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On January 20, LayerZero announced a significant event to be revealed on February 10. Although $ZRO the price subsequently rose over 40% from around $1.7 to nearly $2.4, the market has clearly become desensitized to such 'major event announcements,' with those truly focused on technology being relatively few. Until the evening of February 10, when Tether announced an investment in LayerZero to support the development of blockchain interoperability technology, followed by LayerZero's official announcement on the 11th of launching the L1 public chain Zero, positioned as the 'next-generation world computer,' the market truly began to reevaluate this project.

$ZRO Born with a golden key: Citadel Securities, DTCC, ICE (the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange), and Google Cloud have become partners. Citadel will explore the integration of high-performance trading and clearing, DTCC will optimize the management of tokenized assets and collateral, ICE will promote 24/7 market infrastructure, and Google Cloud will provide cloud and AI support. Meanwhile, the advisory team includes 'Wood Sister' Cathie Wood, ICE's Vice President of Strategy, and executives from traditional finance. ARK Invest even directly invested in LayerZero, which signals a strong fusion of traditional finance and crypto.

Recently, the crypto community has been discussing an old matter.
A user on platform X, OKX517BTC, posted on February 9, 2026, exposing a controversial incident between her and the OKX exchange. It is noteworthy that this incident actually occurred in 2018, but it has drawn renewed attention from the market because she spoke out again.

The story goes like this: this user stated that in 2018, her account on OKX was frozen by the platform for 'potentially affecting the market', and her positions were forcibly liquidated, involving assets of over 517BTC. She believes the platform's handling was unreasonable, and the asset issue has never been clearly explained, so years later she speaks out again, hoping to gain attention and a response.

Backpack token allocation plan has officially been released. This time, they have taken a path that is not 'easy' in the crypto industry, yet it directly addresses the core contradictions.

While most projects are still accustomed to reserving a large amount of liquidity chips for teams and investors during the TGE phase, Backpack has chosen to go against the grain: at TGE, all circulating tokens are given to users, and the returns for the team and investors are not tied to short-term token prices but are completely linked to the company's future IPO process.

The logic behind this is very clear—rather than engaging in the 'cash out at listing' game, the incentive structure is brought back to the essence of long-term value creation.

Recently, the security team Slow Mist issued a warning: the official plugin center ClawHub of the open-source AI Agent project OpenClaw is increasingly being targeted by attackers, becoming a new target for supply chain poisoning.

To put it simply: plugins are not safe, and those who use them will also be affected.
The problem mainly lies in the lack of strict review. ClawHub, as the official platform for skills/plugins, currently lacks a comprehensive security check mechanism, resulting in many malicious skills being mixed in. These skills may secretly implant malicious code, leave backdoors, or even spread harmful content. Once developers use these skills in their projects, the risks will be amplified layer by layer, ultimately affecting users.

Recently, a piece of on-chain information in the crypto circle caused quite a stir—Trend Research, under Yi Lihua, and the agent of 'BTC OG insider whale' Garrett Jin, are suspected of sharing the same Binance deposit address, sparking intense discussions about whether there is a common backer behind the scenes.

The key to the matter lies in a middle address starting with 0xcdF. On-chain data shows that addresses related to Trend Research transferred about 7.99 million USDT to this address, after which the funds flowed into Binance's hot wallet; almost at the same time, a whale address associated with Garrett Jin also transferred 10,000 ETH to the same 0xcdF address.

On the evening of February 6, 2026, a farcical drama unfolded at Bithumb, South Korea's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange — a performance that could be considered the 'ceiling of confusing behaviors at exchanges.'
That night, Bithumb made a fatal operational error during a 'random treasure chest' event, mistakenly sending approximately 620,000 bitcoins to 695 users. Calculated at the then price of about $66,000, the total value reached a staggering $40.9 billion, enough to bankrupt any leading exchange in an instant. Fortunately, as of now, the platform has recovered 99.7% of the erroneously sent BTC, and the crisis has not yet spiraled out of control, but this 35-minute 'moment of terror' has thoroughly exposed deep-seated issues in its internal governance.

Starting from February 5, Bitcoin rapidly fell from 73,000 USD, hitting a low of 60,000 USD, with a 24-hour drop of nearly 18%. It then rebounded to around 64,000 USD, once again breaking below the critical psychological level of 69,000, the peak of the 2021 bull market. Mainstream altcoins like ETH and SOL also plummeted simultaneously, with the entire market evaporating over 1 trillion USD in value within a month, and 2.6 billion USD in liquidations within 24 hours. The fear and greed index dropped to 9, and the market entered 'extreme fear'.
Many people see 69,000 as the 'iron bottom', but history tells us that previous highs do not necessarily hold. After Bitcoin broke below 20,000 in 2022, it did not immediately find a bottom, but continued to probe down to 17,600, and then experienced several months of turbulence, until the FTX collapse completed the final round of deleveraging, finally building a true bottom.

In a recent @Renaiss Protocol Discord AMA, the team shared in-depth about something they are working on:
👉 By using the TCG RWA (Real World Assets) model, bringing PSA-certified physical trading cards (such as Pokémon, One Piece) onto the BNB Chain, officially introducing traditional collectibles into the on-chain financial world.

🔹 What is the Renaiss Protocol?
@Renaiss Protocol is a TCG RWA platform built on the BNB Blockchain, with the core goal of standardizing on-chain physical cards that exist in reality and are certified by institutions like PSA.
Each physical card corresponds to an on-chain NFT, which represents true ownership while retaining complete authentication and provenance information, achieving:

On 4/2, the BORT token saw an astonishing surge, increasing by 10000% in a single day, instantly becoming the focus of community discussions. This explosive growth not only caught the attention of investors but also made more people aware of its important role in the BAP‑578 narrative on the BSC chain.

📌 What is BAP‑578?
BAP‑578 is a rare narrative direction in the BSC ecosystem, while BORT is currently the only truly operational CA (Contract Address) project. It brings the concept of assetizing AI Agents onto the chain, allowing AI agents to be traded and bought on the market like NFTs. This approach is not only innovative but also provides new tools and possibilities for on-chain creators.

Last week it was @CZ trending, and this week it has directly changed to Justin Sun.

Justin Sun has been in the spotlight again these past few days. A woman claiming to be his ex-girlfriend, Ten Ten (Zeng Ying), suddenly spoke out on X, directly naming: $TRX In the early days of establishment, employees were used as 'pawns' to batch register trading accounts, pump TRX, and then sell in batches at high prices, treating retail investors as a source of liquidity.
She also stated that she has key materials such as chat records and internal testimonies, and is willing to cooperate with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation.
As soon as the news broke, the community was in an uproar.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Trend Research currently holds 618,245.96 tokens $ETH , mainly distributed across six addresses, with a total mortgage of approximately 1.33 billion USD WETH and a total borrowed stablecoin value of 939 million USD. If the ETH price falls to the range of $1,781 - $1,862, without adding margin or reducing positions, liquidation may be triggered.

Specifically, the liquidation price for each address is as follows:
TOP1: Mortgaged 169,891 ETH, borrowed stablecoins worth 258 million USD, liquidation price $1,833.84
TOP2: Mortgaged 175,843 ETH, borrowed stablecoins worth 271 million USD, liquidation price $1,862.02

A while ago, @CZ came out, and the community immediately deified him: the hero returns, the spirit of crypto leader, the king returns.
What about now? The timeline has changed again, and some people are starting to say he is the villain, even comparing him to SBF.
Haseeb from Dragonfly couldn't stand it anymore: this turnaround is too fast.
@undefined said it very straightforwardly: both of these statements are ridiculous.
The reason is actually very simple.
At that time when he came out, the entire industry was hit hard by regulation, and since he was 'not a scammer, and there were no victims,' everyone naturally stood by him.
Regulation has loosened a bit now, but BTC hasn't hit new highs, the market isn't making money, and there's no outlet for the emotions, so people can only find someone to blame.

In just two days, over 150,000 AI Agents have registered accounts on a site called Moltbook! It sounds like a science fiction movie, but it's really happening in reality.

So what is Moltbook?
Moltbook is a social network platform designed specifically for AI agents, where interactions are completely carried out by AI Agents posting, commenting, liking, and creating sub-communities on their own. Human users can only observe and cannot participate in interactions.
This platform looks like Reddit, but the only difference is:
👉 The posts and interactions are not by humans, but by autonomously running agents.

Backpack announces airdrop allocation:
24% for point users, 1% for Madlads NFT.
The market calculates conservatively at $1B FDV:
1 point ≈ $0.57
1 NFT ≈ $1,000
It looks beautiful.
But reality will soon educate you.
Those who really take the big share are never ordinary users.

But —
Early heavy investors, point matrix, studio accounts, multi-wallet systems, and top players holding NFTs in bulk.

What are retail investors doing?
Single number task brushing, paying Gas, enduring time, following the rules.
In the end, you find that you have been busy for months, only to exchange for dozens to hundreds of dollars.

It's not that you don't work hard.

SPACE team's refund mechanism:
4,677 wallets participating in the public sale —
86% of users can only get back 50%
Meanwhile, the top 5% of users can only get back 11%.

This is the proposal given after the project party unilaterally changed the rules, over-raised funds, and experienced a price crash.
This is not 'refund' at all.
This is a forced discount to regain trust.
Even more outrageous is the so-called 'refund ratio differentiated by ranking'.
Large users are restricted to only refund 11%.
Small users also cannot get a full refund.
What is the basis for this?
Legal terms? On-chain consensus? Or is it just the project team's arbitrary decision?

In recent days, how did this wave of collective bombardment on @CZ come about?
In recent days, the Crypto community has suddenly boiled over:
Once hailed as a 'crypto hero', @CZ has now become the biggest target for criticism.
Since last Friday, in just a few days, tags like 'CZ touch = death', 'Binance = the biggest P&D machine', and 'systematic harvesting after release' have skyrocketed in trending searches.
The trigger is clear: @CZ After being released in September 2025, Binance has noticeably accelerated the launch pace of Launchpool, Alpha, and meme-type projects. Recently, there have been multiple cases where a single listing has led to significant drops, with the community reporting an average decline of 70–95% for recently promoted projects after listing. In the current volatile market, users have faced concentrated losses, naturally directing their anger towards the most prominent exchange and the most vocal CZ.