According to Bitsmedia, Russian retail brokerage firm Finam has registered an investment fund for cryptocurrency mining with the country's central bank. The fund is currently in the final stages of operational preparation and will launch a series of investment products related to digital asset mining in the future.

Huoxun Finance reported on February 16 that OpenEden, the RWA tokenization platform, posted on the X platform that its official website and portal's DNS service was suspected of being hacked. Users were advised not to interact with the aforementioned domains to prevent damage to their wallets. All reserve assets are currently secure and under control. The team is investigating the matter and will provide updates as soon as possible.

According to data disclosed by HyperLiquidNews on the X platform on February 16, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes withdrew 16,434 HYPE tokens from the cryptocurrency exchange Gate. His total HYPE holdings now exceed 200,000 tokens, reaching 205,629,927 tokens, worth approximately $6.12 million.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Willy Woo, in an article on the X platform, stated that the market has begun pricing in the threat of quantum computing, posing a challenge to the 4 million "lost" BTC and BTC's 12-year valuation increase relative to gold. The market is already considering the risk of a future "Q-Day" breakthrough—the moment when a sufficiently powerful quantum computer breaks existing public-key cryptography. If a quantum computer can derive the private key from the public key, approximately 4 million BTC, thought to be permanently lost due to the loss of their private keys, could re-enter circulation, thus undermining BTC's core scarcity narrative. This portion of tokens represents approximately 25% to 30% of the total BTC supply. Willy Woo estimates that there is only a 25% chance the BTC network will agree to freeze these tokens through a hard fork. Freezing tokens involves changing long-term norms such as fungibility, immutability, and ownership, potentially triggering deep divisions within the community. With a 75% probability that these tokens will remain unfrozen, investors should assume that the equivalent of "eight years of corporate accumulation" of BTC may once again become consumable. This prospect translates into a structural discount for BTC relative to gold valuation over the next 5 to 15 years, meaning that the long-term upward trend in BTC's purchasing power measured in gold ounces is no longer valid. Furthermore, Jefferies strategist Christopher Wood removed BTC from his flagship model portfolio in January and shifted to gold, again citing the possibility that quantum machines could diminish BTC's value storage properties for pension-level investors.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet released its fiscal year 2025 financial report on the X platform, revealing that it has become the largest Bitcoin holder in Japan, holding 35,102 Bitcoins as of the end of 2025, accounting for approximately 0.16% of the global Bitcoin supply. This places it fourth among public companies globally in terms of Bitcoin holdings. Metaplanet plans to achieve its goal of holding 1% of the global Bitcoin supply by 2027 and will continue to rely on its "Bitcoin yield business" as its core profit growth driver. Furthermore, Metaplanet's revenue for fiscal year 2025 reached 8.905 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 738.3%; operating profit was 6.287 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 1694.5%.