Important information last night (February 4th-February 5th)
Reprinted from panewslab
02/05/2025·24D
According to The Block, US legislators are setting up a working group, including members of the key committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate to formulate a regulatory framework for digital assets and stablecoins. At the press conference on Tuesday, David Sacks, the head of the White House artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency affairs, Tim Scott, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, John Boozman, Chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee, and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and GT Thompson, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the House of Representatives Announce The establishment of these two hospitals. The Senate has been promoting the supervision of stable currency. Senator Bill Hagerty proposed a bill on Tuesday, which aims to create a regulatory framework, including setting the issuer whether the issuer is regulated by the federal government or the state government. Hill said that the future stabilization currency bill will be "very similar" to the Senate's plan. Hill said at a press conference on Tuesday that the bill that regulates the overall market structure of the cryptocurrency in the future will be similar to the "Financial Innovation of the 21st Century and the Technical Act" (FIT21), and emphasizes the basis of its support.
US CFTC Agent Chairman: CFTC no longer implements law enforcement supervision
According to CoinDesk, Caroline Pham, the acting chairman of the American Commodity Futures Commission (CFTC), said on Tuesday that the regulatory agency has reorganized its law enforcement department to "re -focus" to crack down fraud and "stop regulatory through law enforcement." Under the leadership of CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam, CFTC's law enforcement department has multiple working groups, including a working group focusing on insider trading, a working group focusing on network security and emerging technologies, and a designed to combat the environment Fraud working group. The reorganization reduced the number of working groups to two. The newly established "complex fraud work group" is responsible for handling law enforcement work in all asset categories, from preliminary investigation to litigation. Paul Hayeck, deputy director of the law enforcement department, will serve as an agent in charge of the complex fraud working group. The "retail fraud and general law enforcement work group" will be responsible for handling retail fraud and general law enforcement affairs, and the leader of Charles Marvine, who is also the deputy director of the law enforcement department. Pham said in a press statement: "This simplified structure will stop supervising through law enforcement and improve efficiency. These urgent reforms will maximize the resources of CFTC to take more action to combat fraud and other bad behaviors. Instead of punishing law -abiding citizens. "According to the announcement of CFTC, the new structure will" more effective use of CFTC resources to prevent fraud, manipulation and abuse, and ensure market integrity. " , To prevent excessive enforcement and enhance consistency, fairness and legitimate procedures.
According to The Block, at the Washington Press conference jointly held by the leaders of the key committees of Congress on Tuesday, David Sacks, the newly appointed "Cryptocurrency Affairs" appointed by President Donald Trump, outlined the widely -available cryptocurrency agenda of the new government Essence When asked about the role of cryptocurrencies in the recent US sovereign wealth fund, Sacks revealed that evaluating potential Bitcoin reserves is the primary task of the government's internal working group. Sacks said in answering reporters: "We are still waiting for some cabinet ministers in the working group to be confirmed, but once confirmed, one of our primary tasks will be the feasibility of evaluating the Bitcoin reserves." He added that sovereignty said, sovereignty Fortune Fund is a different concept. Trump's nominated business minister Howard Lutnick will be responsible for the matter.
Landon Zinda, director of the coin center policy before the appointment of the US SEC agent chairman
According to Cointelegraph, Landon Zinda has resigned from the position of the COIN Center policy director of cryptocurrency advocate organizations to join the Cryptocurrency Working Group of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the announcement on February 4, the SEC Agent Chairman Mark Uyeda said that Zinda has joined the committee as a senior adviser to his consultant and a cryptocurrency working group. The former Coin Center director will join the working group led by the member Hester Peirce with Richard Gabbert and Chief Policy Consultant Taylor Asher. Neraj Agrawal, the communication director of Coin Center, confirmed that Zinda "is no longer an employee of the company." As of February 4, his name still appeared on the Coin Center's website, and his LinkedIn data showed that he has been advocating organizational work since March 2023. The cryptocurrency working group was announced on January 21 to "help committees to define clear regulatory boundaries, provide practical registration paths, formulate reasonable disclosure frameworks, and deploy law enforcement resources carefully." SEC said the group will coordinate and cooperate with other federal institutions (including the Commodity Futures Commission).
According to The Block, the newly established cryptocurrency working group of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will undertake a series of priority tasks because the agency is taking different directions from the past few years. The working group is led by Republican members Hester Peirce. It will be committed to distinguishing which "encrypted assets" are securities. It may change the company's registration method and provide clear statements when approving or vetoing exchange products. In a statement on Tuesday, Peirce outlined her task list and attached a link from the cryptocurrency working group. At the same time, it was pointed out that the list was not detailed. PEIRCE said that one of the priority tasks is to classify certain tokens as "non -securities". PEIRCE said: "The working group is still considering the proposal committee to take action to provide some tokens with the possibility of temporary forward -looking and traceability exemption, providing certain specific information for issuing entities or other entities willing to bear responsibility, maintain The information update and agreed that the committee's jurisdiction is not questioned in cases involving asset trading fraud. "PEIRCE said:" We will cooperate with other federal government departments, state securities regulatory agencies, and international counterparts to invite builders, enthusiasts and doubts Those who interact with us to determine what the final rule should be, and what temporary measures can be taken during this period to promote innovation. Essence
New York Times: The US SEC reduces its law enforcement in the field of cryptocurrencies
According to the New York Times, five people familiar with the matter revealed that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is shrinking a special group composed of more than 50 lawyers and staff, which has been responsible for cryptocurrency law enforcement operations. This is one of the first specific measures taken by President Trump and its government to reduce cryptocurrencies and other digital asset supervision. One of Trump's first administrative orders aims to promote the development of cryptocurrencies and "eliminate excessive supervision of digital assets." People familiar with the matter said that some lawyers in the cryptocurrency group are being assigned to other departments of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. A senior lawyer in the group was transferred away from the law enforcement department. Some people who understand the changes say that this transfer is an unfair duty. The current SEC Agent Chairman Mark T. Uyeda has conducted a series of appointments while adjusting other senior positions of the SEC. The committee hired more than 1,000 lawyers. One of the first things after Uyeda took office was to set up a group to review the method of processing digital assets for SEC. The working group is led by SEC members and blunt cryptocurrency supporters Hester Peirce.
Bloomberg: Peter Thiel supports the crypto company Bullish Global is considering the IPO
According to Bloomberg, people familiar with the matter revealed that the cryptocurrency exchange operator Bullish Global is considering the earliest public offering (IPO) as earlier this year. Its supporters include billionaire Peter Thiel. The company is with Jefferies (Jefferies Financial Group Inc.) cooperates to promote potential listing plans. People familiar with the matter said that the relevant discussions are still underway, the details of the issuance may change, or more banks may join the underwriting ranks. Representatives of Bullish and Block.one did not immediately respond to the comment request. Jefu Rui's spokesman refused to comment. It is reported that Bullish is led by CEO Tom Farley and has more than 275 employees, and has offices in the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, Naoga and Cayman Islands. The company's website shows that Bullish acquired the media institution CoinDesk from Digital Currency Group at 2023 at 2023.
NYSE has submitted the 19B-4 file application of the grayscale LTC ETF to the US SEC
Litecoin officially stated on the X platform that NYSE has already submitted the 19B-4 file application of the gray LTC ETF to the US SEC to seek to convert its Litecoin (LTC) trust into spot ETF. It is reported that the 19B-4 application refers to a change proposal submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is usually submitted by the exchange (such as NYSE or NASDAQ) so that new financial products (such as ETF) are listed.
Mode -based IONIC platform was attacked by hackers, and the loss was about $ 8.8 million
According to IONIC official announcement, the Mode -based IONIC platform was attacked by hackers. Hackers used unofficial fake LBTC (LOMBARD BTC) as the iONIC platform mortgage to borrow. The team is conducting investigations. According to the monitoring of security company Quillaudits, the estimated loss of the attack was about $ 8.8 million. Detective Zachxbt on the chain said this matter: IONIC's predecessor Midas protocol, Midas encountered two hacking attacks in 2023, while the IONIC project used the 2022 Midas audit report. In this regard, Zachxbt has once questioned the security of IONIC's contract. The team stated that their code library is based on the compound fork, and the vulnerability in Midas is due to the vulnerabilities known in the Compound code. These problems have been implemented in the new pool in white Measures such as lists and re -incoming attack circuit breakers have been repaired, emphasizing that IONIC is very safe.
Sun Yuchen posted in X and said: "Anyone who is familiar with the inside story knows that Li Lin at the time (when selling fire coins) concealed the dedicated materials, and there was a $ 30 million hole inside. If you can't give it, I will lend it to the company.
According to Decrypt, XRP Ledger recovered spontaneously after about an hour after the interruption of block production this morning, which is a rare interrupt incident on the network. The network activity was frozen at the height of the LEDger 93927173, which prompted the authentication to investigate immediately. XRP LEDGER subsequently resumed normal operation and did not report any assets or transaction losses. XRPL chief technical officer David Schwartz said on the X platform: "It seems that the consensus mechanism is still running, but the verification results have not been released, resulting in the network separation. As far as I know Any change, so the network may be recovered spontaneously.
R3 Sustainability and Chintai collaborated on the launch
According to Cointelegraph, R3 Sustainability collaborated with Chintai to launch a new type of sustainable investment fund based on blockchain. R3 Sustainability will use Chintai's Layer1 blockchain to develop a $ 795 million physical asset (RWA) tokens, focusing on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment. The fund contains four major sustainable development projects, including a $ 50 million energy -saving remote labor housing plan, and has the opportunity to expand to $ 150 million in the short term. Secondly, an early development fund of $ 165 million and an early development fund of industrial projects and a $ 180 million reverse osmosis seawater offshore dilated plant fund, focusing on serving a large industrial complex in Texas. In the end, the RWA Fund will reserve $ 300 million for resource efficiency plans, focusing on transforming the wastewater of chemical plants into fertilizer products used in North America.
According to Cointelegraph, Coinbase today sent a letter to the US Monetary Regulatory Agency (OCC), the Federal Reserve Council (FED) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), asking the regulatory agency The status quo of industry banking services. In the letter, Coinbase asked OCC to withdraw an interpretable letter, which was believed that "actually set a new bank event application process" and restrict banks enter the crypto asset market. Coinbase also confirmed from the Federal Reserve and FDIC to confirm whether the State Special Bank was allowed to provide encrypted custody and execution services and outsourced it to a third -party service provider. According to Bloomberg, Coinbase said that the current federal law has authorized banks to provide encrypted services and cooperate with third -party service providers, such as Coinbase. However, regulators still need to confirm this. To this end, Coinbase also invited three law firms to support the claim. Fryar Shirzad, chief policy officer of Coinbase, said: "Regulatory agencies need to clearly say that banks can cooperate with third parties to provide customers with encrypted transactions and exchange services." Banks American banks have provided services to the encryption industry. Although banks like BNY Mellon have begun to provide encrypted custody services, there are also reports that FDIC has contacted several US Banks and demands suspension of activities related to encryption. In June 2024, Coinbase filed a lawsuit with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and FDIC, accusing these institutions that "jointly tried to exclude encrypted asset companies outside the basic banking services." In the continuous legal struggle, Paul Grewal, director of COINBASE, reiterated the allegations in January 2025, thinking that FDIC intentionally concealed the "suspension letter" related to encryption in the "Law of Information Law".
DEPIN project BEAMABLE completed $ 13.5 million in Series A financing, Bitkraft Ventures led
According to The Block, the decentralized gaming infrastructure platform BEAMABLE completed the $ 13.5 million Series A financing Bitkraft Ventures, and Arca, AdvanCit Capital, 2PUNANKS, P2 Ventures, Solana Foundation, Scytale,,,,,, are DEFY.VC, Grandbanks Capital and Permit Ventures Wait for the investment. The new round of financing aims to accelerate the development and expansion of Beamable Network. Beamable Network is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DEPIN) to change the construction and operation of the back -end infrastructure of the game.
According to The Block, OLAS, an independent AI proxy platform in the encryption field, completed $ 13.8 million in financing to support the launch of the "Agent App Store" called Pearl. This round of financing was led by 1KX, and companies such as Tioga Capital, SIGIL FUND, Zee Prime Capital, Borderless, KeyRock, etc. also participated in investment. The Olas team said that the funds will be used to support its agent app store, which aims to realize the democratic visits of AI agents owned by users. While announcing financing, Olas also launched the Olas Accelerator Program that provides developers with an agent on the platform with a $ 1 million funding and OLAS token award. Olas's technical stacks include Olas Stack and Olas Protocol, which inspire the creation and common ownership of AI agents. The team said it had promoted more than 3.5 million transactions from nine blockchain agents.
Taproot Wizards is conducting a new round of financing of $ 30 million, Standard Crypto led
According to The Block, the Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards raised $ 30 million in its first POST-SEED wheel. This round of financing was led by the early supporter of Taproot Wizards Standard Crypto, and Cyberfund, Collider Ventures and other institutions participated. The project will use new funds to promote the development of the OP_CAT ecosystem to enhance the smart contract function of Bitcoin. It is reported that Taproot Wizards was founded in 2023. In February 2023, the casting of Taproot Wizard #0001 generated a 4MB block, which was the largest block and transaction of Bitcoin at that time. The team also launched the Ordinals series Quantum Cats, which is currently the highest market value in the Bitcoin NFT project. Earlier in November 2023, Taproot Wizards completed $ 7.5 million in financing.
BERAChain plans to announce the token economics tomorrow.
BERAChain Foundation officially announced that the Berachain tokens will start at the same time as the main network, and token economics and CHECKER (or referring to the air investment inspector) will be launched tomorrow. Earlier today, Berachain Foundation announced that the main network of Berachain will be launched on February 6, 2025.
Semler Scientific, a US listed company, announced that it has invested 88.5 million US dollars to increase its holdings of 871 BTCs today. Since July 1, 2024, Semler Scientific's BTC yield is 152 %, and 3,192 BTCs are now held. Earlier news, Semler Scientific completed the pricing of $ 85 million in convertible high -end bonds, with an annual interest rate of 4.25%, which will expire in 2030. The initial conversion price is US $ 76.44 per share, a 25%closing price from January 23. Part of the income ($ 6.6 million) will be used for capacity transactions, and the remaining funds are used for corporate use, including Bitcoin investment.
According to Onchain Lens monitor, in the past 6 hours, Tether has cast 1 billion USDT on the TRON network. Since 2025, Tether has cast a total of 2 billion USDTs on the TRON network. Circle cast 250 million USDC on Solana. Since 2025, Circle has cast a total of 65 USDCs on Solana.
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