A whale transferred 1000 ETH to Binance after a year of hibernation

**Feb. 20 – Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has emphasized "significant synergies" between the FOCIL mechanism and Ethereum’s account abstraction proposal EIP-8141 (built on EIP-7701).** - EIP-8141 designates smart accounts (supporting multi-sig, anti-quantum signatures, key rotation, gas sponsorship, etc.) as "first-class citizens"—allowing their operations to be included directly in on-chain transactions without extra encapsulation. - Privacy protocols can use paymasters or a 2D nonce system to implement a multi-tenant account model, gaining equivalent native support. - FOCIL offers an anti-censorship fast transaction inclusion mechanism. - Together, these enable transactions (smart wallet, gas-sponsored, privacy protocol, etc.) to be added to blocks by one of 17 randomly selected roles (proposers or "includers") per slot. Buterin further noted: - The design ensures transactions are nearly guaranteed to confirm on-chain in 1–2 slots, even in adversarial conditions.

On February 20th, OnchainLens monitoring data shows a new crypto address received 10,000 Ethereum (ETH) from Kraken exchange. The holding is valued at ~$19.57 million, and the wallet is suspected of belonging to BitMine.

February 20th Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that this morning’s third meeting on the stablecoin yield provision of the “Crypto Market Structure Bill” (aka the CLARITY Act) was smaller in scale than last week’s session. Attendees included reps from Coinbase, Ripple, a16z, and the crypto industry association—no separate banking representatives were present, as the banking sector’s views were conveyed via the industry group. Notably, the meeting differed from prior sessions: the White House led discussions, rather than letting crypto firms and banks take the lead as in past talks. Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the White House Cryptocurrency Council, put a draft text at the center of debates. The draft acknowledged banks’ concerns from last week’s “Revenue and Interest Prohibition Principle” document, while clarifying that **in stablecoin legislation (a key crypto industry goal), earning yield on idle stablecoin balances will be prohibited (such yield is effectiv

On February 20, Sigil’s Conway Research AI lab launched an initiative focused on enabling AI agents to autonomously earn money for self-sustenance, self-improvement, self-replication, and funding sub-agents/new servers to build a network. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticized the project in a tweet replying to Sigil’s post this morning: “Bro, this isn’t right. Widening the feedback gap between humans and AI is bad for the world. Right now, you’re creating garbage—not solving real human problems, not even optimized to make people have fun. Once AI gets powerful enough to be a real danger, this maximizes the risk of irreversible anti-human consequences. You’ll even deeply regret it.” Per GMGN data, the related Base layer meme token CONWAY spiked to over $12 million in market cap before pulling back—its current cap is just $3.6 million, with 24-hour trading volume hitting $18.5 million. **BlockBeats Note**: The CONWAY meme token is not issued by Sigil (Conway Research’s

On February 20, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said cryptocurrency has never needed a bailout—and never will. A day earlier, on February 19, Senate Banking Committee senior member Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Benett and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, urging the government not to use taxpayer funds to bail out the crypto industry. In the letter, Warren warned that any bailout would amount to "transferring wealth from American taxpayers to crypto billionaires"—a move she called not only "highly unpopular" but also one that could directly benefit former President Donald Trump and his family’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial.

**FLASH: Trump Weighing Iran Military Strikes Amid Nuclear Deal Pressure** On February 20, people familiar with the matter told *The Wall Street Journal* that former President Donald Trump is considering a preliminary, limited military strike on Iran to pressure Tehran into agreeing to a nuclear accord. If authorized, the strike could be executed within days and target a small number of military or government facilities. Should Iran continue rejecting Trump’s demand to halt uranium enrichment, the U.S. would launch large-scale strikes on regime facilities in Iran — with the ultimate goal of ousting the Tehran government. After weeks of deliberation, it remains unclear how seriously Trump is weighing the plan, though senior aides have presented it to him multiple times. U.S. officials note recent talks have shifted more toward larger-scale strike options, but Trump has not yet decided to order any level of attack. Some U.S. officials and analysts warn such a strike would trigger I