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According to the official announcement, in order to meet the market demand for trading in the AI-related sector of US stocks, Bitget stock contracts have now launched six popular underlying assets: AMD, AMAT, SNDK, STX, LITE, and FLY, covering areas such as chips, semiconductor equipment, and storage. The aforementioned contracts support a maximum leverage of 20 times. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

According to Gate market data, at the opening of the US stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 0.14%, the S&P 500 index fell by 0.05%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index rose by 0.06%. The chip sector continued to rise, with SanDisk (SNDK.O) up 4.8% and Coreweave (CRWV.O) up 1.6%, as the company expanded its long-term partnership with Meta. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index fell by 0.7%.

EY announced the launch of the Blockchain Privacy Sandbox, a web-based development environment designed to help businesses and developers experiment with privacy-preserving smart contracts on public chains compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. It is reported that this sandbox environment is based on the open-source technology Starlight, allowing developers to convert standard Solidity smart contracts into applications with privacy protection features while retaining the original contract logic, and providing exploratory, replicable, and modifiable sample projects to accelerate proof of concept development.Currently, the Blockchain Privacy Sandbox is mainly used for experimentation and validation, supporting businesses in assessing the feasibility of privacy smart contracts, testing functionalities, and validating application scenarios before officially integrating Starlight. EY stated that this tool lowers the technical barrier for conducting privacy experiments on public chains by providing an easy-to-use web environment. Starlight, as the underlying ZKP compiler, has been open-sourced, allowing developers to integrate privacy features through its GitHub repository. As businesses' demand for data privacy protection on public chains increases, the attention on zero-knowledge proof technology continues to rise. Relevant reports indicate that the global ZKP market is expected to reach approximately $7.6 billion by 2033.

According to CoinDesk, Ripple is piloting its RLUSD stablecoin in the Monetary Authority of Singapore's BLOOM sandbox.The pilot is conducted in collaboration with supply chain company Unloq and will test automated cross-border trade payments triggered by goods verification on the XRP Ledger.

Ripple announced its participation in the BLOOM program under the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), where it will test a cross-border trade financing automatic settlement solution powered by the stablecoin RLUSD within the regulatory sandbox.Ripple is collaborating with supply chain fintech company Unloq to build a condition-triggered payment system based on the XRP Ledger—when preset conditions such as goods verification are met, the system will automatically release RLUSD payments, replacing the cumbersome processes in traditional trade financing that rely on manual verification, letters of credit, and correspondent banking relationships, significantly compressing the settlement period from several days or even weeks.

According to the Shanghai Securities Journal, Liu Liehong, the head of the National Data Bureau, stated at the China Development Forum 2026 annual meeting that this year, China's daily average Token call volume has surpassed 140 trillion, growing more than a thousand times compared to 100 billion at the beginning of 2024.Liu Liehong pointed out that Tokens are the smallest units for large models to process information, characterized by measurability, priceability, and tradability. A new value system is rapidly forming around the calling, distribution, and settlement of Tokens, becoming an important path for monetizing the artificial intelligence industry. He also mentioned that as the reform of the market-oriented allocation of data elements in China deepens, a virtuous cycle of "data supply - value release" is beginning to take shape.

On-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed today that a collaborative network consisting of at least 10 accounts is generating traffic on social platform X by creating panic-inducing content related to wars and ultimately directing it to cryptocurrency scam projects.This network acquires accounts with an existing follower base, frequently posts sensational "apocalyptic" content, and amplifies dissemination by having multiple secondary accounts retweet each other, quickly gaining millions of views and significant interactions. Investigations show that these accounts also utilize AI to generate fake personas, such as fabricating an "Asian version of Mario Nawfal" to enhance credibility. After gaining traffic, the relevant accounts promote fake airdrop events or cryptocurrency project scams, including a concentrated promotion of a pump-and-dump project named ORAMAMA on February 22, 2026, which is then no longer mentioned.On-chain data indicates that this operation has brought six-figure profits to the team behind it. Meanwhile, many genuine large accounts inadvertently engage in interactions through comments and retweets, further amplifying the content dissemination effect. ZachXBT warns that this combination model of "traffic farms + AI content + cryptocurrency scams" has become highly mature and is easily replicable. If similar mechanisms are exploited by higher-level organizations, their potential impact will far exceed the realm of financial fraud and may even evolve into a tool for public opinion manipulation.ZachXBT calls for platforms to strengthen regulation, implementing bans and legal accountability for such manipulative behaviors. He also advises users to carefully verify account histories and information sources before engaging in interactions to combat the increasingly rampant phenomenon of false content and "interaction bait."

To address key security issues, Tencent Cloud AI Agent Security Center has launched the "Credential Sandbox," where the "Agent never holds keys."It is reported that through the Credential Sandbox, the Agent can complete all cloud API calls without holding any keys, and every operation is fully auditable. Administrators can adjust the Agent's capability boundaries at any time—grant permissions without giving keys.

According to Arkham data, at 17:54, 24,999,900 WLFI (worth approximately $2.575 million) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0x0E8e...) to OKX.

According to the official announcement from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the FCA has selected 4 companies to enter its regulatory sandbox to test stablecoin innovative services in a real environment with safety assurances.The selected 4 companies are Monee Financial Technologies, ReStabilise, Revolut, and VVTX, which stood out from 20 applications. Testing will begin in the first quarter of 2026, focusing on applications such as stablecoin issuance, payments, wholesale settlement, and crypto trading.FCA's Director of Payments and Digital Assets, Matthew Long, stated that this move aims to ensure the credibility of stablecoins in payments and settlements, and the test results will directly impact the final regulatory rules for UK stablecoins to be issued later in 2026.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale 0xcd6b deposited 7.35 million USDC into Hyperliquid to go long on NVDA and SNDK stocks.Currently, its positions include 61,951 shares of xyz:NVDA (worth 11.94 million USD) long position, and 2,920 shares of xyz:SNDK (worth 2 million USD) long position, along with a limit buy order of 40,778 shares of xyz:NVDA (worth 4.53 million USD) pending execution.

According to official news, Tether Gold announced the launch of a new unit of measurement, Scudo, which provides a new and intuitive way to measure the value of on-chain gold. 1 Scudo is defined as equivalent to 1/1000 XAUT (gold ounce), offering users a more practical and operable way for small transactions, making it easy to send and receive on-chain gold.Tether stated that this move will enhance the everyday usability of gold digital assets, providing investors and traders with a more flexible operating experience.

According to Cointelegraph, the Central Bank of Malaysia has stated that its Digital Asset Innovation Center is piloting three regulatory sandbox programs to research and develop stablecoins and tokenized bank deposits.BNM's related plans primarily focus on using the Malaysian legal tender ringgit stablecoin for cross-border settlements, as well as developing tokenized real-world assets (RWA). The pilot also aims to test tokenized bank deposits, with all research findings potentially providing references for the future development of wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC), which is on-chain legal tender directly issued and managed by the central bank.

According to official statistics, the AINFT platform has achieved breakthrough growth in the past 24 hours, with the user base rapidly expanding from 21,689 to 32,862, and it continues to maintain a strong upward trend.With the gradual launch of multiple core functional modules and the continuous deepening of the ecological layout, the platform is about to initiate a series of large-scale incentive activities. The platform sincerely invites global users to join in the co-construction of the ecosystem and seize the development opportunities together.

According to Binance spot data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. SAND has risen by 20.91% in the last 24 hours and has shown a rebound after hitting a low.At the same time, tokens such as AXS, HIVE, BIFI, BLUR, XAI, and SXT have all shown a "high and then low" pattern. AXS has dropped by 13.17% in the last 24 hours, HIVE has dropped by 14.4%, and SXT has dropped by 21.11%.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Arthur Hayes received 132,730 ETHFI from Anchorage Digital, worth $97,500.

Stanford University professor and Babylon co-founder David Tse announced that the team has officially released BABE (BAbylon-BErkeley), a brand new Groth16 zero-knowledge proof verification protocol for Bitcoin. This solution reduces initialization and storage costs by more than a thousand times compared to the current optimal solutions.BABE combines two key cryptographic innovations:Witness Encryption on Linear Pairing, which simplifies the complex multiple pairing operations in Groth16 verification to a single scalar multiplication on the BN254 elliptic curve;Utilizing the recently proposed Argo MAC obfuscation primitive, which further transforms this scalar multiplication into vector homomorphic MAC, enabling efficient computation.David Tse stated that BABE will go live in February 2026 alongside the alpha testnet of the Babylon Trustless Bitcoin Vault, aiming to achieve lower-cost and more scalable zero-knowledge proof verification capabilities within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Piper Sandler has lowered the target price for Coinbase from $350 to $270, maintaining a "Neutral" rating. Previously, Bernstein also reduced the target price for Coinbase from $510 to $440.Meanwhile, Bank of America Securities has upgraded Coinbase's investment rating from "Neutral" to "Buy," keeping the target price unchanged at $340. The firm noted that although its stock price has fallen about 40% from last July's high, the pace of product development has accelerated beneath the surface of last year's fourth-quarter cryptocurrency adjustments, and the total addressable market has also expanded. They are optimistic about Coinbase's ambition to develop into a "full-service exchange" and its goal of cross-selling more products to existing users.U.S. stock market data shows that Coinbase's stock price is currently around $240, with a total market capitalization of approximately $64.5 billion.