The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking public comment on whether it should approve options trading on three spot Ethereum ETFs.

The registration date for FTX's next distribution is set for April 11, 2025, and the distribution will begin on May 30, 2025. This distribution will pay out claims over $50,000, as well as those claims under $50,000 that were approved but did not receive payment in the first distribution.

According to FTX creditor Sunil, FTX has started to pay accounts with claims less than $50,000 today. The total amount of this round of repayments is $1.2 billion, and about $800 million has been paid so far, covering 162,000 accounts, accounting for 35% of the estimated 460,000 eligible claim accounts. Among them, 50% is paid to the original holders and the other 50% is paid to the debt acquirer.

According to Bloomberg, crypto security platform Blockaid recently completed a $50 million Series B financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures) and existing investors Variant and Cyberstarts.

At 21:44 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana chain, equivalent to approximately US$250 million.

According to Grok’s official Twitter account, Grok 3 is now available to all Premium+ subscribers.

Justin.eth Drake, a core developer of Ethereum, shared the progress of the first community conference call of Beam Chain on Twitter, and announced that February 28th will be the time for the second conference call, which will focus on technical progress. Due to trademark issues involving the name "Beam", the project will be renamed. The meeting summarized the joining of 8 new teams, the support of 6 mainnet consensus layer teams, and the introduction of 2 new coordinators who joined the Ethereum Foundation. At present, Beam Chain has a total of 14 consensus layer teams, covering all continents except Antarctica, using multiple programming languages including Zig, C, C++, C#, and many self-funded teams have emerged. Justin believes that Beam Chain provides an excellent entry point for developers to deeply understand the underlying technology of Ethereum L1. In addition, the meeting also discussed the key role of ZKVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) technology in Beam Chain, and announced a series of research and development plans, including ZK acceleration and multi-language support.

The Hyper Foundation stated on the X platform that HyperEVM has officially launched. This is an important step towards achieving universal programmability in Hyperliquid's high-performance financial system to accommodate all financial visions. The initial mainnet release of HyperEVM includes: 1. HyperEVM blocks built as part of L1 execution, inheriting all security from HyperBFT consensus; 2. Instant transfers between native spot HYPE and HyperEVM HYPE; As a reminder, HYPE is the native gas token on HyperEVM; 3. The canonical WHYPE system contract deployed at 0x555...5 for DeFi applications. In future network upgrades, universal ERC20 native transfers and precompilations will be enabled. Although these features have been implemented on the testnet, the mainnet release is being carried out in stages to minimize the impact on existing users on L1. HyperEVM can be combined with L1 states without affecting the low-latency trading experience of existing users.

Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI released the Grok 3 chatbot. According to xAI engineers, the training involved in Grok 3 is 10 times that of Grok 2. Musk said that in terms of mathematical reasoning, scientific logical reasoning, and code writing, Grok-3 has achieved better results than DeepSeek-v3, GPT-4o, and Gemini-2 pro in multiple benchmark tests.