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Mars Finance reports that on February 15, Elon Musk posted on social media that Grok 4.2 will finally be released next week, with significant improvements compared to version 4.1.

Title: AI: PayPal’s $200M Wake-Up Call in AI Commerce
Author: LUKE SPILL, FintechBlueprint
Translation: Peggy, BlockBeats
Author: Rhythm BlockBeats
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Editor's note: As AI agents begin to replace humans in product discovery, decision-making, and order placement, the traditional e-commerce funnel is rapidly shrinking. Payment is no longer the end of a transaction but part of embedded infrastructure. This article uses PayPal’s acquisition of Cymbio as a starting point to explore the new competitive landscape emerging with Agentic Commerce: Google and Shopify are attempting to use UCP

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the one-time purchase of the "Full Self-Driving" system will be discontinued and replaced with a monthly subscription model to support business growth goals, including reaching 10 million subscribers. The one-time purchase option in Australia has been extended to March 31.

Mars Finance reports that, according to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 9, up 1 point from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 9, and the average over the past 30 days is 19.

Turkish authorities have frozen over $500 million in assets belonging to Sahin, an operator suspected of running an illegal gambling platform. The operation was assisted by cryptocurrency company Tether. Tether actively collaborates with global law enforcement agencies to combat money laundering and other illicit activities, having frozen approximately $3.4 billion worth of USDT related to illegal activities. This move highlights Tether's proactive efforts to enhance compliance and cooperation, despite ongoing scrutiny from regulators.

Original Author: bootly, Bitpush BitpushNews
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) finds itself at another crossroads of personnel upheaval.
Tomasz Stańczak, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, announced that he will step down at the end of this month. This comes shortly after he and Hsiao-Wei

Mars Finance reports that, according to official data, within the 7 days ending February 12, Circle issued approximately 8.4 billion USDC, redeemed about 5.8 billion USDC, and the circulating supply increased by approximately 2.6 billion tokens. The total circulating supply of USDC is 73.1 billion tokens, with reserves of about $73.4 billion, including approximately $42.9 billion in overnight reverse repurchase agreements; about $19.8 billion in Treasury bonds with maturities of less than 3 months; systemically important institution deposits of approximately $10.1 billion; and other bank deposits of about $600 million.

Mars Finance reports that regarding X providing cryptocurrency trading, X product manager Nikita Bier stated that X is not responsible for executing trades or acting as a broker, only providing financial data and trading links.

On February 15th, Bitcoin briefly rebounded above $70,000, but the fear and greed index of the cryptocurrency market dropped to 8, remaining in extreme fear, with low market activity.

Vitalik Buterin pointed out on social media that current prediction markets are overly focused on short-term crypto prices and should shift towards "risk hedging" to reduce unhealthy market mismatches. He recommends building a new financial system that leverages personalized prediction market shares to provide sustainable value hedging solutions.

ARK Invest recently increased its holdings in Coinbase stock, totaling approximately 93,000 shares with a total value of about $15.2 million, involving three ETFs. This move comes after it reduced its holdings by over $39 million a few days earlier. Driven by a market rebound, Coinbase's stock price has risen about 16%.

Psy Protocol announces on-chain achievement of 521,000 transactions per second (TPS), surpassing the performance of current mainstream blockchains, emphasizing the importance of adapting to future autonomous AI transaction demands. Its architecture enhances throughput through parallel state processing and simplified verification methods, and provides open data for independent validation. The platform aims to build an efficient and secure smart contract infrastructure.