NEAR Protocol Introduces Cross-Chain Transaction Privacy Execution Feature, Confidential Intents, Bringing Privacy Execution Layer to Cross-Chain Transactions
NEAR rolled out its Confidential Intents feature on February 25—a built-in cross-chain transaction privacy execution tool integrated into NEAR Intents, designed to address the longstanding transaction transparency challenge in DeFi.
Confidential Intents creates a restricted-visibility execution environment via NEAR’s private shards, ensuring transaction details remain invisible to external parties during settlement.
Users can seamlessly switch between their main account and a confidential account within apps, enabling privacy mode for actions like transfers, deposits, and withdrawals. A privacy feature for currency swaps is also slated to launch soon.
Targeted at institutional capital, enterprise users, and advanced DeFi users, the feature adds a cross-chain position privacy protection layer.
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On-chain Silver's Largest Long Position Reverses Course After a Week of Losses, Enters Position Today and Catches Silver's Major Surge, Holding 36% Unrealized Gain
February 25th — According to Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring, an address starting with 0x535 opened a 20x leveraged long position on the SILVER (Silver Mapping Contract) at 8 a.m. today, **ahead of a sharp intraday silver price rally**.
The entry price was around $87. Via subsequent position rolls, the address boosted its position size to $4.08 million, making it the largest SILVER long position on the Hyperliquid platform as of now. Due to gradual rolling, the average entry price rose to $88, with current unrealized returns standing at 36%.
Over the past week, the same address sustained consecutive losses on long positions in silver, HYPE, ZEC, and other assets, accumulating a weekly loss of $1.41 million. Today, it successfully capitalized on silver’s intraday rally for the first time, finally locking in a floating profit.
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The "Doomsday Report" author started shorting Bitcoin in mid-November last year and predicted that the price of the coin would drop to $69,000 in the first half of this year
**February 25th**
Citrini Research—author of the "Doomsday Report"—has been short Bitcoin since November 17 last year while long the Nasdaq. On February 1 this year, the firm’s Twitter account tweeted: "Regret closing the position too soon."
Additionally, during last year’s Christmas period, Citrini Research predicted Bitcoin would fall to $69,000 in the first half of this year.
In prior news, the firm released a report outlining the "global intellectual crisis" concept, warning AI could trigger a "race to the bottom" in knowledge-based jobs and disrupt industry/credit chains built around white-collar productivity. This report sent U.S. stocks tumbling Monday.
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Anchorage Digital Discloses Holding Strategy Preferred Stock, Will Engage in Strategic Collaboration with Strategy
February 25th: Anchorage Digital Co-Founder & CEO Nathan McCauley disclosed via X that the firm holds Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock—STRC—on its balance sheet, and highlighted the strategic alliance between Anchorage and Strategy.
### Notes on alignment with American news style:
1. **Conciseness**: Replaced repeated "Anchorage Digital" with "the firm" to avoid redundancy (common in quick updates).
2. **Clarity**: Used em dashes to set off the stock ticker (STRC) for readability (standard in financial/tech briefs).
3. **Natural phrasing**: "Via X" (vs. "on X") feels more intuitive for platform disclosures; "disclosed" (vs. "revealed") is preferred in formal/industry contexts.
4. **Flow**: Merged two short sentences into one for tighter pacing (typical of breaking news snippets).
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A whale withdraws 20,000 Ethereum from Binance and Deribit, worth approximately $38.25 million
As of February 25, LookOnChain monitoring shows a whale wallet (address: 0x166f) has pulled 20,000 Ethereum—valued at roughly $38.25 million—from Binance and Deribit over the past two hours.
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Morgan Stanley: Expects NVIDIA Q4 Earnings to Be Strong, Growth Fueled by AI Boom Showing No Signs of Slowing
**Morgan Stanley’s Moore: NVIDIA Q4 Strong, Full-Year Forecasts Have Upside**
Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore and his team project robust fourth-quarter results for NVIDIA and express confidence in the chipmaker’s full-year performance.
The analysts note NVIDIA’s Q4 revenue is expected to exceed expectations by nearly $3 billion, with a quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) increase of $8 billion—signaling growth has not slowed.
Moore adds the $64 billion full-year revenue forecast still holds upward potential of $2 billion or more, and notes the $72 billion consensus expectation is relatively conservative.
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