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• Hedera and Stellar prices are up by 15% and 10% respectively as altcoin surge.
• HBAR and XLM eye key levels, helped by Bitcoin’s swift rebound to $70,000.
• Analysts warn that prices may yet dip after the latest relief rally.

HBAR and XLM are up double digits as cryptocurrencies look for a swift rebound following Thursday’s steep crash that saw over $2.6 billion in leveraged positions wiped out.

The altcoins are up as Bitcoin, which crashed to $60,000 amid the bloodbath, leads the recovery with a rebound to above $70,000.

Gains for Hedera and Stellar mirror the sharp upticks for XRP, Flare, VeChain, and Kaspa. Ethereum, which dipped to near $1,700 on Thursday, was testing the resistance at $2,000.

HBAR and XLM price gains

Hedera’s token dropped to lows of $0.073 as top coins crashed late Thursday, but currently hovers above $0.093 as buyers eye the $0.10 mark given up this week.

An uptick of over 15% in the past 24 hours amid a 65% surge in trading volume (to over $420 million) signals the strong buying that follows the latest dip.

Bulls will eye year-to-date highs of $0.13, likely if market sentiment improves further.

Stellar, which has tracked gains by XRP in the past, also jumped on Friday.

The altcoin was up 10% at the time of writing, slightly off the mark seen with a 13% uptick during early US trading hours.

XRP’s 18% spike as prices touched $1.52 following a dump to $1.13 pulled the closely related XLM higher.

CoinMarketCap data showed Stellar traded around $0.17, sharply up from the lows of $0.13 reached earlier in the day.

XLM was inching higher on increased volume, which details indicate stood at a 24-hour high of $426 million. Stellar bulls had helped push the daily volume up by more than 56% over this period.

While sentiment remains well within the extreme fear territory, analysts say a break to $0.20 could allow for fresh bullish momentum.

Bitcoin tops $70,000 as cryptocurrencies rebound

Bitcoin (BTC) is spearheading the crypto sector’s latest quest for a swift turnaround following a sharp crash.

The huge leverage unwinding saw BTC fall to $60,000, with a $10,000 drop in 24 hours marking the biggest one-day rout since bears annihilated bulls during the FTX crash in 2022.

Gains have come as open interest expands, with shorts covering positions and fueling the climb to the critical $70,000 support level. Daily RSI also shows a bullish divergence.

CoinShares says record ETP volumes, pause in whale selling, and BTC price moving below miners’ production costs are factors that have historically marked fresh accumulation “rather than the start of a new leg lower.”

However, crypto analyst Rekt Capital says bulls may yet have to take on bears.

The analyst shared his BTC price forecast as the cryptocurrency market bounced from Thursday’s crash.

According to Rekt Capital, a potential bearish acceleration is likely after another relief rally, with this based on Bitcoin’s historical chart patterns.

“History suggests there’s more downside to come,” he shared on X.

Bitcoin traded around $71,190 at the time of writing.

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• ai.com lets users create a personal AI agent in about 60 seconds, with no coding required.
• Agents can execute tasks across apps and build new capabilities when needed.
• Improvements are shared across the network, boosting overall agent performance.

The race to move artificial intelligence from conversation to execution is accelerating.

ai.com, a new consumer AI platform founded by crypto executive Kris Marszalek, is entering the market with autonomous AI agents designed to act on users’ behalf, not just answer prompts.

The company says its agents can organize work, execute tasks across apps and even build missing tools themselves, a step that could push AI deeper into everyday digital life.

From crypto scale to consumer AI ambition

ai.com is led by Kris Marszalek, best known as co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, one of the world’s largest consumer crypto platforms.

Marszalek will continue to lead both companies, positioning ai.com as a mass-market AI play rather than a niche developer tool.

The platform allows users to generate a personal AI agent in about 60 seconds, with no coding or technical setup.

Unlike standard chatbots, these agents are designed to carry out actions like sending messages, managing calendars, automating workflows or building simple projects.

ai.com says agents can even create new capabilities on their own if a task requires functionality that does not yet exist.

Those improvements, once validated, are shared across the wider agent network. In theory, that creates a flywheel effect: the more agents are used, the more capable all agents become.

Marszalek has framed this as a decentralized system that could speed progress toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI: AI systems that can perform a wide range of tasks at a human-like level.

“We are at a fundamental shift in AI’s evolution as we rapidly move beyond basic chats to AI agents actually getting things done for humans,” said Kris Marszalek, Founder and CEO of ai.com.

Our vision is a decentralized network of billions of agents who self-improve and share these improvements with each other, vastly and rapidly expanding agentic capabilities and accelerating the advent of AGI.

ai.com will officially launch its agent product on February 8, 2026, with a high-profile advertising debut during Super Bowl LX on NBC.

Autonomy meets privacy and regulation

While the promise is bold, autonomous agents raise immediate questions around safety, privacy and accountability.

ai.com says each agent operates in a secure, isolated environment where user data is encrypted with individual keys and actions are limited strictly by user permissions.

That architecture will be tested quickly if agents are allowed to trade stocks, handle payments or interact with third-party platforms.

Financial regulators, in particular, are likely to scrutinize how responsibility is assigned when an AI agent makes a mistake or executes a harmful action.

The company says users will retain full control, with all actions permission-based. Still, the real challenge will be proving that consumer-grade autonomy can scale without introducing new risks.

ai.com is free to start, with paid subscription tiers offering more advanced capabilities.

Additional features under exploration include financial integrations, agent marketplaces and social networks connecting humans, agents and agencies.

For now, ai.com’s launch signals a shift in the consumer AI narrative, away from asking questions and toward getting things done.

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• Ethereum price is trading inside a huge channel on the monthly chart.
• Bitcoin’s crash to $60,000  dragged ETH to its intraday lows.
• After falling to lows of $1,748, ETH risks another leg down.

Ethereum’s price hovers above $1,960 as of writing on February 6, 2026.

This follows a sharp downturn in the past 24 hours, with the top altcoin crashing to lows of $1,700 amid broader market turbulence.

Bitcoin’s crash to $60,000, before rebounding to $67,000, dragged ETH to its intraday lows.

All the top altcoins, including Solana, BNB and XRP, fell sharply amid the bloodbath.

Ethereum price recap

Ethereum fell below $1,800 on Thursday, marking its weakest level since mid-2025 as heavy selling pressure intensified.

The decline followed a sharp drop in Bitcoin to around $60,000, which sent shockwaves through the broader crypto market.

Although prices have since recovered above $1,900, continued ETF outflows and a prevailing risk-off environment suggest bullish momentum remains fragile.

Ethereum is down more than 29% over the past week and about 40% over the past month, underscoring the depth of the recent sell-off.

ETH price prediction: could bears target $1,000 next?

Although bulls are targeting a move back above $2,000, the monthly chart points to a fragile price structure.

The chart paints a massive range with $4,900 forming the top established during the past bear cycle.

At the lower end, the parallel channel suggests potential downside toward the $1,000–$1,200 zone.

At present, the $1,800–$1,900 area aligns with support levels seen in April and May 2025, which were tested after ETH retraced from highs of around $4,100 in December 2024.

This overlap reinforces the zone’s importance in determining near-term price direction.

Analysts see this as a critical support zone, but if sellers breach it, it could give way to a downturn to levels untested since Ethereum’s 2022 bear market bottom.

As such, bulls must eye a notable bounce above $2,000. If this happens, the next targets lie in the $2,250-$2,700 range.

However, a breakdown below $1,800 risks testing $1,700 again.

This week’s breakdown aligns with a similar breakdown in March-April 2025, which put prices beneath a key uptrend line formed since the bullish flip in April 2020 after the COVID crash.

With bears having touched the mark already amid current bearish conditions, the picture isn’t in favour of bulls.

A revisit could open up a path to the multi-year demand reload zone around $1,250-$1,000. This area represents untapped liquidity from the 2022 lows.

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• Griffin AI received a second OpenAI milestone trophy after surpassing 20 billion tokens processed.
• Growth reflects rising reliance on AI agents for crypto research, workflows, and decision support.
• Company aims to convert high usage into durable, utility-driven value across Web3 ecosystems.

User engagement with GriffinAI agents accelerates with 57% month-over-month growth in prompt-driven activity, reinforcing Griffin AI’s position among the most active OpenAI model users in the crypto sector.

6 February 2026— Griffin AI, the AI agent builder for DeFi, today announced its partnership with OpenAI and confirmed it has received a milestone trophy from OpenAI recognizing Griffin AI’s continued high-volume usage of OpenAI models.

Founder Oliver Feldmeier shared the milestone publicly during a recent AMA on X, noting that Griffin AI first received recognition after surpassing 10 billion tokens consumed via OpenAI’s platform, and has now received a second trophy after passing another 10 billion tokens—a sign of accelerating adoption and platform engagement.

Oliver Feldmeier, Founder of Griffin AI said:

In times like these, during the extreme market turmoil in the bear market phase, what counts is that users keep using our agents — and premium usage is paid in our native GAIN token. That organic demand, driven by real utility of our agents, is what matters beyond short-term market movements. This isn’t just a vanity metric. It’s evidence that real users are actively engaging with our agents—triggering prompts, running workflows, and using the platform at meaningful scale.

Customer growth and engagement momentum

Griffin AI has seen steady growth in user adoption and a material increase in usage intensity on the platform.

In recent months, prompt-driven activity triggering Griffin AI agents grew by 57% month-over-month, reflecting a sharp rise in engagement as users increasingly rely on AI agents to support crypto research, decision support, and workflow automation.

While much of today’s activity occurs within the platform—prior to being fully observable on-chain—Griffin AI views these engagement metrics as an early indicator of product-market fit for agent-led experiences in crypto.

Why this matters

This recognition from OpenAI reinforces Griffin AI’s focus on scaling reliable, production-grade AI agent experiences for crypto users.

The token milestone trophies serve as external validation that Griffin AI is operating at top-tier usage levels—positioning the company among the most active OpenAI model consumers in the crypto space.

Key milestones highlighted:

• 20+ billion OpenAI model tokens processed across two recognized usage thresholds
• Second OpenAI milestone trophy received, signaling accelerating platform demand
• 57% month-over-month growth in prompt-generated agent activity in recent months

What’s next: converting demand into durable utility

Griffin AI’s next phase is centred on converting rising usage into measurable end-user value—through commercial-grade agents that can operate across the web, social platforms, and crypto workflows, with a roadmap that ties platform usage to broader ecosystem utility.

Griffin AI also continues to operate a multi-model stack—leveraging OpenAI alongside additional leading models and self-hosted deployments—ensuring performance, resilience, and flexibility as the product scales.

About Griffin AI

#1 AI Agent Builder for Web3
IGriffin AI is the leading AI agent builder for decentralized finance, enabling anyone to create, deploy, and scale autonomous crypto-native agents. Its flagship agents “Transaction Execution Agent” executes swaps, yields, and cross-chain operations through natural language, while multiple research agents help investors find Alpha.

PR Contact:
support@griffinai.io

Note: “Tokens” refer to AI model tokens processed through OpenAI model usage (not blockchain tokens). Forward-looking statements in this release are subject to risks and uncertainties.

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• Bitcoin price plunged to $60,000, its biggest single-day fall since the FTX crash.
• Prices rose to above $66,000 as analysts forecast a potential dead cat bounce.
• Market sentiment remains in extreme fear.

Bitcoin fell sharply on Friday, crashing to lows of $60,000, which ignited widespread selling before swiftly staging a dramatic recovery to around $67,100.

The volatile swing has sent the cryptocurrency market sentiment into extreme fear, with top altcoins, including Ethereum, XRP, and Solana, hitting critical support levels below $1,900, $1.40, and $80, respectively.

But after experiencing one of its most severe single-day plunges in history, can bulls sustain the flip?

Bitcoin sees biggest 24-hour dip since FTX crash

As noted, Bitcoin plummeted more than $10,000 in a matter of hours on Thursday, briefly dipping to lows near $60,000.

While Bitcoin has since recovered some ground and stabilised near $67,000 at the time of writing, the broader market remains under pressure following the cryptocurrency’s sharpest one-day decline since the collapse of FTX in November 2022.

Unlike previous sell-offs triggered by clear catalysts such as regulatory actions or exchange failures, the latest downturn appears to have been driven largely by technical factors.

Analysts have pointed to a wave of liquidations and forced unwinding of highly leveraged positions, as traders who had positioned for continued gains were caught off guard by the sudden reversal in momentum.

Crypto analyst and investor Lark Davis shared the following on X:

There’s discussion that Bitcoin’s dump is part of a bigger domino effect.

People borrowed money to buy Bitcoin, gold, and silver. When prices dropped, lenders said „give us more money NOW or we’ll sell your stuff.“

The problem: People didn’t have cash, so they sold their OTHER…

— Lark Davis (@LarkDavis) February 6, 2026

Data from Coinglass showed that more than $2.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin derivatives accounting for the largest share.

The sell-off spread across major altcoins. Ethereum fell below $1,800 for the first time in more than a year, while Solana slid to around $67, its lowest level since December 2023.

XRP also came under heavy pressure, touching lows near $1.13 and raising the risk of a move back below the $1 mark for the token linked to Ripple.

Market participants noted that open interest in Bitcoin futures had climbed to record levels before the downturn, leaving heavily leveraged long positions exposed when prices reversed sharply.

Bitcoin price outlook: dead cat bounce or sustained rally?

As Bitcoin trades near $66,000, traders are weighing whether the rebound marks the start of a sustained recovery or represents a short-lived “dead cat bounce” that could give way to renewed losses.

Bearish sentiment remains dominant, with market confidence sliding to extreme lows.

The CoinMarketCap Fear and Greed Index is currently at 5 out of 100, signalling severe investor anxiety.

Despite this, some analysts argue that supportive factors are still present.

The scale of the recent sell-off, driven in part by heavy long liquidations, has raised the possibility of a short squeeze.

If short sellers continue to cover positions, prices could extend their recovery.

For bulls, a sustained move above $70,000 and a retest of $73,000 would be key technical milestones.

However, if momentum weakens amid ongoing macroeconomic and geopolitical pressures, Bitcoin could slip toward $60,000, undermining the rebound.

In that scenario, some market participants see $50,000 as the next potential downside target.

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