February 20th: The US December Core PCE Price Index YoY will be released tonight at 21:30, with a previous value of 2.8% and an expected value of 2.9%.PCE corresponds to "Personal Consumption Expenditures" in Chinese. The Core PCE Price Index is a key indicator of measuring inflation in US consumer spending. It was first introduced by the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis and was adopted by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Federal Reserve's decision-making body, in 2002 as a key inflation gauge.

February 20th, Hyperliquid lobbying organization Hyperliquid Policy Center CEO Jake Chervinsky posted on social media, stating, "The front-end interface connecting to decentralized exchange protocols should not be required to perform KYC (Know Your Customer). Financial privacy is a fundamental right."Of course, even though the scale of on-chain illicit financial activity is negligible compared to the traditional financial system, we should not turn a blind eye to it. However, the solution should not be to simply apply old rules—rules that have excluded billions of people from the financial system—to new technology that can do better."

February 20th, according to Coinglass data, if Bitcoin breaks through $70,000, the cumulative short liquidation intensity of mainstream CEXs will reach 6.06 billion.Conversely, if Bitcoin falls below $66,000, the cumulative long liquidation intensity of mainstream CEXs will reach 7.71 billion.BlockBeats Note: The liquidation chart does not show the exact number of contracts to be liquidated or the exact value of the contracts being liquidated. The bars on the liquidation chart actually represent the importance of each liquidation cluster relative to adjacent liquidation clusters, that is, intensity.Therefore, the liquidation chart shows to what extent reaching a certain price level will be affected. A higher "liquidation bar" indicates that the price, once reached, will generate a more intense reaction due to a liquidity cascade.

February 20, according to HTX market data, Bitcoin rebounded and broke through $68,000, now trading at $68,002, a 24-hour increase of 1.8%.

February 20, according to Farside monitoring data, yesterday the US Bitcoin spot ETF saw a net outflow of $165.8 million.

February 20, according to an official announcement, Bithumb will list the AZTEC-KRW trading pair.

February 20th, according to on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa), a whale reloaded and went long on another 5000 ETH yesterday. The whale now holds a total of 105,000 ETH in long positions across two addresses (worth approximately $203 million), with entry prices of $2029.38 and $2010.39, and liquidation prices of $1269.14 and $1288.49, respectively.

February 20th, according to official sources, Uniswap Labs has announced the official opening of the Uniswap Developer Platform in beta version. Developers can now generate Uniswap API keys and easily integrate exchange and liquidity provision functionality into their applications in minutes.Additionally, Uniswap has introduced an integration skill for agent-based workflows, enabling one-click API integration via the command line.

February 20, according to an official announcement, Upbit will list AZTEC spot trading, supporting KRW, USDT, BTC trading pairs.

February 20: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet address withdrew 7,000 ETH from Binance in the past hour, worth approximately $13.55 million.Currently, this address holds a total of 7,100 ETH, approximately $13.74 million.

February 20, Balancer officials stated that they have received a security report from the bug bounty platform Immunefi regarding Balancer's reCLAMM (Re-Adjusting Concentrated Liquidity AMM). As a precautionary measure, Balancer has temporarily suspended the operation of the relevant liquidity pool during the investigation. Currently, user funds are secure and fully accessible, and further developments will continue to be announced publicly.

February 20th, according to Alternative data, today's cryptocurrency fear and greed index once again dropped to 7 (down from 9 yesterday), with market sentiment still in the historically rare "extreme fear" zone. Previously, such fear was only seen in June 2022 and August 2019.Note: The fear index ranges from 0 to 100 and includes the following indicators: Volatility (25%) + Market Trading Volume (25%) + Social Media Hype (15%) + Market Surveys (15%) + Bitcoin's Dominance (10%) + Google Trends Analysis (10%).

February 20th. According to the latest special report by Messari, the full-chain perpetual contract protocol Decibel, built on the Aptos public chain, is creating a high-performance, more transparent decentralized trading platform.The report points out that the core feature of Decibel is that transaction matching, risk management, and settlement are all executed on-chain, and it adopts a Unified Margin system, allowing users to collateralize multiple market positions with a single collateral asset, thereby improving capital efficiency. On the technical side, Decibel leverages Aptos's Block-STM parallel execution engine and a low, predictable fee structure to provide high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure support for derivative trading.In terms of liquidity design, Decibel introduces an officially managed DLP as core liquidity provision and clearing support, where participants can share in clearing fees and market-making rewards. The report also mentions its introduction of the native collateral asset USDCBL: users depositing USDC will convert it to USDCBL, and the protocol can operate and fee structure supported by reserve asset returns.In terms of progress, the mainnet Beta is about to go live, initially supporting 12 trading pairs and rapidly expanding to around 50 mainstream trading pairs. In Q1 2026, the platform will also launch multi-asset collateral functionality (including supporting DLP LP tokens as collateral) and expand to real-world asset perpetual contracts such as stocks, commodities, and ETFs. Q2 plans to launch spot trading and integrate Aptos DeFi revenue, with token issuance and institutional integration expected within 2026.

February 20th, Base Co-founder Jesse said on the main stage of the Ethereum Denver conference, "Base's theme for 2025 is infrastructure, and 2026 may be a year focused on customer-centricity. Currently, Base has a production-grade blockchain with a powerful, user-friendly, and cost-effective middleware infrastructure. We see both large enterprises and small companies starting to use this technology, and we are seeing more and more integrators, agents, and so on. By building these products, Base hopes to integrate these elements to provide customers with what they want.""For us, this means that Base needs to start with the customer and listen to their voice. We will not build the next protocol or try to stack another chain just to build a company. Not knowing you doesn't stop us from understanding the customer and creating better products for them. Base can do better in this respect."

February 20, the machine-to-machine trust layer ZeruAI announced that the artificial intelligence agent discovery page AgentScan is now live on the Base chain. Agents can register, generate behavior-based zScores, and publicly disclose their discoveries. AgentScan is built on ERC-8004, leveraging ZeruAI's behavioral intelligence technology and integrating data from various registration authorities. Agents can also install the AgentScan skill via npm.