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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

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

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

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%) https://dropstab.com

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

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

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

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/

Grayscale Sui Staking ETF is live on NYSE Arca https://x.com/Grayscale/status/2023963615607615725

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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

Phantom has introduced the MCP Server https://x.com/phantom/status/2023866789860675625