On February 26, Bloomberg reported that PayPal plans to increase the adoption rate of its stablecoin PYUSD in 2025. It will launch a bill payment product that will allow its more than 20 million small and medium-sized merchants to choose to use PYUSD to pay suppliers. In addition, PayPal plans to add PYUSD as an option for global payments through Hyperwallet, a business that helps organizations send bulk payments to contractors, freelancers or sellers around the world. PayPal acquired Hyperwallet for $400 million in 2018. It plans to launch PYUSD payments in the first half of this year. By the end of 2025, the service will also allow merchants to settle PayPal checkout transactions in cryptocurrency. PayPal CEO Alex Chriss told Bloomberg that we have been talking about blockchain for a decade-the concept of these things will never become a reality until you actually start consuming it. I think this is what we achieved.

According to online reports, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin disclosed that Ethereum is seriously considering migrating the network to the Poseidon hash function to optimize zero-knowledge proof-friendliness. Vitalik strongly encourages researchers to participate in the Poseidon Cryptanalysis program, saying it is extremely valuable to obtain more information about its security properties.

ARK snapped up $8.7 million worth of Coinbase shares on Tuesday due to the collapse of cryptocurrencies and the decline in cryptocurrencies. ARK increased its holdings of 41,032 COIN shares, while at the same time, ARK sold 98,060 ARKB shares worth approximately US$8.6 million.

On February 26, according to GMGN data, or due to the new impact of Binance Alpha, JELLYJELLY rose by 15% in the short term and is now quoted at US$0.01118;PAIN rose by 25% in the short term and is now quoted at US$7.02;VINU rose by 26.8% in the short term and is now quoted at US$0.0 (7) 2598. Previously, Binance Alpha added JELLYJELLY, PAIN, VINU and AVL.

According to online reports, DeepSeek announced today that starting from now on, DeepSeek will launch peak-shifting special activities on its open platform during the night idle hours from 00:30 to 08:30 Beijing time every day. During this period, the price of API calls has been significantly reduced: DeepSeek-V3 has dropped to 50% of the original price, and DeepSeek-R1 has dropped to 25%. DeepSeek said that users are encouraged to make full use of this time period to enjoy a more economical and smoother service experience.

On February 26, the Binance customer service team responded to recent SMS fraud attacks reported by users, saying that such attacks are common SMS Spoofing technology, are not a new hacking method, nor are they specifically targeted at the Binance or cryptocurrency industry. Attackers disguise the sender's identity to make the text message appear to be from a trusted source. Due to the vague legal supervision of such behaviors in some areas, prevention becomes more difficult. Binance said it will continue to be committed to protecting the security of user assets and plans to launch new security features to help users identify the authenticity of text messages. In addition, Binance reminds users to carefully check the source of SMS and avoid clicking on suspicious links; properly keep personal information, including passwords, mnemons and private keys; Binance will not contact users via text messages or phone calls, and if you encounter problems, please contact online customer service directly.

On February 26, Binance Alpha launched JELLYJELLY, PAIN, VINU and AVL.

On February 26, according to monitoring by@ai_9684xtpa, the whale, which had made a profit of US$6.03 million through TRUMP, once again reduced its position in US$7.53 million in tokens. If it is sold this time, its single coin gain will be as high as US$13.56 million. 01.18-01.20 During this period, the address invested a total of US$25.98 million to buy 1.09 million TRUMPs at an average price of US$23.81. Among them, nearly half of the positions were closed at almost the highest point of the currency price of US$64.05, making a profit of US$6.03 million. The rest was only recharged to the trading platform six hours ago, and the profit fell back by US$22.72 million from the peak.

According to online reports, according to Ember Monitoring, a whale/institution used two addresses to purchase 13,300 ETH pieces on the chain in the past half hour at a cost of 32.81 million DAI, with an average price of US$2,466.

Internet reports that Oklahoma's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act (HB1203) has been passed by the House Committee and has entered a full vote. The bill allows up to 10% of public funds to be invested in BTC or digital assets with a market value of more than $500 billion.

According to online reports, blockchain analysis company Elliptic found that North Korean hackers involved in the $1.4 billion Bybit hack control more than 11,000 cryptocurrency wallets used for money laundering,

On February 26, according to official news, Megabit will officially launch AUCTION/USDT 1-75 times perpetual contract trading at 18:00 (SGT) on February 26.

According to online reports, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a newly built wallet transferred 14.51 million ENAs, or approximately US$5.95 million, from Binance 10 minutes ago.

According to online reports, Binance founder CZ tweeted: "There is no need to panic, Bitcoin will not die."

On February 26, Dragonfly investor GM shared some thoughts on the development of blockchain at the Denver event. He mentioned that the performance requirements of block space are elastic, and capacity expansion is still a topic that the industry continues to pay attention to, and the launch of EVM in the future is exciting. In addition, he pointed out that functionally differentiated block space is another important direction, such as native interoperability, more complex operations (such as ML precompilation), and the exploration of functional specific chains. He also mentioned that geographically dominated front-ends are on the rise. Currently, there are significant differences in popular memecoin trading tools in places such as Asia and the United States, and the potential of localized front-ends is underestimated. At the same time, he re-examined the design beauty of Bitcoin, especially the dynamics of miner competition, which is missing in modern PoS networks. At the application level, he mentioned that a new wave of applications based on mental shares and social metrics is emerging, such as Kaito unlocking new battlefields. In addition, venture capital financing and the possibility of reintroducing the crowdfunding model were also mentioned.

According to online reports, according to Cheeky Rolo's disclosure data, financing activities in the crypto market slowed down significantly in January 2025. A total of US$1.5 billion was raised by 125 publicly disclosed projects, and a total of 205 transactions were completed. Among them, World Liberty Financial's public token issuance accounted for one-fifth of the total financing amount in January, becoming one of the most watched financing events during the month. Against the backdrop of the overall market downturn, the $150 million Series C financing completed by crypto wallet Phantom has become a highlight, with a valuation of $3 billion. This round of financing was attended by top institutions such as Sequoia Capital, Paradigm and A16z Crypto. Analysts believe that in an environment of stricter supervision and frequent risk incidents on centralized exchanges, unmanaged wallet solutions are gaining the favor of more investors.

Internet reports that Beosin Trace traced Bybit hackers to start using the new cross-chain bridge platform Maya Protocol to transfer assets. Address 0xb72 completed transferring all assets at 2025-02-2615:33:47, and new address 0x229 started transferring assets at 2025-02-26 15:34:59. BeosinKYT has tagged these addresses.

Internet reports that according to Ember Monitoring, the second largest holder of MELANIA tokens cut his meat and left the market two hours ago. The investor previously bought 6.688 million MELANIA units at US$1.5 and invested 10.007 million USDC. Today, he sold them all at US$0.937, recovering only 6.267 million USDC, and the single transaction loss was as high as US$3.739 million.

Internet reports that when the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong SAR Government, Paul Chan, released a new budget on the 26th, he said that the "New Capital Investor Entry Plan" has received more than 880 applications and is expected to bring in more than HK$26 billion in investment. It will be launched in the future. Optimization measures will provide greater flexibility for the plan.

On February 26, Xiao Feng, chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and HashKey Group, said when talking about the upcoming second virtual asset policy declaration in Hong Kong that his biggest expectation is not to implement higher and stricter industry rules than the United States. He pointed out that the industry does not expect rules to be looser than those in the United States, but only hopes to be on par with the United States. He cited Alibaba's choice to IPO in the United States because Hong Kong's rules were stricter than the New York Stock Exchange as an example, and called for a similar situation not to repeat itself in the virtual asset market. Previously, Hong Kong will issue its second virtual asset policy declaration.

According to Internet reports, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale depledged 1,366,028 SOL (worth US$198 million) seven hours ago and transferred them to FalconX. FalconX deposited 440,202 SOLs (worth $62.6 million) with Binance and Coinbase in the past 7 hours.

On February 26, Seraph officially launched the PTR test for the S2 season today to prepare for the upcoming new season. The opening of the S2PTR test has driven the activity of the game ecosystem to continue to increase, and $SERAPH has increased by 50% in a short period of time. SeraphS2 season PTR, as an important stage in the evolution of the game, brings a new schedule system, optimized game mechanics, and introduces more incentive models. Early Access new gameplay during the testing period and influence the future direction of the game through feedback.

According to official sources, Mayan Bridge now integrates the OKX DEX API, aiming to provide customers with convenient trading functions and enjoy the seamless trading experience, low slip points, better quotes, and better liquidity provided by OKX DEX. It is reported that the goal of OKX DEX API is to provide industry-leading API solutions, become the first choice for developers and the industry standard, while promoting the expansion and diversification of the OKX DEX aggregator ecosystem. Mayan is an intent-based cross-chain protocol that uses auctions to provide the best possible trading rate for each transaction. Supported by Wormhole messaging, Mayan seamlessly connects Solana, Ethereum and major EMV-compatible chains such as BSC, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche and Arbitrum. With its powerful APIs and pre-built widgets, Mayan makes cross-chain transactions almost immediately available on any website or dApp.