According to Onchain Lens monitoring, yesterday address 0x2bd exchanged 240.44 BTC (approximately $15.7 million) for 8152 ETH via ThorChain at an exchange rate of 0.02945. Today, this address deposited the ETH into Aave as collateral, borrowed approximately $36 million USDT, and then bought 17283 ETH again at a price of $2083. Currently, this address holds a total of 25434.5 ETH, worth approximately $52.45 million.

According to The Block, the Indiana legislature passed the Cryptocurrency Regulation and Investment Bill HB1042 on February 26th, which is awaiting Governor Mike Braun's final signature. The bill requires several state-managed retirement and savings plans (including the Legislative Pension Plan, the HoosierSTART College Savings Plan, and some public servant and teacher retirement funds) to provide participants with self-managed brokerage accounts that include at least one cryptocurrency investment option. Furthermore, except for financial institution regulators, other public institutions are prohibited from restricting individuals from using cryptocurrencies to pay for legitimate goods and services, or from restricting individuals from holding digital assets through self-custody or hardware wallets. The bill also prohibits the imposition of special taxes on crypto activities, distinct from other financial transactions. If signed, it will take effect on July 1, 2026.

Huoxun Finance News, February 26th - According to Fortune, London-based startup Callosum announced the completion of a $10.25 million funding round, led by Plural, with R&D funding from ARIA. Founded by two Cambridge neuroscience PhDs, the company develops software that schedules AI workloads across different chips, including Nvidia, AMD, AWS Trainium/Inferentia, Cerebras, and SambaNova, focusing on multi-cloud and multi-chip collaboration. Callosum claims its system achieves approximately 2x accuracy, 7x speed, and 4x cost reduction compared to single-hardware solutions in complex enterprise tasks. It is currently collaborating with data center infrastructure vendors specializing in new photonic interconnects and plans to expand into the US market and build some of its own hardware infrastructure.

Huoxun Finance reported on February 26th that, according to Cointelegraph, Stripe co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison predicted in their annual letter that as AI agents become the main force in online transactions, the blockchain's transaction volume per second (TPS) may need to be increased to one million or even one billion to bridge the infrastructure gap. They mentioned that a major public chain experienced a memecoin trading frenzy that caused Bridge users to experience withdrawal delays of over 12 hours and single-transaction fees to surge 35 times, highlighting the current insufficient scalability. Chainspect data shows that Internet Computer Protocol and Solana currently have actual TPS of approximately 1,196 and 1,140 respectively, with peak values of 25,621 and 5,289, and theoretical upper limits of only about 209,700 and 65,000 TPS. Stripe points out that if AI agents widely assume five levels of capabilities—form filling, searching, remembering preferences, shopping on behalf of others, and even proactive decision-making—the future of "agent-based e-commerce" will rely on open protocols and universal interoperability.

Gate announced that its Malta-based subsidiary, Gate Technology Ltd., has officially obtained a Payment Institution (PI) license from the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) under the EU's Payment Services Directive, Version 2 (PSD2). This license makes Gate one of the few crypto-native companies in Europe to receive such regulatory approval, laying the foundation for providing compliant stablecoin and payment services across the EU. Giovanni Cunti, CEO of Gate Technology Ltd., stated that the license will support the company in building a secure bridge between traditional finance and Web3, providing clear regulatory assurance for institutional and retail users. Previously, Gate had obtained a full MiCA license for exchange and custody services. With the PSD2 license, Gate is now leveraging EU compliance mechanisms to expand its payment services footprint across the EU. This move demonstrates Gate's commitment to compliance and regulatory transparency and further promotes its innovation and development in the European digital asset financial infrastructure sector. Gate continues to advance its global compliance efforts and resource investment, with multiple entities obtaining relevant regulatory registrations, licenses, or completing authorization approval processes in jurisdictions such as Malta, the Bahamas, Japan, Australia, and Dubai. Meanwhile, Gate US holds 33 state-level licenses in the United States, with compliance operations covering 45 jurisdictions.