Bybit CEO Ben Year-End Keynote: 1010 Review and 2026 RoadmapIn this keynote address, Bybit CEO Ben reviews the rapid development of the global crypto industry in 2025 and systematically outlines Bybit’s strategic transition from a “crypto exchange” to a “comprehensive financial platform.”During the speech, Ben also reflects in detail on the market turmoil of October 10 (10.10), analyzing its impact on market liquidity and trading infrastructure. Read more: https://t.co/3xDGQUhSo6 ...

Aptos Foundation has released a tokenomics update with the following key proposals: reducing the staking reward APR from 5.19% to 2.6% via governance; initially increasing gas fees by 10x (with gas paid in APT and fully burned); establishing a protocol-level hard cap of 2.1 billion APT; and permanently locking and continuously staking 210 million APT held by the Foundation. Additionally, future grants will transition to KPI-linked "performance-triggered" distributions, and a programmatic buyback mechanism w ...

On Feb. 18 (ET), U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net outflows of $133 million. The BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT saw the largest single-day net outflow at $84.19 million. Spot Ethereum ETFs posted total net outflows of $41.83 million, with the BlackRock spot Ethereum ETF ETHA logging the largest single-day net outflow at $29.93 million. https://t.co/QHxqsa3V6q ...

An analysis found that Kalshi’s implied forecasts for the federal funds target rate delivered an average absolute error over roughly a 150-day horizon comparable to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s professional forecasters. The author argued that macro expectation data from markets like Kalshi—backed by real capital, continuously updated, and information-rich—could provide researchers and policymakers with a new real-time benchmark for expectations. https://t.co/ro5d8tgWzx ...

The Ethereum Foundation released its 2026 protocol priorities update, outlining three tracks: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1. The update highlights continued efforts to push the gas limit toward 100M+ , advance ePBS and further blob parameter increases, develop a zkEVM attester client, and continue security work focused on censorship resistance and post-quantum readiness. https://t.co/pfRkarkgkf ...

OpenAI and Paradigm launched EVMbench, a benchmark designed to measure how well AI agents can detect, patch, and exploit vulnerabilities across EVM ecosystems such as Ethereum. The benchmark is built from 120 high-severity vulnerabilities curated from 40 audits, and includes scenarios related to the Tempo chain. Tests show GPT-5.3-Codex scored 72.2% in "exploit" mode (vs. GPT-5 at 31.9%), while coverage for vulnerability detection and patching remains incomplete. https://t.co/J0lFqC9MCU ...

Base plans to consolidate key network components into its own unified codebase, with node operators required to follow Base’s release versions. Over the coming months, Base will gradually move away from the OP Stack, while continuing to work with Optimism as an OP Enterprise customer. Base said the shift will increase its upgrade cadence from three to six times per year and advance a transition from optimistic proofs toward TEE/ZK-based proofs in future hard forks. As the highest-revenue L2 in the OP Stack ...

Former Binance Listing BD: Manipulators Act Blatantly, No One Looks Long TermOn February 9, former Binance staff Chase was interviewed by Yuzheng Sun on YouTube @kedaibiao. He said the crypto valuation system is mainly composed of liquidity, attention, and chip structure.These three factors determine the medium-to-short-term trend of an asset within 7 days to 3 months, and no one looks at the long term. He emphasized that market makers care about short-term profit rather than value, leading to a lack of lon ...

The Hyperliquid Policy Center has launched in Washington, D.C., with Jake Chervinsky as its first CEO, aiming to advance DeFi adoption in the U.S. and shape related legislation. The center will focus on promoting a regulatory framework for perpetuals (perps), which it argues are simpler than options and futures and offer direct asset exposure, though they are currently traded mainly on offshore exchanges. An affiliated Hyperliquid foundation donated 1 million HYPE tokens (worth about $28 million) to fund it ...

China's RWA Regulatory Framework Officially Released: Interpretations and OutlookOn Feb. 6, 2026, the PBOC and seven agencies issued Yin Fa [2026] No. 42 on virtual currency risks, while the CSRC released rules on offshore issuance of asset-backed tokenized securities backed by onshore assets. RWA is defined as tokenizing asset rights via cryptography and DLT. Onshore RWA is generally banned unless approved; offshore RWA requires strict compliance, CSRC filing, and disclosure. Stablecoins are seen as having ...