#Calendar
⚡️ Calendar of key events for this week:

Monday, February 17:
🇺🇸 USA - no bidding (Washington’s Birthday)
🇨🇦 Canada - no bidding (Family Day)

Tuesday, February 18:
🇺🇸 USA - Speech by US President D. Trump (time unknown)

Wednesday, February 19:
🇺🇸 USA - Minutes from the last Fed meeting - 22:00

Thursday, February 20:
🌎 Meeting of G20 Foreign Ministers
🇨🇳 China - LPR rate (Loan Prime Rate) - 04:15
🇺🇸 USA - Initial Jobless Claims - 16:30
🇺🇸 USA - Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (Feb) - 16:30

Friday, February 21:
🌎 Meeting of G20 Foreign Ministers
🇺🇸 USA - Fed Balance Sheet - 00:30

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🧠 ВTether is developing an analogue of Neuralink chips - BrainOS (blog)

The BrainOS project is aimed at developing technologies that connect the brain to the computer (like Neuralink chips).

Tether cooperates with scientists and invested $200m in BlackRock Neurotech, which is already helping paralyzed people control robots, type text with the power of thought and control drones.

The mission of the project is to «make innovations accessible to everyone, not only to rich corporations».

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#opinion
🐂 Bernstein: Bitcoin «took a pause» before the next bull run.

⊹ Last year’s growth drivers: successful launch of Bitcoin ETF + election of a cryptocurrency president in the United States.

⊹ Future growth catalysts: creation of a BTC reserve in the United States + purchase of cryptocurrency by sovereign funds.

«The U.S. cryptocurrency working group will focus on the national BTC reserve.»

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🔽🇦🇷 Argentine stocks (S&P Merval index) collapsed by more than 5% due to the #LIBRA memcoin scandal.

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#usdt
🇬🇳 Tether expands in Africa! (Blog)

A memorandum of understanding was signed with the government of Guinea.

The goal is to accelerate the digital transformation and economic growth of the country with the help of blockchain technologies.

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🤡 #LIBRA The President of Argentina changed his shoes again... reposted a guide to his Twitter: «How to buy a LIBRA token» (watch)

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🇺🇸 D.O.G.E. (Government Efficiency Department) will audit the SEC.

For this purpose, a special DOGE SEC account was created on Twitter

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🤯 Grok 3 by Elon Musk is already available for Premium+ users - presentation

DeepSeek and ChatGPT it’s time to strain:

▪️ Grok 3 is 10 times smarter than the previous version
▪️ Bypasses GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini-2 Pro and DeepSeek-V3 in mathematics, coding and science
▪️ Live calculated the route of the flight to Mars and return to Earth with ALL the nuances
▪️ Trained on Colossus with 200,000 Nvidia H100 chips
▪️ DeepSearch is Google’s «killer»: AI digs the entire Internet, giving the most accurate answer
▪️ If there is no data, he makes reasonable assumptions - from the weather forecast for years to the best build in the latest update of your favorite game
▪️ Generates games on the go - right on the stream created a hybrid of Tetris and «Three-in-a-row»
▪️ Elon Musk launches an AI game studio, which will be run by Grok
▪️ The voice assistant will appear in the coming weeks

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#onchain
🧐 An unknown investor burned 500 ETH ($1.3m), claiming that he was a victim of a brain-computer weapon attack. (Arkham)

In encrypted messages, he accused Kuande Investment of their executives using weapons to control their minds.

Kuande Investment (WizardQuant) is a Chinese hedge fund.

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#onchain #records
📊 Santiment: Investors withdraw ETH from exchanges at a record pace!

Only 6.38% of the total issue remained on the exchanges - the lowest level in history.

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🇪🇺 OKX exchange can now officially operate in 28 EEA countries - blog

OKX is one of the first global crypto exchanges with a MiCA license (fully complies with the new rules of crypto regulation).

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#opinion #xrp
🚀 Matrixport: XRP is approaching the oversold zone (RSI indicator).

«The SEC will soon suspend or withdrew all appeals related to the crypto industry, including the case against Ripple.»

«The recently created SEC cryptocurrency task force will play a key role in resolving legal proceedings. There will be a significant shift in the agency’s approach to regulating the crypto industry,» - John Reed Stark (former SEC commissioner).

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🤯 Wassielawyer: Approximately 75,000 investors in the #LIBRA memecoin have lost a total of $286,000,000+.

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#usdt
💸 Tether intends to acquire a controlling stake in Adecoagro! (51%)

Adecoagro is a South American agro-industrial company that owns 210.4 thousand hectares of agricultural land and several enterprises in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Market capitalization = 1,240,000,000$+.

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#Breaking
❌ Hackers empty wallets in the Abstract network! - Atoms Research

Everyone who has involved with the Cardex game will be threatened. It is recommended to withdraw funds and enable 2FA (even if you used other applications on this network).

Abstract team: «We know about the hacking of some Abstract users and want to assure everyone that the problem is NOT in the Abstract Global Wallet network. It concerns the Cardex application, we are working on its elimination.»

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⛔️ Last week Michael Sailor DID NOT buy Bitcoin...(announcement)

The company failed to raise funds for the purchase of BTC by selling Class A preferred shares.

There are still 478,740 BTC ($46B) on the Strategy balance sheet.

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🔥 #PYTH Grayscale launched a new fund for investing in the Pyth Network (Grayscale Pyth Trust) - original

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🤑 Today, FTX customers will start getting money back! (Sunil)

1 batch of payments will be distributed among clients with a balance of up to $50k (start - approximately at 18:00 Moscow time).

Total amount (all lots) = $16B. The amount of payments is based on the prices of November 2022.

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🇳🇬 Bloomberg: The Nigerian government is going to tax cryptocurrency transactions!

«All transactions on regulated crypto exchanges suitable for the new rules will be included in the official tax network» (it is not yet known: the amount of tax and which transactions are considered «suitable»).

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😮 Some FTX customers have already been refunded through the Kraken crypto exchange - twitter

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💰 Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) plans to attract another $2,000,000,000 to buy BTC, the scheme is already familiar - bonds.

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