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BlockBeats reported that on February 16, the RWA tokenization platform OpenEden officially stated that the DNS of its official website and portal appeared to be tampered with, reminding users not to interact with the aforementioned domain names to prevent wallet asset damage.

OpenEden stated that all reserve assets are still safe (SAFU) and relevant data can be verified through Chainlink's reserve proof page. However, the team again emphasized not to access or operate the aforementioned domain names.

The OpenEden team is investigating this matter and will release further updates as soon as possible.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to OnchainLens monitoring, 10 days ago, a newly created wallet address withdrew 71.84 million SIREN (approximately 6.54 million USD) from KuCoin, Bitget, and Gate.

Currently, these SIREN are worth approximately 15.52 million USD, with a paper profit of about 8.98 million USD.

Address: 0xfe5bcc32063ced8384507d41c334ead5c70fbb56

BlockBeats news, on February 16, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has issued a virtual asset trading platform operating license to Victory Fintech Company Limited's digital asset trading platform VDX. The institution is authorized to conduct regulated activities of Type 1 (securities trading) and Type 7 (providing automated trading services). Meanwhile, its subsidiary VDX Custody Limited has also been licensed under the (Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance) to provide digital asset custody services.

As of now, the number of licensed virtual asset trading platforms in Hong Kong has reached 12.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, OKX has obtained a payment institution (PI) license in Malta, complying with the European regulatory requirements that will take effect in March. This license allows OKX to continue providing payment services related to stablecoins across the EU, fully in compliance with the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation and the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). OKX's CEO for Europe, Erald Ghoos, stated: "We recently launched practical payment products including OKX Pay and OKX Card, bringing stablecoins into everyday life. Obtaining the payment institution license ensures these products operate in full compliance." At the end of last month, OKX partnered with Mastercard to launch a cryptocurrency payment card in Europe, and its venture capital arm, OKX Ventures, has also recently invested in the stablecoin issuance platform STBL.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, reported by Businesswire, Canadian listed Ethereum treasury company Republic Technologies announced a private placement of up to 14,087,000 special warrants, each priced at $0.21, with a total fundraising amount of $3 million. The company previously disclosed an ETH holding of approximately 1,570.6 coins, with an average acquisition price of $2,700, and the current holding market value is approximately $3.2 million.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to Coinbob's popular address monitoring, 'Hyperliquid early contributor Loracle' established a PAXG (on-chain gold) long position before February 4. After today's spot gold price fell below $5000 per ounce, his position has turned from profit to loss. Currently, his average position price is $5047, with a scale of about $7.86 million, and an unrealized loss of $60,000 (-3.8%).

In addition to PAXG, this address also holds a significant long position in HYPE, recently placing an order to buy about 20,000 HYPE near $28 to slightly increase its long position. Furthermore, it has been continuously increasing its ZEC long position, which has now reached $8.5 million.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the list of net outflows for crypto spot funds is as follows:

BTC net outflow of 361 million USD;

ETH net outflow of 302 million USD;

XRP net outflow of 140 million USD;

SOL net outflow of 73.36 million USD;

DOGE net outflow of 36.17 million USD.

The list of net inflows for crypto spot funds is as follows:

TAO net inflow of 3.5 million USD;

ZEC net inflow of 2.37 million USD;

HOME net inflow of 980 thousand USD;

OG net inflow of 870 thousand USD;

STO net inflow of 750 thousand USD.

BlockBeats news, February 16, Bithumb added LIT/KRW spot trading pair.

BlockBeats message, February 16, founder of Binance CZ stated at the 2026 World Economic Forum that the lack of transaction privacy is the last major obstacle for cryptocurrency to become a mainstream payment method. Although issues of high fees and slow speeds in the past decade have been greatly improved through technologies like Layer 2, the completely transparent and permanently traceable nature of transactions on public chains makes it difficult for ordinary consumers and businesses to accept them for everyday payments. If a company uses cryptocurrency to pay employee salaries on-chain, anyone can easily see the salary levels of everyone in the company just by clicking the send address. When businesses pay suppliers, they inadvertently expose their entire balance, other suppliers' lists, and cash flow details to competitors, which is unacceptable in business.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to OnchainLens monitoring, over the past 24 hours, a certain whale deposited a total of 732,481 VVV AI tokens on the Base chain to Coinbase, valued at 3.03 million USD, with a profit of 1.77 million USD. This whale initially withdrew 763,725 VVV from Coinbase, valued at 1.56 million USD, and sold it after staking for 6 months.

According to previous reports, the market value of the AI token VVV on the Base chain has surpassed 530 million USD, hitting a recent high, with a 24-hour trading volume of 26.6 million USD.

BlockBeats reminds users that meme coins often have no practical use cases, with significant price volatility; investment should be cautious.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to OnchainLens monitoring, a certain whale increased its holdings by 371 gold tokens XAUT, with an average purchase price of 5006 USD. The whale still holds 7.8 million USD in funds and may continue to increase its holdings.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to the official page, Kimi under the Moon's Dark Side officially launched the Kimi Claw Beta version, providing cloud-native integration services based on the open-source AI Agent framework OpenClaw. Users do not need to install or configure servers locally, and can run the AI Agent online 24/7 directly in the browser tab, or bridge local or third-party OpenClaw instances.

The Kimi Claw Beta version is based on Kimi K2.5, combining a practical skill library to achieve long-term memory, autonomous operation, and other Agent capabilities, currently only available to Allegretto members and above.

Original Title: When Bitcoin Bottoms Original Link: @abetrade Compiled by: Peggy, BlockBeats

Editor's Note: When Bitcoin is sluggish while gold and U.S. stocks frequently hit new highs, the narrative that 'funds are rotating from precious metals to crypto assets' has once again gained popularity in the market. This article does not follow this intuitive judgment to provide trading conclusions but instead returns to the data itself, systematically examining whether there is indeed a verifiable long-term relationship between Bitcoin and gold.

Through correlation and cointegration analysis, it can be seen that there is no robust mean reversion or structural relationship of 'one rises as the other falls' between Bitcoin and gold. The so-called rotation is more of a post-hoc explanation rather than a repeatable and verifiable market mechanism. Bitcoin is neither a safe-haven metal nor a stock index; it is an independent market with extremely high volatility and an evolving structure.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, well-known analyst Willy Woo stated that the 12-year valuation trend of Bitcoin relative to gold has recently been broken, and BTC's relative valuation should have been higher, but in reality, this has not been achieved, mainly due to the awakening of market awareness of the risks of quantum computing leading to early pricing of potential issues.

Bitcoin is likely to be patched in the future through quantum-resistant signatures, but this does not address the issue of approximately 4 million 'lost' BTC (early lost private keys may be cracked by quantum computers) re-entering circulation. Willy Woo estimates there is a 75% chance that these lost bitcoins will not be frozen through a hard fork of the protocol, so the market needs to price in the selling pressure of 4 million in advance.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to HTX market data, influenced by the launch on Upbit, Bittensor (TAO) temporarily surged by 7%, currently reported at 203 USD, with a 24-hour increase of 6.64% and a weekly increase of 23%.

BlockBeats message, February 16, Animoca Brands announced that it has obtained a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license issued by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, authorizing Animoca Brands to operate in the Emirate of Dubai (excluding the Dubai International Financial Centre) and to provide virtual asset (VA) brokerage services, VA management, and investment services to global institutional investors and qualified investors.

BlockBeats message, on February 16, Upbit will launch spot trading for Bittensor (TAO), providing markets for KRW, BTC, and USDT.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to GMGN data, the AI token VVV on the Base chain surged over 34.2% in 24 hours, with a market cap exceeding 530 million USD, reaching a recent high, current market cap 510 million USD, 24-hour trading volume 26.6 million USD.

BlockBeats reminds users that Meme coins have little practical use, and prices are highly volatile, so investment should be cautious.

BlockBeats news, February 16, according to Coinglass data, Bitcoin is maintaining a range-bound oscillation trend, and the current funding rates on major CEX and DEX show that the market remains fully bearish, with specific funding rates shown in the attached image.

BlockBeats Note: The funding rates are the rates set by cryptocurrency trading platforms to maintain the balance between contract prices and the underlying asset prices, typically applicable to perpetual contracts. It is a mechanism for the exchange of funds between long and short traders, and the trading platform does not charge this fee, which is used to adjust the cost or revenue of the contracts held by traders, so that the contract prices remain close to the underlying asset prices.

BlockBeats news, on February 16, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet address spent 2,750,000 USDC to buy 21,110,000 WLFI at an average price of 0.13 dollars.

This address currently holds 11,210,000 USD1 and is likely to continue buying.