"Weekly Editor's Picks" is a "functional" column of Odaily Planet Daily. Based on the extensive coverage of real-time information each week, the Planet Daily also publishes many high-quality in-depth analysis articles, but they may be hidden among the information flow and trending news, passing you by.
Therefore, our editorial team will select some quality articles worth spending time reading and saving from the content published in the past 7 days every Saturday, providing you with new insights from the perspectives of data analysis, industry judgment, and opinion output, as you navigate the crypto world.
Now, let's read together:
Investment and Entrepreneurship
Every quarter, large investment firms managing over $100 million must submit a 13F filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), disclosing their holdings of U.S. stocks and related assets, such as ETFs, REITs, options, and convertible bonds. This data only reflects the allocation of institutions in U.S. stocks and related assets.
The author further introduces 14 representative pioneers and concludes: Currently, the market size and liquidity of Bitcoin are large enough to accommodate these institutional investors; as new investment tools continue to be launched, these institutions will have more ways to gain exposure to Bitcoin, and institutional adoption will accelerate.
With Bitcoin Prices Continuing to Fall, Will MicroStrategy Face Bankruptcy Liquidation?
The leverage ratio of Strategy is not high, with long debt maturities and no significant short-term repayment pressure;
The premise of a financial crisis is: Bitcoin's value remains at an extremely low level for a long time, which is unlikely;
Founder Michael Saylor holds 46.8% voting rights, allowing him to avoid early redemption clauses in preferred stock debt, firmly controlling the company's operational direction.
A Lazy Person's Guide to U-Based Financial Management (February 24)
This column covers relatively low-risk (systemic risk can never be completely eliminated) yield strategies centered around stablecoins (and their derivative tokens) currently available in the market, aiming to help users who wish to gradually increase their capital through U-based financial management find more ideal earning opportunities.
This issue introduces CEX and on-chain base interest rates, Pendle area gameplay, ecological incentives (opportunities and volatility coexist), and blind mining opportunities (suggesting "two birds with one stone").
Cryptocurrency Contract Trading Tutorial: Mastering Strategies and Avoiding Common Mistakes
Risk management is crucial—reasonably using stop-loss orders, controlling positions, cautiously leveraging, avoiding liquidation, and ensuring fund safety.
Strategies vary by experience—beginners are advised to first learn trend trading and breakout trading, while advanced traders can try scalping, arbitrage, and funding rate trading as advanced strategies.
Continuous learning and trading discipline—markets change rapidly, keeping information updated, optimizing strategies, and controlling emotions are key to long-term stable profits.
BitMEX Alpha: Best Options Strategies After Significant Sell-Offs
The article introduces five effective strategies for post-sell-off scenarios, accompanied by examples, profit and loss analysis, and situational guidance.
If worried about further declines, buy protective put options.
If believing Bitcoin will consolidate, sell covered call options.
If expecting a rebound, choose a bull call spread.
If anticipating significant volatility, choose long straddle options.
If believing the market is overreacting, choose to sell put spreads.
Unveiling the Dealer's Selling Tactics: Don't Let Yourself Become Chopped
The article summarizes typical selling tactics, including unilateral liquidity pools, false buybacks, spot control contracts, and high-yield pledges.
Creating Nearly 30 Million Tokens in Two Years, Crypto is a Huge 'Token Factory'
Exchanges and VCs, as the most criticized participants in this bull market, are seeking exit opportunities or being forced to exit.
This bull market is indeed of hellish difficulty. There is almost no surprising crypto construction, while conspiracy groups are everywhere. Except for a few lucky ones, the vast majority have flowed into the various interests of "assembly line token issuance."
Regulatory Policies
Web3 Lawyer Interprets Hong Kong SFC Roadmap, Virtual Asset Market May Welcome New Changes
The Hong Kong SFC roadmap proposes 12 key measures based on the five pillars needed for the development of the Hong Kong virtual asset market—Access, Safeguards, Products, Infrastructure, and Relationships—communicating to investors and institutions Hong Kong's comprehensive development and regulatory direction in the coming years.
Airdrop Opportunities and Interaction Guide
Attention Returning to DeFi? A Look at TGE Projects Worth Ambushing
Infinex, Babylon, Lombard, Particle, Symbiotic, KelpDAO, HOT, Meteora, OpenSea, Polymarket.
Reviewing Kaito: $50,000 Earnings in 2 Months, What's Next?
Kaito officially allocated a portion of chips to cooperative projects to incentivize these projects' Yapper Leaderboard and Yapper Launchpad users. Additionally, Kaito reserved 7.5% for long-term creator incentives.
Considering the project's fundamentals, whether team members are active, and the competitiveness of the leaderboard, the author judges Initia as a certain opportunity. Opportunities can be sought by expressing genuine thoughts, focusing on ecological projects, and enhancing interaction.
Also recommended: 《This Week's Featured Interaction Projects: Somnia and Humanity Protocol Testnet Interaction, Fogo Early Identity》。
Ethereum
Is Wall Street's Largest Market Maker Citadel Securities Shorting ETH?
The author speculates that the holder of $3.1 billion in Ethereum short assets may be Bridgewater Associates or Citadel Securities.
Citadel Securities is one of the largest market makers on the NYSE, accounting for nearly 35% of U.S. stock trading volume daily. The name Citadel is always closely associated with "shorting." As a top hedge fund, the possibility of holding a large amount of ETH spot while shorting ETH for risk hedging also exists. This indirectly supports the widely circulated rumor of "ETH major exchange changes," as Wall Street giants gradually build positions, becoming new crypto dealers.
Pectra Upgrade Takes First Step, What Updates Will Ethereum Welcome?
The article introduces the roles of various upcoming improvement proposals. The upgrade is divided into three key areas: improving Ethereum accounts; enhancing the user experience for Ethereum validators; and expanding the processing capacity of "data Blobs."
Lido V3: Born for Institutional Ethereum Staking
Lido V3 introduces modular innovative stVaults, significantly increasing flexibility for institutional stakers by enabling customizable staking settings, allowing users to choose node operators and validation infrastructure. Stakers can customize Ethereum staking strategies to meet their needs and optimize rewards based on priorities, fully leveraging the liquidity, security, and integration advantages of stETH.
With a more relaxed regulatory environment, institutional interest in Ethereum staking will further increase.
Also recommended: 《Quick Read on Ethereum Foundation AMA Highlights: L1 Revenue and Value Accumulation, Pectra Upgrade, L2, etc.》《The Lament of Ethereum's 'Leftist'》。
DeFi
Interpreting the Famous Investment Firm ARK Invest—Stablecoin Protocol Research Report
ARK Invest's report points out that the rise of stablecoin protocols will profoundly change the cryptocurrency market, pushing it into a new era of "yield rights revolution."
The transformation is mainly reflected in three key shifts: yield rights securitization—integrating the essence of DeFi with traditional finance, capital efficiency upgrade—efficiency advantages of stablecoin protocols, and accelerated institutionalization—stablecoin protocols becoming the new favorite of institutional investors.
Reviewing 6 New Launchpad Platforms: What Innovative Gameplay Do They Offer?
The article briefly introduces Time.fun, Super Exchange, top.fun, Monsters.fun, Nad.fun, NetMind XYZ.
Average Return Rate Reaching 400%, Reviewing Three High-Yield Crypto IDO Platforms
Echo, Legion, and Buidlpad represent different paths in the IDO field: Echo focuses on elite trust, Legion innovates reputation mechanisms, and Buidlpad pursues open compliance.
P is Stagnant, Let's Look at These 6 Popular DeFi Arbitrage Tools
Launching high APY DeFi arbitrage has almost become one of the strategies for recent new public chains. According to Defillama data, apart from Sonic, emerging high-performance public chains focused on DeFi, such as Berachain, Sei, and Soneium, have seen an increase in TVL over the past week despite the overall market downturn, thanks to high-yield accumulation strategies. Additionally, yield products from protocols like Pendle and Morpho are also in high demand.
How to Earn More Through DeFi on Berachain?
Berachain, which adopts a unique PoL (Proof of Liquidity) mechanism, is becoming a new gathering place for DeFi funds.
Users can stake LP + Infrared (APR over 180%); if they want to hold BERA long-term, they can also stake BERA on Dolomite, Kodiak, Memeswap, and WeBera.
Market Cooling: How to Earn Stable Returns Through Hyperliquid HLP Vault?
The article introduces the Hyperliquid HLP vault, which shows low volatility, high Sharpe ratio, and negative correlation with Bitcoin, indicating that the combination strategy can significantly enhance returns. HLP's volatility converges with the growth of TVL, and the Sharpe ratio improves, potentially becoming a quality use case for HyperEVM in the future.
Web3 & AI
The Distraction of AI Topics at Consensus: A Look at the "AI + Crypto" DeepSeek Moment in 2025
Web3 & AI urgently need a "native paradigm," especially Web3, which should play a more critical and core role in exploring how AI can serve human needs, opening up a new value positioning. For instance, creating a future where everyone can access knowledge and tools, allowing AI to serve their unique needs and goals.
Reconstructing the Agent concept from "AI tools" to "AI civilization," forming an AI social "meta-operating system" similar to iOS and Android.
OKX Ventures Research Report: Analyzing 10+ Projects to Understand the AI Agent Landscape (Part 1)(Part 2)
A comprehensive research report on AI Agents.
Technology-driven and infrastructure form the core of AI agent projects, ensuring efficient operation and supporting scalable expansion through advanced programming languages and innovative algorithms. At the same time, high-performance blockchain platforms provide excellent transaction processing capabilities and multi-chain compatibility, enabling AI agents to interact seamlessly across different chains, promoting continuous optimization and upgrading of the technological foundation.
Payment and trading infrastructure are key pillars for the development of the AI agent ecosystem. Stablecoin payment systems ensure transaction stability and liquidity, enhancing the interaction efficiency between AI agents and users. Decentralized autonomous trading systems achieve more efficient and secure automated trading by eliminating human intermediaries. Additionally, innovative reward and governance mechanisms, such as "proof of contribution" and "proof of cooperation," promote collaboration and resource sharing among AI agents, ensuring the long-term healthy development of the ecosystem through a sound governance system.
Understanding GambleFAI: What Advantages Do Autonomous Betting Agents Have?
Three major trends of GambleFAI:
Market integration around fundamentals: Profitable AI agents are taking center stage, similar to real business models.
Machine learning models provide much-needed practicality: AI enhances the predictive accuracy of agents, increasing potential returns.
Bittensor subnet and Allora machine learning models drive innovation: These infrastructures provide predictive capabilities, supporting specialization and product-market fit.
Delphi Digital Interprets ElizaOS v2: New Architecture, New Possibilities
The architectural upgrade of ElizaOS v2 brings stronger capabilities to AI entities: a modular core framework, a unified abstraction layer, and an event-driven architecture.
These improvements significantly enhance the flexibility, task planning ability, and capability to execute complex tasks of AI.
Another highlight of v2 is the introduction of Hierarchical Task Networks (HTNs), allowing AI to break down high-level goals into a series of structured steps and dynamically adjust plans as the environment changes.
The complete autonomy of AI still faces some technical challenges: multi-agent collaboration and language expansion.
Security
Unveiling Lazarus Group's Intrusion Tactics: A National-Level APT Attack on Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Weekly Hot Topics Recap
In the past week, on February 25, BTC fell below $90,000; on February 28, BTC fell below $80,000; Bybit issued an open letter: expressing deep gratitude for the crypto industry's collective efforts to address security threats; Bybit: deposits and withdrawals have fully returned to normal levels and have completely made up for ETH losses; Infini suffered an insider attack resulting in a $50 million loss, with the founder promising to cover the losses; Infini's founder: withdrawals have all been responded to, and currently, product consumption and withdrawals are all normal; Infini's founder responded to the $50 million funding gap: he will cover $25 million to meet withdrawal demands, with the remaining part resolved off-chain;
Additionally, in terms of policy and macro markets, the SEC paused lawsuits and reached settlements against several crypto companies;
In terms of opinions and statements, Michael Saylor suggested selling a kidney if necessary, but keeping Bitcoin; Arthur Hayes stated that if Trump cannot pass the budget proposal to raise the debt ceiling, Bitcoin will pull back to 70,000-75,000; Trump's son advised newcomers to enter with small amounts and continue learning DeFi; Dragonfly GM noted that scalability remains a continuous focus of the industry, while functional differentiation is another important direction; Vitalik is considering migrating Ethereum to Poseidon hash to optimize zk-prover friendliness; CZ stated that he will not retain any tokens from donation addresses and solicited community suggestions; CZ mentioned that his first use of DEX could be improved significantly; CZ disclosed his investment portfolio: BTC only accounts for 1.32%; Bybit officials explained that liquidation data is greater than other CEX: due to the platform's API publishing full liquidation data; Jupiter's founder announced three long-term strategies, with 280 million JUP personally held to be locked until 2030; Kanye West announced his exit from Twitter; SBF tweeted again after two years discussing employee layoffs.
In terms of institutions, large companies, and leading projects, the largest market maker on the New York Stock Exchange, Citadel Securities, intends to provide market making for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies; BitMEX is seeking to sell; Aya Miyaguchi has been promoted from Executive Director of EF to Chair; Binance Pre Market has launched a limit-up mechanism test; Uniswap has integrated Robinhood and MoonPay to launch fiat withdrawal features; MetaMask has released a new roadmap, including the introduction of smart contract accounts and support for Bitcoin and Solana networks; pump.fun may launch its own Swap platform; time.fun: current demand has exceeded the platform's processing capacity, and product updates may be completed in the coming weeks; Babylon has opened airdrop registration; Meteora: will continue to improve the existing points system and will review bad actors and wash traders;
On the data front, SOL will face a large unlock on March 1, with VC unrealized profits reaching hundreds of millions of dollars;
In terms of security, mETH Protocol: cmETH withdrawals have resumed, and user funds have not been affected… Well, it has been another eventful week.
Attached is the Weekly Editor's Picks series.
See you next time~
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