😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

👮 Insider Rundeep placed 6 bets on Polymarket regarding Israel's military actions, winning each time for a total profit of $154K. Subsequently, Israeli prosecutors charged a reservist and a civilian for allegedly using secret military information to place bets on Polymarket. Rundeep has not traded for over a month, raising questions about whether he got caught. link

🙅 $OM has been delisted from Bybit futures. link

💰 #AAVE Aave Labs has reached out to token holders to approve a funding package of around $50 million. In exchange, all revenue from products under the Aave brand will be redirected to the Aave DAO treasury. link

🇩🇪🤝 Boerse Stuttgart Digital and Tradias have agreed to merge to create a European cryptocurrency hub. link

🇧🇷🧑‍💻 Brazil reintroduces bill to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, allowing the country to acquire up to 1M $BTC.

📊 Espresso is developing a decentralized shared sequencer and confirmation layer to tackle Rollup fragmentation and centralization. Utilizing its HotShot consensus, it offers rapid finality and guarantees that only confirmed blocks are settled on Ethereum, enhancing censorship resistance. With cross-chain tools such as Presto and integrations across over 20 chains, Espresso seeks to establish itself as essential infrastructure for the modular Rollup ecosystem. link

📊👀 #BTC #ETH Sentora: Both Bitcoin and Ether saw significant outflows from exchange wallets this week, hinting at ongoing accumulation amid price weakness.

🕵️ Virtuals Protocol deposited 13.05M $VIRTUAL ($7.51M) to Binance an hour ago. link

🕵️ BlackRock just deposited another 3,402 $BTC ($227.5M) and 15,108 $ETH ($29.52M) to Coinbase Prime. link

🗽 CFTC Announced the Members of Its Newly Formed Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) #regulation link

🕵️ Mixin Hacker, who previously stole $200M, appears to be selling 59,854 $ETH ($117M) after two years of inactivity.

Fifteen hours ago, he sent 2,005 $ETH ($3.85M) to TornadoCash.

Soon after, three new wallets received 2,087 $ETH ($4.03M) from TornadoCash and sold it at $1,933.

The Mixin hacker still holds 57,849 $ETH ($113.4M) and 891 $BTC ($59.7M). #hack link link link link

🇫🇷👮 RTL reports that the head of Binance France was targeted in an attempted home invasion on February 12.

Three masked men entered his residence but fled with two phones after finding him absent. The suspects were later arrested at a train station in Lyon and taken into custody. link

🇺🇸⚠️ Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US does not want to decouple from China.

"We want to derisk."

🕵️ A newly created wallet, 0x5356, bridged 5,424 $ETH ($10.64M) through NEAR Intents to buy gold.

So far, it has spent 800 $ETH ($1.57M) to buy 311 $PAXG. link

🇺🇸📝 U.S. CPI: +2.4% Year-Over-Year (Est. +2.5%)
U.S. Core CPI: +2.5% Year-Over-Year (Est. +2.5%) #macro

🇺🇸📉 US inflation falls to 2.4%. #macro

🇺🇸📝 Macro USA:
- Consumer Price Index (CPI; Jan):
- m/m: 0.2% (est: 0.3%; prev: 0.3%)
- y/y: 2.4% (est: 2.5%; prev: 2.7%);
- Core CPI (y/y): 2.5% (est: 2.5%; prev: 2.6%). #macro

🧑‍💻 Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino unveils QVAC, a locally powered AI assistant built to run on a sub-average laptop GPU. link

🧑‍💻 #ETH Tomasz Stanchak will step down as Co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation at the end of February.

📊 Deribit announced that it has won the FOW International Award for Derivatives Trading System of the Year. This award recognizes innovation and performance in the derivatives industry, with Deribit highlighting its range of inverse and linear crypto derivatives products, spot markets, portfolio margin system, cross-collateral features, and liquidity infrastructure as key strengths. link