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**Title:** Reading Perps Beyond Volume
**Author:** Prathik Desai, Token Dispatch
**Compiled by:** Bitpush News
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Just when you think finance is becoming dull and tedious, it always manages to surprise you. Recently, it seems like everyone is restructuring the financial system in ways few anticipated, including people from the entertainment and media industries.
Take Jimmy Donaldson (also known as YouTube's MrBeast)...

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Hello, I am your old friend, Odaily's exclusive market analyst Cody. Today is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and the Spring Festival holiday is basically coming to an end.
From the market performance, this week's trend is similar to the analysis in our previous article—slow pace, mainly oscillating, with no clear directional volatility.
Bitcoin has mainly traded within the $65,500 to $70,000 range over the past week, maintaining a sideways price structure. It has neither effectively broken through the upper resistance nor shown signs of further weakening with increased volume on the downside.
Therefore, in this context, it is more appropriate this week not to rush to judge the trend direction but to observe the structural changes within the oscillation range.
It is during this phase of "mainstream asset pace slowing" that we can extend our focus to some assets with relatively independent structures.
So in this week's article,

Mars Finance reports that according to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale (31o3cj) sold 50,000 SOL tokens at a price of $78.27 within the past 7 hours, worth $3.91 million, and exchanged 44,805 SOL (worth $3.5 million) for 676.27 XAUT.

Lebanese bankers and politicians are considering selling or leasing the central bank's gold reserves to save the economy, as the 280 tons of gold they hold have increased in value due to rising gold prices. Some members of the public strongly oppose this move, believing it harms the interests of the majority.

Mars Finance reports that on February 23, Cointelegraph reported that the Bank of Korea urged regulators to restrict the issuance of Korean won-denominated stablecoins to licensed commercial banks, citing concerns over money laundering risks and financial stability.

Recently, community discussions about the BIP-110 proposal have increased. This proposal aims to limit the size of certain data fields to enhance Bitcoin's monetary functionality. Support for BIP-110 nodes has risen, although activation still remains uncertain. Fractal is designed as an extension layer that does not alter the mainnet rules, providing data capacity when the mainnet is restricted to ensure asset continuity. Fractal is not a replacement for a fork but offers a buffer for consensus evolution, emphasizing the importance of technological readiness and rational discussion.

AI Payment Dark War: Google Leads 60 Allies, Stripe Builds Its Own Road
By Beating
Source:
Reprinted from Mars Financial
Text | Lin Wanan
Money has already moved into the code.
Half a year ago, AI payments were just a PPT at a product launch. Now, AI is becoming the "cash register."
Now, when you open ChatGPT and search for any product, you'll see a blue Buy button. Enter your address, pay, and ship. No redirects, no opening any web pages.
Last week, Google also jumped in, integrating Etsy and Wayfair products into Search and Gemini, allowing direct checkout within the chat. Microsoft's Copilot also launched shopping checkout features simultaneously. Meta's Zuckerberg just announced a full shift to AI.

NYDIG Research Director Greg Cipolaro pointed out that as the investable universe narrows, the crypto space is mainly focused on extending traditional finance into blockchain applications, and the likelihood of large-scale blockchain applications emerging is lower than expected.

Title: Quantum Isn't a Threat to Web3. It's an Upgrade.
Author: DAVID ATTERMANN
Translation: Peggy, BlockBeats
Author: Rhythm BlockBeats
Source:
Reprint: Mars Finance
Editor's note: The discussion around "Will quantum computers destroy Web3" often overlooks the true direction of change. This article points out that quantum is not a threat but a migration of security infrastructure: strong cryptography, perceptible tamper-evident communication, physical-level randomness, and identity verification are gradually becoming foundational capabilities. In this process, blockchains no longer need to repeatedly "compensate" for untrustworthy network environments at the software layer, but can instead focus more on irreducible issues such as governance, incentives, and cross-domain collaboration.
More importantly, the arrival of quantum

Mars Finance reports that Riot Platforms Vice President Pierre Rochard posted on X stating that Bitcoin remains the most underestimated asset in the world.

Bitdeer will clear its Bitcoin reserves by 2026, choosing not to hold Bitcoin, and will raise funds through convertible bonds to cope with difficulties in the mining industry and a sharp decline in Hashprice. Its strategic transformation focuses on high-performance computing and artificial intelligence cloud services to adapt to market changes and shift to a more profitable business model.

Highlights of this Issue
According to incomplete statistics from PANews, there were 10 investment and financing events in the global blockchain industry last week (2.16-2.22), with a total funding amount exceeding $143 million. The overview is as follows:
In the DeFi sector, there was 1 investment and financing event, with on-chain derivatives protocol MYX completing a strategic financing round led by Consensys;
In the Web3+AI track, there was 1 investment and financing event, Unicity

Mars Finance reports that, according to Gate Market data, Nasdaq futures have fallen by 1%, S&P 500 futures are down 0.75%, and Dow Jones futures have declined by 0.6%.

Mars Finance reports that, according to Artemis Analytics data, the circulating market value of the world's largest stablecoin, Tether's USDT, has decreased by approximately $1.5 billion this month, marking the largest monthly decline since the FTX exchange collapse in December 2022. Previously, USDT had shown a continuous growth trend since former U.S. President Trump's return to the White House. This decline also follows a slight pullback in January.

Vitalik Buterin has recently been continuously selling ETH, selling 1,694 coins for $3.31 million in the past 1.5 days, with a total of 8,651 coins sold since February 2nd, amounting to approximately $17.97 million. He currently still holds 10,676 ETH.