Odaily News Kunal Doshi, a researcher at Blockworks, posted on X stating that the newly launched 5-minute BTC market on Polymarket has generated $25.2 million in trading volume within 40 hours of its launch. The average trading volume per window is approximately $52,000, reaching 10% to 20% of the trading volume of the 15-minute market.
Data shows that 7.1% of unique addresses simultaneously purchased both Yes and No within a single window, with only 4.2% of addresses performing this operation in over 50 windows. Although the number of such addresses is small, their trading volume accounts for 7.5% of the total, and the number of trades accounts for 23.4% of the total. Among these, 92.6% of the orders were buy orders, and 72.3% were filled via limit orders. These addresses achieved profits in 80% of the windows, with a median execution price of $0.9823 for Yes plus No. Currently, the market exhibits early arbitrage behavior. If structured liquidity is introduced, the trading volume of the 5-minute market is expected to surpass that of the 15-minute market.
Odaily News Stanford Business School professor and a16z & Meta advisor Andy Hall posted on platform X, stating that his team has established a new dataset focusing on political prediction markets, liquidity, and settlement rules. The research found that the vast majority of political contracts in prediction markets lack activity, with only 1.3% of contracts having sufficient liquidity. Kalshi and Polymarket rarely list identical contracts with the same rules, leading to further fragmentation of liquidity.
Andy Hall proposed four improvement suggestions: First, list contracts on core issues, collaborating with independent institutions to define markets of social concern; Second, pay fees to market makers to inject initial liquidity into political markets; Third, introduce AI agents to trade in areas where humans do not participate, generating price references needed by society; Fourth, establish unified definitions and settlement rules across platforms. Andy Hall believes these measures will attract traders hedging political risks, making prediction markets the truth machine society needs.
Odaily News: New York Stock Exchange-listed Bitcoin treasury company Hyperscale Data announced the initiation of an ATM equity offering plan. It aims to raise $35.4 million by issuing Series D cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred shares. The net proceeds will be used to increase Bitcoin holdings, purchase precious metals including gold, silver, and/or copper, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes, including repaying, refinancing, redeeming, or repurchasing future debt or equity. (PRNewswire)
Odaily News According to Coinglass data, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has remained negative for 30 consecutive days, setting the longest streak of consecutive negative readings so far in 2026, currently reported at -0.0566%.
The Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index measures the difference between the Bitcoin price on Coinbase (a major U.S. trading platform) and the global average market price. This index is an important indicator for observing capital flows in the U.S. market, institutional investment sentiment, and changes in market mood.
A positive premium indicates that the Coinbase price is higher than the global average, typically suggesting: strong buying pressure in the U.S. market, active entry of institutional or compliant capital, ample USD liquidity, and optimistic investment sentiment. A negative premium indicates that the Coinbase price is lower than the global average, usually reflecting: significant selling pressure in the U.S. market, declining investor risk appetite, rising market risk aversion, or capital outflows.
Odaily News According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the samurai.eth address has sold 601 PAXG in exchange for 3 million USDT and 2.28 ETH ($4,680). Over the past three weeks, this address has sold a total of 2,503 PAXG, valued at approximately $12.89 million, with an average selling price of $5,150.
Odaily News According to monitoring by @ai_9684xtpa, an address starting with 0x806 chased the rally and opened a position of 2,188.12 ETH ($4.497 million) 10 hours ago during an ETH rebound, with an entry price of $2,055.36. Over the past six months, this address has conducted 8 swing trades, accumulating a loss of $1.261 million, with a win rate of only 12.5%. However, the address successfully executed two trades between April and August last year: buying at $1,548.24 and selling at $2,371.98, and buying at $2,406.75 and selling at $4,300.36, resulting in a profit of $6.399 million.
Odaily News On-chain detective ZachXBT posted regarding the user @sexinfochina, stating, "This user intentionally concealed the fact that they are a cybercriminal operating the Chinese dark web market 'FreeCity.' They publicly promote certain illegal services on Telegram and have knowingly conducted 5 money laundering transactions for North Korean hackers. Two years ago, this user asked me to investigate the reason for a CEX account freeze, and the on-chain trace led to a North Korean hacker theft case worth over 100 million."
Furthermore, ZachXBT responded, "Although most users of this dark web platform are Chinese, many illegal transactions occur elsewhere, such as Southeast Asia."
Odaily News According to reports, due to the inability of the U.S. Democratic and Republican parties to reach a consensus on relevant reform plans, on the 12th local time, with just one day remaining before the funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security expires, a Senate vote failed to advance the funding bill for the department. Given that both the Senate and the House of Representatives are set to begin a 10-day recess starting the 14th, media widely believe this makes a "shutdown" of the Department of Homeland Security almost inevitable. It is reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security may enter a shutdown starting at 00:00 local time on the 14th, which corresponds to 13:00 Beijing time on the 14th. (Jin10)
Odaily News X Product Lead and Solana Advisor Nikita Bier announced via a post that X will introduce more detection mechanisms targeting automated behavior and spam, and will continue to strengthen related measures going forward. If the system detects that an account's interactions are not performed manually, that account and its associated accounts may be suspended. Even actions solely for technical testing or experimentation could trigger restrictions. The goal of the X platform is to support legitimate proxy and automated use cases in the long term, but the related capabilities still require time to be perfected. During this period, it is recommended that developers temporarily halt the integration of bot programs. If business needs absolutely require it, priority should be given to using the official API interface.
Odaily News According to data from SoSoValue, the SOL spot ETF recorded a single-day total net inflow of $1.5716 million yesterday (U.S. Eastern Time, February 13).
Among them, the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL) saw a single-day net inflow of $1.6873 million, bringing its historical total net inflow to $683 million.
The VanEck Solana ETF (VSOL) experienced a single-day net outflow of $554,100, with its historical total net inflow now standing at $20.2125 million.
As of press time, the total net asset value of the SOL spot ETF is $721 million, with an SOL net asset ratio of 1.50%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $875 million.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, address 0x2d4…f2B9A accumulated 5,089.56 ETH (worth $9.943 million) at an average price of $1,953.65 over the past 23 hours, precisely buying at the low point before ETH's rebound. Subsequently, 9 hours ago, the address sold 4,000 ETH (worth $8.235 million) at a short-term price peak of $2,058.91, realizing a profit of $421,000. The remaining 1,089.56 ETH currently holds an unrealized profit of $104,000.
Odaily News Gemhead Capital officially announced a $5 million strategic investment in BihuoPro. BihuoPro is developing next-generation private financial data and sentiment intelligence infrastructure for the altcoin market. By structuring community behavior into tradable signals, BihuoPro assists institutions and advanced traders in understanding consensus formation within private communities, the cross-impact between people, events, and assets, as well as early sentiment shifts preceding price movements. BihuoPro positions itself as the "Bloomberg of Market Sentiment," dedicated to digitizing the invisible consensus layer within the cryptocurrency space. Gemhead Capital will support BihuoPro's next phase of growth.
Odaily News At the Consensus conference in Hong Kong, Grayscale's Chief Legal Officer, Craig Salm, discussed how privacy-preserving assets like Zcash (ZEC) can achieve selective disclosure, maintaining confidentiality while meeting tax and regulatory obligations. He believes innovation and compliance can coexist. Craig Salm stated in his speech: "If you have a business need, such as wanting to make a large payment to a supplier but not wanting other companies or competitors to see it, which could expose your business information, you would want that transaction to remain private. Paying with Bitcoin doesn't necessarily achieve this because the blockchain is transparent. We've all seen accounts on Platform X dedicated to tracking on-chain transactions. So you can imagine scenarios where this need exists. The most interesting aspect of privacy-preserving tokens like Zcash is 'selective disclosure'—you can choose to disclose information to a specific party, such as proving to the IRS that you've paid your taxes correctly, while maintaining privacy in daily commercial or personal transactions. Therefore, we believe this is a very interesting form of currency. We already have a substantial Zcash trust, and we are actively working to convert it into an ETF, just as we have done for several other products."
Odaily News The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has released an updated regulatory framework for crypto tokens, allowing entities regulated by the DFSA to independently choose which crypto tokens to use, without needing to apply for DFSA approval. This update took effect in January 2026.
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) clearly states that crypto tokens encompass tokens used as a medium for payment or investment transactions, but exclude NFTs, utility tokens, or investment tokens such as security tokens and stablecoins. Stablecoins can only be used by asset management companies for payments; DFSA-licensed financial services companies can offer products related to crypto tokens if they follow the crypto token regime and meet relevant requirements (e.g., conducting suitability assessments under GEN Rule 3A.2.1); The suitability of a crypto token can be assessed based on several criteria, such as its characteristics, including its purpose, governance arrangements, and founders. Secondly, the regulatory status of the crypto token in other jurisdictions, including whether it has been evaluated or approved for use by a financial services regulator, as well as the crypto token's scale, liquidity, and trading history in the global market; Finally, the technology associated with the crypto token; and whether using the crypto token would hinder an individual's compliance with laws administered by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). (Cryptopolitan)
Odaily News Bitget announced the launch of Agent Hub, further expanding the infrastructure capabilities for AI Agents to deeply participate in crypto and TradFi market trading. Agent Hub is built on the Bitget API and introduces an officially packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP) toolkit, enabling AI Agents to securely access market data and execution capabilities through standardized interfaces. The platform provides MCP servers maintained by the exchange and supports rapid integration, allowing developers to complete the connection in as little as three minutes. It also features a dedicated sub-account system to enhance permission isolation and asset security.
It is reported that AI is one of Bitget's three core strategies for 2026. Agent Hub will be embedded into Bitget's panoramic exchange UEX architecture, supporting cross-asset class operations under a unified account and risk system. This aims to transform AI agents from experimental tools into genuine market participants, providing production-grade infrastructure support for AI-driven trading.
Odaily News: Despite urging from Trump administration officials for both sides to seek compromise, the meeting between Wall Street bankers and cryptocurrency executives at the White House this week reached an impasse. The banks insisted that any stablecoin yield or rewards are unacceptable, arguing that such returns threaten the deposit activities at the core of the U.S. banking system. They outlined their position in a paper titled "The Principle of Prohibiting Yield and Interest." The Digital Chamber stated in a post on platform X that the industry group has released a set of principles for stablecoin legislation, aiming to respond to and counter the regulatory proposals previously submitted by Wall Street banks to U.S. lawmakers. The organization advocates that stablecoin issuers should have access to the Federal Reserve's payment system and that non-bank entities should be allowed to issue stablecoins under an appropriate regulatory framework. The principles emphasize that stablecoin regulation should focus on reserve transparency and liquidity, rather than fully integrating them into the traditional banking regulatory system. (Coindesk)
