February 15th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, in the past 2 days, a newly created wallet exchanged 9,156.45 ETH ($18.87 million) for 3734.19 PAXG, at an average price of $5053.

February 15th, according to Bitcoin News, Lightning Labs has officially released an open-source toolkit that allows AI agents to autonomously send and receive Bitcoin payments via the Bitcoin Lightning Network without the need for human approval, accounts, login credentials, or API keys.The toolkit uses the L402 protocol, based on the HTTP 402 "Payment Required" standard. Websites can send Lightning Network invoices to AI agents, who, upon payment, receive a digital payment credential as an access key to unlock services or data. The toolkit also includes the 'lnget' tool, which can automatically process paywalled content access requests in the background. Furthermore, the toolkit supports AI running Lightning nodes, managing permissions, hosting paid services, facilitating inter-agent transactions, and includes built-in spending limits and remote signature protection.

February 15, according to onchainschool.pro, a whale address that sold part of its holdings during the AZTEC pump on the 14th has started buying back on dips in the past two days, currently having bought $200,000 worth of AZTEC.The address holds a total of $1.1 million worth of AZTEC.

February 15th, according to market reports, a senior Iranian official confirmed that the second round of indirect talks with the United States will be held in Geneva on Tuesday. (FX Street)

February 15th, according to The Fintech Times, UAE digital bank Zand has expanded its partnership with Ripple, including specifically supporting RLUSD in Zand's regulated digital asset custody service, exploring a regulated Dirham stablecoin AEDZ and RLUSD direct liquidity solution, and exploring issuing AEDZ on the XRPL.

February 15th, according to HyperInsight monitoring, the "Pal" frenziedly increased positions on the eve of the Spring Festival, took advantage of the ETH rebound, and continues to increase ETH long positions today. As of the time of writing, the value of its 25x ETH long position has increased to $6.06 million.In addition, the "Pal" has also added a 3x VVV long position, with a current position size of 5,500 tokens.

February 15th, Tom Lee stated in an interview with Rug Radio founder Farokh Sarmad that the current crypto market is going through a "mini winter" phase, not a prolonged bear market, but it will take time to digest. He advised investors not to wait for the perfect bottom, but to start buying in batches at low points now. The pain may last for several months to half a year, but 2026 will see a significant turning point.In addition, Tom Lee mentioned he does not regret buying ETH early, stating that ETH is currently near its bottom (potentially briefly dropping below $1800 or $1890), but there have been 8 instances of V-shaped rebounds in history. Long-term, he sees ETH as the "next 15-year story" — the foundation of stablecoins, AI, and the creator economy.Finally, Tom Lee once again predicted that Bitcoin will rise to $200,000-250,000 by 2026, while Ethereum will reach $12,000-22,000 following historical ratios.

February 15th - Venture capitalist Nic Carter recently stated on a podcast that Bitcoin developers' long-term inaction regarding the potential threat of quantum computing to Bitcoin could lead to dissatisfaction among large institutions holding a significant amount of Bitcoin (such as BlackRock), ultimately triggering an "institutional takeover." Nic Carter warned that institutions will not tolerate the long-term neglect of Bitcoin's core security issues. "If developers continue to do nothing, institutions will lose patience, fire the current developers, and bring in new ones." (Cointelegraph)

February 15th, according to Coinglass data, as Bitcoin surged past $70,000, Ethereum briefly rose above $2,100. Currently, mainstream CEX and DEX funding rates indicate that although the market remains bearish, the bearish sentiment towards Ethereum has been significantly alleviated, with almost all platforms now showing neutral ETH rates. Specific funding rates are shown in the attached image.BlockBeats Note: Funding rates are fees set by cryptocurrency trading platforms to maintain the balance between contract prices and underlying asset prices, usually applicable to perpetual contracts. It is a fund exchange mechanism between long and short traders, and the trading platform does not charge this fee. It is used to adjust the cost or profit of traders holding contracts to keep the contract price close to the underlying asset price.When the funding rate is 0.01%, it represents the baseline rate. When the funding rate is above 0.01%, it indicates a generally bullish market. When the funding rate is below 0.005%, it indicates a generally bearish market.

February 15th, according to HTX market data, Ethereum rebounded and briefly broke through $2100, now trading at $2091, a 0.26% increase in the last 24 hours.

February 15th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the whale address '0x6C8' had previously started longing ETH on February 11th, once experiencing a loss of over $3.5 million. It is now profitable by $24,800 and still holds an ETH (20x) long position worth $93.79 million.

February 15th, according to on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa), in the past 24 hours, one of the whales who went long with 105,000 ETH has closed a long position of 28,000 ETH and made a profit of 1.263 million US dollars. The average closing price was $2,094.02, and the address currently holds 32,000 ETH, with an unrealized profit of 1.193 million US dollars.In addition, the whale has also placed a limit sell order of 3,000 ETH in the [2100 - 2110 US dollars] range. The two addresses currently hold a total of 77,000 ETH in long positions, with a total value of 160 million US dollars.

February 15th, Elon Musk posted on social media that Grok 4.2 will finally be released next week, with significant improvements compared to the 4.1 version.

BlockBeats News Update: According to Coinglass data on February 15, in the past 24 hours, the total net inflow of ETH on CEXs was 169,800 ETH. The top three exchanges by inflow volume were as follows:· Coinbase Pro, inflow of 67,000 ETH;· Binance, inflow of 58,100 ETH;· Kraken, inflow of 23,000 ETH.Additionally, KuCoin had an outflow of 2,197.15 ETH, ranking first in outflows.

February 15, according to HTX market data, SOL rebounded and broke through $90, with a 24-hour gain of 5.95%.