Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov argued that disagreement inside decentralized autonomous organizations is a positive indicator for protocol governance, pointing to a 2024 grant proposal in the Curve DAO and a December 2025 dispute in the Aave DAO. In the Curve case, a $6.3 million-equivalent grant plan for Swiss Stake AG was revised after pushback and later drew over 80% turnout, while the Aave dispute over CoW Swap fee flows and intellectual property control highlighted how legal recognition and ownership structures remain unresolved for DAOs.

On 22 February 2026 at 15:14, weekly activity on spot decentralized exchanges reached a record 38.1 million transactions over the past seven days, largely propelled by prediction markets. Polymarket registered 19.6 million weekly transactions by mid‑February 2026, ahead of Kalshi at 17.4 million, while sector volumes have grown more than 130x since 2024 and surpassed $13 billion.

BNP Paribas Asset Management is piloting a tokenised share class of a French money market fund on Ethereum using the ERC-3643 standard, with regulated access for pre-approved investors. In parallel, the bank is helping lead Qivalis, a Euro stablecoin backed by segregated reserves and targeting a commercial rollout in the second half of 2026 across Ethereum, Polygon, and Base.

Russia's tax service says more than 5,500 crypto miners are now declaring their output, split between 1,500 companies and sole proprietors and 4,000 individuals. Mining was legalized by laws adopted in August and October 2024, and both registered operators and small-scale users must submit monthly reports via FNS accounts, with an online registration process available.

BGD, a core engineering vendor to Aave DAO, said Friday it will not renew its contract, which ends on April 1. The company cited disagreements over shifting users from Aave v3 to the forthcoming v4. AAVE fell more than 6% after the notice, while Aave Labs said v3 will remain supported with no immediate migration timeline.

On 20 February 2026, BNP Paribas launched a pilot that tokenizes a share class of a French money market fund on the public Ethereum network using the ERC-3643 standard and a permissioned, regulated framework. The bank is also spearheading Qivalis, a euro-pegged stablecoin backed by a consortium of 12 European banks, which aims for a commercial rollout in the second half of 2026. Together these initiatives indicate a wider move toward on-chain finance focused on institutional payments and compliant access to blockchain infrastructure.

On Feb. 5, 2026, the ECB held its deposit facility rate at 2.00% while advancing the digital euro. It estimates about €1.3 billion in development costs and plans a March 2026 call for payment providers, followed by a 12‑month pilot in H2 2027. FT also reports Christine Lagarde may exit before October 2027.

In February 2026, the Dubai Land Department launched the second phase of its real estate tokenization pilot after roughly $5 million in property was tokenized into about 7.8 million tradable tokens. Infrastructure partner Ctrl Alt will issue Asset-Referenced Virtual Asset management tokens on the XRP Ledger, with Ripple Custody securing onchain transactions, while DarGlobal and Trump-backed World Liberty Financial plan to tokenize the development phase of a Trump-branded resort in the Maldives through Securitize.