3 ETH Whales Short Positions in the Millions in Profit
On February 20th, per OnchainLnes monitoring, three ETH short whales each netted over $8 million in profits amid market consolidation. The breakdown is as follows:
- Whale 0xed4: 25x-leveraged ETH short, $8.8M profit;
- Whale 0x0b0: 20x-leveraged ETH short, $8.4M profit;
- Whale 0x20c: 25x-leveraged ETH short, $8.4M profit.
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Market sentiment remains in historically rare "extreme fear" territory, with today's greed index dropping back to 7
As of February 20th, alternative data shows the cryptocurrency Fear & Greed Index has dropped again to 7—down from 9 yesterday—with market sentiment still in the historically rare "extreme fear" zone. Such fear levels have only been seen previously in June 2022 and August 2019.
Note: The Fear & Greed Index ranges from 0 to 100, incorporating these indicators: Volatility (25%) + Market Trading Volume (25%) + Social Media Hype (15%) + Market Surveys (15%) + Bitcoin Dominance (10%) + Google Trends Analysis (10%).
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Founding Theme: Customer First in 2026, Building What Customers Need
On Feb. 20, Base co-founder Jesse took the main stage at Ethereum Denver to outline the layer-2 network’s roadmap:
“Base’s 2025 focus is infrastructure, while 2026 will likely center on customer-centricity. Right now, Base boasts a production-grade blockchain paired with robust, user-friendly, and cost-effective middleware infrastructure. We’re seeing big enterprises and small businesses alike adopting this tech, plus growing numbers of integrators, agents, and the like. By developing these tools, Base aims to bring these pieces together to deliver exactly what customers need.”
He added:
“For us, that means Base has to start with the customer—listen to what they’re saying. We won’t build the next protocol or spin up another chain just to build a business. Not knowing you personally doesn’t keep us from understanding customers and building better tools for them. Base can do better here.”
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AI Agent Discovery Page AgentScan is now live on the Base Chain
On February 20, machine-to-machine trust layer provider ZeruAI announced that its AI agent discovery platform AgentScan is now live on the Base blockchain.
Agents can register, generate behavior-based zScores, and publicly share their findings.
Built on ERC-8004, AgentScan leverages ZeruAI’s behavioral intelligence technology and integrates data from multiple registration authorities.
Agents may also install the AgentScan skill via npm.
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Google Unveils Gemini 3.1 Pro, Doubling Inferencing Performance Compared to Gemini 3 Pro
On February 20th, Google launched Gemini 3.1 Pro. Building on the Gemini 3 series, 3.1 Pro delivers a leap in core inference capabilities. A smarter, more powerful benchmark model for tackling complex problems, it has shown significant advancements in rigorous benchmark tests. In the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark—which evaluates the model’s ability to solve novel logical patterns—3.1 Pro posted a validation score of 77.1%, more than doubling Gemini 3 Pro’s inference performance.
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Security Alert: The ClawHub Marketplace has discovered a total of 1184 malicious skills that may steal SSH keys, encrypt wallets, etc.
On February 20, Cosmos Yu, founder of SlowMist, shared a security alert. As of now, 1,184 malicious AI skills have been identified on OpenClaw’s ClawHub marketplace. These skills can steal SSH keys, encrypt wallets and browser passwords, and spawn a reverse shell. A single attacker uploaded 677 of these packages. The top-ranked skill contains 9 vulnerabilities and has been downloaded thousands of times.
Yu warned users that text is no longer just text—it’s a command. He recommended running AI tools in an isolated environment, as many OpenClaw skills pose potential risks. Additionally, in Web3 security, smart contracts are only one piece of the puzzle; the root cause of breaches is no longer limited to smart contracts. Just days ago, Moonwell suffered a $1.78 million hack, with the vulnerable code co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6.
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