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Upbit will list Aztec today at 7:30 UTC
https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=6025&view=share
Vitalik Buterin: “Lengthening the feedback distance between humans and AIs is not a good thing for the world.
Today, it means you're generating slop instead of solving useful problems for people. It's not even well-optimized for helping people have fun.
Once AI becomes powerful enough to be truly dangerous, it's maximizing the risk of an irreversible anti-human outcome that even you will deeply regret.
The point of ethereum is to set *us* free, not to create something else that goes off and does some stuff freely while our own situation is unchanged or worsened. (And, as others have pointed out, the models are run by openai and anthropic, so the thing is not even "self-sovereign"; you're actually perpetuating the mentality that centralized trust assumptions can be put in a corner and ignored, the very mentality that ethereum is at war with)
The exponential will happen regardless of what any of us do, that's precisely why this era's primary task is NOT to make the exponential happen even faster, but rather to choose its direction, and avoid collapse into undesirable attractors.”
https://x.com/vitalikbuterin/status/2024543743127539901
Injective announced its flagship event — Injective Summit 2026
▫️July 16, 2026
https://injective.com/summit2026
https://x.com/injective/status/2024485584631206247
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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Hyperliquid, Polymarket, Phantom, Securitize, and Ledn Make Forbes’ 2026 List “The Fintech 50”
https://www.forbes.com/lists/fintech50/
Haseeb: “Crypto was not made for humans”.
https://x.com/hosseeb/status/2024136762424185208
The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 57.93%
Market Cap - $2.32T
BTC - $67,310 (+0.89%)
ETH - $1,948 (-0.89%)
BNB - $607 (-0.18%)
SOL - $82 (+1.53%)
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Morgan Stanley, other top holders add Bitmine exposure amid sell-off
https://cointelegraph.com/news/morgan-stanley-bitmine-shareholders-bmnr-holdings-stock-crash
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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