Singapore's largest money laundering case suspect Wang Shuiming may be extradited to China, with his accomplice being the mastermind behind the Hong Kong crypto platform scam AAX.

Per OnchainLens monitoring on Feb. 16, a whale has added 371 XAUT gold tokens to its holdings at an average entry price of $5,006. The whale retains $7.8 million in capital and may further expand its position.

February 16 – Per the official website, Kimi (from Under the Dark Side of the Moon) has officially rolled out the **Kimi Claw Beta**, a cloud-native integrated service built on the open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw. Users need no local installation or server configuration—they can run a 24/7 online AI agent directly in a browser tab, or bridge it to their local/third-party OpenClaw instances. Powered by Kimi K2.5 and paired with a practical skill library, the Beta enables agent capabilities like long-term memory and autonomous operation. It’s currently only available to Allegretto members and above.

On February 16, prominent analyst Willy Woo noted that Bitcoin’s 12-year valuation trend relative to gold has recently broken. While BTC’s relative valuation should be higher, it hasn’t materialized—largely due to growing concerns over quantum computing, with markets beginning to price in potential risks in advance. Bitcoin could later be patched with quantum-resistant signatures, but this won’t resolve the issue of ~4 million "lost" BTC (early private keys vulnerable to quantum cracking) re-entering circulation. Woo estimates a 75% probability these lost bitcoins won’t be frozen via a protocol hard fork, so markets need to anticipate sell pressure from the 4 million tokens. Since MicroStrategy began accumulating BTC in 2020, total holdings by corporations and ETFs amount to just 2.8 million BTC. The 4 million lost tokens represent 8 years of corporate accumulation, driving significant supply dilution. Until "Q-Day" (Quantum Computing Threat Implementation Day, expected

As of February 16, per HTX market data, Bittensor (TAO) rallied 7% in the short term driven by its listing on Upbit. The token was last trading at $203, posting a 24-hour gain of 6.64% and a 23% gain over the past week.

February 16th: Per Whale Alert tracking, an Ethereum pre-mine address dormant for 10.6 years has just been activated. The address holds 1,430 ETH, currently valued at roughly $2.81 million—compared to just $443 back in 2015.

On February 16, Animoca Brands announced it has received a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (DVARA). The authorization allows the company to operate in the Emirate of Dubai (excluding the Dubai International Financial Centre, DIFC) and offer virtual asset (VA) brokerage trading, VA management, and investment services to global institutional and accredited investors.