BTC Tops Global Liquidations in Last 4 Hours, Hyperliquid Whale Faces $11.6M Single Liquidation

**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

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

February 9th — Per data from GMGN (link: https://t.me/gmgnaibot?start=i_m4TE56o8), tokens in the Base ecosystem are leading today’s gains, including: - AI agent token **BNKR** hit a recent high with a $102 million market cap, up 45% in 24 hours on $13.6 million in trading volume; - Base ecosystem issuance platform token **CLANKER** climbed above $36, pushing its market cap over $36 million (16.2% 24-hour gain, $3.7 million volume); - Meme coin **CLAWNCH** briefly rebounded to nearly $10 million in market cap, now retracing to $7.5 million (62% 24-hour gain, $3.3 million volume); - Meme coin **KellyClaude** saw a modest rebound, peaking at $8 million market cap before settling at $7.5 million (7.2% 24-hour gain); - Crypto wallet Rainbow’s token **RNBW** rose 31.2% in 24 hours, with a current $7.1 million market cap and $1.3 million in volume. **BlockBeats Note**: Many meme coins lack actual use cases, face extreme price volatility, and investors should exercise caution.

Bitcoin rebounded to $71,000 on February 9th, per HTX market data, with a 24-hour gain of 2.25%.

On February 8, 2026, the Policy Committee of the Hong Kong Chief Executive hosted a digital finance symposium, per Sing Tao Daily’s February 9 report. Attendees included a research team from the People’s Bank of China’s Financial Research Institute, the chairman of Round Coin Technology’s board, Web3 Development Task Force members, former Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Chief Executive Norman Chan, and other experts. The meeting centered on how Hong Kong can support China’s national goal of becoming a “financial powerhouse” through high-quality digital finance growth. Key topics: digital finance use cases, balancing regulation and innovation, and linking with the Mainland’s digital financial infrastructure for coordinated development. Huang Yuanshan, head of the Chief Executive’s Policy Committee, said Hong Kong should leverage the digitalization trend to advance the financial powerhouse goal via high-quality financial development. He cited Hong Kong’s strengths: robust te

**Yonhap: South Korea’s FSS Unveils 2026 Work Plan Focused on Crypto Oversight, Financial Security** February 9 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) released its 2026 work plan on Wednesday, outlining key initiatives targeting crypto market risks, financial IT safety, and consumer protection. The plan includes: - Launching special probes into high-risk crypto market segments to crack down on price manipulation by crypto whales; - Establishing a task force to draft a Digital Asset Basic Law, supporting the rollout of a virtual asset regulatory framework; - Rolling out a punitive fine system for financial IT incidents, boosting CEO accountability for security, and launching an AI-powered network threat monitoring system; - Stepping up efforts to combat crimes targeting individuals (e.g., illegal private finance, telecom fraud), releasing the “Financial AI Ethics Guidelines,” and building a risk management framework.