Odaily Planet Daily News The Trump administration is considering integrating bank regulators and may try to merge the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) into the Treasury Department without congressional approval and merge its regulatory functions with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The plan aims to reduce the power of bank regulators and increase the government's direct control over the financial industry. (WSJ)

Odaily Planet Daily News Intelligent ZK engine Brevis announced the launch of Pico, a high-performance modular universal zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine). Pico allows developers to use the Rust language to access a highly optimized ZK coprocessor based on the universal zkVM. Developers can choose from a large number of built-in options, or fully customize the proof backend and virtual machine instance to optimize application performance and user experience. Brevis said that in the latest CPU performance benchmark, Pico surpassed the existing zkVM solution. Brevis will release a GPU-accelerated version of Pico in the next few months to further enhance ZK computing capabilities.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to Onchain Lens monitoring, in the past 6 days, a whale gradually spent $11 million USDC to buy 1.52 million VVV at an average price of $7.20. At present, the whale has pledged all VVV.

Odaily Planet Daily News U.S. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said the agency is closely monitoring cases against cryptocurrency companies, trying to set a new benchmark in regulating digital assets. Peirce said in an interview on Tuesday: "In the past few years, enforcement cases have been used as a way to make regulatory policies; this is an atypical approach. We are trying to get back on the path of really using other tools to make policies." She declined to say whether the SEC would completely abandon the lawsuit against Binance, saying that specific cases could not be discussed. She said the agency needs to "sort out" cases against cryptocurrency companies, but did not say whether other cryptocurrency cases would be suspended or abandoned. For example, the agency sued Coinbase Global Inc. in 2023, accusing it of operating an illegal exchange. She added: "We have to decide what to do next based on the specific circumstances of each case." (Bloomberg)

Odaily Planet Daily News Four years ago, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers criticized U.S. fiscal and monetary policy makers for overstimulating the economy, leading to the biggest inflation risk in a generation. Now he is warning again that price pressures are in danger of breaking out again. "This may be the most sensitive moment we face inflation escalation since the policy mistakes in 2021 triggered serious inflation," Summers said on the TV show "Wall Street Week." Summers pointed out that signs of tightness in the job market, including a sharp increase in wages in the January employment data released last week, have provided the backdrop for a potential rebound in consumer prices, even before the new administration takes any action. Since the data was released, U.S. President Trump has also raised tariffs on imported goods and threatened to add a series of other tariffs. "This is a moment when we have to be very cautious about inflation - even before the White House comes out with policy," said Summers, a Harvard University professor and paid contributor to Bloomberg TV. He urged the Fed to be vigilant about price pressures and believed that further interest rate cuts may not be made in the current cycle. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated his view last month at a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the Fed does not need to rush to cut interest rates after cutting its benchmark rate by 1 percentage point in the final months of 2024. "It's not a probability, but there is a very real possibility right now that the Fed's next move will be to raise interest rates, not lower them," Summers said. "This is a particularly dangerous moment for any kind of cost shock, any kind of rhetoric that undermines the credibility of inflation, any kind of fiscally irresponsible measures." In early 2021, Summers warned that Biden's $1.9 trillion fiscal package had the potential to fuel inflation, unsettling some fellow Democrats. He also criticized the Fed for not paying enough attention to price risks. Powell acknowledged in March 2022 that "in hindsight, we should have raised rates earlier." In contrast, Biden's team continues to defend their approach. Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen believes the bigger mistake was not doing enough, resulting in years of scarring in the labor market. (Jin Shi)

Odaily Planet Daily News According to a document filed on Monday in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court, 31-year-old Lukas Bartusek said he accidentally transferred 2,000 SOL to an old FTX account in October 2023, nearly a year after the exchange went bankrupt. After realizing his mistake, Bartusek said he was told that a court order was needed to withdraw the money from the account. According to the document, the tokens were worth about $63,700 at the time of the deposit, but more than $396,000 at current prices. The document said FTX "knowingly and voluntarily accepted" the deposit. Generally speaking, bankrupt companies are not allowed to return funds to individual creditors without the permission of a judge. The consultant who took over FTX after its bankruptcy has obtained court approval to return funds to customers, and the first funds are expected to be distributed later this month. (Bloomberg) Yesterday, it was reported that FTX will begin repaying $16 billion in creditors on February 18, 2025, and $6.5-7 billion will be repaid in the first phase. Payments are based on November 2022 prices.

Odaily Planet Daily News: According to Farside Investors data, the U.S. Bitcoin spot ETF had a net outflow of US$56.72 million yesterday, marking two consecutive days of net outflows, of which Fidelity FBTC had a net outflow of US$43.6 million.

Odaily Planet Daily News Chain analyst Ali YuX shared CryptoQuant data and said: "Whales have increased their holdings by more than 600,000 ETH in the past week."

Odaily Planet Daily News According to the monitoring of chain analyst Yu Jin, the Trump family's crypto project WLFI has spent a total of 308.7 million U configurations to purchase 8 tokens: ETH/WBTC/TRX/LINK/AAVE/ENA/MOVE/ONDO. However, most of them have been transferred to Coinbase Prime by WLFI some time ago, and there is no way to know whether they have been sold by them (WLFI itself said that they have not been sold). If these assets have not been sold, then the current floating loss is 58.4 million US dollars. The largest loss ratio is ENA: -53%; The largest loss amount is ETH: -44.1 million US dollars (-21%).

1. Fed Chairman Powell: Supports the establishment of a regulatory framework around stablecoins; 2. Solayer Foundation: LAYER airdrop application has been opened and will last for 30 days; 3. BlackRock's Strategy shareholding ratio has risen to 5%; 4. QuEra Computing has completed more than US$230 million in financing, with SoftBank Vision Fund and others participating; 5. Governor of the Bank of England: It is necessary to set high regulatory standards for stablecoins; 6. Fed Chairman Powell: It is time to re-examine the de-banking of the crypto industry; 7. The US SEC has opened a 21-day public comment period for the Canary Solana ETF; 8. Cryptocurrency custody company BitGo is expected to conduct an IPO as early as the second half of 2025; 9. Uniswap Labs: Layer2 network Unichain mainnet is online; 10. The US SEC has accepted the Solana spot ETF applications from 21Shares, Bitwise, Canary and VanEck; 11. Analysts expect Robinhood Q4 crypto revenue was $345.5 million, up 440% from the previous quarter; 12. Hester Peirce: SEC is waiting for the chairman's appointment to be confirmed before formulating a cryptocurrency regulatory agenda; 13. WLFI launches strategic token reserve "Macro Strategy" to support crypto projects such as Bitcoin and Ethereum; 14. Tether announces strategic investment in Zengo Wallet; 15. Decentralized financial platform Legends completes $15 million in financing, with a16z participating; 16. Binance responds to asset changes: no user assets were sold, only accounting process adjustments; 17. Federal Reserve Chairman Powell reiterated that there is no need to rush to adjust interest rates; 18. BNB Chain releases 2025 technology roadmap: the goal is to shorten block time to sub-seconds.

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On February 18, HTX, MEXC, and 4E exchanges will officially execute the ticker change for the AB project, renaming the NEW token to AB. This change requires no action from users, as the exchanges will automatically update the token name while maintaining the same balance.

此次更名无需用户额外操作，交易所将自动更新显示，代币持有数量保持不变。

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