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.

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.

 Lookonchain monitoring shows that a newly created address spent 1,291 BNB (worth 800,000 USD) to purchase 4.2 million TST tokens.

On February 11th, according to sources cited by The Information, payment service provider Stripe is considering arranging an employee stock sale plan, with a company valuation of $85 billion or higher. This will continue the company's previous stock buybacks, secondary market trades, and financing activities, bringing its valuation close to the historical peak of $95 billion set during its 2021 financing round. These financing activities have allowed the 15-year-old company to postpone its IPO, while providing liquidity opportunities for investors and employees.

 Lookonchain monitoring shows that someone has created a new wallet and invested 1291 BNB (about 800,000 US dollars) to purchase 4.2 million TST tokens.

 between February 8th and 9th, about 224,400 Ethereum were withdrawn from exchanges, marking the highest daily net outflow in nearly 23 months. Although this is more like a long-term indicator, it is a strong signal for the currently underperforming Ethereum price. When assets are withdrawn from exchanges, it usually indicates that investors have confidence in holding them for the long term. The decrease in the number of tokens available for public trading also means that the possibility of large-scale selling in the future is reduced. It should be noted that Ethereum's performance in 2025 will still depend largely on Bitcoin's ability to maintain stability and attempt to return to its historical high.

the probability of the United States establishing a Bitcoin national reserve by 2025 on Polymarket is 41%. It briefly rose to 65% on January 17th. As of the time of writing, the cumulative trading volume of this prediction has reached $722,000.

FOX journalist Eleanor Terrett posted on social media that the Federal Reserve's statements about crypto are changing. In two speeches last Friday, Republican Federal Reserve board members Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller expressed a more open attitude towards digital assets and their future in the financial system. Their comments are noteworthy because:

US President Trump said he is planning to instruct the head of the "Government Efficiency Department", Musk, to conduct inspections of the Department of Education and the Pentagon within the next 24 hours to expose large-scale fraud and abuse of power worth billions of dollars. (Jinshi)

The Central African Republic President's announcement of a newly launched memecoin has been flagged as suspicious by two deepfake AI detectors. The memecoin reached a market capitalization of $530 million on Feb. 9 and was launched on the Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun. Some skeptics have questioned the legitimacy of the token, suggesting it may be the result of a sophisticated hack of Touadera's official account. The official X account dedicated to the memecoin @Carmeme_news has been suspended by X, but the president said he was "working with X" to get the page restored as soon as possible.

Lookonchain monitoring shows that a trader bought 46.57 million CAR tokens for 25 SOL (about $5,000) one second after the president of the Central African Republic released the CAR token contract address. The trader then sold 22.65 million CAR tokens for 8,395 SOL (about $1.67 million), holding 23.92 million CAR tokens (about $10.5 million), and making a profit of over $12 million within three hours, with an investment return rate of 2,450 times.

the Newport City Council in Wales plans to permanently close and seal a landfill site during the 2025-26 period. The landfill contains a hard drive mistakenly discarded by IT engineer James Howells in 2013, which stores 7,500 Bitcoins worth about $750 million at current prices. The council plans to convert part of the site into a solar power generation field to supply power to the municipal electric vehicle fleet.

on the eve of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, French President Macron announced that 109 billion euros will be invested in the field of artificial intelligence in the coming years. Macron hopes that France can seize the opportunities of this new era and said that 100,000 young people will receive training in this project. He emphasized that Europe should avoid regulating before innovating when facing the challenges of artificial intelligence, otherwise it will deviate from the track of innovation and fall behind in the competition in this field. The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit is scheduled to be held in Paris, France from February 9th to 12th. (Jinshi)

On February 10th, Alliance DAO co-founder Qiao Wang stated in his latest podcast video that "a year ago, I thought there was no difference in developing projects on Ethereum L2 or Solana, but after nearly a year of observation and comparison, I found that the same startup projects have no transactions or users on Ethereum L2, while they are more active on Solana." Therefore, Qiao Wang suggests that crypto startups should launch on Solana.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, Smart Money 7rCbH...s5jt5 spent 200 SOL to buy 14.54 million tokens at a cost as low as $0.002725 per token after half an hour of CAR going live. Subsequently, all the tokens were sold in batches during the rise, with an average selling price of $0.375, resulting in a profit of $3.08 million and a return rate of 7786%.

Musk once again released the US Government Efficiency Department LOGO with a Shiba Inu DOGE icon on the X platform. It is reported that at the end of last month, the official website of the US Government Efficiency Department deleted the LOGO containing Shiba Inu elements, and the website has not yet restored the LOGO with the Shiba Inu DOGE icon.

Nate Geraci, the president of The ETF Store, pointed out in a post that meme coin traders are fully aware that they are playing a crypto version of the "musical chairs" game. These investors do not mistake it for investing in Fortune 500 companies, but rather see it as a "greater fool theory" game, and do not view meme coins as legitimate crypto projects. At the same time, he referred to the "Memecoins101" content on the Phantom platform, pointing out that the meme coin market is highly speculative and volatile, with prices often driven by "influence" rather than basic technology or utility, and advised investors to be cautious and conduct thorough research before participating.

Lookonchain monitoring shows that a whale made more than 66 million US dollars in just 4 hours on MELANIA. Four hours ago, the whale spent 2,500 SOL (688,000 US dollars) to buy 5.02 million MELANIA, and then sold 203,000 MELANIA at a price of 2.14 million USDC, leaving 5 million MELANIA worth 64.9 million US dollars.

 The Data Nerd has monitored that a smart money address (an insider) spent $800,000 to purchase 3.838 million MELANIA tokens (with an average entry price of $0.21). Afterwards, they sold 1.92 million tokens for $13.14 million and still hold 1.92 million tokens (~$24.9 million), resulting in a total profit of approximately $37.24 million and an investment return rate of x46.5.

the latest data from Coingecko shows that the trading volume of Official Trump (TRUMP) in the past 24 hours exceeded 38.3 billion US dollars, reaching 38,337,866,621 US dollars, surpassing USDC (37,619,430,347 US dollars), becoming the fourth largest cryptocurrency in trading volume in the past 24 hours, second only to Tether, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.