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Chainlink Labs joined the Texas Blockchain Council to engage policymakers on secure digital-asset infrastructure and standards. Texas Blockchain Council has 100+ members and has backed the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve legislation. Chainlink Labs has entered a strategic partnership with the Texas Blockchain Council (TBC) to advance digital asset standards across the state. The two organizations said the collaboration will focus on engaging policymakers and industry leaders on secure digital asset infrastructure and on blockchain use cases intended for public and private-sector adoption in the state. The Texas Blockchain Council is a nonprofit industry association that works with member companies to support crypto-related policy efforts, educate lawmakers, and encourage blockchain-based economic development. The group has more than 100 member companies and has been involved in state-level initiatives tied to digital assets and energy-related infrastructure. The Texas Blockchain Council (TBC) and Chainlink Labs have strategically partnered to advance digital asset standards across Texas. Chainlink Labs and @TXblockchain_ members are engaging policymakers and industry leaders on secure digital asset infrastructure for the state. https://t.co/PdWaOhEvjc pic.twitter.com/C8qb9Oz6g1 — Chainlink (@chainlink) February 3, 2026 TBC is led by Texas State Representative Giovanni Capriglione, who was named president in early January 2026. The council’s public materials say its policy work covers Bitcoin, blockchain, and digital asset innovation in Texas.  Recently, CNF noted the need for Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Solution after reporting that $2.8 billion was stolen in 2025 across 147 hacks, according to TRM Labs. The report added that bridge exploits account for about a fifth of the more than $15 billion lost to hackers since 2016. Chainlink’s Policy Engagement and Infrastructure Focus in Texas Under the partnership, Chainlink Labs and TBC members said they will work with Texas stakeholders on standards for data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy used in blockchain-based systems. These areas are part of a broader effort to support secure digital asset infrastructure and make it easier to deploy blockchain applications that rely on external data and cross-network connectivity. Chainlink Labs is the primary contributor to Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network, which provides blockchain applications with verified data feeds and secure connections to off-chain systems. The company said the network has facilitated more than $28 trillion in transaction value and is used across decentralized finance and institutional blockchain initiatives. The announcement also tied the collaboration to Texas’s broader interest in digital asset policy. TBC has supported legislation and initiatives related to a Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and Giovanni Capriglione has been associated with state-level efforts on the reserve concept in recent years. The two partners will engage directly with policymakers and industry leaders to promote consistent digital asset standards that can be applied across projects.  At the time of reporting, LINK price was recovering from a recent intraday dip, trading at $9.67 , with a 19%  increase in 24-hour trading volume to $1.04 billion.

Gelonghui, February 4th｜The stock prices of U.S. software companies fell in pre-market trading. The stock price of a certain exchange company dropped by 1.5%, Intuit fell by 0.9%, Adobe dropped by 0.9%, Salesforce fell by 0.7%, and ServiceNow dropped by 0.8%. CrowdStrike's stock price fell by 1.2%, and Datadog dropped by 0.7%.

Foresight News reported that BlockSec released the 2025 USDT Freeze Report, stating that after analyzing on-chain data of all events on Ethereum and Tron in 2025, a total of 4,163 different USDT addresses were blacklisted by Tether, with the total amount of frozen funds reaching 1.26 billions USD. This means that approximately 3.4 millions USD were frozen every day.At the same time, Tether destroyed 698 millions USD of the frozen funds, which is 55.6% of the permanently removed frozen value from circulation. Among the 4,163 unique addresses blacklisted by Tether in 2025, only 150 (3.6%) were removed from the blacklist within the same year. The remaining 231 addresses had already been blacklisted before 2025.