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According to CNBC, David Sacks announced his resignation as the White House AI and Crypto Chief.

The London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company tweeted that its Chief Financial Officer Albert Soleiman has reached an agreement with the board to immediately resign from his position as a director of the company and will step down as Chief Financial Officer after an orderly transition period. The company's former Chief Financial Officer, current Financial Director, and Project Manager Mario Visconti will serve as interim Chief Financial Officer after Albert Soleiman's departure.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that the possibility of raising interest rates was indeed mentioned in the next steps.

Eric Turner has stepped down as CEO of Messari, with former CTO Diran Li taking over. Eric Turner stated that this is the right choice for the future development of the company and that he will fully support Diran Li. He will continue to support the team as an advisor and looks forward to the company's future development.Diran Li also stated that he will increase investment in Messari to make it an AI-driven company, providing services to institutions through research and AI products.

According to CoinDesk, Binance's U.S. subsidiary Binance.US has appointed seasoned compliance professional Stephen Gregory as CEO, effective March 9, succeeding Norman Reed, who will remain as an advisor. Gregory has held leadership positions at Currency, Gemini, and CEX.io.Under Gregory's leadership, Binance.US plans to expand its Earn suite, staking services, and products such as DeFi and tokenized asset entry points to attract both crypto-native users and traditional investors.

Bybit announced that Co-CEO Helen Liu will officially step down on April 30, 2026, to pursue her personal entrepreneurial dreams.Helen Liu joined Bybit in 2020, serving as Vice President of Human Resources, Vice President of Marketing, Chief of Staff, and COO, before being promoted to Co-CEO in 2025. During her five years in office, she was deeply involved in the company's global expansion, helping Bybit grow into a top global digital asset platform covering 181 countries and regions, with over 82 million users.After her departure, Bybit will continue to be led by co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou. The company stated that it will maintain its focus on innovation and long-term value creation.

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour posted on X regarding the death of Khamenei and related prediction market events, stating: "We will not list markets that are directly tied to death. When a market may have a death outcome, we will design rules to prevent people from profiting from death."Because of this, Kalshi will handle the "Khamenei stepping down as Supreme Leader" related events as follows:All fees for this market will be refunded;If users opened positions before Khamenei's death, settlements will be based on the last trading price before Khamenei's death;If users opened positions after Khamenei's death, costs will be fully reimbursed.Tarek Mansour further stated: "No user will lose a dollar in this market. We will settle the market at the last transaction price before Khamenei's death, which was at 1:14 AM Eastern Time today."

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.

According to the Shanghai Securities Journal, Wang Bin, the head of the Third Criminal Division of the Supreme People's Court, stated at a press conference on "The People's Court's Work on Punishing Telecom and Network Fraud and Property Crimes According to Law" that the next step will focus on cracking down on key figures and core members of criminal groups, "financial backers" of telecom fraud, "snakeheads" organizing illegal immigration, and organizations providing armed protection for cross-border fraud crimes, as well as violent crimes such as intentional homicide, intentional injury, and kidnapping committed during telecom fraud, and related crimes such as "money laundering" using virtual currencies and underground banks.Wang Bin also stated that the people's courts will legally strengthen the application of property penalties against telecom fraud criminals, preventing them from benefiting economically. They will guide those involved in "two-card" assistance and concealment of criminals to voluntarily compensate victims, consider the return of stolen goods and compensation as mitigating factors in sentencing for confession and remorse, and impose strict penalties according to law on criminals who have the ability but refuse to return stolen goods or compensate victims.

The co-founder and CTO of the Web3 development tool platform thirdweb, Jake Loo, announced his resignation.Jake Loo stated, "At thirdweb, we have built and deployed multiple AI agents that cover our products and organizational structure. I have witnessed AI evolve from being a 'nice-to-have' to a key technology that fundamentally changes the way we work. This experience has transformed my way of thinking. I believe there is nothing more important than AI right now. This is not hype; it has brought about real changes in how software is built and used, how teams operate, and how the entire industry is reshaped. So I have decided to go all in."

According to the official announcement from Step Finance, Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets will cease all business operations. The project stated that after experiencing a hack at the end of January, the team explored various possibilities, including financing and acquisition, but was unable to find a viable solution, leading to the difficult decision to immediately end all operations.At the same time, the team is developing a buyback plan for STEP holders based on a snapshot taken before the incident, and providing a redemption process for Remora rToken holders. Remora tokens still maintain a 1:1 support.ChainCatcher previously reported that the Step Finance hack incident statement indicated that approximately $40 million was stolen, and it is advised not to use STEP tokens temporarily.

Bitcoin Core developer Murch announced on February 11 that BIP 360 (Pay to Merkle Root, P2MR) has officially entered the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal repository, marking the first time the Bitcoin development community has incorporated quantum resistance into the official technical roadmap.The proposal was co-authored by Hunter Beast, Ethan Heilman, and Isabel Foxen Duke, and is currently in the review and discussion stage, with no protocol changes activated yet.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson spoke on X about the potential impact of quantum computing on the crypto industry, calling for a proactive deployment of post-quantum security upgrades across multi-chain ecosystems, including Bitcoin, and proposed a five-step action plan:Acknowledge the threat and clearly recognize that once quantum computers mature, they will pose a severe challenge to the existing public key cryptography system, and take decisive action to implement countermeasures.Enhance education and information dissemination, systematically learn about the current state of quantum computing development and feasible solutions in post-quantum cryptography (PQC), and spread relevant knowledge within the community to raise overall awareness.Organize and invest resources to support and collaborate with post-quantum cryptography experts, promote multiple research and engineering practices, and provide funding and community initiative support for related projects.Listen to expert advice and establish standards, with experts proposing specific technical routes, including the selection of new signature algorithm standards and the reasonable post-quantum security levels required for hash functions.Promote protocol and infrastructure upgrades, introduce new quantum-resistant signature mechanisms at the core protocol layer, and ensure compatibility and integration with key infrastructures such as wallets to ensure a smooth transition.

The Ethereum Foundation's Co-Executive Director Tomasz Stańczak will step down at the end of February 2026, to be succeeded by Bastian Aue, who will co-lead with the current Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei.Tomasz stated that over the past year, the Ethereum Foundation has achieved multiple goals, including accelerating decision-making, enhancing communication with the younger generation, bringing new energy to the builder community, improving open communication on social media and podcasts, being more open to institutional participation, supporting founders, and formulating treasury policies. After stepping down, Tomasz plans to continue participating in the Ethereum ecosystem as a core developer, focusing on proxy core development and governance work. He emphasized that Ethereum is becoming the underlying verification and transaction platform for financial infrastructure, with 2025 being a clear choice for institutions.

According to CoinDesk, two insiders revealed that as the cryptocurrency exchange platform Kraken prepares to go public in the U.S. early this year, Kraken has fired Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Stephanie Lemmerman.Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 and served as the CFO of the exchange for one year and four months. One insider stated that she is currently serving as a strategic advisor at Kraken.Insiders revealed that former Vice President of Business Development Robert Moore has essentially taken over her position. The leadership page on the website of Kraken's parent company, Payward Inc., has been updated to show that Moore is now the Deputy CFO, while Lemmerman's name does not appear on that page.