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On February 18, Consensys founder and CEO, as well as Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, stated in an interview in Hong Kong that the driving force of the digital asset economy is functional utility rather than speculative power. He believes that bitcoin should not currently be regarded as a traditional safe-haven asset, and emphasized that Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency ETH has stronger practicality in decentralized applications, smart contracts, and ecosystem activities. Lubin pointed out that institutional participation is deepening, with major banks and trading platforms building on Ethereum technology, indicating that Ethereum is transitioning to the next generation of financial infrastructure.

PANews reported on February 18 that, according to monitoring by Onchain Lens, the Trump Meme coin team allocation wallet sent 9.089 million TRUMP tokens, valued at $31.45 million, to the BitGo custody wallet.

1. The CEO of a certain exchange responded to being underestimated by Wall Street: a typical "innovator's dilemma", with a clear divergence in traditional finance's attitude towards crypto; 2. The WLFI project team withdrew 313 million WLFI from a certain exchange, valued at $33.76 million; 3. Nevada regulators in the United States have filed a lawsuit against the prediction market platform Kalshi; 4. Bitwise has submitted an application for a prediction market ETF under the PredictionShares brand; 5. Monad Foundation has acquired the open-source blockchain data indexing framework Ponder; 6. pension-usdt.eth used 3x leverage to go long on 1,000 BTC, with a position valued at $67.59 million.