According to data from msx.com, at the opening of the US stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.93%, the S&P 500 fell 0.89%, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.29%. The crypto sector collectively weakened, with Solana falling 5.21%, SharpLink falling 4.30%, Bitmine falling 3.42%, Coinbase falling 3.40%, Circle falling 3.37%, and Strategy (MSTR) falling 2.57%. msx.com is a decentralized RWA trading platform that has listed hundreds of RWA tokens, covering US stock and ETF tokens such as AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL, META, MSFT, NFLX, and NVDA.

According to the latest data from Gate, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, gold (XAUTUSDT) rose to $5,208.9 per ounce, a daily increase of 1.27%; silver (XAGUSDT) was at $91.91 per ounce, a daily increase of 5.83%. Regarding volatility indices, the BVIX (BTC Volatility Index) was last at 53.86, a daily increase of 1.15%; the EVIX (ETH Volatility Index) was last at 69.65, a daily increase of 1.13%. In commodities, WTI crude oil (XTIUSDT) rose 4.97% to $67.57 per barrel; Brent crude oil (XBRUSDT) rose 5.65% to $73.86 per barrel. Gate allows users to directly trade traditional financial market products on its platform, providing a one-stop service covering precious metals, forex, global equity CFDs, major indices, and commodities, achieving deep integration of crypto assets and traditional financial assets. Gate TradFi features have been fully integrated into the Gate App and Web platform, allowing users to easily participate in global asset price trading without switching platforms, unlocking more strategies and opportunities outside the crypto market, and continuously enhancing their diversified asset allocation experience.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Barclays Bank has sent out requests for information to several potential technology vendors to assess how to build a blockchain platform for banking services such as payments. Applications may include stablecoins and tokenized deposits, with the goal of finalizing vendor selection as early as April. The use of stablecoins in payments is expanding, with Bloomberg Intelligence estimating that annual stablecoin payment transactions could exceed $50 trillion by 2030. Meta has previously been testing the integration of stablecoin payments into its applications. Several banks have already begun deploying blockchain systems; JPMorgan has previously launched its deposit token, JPM Coin, for institutional clients for payments, and HSBC plans to expand its tokenized deposit service to corporate clients in the US and UAE in the first half of this year.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro of the District of Columbia announced that the Fraud Center's anti-fraud team has frozen and seized over $580 million in cryptocurrency from Southeast Asian criminal networks. Established in November 2025, the team is coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Treasury Department, primarily targeting transnational criminal networks operating "pig butchering" scams in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. Pirro stated that her office will pursue legal action to recover the funds and return them to victims as much as possible. Deddy Lavid, CEO of blockchain analytics platform Cyvers, told Decrypt that while the $580 million seizure is significant, it represents only a small fraction of global cryptocurrency fraud activity. The company has identified approximately 27,000 active criminal groups involved in approximately $27.5 billion in fraudulent exposure. Pirro linked Southeast Asian fraud networks to organized crime in China, while Lavid pointed out that these networks are becoming increasingly decentralized, involving multinational operators and cross-border money laundering hubs.

Odaily reports that OpenAI has raised $110 billion, valuing the company at $730 billion pre-money. Investors include SoftBank ($30 billion), Nvidia ($30 billion), and Amazon ($50 billion). The company has also established new strategic partnerships and acquired AI computing resources. ChatGPT currently boasts over 900 million weekly active users, over 50 million subscribers, and over 9 million paying enterprise users, and is expected to experience record growth early this year. This transaction brings the OpenAI Foundation's stake to over $180 billion.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, the US January PPI month-on-month rate was 0.5%, below the expected 0.30%, and the previous value was revised from 0.50% to 0.4%. The US January January PPI year-on-year rate was 2.9%, below the expected 2.60%, and the previous value was 3.00%. (Jinshi)

According to an official announcement from OpenAI, OpenAI and Amazon have announced a multi-year strategic partnership. Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, with an initial investment of $15 billion and the remaining $35 billion to be completed in the coming months upon fulfillment of certain conditions. The two companies will jointly develop a stateful runtime environment driven by OpenAI models, which will be made available to AWS customers through Amazon Bedrock and is expected to go live in the coming months. AWS will become the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for the OpenAI Frontier platform, which allows enterprises to build, deploy, and manage AI agent teams. Regarding infrastructure, the two companies will extend their existing $38 billion multi-year agreement by $100 billion over an eight-year period. OpenAI has committed to using approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium computing power through AWS infrastructure, covering Trainium 3 and the next-generation Trainium 4 chip, expected to begin delivery in 2027. In addition, OpenAI and Amazon will collaborate to develop custom models for Amazon developers to use in consumer-facing applications, complementing Amazon's existing Nova series of models.

Huoxun Finance News, February 27th – According to Cointelegraph, open-source AI lab Sentient announced the launch of Arena, a production-grade testing environment for evaluating the performance of AI agents in enterprise workflows. Pantera Capital and Franklin Templeton's digital asset divisions have joined Arena's initial testing cohort. Sentient stated that Arena is not a static model test, but rather a standardized task test of AI agents by simulating enterprise conditions that include long documents, incomplete information, and sources of conflict. The platform tracks failure categories such as illusions, missing evidence, citation errors, and inference flaws to help developers diagnose problems. Arena plans to publish comparative performance metrics through public leaderboards and release test reports summarizing common failure modes and fixes.

According to The Bitcoin Historian, Block, Inc., Jack Dorsey's payment company, just disclosed on February 27 that it acquired an additional 340 bitcoins, worth $22 million, in the fourth quarter of 2025.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, an address (0x83C0...Dc1) transferred 5263 ETH (worth $10.4 million) across chains via NEAR Intents in the past 4 days and exchanged it for 2000 XAUT.

According to data from on-chain derivatives platform Derive, Bitcoin options traders are building positions for a potential rebound to $90,000, early signs that the market may be attempting to bottom out. Sean Dawson, Head of Research at Derive, pointed out that Bitcoin volatility has fallen back to the 50% range, a level historically associated with consolidation rather than panic selling. The 25-delta skew indicator has rebounded from approximately -15% in late February to around -7%, suggesting traders are shifting from aggressive defensiveness to a more balanced outlook. Bitcoin options expiring on March 27th currently hold the largest open interest, with significant accumulation of call options at strike prices of $80,000 and $90,000, indicating that bulls are positioning themselves for a recovery towards the $85,000 to $95,000 range over the next month. However, there is still a large open interest of put options at strike prices of $60,000 and $55,000. Bitcoin is currently priced at approximately $84,000, down 3.2% in the past 24 hours. US-based Bitcoin ETFs, which had seen net outflows for four consecutive months, have recorded over $1 billion in net inflows in the past three days, including $254.4 million on Thursday. BlackRock's IBIT and Bitwise's BITB contributed $275.8 million and $69 million respectively. Binance Research points out that hedging in the options market has reached its most extreme level since the FTX crash, and recent price movements in the crypto market are highly correlated with high-beta tech stocks. Bybit's Chief Market Analyst, Han Tan, stated that the psychological level of $70,000 has continued to suppress bullish sentiment this month, and Bitcoin may record its fifth consecutive month of decline. However, fundamentals remain supportive, and once the macroeconomic environment becomes clearer, fund flows may reverse.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, World Liberty Finance's associated address (0x11ea...4a4e) deposited 11.4 million WLFI tokens, worth $1.31 million, into OKX.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Sentient, an open-source AI lab, has officially launched Arena, a real-time, production-grade environment for global AI developers to stress-test and competitively iterate the reasoning capabilities of enterprise-level AI agents. Initial participants include Founders Fund, Pantera, Franklin Templeton (with over $1.5 trillion in assets under management), alphaXiv, Fireworks, OpenHands, and OpenRouter. Arena simulates real-world scenarios in enterprise workflows, including incomplete information, verbose context, ambiguous instructions, and conflicting sources, and records complete reasoning trajectories to help engineering teams pinpoint failures. The first challenge focuses on document reasoning, requiring AI agents to reason and compute on complex unstructured data. Julian Love, Managing Partner of Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, stated that structured environments like Arena will help the industry distinguish between "potential ideas" and "truly production-ready capabilities." Himanshu Tyagi, co-founder of Sentient, stated that enterprises need to validate the stability and repeatability of agent reasoning in production environments. Arena will launch globally, with plans to hold in-person events in San Francisco starting in March 2026.

Huoxun Finance reported on February 27th that hybrid crypto exchange Grvt released its 2026 roadmap, planning to build a unified system around a single programmable balance, allowing the same deposit to simultaneously earn yield, serve as margin, and maintain spot exposure. The roadmap outlines four core layers: yield layer, investment layer, trading layer, and payment layer, all supported by a unified margin system. Grvt will extend its connection to Layer 1 protocols via ZKsyncAtlas and begin integrating DeFi liquidity sources such as Aave starting in March. The platform plans to launch a native prime broker lending market based on smart contracts. Trading will expand to perpetual contracts for global stocks, forex, and commodities, with the spot market launching in phases. The payment layer will introduce P2P payment and deposit/withdrawal services. The complete economic model for the GRVT token will be released in March, including distribution details, vesting schedule, and allocation mechanism.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, The Bitcoin Historian posted on the X platform that Blocks, a company owned by billionaire Jack Dorsey, announced that it added 340 BTC, worth $22 million, in the fourth quarter and added the Bitcoin proceeds to its vault.

According to an official announcement from Binance, Bitway BTW tokens will begin circulating on March 2, 2026 at 16:00.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that ZKsync has announced it will officially deprecate ZKsync Lite on May 4th, ceasing block production and permanently freezing the network's final state. ZKsync Lite launched in June 2020 as ZKsync 1.0, and was considered Ethereum's first zero-knowledge proof rollup, but it did not support smart contract functionality. Matter Labs ceased development of Lite in March 2023 after launching zkEVM ZKsync Era, which supports arbitrary smart contracts. The team stated that this deprecation will not affect Era or other chains built on the ZK Stack framework. After the shutdown, a read-only API will be retained for at least one year to support data access. Users are advised to withdraw their assets before May 4th; any unwithdrawn funds can still be claimed afterward. According to L2BEAT data, approximately $33.9 million in assets remain on ZKsync Lite via the canonical bridge, including approximately $24.9 million in stablecoins, approximately $8.4 million in ETH and derivatives, approximately $313,000 in BTC and derivatives, and approximately $231,000 in other assets.

Huoxun Finance News, February 27th - According to NEWSPIM, FocusAI announced the completion of the final payment for its acquisition of the Busan Digital Asset Exchange. FocusAI now holds a 40.61% stake, officially becoming its largest shareholder and gaining operational control. The Busan Digital Asset Exchange is South Korea's first RWA tokenized exchange, currently supporting 23-hour digital trading of seven precious metal physical assets, including gold, silver, and platinum. The KDX consortium, in which FocusAI participates, recently received the first preliminary license from the South Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) for STO over-the-counter securities trading brokerage business. Through this acquisition, FocusAI plans to combine AI, payment, stablecoin, and e-wallet technologies to build a Web3 payment platform infrastructure and promote the development of RWA and STO businesses.

According to The Block, ZKsync announced on February 27th that it will completely cease operation of ZKsyncLite (formerly ZKsync 1.0) on May 4th, 2026. At that time, the network will stop block production and permanently freeze its final state to ensure that its balance remains unchanged after the shutdown. ZKsyncLite was launched in June 2020, primarily supporting token transfers and NFT minting, but lacking smart contract functionality. With the maturation of the ZKsyncEra and ZKStack ecosystems, which feature zkEVM functionality, the project decided to concentrate resources on developing subsequent systems. Users are advised to withdraw their assets before May 4th. After the shutdown, a read-only API will be provided for at least one year for data access, and unwithdrawn funds can still be claimed at that time. Currently, ZKsyncLite still has approximately $33.9 million in locked assets (TVL), including $24.9 million in stablecoins and approximately $8.4 million in ETH.

According to Huoxun Finance on February 27, OKX market data shows that BTC has just fallen below $66,000 and is currently trading at $65,983.90 per coin, down 2.07% on the day.