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▌Arkham: ZachXBT submitted evidence to confirm that Bybit attacker was North Korea's Lazarus Group
Arkham posted on X platform, saying, "ZachXBT won a bounty, and ZachXBT submitted conclusive evidence of the Bybit attack, proving that North Korea's Lazarus Group planned the attack, accompanied by test transaction analysis, related wallet connections and evidence forensics charts. The report has been submitted to the Bybit team to assist in the investigation. "According to news, Arkham created and funded a bounty to help identify Bybit The individual or organization behind the hacking attack. Submissions for this bounty will be shared with the Bybit team to support their investigation.
▌Putin is open to cooperation with Musk
According to TASS on Friday, Russian President Putin proposed Gazpromise a partnership with American entrepreneur Elon Musk . At the Future Technology Forum in Moscow, Putin told the bank's vice chairman Dmitry Sauers, "Link with Musk. When he completes reforms to the U.S. administration, his focus will turn to business and Technology, you have to cooperate with him."
Trending as of press time, according to Coingecko data, BTC's recent transaction price is US$96,332.19, with an increase of -1.6% intraday increase;
ETH Recent Transaction price is US$2,684.05, with an intraday increase of -1.9%;
BNB's latest transaction price is US$649.97, with an intraday increase of -0.4%;
SOL's latest transaction price is US$171.79, with an intraday increase of -0.4%;
SOL's latest transaction price is US$171.79, with an intraday 1.2% increase or decrease;
DOGE's latest transaction price is US$0.2421, and its intraday increase or decrease is -0.3%;
XPR's latest transaction price is US$2.59, and its intraday increase or decrease is -2.7% .
▌Trump terminates all equal rights in the U.S. federal
Reporter learned that US President Assistant Stephen Miller said that President Trump terminated all rights in the U.S. federal Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and fired all federal staff involved in the enactment of these, and the death penalty was restored.
Blockchain application
▌BNB Chain announces that it will perform Pascal hard fork
According to BNB Chain's official blog, BNB Smart Chain will perform Pascal hard fork upgrade, and plans to Implemented on the test network on February 25, 2025, and the main network upgrade is scheduled to be in mid-March 2025. This upgrade will enhance compatibility with Ethereum, mainly including two core functions: native smart contract wallet support and secure encryption upgrade. Through the integration of EIP-7702, multi-signature support, expenditure restrictions and batch transactions will be implemented.Function; at the same time, BEP-439 (EIP-2537) is introduced to support BLS12-381 curve encryption operation
Cryptocurrency
▌Hong Kong regulators may launch cryptocurrency ETF staking services
Hong Kong regulators may launch pledge services for crypto-traded funds and other advanced products (such as derivatives trading). Haiyang Ru, Chief Risk Officer of HashKey Group, said we are actively discussing with the Hong Kong Securities and Exchange Commission the introduction of ETF staking and tokenized money market funds and the launch of earning features in parallel with spot trading.
▌The US Marshals Department cannot confirm how much Bitcoin it holds, or affect the US crypto reserve plan.
According to people familiar with the matter, the US Marshals Department (USMS) cannot confirm what it currently holds. It is even difficult to estimate the amount of Bitcoin. This management vulnerability could affect the U.S.-based crypto reserve program proposed by David Sacks, the White House crypto chief, which could change the way it handles seizures of crypto assets and might even involve buying cryptocurrencies. Currently, USMS still relies on Excel records and manual operations, with limited management efficiency, and external experts warn the agency that could lose billions of dollars at any time due to operational errors. USMS began seeking private enterprise cooperation as early as 2018, but the bidding process delayed for many years. After awarding relevant contracts to BitGo and Anchorage Digital in 2021, both of them were invalidated because the company size did not meet the ‘small business’ standards. In 2024, USMS readjusted its strategy to grant two new contracts to manage different categories of crypto assets.
▌LIBRA collapse incident highlights the importance of education in the field of crypto.
On February 21, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik believes that the collapse of SolanaMeme coin LIBRA is a lesson worth learning from. , he sees it as an example of why education is so important. Vitalik said in a tweet that recent news should not be seen as a reason to give up, highlighting the importance of education in the crypto space. He praised Argentina’s outstanding community of builders who have contributed some of the most important software to the Ethereum ecosystem”, adding that I continue to be very optimistic about the contribution and role of Argentina and Latin America in this area. In a follow-up tweet, Vitalik suggested that Argentina could host a week-long Ethereum Devconnect party, calling it a great opportunity to showcase the best content cryptocurrencies can offer.
▌Modeling and publishing tools for US strategic bitcoin reserves to offset Treasury debt
Matthew Sigel, head of digital asset research at VanEck Research, posted on the X platform that US strategic bitcoin reserves may Helps offset debt, which the agency has modeled and posted on its websiteA tool. In response, Cynthia Lummis, chairman of the U.S. Senate Bank Digital Assets Subcommittee, said that the tools are cool and worth promoting, and Bitcoin solves the problem of reducing Treasury bonds.
▌U.S. Senators urged the SEC to reconsider encrypted ETF staking
Senators from both parties of the United States wrote to SEC Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda, urging to reassess the issue of encrypted ETF staking, believing It plays an important role in blockchain security and investor interests. The letter was led by Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis and supported by Democratic Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Ron Wyden.
Important economic trends
▌U.S. stocks continued to fall, with the three major indexes falling by more than 1%.
U.S. stocks continued to fall, with the three major indexes falling by more than 1%. So far, the Nasdaq has fallen 1.35%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 1.28%, and the S&P 500 has fallen 1.06%. Tesla fell more than 4%, while Google and Amazon fell more than 2%.
▌The three major U.S. stock indexes closed down collectively
The three major U.S. stock indexes closed down collectively, with the Nasdaq falling 2.2%, and the cumulative decline this week was 2.51%, the largest since November last year Single-week decline; the S&P 500 fell 1.71%, 1.66% this week, the largest single-week decline since mid-January; the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.69%, 2.51% this week, the largest single-week decline since late October last year Weekly decline. Large technology stocks generally fell, with Tesla, Nvidia, and Intel falling more than 4%, Netflix, Google, and Amazon falling more than 2%, Microsoft and Meta falling more than 1%, and Apple falling slightly. Block Inc. (XYZ) fell more than 17%, the worst single-day performance since March 2020.
Golden Encyclopedia
▌What is Fractal Bitcoin
Fractal Bitcoin is an innovative blockchain expansion solution based on recursive virtualization technology, by creating multi-layer Network structure to enhance Bitcoin’s scalability while maintaining secure connection to the main network. The creative background of fractal Bitcoin originated from the emergence of the Ordinals protocol and related applications in 2023. For security reasons, Bitcoin imposed restrictions on opcode and block storage space in its iteration. When the Bitcoin chain ecosystem was developing rapidly, there were limitations in on-chain computing power and block space, so the developers proposed that The concept of fractal Bitcoin is expected to solve the shortcomings of the Bitcoin network.
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