Uniswap's UNI token is sliding in price even as the community votes on expanding protocol fees to all remaining v3 pools on Ethereum and eight additional networks. The proposal would route collected fees to chain-specific TokenJar contracts, bridge them back to Ethereum, and burn UNI, while current market action shows key support near $3.38 and resistance around $4.24.

February 2026’s roundup spotlights 12 Telegram games across tap‑to‑earn, RPG, farming and runner genres, all playable within the app. Several offer token rewards including HMSTR, CATI, $PIXFI, $GOLD, RBTC and RCC, with extras via referrals, PvP, battle passes and airdrops. Most focus on quick sessions and require no additional downloads.

On February 19, 2026, Standard Chartered lowered its end-2026 price target for XRP to $2.80 from $8 and left its 2030 projection at $28. The bank also pared targets for Bitcoin to $100,000, Ethereum to $4,000, and Solana to $135 amid short-term market pressures.

Robinhood's new Layer-2 testnet built on Arbitrum processed 4 million transactions in its first seven days, as confirmed by CEO Vlad Tenev. The network is positioned as infrastructure for tokenized stocks, ETFs, and onchain financial services, following six months of private testing. Despite a 38% year-over-year decline in Q4 2025 crypto revenue, the company is expanding its tokenization and 24/7 trading stack with partners such as LayerZero, Chainlink, and Alchemy.

On February 18, the Ethereum Foundation outlined its 2026 protocol priorities spanning scaling, user experience, and Layer 1 resilience. The plan targets pushing the gas limit toward and beyond 100 million and advancing blob capacity for rollups, proposer–builder separation, and a zkEVM attester client. Major changes are associated with upcoming forks such as Glamsterdam.

An Ethereum developer detailed how ERC-5564 enables native stealth addresses using public meta-addresses and one-time destinations to keep wallets and histories private. The design introduces viewing and spending keys, plus optional delegation for payment scanning. He also noted gas requirements for fresh addresses and potential spam-triggered scans, with sender-included ETH and filters proposed as mitigations.

Dragonfly Capital closed its fourth $650 million fund in a venture environment described as a “mass extinction event,” signaling that institutional backing for select crypto managers persists. Data from Binance Research, Keyrock, Animoca Brands Research, Memento Research, and Tokenomist show how low-float, high-FDV token launches and large unlock schedules have driven systematic dilution and price pressure. While some projects like Backpack, Jupiter, and USDai experiment with KPI-based unlocks, revenue-linked buybacks, or fully transparent token sales, others face heavy overhang from insider unlocks and thin liquidity. Whether new VC capital flows into token-heavy structures or fintech rails without tokens will shape how much of this funding actually benefits liquid crypto assets.

On February 19, 2026, Blockstream CEO Adam Back declared on X that the future of finance will be built on Bitcoin and the company's Liquid sidechain network. Venture investor Anthony Pompliano also reiterated his belief on February 18, 2026, that if Bitcoin avoids going to zero, it could eventually reach $1,000,000 per coin, while BTC now trades at $66,872, about 47% below its $126,198 all-time high.