Biden Adviser Suggests Holding Walsh Confirmation Hearing Alongside Powell Probe
On February 9, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen proposed holding the confirmation hearing for Wall’s Federal Reserve nomination concurrently with the investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
Earlier, Republican Senator Thom Tillis stated he intends to delay the selection of the next Fed chair until the Department of Justice (DOJ) concludes its probe into Powell. Though Tillis supports Wall’s appointment as Fed chair, as a member of the Senate Banking Committee, he has repeatedly vowed to block the nomination until the DOJ uncovers the full truth to uphold the Fed’s independence.
Tillis’s vote is critical: Republicans hold 13 of the 24 seats on the Senate Banking Committee, and they could unite to confirm Wall’s nomination. But with Tillis defecting, a tie vote is possible.
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Bitcoin Spot ETF Total Assets Fall Below $100 Billion, Cumulative Net Inflows of 68,918 BTC Since Listing
Feb 9: Total assets of U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs have fallen below $100 billion, now at $99.16 billion—down ~40% from the October 2023 peak of $165.15 billion. Since their official launch in January 2024, cumulative inflows total 689,180 BTC, worth $55.01 billion.
In holdings: BlackRock’s IBIT leads with 765,200 BTC, followed by Fidelity’s FBTC (198,400 BTC) and Grayscale’s GBTC (159,600 BTC).
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Ilya: Continuing to Build for Ethereum and SharpLink, Maintaining Confidence and Persistent Effort
On February 9th, Daniel, founder of Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital), posed for a photo with SharpLink’s Chief Information Officer and Chief Development Officer, and stated: “We’re continuing to build for Ethereum alongside SharpLink, remaining confident and committed to our ongoing efforts.”
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Analysis: Yesterday's BTC and ETH spot minute charts experienced abnormal price fluctuations, possibly due to a certain market maker bot being liquidated
On February 9th, Wintermute founder Evgeny Gaevoy—head of the crypto market maker—weighed in on the abnormal Bitcoin and ETH spot price swings on 1-minute charts during the early hours of February 8th.
He noted the anomaly was likely driven by a liquidation event involving a market maker’s trading bot, which could have resulted in tens of millions of dollars in losses. The price dip wasn’t due to malicious activity from the bot’s operator, and Wintermute itself was not involved, Gaevoy clarified.
Gaevoy also pushed back on rumors of “major institutional liquidations” circulating in the market, saying even if such events occurred, they wouldn’t have a meaningful long-term impact. Unlike past collapses (e.g., Three Arrows Capital, FTX)—where liquidation news spread rapidly and clear red flags emerged (like institutions seeking bailouts)—current rumors stem mostly from anonymous accounts and lack confirmation from credible sources.
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Kyle criticized Hyperliquid, sparking a heated debate, as FWDI faced backlash due to poor performance and was mocked in retaliation.
**February 9**
Kyle Samani—former Multicoin co-founder and board chair of Forward Industries (FORD)—criticized Hyperliquid in a post, sparking heated community debate.
His take: *“Hyperliquid epitomizes crypto’s worst traits in many ways. The founder fled his home country to build it; it openly enables crime and terrorism; it has closed-source code and is permissioned.”*
Yunt Capital analyst Steven pushed back: *“Yes, Hyperliquid embodies most of crypto’s downsides—including VC rejection, democratizing liquidity via HLP, growing its community with the largest token airdrop in history ($9B), and using all $960M in HL revenue to buy back tokens instead of pocketing any. Updated data on Hyperliquid’s Aid Fund buyback shows the fund holds 40M HYPE tokens, funded by long-term protocol revenue.”*
Hyperliquid community member Luke Cannon mocked Samani’s role as chair of Solana’s largest treasury firm Forward Industries (FWDI): *“FWDI has all the problems of a DAT company—its stock
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Security Alert: The OpenClaw Official Plugin Center, ClawHub, Targeted by Large-Scale Malicious Skill Poisoning
On February 9, SlowMist released a security advisory. Recently, the open-source AI agent project OpenClaw has unexpectedly gained traction, and its official plugin hub—ClawHub—is increasingly becoming a target for supply chain poisoning attacks, posing potential security risks to developers and users. Monitoring has identified 341 malicious "skills," which often masquerade as cryptocurrency assets, security scanners, or automation tools.
Attackers are exploiting the SKILL.md file as an entry point for command execution: they hide malicious commands via Base64 encoding and use a two-stage loading mechanism to evade detection. The first stage fetches the payload via curl; the second deploys a sample named "dyrtvwjfveyxjf23" that tricks users into entering their system password, then steals local documents and system information.
Users are advised to: review any commands they need to copy and run, be wary of prompts seeking system permissions, and prioritize obtaining tools through
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