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Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings allocated approximately $4.3 million for CEO Fred Thiel's personal security expenses in fiscal year 2025, which includes $430,780 for vehicle bulletproof modifications, as well as expenses for bodyguards and residential security facilities. According to documents submitted to the U.S. SEC, MARA also provided approximately $3.9 million in security expenses for CFO Salman Khan, including $438,380 for vehicle bulletproof costs.Reports indicate that as incidents of "ransom attacks" targeting executives and investors in the crypto industry increase, crypto companies are significantly ramping up their investment in executive physical security. The so-called "ransom attack" typically refers to forcing victims to hand over private keys or account access through kidnapping, violence, or coercion. Data shows that in 2025, there were 72 confirmed incidents of crypto-related entity coercion globally, a year-on-year increase of 75%. Among these, France recorded 19 incidents, the highest in the world.

Former Singapore Navy personnel Zhang Rongxuan (35 years old, phonetic) was sentenced to six years and ten months in prison after stealing 1.7 million Tether (nearly 2.3 million Singapore dollars) from a friend's cold wallet, which he spent on luxury watches, gambling, and paying off a mortgage.It is reported that Zhang Rongxuan was a member of the Naval Diving Unit at the time of the incident, holding the rank of captain. After getting to know the victim, he also co-managed a non-fungible token trading platform with friends, which is affiliated with Upstairs Research Pte Ltd and owned by DiGi Selection Holdings Pte Ltd. After security companies tracked the cryptocurrency wallet, Zhang Rongxuan admitted that he committed the crime due to suffering significant losses from the collapse of the FTX exchange.

According to Slow Fog CISO @im23pds's post on the X platform: attackers used 13 accounts to implant 575 malicious Skills into Hugging Face and ClawHub.

According to The Block, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated in an interview with Reuters that there is a "huge opportunity" for the renminbi stablecoin. If Chinese authorities wish to enhance the global competitiveness of the renminbi, stablecoins will become an important technical means for currency internationalization, and he predicts that China may launch a renminbi stablecoin in the next 3 to 5 years.It is worth noting that the People's Bank of China and multiple departments have clearly prohibited the issuance of renminbi stablecoins abroad without regulatory approval as of February 2026. Meanwhile, the regulatory attitude in Hong Kong is completely opposite; the Hong Kong Monetary Authority issued the first batch of stablecoin licenses to HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial (a joint venture of Standard Chartered Bank, Animoca Brands, and Hong Kong Telecom) last week.

According to Cointelegraph, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov called WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption a "huge consumer fraud." He pointed out that about 95% of private messages ultimately end up stored in unencrypted backups on Apple and Google servers.Durov believes that this situation puts users' privacy at risk. Although WhatsApp claims that its message transmission process uses end-to-end encryption, the actual backup mechanism fails to ensure the complete encryption of user information. This statement has raised industry concerns about the privacy protection measures of mainstream messaging applications.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) detailed the Terra/UST/LUNA collapse in his new book "Binance Life." In 2018, Binance's venture capital department invested $3 million in Terra in exchange for LUNA tokens. Starting on May 7, 2022, UST began to de-peg and rapidly collapsed, with approximately $60 billion in value evaporating.At the same time, the team informed that the early investment in LUNA was worth $1.6 billion, and CZ decided not to sell to cash out, reasoning that he did not want to trigger market panic, harm the project, or be seen as running ahead of retail investors. Nevertheless, the LUNA he held plummeted from a market value of $1.6 billion to a few thousand dollars within days, resulting in significant losses for Binance.CZ pointed out in the book that Terra claimed to have billions of dollars in reserves but did not use them to stabilize UST, and founder Do Kwon lacked transparent responses. The design of UST relied on LUNA as a reserve, and after the de-pegging, the system crazily minted LUNA, increasing the total supply by 1,000 times, accelerating the collapse. Terra ultimately used $3 billion in Bitcoin reserves to try to save the situation, but it was too late, and he expressed shock that Do Kwon might have privately kept $200 million for legal fees.

According to a report by Reuters, witnesses stated that a huge explosion was heard in Dubai.

According to The Block, Paul Atkins, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stated at a Senate Banking Committee hearing that prediction markets are a "huge issue" and a regulatory focus he shares with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Michael Selig.Atkins pointed out that prediction markets have "potential jurisdictional overlaps," currently primarily governed by the CFTC, but the two agencies will work together. When asked if clear rules would be established, he said "we'll have to wait and see," and noted that "a security is a security, and the definition of prediction markets and their products depends on specific wording." CFTC chairman Selig stated that he would ensure "reasonable rules and protections" are established for prediction markets to prevent them from being pushed overseas.The jurisdiction over prediction market regulation has become a contentious issue between federal and state governments. Operators argue that under the Commodity Exchange Act, all event contracts should be exclusively governed by the CFTC; while some states believe that the relevant platforms involve activities like sports betting, violating local gambling laws. Prediction markets have also recently come under additional scrutiny due to insider trading allegations and restrictive legislation targeting political betting.

Binance founder CZ stated, "The cryptocurrency market is very small. The potential of this technology is enormous, but it has not been fully developed yet. This is just the beginning."

Galaxy Research released its 2026 annual forecast, stating that Bitcoin's market volatility in 2026 is too great to predict, but the possibility of Bitcoin reaching an all-time high in 2026 still exists, with expectations to reach $250,000 by the end of 2027.Other major predictions include:Stablecoin trading volume may surpass the U.S. ACH system in 2026;The Solana ecosystem may continue to expand, with enterprise-level public chains moving from experimentation to real settlement;The U.S. market may see more crypto ETFs and institutional capital inflows;On-chain payments combining DeFi, tokenized assets, and AI will further develop, being viewed as an important force driving the evolution of the next stage of crypto infrastructure.

According to Coingecko data, the market capitalization of euro stablecoins has doubled in the year since the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) came into effect, currently reaching about $683 million, but there is still a significant gap compared to the over $300 billion market capitalization of US dollar stablecoins.Additionally, a report titled "2025 Euro Stablecoin Trends" released by London-based payment company Decta points out that recent growth in euro stablecoins is mainly concentrated among a few leading tokens, such as EURS, which saw a market cap increase of 6.44%. Furthermore, Circle's EURC and Société Générale's EURCV also achieved significant growth, with trading volumes increasing by 1139% and 343%, respectively.Decta's survey also revealed a substantial increase in search activity for euro stablecoins across the EU, with Finland seeing a 400% increase, Italy 313.3%, and markets like Cyprus and Slovakia also experiencing smaller but steady growth.

According to Cointelegraph, CoinShares research director James Butterfill stated that concerns about Tether's solvency "seem unfounded." He pointed out that Tether's latest financial report shows reserves of $181 billion, liabilities of about $174.45 billion, and a surplus of nearly $6.8 billion. "Although the risks of stablecoins cannot be ignored, the current data does not indicate systemic vulnerabilities," this week, BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes warned that if the value of Tether's reserve assets declines, the company could face serious difficulties, which has once again raised concerns about the financial stability of the stablecoin issuer Tether.

According to Cointelegraph, Coinbase Asset Management President Anthony Bassili stated that ordinary investors have not yet reached a clear consensus on which crypto assets, besides Bitcoin and Ethereum, are worth focusing on. Anthony Bassili pointed out that Solana "might" be the third asset worth attention. "The market is still not very certain about what assets should be held next," he added, noting that there is a "very large gap" between XRP and Solana.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the following is an overview of the popular active whale movements on-chain in the past 24 hours: BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes sold approximately $5 million worth of Ethereum ecosystem tokens, totaling 780 ETH ($2.48 million), 5.02 million ENA ($1.384 million), 640,000 LDO ($480,000), 1,630 AAVE ($289,000), 28,670 UNI ($209,000), and 132,730 ETHFI ($124,000).The largest short position on ZEC on Hyperliquid has held its position for over a month, and this morning transferred another 5 million USDC to increase margin. Its 5x ZEC short position was opened at $360, with the current ZEC price at $686 and a liquidation price of $1,084, resulting in an unrealized loss of $20 million. This address has been building its ZEC short position since October 11, continuously adding to its position during price increases to average down costs. This whale also opened a 15x ETH short position worth $26 million, currently with an unrealized profit of $7 million, opened at $4,094."Buddy" Huang Licheng partially closed his ETH long position this morning and then slightly increased his position again. Currently, his 25x ETH long position is worth about $25 million, with an opening price of $3,397, a liquidation price of $3,049, and the current ETH price at $3,154, resulting in an unrealized loss of $1.9 million. "Buddy" has realized a profit of $770,000 in the past week, with a total account loss currently reported at $16.43 million.A certain whale with a large position has shorted BTC, XRP, and ZEC, with a total value exceeding $190 million. The current positions are as follows: a 40x short position in BTC valued at $148 million, opened at $96,065.2, with a liquidation price of $97,560.2; a 20x short position in XRP valued at $27.3 million, opened at $2.225, with a liquidation price of $2.5; and a 10x short position in ZEC valued at $20.6 million, opened at $652, with a liquidation price of $775.The whale address that "borrowed coins to short 66,000 ETH" recently purchased 444,895 ETH (worth $1.39 billion), suspected to be starting to sell. Eight hours ago, it withdrew 177,000 ETH (worth $561.3 million) from Aave and deposited 44,000 ETH (worth $140.2 million) to Binance. The whale's purchase cost was approximately $3,437, currently facing a loss of about $125 million.The "100% win rate whale counterparty" has just increased its 10x leveraged ETH short position to $20.11 million, with an average opening price of $3,186.98 and a liquidation price of $3,736.89. The largest long position on ZEC on Hyperliquid currently holds a $22.29 million ZEC long position with 5x leverage, with an unrealized profit of $8.28 million, an average opening price of $396.9, and a liquidation price of $358.44.

The CEO of Dromos Labs, Alexander, behind Aerodrome and Velodrome, posted on X: "I never thought that on the eve of the most important day for Dromos Labs, our biggest competitor would make such a significant blunder... This is a massive strategic error made at the most inopportune time."Cap'n Jack Bearow, a subjective commentator on Berachain DeFi, remarked that Aerodrome might announce cross-chain expansion on Wednesday, while Uniswap would reduce LP profitability due to the activation of the fee switch, which would aid Aerodrome's competitiveness.

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