China's Financial Law Draft aims to unify financial legislation, granting regulators expansive investigative powers. While it strengthens oversight, it lacks focus on emerging sectors like AI and digital currencies, highlighting the need for balance between regulation and innovation.

The European Central Bank supports consolidating regulatory authority over crypto assets with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The proposal is intended to unify supervision, reduce opportunities for regulatory arbitrage, improve the efficiency of cross-border coordination, and strengthen investor protection. Going forward, ESMA will be responsible for regulating stablecoins, trading platforms, and more; the specific implementation details are still to be clarified.

Odaily Planet Daily News: The Hong Kong Gold Exchange held a New Year opening ceremony for the Bingwu Year yesterday. During his speech, Chairman Zhang Dexi stated that the Hong Kong Gold Exchange has officially partnered with a subsidiary of Alibaba Group to develop a digital commodities blockchain, as well as an international precious metals trading platform and clearing and settlement system. This aims to unify risk control and regulation across Hong Kong's spot, futures, digital gold, BtoC trading, actuarial centers, and OTC markets. The setup is expected to be completed within 6 months, and there is hope to connect with the "Hong Kong Gold Central Clearing System" established by the SAR government. (Hong Kong Wen Wei Po)

BlockBeats News, February 13 — Perp DEX Lighter announced today the launch of a trading account categorization, allowing traders to unify collateral for spot and long-term trading. Lighter stated that this is the first step in an upgrade plan to support any token as collateral, with the next step being the tokenization of Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) tokens.

ZetaChain's TwoThumbs is an AI chat tool that requires no app installation, supporting interaction with AI characters via iMessage and SMS. It allows users to switch AI models without losing context. The tool is based on ZetaChain 2.0, focusing on cross-chain experience and user privacy, and aims to unify AI with the Web3 ecosystem.

BNB Chain Development Team Releases BAP (BNB Application Proposal) to Improve Application Layer Consistency and Interoperability, Lower Development Barriers. Through Shared Standards, BAP Includes Token Standards, Identity and Wallet Specifications, etc., to Promote Rapid Development and Enhance Developer Experience, Ultimately Becoming Official Standards Through Community Review.

Fractal Bitcoin has proposed the FIP-101 standardized data indexing service proposal, aiming to introduce a set of community-maintained open-source data indexing systems to unify the parsing methods of different protocols. The proposal also suggests adjusting the block reward distribution structure and introducing a non-custodial staking mechanism to incentivize user participation in data indexing services.

ChainCatcher news, the new generation BTC-Fi protocol Batoshi Foundation announces its governance token BVT will officially launch on Gate Alpha today. Batoshi Foundation is centered around the concept of "MicroStrategy On-Chain", constructing a native on-chain BTC Treasury by issuing beraBTC (1 BTC = 1 beraBTC). All BTC reserves are verifiable in real-time and can be redeemed 1:1 instantly. The protocol utilizes the "Raise → HODL → Appreciate" flywheel mechanism to unify fundraising, BTC accumulation, and on-chain yield within a single model, aiming to accumulate 10,000 BTC reserves over three years. governance token