HashStack #029

Strategy made a purchase of 4483 BTC during the period from 2 February to 17 February as the price of Bitcoin declined by more than 13% over the same period. 

Metaplanet released its full year result for 2025 highlighting a loss of $619M after sharp Bitcoin valuation adjustments loss. 

Bitcoin Core shipped Bitcoin Core 29.3 bringing fixes to wallet migration. 

Fireblocks announced integration with Stacks, enabling clients to access a range of Bitcoin-denominated yields across the stacks ecosystem.

BTCPay Server shipped v2.3.5. 

Bitcoin miner Bitdeer overtakes MARA in terms of self mining hash rate, becoming the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner. 

Lightning Labs released AI agent tools to enable native Bitcoin lightning payments via L402 payment protocol. 

Wrapped Bitcoin taps Hyperlane for transfers between Ethereum and Solana.

Ethereum Foundation launched Platform Team to foster more synergistic development between L1 and L2s. 

Robinhood’s L2 enters public testnet phase. 

Base to pivot from OP Superchain to become its own unified operating stack.

Ethereum Foundation announced Protocol Priorities for 2026 with focus on scaling L1s, blobs and improving UX. 

BlackRock’s forthcoming staking ETH ETFs to include a 18% staking fee to be distributed to BlackRock. 

BitMine’s ETH treasury grows to 4.37M ETH as the firm continues its accumulation. 

ETHZilla to tokenize its home loan portfolio that yields 10.36% on L2 network as it expands beyond passive ETH acquisition. 

MegaETH Foundation to use USDM stablecoin revenue to fund token buybacks. MegaETH has also debuted its mainnet. 

StarkWare integrates Nightfall privacy tech into Starknet to allow for confidential transactions.

Grayscale and Canary Capital SUI ETFs go live on NYSE Arca and Nasdaq respectively.  

Hyperliquid launches Hyperliquid Policy Center, allocates 1M HYPE to support legalizing DeFi access in the U.S. 

Aptos announced plans to update its tokenomics to reduce staking rewards , increase its gas fees, cap token supply among others. 

Solana Company rolls out credit lines against staked SOL in partnership with Anchorage and Kamino. 

Morpho enters into a cooperation agreement with Apollo Global Management, allowing the firm to buy up to 90M MORPHO over a 48 month period. 

Pump.fun introduces Cashback Coins, allowing creators to redirect creator fees to traders, as it tests new business models to spur memecoin activity. 

Securitize announced a partnership with Uniswap to distribute BUIDL token onchain via UniswapX. 

ZeroLend announced its decision to shut down after facing liquidity and revenue pressures. 

Oracle error left Moonwell in a $1.8M bad debt. 

Uniswap governance is now voting on a proposal to activate protocol fees on v2 and v3 deployments across 8 additional chains. 

Ledger integrates OKX DEX to wallet. 

Mantle launches incentives on the Aave Mantle market. 

Phantom has introduced an MCP server enabling agents to swap, sign and manage addresses across Phantom’s supported chains. 

OpenAI and Paradigm introduced EVMBench, a new benchmark that evaluates agents on their ability to detect, exploit and patch smart contract vulnerabilities. 

Coinbase launched wallets for AI Agents to drive agentic commerce on Base using x402 standard. 

deBridge launched MCP enabling AI Agents to execute non-custodial cross-chain transactions. 

Prime Intellect unveiled Lab, a comprehensive platform enabling teams to develop, test, and train agentic models in customized environments without handling GPU or infrastructure management.

The ASI Alliance introduced the closed alpha of ASI:Create, a decentralized marketplace for creating and monetizing AI agents.

Virtual's aGDP.io empowered OpenClaw agents to enable on-chain commerce through the Agentic Commerce Protocol.

Circle and Openmind partnered to enable USDC for machine-to-machine nanopayments.

Bridge received conditional approval for the National Bank Trust Charter to boost stablecoin offerings. 

Stripe adds x402 to USDC agent payments on Base. 

Privacy-preserving USAD stablecoin launched on Aleo via Paxos partnership. 

Zerohash adds Monad to expand USDC payment support. 

TON Foundation partners with OSL’s Banxa to expand stablecoin payment for APAC merchants on TON infrastructure. 

suiUSDe goes live on the Sui network.

Bridge brings USDT on/off ramps to Plasma via orchestration APIs.

PYUSD goes live on Kamino PRIME market, enabling leveraged borrowing via Figure. 

Agant is now registered with the FCA ahead of its pound stablecoin launch. 

Nomura Holdings and Daiwa Securities Group will work with Japan’s 3 largest banks to test stablecoin securities settlement. 

BVNK secured its MiCA CASP license from Malta’s MFSA. 

Privy launched its custodial wallet built together with Bridge. 

SocGen taps XRP Ledger for euro stablecoin distribution. 

Anchorage launched Stablecoin Solutions for Banks to modernize cross-border USD settlement. 

Gold firm Elemental Royalty to pay out dividends in Tether's tokenized gold. 

Tether deepens its gold exposure with $150M investment into Gold.com

Ripple partners with Aviva to tokenize funds on XRP Ledger. 

Wintermute launched institutional gold trading services. 

Tokenized equities go live on Euler Finance with utility spanning lending, borrowing and structured products. 

Tokenized stocks go live on Morpho backed by Gauntlet-curated RWA vaults. 

Kraken acquired the token management platform, Magna. 

Sports prediction market platform Novig received $75M funding in Series B round at a $500M valuation led by Pantera Capital.

PRED, a sports prediction market on Base, raised $2.5M in seed funding led by Accel. 

Anchorage Digital received $100M in strategic funding from Tether at a $4.2B valuation. 

Relay, a cross-chain bridge aggregator, raised $17M in Series B led by Archetype and USV. 

Staking service provider, Chorus One, is acquired by asset management firm Bitwise. 

TRM Labs, a blockchain risk management platform, raised a $70M Series C funding at a $1B valuation led by Blockchain Capital. 

SUI lists on HashKey Exchange

Kaito AI partners with Polymarket to let users wager on brand popularity and users opinions. 

Animoca Brands secures Dubai VASP license to provide broker-dealer and investment services. 

Peaq released its Value Loop Toolkit in beta, a modular tool for builders to create revenue-backed token demand loops using onchain revenue, vesting, and automated swaps to replace emissions-based rewards. Peaq highlighted the integration with openclaw for bringing robots onchain, enabling real-world physical AI agents with onchain capabilities like navigation and trading.

Plume signed a strategic cooperation agreement with licensed digital asset platform EX.IO to promote large-scale institutional RWA adoption in Hong Kong