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The People's Daily of China published an article titled "Disrupting the Capital Market, These Chaos of Financial Self-Media Accounts Need to Be Vigilant," which specifically names certain accounts that attract traffic for virtual currency trading by posting false profit information such as "hundred times coin" and "making millions a month from trading coins."The article again cites a previous notice from the central bank and eight other departments, emphasizing that activities related to virtual currencies are considered illegal financial activities. It points out that accounts and platforms providing traffic and technical services for illegal virtual currency trading are suspected of violating laws and regulations, which may threaten financial security and anti-money laundering efforts.

According to the New York Post, Meta is laying off hundreds of employees in Silicon Valley while the tech giant is heavily investing in artificial intelligence and considering cutting more than 20% of its total workforce. According to the latest state government filings, the parent company of Facebook will lay off nearly 200 employees in the San Francisco Bay Area. The layoffs will affect 124 employees in Burlingame, California, and 74 employees in nearby Sunnyvale. The documents indicate that these layoffs will take effect in late May, and all affected positions will be permanently eliminated.Experts say this move indicates that Meta is undergoing a major strategic transformation—from a labor-intensive operational model to a machine-driven system. Meta's recent AI-related initiatives include plans to invest $10 billion in building data centers in El Paso, Texas.Meta is also considering larger layoffs. Senior employees have been informed to prepare for layoffs that could affect more than 20% of the company's workforce—about 15,000 employees. In response to this plan, a Meta spokesperson stated, "This is speculative reporting about a theoretical proposal."If the layoffs proceed, it would be the largest layoff at Meta since more than 20,000 employees were cut during Zuckerberg's push for the company's "year of efficiency" in 2022 and 2023. In a Meta earnings call, Zuckerberg stated that due to the application of AI tools, Meta has begun to "see projects that previously required large teams now being completed by a very talented individual."

On-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed today that a collaborative network consisting of at least 10 accounts is generating traffic on social platform X by creating panic-inducing content related to wars and ultimately directing it to cryptocurrency scam projects.This network acquires accounts with an existing follower base, frequently posts sensational "apocalyptic" content, and amplifies dissemination by having multiple secondary accounts retweet each other, quickly gaining millions of views and significant interactions. Investigations show that these accounts also utilize AI to generate fake personas, such as fabricating an "Asian version of Mario Nawfal" to enhance credibility. After gaining traffic, the relevant accounts promote fake airdrop events or cryptocurrency project scams, including a concentrated promotion of a pump-and-dump project named ORAMAMA on February 22, 2026, which is then no longer mentioned.On-chain data indicates that this operation has brought six-figure profits to the team behind it. Meanwhile, many genuine large accounts inadvertently engage in interactions through comments and retweets, further amplifying the content dissemination effect. ZachXBT warns that this combination model of "traffic farms + AI content + cryptocurrency scams" has become highly mature and is easily replicable. If similar mechanisms are exploited by higher-level organizations, their potential impact will far exceed the realm of financial fraud and may even evolve into a tool for public opinion manipulation.ZachXBT calls for platforms to strengthen regulation, implementing bans and legal accountability for such manipulative behaviors. He also advises users to carefully verify account histories and information sources before engaging in interactions to combat the increasingly rampant phenomenon of false content and "interaction bait."

Huobi HTX "New Year's First Lesson" series course fifth lecture (advanced course) will officially start tonight at 7 PM, featuring special guest Chloe Zheng, Senior Researcher at HTX Research, with the course theme "Surge! Seizing the Hundredfold Track in Advance".The core focus of the course revolves around three major highlights:Understanding new regulatory rules: clarifying compliance boundaries and seizing the bonus window brought by institutional entry;Identifying potential tracks: breaking down the logic of stablecoins and RWA explosions to pinpoint hundredfold targets;Mastering practical paths: teaching you to use ETF/ETP + RWA tokenization tools to low-risk ambush high-certainty opportunities.This advanced course requires completing one public class's study and answering questions to earn credits; after completing the questions, you can secure your course seat.

According to GMGN monitoring, Cobie, the founder of Echo XYZ, tweeted about "Copper Inu" today on platform X, leading to the emergence of several meme coins named "COPPERINU" on the Solana chain. The token with the highest market cap quickly surged to $12 million and has now retraced to about $9 million, with a price of approximately $0.009.In the tweet, Cobie stated, "You don't have to worry about waking up one day to find Copper Inu has taken all of copper's market share. They won't pop up like some digital assets do, with new products emerging every few seconds to disrupt existing value."Additionally, GMGN monitoring indicates that the address ranked first in holdings (A1EC...) belongs to Equation founder himgajria's publicly disclosed on-chain address. This address invested about $10,000 when COPPERINU's market cap was only around $80,000, and it currently has an unrealized profit exceeding 10,000%. Although some has been sold, the total profit still reaches approximately $740,000.

易理华发文表示："Recently, the market has been quite volatile. From our investment research perspective, the bears have entered the most frantic phase of selling, but this does not affect the overall bullish trend, especially with the continued strength of the U.S. stock market and the backdrop of the U.S. crypto national strategy. We will not be influenced to change our investment strategy. Moreover, we achieved nearly 2.5 times returns in the last round of ETH and experienced a correction from 2800 to 2100 due to the Middle East black swan event. A few hundred dollars of fluctuation is within the normal range. As the recent bulls have been jokingly referred to across the internet, a single night's sleep can result in fluctuations of hundreds of millions of dollars, resembling a roller coaster. However, the bigger the waves, the more valuable the fish. Furthermore, there is no such thing as guaranteed profits in investing. As always, our ongoing strategy is to accumulate more ETH by deploying various strategies at lower prices. Recently, risk-averse funds have been flowing into the gold and silver markets, but there will definitely be moments for profit-taking and capital return. The lowest tide in the crypto industry will eventually pass."

According to monitoring by ZachXBT, currently, hundreds of wallets have been subjected to small-scale thefts (with each victim losing less than $2,000) across multiple EVM chains, but the root cause has yet to be determined.So far, these wallets have been drained of approximately $107,000, and the total losses continue to rise.

A traffic police officer in Ufa, Russia, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for stealing approximately 20 million rubles (equivalent to several hundred thousand dollars) in Bitcoin. The case dates back to 2022, when the officer illegally obtained access to the mobile phones of two detainees while handling a case, transferring BTC through a messaging app and a cryptocurrency wallet, accompanied by violent evidence collection. The court sentenced him to 7 years in a regular security prison, ordered him to compensate the victims approximately 20 million rubles, and stripped him of his police rank.

Hangzhou Yunshen Technology Co., Ltd. has completed hundreds of millions of RMB in Pre-IPO financing. This round of financing was led by the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Fund, with participation from a major internet company.

Confidential computing network Arcium member @milianstx posted that using Tornado Cash can result in user wallets being flagged across hundreds of applications, rendering these applications unusable.@milianstx calls on users not to mix their funds with North Korean hackers.

According to Cryptoslate, the U.S. SEC approved a universal listing standard for cryptocurrency ETPs last September, shortening the product launch time to 75 days. Bitwise predicts that over 100 cryptocurrency ETFs will be launched by 2026, but Bloomberg senior analyst James Seyffart warns of a significant number of liquidations.The biggest risk lies in the highly concentrated custody: Coinbase holds the vast majority of cryptocurrency ETF assets, claiming to account for as much as 85% of the global Bitcoin ETF share, posing a single point of failure risk. Additionally, authorized participants (APs) rely on a few platforms for pricing and borrowing, making it difficult for altcoins to hedge due to a lack of derivatives depth.ETFs for mainstream coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana will reinforce their dominant positions, but smaller funds face pressures such as liquidity exhaustion, persistent premiums and discounts, and fee wars. Analysts predict that the first wave of liquidations will occur from late 2026 to early 2027, with high-fee, homogenized products and niche index funds with assets below $50 million being the most vulnerable. The universal standard has addressed the approval time issue but has not resolved the liquidity dilemma.

According to market news, Danny / Meech, also known as Danish Zulfiqar (Khan), is suspected to have been arrested by law enforcement and had cryptocurrency assets seized. Currently, assets worth $18.58 million are stored at address 0xb37d617716e46511E56FE07b885fBdD70119f768.This threat actor was involved in the $243 million Genesis creditor theft case carried out in August 2024 alongside Malone, Veer, Chen, and Jeandiel, as well as the Kroll SIM Swap incident in August 2023, which led to the leakage of PII of BlockFi, Genesis, and FTX creditors, resulting in over $300 million in losses. Multiple addresses associated with this actor, tracked by zachxbt, have pooled funds to the 0xb37d address a few hours ago, with a pattern similar to other law enforcement seizure actions.

Polygon's global head of payments and RWA, Aishwary Gupta, believes that global stablecoins are entering a "super cycle," with the number of stablecoin issuers potentially exceeding 100,000 in the next five years.Gupta pointed out that Japan is participating in government bond and policy stimulus pilots through stablecoins like JPYC, proving that stablecoins can become tools of national economic sovereignty rather than undermining central bank power. He stated that stablecoins, like fiat currencies, are influenced by monetary policy and will essentially enhance the global demand for a country's currency, similar to how stablecoins drive the usage of the dollar.Gupta also warned that stablecoin yields are attracting low-interest deposits (CASA) from the banking system to on-chain, weakening banks' ability to create credit and maintain low-cost capital. To respond to this competition, he expects banks to issue "deposit tokens" on a large scale to keep funds on their balance sheets while allowing customers to use their assets on-chain.He believes that as the number of stablecoins rapidly expands, future payment systems will rely on a unified settlement layer, allowing users to pay with any token while merchants receive payments in another token, with the underlying conversion happening seamlessly in the background.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and The New York Times joint investigation shows that despite Binance pleading guilty in 2023 and promising to strengthen compliance, a significant amount of illegal funds continues to flow into the platform.Data indicates that wallets associated with the Cambodian financial institution Huione Group (designated by the U.S. as a major money laundering concern) transferred over $408 million to Binance accounts within 12 months. Additionally, approximately $900 million in Ethereum has flowed into five Binance accounts from exchange services used by North Korean hackers this year, suspected to be related to the $1.5 billion theft case involving Bybit exchange.A Binance spokesperson emphasized that the platform cannot prevent blockchain transfers but will take appropriate measures upon identifying suspicious activities. Although Binance reached a $4.3 billion settlement with the U.S. in 2023 and committed to strengthening anti-money laundering measures under court supervision, investigations show that hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal funds have still flowed in as of 2024, raising questions about the effectiveness of its compliance enforcement.

According to Jinshi reports, both onshore and offshore RMB against the US dollar have broken through 7.1, with an intraday increase of more than 100 points.

OpenAI founder Sam Altman rarely published a long article to clarify related messages, stating that OpenAI does not seek or wish for the government to provide guarantees for data centers. He believes that the government should not pick winners or use taxpayer money to bail out failing companies. If OpenAI fails, other companies will continue to work. He suggests that the government should build and own AI infrastructure itself, with the profits going to the government, which may provide low-cost capital to establish a national reserve of computing power, but for government interests rather than private companies.OpenAI expects its annual revenue to exceed $20 billion this year, reaching hundreds of billions by 2030, and anticipates about $1.4 trillion in investment commitments over the next eight years. Revenue sources will include categories such as enterprise products, new consumer devices, robotics, AI scientific discoveries, etc.; direct sales of computing power; and possibly issuing equity or debt in the future. OpenAI does not seek to be "too big to fail," and if it fails, it should be handled by the market. In addition, it hopes that artificial intelligence can be widespread and affordable. This technology is expected to have huge market demand and improve people's lives in many ways.