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Uniswap’s governance is voting on a proposal to activate protocol fees on all remaining v3 pools and expand fees to eight more chains.
The temp check, now live on Snapshot and set to conclude on Feb. 23, proposes activating protocol fees on v2 and v3 deployments across eight additional chains, including Arbitrum, Base, Celo, OP Mainnet, Soneium, X Layer, Worldchain, and Zora.
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/atkins-peirce-021826-number-go-down-other-schadenfreude
Aptos Tokenomics Update: Moving to Performance-Driven Supply Mechanism
— Aptos Foundation intends to initiate a governance proposal to reduce the annual staking rewards rate from 5.19% to 2.6%.
— 10X Gas Fee Increase
— Decibel, which was incubated by Aptos Labs in partnership with the Decibel Foundation, represents one of the first fully decentralized exchanges that executes all trading activity onchain: every order, match, and cancel.
— Hard Supply Cap: 2.1 Billion APT
— Foundation Permanent Lock: 210 Million APT
— Performance-Gated Grant Issuance
— Programmatic Buyback Program
https://x.com/aptos/status/2024216329826230392
OpenAI and Paradigm have introduced EVMbench — a new benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities
https://cdn.openai.com/evmbench/evmbench.pdf
The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 57.67%
Market Cap - $2.32T
BTC - $66,983 (-0.95%)
ETH - $1,972 (-1.36%)
BNB - $607 (-1.72%)
SOL - $81 (-4.11%)
INJ - $3.41 (+9.71%)
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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said he owns only a small amount of bitcoin but is closely watching the cryptocurrency as part of a broader shift in financial technology.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/18/goldman-sachs-david-solomon-says-he-owns-very-little-bitcoin-but-watching-it-closely
Hyperliquid Launches Hyperliquid Policy Center, Allocates 1M HYPE Tokens (~$29M) to Engage U.S. Regulators
https://fortune.com/2026/02/18/hyperliquid-launches-defi-focused-policy-shop-led-by-prominent-crypto-lawyer-jake-chervinsky/
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Phantom has introduced the MCP Server
https://x.com/phantom/status/2023866789860675625
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund held zero shares in ether treasury firm ETHZillan at the end of 2025
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/18/peter-thiel-dumps-all-his-stock-in-ether-treasury-firm-ethzilla
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds invested more than $1 billion in Bitcoin ETFs
Mubadala Investment Company: 12,702,323 shares of iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) worth approximately $631 million
Al Warda Investments: 8,218,712 shares of IBIT worth approximately $408 million
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2075444/000092963826000633/xslForm13F_X02/informationtable.xml
The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 57.55%
Market Cap - $2.35T
BTC - $67,627 (-1.24%)
ETH - $1,997 (+0.65%)
BNB - $619 (-1.29%)
SOL - $85 (-1.19%)
WLFI - $0.11 (+15.08%)
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Gemini fires three top execs amid $600M losses
https://www.theblock.co/post/390172/gemini-exchange-parts-ways-cfo-coo-clo-big-shakeup
Crypto venture firm Dragonfly closes $650 million fourth fund—even as blockchain VCs face ‘mass extinction’
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/dragonfly-fourth-fund-crypto-venture-capital-blockchain-polymarket-ethena/
Harvard trims bitcoin ETF holdings by 21%
https://www.theblock.co/amp/post/389996/harvard-bitcoin-ether-etf-holdings
The entire former ECC team is now Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), and Zcash is rebranding the Zashi wallet to Zodl
https://x.com/zashi_app/status/2023427477830275147
SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins says the SEC is rolling out multiple crypto regulatory initiatives in the coming weeks to months
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/atkins-peirce-021826-number-go-down-other-schadenfreude
Ethereum Foundation Introduces Protocol Priorities Update for 2026
Three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX.
Glamsterdam is the next major network upgrade, targeted for the first half of 2026.
https://blog.ethereum.org/2026/02/18/protocol-priorities-update-2026
Base, the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum Layer 2, is pivoting away from Optimism’s Superchain ecosystem and "evolving its foundational software by moving to a unified, Base-operated stack"
https://www.theblock.co/post/390380/coinbase-incubated-base-network-to-ditch-optimism-for-unified-solution
Pineapple Financial has released a brand new dashboard showcasing that it has accumulated over 7 Million INJ tokens to date, representing 7% of the total supply of Injective
https://x.com/PAPLpineapple/status/2023845394103628108
Financial giant with $3.5 trillion asset Apex to pilot Trump-affiliated WLFI stablecoin for tokenized funds
The financial giant with $3.5 trillion in assets has teamed up with World Liberty Financial to test the USD1 stablecoin for fund flows and tokenized assets.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/18/apex-group-to-pilot-trump-affiliated-wlfi-stablecoin-for-tokenized-funds
Grayscale Sui Staking ETF is live on NYSE Arca
https://x.com/Grayscale/status/2023963615607615725
Arthur Hayes has introduced his essay “This Is Fine”
Bitcoin is the global fiat liquidity fire alarm. It is the most responsive freely traded asset to the fiat credit supply. The divergence recently between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100 Index (“Nasdaq”) sounds the alarm that a massive credit destruction event is nigh. Many investors perceive Bitcoin, because of its past correlation with US big tech stonks, as a leveraged play on the Nasdaq. Therefore, when they diverge in performance, it warrants further investigation into any trigger that could cause a destruction of fiat, but mostly dollar, credit, aka deflation!
https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/this-is-fine
Gold firm Elemental Royalty to pay out dividends in Tether's tokenized gold
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/17/gold-firm-elemental-royalty-to-pay-out-dividends-in-tether-s-tokenized-gold
The Zora attention market is now live on Solana
https://x.com/zora/status/2023797263651533053
Pump.fun introduces Cashback Coins, allowing creators to redirect all Creator Fees to traders instead of token deployers, as it continues iterating on its model amid weaker memecoin activity.
https://x.com/Pumpfun/status/2023781357168537818
🟠 Average Buy Prices of Top BTC Treasuries
• TMTG $108,629
• Metaplanet $106,770
• Strategy $76,062
• Binance SAFU $69,160
• Tether $38,930
• Tesla $32,610
• Block, Inc. $28,813
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BitMine acquired 45,759 ETH worth around ~$91M last week
The company holds 4,371 million ETH valued at ~$8.7B.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitmine-immersion-technologies-bmnr-announces-eth-holdings-reach-4-371-million-tokens-and-total-crypto-and-total-cash-holdings-of-9-6-billion-302689296.html
Strategy has acquired 2,486 BTC for ~$168.4 million at ~$67,710 per bitcoin. As of 2/16/2026, it holds 717,131 BTC acquired for ~$54.52 billion at ~$76,027 per bitcoin.
https://x.com/strategy/status/2023744904283714016
Wintermute launched institutional OTC trading for tokenized gold and expects the market to reach $15 billion by 2026.
https://x.com/Cointelegraph/status/2023517798337556962
OpenSea will make announcements on March 30
https://x.com/opensea/status/2023432604784189920