the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced today that it has canceled 167 contracts, saving approximately $115 million in total. This includes a $2.23 million contract for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) "Existing Project Policy Fairness Assessment".

 according to Christine Kim's summary of the 205th Ethereum Core Developers Meeting (ACDE), the main topics discussed at this meeting were: Pectra upgrade timeline (Holesky and Sepolia testnets are scheduled to be upgraded on February 24 and March 5 respectively, if the testnets go smoothly, the upgrade will take place on the mainnet on April 8), Fusaka upgrade plan (discussion on accelerating the Ethereum upgrade process, Tim Beiko finally decided to lock in the scope of Fusaka on April 10), and EOF update (debate on whether EOF should be implemented together with PeerDAS and whether it should be included in Fusaka; EOF stands for EVM Object Format, which made some changes to Ethereum's code execution environment).

On February 12th, The ETF Store President Nate Geraci posted on social media that Schwab plans to extend retail stock and ETF trading hours to five days a week, 24 hours a day. Geraci stated that this move shows that traditional finance is gradually moving closer to the decentralized finance (DeFi) trading model, and in the long term may move towards comprehensive securities tokenization. Geraci further pointed out that although some believe investors should not be able to trade at any time, the new generation of investors values the accessibility of trading, rather than arbitrary restrictions based on personal opinions.

Layer1's intellectual property blockchain Story stated on social media: "The public mainnet will be launched on February 13th, and IP airdrop application and verification will be launched on the same day."

Golden Finance reported that, according to The New York Times, billionaire and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia is reportedly set to participate in Musk's government plan. (Golden Ten)

According to official announcement, the Starknet ecological lending protocol, zkLend, announced this morning that it has encountered a security incident. The team has urgently suspended the protocol's withdrawal function and urged users to suspend deposit and repayment operations to prevent further losses. The zkLend team stated that they are investigating the root cause of the attack and will release further updates after determining the specific situation.

according to Spot On Chain monitoring, F2Pool & Stakefish founder Chun Wang (@satofishi) sold 2.5 million LDO for $4.5 million USDT in the past 14 days. Since returning on November 21, 2024, after a 10.5-month break, he sold 6.1 million LDO at around $1.708 per token, exchanging them for 10.42 million USDT, with selling activity picking up. He was an initial member of Lido DAO, receiving 20 million LDO, but now only holds 2.5 million tokens (worth $3.88 million).

 according to relevant page information, Musk changed his X personal profile to "Volunteer Tech Support".

On February 12th, Aave's leading position in the DeFi lending field seems to be facing fierce competition. According to data compiled by Token Terminal, Solana-based DeFi project Kamino has seen a 1,368% increase in net deposits since January 2024, while Morpho has seen a 214% increase in net deposits during the same period. At the same time, Aave's net deposit growth rate is around 213%.

According to official sources, decentralized storage protocol Walrus Protocol announced that certain members of the Walrus community received a targeted notice this morning about an upcoming Walrus airdrop. The purpose of this is to collect user data from a small subset of users who are eligible for the airdrop but have not yet had their wallet addresses recorded. Users can verify their eligibility by connecting their Discord, Github, email, or Telegram accounts. Walrus reminds users to beware of scams and not to interact with other websites claiming to be related. Walrus Protocol was launched by Sui development company Mysten Labs in June 2024 and became an independent PoS network in September of last year, governed and incentivized by the native token WAL.

according to The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Vice President Pence said on Thursday that if Russian President Putin does not agree to a peace agreement with Ukraine that guarantees long-term independence for Ukraine, the United States will impose sanctions on Russia and may take military action. If Russia does not negotiate sincerely, the option of sending troops to Ukraine is still "on the table."

according to the market, BTC has fallen below $95,500 and is now trading at $95,442.16, with a 24-hour decline of 2.38%. The market is volatile, so please be prepared for risk control.

 according to Lookonchain monitoring, 3 hours ago, a whale withdrew 25,306 SOL (5 million US dollars) from Coinbase. Yesterday, the whale spent 38,138 SOL (7.8 million US dollars) to buy arc and ai16z.

according to Cointelegraph, Michigan State Representatives Bryan Posthumus and Ron Robinson submitted HB 4087 on February 13th, aiming to amend the state's "Management and Budget Act" to establish a Bitcoin strategic reserve.

according to the Bitcoin Office of El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele met with MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor at the presidential palace today to discuss Bitcoin-related issues.

in an article published on X platform on February 10th by Aylo, a cryptocurrency research institution, it was pointed out that in network applications, Solana applications have performed more prominently, with their income being more than 10 times higher than that of their competitor Ethereum applications. The researcher pointed out that even when considering Ethereum's Layer-2 scaling solutions (L2), Solana's advantages still exist, as L2 scaling solutions carry most of Ethereum's transaction activities. Even when considering Ethereum's Layer-2 scaling solutions (L2s), which carry most of the network's transaction activities, Solana's advantages still exist, the researcher pointed out.