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Audit of U.S. gold reserves could drive blockchain adoption for asset tracking to improve transparency and accountability in financial oversight. Gold prices have continued to rise because of geopolitical tensions, trade policy concerns, and speculation over potential tariffs, with Goldman Sachs raising its year-end target to $3.1K per ounce.
FTX Digital Markets will repay $1.2 billion to creditors on February 18, marking a major step in the exchange's bankruptcy process and a potential boost for crypto market sentiment. While the repayments offer relief to affected users, some criticize the valuation method, and the overall market impact may be limited.
Hyperliquid has launched the HyperEVM mainnet, bringing general-purpose programmability to its financial system while maintaining security through HyperBFT consensus. Developers and users can now interact with HyperEVM, with ongoing improvements and a bug bounty program incentivizing security reports.
Monad is a high-performance, EVM-compatible blockchain with 500ms block times and 1-second finality. It uses MonadBFT for scalable consensus, RaptorCast for efficient data distribution, and optimistic parallel execution with MonadDb for fast state access. With low hardware costs, Monad delivers high throughput while maintaining decentralization.
Crypto sniper @naseem turned $1.09M into $109M by front-running the launch of $TRUMP on Solana. Using advanced blockchain analysis and split wallets, he secured tokens at the lowest price before others had a chance. While some suspect insider trading, Naseem claims he simply spotted an unintentional leak.
Consensus Hong Kong, scheduled for February 18-20, is the conference's first appearance in Asia and boasts over 300 speakers and thousands of attendees. It features keynotes from Hong Kong's Financial Secretary and head of Securities and Futures Commission and Bitcoin OG Adam Back. Side events include a hackathon, pitchfest, and crypto fight night.
Alliance shares AI and crypto-enabled startup ideas across finance, social, entertainment, and education, encouraging founders. The list includes AI-driven remittances, decentralized lending, token-based loyalty, and privacy-preserving AI education, emphasizing solving real problems.
Argentina's president, Javier Milei, endorsed and then quickly distanced himself from the $LIBRA token, which skyrocketed to $4.5 billion before crashing to $300 million in what many are calling a political meme coin rug pull. Insiders controlled 82% of the supply, extracting millions while retail investors were left with heavy losses. This scandal, which featured fraudulent promotions, insider trading, and political fallout, highlights the growing trend of political tokens being used as get-rich-quick schemes rather than true financial innovations.
Crypto AI agent framework ElizaOS (formerly ai16z DAO) has outlined its product roadmap, with three core focuses: DegenSpartanAI (a crypto-native trading agent), Autonomous Investor (a social-trading intelligence layer), and the Agent Marketplace (a token launchpad with no-code agent creation).
Geoffrey Kendrick (Standard Chartered) expects more sovereign wealth funds, state pension funds, and institutional investors to buy bitcoin.
Crypto's evolution has been increasingly diverging from Satoshi's original vision of decentralization, with Coinbase's Base L2 exemplifying this trend through its centralized sequencer and reliance on USDC.
Abstract Chain is looking into wallets being drained, allegedly linked to the onchain fantasy game Cardex.