Stellar Community Fund-backed IRL check-ins let attendees create Stellar wallets via Privy or Meridian Pay and earn onchain IRL Points. IRL logged 1,320 Checkpoint photo booth portraits at Meridian 2025…

Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based Ethereum Layer 2, has launched a public testnet, integrating Chainlink for market data and tokenization. Robinhood reported Q4 2025 net revenue of $1.28 billion, up 27%…

Polygon joins EEA to work on institutional payment rails, global settlement, and compliant movement from onchain to traditional rails. Open Money Stack ties stablecoin rails to Coinme on/off ramps and…

CZ has brushed aside the “blame Binance” claims as BTC, ETH, and BNB trade lower, urging users to own their trading decisions. Citing a report on an AI-driven “FUD” campaign,…

Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov says this cycle lacks system-wide failures seen in the prior cycle, pointing to stronger risk controls and resilience. He says RWA issuance and onchain perps keep growing…

Cardano Rosetta Java v2.0.0 cuts initial synchronization from 52 hours to about 37 hours and upgrades PostgreSQL from v14 to v18. Since mid-January 2026, the share of ADA supply in…

Ethereum EIP-8025 allows zkAttesters to validate blocks by verifying zk proofs without re-executing every transaction. The first L1 zkEVM workshop is set for February 11, 2026, covering witness standards, CL…

SushiSwap has launched on Solana to enable over four million users to swap tokens native to Solana while using the Sushi interface. Bridging and cross-chain swaps become operational upon launching,…

Ripple expands its UAE partnership with Zand to add RLUSD support into the digital bank’s regulated digital asset custody. The firms will work on direct liquidity links between RLUSD and…

Ripple Custody partners with Figment, allowing banks to offer Ethereum and Solana staking without running validator infrastructure or extra tooling. Figment provides non-custodial staking, validator operations, and reporting, while Ripple…

Arowana will launch AGT token and Aqua gold platform on Arbitrum in March 2026 with physically backed gold. Hancom Group operates Korea’s third-largest gold exchange with 600 million in trading…

Solana Foundation launched an institutional Trading Program with white-glove onboarding for professional firms.  Huma Finance reported PayFi transactions surpassed $10 billion; Superteam Earn said total user earnings reached $10 million.…

Ripple is estimated at a $50 billion valuation, up from a $40 billion post-money valuation reported in Q4 2025. The firm raised $500 million in November 2025 at a $40…

The TON blockchain has launched TON Pay, a new shared payments layer for any app deployed on its network. The new patform, which comes with instant onchain settlement, aims to…

Analysts from Bernstein called the current dip “the weakest Bitcoin bear case in history” and expect the top crypto to bounce back and hit $150,000 this year. They say that…