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The Strait of Hormuz is practically blockaded, and the global energy market is being pushed towards what could be the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s!

On Monday, oil prices surged dramatically at the opening.

WTI crude oil futures once surged by 22%, breaking through the $110 mark; Brent crude oil futures also rose by 20%, reaching $111.04 per barrel. The gains have since moderated.

Meanwhile, due to the obstruction of crude oil exports and the rapid exhaustion of storage space, more and more major oil-producing countries in the Middle East are forced to announce production cuts.

According to previous mentions by Wall Street Journal, the wave of production cuts in the Gulf region is spreading rapidly.

On March 4th, the stablecoin giant Tether announced an investment.

The invested company is called Eight Sleep, which makes smart mattresses. Tether invested $50 million, valuing the company at $1.5 billion.

This company's mattresses are very high-end, priced between $2000 and $4000 each, with a built-in water cooling and heating system that can precisely control temperature, track sleep data, and automatically adjust...

Famous NBA star LeBron James is one of the public users. Its main clientele consists of Silicon Valley executives, professional athletes, and a group of biohackers enthusiastic about treating themselves as experimental subjects.

The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange has invested in OKX with a valuation of $25 billion, and tokenized stock trading will launch in the second half of 2026.

Introduction: The highest hall of traditional financial infrastructure officially enters crypto. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, ICE, has invested in OKX with a valuation of $25 billion, and will open tokenized stock trading on the NYSE to its users — this is not an ordinary financial investment, but the most iconic step in the era of the fusion of TradFi and CeFi.
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Last summer, Haider Rafique, the Global Head of Corporate Affairs at OKX, specially flew to Atlanta to meet with Jeffrey Sprecher, the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. The originally scheduled 30-minute meeting ultimately lasted a full four hours.

An AI wrote a piece of code that needs data to verify.
It sent an HTTP request, and the server returned a number: 402.
Then it paid 0.001 USD with USDC. In less than a second, the data came back.
This transaction had no account, no password, no bank card, and no KYC. The entire process involved no one.
This is no longer science fiction. By the end of 2025, the x402 protocol handled over 100 million such transactions; in the last 30 days alone, there were an additional 15 million.
The 'payment code' that has been sleeping for thirty years
In 1990, the drafters of the HTTP protocol left a space for a status code: 402, Payment Required.

Introduction: The news of OpenAI's cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense (renamed to 'Department of War' under the Trump administration) sparked a fierce backlash among users.
Meanwhile, Anthropic gained user trust endorsement for refusing to cooperate, with Claude's daily downloads skyrocketing to the top of the App Store. This set of data directly quantifies the actual impact of AI ethical stances on user behavior.
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On February 28 (Saturday), the number of U.S. users uninstalling the ChatGPT mobile app surged by 295% compared to the previous day. This reaction directly stems from the news of OpenAI signing a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) — the department was renamed to 'Department of War' during the Trump administration.

On February 28, the U.S.-Israeli coalition launched a military operation codenamed 'Epic Fury', conducting large-scale airstrikes on over 2,000 targets within Iran, resulting in the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei. This military action is regarded as the largest and most far-reaching geopolitical event in the Middle East in the past several decades.
The global capital markets held their breath for an entire weekend, just to validate a core question: Is the investment narrative that has been hotly pursued in the past two years a truth that can withstand scrutiny, or just a house of cards? In times of chaos, is gold really a hard asset that retains value? Can Bitcoin take up the banner of 'digital gold'? Is debasement trade a feasible investment logic, or merely a market narrative bubble?

Peter Steinberger, the founder of the open-source project OpenClaw, responded to a user's question on X yesterday, asking, 'What advice do you have for young people in their 20s?' His answer was just one sentence: 'don’t waste time with crypto.' This tweet was subsequently retweeted by Lily Liu, the chair of the Solana Foundation, and she also posted the exact same sentence.
The two tweets combined received over a million views, and a large number of questioning voices quickly appeared in the comments section. Is Lily Liu really fighting back with irony? Or does it mean that the crypto industry has already gone into decline?

In February 2026, when Coinbase's advertisement flashed again on the huge LED screen of the Super Bowl, accompanied by the Backstreet Boys' classic song with the slogan "Crypto. For everybody.", the audience reacted with mixed feelings, with more negative than positive comments, which was a stark contrast to the crazy night four years ago known as the "Crypto Bowl."
At that time, FTX's logo was still prominently displayed above the Miami Heat's arena, and crypto companies were waving huge checks, trying to buy decades of trust from mainstream society in just a few days. However, the subsequent crash, lawsuits, and the farce of renaming the venue turned this "attention experiment" into one of the most expensive jokes in sports history.

Editor's note: While the market is still accustomed to summarizing the world of stablecoins with 'total supply', a set of more granular data is revealing another layer of reality. A single supply figure can only answer 'how much', but cannot explain 'who holds it', 'how it flows', or 'why it stays'. When we observe the supply scale, concentration of holdings, on-chain circulation speed, and classification of specific activities on the same map, what we see is no longer a static stock, but a dynamic structure of how capital migrates, settles, leverages, and reprices on the chain.

As air raid sirens suddenly blared across Tehran, Israel, in coordination with the United States, launched a large-scale military operation codenamed ‘Roaring Lion,’ targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, air defense systems, and missile production lines. Trump promptly confirmed publicly that U.S. forces were involved, describing it as a ‘major combat operation.’

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard swiftly struck back, unleashing hundreds of missiles and drones upon Israel and U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf. Israel declared a national state of emergency and ordered the complete closure of its airspace. Explosions were heard near Abu Dhabi Airport, and an Asian citizen was killed when debris fell from the sky.

This article is compiled from the WeChat mini program: Encrypted Cloud Travel
In the summer of 1858, a copper-core cable crossed the Atlantic Ocean floor, connecting London and New York.

The significance of this matter has never been about transmission speed, but about power structures. Whoever lays the undersea cables can siphon off the flow of information. The British Empire relied on this global telegraph network to hold onto intelligence from the colonies, the prices of cotton, and news of wars.

The strength of the empire lies not only in its fleet but also in that cable.

More than one hundred and sixty years later, this logic is being replayed in an unexpected way.

This article is organized from the cryptocurrency WeChat mini program: Crypto Cloud Travel
As international tensions continue to escalate in recent years, events like the Russia-Ukraine war, the Gaza conflict, and Iran-related geopolitical risks have shown that geopolitical information has a growing impact on global capital markets. A war thousands of miles away could cause global stock markets to 'flash crash.' Intelligence is no longer merely a matter of national defense; the demand for situational analysis and forward-looking intelligence among ordinary people is also significantly increasing. The concept of 'Open Source Intelligence' (OSINT) is emerging: utilizing publicly available information from social media, satellite images, flight paths, and other sources on the internet to cross-verify and combine valuable clues. Examples such as videos posted by frontline soldiers on TikTok, related account login addresses, and the 'Pentagon Pizza Index' which infers military movements from changes in U.S. Department of Defense delivery orders, are all typical scenarios of open source intelligence.

Strategy Holds nearly 680,000 Bitcoins, but its financing model is quietly shifting. From zero-interest convertible bonds in 2024 to high-cost preferred stock and dilutive stock issuance in 2026, the Bitcoin content per share is being diluted. This article breaks down the actual impact of this structural change on BTC prices—importantly, its buying will shift from continuous to intermittent.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor | DAS 2025 New York Summit, Photography: Mike Lawrence for Blockworks
Strategy Has re-emerged as a visible treasury buyer in the Bitcoin market, but the financing backdrop has changed significantly compared to 2024-2025.

On February 21, 2026, the Singapore-based Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer (Little Deer) released a weekly report on its official social media that broke industry conventions. The data shows that as of February 20, 2026, Bitdeer's self-operated Bitcoin holdings (excluding customer deposits) have fallen to 0. During the reporting period, the company produced 189.8 BTC and sold all of it, while net reducing its holdings by as much as 943.1 BTC, completely clearing out its Bitcoin reserves from the vault.
This "clearance-style" selling behavior has caused a dramatic shock in the cryptocurrency mining circle. Notably, this action occurred at a highly dramatic time: according to the latest data, Bitdeer's self-operated computing power has just reached 63.2 EH/s, officially surpassing the veteran giant Marathon Digital's 60.4 EH/s, becoming the largest publicly listed self-operated mining company in terms of computing power globally.

This article is from the WeChat Mini Program: Encrypted Cloud Tour
The AI boom in the Hong Kong stock market has been burning from before the festival to after, and in this carnival, MiniMax and Zhizhu are undoubtedly the most dazzling protagonists.
On February 20, the Hong Kong stock market welcomed the first trading day of the Lunar Year of the Horse, with domestic AI large models 'Twin Stars' seeing their stock prices surge. By the close, Zhizhu saw a rise of 42.72%, reporting 725 Hong Kong dollars per share; MiniMax also rose over 14%, reporting 970 Hong Kong dollars per share, with both companies' market values surpassing 300 billion Hong Kong dollars.
What does 300 billion Hong Kong dollars mean? In comparison, the current market value of JD.com is approximately 294.584 billion Hong Kong dollars, which means that these two AI companies, established for less than ten years, have quietly surpassed the market value of well-established internet giants that have been operating for over twenty years.

Editor's Note: Over the past decade, the crypto world has oscillated between 'feasible' and 'difficult to use': technically sound, yet always making ordinary people feel anxious, unfamiliar, and even fearful. In Haseeb's view (the managing partner of crypto VC Dragonfly Capital), the problem may not be that crypto has failed, but that we have always allowed the 'wrong users' to use it directly. The risks, complexities, and costs of mistakes that have been repeatedly criticized are not design flaws, but rather a natural manifestation of a system built for machines rather than humans.

As AI agents gradually become the executing subjects of financial behavior, the value logic of crypto is being reactivated: certainty, verifiability, permissionless access, and 24/7 operation are precisely the ideal institutional foundations of the machine world.

In 2025, the supply, transaction volume, and active user count of stablecoins reached all-time highs, thanks to the introduction of the (GENIUS Act), which legalized the status of stablecoins as privately issued digital currencies.
The views in this article are based on an interview from a podcast episode of Bitcoin Brainstorm, a subsidiary of Ark Invest, featuring guests including Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, renowned economist Dr. Arthur Laffer, and Ark Invest CEO and Chief Investment Officer Cathie Wood. In the interview, we discussed the similarities between stablecoins and privately issued currencies before 1913 (in 1913, the U.S. government designated the Federal Reserve as the sole issuer of the dollar). Arthur Laffer compared the explosive growth of privately issued dollars based on blockchain today to the monetary system before the Federal Reserve ended 'free banking'.

Editor's note: Will quantum computing become the 'next survival test' for Bitcoin? There is no shortage of researchers and technical solutions within the community regarding this issue, but the direction of the protocol is ultimately determined by a small group of core developers with substantial influence.

This article systematically outlines the public positions of Bitcoin's main developers on quantum risks, finding that: within the top decision-making circle, the quantum threat is still largely viewed as a distant, theoretical issue rather than an engineering challenge that needs immediate attention. The ongoing efforts of a few researchers have yet to translate into consensus or action, nor have they been able to disrupt the inertia of the core governance structure.