Wu's Daily Selected Crypto News - The US announced that the core PCE in December 2025 increased by 3.0% year-over-year and 0.4% month-over-month.

1. The United States reports that in December 2025, the core PCE increased by 3.0% year-over-year and 0.4% month-over-month; overall PCE rose by 2.9% year-over-year. Personal income and consumer spending grew by 0.3% and 0.4% respectively month-over-month.

2. Vitalik criticizes extending the feedback gap between humans and AI, warning of potential irreversible risks

In response to Sigil’s proposal of Web4.0, Vitalik Buterin tweeted criticism of the idea of extending the feedback gap between humans and AI, arguing that this leads to low-quality AI-generated content rather than solving real problems, and that once powerful, it increases irreversible risks to humanity, which even developers will regret; Ethereum aims to liberate humans, not create independent AI that leaves human conditions unchanged or worsens; current models operated by OpenAI and Anthropic are not truly autonomous, instead perpetuating centralized trust assumptions, contrary to Ethereum’s spirit; exponential growth is unstoppable, and the urgent task is not acceleration but choosing the right direction to avoid bad attractors.

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3. OpenClaw: Malicious skill intrusion into ClawHub threatens AI agents and crypto wallets

From late January to mid-February 2026, ClawHub was injected with 1,184 malicious skills (36.8%), uploaded by a single attacker with 677 packages across 12 accounts. The malicious skills disguised as crypto trading bots, YouTube summarizers, wallet trackers, etc., with thousands of downloads, including “What Would Elon Do” which contains 9 vulnerabilities (2 critical), and was boosted through 4,000 fake downloads. Attack methods include inducing execution of malicious programs via SKILLmd documents with curl | bash (on macOS, a variant of Atomic Stealer; on Windows, a VMProtect stealer), and injecting prompts to manipulate AI agents, stealing browser passwords, over 60 crypto wallets, SSH keys, Telegram sessions, Keychain credentials, .env files, and OpenClaw configurations, some with reverse shells for persistent control. Affected instances exceed 135,000 across 82 countries.

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4. Metaplanet CEO responds to anonymous allegations, discloses Bitcoin and options trading details

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich publicly responded to anonymous account accusations, including: over the past six months, due to increased volatility, reallocating more capital to income-generating activities by selling put options and put spreads for profit, some of which was used for long-term Bitcoin purchases, all disclosed in a timely manner; four Bitcoin purchases on September 4 were fully disclosed, with a strategy of long-term systematic accumulation rather than timing; options trading reduces Bitcoin acquisition costs, not betting on price increases; pure profit is not an appropriate metric for evaluating Bitcoin treasury companies, with operating profit of 6.2 billion yen (up 1694% YoY) indicating strategy quality; occasional losses are due to unrealized valuation changes; credit limits and withdrawals from October to December were disclosed timely, including borrowing amounts, collateral, interest rate structures, purposes, and conditions. Lender identities and specific rates were not disclosed due to counterparty requests, but conditions were favorable to the company.

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