The Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV) ratio, which compares the current market price to the realized price, is around 1.5. This indicates that the crypto asset is trading at roughly a 50% premium to its on-chain cost basis.

On-Chain Signals During the fourth quarter of 2025, the share of BTC supply held in profit fell sharply. The report explained that this drop suggests that prices between $80,000 and $85,000 may have served as an accumulation zone for model-based strategies. The report also pointed to changes in dormant and active supply.

Bitcoin supply that moved within the past three months rose by 37% in the fourth quarter, while the share of supply that had not moved for more than a year fell by 2%. This change indicates that the market may have entered a high-velocity distribution phase during that period.

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Additionally, Net long-term holder positions and changes in exchange balances, together, signaled profit-taking between July and September. But similar behavior was not clearly observed during the fourth quarter of 2025.

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TLDR: CryptoQuant CEO states Bitcoin won’t crash 70% unless MicroStrategy’s Saylor liquidates his holdings significantly.  MicroStrategy holds $2.2 billion cash reserves with no short-term debt pressure forcing Bitcoin sales near $76K basis.  Bitcoin’s Realized Cap has flatlined indicating no fresh capital inflows while early holders continue profit-taking.  Current bear market likely to form wide sideways consolidation rather than sharp decline seen in previous cycles.
Bitcoin appears protected from severe 70% crashes characteristic of previous bear markets unless MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor liquidates his holdings, according to CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju.

The analyst’s assessment challenges traditional cycle expectations while acknowledging persistent selling pressure in the current market environment.

The cryptocurrency faces downward momentum as fresh capital inflows have ceased, yet structural differences suggest this downturn may unfold differently than historical precedents.

Early holders continue distributing profits accumulated during the ETF-driven rally, but MicroStrategy’s position remains a critical stabilizing factor.

CryptoQuant Analysis Points to Different Cycle Dynamics Ki Young Ju emphasized that MicroStrategy’s involvement fundamentally alters this cycle’s potential outcomes. The company served as a major driver of Bitcoin’s rally toward $100,000, accumulating substantial holdings that now influence market structure.

In his analysis, the CryptoQuant CEO stated that “MSTR was a major driver of this rally. Unless Saylor significantly dumps his stack, we won’t see a -70% crash like previous cycles.”

This observation reflects MicroStrategy’s unique position as a publicly-traded entity with long-term conviction rather than a speculative trader.

Bitcoin is dropping as selling pressure persists, with no fresh capital coming in.

Realized Cap has flatlined, meaning no fresh capital. When market cap falls in that environment, it's not a bull market.

Early holders are sitting on big unrealized gains thanks to ETFs and MSTR… https://t.co/OnnzQMy6Ra pic.twitter.com/J0yTtCTQjr

— Ki Young Ju (@ki_young_ju) February 1, 2026

Traditional bear markets witnessed 70% declines when overleveraged entities faced forced liquidations and margin calls.

However, the analyst noted that such catastrophic drops require significant selling from major holders. The company’s holdings represent patient capital unlikely to flee during temporary price weakness. This dynamic provides a floor beneath the market that did not exist in earlier cycles.

Despite this cushion, Ki Young Ju warned that selling pressure continues without clear signs of a bottom. He explained that “Bitcoin is dropping as selling pressure persists, with no fresh capital coming in. Realized Cap has flatlined, meaning no fresh capital.”

The analyst further noted that “when market cap falls in that environment, it’s not a bull market.” Early Bitcoin holders sitting on substantial unrealized gains have distributed their positions since early 2024, though institutional inflows previously absorbed this supply.

The analyst predicted this bear market will likely form a different pattern than previous cycles. He stated that “selling pressure is still ongoing, so the bottom isn’t clear yet, but this bear market will likely form a wide-ranging sideways consolidation.”

This forecast differs markedly from the 2018 and 2022 bear markets that featured severe drawdowns. Market participants should prepare for extended sideways price action instead of quick capitulation events that characterized previous cycles.

MicroStrategy’s Balance Sheet Shields Against Forced Selling Analyst Anıl provided additional context regarding MicroStrategy’s financial position and its implications for Bitcoin’s downside risk.

The company holds Bitcoin with an average cost basis around $76,000, close to current market prices. According to Anıl, “Michael Saylor (Strategy) faces no short-term debt pressure that would force selling Bitcoin bought at a $76K cost basis. All liabilities are long-term.” This structure eliminates the refinancing pressures that historically triggered forced liquidations.

Michael Saylor (Strategy) faces no short-term debt pressure that would force selling Bitcoin bought at a $76K cost basis. All liabilities are long-term.

Bitcoin trading back near cost levels looks like an attempt to pressure Saylor — and it’s likely to be short-lived.

Strategy… pic.twitter.com/JyZNnoLBs0

— anıl (@anlcnc1) February 1, 2026

The analyst characterized recent price action near MicroStrategy’s cost basis as tactical maneuvering by market participants. Anıl observed that “Bitcoin trading back near cost levels looks like an attempt to pressure Saylor — and it’s likely to be short-lived.”

This assessment suggests that current weakness represents temporary positioning rather than fundamental deterioration. The company maintains resilience through careful balance sheet management.

MicroStrategy’s financial strength extends beyond debt management to include substantial liquidity reserves. Anıl noted that “Strategy also holds $2.2B in cash reserves set aside for tough times.”

These reserves provide the company with offensive capabilities rather than forcing defensive actions. The analyst added that he “wouldn’t be surprised to see Saylor start accumulating Bitcoin again around cost levels using that cash. Maybe this week, maybe next.”

This cash position fundamentally changes Bitcoin’s risk profile during downturns. The analyst’s expectations flip traditional bear market dynamics where large holders typically reduce exposure.

MicroStrategy’s structure eliminates the forced selling catalysts that triggered previous cycle collapses. The company operates without leverage constraints or margin requirements that plagued earlier institutional participants, supporting CryptoQuant’s thesis that severe crashes require Saylor’s active participation as a seller.

Active Currencies 18953

Market Cap $2,699,996,205,679.20

Bitcoin Share 57.54%

24h Market Cap Change $-0.13

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Crypto market’s weekly winners and losers – HYPE, CC, SOL, WLFI

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Posted: February 2, 2026

This hasn’t been a great week for crypto.

Bitcoin [BTC] slipped toward the $78K mark at press time, while Ethereum [ETH] gave up ground too. Most major tokens spent the week in the red, and optimism is a bit harder to find.

So buckle up, grab your coffee, and settle in! Here’s a look at the biggest moves from the past week.

Hyperliquid [HYPE] swims against the tide

Samyukhtha L KM is a Financial Journalist and Market Analyst at AMBCrypto whose work is defined by one central question: Is the latest trend in blockchain hype, or history in the making? Her expertise is built on a strong academic foundation, with a Master’s in Journalism and Mass Communication from Amity University and a Bachelor’s in Commerce from the University of Madras. This dual qualification equips her with a unique skill set: the financial acumen to dissect market mechanics and the journalistic rigor to investigate and communicate complex subjects with clarity. Samyukhtha specializes in analyzing the socio-economic impact of blockchain adoption and assessing the viability of new market narratives. This includes a focus on high-velocity, community-driven assets such as memecoins, where she evaluates sentiment and fundamentals. She is dedicated to providing readers with insightful, well-researched commentary that looks beyond immediate market moves to understand the long-term implications of decentralized technology.

Bitcoin’s sharp weekend drop triggered fresh liquidations, with analyst Eric Crown warning the market may face months of further downside. Feb 1, 2026, 7:06 p.m.

Bitcoin’s price sank sharply over the weekend, sliding below $78,000 — its lowest level since April — as profit-taking collided with thinning liquidity and a scarcity of fresh buyers.

Traders told CoinDesk that a rally once backed by corporate demand, particularly from Strategy’s (MSTR) bitcoin purchases, has run out of steam, leaving markets vulnerable to forced selling and derivative liquidations.

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For some market analysts, Saturday’s slide fits into a broader bearish pattern that has been emerging for months. Eric Crown, a former options trader at NYSE Arca, has argued since late October that bitcoin is in a sideways-to-downside phase, and that the optimism around a return to new highs — or a rotation from metals back into crypto — is misplaced “hopium” for bulls.

“It’s been my view since [the] end of October that BTC is in a sideways and downside phase… I do not think 80K is a macro low for bitcoin,” Crown, who now posts updates on the crypto market with more than 200,000 subscribers, told CoinDesk, underlining that recent price action may be part of a larger corrective regime.

And the action in the options market backs up this bearish sentiment. Options traders are now increasingly betting that prices will fall below $75,000 and ditching their bullish bets of reaching $100,000. So much so that the dollar value of the number of active bitcoin put options contracts at the $75,000 level listed on Deribit platform now stands at $1.159 billion, almost matching the so-called notional open interest of $1.168 billion locked in the $100,000 call option.

Read more: Here's why bitcoin traders are now betting billions on a drop below $75,000 and bailing on price rising higher

Bearish signalsCrown points to several technical indicators that have historically foreshadowed deeper corrections.

The monthly MACD — a technical trading indicator — crossed down in November, a rare signal that has preceded extended downturns in previous cycles.

Additionally, the weekly 21 vs. 55 EMA (another technical indicator) recently crossed into bearish territory. When this happens, it is typically followed by multi-month losses. And the 2025 yearly chart closed as a "shooting star," a candlestick pattern that often signals a medium-term reversal.

Chart showing monthly MACD crossover (TradingView)

Bitcoin to $50,000?Making matters worse for bulls, bitcoin has diverged from traditional markets since October, declining while equities and other risk assets held up — a pattern Crown sees as typical of late-cycle risk-off behavior.

“People generally sell the more speculative assets first,” he said.

Beyond technicals, Crown highlights the speculative wash-out from October’s crash, which eliminated many leveraged altcoin positions and left traders wary of re-entering at elevated levels.

Read more: Crypto’s $19 billion '10/10' nightmare: Why everyone is blaming Binance for the bitcoin crash that won't end

While not as extreme as some cyclical bears, Crown suggests bitcoin may fall to even lower levels — potentially into the mid-$50,000 to low-$60,000 zone — before stabilizing.

In fact, he says that range represents an area he’s personally eyeing to add to his long-term positions, framing the current market as a potential value-accumulation phase rather than the end of crypto’s broader cycle.

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Despite investor ridicule on social media, the firm remains insulated from immediate financial distress.

Cover image via U.Today Just hours after Strategy’s massive Bitcoin position briefly dipped into the red, Strategy's Michael Saylor took to X (formerly Twitter) with a cryptic but characteristic show of defiance: "More Orange."

The two-word post was accompanied by a chart from StrategyTracker showing the company’s history of Bitcoin accumulations.

In the visual language of Strategy’s die-hard fanbase, "orange" refers to the orange dots on the chart that signify purchase events. 

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The "underwater" scareThe tweet comes at a precarious moment for the Tysons Corner-based software firm turned Bitcoin treasury. 

According to data released Sunday, Strategy now holds a staggering 712,647 BTC. However, the company’s aggressive purchasing spree has pushed its average cost basis up to $76,038 per coin.

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Early Sunday morning, Bitcoin’s price slipped to approximately $75,500, technically dragging the value of Strategy's holdings below what they paid for them. It was a symbolic blow that invited immediate "investor ridicule" on social media, with detractors pointing out that the company’s $55.8 billion reserve was, for the first time in months, underwater.

Despite the online noise, financial analysts note that the company is not facing an existential crisis.

"Friendly reminder that MSTR's debt is unsecured. The earliest puttable debt is 2028. And it has enough cash on hand to pay dividends for 2.5 years. Nothing at all happens to MSTR at BTC cost basis. Zero risk of near-term leverage blow-up," analyst Brian Brookshire has stated. 

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