On February 17 2026, UAE- and Saudi-based digital real estate investment platform Stake closed a $31 million Series B funding round led by Emirates NBD, bringing its total raised capital to $58 million. The company plans to channel the new funds into AI, tokenization initiatives and new products, while expanding in Saudi Arabia and participating in the country's property tokenization sandbox.

On February 5, 2026, Animoca Brands received a Virtual Asset Service Provider license from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, enabling it to offer broker-dealer and asset management services to institutional and qualified investors across the emirate, excluding the DIFC. The company is also collaborating with Rootstock Labs on Bitcoin-native treasury tools for Japanese corporations, while Dubai continues to strengthen its role as an international crypto hub through transparent regulations and support for firms such as Amber Premium.

On Feb. 13, cybersecurity expert Dmitry Smilyanets reported receiving a fake Trezor-branded letter demanding an "Authentication Check" by Feb. 15 or risk device restrictions, with a QR code leading to a phishing site. The scam, which mislabels Trezor CEO Matěj Žák as "Ledger CEO," targets hardware wallet users whose postal data was exposed in past breaches and attempts to trick them into entering seed recovery phrases. Similar physical letters and QR-based attacks have been reported against Ledger users since at least October last year, following multiple data leaks impacting both Ledger and Trezor customers.

R3E Network founder Jimmy Liao launched a Neo N3 Red Envelope app to mark Chinese New Year, letting eligible wallets open packets for GAS rewards. The featured pool holds 100 GAS across 100 claim slots, gated to wallets that have held at least one NEO for more than one day, with GAS donated by Neo News Today.

Germany's Bundesbank said it supports broad adoption of a digital euro and euro-denominated stablecoins to strengthen Europe's financial system, while ECB officials warned that reliance on dollar-pegged tokens can hinder monetary policy transmission. Analysts expect the stablecoin market to approach around $500 billion by 2028, with longer-term scenarios pointing to euro figures in the hundreds of billions.

On February 16, 2026, XRP Ledger introduced an official digital hub inside the xSPECTAR metaverse to support learning, interaction, and community building for the XRPL ecosystem. The initiative offers a structured virtual venue for developers, users, and partners without adding new protocols or financial products, while broader metaverse usage data shows strong NFT adoption and identity tooling. On-chain metrics for late 2025 further indicate rising XRPL transaction volumes, significant stablecoin circulation, and real‑world asset value that recently edged past Solana on a key tokenization measure.

On February 16, 2026, OpenEden said attackers compromised the DNS for openeden.com and portal.openeden.com, creating a phishing risk for anyone accessing those domains. The team sclaimed reserves remain verifiable via Chainlink Proof of Reserve, but users could lose assets if they connect wallets to spoofed pages. The team is investigating and advised against interacting with the sites.

According to the report, scammers are mailing hardware wallet users letters that mimic Trezor and Ledger notices, pushing recipients to scan QR codes and enter recovery phrases. The messages cite urgent security checks and route to clone setup pages that accept 12-, 20-, and 24-word seeds. Hardware wallets are not compromised, but revealing a seed enables immediate wallet takeover.