February 27th, Swyxtx Chief Analyst Pav Hundal stated that the Ethereum price has already absorbed a significant amount of short-term uncertainty and may remain subdued in the coming weeks.“A significant amount of short-term uncertainty has been priced into Ethereum. I wouldn't be surprised at all if ETH remains quite subdued in the coming weeks,” Hundal said on Thursday. He added that events such as the escalation of the Iran issue and other geopolitical tensions, as well as the progress of the U.S. "Infrastructure Bill," have largely been absorbed by the price.Hundal noted that the $190 billion liquidation event in October still weighs on the market. “The October cascade liquidation wiped out $190 billion from the market, and now consumer sentiment has plunged to levels not seen since 2022,” he said. He believes that as traders focus on where the next wave of liquidity will come from, market sentiment is being overlooked. “For me, consumer sentiment is the untold big story that nobody really talks about.”

February 27th, Binance founder CZ commented on social media that "Block plans to lay off nearly half of its employees, betting on AI to improve company efficiency," stating: "The reality is, either leverage AI to the moon, or wait to be replaced/laid off by AI."BlockBeats previously reported that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin payment company Block is laying off 4,000 employees, with a layoff rate of nearly half. The company is placing its bet on artificial intelligence transforming future labor productivity. In response to the layoff plan, Block's stock price soared 22% in after-hours trading.

February 27, according to HTX market data, Bitcoin rebounded and broke through $68,000, with the current price at $68,216.

February 27th: The market's expectation of the newly appointed Federal Reserve Chairman Wash implementing an immediate rate cut has cooled rapidly. The IMF expects the U.S. economic growth to rise to 2.4% this year, with the unemployment rate remaining around 4%, inflation gradually easing, and only a 25 basis points rate cut space in the next year. Interest rate futures indicate that the initial rate cut expectation has been pushed back from June to July. Meeting minutes also revealed that some officials have an open attitude towards raising rates again, indicating a marginal shift in the policy stance towards a more hawkish position.Meanwhile, the 30-year U.S. mortgage rate has fallen to 5.98%, dropping below 6% for the first time since 2022. While this helps improve housing affordability, amid resilient economic data, the market's expectations of significant easing have significantly diminished. The macro focus has shifted from "when will rates be cut" to "how long will high rates be maintained".On the crypto market front, there is a significant concentration of short positions in the 69,000–70,500 range above BTC, with strong support for long positions in the 66,000–66,500 range below. The price is currently oscillating around the midpoint of the range, exhibiting a typical liquidity tug-of-war structure in the short term.

February 27, according to official sources, 0G Labs, a Layer 1 network focusing on decentralized AI, officially announced the launch of the 0G Apollo Accelerator today, issuing the largest-scale invitation ever to Builders in the decentralized AI field, with a maximum of $20 million in self-owned funds provided for the event. Core benefits include:· Up to $2 million in funding support (per team)· $200,000 in Google Cloud service credits per team· Guidance provided by Stanford blockchain experts, 0G protocol engineers, Google developers, and top investors· Priority access to Privy infrastructure support· Subsequent unlocking of more top partner resources0G stated that this event aims to provide decentralized AI developers with the opportunity to "have Silicon Valley-level resources from Day 1" and is designed to accelerate the birth of truly implementable AI on-chain projects.

February 27: Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining firm TeraWulf released its financial report on Thursday, with full-year 2025 revenue reaching $1.685 billion, a year-on-year increase of 20.3%, including $16.9 million from its newly launched HPC leasing business. Despite the revenue growth, the company's full-year net loss widened to $661.4 million, with an adjusted EBITDA loss of $23.1 million.TeraWulf has defined 2025 as a "year of inflection," having already signed long-term data center leases covering 522 megawatts of critical IT load, with contracted customer revenue exceeding $12.8 billion and $6.5 billion in financing to support its HPC platform development. In the fourth quarter, digital asset revenue declined quarter-on-quarter to $26.1 million due to a decrease in Bitcoin production and price, while HPC leasing revenue increased to $9.7 million.The company's strategy is accelerating towards AI and cloud computing customers, with core deployments in the New York Lake Mariner campus and Texas Abernathy HPC campus. Earlier this month, TeraWulf also acquired brownfield infrastructure in Kentucky and Maryland, adding approximately 1.5 GW of capacity.

February 27. Recently, the Base Layer AI Trading "Arena" DX Terminal Pro on-chain has attracted community attention and discussion. The platform does not support manual trading by humans, only allowing users to trade through guiding AI agents.Users are required to hold DX Terminal NFTs and deposit some ETH to instruct the AI agent to start trading. The AI agent will independently observe the market, place orders, buy and sell, provide liquidity, and snipe other AIs. The entire process is fully on-chain, and all transactions are transparent and verifiable. At the time of writing, the market cap of the meme coin POOPCOIN on the platform has reached $3.72 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of $4.23 million. The top-ranking AI agent has already made a profit of $294,000.

February 27th, according to Coinglass data, if Ethereum breaks through $2100, the total short liquidation intensity of mainstream CEXs will reach $854 million.On the other hand, if Ethereum falls below $1900, the total long liquidation intensity of mainstream CEXs will be $496 million.BlockBeats Note: The liquidation chart does not show the exact number of contracts to be liquidated or the exact value of the liquidated contracts. The bars on the liquidation chart actually represent the importance of each liquidation cluster relative to neighboring liquidation clusters, that is, the intensity.Therefore, the liquidation chart shows to what extent the price of the underlying asset will be affected when it reaches a certain level. A higher "liquidation bar" indicates that the price will experience a stronger reaction due to a liquidity cascade when it reaches that level.

February 27th, according to Coinglass data, if Bitcoin breaks through $69,000, the total short liquidation strength of mainstream CEX will reach $965 million.Conversely, if Bitcoin falls below $66,000, the total long liquidation strength of mainstream CEX will be $541 million.BlockBeats Note: The liquidation chart does not show the exact number of contracts to be liquidated or the exact value of the liquidated contracts. The bars on the liquidation chart actually represent the importance of each liquidation cluster relative to neighboring clusters, that is, the strength.Therefore, the liquidation chart shows to what extent the price of the underlying asset will be affected when it reaches a certain level. A higher "liquidation bar" indicates that the price will experience a more intense reaction due to a liquidity cascade when it reaches that level.

February 27th, according to GMGN monitoring, the Solana ecosystem Meme coin neet market cap rose again this morning, with the current market cap temporarily at $27.6 million, the current price at $0.0276, a 36% increase in the past 24 hours, with a trading volume of over $2.1 million during the same period. Previously, this Meme coin had fallen to below $7 million in market cap on February 12th and rebounded, continuing its gains this morning.BlockBeats reminds users that Meme coin trading is highly volatile, mostly relying on market sentiment and conceptual speculation, without actual value or use case. Investors should be aware of the risks.

February 26th, according to Coinglass data, Coinbase's Bitcoin Premium Index turned positive yesterday, at 0.0159%, ending a continuous 40-day discount, and turned negative again today, but narrowed compared to before, currently at -0.0033%, indicating a warming buying sentiment in the U.S. market.BlockBeats Note: The Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index is used to measure the difference between the Bitcoin price on Coinbase (a major U.S. exchange) and the global market average price. This index is an important indicator to observe U.S. market capital inflows, institutional investment enthusiasm, and market sentiment changes.A positive premium indicates that the Coinbase price is higher than the global average, usually implying: strong buying interest in the U.S. market, active institutional or compliant fund inflows, sufficient USD liquidity, and a generally optimistic investment sentiment. A negative premium indicates that the Coinbase price is lower than the global average, typically reflecting: significant selling pressure in the U.S. market, decreased investor risk appetite, a rise in market risk aversion or fund outflows.

February 26th, Jake Loo, Co-Founder and CTO of the Web3 development tool platform thirdweb, announced his resignation.Jake Loo stated, "At thirdweb, we have built and deployed multiple AI agents covering our product and organizational structure. I have witnessed AI evolve from a 'nice-to-have' to a transformative technology that fundamentally changes how we work. This experience has shifted my mindset. I believe there is nothing more critical right now than AI. This is not hype; it has brought tangible changes to how software is built and used, how teams operate, and how the entire industry is being restructured. So I have decided to go all-in."

February 26, according to on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa), address 0xAb5…0b767 bought 7008.8 ETH on-chain over the past 5 hours at an average price of $2075, with a total value of $14.54 million; this is also the first time this address has accumulated ETH.

February 26th. According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a proposed rule implementing the GENIUS Act and is seeking public input. This framework will establish basic rules for OCC-regulated charter stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers, while also covering certain custody activities.OCC Acting Comptroller Jonathan Gould stated that the goal of this rule is to establish a system where stablecoins can "thrive in a safe and sound manner." It is worth noting that the rule does not currently include provisions related to the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which will be addressed separately after coordination with the Treasury Department.

February 26th, there were rumors that Chinese regulators were reviewing Jane Street's trading behavior in the Chinese ETF market. However, a source close to Jane Street said, "I have no knowledge of these rumors, nor any reason to believe they are true, and these rumors should not be associated with Jane Street." This week, Jane Street, its co-founder, and two employees were accused of insider trading, fraud, and market manipulation, behaviors that were also blamed for accelerating the collapse of the $40 billion market value of the 2022 TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin and its sister token Luna.Founded in 1999, Jane Street is one of the world's largest proprietary quantitative trading firms, with a net trading income of over $20 billion in 2024 and a net profit of nearly $13 billion. Unlike hedge funds, Jane Street does not accept external client funds, so its disclosure obligations are much lower than those of traditional asset management institutions, a structure that has kept it shrouded in mystery for a long time. (Caixin)