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According to Theblock, the crypto wallet supported by Binance, Trust Wallet, has officially launched the Trust Wallet Agent Kit (TWAK). This infrastructure allows AI agents to execute real cryptocurrency transactions across more than 25 blockchains under user-defined and controlled rules. In addition to managing regular purchases, it can also handle cross-chain exchanges across multiple networks, including Solana and Bitcoin.The report states that the new toolkit offers two modes of operation: one where the AI agent has its own wallet and can automatically execute transactions based on set rules; the other where it suggests transactions that then require user approval.

According to Slow Fog monitoring, the Apifox desktop client has encountered a supply chain attack, with front-end script files hosted on its official CDN being injected with highly obfuscated malicious JavaScript code.Affected users may face risks such as credential theft, sensitive data leakage, and remote command execution, with the malicious code executing automatically and being highly concealed. Slow Fog recommends that users immediately revoke all Tokens, reset passwords, log out and log back in to invalidate sessions, block the *.apifox.it.com domain, clear local storage, and review API logs and abnormal activities.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung nominated Shin Hung-song, the head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), to serve as the governor of the Bank of Korea. Shin Hung-song stated last year that the issuance of a Korean won stablecoin is "an effective shortcut to bypass existing foreign exchange controls," which could open the door for capital outflows, and he immediately resigned from his BIS position after the nomination.Previously, Lee Jae-myung had listed the issuance of a Korean won stablecoin as a core campaign issue, but the Bank of Korea has consistently blocked the advancement of related legislation. Several large tech companies in South Korea have been waiting for stablecoin policies to be implemented for months. A report released by the BIS last year pointed out that stablecoins do not possess the functions of stable currencies and could pose risks to financial stability and monetary sovereignty. Industry insiders indicate that Shin Hung-song's stance on stablecoins will be closely monitored after he takes office.

According to foreign media reports, the Trump administration has temporarily waived a century-old shipping mandate known as the Jones Act to reduce transportation costs for oil, natural gas, and other commodities within the United States. This is the latest measure he has taken to address the rise in energy prices triggered by the war with Iran. On Wednesday, Trump authorized foreign-flagged vessels to transport a range of goods between U.S. ports for the next 60 days.It is understood that this authorization waives certain transportation requirements, allowing foreign ships to temporarily transport various products. According to White House officials, these products include coal, crude oil, refined oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, fertilizers, any products primarily made from refined oil, and other energy derivatives.However, some analysts believe that given the scale of the supply chain shocks, this waiver is expected to have only a limited impact.

According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed tokenization company Streamex Corp. (stock code: STEX) has announced the appointment of Christine Plummer as Chief Financial Officer.Plummer has worked at Morgan Stanley for over twenty years and then served as the Global Financial Director at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Streamex stated that Plummer will be responsible for overseeing the company's financial operations and driving the expansion of its institutional platform.Streamex primarily focuses on the tokenization of physical assets such as gold. In February of this year, the company launched the tokenized securities product GLDY, aimed at providing investors with exposure to gold and generating returns. The company believes that gold tokenization has the potential to surpass Bitcoin in terms of trading volume, market capitalization, and institutional adoption rate.

Takatoshi Shibayama, the head of Ledger's Asia-Pacific region, stated that if the United States implements a broader ban on stablecoin yields, discussions will take place among institutions, stablecoin issuers, and regulators in other countries. He pointed out that countries like Australia have provided regulatory exemptions for stablecoin issuers, but currently, most stablecoins do not offer yields or rewards to users even outside the United States, in order to protect banking interests.If U.S. policies change, discussions between stablecoin issuers and regulators in various countries about allowing yields to be passed on to users will significantly increase. The U.S. Senate is currently advancing a cryptocurrency regulation bill, but provisions supported by banking lobby groups that prohibit third-party platforms from offering stablecoin yields have stalled the legislation, which has drawn opposition from cryptocurrency industry lobbyists.Shibayama also mentioned that the way Asian financial institutions are focusing on the cryptocurrency industry has changed, with a certain degree of decoupling from cryptocurrency and blockchain technology since last year. Institutions are more focused on the tokenization of financial products and the issuance of stablecoins, rather than on DeFi and staking, which are native cryptocurrency products. Assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum are excluded from discussions. However, asset management companies are still considering launching cryptocurrency products to enrich client options.

Vitalik posted on the X platform, stating that we should maintain an open attitude towards the current separation of the Ethereum beacon chain and execution clients, believing that the complexity of running two daemons and having them communicate with each other is significantly higher than running a single daemon.Vitalik pointed out that Ethereum's goal is to allow users to use the network in a self-hosted manner and have a good user experience, which in many cases means needing to run their own nodes. However, the current way of running nodes adds unnecessary complexity. He suggested that in the short term, a more standardized foundational packaging solution could allow users to install Docker images of different clients and achieve more convenient communication. At the same time, as the LeanEthereum consensus scheme matures, the overall architectural design should also be reconsidered in the future.

AI agent developer CoinFello has released the open-source skill OpenClaw, allowing AI agents to securely connect to MetaMask and execute on-chain transactions without ever accessing the user's private keys.This skill is built on the MetaMask smart account suite, utilizing ERC-4337 smart accounts and the ERC-7710 delegation mechanism. Users can grant AI agents the minimum permissions required to perform specific tasks, effectively mitigating the risks of prompt injection attacks that existing AI agent wallets commonly face.CoinFello's Chief Technology Officer Brett Cleary stated, "If we want agents to meaningfully participate in the on-chain economy, we need a security model that is better than directly handing over private keys."Supported features include ERC-20 token swaps, cross-EVM bridging, NFT interactions, staking, lending, and multi-step trading strategies, all triggered by natural language commands. This skill is released under the MIT License.

Bitget officially launched GetClaw, allowing users to start using it directly without local deployment or technical background by fully migrating the operating environment of the agent to the cloud. Previously, the use of AI trading agents typically required users to have certain technical skills or complete cumbersome local configurations. GetClaw completely eliminates this barrier through a cloud-based architecture, further lowering the threshold for using AI trading tools.In terms of functionality, GetClaw supports 24/7 market monitoring, memory of user position preferences, automatic execution of trading signals, and strategy backtesting, enabling the AI agent to continuously optimize trading decisions based on market changes and user strategies. The current early access version has opened some core features, and trading functions will be launched with the official version. By deeply integrating AI automation capabilities with the trading execution system, Bitget further promotes the transition of AI-driven trading tools from technical exploration to practical application scenarios.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov posted an article calling for reforms in the DAO governance model. He pointed out that the current operation of DAOs is extremely difficult, with the decision-making process slowed down by forum discussions, temperature checks, and multiple rounds of voting. At the same time, DAOs can easily become politicized, with participants forming political alliances, ultimately leading to "politicians" winning instead of builders.Kulechov advocates that governance should focus on areas that truly require collective participation, such as significant protocol changes and treasury strategies, while the rest should belong to the execution level, requiring leaders to drive it forward. He stated that Aave needs to remain agile and streamline governance processes to capture opportunities in the global lending market. Recently, the Aave community experienced governance turmoil, with core contributors BGD Labs and ACI withdrawing from the protocol due to conflicts with Aave Labs, and both sides having disagreements over the "Aave Will Win" proposal put forth by Aave Labs.

The digital asset trading platform Gate has launched a no-code AI quantitative workstation, which allows users to generate trading strategies through natural language and deploy them to live trading with one click. Users do not need to write code; they simply describe their trading ideas in natural language, and the system automatically generates executable quantitative strategies. It also conducts backtesting based on real historical market data, supporting one-click deployment to operate in the real market. The platform connects natural language strategy generation, production-level backtesting engine, and real trading execution, forming a complete closed loop of "strategy conception --- data validation --- trading execution," significantly lowering the barriers to quantitative trading.At the same time, Gate has launched Gate for AI, building a unified AI capability interface system that integrates five key capabilities: CEX, DEX, wallets, real-time information, and on-chain data. The AI quantitative workstation further expands application scenarios on this basis, extending AI from data and research to strategy generation and trading execution. With the continuous integration of AI and trading infrastructure, Gate is continuously strengthening AI-driven trading capabilities and advancing the implementation of the Intelligent Web3 strategy.

Coinbase shareholder Kevin Meehan filed a derivative lawsuit on behalf of the company, accusing CEO Brian Armstrong and other executives of making misleading statements between April 2021 and June 2023, failing to adequately disclose the risks of customer asset custody, the securities law risks of token listings, and anti-money laundering compliance deficiencies. The lawsuit also names Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, Chief Operating Officer Paul Grewal, and President and Chief Operating Officer Emilie Choi.The complaint states that the Coinbase user agreement describes custodial wallet assets as "assets held by the company on behalf of customers," but does not disclose that these assets may be included in the bankruptcy estate if the company goes bankrupt, potentially leaving retail users as ordinary unsecured creditors. Meanwhile, the company claims that the token listing review process can "ensure that no securities appear on the platform," yet some tokens still face securities risks.

Web3 security company GoPlus stated that the AI development tool OpenClaw has recently been reported to have experienced a self-attack security incident. During the execution of automated tasks, the system constructed an incorrect Bash command while calling Shell commands to create a GitHub Issue, inadvertently triggering command injection, which led to the exposure of a large number of sensitive environment variables.In the incident, the AI-generated string contained a set wrapped in backticks, which was interpreted by Bash as command substitution and executed automatically. Since Bash outputs all current environment variables when executing set without parameters, this ultimately resulted in over 100 lines of sensitive information (including Telegram keys, authentication tokens, etc.) being directly written to the GitHub Issue and publicly published. GoPlus recommends that in AI automation development or testing scenarios, API calls should be used instead of directly concatenating Shell commands, and the principle of least privilege should be followed to isolate environment variables. Additionally, high-risk execution modes should be disabled, and a manual review mechanism should be introduced for critical operations.

The documents show that two directors of the Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin (ABTC), supported by the Trump family, collectively increased their holdings by approximately 1.63 million shares of the company stock after the earnings report disclosure window reopened. Among them, Justin Mateen purchased about 1.3 million shares at an average price of around $1, while Richard Busch bought about 330,000 shares in the past two days. The company previously announced a net loss of approximately $59 million for the fourth quarter of 2025.Co-founder Eric Trump stated that the company currently holds over 6,500 Bitcoins, an increase of about 500 since the last disclosure, ranking 17th among publicly traded companies in Bitcoin holdings globally. ABTC employs a dual strategy of "mining + direct purchase," with about one-third of its Bitcoins coming from mining and the rest acquired through market purchases and strategic trades. The company also announced the acquisition of 11,298 ASIC miners, which is expected to increase its hash rate by approximately 12%. Currently, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. collectively hold about 20% of the company's shares.

According to Cointelegraph, the UK House of Lords questioned Coinbase's Vice President of International Policy, Tom Duff Gordon, on Wednesday, focusing on whether stablecoins could lead to a loss of bank deposits and pose new risks to the UK financial system.Gordon stated that fully reserved and regulated stablecoins are "safer than uninsured bank deposits" because they are backed 1:1 by cash and high-quality government securities and can be redeemed at face value. He emphasized that stablecoins can significantly reduce payment costs and accelerate cross-border payments.Members of the UK House of Lords questioned the redemption risks of stablecoins during a crisis, their potential impact on banks, and their role in criminal activities. Gordon countered that concerns about disintermediation from banks are "greatly exaggerated" and emphasized that Coinbase strictly enforces KYC and anti-money laundering measures.Adam Jackson, Chief Strategy Officer of Innovate Finance, warned that the UK could establish a regulatory regime "stricter and less competitive than the EU's MiCA framework," causing the UK to fall behind the US and Europe in the competition for stablecoin innovation.

Bitget has launched the "Crypto Anti-Bias Pledge" as an important part of its International Women's Day series of activities. This initiative focuses on three core areas: lowering educational and industry entry barriers, promoting equal career development opportunities, and implementing a "zero tolerance" policy against discrimination and harassment in professional and community environments.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that through the Blockchain4Her public welfare program, which has established a special fund of $10 million, Bitget is driving industry improvement through educational collaboration and corporate governance practices. The platform has partnered with UNICEF to provide blockchain and digital skills training to 300,000 young people globally, with an expected female participation rate of 90%.Internally, approximately 40% of executive positions at Bitget are held by women, and a performance-based promotion mechanism has been established. The latest internal assessment shows that several top-performing employees are women, reflecting a talent development culture focused on capability and performance.

According to market news, 1inch Network has upgraded its platform, enhancing user experience and speeding up Swap transaction times. This upgrade has reduced the median execution time for Swap transactions from 26 seconds to 14 seconds.