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Step Finance and SolanaFloor, two early Solana ecosystem platforms, have announced they are shutting down operations effective immediately after the treasury hack that hit Step Finance at the end of January.Step Finance said it explored financing and acquisition options after the breach but could not secure a viable path forward.  Today we are announcing that Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets will be winding down all operations.Following the hack at the end of January we explored every possible path forward, including financing and acquisition opportunities.Unfortunately, we were unable to…— Step☀️ (@StepFinance_) February 23, 2026 A Tragic End to Solana’s Early…

“In a decentralized governance system, it’s unavoidable to develop politics.” Rune Christensen explains why DAO governance becomes a struggle for resources, how the “iron law of bureaucracy” emerges, and why Sky redesigned its architecture to survive it.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs gave the market a clean, daily scoreboard: a green print meant fresh cash crossing the boundary from traditional brokerage accounts into Bitcoin exposure, and a red print meant the opposite.For much of the first year of spot ETFs in the US, that scoreboard tracked sentiment and set the market’s tempo. Traders learned to treat flows as the simplest proxy for a real bid, because the buyer was observable, usually price-insensitive, and large enough to matter.But that habit is now getting seriously stress-tested.The risk in this phase now comes from flat days, because the cushion disappears without a…

Binance doubled down on its compliance credentials in a blog post after a report published earlier this month accused it of sanction violations.Crypto exchange Binance says it has “significantly reduced exposure” to sanctioned entities and high-risk jurisdictions, including exposure to Iran since January 2024.In a blog post titled “Setting the record straight” on Monday, Binance said its sanctions-related exposure as a percentage of total exchange volume has fallen by about 97% in that time, and now sits at around 0.009%. Exchange volume to sanctions-related entities has declined. Source: BinanceThe post comes after a Feb. 13 Fortune report citing anonymous sources…

Top Stories of The WeekMetaplanet CEO rejects claims it hid details of BTC tradesMetaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich pushed back against accusations that the company misled investors about its Bitcoin strategy and disclosures.Critics on X have argued that Metaplanet delayed or withheld price‑sensitive information about large Bitcoin purchases and options trades funded with shareholder capital, obscured losses from its derivatives strategy and failed to fully disclose key terms of its BTC‑backed borrowings.In a detailed X post on Friday, Gerovich argued that Metaplanet promptly reported all Bitcoin purchases, option strategies and borrowings, and that critics were misreading its financial statements rather than…

Aayush Jindal, a luminary in the world of financial markets, whose expertise spans over 15 illustrious years in the realms of Forex and cryptocurrency trading. Renowned for his unparalleled proficiency in providing technical analysis, Aayush is a trusted advisor and senior market expert to investors worldwide, guiding them through the intricate landscapes of modern finance with his keen insights and astute chart analysis. From a young age, Aayush exhibited a natural aptitude for deciphering complex systems and unraveling patterns. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity for understanding market dynamics, he embarked on a journey that would lead him to become one…

In brief ETH Denver founder John Paller says Web3 has been “epically bad” at building usable consumer products. Aztec Network Zac Williamson argues crypto must beat Web2 on experience, not ideology. Both say adoption will stall unless blockchain becomes invisible to users. Crypto built the plumbing, but it still hasn’t built the products. This was a common theme at the annual Ethereum development conference ETH Denver last week, as attendees attempted to shift the focus away from a continually down market and to building better Web3 products.Two prominent voices at the event, ETH Denver founder John Paller and Aztec Foundation…

Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin proposed a technical overhaul of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), calling for the use of personal artificial intelligence agents to privately cast votes on behalf of users and help scale digital governance.The plan, published on social media platform X one month after Buterin criticized DAOs for drifting into low participation and power centralization, aims to shift users away from delegating votes to large token holders.Instead, individuals would deploy their own AI model, trained on their past messages and stated values, to vote on the thousands of decisions DAOs face.“There are many thousands of decisions to make, involving…

Crypto investors are increasingly exploring beyond the top three cryptocurrencies as the market downturn continues, according to Robinhood’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat.“I think what we see from our customers is that they actually see it as an opportunity,” Kerbrat told Cointelegraph during an exclusive interview, adding that they are seeing it as “an opportunity to buy the dip.”“So we actually see a lot of customers continuing to trade crypto and diversifying, not just on the top two or three assets, but actually going pretty wide,” he said, referring to the largest two cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, Bitcoin (BTC) and…

A set of new ETF filings wants to turn election outcomes into brokerage-account tickers.If approved, they’d also make “political risk” a tradable product on the same rails that already carry spot Bitcoin ETFs, pulling attention, liquidity, and regulatory pressure into the same lane.Roundhill, GraniteShares, and Bitwise’s PredictionShares brand propose funds that track binary “event contracts” tied to US political outcomes, such as which party wins the presidency and which party controls the House or Senate. These contracts trade between $0 and $1 in a way that resembles a probability, then settle at $1 for “yes” and $0 for “no” once…