ChainCatcher news, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng responded to a community user's question about "whether he holds ETH" by stating that he does not hold any significant amount of ETH, and may only have a small amount in some old wallets, mainly because BNB was initially issued as an ERC20 token which required ETH for gas fees.CZ further revealed, "I missed the entire ETH train right in front of me. I met Vitalik at a Bitcoin conference in 2013. In 2014, I learned about 'ICO'. In 2015, Vitalik briefly stayed at my small apartment in Tokyo during his travels. My (arrogant) suggestion was: 'A Turing-complete language on the blockchain? Isn't that too difficult?' He said, 'It can be done.'This is truly a missed opportunity. But then again, if I had bought ETH that early, I might not have had the motivation to start Binance or BNB."

ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptoslate, Ukraine is advancing the process of legalizing cryptocurrency, with lawmakers expected to vote on the bill in the coming months. However, there is still uncertainty regarding how digital assets will be taxed. Ukraine is exploring setting the cryptocurrency tax rate between 5% and 10%. However, officials are also considering adopting a standard tax framework, which would impose an 18% income tax plus a 5% military tax, bringing the total tax burden on crypto income to 23%. The final decision is still under discussion, with legislation expected to be completed by mid-2025.

ChainCatcher News: U.S. President Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky on Friday at 11:05 AM Eastern Time (12:05 AM Beijing Time the next day) and will hold a joint press conference at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (2:00 AM Beijing Time the next day).

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the Avalanche Foundation has announced that its Avalanche Card is now live and available for use.The Avalanche Card is a Visa credit card that allows users to purchase items using cryptocurrency. The card was developed in collaboration with the blockchain-based issuing platform Rain. The Avalanche Foundation stated that it allows users to pay with their AVAX, wrapped AVAX, and stablecoins USDT and USDC at any store that accepts Visa, currently only applicable for in-person or online transactions.

ChainCatcher news, Slow Mist founder Yu Xian posted on social media that the theft of 12,000 ETH last year was carried out by the Eastern European hacker group Inferno Drainer, not North Korean hackers. The money laundering methods have some overlap with North Korean hackers, making it very difficult to recover the funds.

ChainCatcher news, DeepBrain Chain founder Feng delivered a keynote speech titled "From Code to 'Autonomous Intelligent Agents': How DBC AI Public Chain Reshapes the Trillion-Dollar Human-Machine Collaboration Economy" at the "DBC Decentralized AI Ecosystem Conference・2025 Hong Kong Station." He introduced the development history of DBC, its technical characteristics, and its positioning and goals in the global AI infrastructure market, providing forecasts for the global AI infrastructure market size from 2025 to 2030, and predicting the realization of autonomous AI Agents after 2029.In addition, he emphasized DBC's potential in addressing the existing problems and challenges in the current AI field, and painted a future scenario driven by decentralized AI, highlighting its importance in promoting a fairer, more transparent, and efficient global economic system.

ChainCatcher News, Market News: The United States has stated that the U.S. and Russia have agreed to appoint a working group to end the conflict in Ukraine.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jin10, DeepSeek has launched NSA.DeepSeek claims that NSA is a hardware-consistent and natively trainable sparse attention mechanism designed for ultra-fast long-context training and inference. By optimizing the design for modern hardware, NSA accelerates inference speed while reducing pre-training costs without compromising performance.In general benchmarks, long-context tasks, and instruction-based reasoning, its performance is comparable to or even better than that of full attention models.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi Data reports, the news about "a certain employee of the well-known quantitative private equity firm KuanDe Investment accusing the company of using brain-machine weapons to persecute employees on social media" is continuing to ferment in the private equity circle.In response to the above "accusation," KuanDe Investment stated: "The company has noticed inappropriate remarks about it appearing on online platforms. After verification, the publisher of these remarks did indeed have a short-term employment with the company (joined in July 2022 and voluntarily left in early September of the same year, with an employment period of about 1 month). Currently, this publisher has terminated their employment relationship with the company, and their remarks are personal behavior, containing false and misleading information."Previous news reported that an unknown programmer named "Hu LeZhi" burned 600 ETH and donated over 1411 ETH to a charity organization. The information mentioned that with the large-scale military deployment of brain-machine chips, all military power controls citizens through base stations, radio, and nano brain-machine chips, calling for public attention to this new type of crime, warning that if one becomes a victim of this process, they may choose to end their own life.

According to ChainCatcher news, Tether, the stablecoin issuer, has announced that Tether Data is leading the development of BrainOS, an open-source platform aimed at democratizing the use of advanced brain enhancement tools.By ensuring that this technology remains decentralized and transparent, Tether is advancing its commitment to empowering individuals through ethical and open innovation. Previously, through its investment in BlackRock Neurotech, Tether is supporting the brain-computer interface (BCI) field. Unlike other companies like Neuralink, which are still in the early stages of development and testing, BlackRock Neurotech has been at the forefront of BCI innovation for over a decade, with its devices actively used by more than 40 patients worldwide.

ChainCatcher news, the "DeepBrain Chain Decentralized AI Ecosystem Conference" co-hosted by DeepBrain Chain and MetaEra will be held on February 20 at Cyber Arena, Hong Kong Cyberport.As the largest decentralized AI event during ConsensusHK, this event will gather elites from the global AI field, with a full-day agenda covering core areas of AI; attendees will also have the opportunity to receive tokens worth $100.

ChainCatcher message, the DeepBrain Chain ecosystem project XAIAgent has now launched its IAO (Initial AI Agent Asset Offering). According to official data, over 13 million DBC tokens have already participated in the subscription.It is reported that XAIAgent is dedicated to creating a decentralized platform for the creation, use, launch, and trading of AI Agents. This IAO adopts a zero-price fundraising model, allowing more users the opportunity to fairly acquire AI Agent assets and promoting rapid expansion of the ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptonews, Ukrainian senior lawmaker Danylo Hetmantsev stated that Kyiv hopes to "legalize" cryptocurrency before this summer, with the main text of the relevant bill fully prepared. Hetmantsev is the chairman of the Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.Lawmakers are still discussing several issues, including how regulators and law enforcement will apply "financial monitoring" methods to cryptocurrency transactions. Additionally, the designers of the bill must complete tax-related matters before the draft is submitted to the Rada.Hetmantsev added that Kyiv will not provide any "bonuses or benefits" to companies and individuals using cryptocurrency, explaining that Kyiv has consulted "international experts on the issue of legalization," who believe that any "preferential system" could impose an uneven tax burden on traditional industries using cryptocurrency. Kyiv plans to ensure that cryptocurrency transactions are "subject to the same tax rates as other investment assets" and adopt a normal tax rate system.

ChainCatcher news, the privacy security network Nillion announced a partnership with the Bahraini telecom operator stc Bahrain. This collaboration marks the deep integration of Nillion's blind computing privacy technology into real-world Web2 scenarios, aiming to promote the development of privacy solutions in the Middle East.In the first phase of the partnership, stc Bahrain will deploy nodes on Nillion's blind computing network PETnet. As a decentralized privacy platform, PETnet aims to utilize advanced privacy-enhancing technologies such as multi-party computation to ensure data storage security and the processing of private data. stc Bahrain, as the first telecom partner to operate nodes on the Nillion network, will bring greater decentralization and security to PETnet.Meanwhile, Nillion will join stc Bahrain's Web3 Launchpad program as a Pearling Path partner. stc Bahrain will leverage Nillion's blind computing network to develop scalable application cases. By combining Nillion's advanced secure computing solutions with stc Bahrain's robust telecom infrastructure and Bahrain's data embassy laws, Nillion aims to set new standards for high-value data management and protection for global users, including specific Web2 application scenarios.It is reported that as the first decentralized blind computing network, Nillion was founded by former Uber founding engineer Conrad Whelan, dedicated to achieving the storage, transmission, and processing of high-value sensitive data in an encrypted state throughout the entire process. Through its innovative Orchestration Layer, Nada language compiler, and dual-layer network architecture design, Nillion supports developers in easily building privacy applications without needing to understand privacy-enhancing technologies (PET), while also ensuring decentralization, thereby empowering the development of the privacy application ecosystem and providing strong support for data application ecosystems, AI, data markets, privacy DeFi, medical analytics, and other application scenarios.

ChainCatcher News, the U.S. Department of Efficiency (DOGE) posted on X stating that today, the Department of Education has terminated 29 DEI training grants totaling $101 million.One of the grants aimed to train teachers "to help students understand/explore the complex history involved in oppression and to help students identify areas of privilege and power on both personal and collective bases."

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the $6 million AI training cost in the DeepSeek report is misleading, as this data only covers the final stage and does not include key infrastructure and R&D expenses. The actual total investment is expected to be close to $1 billion, revealing the true scale of their investment.