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According to Coindesk, blockchain analysis company Chainalysis stated that Iran's cryptocurrency ecosystem will reach $7.78 billion by 2025, with a growth rate exceeding the previous year.Iran legalized cryptocurrency mining in 2019, allowing licensed operators to use subsidized electricity and sell the mined bitcoins to the central bank. Recent estimates suggest that Iran accounts for between 2% and 5% of the global bitcoin mining hash rate. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as the country's main military force, has since deepened its influence in the cryptocurrency sector.Chainalysis estimates that by the fourth quarter of 2025, addresses associated with the IRGC will account for over 50% of Iran's total cryptocurrency inflows, with amounts received last year exceeding $3 billion. Another analysis by Elliptic found that the Central Bank of Iran had accumulated at least $507 million in USDT by 2025, which could help stabilize the rial exchange rate and facilitate trade. However, this effort has largely failed, with data showing that the rial has depreciated by more than 96% against the dollar. Meanwhile, ordinary Iranians have begun to turn to bitcoin. During recent protests and internet outages, the amount of bitcoin withdrawn from local exchanges to personal wallets surged dramatically.

According to Polymarket data, the probability of the market for "Khamenei will step down as Iran's Supreme Leader before March 31" has sharply risen to 93% today, an increase of 85 percentage points from before, with a total market trading volume of $30.43 million.

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Baghaei, stated on the evening of February 28 that Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Raisi are both "safe and sound." Baghaei made this statement during interviews with ABC News and Sky News. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered a speech that evening, claiming that there are increasing signs that Khamenei "is no longer alive." Israeli media subsequently cited reports from senior officials indicating that Khamenei "has passed away." (Xinhua)

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 3 billion USD, with long positions totaling 1.48 billion USD, accounting for 49.33% of the holdings, and short positions totaling 1.52 billion USD, accounting for 50.67%. The profit and loss for long positions is -189 million USD, while for short positions it is 279 million USD.Among them, the whale address 0xa5b0..41 has taken a 15x full position long on ETH at a price of 1991.53 USD, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -8.6825 million USD.

According to Jin Shi citing The New York Times, U.S. officials expect Iran's attacks to last for several days, and possibly even weeks.

According to Binance spot market data, there is a divergence between bulls and bears. AAVE has dropped 6.21% in the last 24 hours, reaching a new low for today.OM and IDEX have also experienced a "pullback" state, with 24-hour declines of 9.79% and 12.48%, respectively. Among other tokens, GTC, ICP, KAVA, and OGN have also reached new lows for today, with declines of 7.78%, 5.25%, 8.39%, and 9.09%, respectively. Meanwhile, LSK has hit a new low for the week, with a decline of 8.7%.It is worth mentioning that D has seen a slight increase within 5 minutes, rising by 6.14%.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement regarding the military aggression of Israel and the United States against Iran: Dear Iranian people, compatriots, our sacred and precious homeland, Iran has once again been subjected to military aggression by the United States and Israel. This morning, on the eve of Nowruz and the tenth day of Ramadan, the United States and Israel brazenly violated Iran's territorial integrity and national sovereignty, attacking defensive targets and non-military facilities in various cities of our country.The renewed military aggression by the United States and Israel against Iran occurs while Iran is engaged in a diplomatic process with the United States. Although we are firmly convinced of the intentions of the United States and Israel to carry out further military aggression, we have once again engaged in negotiations to demonstrate our position to the international community and all countries around the world, to affirm the justice of the Iranian people, and to expose the illegitimacy of any pretext for aggression.Today, the Iranian people take pride in everything they do to prevent war. Now is the time to defend the homeland and resist the military aggression of the enemy. While we are preparing for negotiations, we are also ready for defense at any moment. The Iranian armed forces will respond to the aggressors with great strength. The Iranian armed forces will utilize all capabilities and resources to repel this evil aggression and eliminate the threat from the enemy.

According to official news, MEXC Innovation Zone will launch Bitway (BTW) on March 2, 2026, at 16:00 (UTC+8), and will open trading pairs BTW/USDT and BTW/USDC.To celebrate the launch, MEXC is simultaneously launching Airdrop+ and earning activities, where users can participate in sharing a total prize pool of $50,000 worth of BTW & 25,000 USDT, and have a chance to win interest coupons with a maximum APR of 300%.Event time: March 1, 2026, 16:00 (UTC+8) -- March 8, 2026, 16:00 (UTC+8)

According to CoinPost, the Financial Services Agency of Japan has announced that it will support a pilot project for anti-money laundering (AML) measures concerning crypto assets (virtual currencies). The project was applied for by Hitachi, and 13 companies are participating, including GMO Coin, Chainalysis Japan, NEC, JPYC, and Bitbank.The experiment will take place from March to May 2026, primarily to verify the effectiveness of sharing suspicious wallet address information among multiple cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin operators, aiming to build a more efficient industry-wide anti-money laundering system.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has officially opened the project submission feature, allowing project teams to perform full-process operations such as information editing and updating in the information management backend, ensuring timely and accurate maintenance of their project information.According to the official introduction, official project teams can apply for claiming their projects for free on the RootData platform. After account verification, they can submit information update and correction requests through the information management backend, including details about the token economic model, investors, team members, calendar events, and more. All information must be accompanied by the corresponding supporting materials, and the RootData data team will prioritize the review of information update requests based on this.

According to the annual report from the Argentine cryptocurrency exchange Lemon, the growth rate of monthly active users in Latin America in 2025 is three times that of the United States, with the total regional digital asset inflow exceeding $730 billion for the year, a year-on-year increase of over 60%, accounting for 10% of the global total.There is a clear differentiation within the region: Brazil leads in capital scale with an inflow of over $318.8 billion, with an annual growth rate of nearly 250%, primarily driven by institutional trading and the integration of local payment systems; Argentina, on the other hand, ranks first in terms of per capita monthly active user ratio, with a penetration rate of 12% of the total population, accounting for over a quarter of the region's activity.The report points out that users in high-inflation economies such as Argentina and Venezuela tend to use crypto assets as a store of value, with USDT widely adopted in daily transactions in Venezuela; more stable markets like Peru and Colombia focus more on financial returns. Stablecoins are seen as the most critical factor driving regional adoption, continuing to grow rapidly in 2025.

According to Jinshi Data, sources say that Nvidia is preparing to launch a dedicated chip to shake up the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence computing. OpenAI is set to become one of the largest customers of Nvidia's new processor.

Aave DAO is currently voting on a significant proposal that would allocate up to $42 million to Aave Labs, including $25 million for ongoing product development and a $17.5 million milestone bonus. As of Friday evening, the support votes are leading with a narrow margin of 52%, and the voting will conclude on Saturday.The controversy centers around Aave Labs' original plan to compress the development space for v3 and force users to migrate to the yet-to-be-launched v4 version. This move has sparked strong backlash, with the main contractor Bored Ghosts Developing announcing they would not renew their contract and criticizing the proposal as nearly absurd. This week, Aave Labs made concessions, promising not to enforce migration, and v3 will continue to operate.Critics, represented by Marc Zeller, argue that the requested funds are too high, accounting for 31% of the DAO's reserves, and demand that the proposal be split into multiple independent votes, but Aave Labs insists on pushing for an overall vote. Currently, Aave v3 has deposits exceeding $26.3 billion, accounting for over 97% of the total deposits in the protocol.

According to Cointelegraph, Wall Street banking giant Morgan Stanley has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter, planning to establish a subsidiary called "Morgan Stanley Digital Trust" to support services such as digital asset custody, trading, and staking for clients.This move is an important step in the bank's recent acceleration into the cryptocurrency space, as Morgan Stanley has previously applied to launch Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ETFs.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $2.818 billion, with long positions totaling $1.374 billion, accounting for 48.74% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $1.445 billion, accounting for 51.26%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$172 million, while for short positions it is $255 million.Among them, the whale address 0xa5b0..41 has taken a 15x leveraged long position on ETH at a price of $1991.53, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$4.7835 million.

According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley has submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a brand new national trust bank for the custody of digital assets and to provide cryptocurrency trading and staking services for investment clients.The new entity will be headquartered in Purchase, New York, but will operate nationwide. In recent months, Morgan Stanley has been continuously strengthening its digital asset footprint, including appointing Amy Oldenburg as the head of digital asset strategy, applying for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana-related ETFs, and partnering with Zerohash to provide cryptocurrency trading services for E*Trade clients.

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Paul Atkins, stated that the SEC is working to reinvigorate the pace of progress in cryptocurrency regulation to make up for previous shortcomings in policy-making. He pointed out at an event at the University of Texas that regulators have failed to adapt timely to industry innovation trends in the past.Atkins mentioned that since the Trump administration took office, the SEC's stance has become more open, having established a cryptocurrency working group, withdrawn several enforcement cases, and launched the "Project Crypto" initiative to promote updates to the regulatory framework. He emphasized that he is more focused on the application prospects of distributed ledger technology in payment, clearing, and settlement systems rather than short-term price fluctuations.In addition, the SEC has approved WisdomTree's digital currency market fund this week to enable 24/7 trading and instant settlement. Atkins also revealed that they will explore the launch of tokenized bank deposit products in the future.

According to The Wall Street Journal, crypto venture capital firm Paradigm is seeking to raise up to $1.5 billion for its next fund, with investment scope expanding from crypto to "frontier technologies" such as AI and robotics, while still continuing to invest in the crypto space.

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Paul Atkins, stated that the SEC is working to reinvigorate the pace of progress in the field of cryptocurrency regulation to make up for previous shortcomings in policy-making.He pointed out at an event at the University of Texas that regulators have failed to timely adapt to industry innovation trends in the past. Atkins noted that since the Trump administration took office, the SEC's stance has become more open, having established a cryptocurrency working group, withdrawn multiple enforcement cases, and launched the "Project Crypto" initiative to promote updates to the regulatory framework. He emphasized that, compared to short-term price fluctuations, there is a greater focus on the application prospects of distributed ledger technology in payment, clearing, and settlement systems.Additionally, the SEC has approved WisdomTree's digital currency market fund for 24/7 trading and instant settlement this week. Atkins also revealed plans to explore the launch of tokenized bank deposit products in the future.

The former CEO of the collapsed exchange Mt. Gox, Mark Karpelès, recently proposed a Bitcoin hard fork plan, suggesting to modify the consensus rules to recover approximately 79,956 BTC stolen in the 2011 hacking incident, which is valued at about 5.2 billion dollars at current prices.The proposal targets a wallet address associated with the 2011 Mt. Gox system breach, which received nearly 80,000 bitcoins after the hack and has remained unused for over 15 years. Currently, under existing Bitcoin rules, these funds can only be transferred if the corresponding private key is held. According to the proposal, the new rules would allow the unspent outputs in that address to be controlled through signatures from the Mt. Gox recovery address, thereby incorporating the funds into the existing judicial oversight compensation process for repaying Mt. Gox creditors.Karpelès stated that the plan is merely a starting point for discussion, intending to limit the rule modification to a single address and activate it at a specific block height in the future. However, the proposal also acknowledges that this plan requires coordinated upgrades across the entire network, and if some community members refuse to support it, it could lead to the risk of a blockchain split. It is important to note that these approximately 80,000 BTC are currently not part of the assets allocated to Mt. Gox creditors and are not under the control of the bankruptcy trustee.