According to Coinglass data, the total open position of BTC futures contracts across the network is 454,700 BTC, equivalent to $25.77 billion, with a 24-hour increase of 0.39%. Among them, the open position of CME BTC contracts is 137,600 BTC (about $7.782 billion), ranking first; the open position of Binance BTC contracts is 108,300 BTC (about $6.14 billion), ranking second.

Bitcoin's price surged above $57,000, leading to a broader rally in the crypto market. The global crypto market cap increased by 7% to $2.25 trillion, with trading volumes also rising significantly. This resulted in over $380 million in crypto liquidations in the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin and altcoins funding rates reaching high levels. Additionally, options traders are predicting a strike price of $60K or even $70K before the upcoming Bitcoin halving, while BTC futures open interests on Binance and CME hit record highs.

IntoTheBlock stated in a post on X platform that 95% of Bitcoin addresses are currently in a state of profit. The last time the proportion was this high was during the peak of the bull market in 2021, when the price of Bitcoin exceeded $60,000.

1. Ethena Labs explains the reason for the significant reduction in sUSDe APY: to ensure a slow and controlled product launch

The British Bitcoin DeFi platform SatoshiSwap.ai announced the completion of a $700,000 pre-sale round of financing. The new funds will be used to build a DEX designed specifically for the Bitcoin ecosystem. It is reported that the SatoshiSwap.ai model is similar to UniSwap, but its platform will use the Stacks L2 blockchain.

Farside Investors monitored that on February 23, the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin Spot ETF (ARKB) had a net inflow of $34.5 million.

According to OKX market data on February 23rd, Bitcoin fell below $51,000 and is currently priced at $50,983, with a 24-hour drop of 0.82%.

Lin, the head of Deribit Exchange's Asia-Pacific business, stated that today's largest BTC options trade was once again buying a cross-market combination for March 1st: buying both a call and put option for 52,000 on March 8th, totaling 250 BTC and paying a premium of $785,000. The largest ETH trade today was buying 2,000 call options for 32,000 at the end of March, paying a premium of $314,000. The biggest change in the past 1-2 weeks compared to before the Spring Festival is that the large trades are relatively small. Recently, with the release of financial reports for US stocks and the FOMC meeting, the prices of technology stocks have been high, and traditional large institutions are focusing on arbitrage trading or short-term hedging.

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for providing DNS-based human-readable Bitcoin payment instructions, summarizes a post with thoughts about mempool incentive compatibility, links to a thread discussing the design of Cashu and other ecash systems, briefly looks at continuing discussion about 64-bit arithmetic in Bitcoin scripts (including a specification for a previously proposed opcode), and gives an overview of an improved reproducible ASMap creation process. Also included are our regular sections describing updates to clients and services, new releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

According to Glassnode data, since mid-March 2020, the amount of Bitcoin stored in exchange wallets has significantly decreased, marking a significant shift in investor behavior. At that time, more than 17% of the total Bitcoin supply was held on exchanges, reaching a historic high. However, the trend of decreasing exchange balances has continued, even during the 2021 Bitcoin bull market and is expected to continue until 2024. The amount of Bitcoin held on exchanges has continued to decline this year. From January 1st to February 19th, the amount of Bitcoin in exchange wallets decreased from 2.356 million BTC to 2.314 million BTC, the lowest level since April 2018.