ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist stated that on February 21, 2025, Bybit's on-chain multi-signature wallet was targeted and breached, with nearly $1.5 billion in assets quietly lost through a transaction with a "legitimate signature." Subsequent on-chain analysis revealed that the attacker gained multi-signature permissions through sophisticated social engineering attacks, implanted malicious logic using the delegatecall function of the Safe contract, and ultimately bypassed the multi-signature verification mechanism to transfer funds to an anonymous address. "Multi-signature" does not equal "absolute security"; even a secure mechanism like the Safe multi-signature wallet can still be at risk of being compromised if lacking additional protective measures.Bybit is using version v1.1.1 (<1.3.0) of the Safe contract, which means they cannot utilize the Guard mechanism, a key security feature. If Bybit had upgraded to version 1.3.0 or higher of the Safe contract and implemented an appropriate Guard mechanism, such as specifying a whitelist address for receiving funds and conducting strict contract function ACL verification, they might have been able to avoid this loss. Although this is merely a hypothesis, it provides important insights for future asset security management.

ChainCatcher news, data from digital asset management company Arca shows that since mid-December last year, most tokens have lost value ranging from 30% to 80%. Among them, Solana's market cap has lost about $50 billion in the past month, partly due to the recent scandal involving a meme coin called Libra. Additionally, Solana is facing selling pressure as approximately $1.72 billion worth of Solana tokens are scheduled to be "unlocked" (lifted trading restrictions) on March 1.Arca's Chief Investment Officer Jeff Dorman stated, "The weakness in the cryptocurrency market has persisted for eight weeks, with stocks, fixed income, and gold completely unaffected by any indicators used to explain the weakness, while only cryptocurrencies continue to decline. This is largely due to depressed market sentiment, losses from various meme coin failures, and a lack of funding to support new token issuances."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Buffett published his annual shareholder letter, in which he mentioned that the value of tradable stocks held last year decreased from $354 billion to $272 billion, but the value of non-listed equity holdings increased and remains far above the value of the tradable stock portfolio. We will always invest the vast majority of their funds in stocks—mainly U.S. stocks, although many of these companies have significant international operations. Berkshire will never be more inclined to hold cash equivalents and give up holding equity in quality businesses, whether controlling or partial stakes.In 2024, Berkshire's performance exceeded expectations, despite 53% of its 189 operating companies reporting a decline in earnings. Due to the increase in U.S. Treasury yields, there was a significant increase in holdings of these highly liquid short-term securities, resulting in a foreseeable substantial increase in investment income.Berkshire has been continuously increasing its borrowings denominated in yen, but not following any fixed pattern. All borrowings are at fixed rates, with no "floating rate" borrowings. There is no forecast for future foreign exchange rate trends, thus striving to maintain a nearly neutral position in terms of currency.

According to ChainCatcher's message and data statistics from the hacker section of the DefiLlama website, the theft of over $1.4 billion in assets from Bybit is the largest security incident in cryptocurrency history, accounting for about 15% of the total stolen amount from all security incidents in cryptocurrency history.The panel data shows that the cumulative amount stolen in cryptocurrency history exceeds $10.62 billion, with DeFi-related stolen assets reaching as high as $6.31 billion, and stolen assets from various bridging projects amounting to $2.87 billion.

ChainCatcher news, Santiment data shows that the daily trading volume of Litecoin has reached $9.6 billion, driven by ETF hype.Previously, Bloomberg ETF analysts stated that the likelihood of a spot Litecoin ETF being approved before the end of the year is 90%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain statistics, in the past 7 days, stablecoins (USDT and USDC) on Ethereum increased by 1.1 billion dollars, while stablecoins (USDT and USDC) on Solana decreased by 772 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, FTX will begin repaying $16 billion to creditors on February 18, 2025, with the first phase repaying $6.5-7 billion. Payments are based on prices from November 2022.

ChainCatcher news, according to Titanium Media AGI from sources, DeepSeek Company is currently valued at around 8 billion dollars. This news initially spread in investment circles and quantitative groups, and many investment institutions have expressed interest in it.

ChainCatcher news, according to Techstartups, the artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever last year, is in talks for a new round of financing, with a valuation of at least $20 billion.This valuation has increased fourfold from the $5 billion valuation during its $1 billion financing completed in September last year. The specific amount of financing has not yet been determined, and the negotiations are still in the early stages.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coinglass data, the total liquidation across the network in the past 24 hours was $1.062 billion, with long positions liquidated at $1.5 billion and short positions liquidated at $224 million.The total liquidation amount for BTC was $364 million, and the total liquidation amount for ETH was $364 million.

ChainCatcher news, the stablecoin market size has soared to over $200 billion, increasing by nearly $40 billion since President Trump's victory, indicating that cryptocurrency prices may rise in the first quarter of 2025.

ChainCatcher news, Tether releases its Q4 2024 report, with Tether's profits reaching $13 billion in 2024, and record highs in U.S. Treasury holdings, USDT circulation, and excess reserves for the fourth quarter.In Q4 2024, Tether's U.S. Treasury holdings reached $113 billion, a record high. The USDT circulation reached 143,704,755,547 tokens. Tether's excess reserves surpassed $7 billion for the first time, with an annual growth of 36%.

ChainCatcher news, as of January, the venture capital funding received in the crypto space has reached $1.14 billion, representing a potential 100% increase compared to January 2024 ($653.3 million).For cryptocurrencies and small projects, the metrics for small to medium financing are more important, as they indicate the level of confidence and enthusiasm for startups. The current level of funding has returned to "normal" levels, with funding rounds ranging from $1.5 million, and multiple projects raising between $10 million and $25 million.According to statistics, the funding amount in the crypto space for 2024 is estimated to be between $11.5 billion and $13.6 billion. Optimistic forecasts suggest that venture capital funding in the coming year could reach as high as $18 billion.

ChainCatcher message, encrypted KOL @tobific made a prediction regarding the Linea airdrop. He stated that based on the current L2 valuation levels in the market, assuming that the FDV of Linea reaches 8 billion dollars after its listing, and calculating the airdrop share as 10-15% of the total supply, the value of each LXP could reach 0.51 dollars.According to his most pessimistic expectation analysis, assuming that the FDV of Linea reaches 3.5 billion dollars after its listing, and calculating the airdrop share as 10% of the total supply, the value of each LXP could reach 0.11 dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to HODL15Capital data, since the U.S. election, the market capitalization of USDC has increased from $35 billion to $52 billion, with liquidity rapidly increasing.

ChainCatcher news, according to DeFiLlama data, in the past 7 days, the market capitalization of stablecoins on the Solana chain has increased by 69.36%, surpassing 10 billion USD, reaching 10.183 billion USD, with USDC accounting for over 80%.