The U.S. Senate Banking Committee Advances the "Financial Transparency and Regulatory Compliance Act"

On February 28, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted about Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, noting scaling will unfold in two phases: short-term and long-term. ### **Short-Term Scaling: Glamsterdam Upgrade** Short-term efforts hinge on the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, which includes: - Block-level access lists to enable parallel validation - Extending the block validation window for the ePBS mechanism - Gas repricing (to measure actual runtime) and multi-dimensional Gas (to differentiate resource consumption and avoid state bloat) During Glamsterdam: - "State creation cost" will be initially separated, so state creation Gas won’t count toward the regular Gas limit (supporting larger contract deployments). - The EVM will maintain compatibility via a "reservoir" mechanism, ensuring subcalls and Gas operations work as normal. - Long-term plans call for a gradual shift to multi-dimensional Gas pricing, balancing economic sustainability and flexibility. ### **Long-Ter

On February 28, Trump posted on Truth Social: The recent Supreme Court tariff ruling could send hundreds of billions of dollars back to countries and companies that have exploited the U.S. for years—and under this ruling, they may keep doing so, maybe even more aggressively. I don’t think the Supreme Court factored this in! Those nations and firms that’ve taken advantage of us for decades, pocketing billions they didn’t deserve, now qualify for an unprecedented windfall of ill-gotten gains. This is truly disappointing, to say the least. Can this case be reheard or reviewed?

February 28, Trump posted on Truth Social: I’ve directed every federal agency in the U.S. government to immediately stop using Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and we won’t do business with them anymore! For agencies like the Department of Defense (note: the U.S. no longer uses the "Department of War"—it was reorganized into the DoD in 1947) that use Anthropic products, there will be a six-month phased elimination period. Anthropic would do well to cooperate during this phase-out and provide assistance—otherwise, I will use the full power of the presidency to compel compliance, and they will face significant civil and criminal consequences.

On Feb. 28, sources familiar with the matter said Elon Musk’s SpaceX is weighing a secret U.S. IPO filing as early as March, with the company potentially targeting a valuation of more than $1.75 trillion in the offering.

February 28 OpenAI has completed a record $110 billion funding round—the largest single corporate financing in global history—per its official announcement yesterday. Key investors include Amazon ($50 billion), Nvidia ($30 billion) and SoftBank ($30 billion), pushing the firm’s pre-money valuation to $730 billion. The AI company said the funds will prioritize accelerating AI infrastructure buildout, expanding computing capacity, and developing next-generation cutting-edge models, aligning with its mission to “ensure AI benefits all of humanity.”

On February 28, data from Onchain Lens shows a whale or institutional investor purchased 215,056 HYPE tokens via Galaxy Digital, with the transaction valued at approximately $6.06 million. The same address has accumulated a total of 540,337 HYPE over the past 18 days, and its current holdings are worth roughly $14.86 million.