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PANews reported on February 14th that, according to CoinAnk data, the total liquidation amount for cryptocurrency futures contracts across the entire network reached $144 million in the past 24 hours, including $38.4013 million in long positions and $105 million in short positions. The total liquidation amount for BTC was $46.0193 million, and for ETH it was $25.1881 million.
PANews reported on February 14 that Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas wrote that Roundhill has submitted applications for multiple ETFs, intending to gain exposure through swaps or direct holding of political election "event contracts" (such as "Democratic Presidential Contracts," with the inauguration party on January 20, 2027, determining yes/no); if approved, this could open a new channel for the securitization of prediction market assets.
Bitcoin whale Garrett Jin withdrew 53.12 million USDT from Binance, but still holds over 30,000 BTC.
PANews reported on February 14th that on-chain data shows Bitcoin whale Garrett Jin (BitcoinOG 1011short) appears to have sold 5,000 BTC, worth approximately $349 million, which he previously transferred to Binance. He subsequently withdrew 53.12 million USDT from Binance, believed to be related to this BTC sale. The address currently still holds over 30,000 BTC, worth approximately $2.09 billion at current prices.
PANews reported on February 14th that the Wyoming Stablecoin Commission, following the issuance of its state-backed stablecoin Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), is recruiting two summer legal interns for 2026 to assist in refining the legal and compliance framework. The position is unpaid or credit-based and is open to law students with strong research and writing skills and a focus on cryptocurrency and blockchain regulation.
PANews reported on February 14th that, according to AiYi, a trading address that had accumulated a long position of 105,000 ETH just deposited an additional 1.98 million USDC as margin into Hyperliquid. Both addresses are currently showing a floating profit.
PANews reported on February 14th that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that current prediction markets overemphasize short-term cryptocurrency prices and "dopamine-inducing" products like sports betting, creating a business model that relies on "naive traders" (participants with flawed viewpoints) losing money, making it difficult to generate long-term social information value. Vitalik proposed shifting prediction markets towards broader "hedging" uses, including hedging political risks for investors holding specific stocks, and customizing "future spending baskets" for individuals and institutions through prediction markets targeting various goods and services price indices. This would replace traditional fiat stablecoins and monetary concepts, building a new generation of financial infrastructure based on assets like ETH, combining return and risk management functions.
PANews reported on February 14 that, according to Onchain Lens, the early Bitcoin address "Bitcoin OG (10/11)" has just transferred 5,000 BTC to Binance, which is worth approximately $385 million at the current price.
PANews reported on February 14 that Binance co-founder He Yi, in response to user complaints about account restrictions, stated that with Binance's large-scale investment in compliance, if users previously connected to countries where Binance could not provide services via VPN, their accounts would be automatically switched to "withdrawal mode." In this case, users would need to contact customer service to access the service again.
PANews reported on February 14th that Bankr, an AI crypto assistant project, announced it is discontinuing its core operating model of "collecting transaction fees" on behalf of developers. Bankr stated that the previous fee collection was merely a token-driven proof-of-concept. Bankr will shift its focus to self-deployment, where developers must initiate and deploy contracts themselves on the X platform. The AI agent business and transaction fee revenue will be entirely controlled and collected by the developers. Bankr currently offers self-deployment tools on Base and Solana, and is also open to developers through the Discord community.
PANews reported on February 14th that, according to the official WeChat account of Shaanxi Province, under the guidance of the Shaanxi Branch of the People's Bank of China, China Merchants Bank Xi'an Branch successfully issued the first tranche of science and technology innovation bonds for 2026 to a large enterprise in Shaanxi Province, and completed the collection of all raised funds in the form of digital RMB, amounting to 300 million yuan. Industry insiders pointed out that this transaction is not only the first digital RMB science and technology innovation bond in Shaanxi Province, but also a practical application of digital RMB in the field of direct financing, which is of positive significance for improving the digital RMB ecosystem and promoting business innovation in Shaanxi's financial market.
In 2025, the national cyberspace administration system held talks with 5,811 websites and platforms.
Over the past year, the national cyberspace administration system has held talks with 5,811 websites and platforms in accordance with the law, issued 1,646 warnings, imposed fines on 521 websites and platforms, ordered the suspension of functions or updates 688 times, removed 2,133 apps from app stores, taken 192 mini-programs offline, and, together with telecommunications authorities, cancelled the registration of websites and apps and shut down 9,637 websites and apps.
PANews reported on February 14 that, according to market sources, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will not attend next week's Artificial Intelligence Summit in India.
PANews reported on February 14th that Nikita Bier, X Product Manager and Solana Advisor, tweeted that while supporting the development of cryptocurrencies on the platform, she will crack down on apps that use mechanisms like "claim your fees" to induce users to spam, harass, and attack others, stating that such apps "profit only from a few while significantly harming the user experience of millions." She revealed that X will launch new features including Smart Cashtags within weeks, allowing users to trade stocks and crypto assets directly on the timeline. Meanwhile, some developers have questioned X's frequent bans on crypto projects using the X API without simultaneously releasing enough "overall crypto-friendly" features.
PANews reported on February 14th that, according to Cointelegraph, Cathie Wood's ARK Invest purchased approximately 92,800 shares of Coinbase stock on Friday through three ETFs: ARKK, ARKW, and ARKF, worth approximately $15.2 million at the closing price. This comes after Cathie Wood sold over $39 million worth of Coinbase shares on February 5th and 6th.
PANews reported on February 14th that, according to Variety, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA) condemned ByteDance's Chinese AI video generation service, Seedance 2.0, for using large-scale unauthorized US film and television content within one day of its launch, stating that it was "engaging in large-scale copyright infringement" and lacked effective copyright protection measures, demanding that it immediately cease such activities. Previously, the MPA had issued a similar statement when OpenAI launched Sora 2, after which OpenAI subsequently strengthened copyright protection and reached a licensing agreement with Disney.
PANews reported on February 14 that, according to Onchain Lens, a whale deposited 2 million PIPPINs (approximately $1.04 million) into MEXC 16 hours ago, accumulating a profit of approximately $3.6 million in this round. It had previously withdrawn 7.56 million PIPPINs from MEXC at a cost of approximately $137,000, and currently still holds 2.03 million PIPPINs (approximately $1.29 million).
PANews reported on February 14 that Wang Chun, co-founder of F2Pool, tweeted: "Smart people buying bitcoin now," expressing his positive sentiment towards Bitcoin allocation at the current stage.
PANews reported on February 14 that Nikita Bier, X's product manager and Solana consultant, stated, "X intends to update its API policy to prevent applications from creating fee pools without user consent."
PANews reported on February 14th that, according to Jinshi, OpenAI announced that it has discontinued access to five older ChatGPT models, including GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, OpenAI o4-mini, and GPT-5 (Instant and Thinking versions), effective February 13th. Access to the GPT-5 model will be retained in the ChatGPT Enterprise workspace until February 19, 2026. Furthermore, GPT-5 Pro will remain available to all paid users until February 19, 2026. These models will continue to be available through the OpenAI API in the future.
PANews reported on February 14th that, according to Arkham's 2026 analysis report on the net worth and on-chain holdings of Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Yakovenko's personal wealth is estimated to be between $500 million and $1.2 billion, primarily derived from his holdings of SOL tokens and his equity in Solana Labs. His wealth is closely correlated with the market price of Solana. Solana minted 500 million SOL at its genesis, with 12.5% allocated to the founding team. The market widely speculates that address 9QgXq is associated with Yakovenko, and this wallet holds over 136,000 SOL (approximately $11 million). Between August and November 2024, this account unstaking and transferred over 3 million SOL, of which over 1.5 million were restaking to a new address.
「」Connex (CONX) unlocked approximately 1.332 million tokens, worth approximately $18.74 million. 「」Starknet (STRK) unlocked approximately 127 million tokens, worth about $6.3 million. 「」Sei (SEI) unlocked approximately 55.56 million tokens, worth about $4.2 million. 「」Qian Zhimin's Money Laundering Case (60,000 Bitcoins) - Hearing 「」The UK High Court held a hearing on the disposal of assets in the "Qian Zhimin 60,000 Bitcoin money laundering case". 「」KBC, Belgium's second-largest bank, launched Bitcoin and Ethereum trading services.
