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Los Angeles, California, February 3rd, 2026, Chainwire Backed by Top Consumer, Crypto and Cultural Investors, BLUFF Quickly Emerges as a Fast-Growing Betting Platform Boasting More Than 125M Bets in Beta BLUFF, the next-generation betting and entertainment platform, has raised $21 million in strategic investment led by global blockchain technology fund 1kx, with participation from Makers Fund, Maximum Frequency Ventures, Delphi Ventures Founders and other high-profile backers, including sports champion & tech investor, Tristan Thompson. The team includes former senior executives from Stake, Bet365, William Hill and Bodog, drawing on experience operating the world’s leading betting platforms to deliver a truly…

Tether has released an open-source operating system for bitcoin mining, pitching it as a way to make running mining infrastructure simpler while reducing reliance on closed, vendor-controlled software.The stablecoin issuer said on Monday that it has rolled out MiningOS (MOS), describing it as a modular, scalable mining operating system designed for anyone from hobbyist miners to large institutions. The stack is intended to remove the “black box” nature of many mining setups, where hardware and monitoring tools are tightly tied to proprietary platforms.“MiningOS changes that — introducing transparency, openness, and collaboration into the core of Bitcoin infrastructure,” Tether said on…

HYPE gained double digits on Monday after the team behind HyperCore, the core infrastructure powering Hyperliquid’s layer-1 network, said it will support the HIP-4 proposal to expand into prediction markets.The integration would allow fully collateralized contracts on Hyperliquid, the largest decentralized perpetual futures crypto platform, enabling traders to wager on political elections, sports and other markets.In an X post on Monday, Hyperliquid said the support was driven by “extensive user demand” for prediction markets and bounded options-like instruments, while adding that HIP-4 could allow other novel applications to be built on Hyperliquid. Source: HyperliquidHIP-4 outcomes would function like a betting…

Short Bitcoin funds attracted $14.5 million in inflows as investors hedge against falling prices. Investors pulled $1.7 billion from digital asset investment products this past week. This has reversed year-to-date gains and left a net $1 billion outflow globally. CoinShares stated that the decline reflects weaker investor confidence, influenced by a more hawkish US Federal Reserve Chair, continued selling by crypto whales linked to the four-year cycle, and rising geopolitical risks. Since October 2025, when prices reached their highs, total assets under management in digital assets have fallen by $73 billion, amidst a sharp drop in market appetite for the…

The Immersive Wire – 2 February 2026Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top stories: Snap spun off its AR glasses into a separate business (analysis below). This week’s stories: Meta reported that its immersive tech side lost $19.1 billion in 2025, slightly up from $17.7 billion in 2024, on $2.2 billion in annual sales, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg projecting similar losses for 2026 (more below). So Bridgeton is basically Cinderella, now? Tom Ffiske, Editor of the Immersive WireMain storyWhy? The move is designed…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On-chain data shows the Bitcoin spot price is now below the cost basis of nearly two-thirds of inflows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs). 62% Of US Bitcoin Spot ETF Inflows Now In Loss In a new X post, on-chain analyst Checkmate has shared a chart discussing the latest situation related to the Bitcoin spot ETFs. Spot ETFs are investment vehicles that allow investors to gain indirect exposure to an underlying asset. Such funds are available for Bitcoin and other digital assets in many parts of the world, but…

XRP gained nearly 3% after Ripple reached a fresh regulatory breakthrough in Europe. The company confirmed that it has secured full approval of its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license in Luxembourg.The milestone represents a key step in Ripple’s broader strategy to scale its digital assets solutions across European markets.Sponsored SponsoredRipple’s European Expansion Accelerates With EMI License ApprovalThe Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), Luxembourg’s financial supervisor, granted Ripple its full EMI license after the company met all regulatory conditions set out by the CSSF. The decision follows preliminary authorization given in January.For context, an EMI license permits companies to…

Recently, trading volume in the Bitcoin spot market has decreased significantly. Tight liquidity and heightened market uncertainty have directly led to a substantial price decline. Weak buying in the spot market and increased short-term selling pressure have subjected the entire cryptocurrency market to greater volatility. However, even amidst market turmoil and eroded confidence, the mining industry has demonstrated remarkable stability. Mining companies like Anchor Mining, achieving a stable daily return of $3,656, have attracted widespread attention and become a new focal point in the market downturn. Spot market contraction and tightening liquidity amplify volatility. Spot trading volume is a crucial…

Bitcoin is trading below the average cost basis of US spot Bitcoin ETFs after they recorded their second and third-biggest outflow weeks last month, according to Galaxy’s head of research, Alex Thorn.The total assets under management for US Bitcoin ETF products are approximately $113 billion, according to Coinglass, and they collectively hold around 1.28 million BTC, according to BiTBO, implying an average cost basis of about $87,830 per Bitcoin.Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) prices collapsed by around 11% in a fall from $84,000 on Saturday to a nine-month low of around $74,600 in early trading on Monday.“This means the average Bitcoin ETF…

In brief A Nevada state court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Polymarket from offering event contracts. Judge Woodbury ruled the harm from evading Nevada’s “comprehensive regulatory structure” is “immediate, irreparable and not sufficiently remediable by compensatory damages.” The decision adds to mounting regulatory pressure on prediction markets, following enforcement actions in Tennessee and bans in Portugal and Hungary. A Nevada state court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Blockratize, the entity behind Polymarket, from offering event-based contracts in the state for two weeks, finding that the platform’s activities likely violate Nevada gaming law and are not shielded…