The community of @Uniswap Protocol has initiated the final vote to activate the protocol fee switch across eight blockchains, including Base, @Arbitrum Foundation , OP Mainnet, World Chain, X Layer, @celo , Soneium, and Zora.
The proposal aims to divert at least one-sixth of trading fees from liquidity providers on these networks and redistribute the value to UNI holders through the burning of an equivalent amount of UNI tokens. Fee sharing has already been implemented on Ethereum mainnet v2 and partially on v3 pools since late last year, generating approximately $3.3 million in revenue. This new proposal is also expected to extend coverage to the remaining v3 pools on Ethereum.
The two final governance votes related to this proposal are scheduled to conclude on March 4.
Vitalik Buterin: @Ethereum scaling to be executed in short- and long-term phases, introducing multidimensional gas to prevent state bloat
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shared a detailed discussion on Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, emphasizing that it should be divided into short-term and long-term phases.
In the short term, scaling will primarily rely on the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade. Key improvements include using block-level access lists for faster validation, the ePBS mechanism to allow more time for block validation, and adjusting gas prices to match actual execution time. Additionally, multidimensional gas will be introduced to differentiate resource consumption, helping to mitigate the issue of state bloat.
During the Glamsterdam upgrade, state creation costs will be separated, meaning gas used for state creation will not count toward the standard gas limit—thereby supporting larger contract deployments. The EVM will maintain compatibility through a “reservoir” mechanism, ensuring that subcalls and gas-related operations continue to function normally. Over time, Ethereum will gradually transition toward multidimensional gas pricing to achieve long-term economic sustainability while preserving flexibility.
In the long term, the focus will shift to ZK-EVM and blobs. Through iterative improvements such as PeerDAS, blobs aim to reach 8 MB/s data availability, allowing block data to be verified directly without requiring full downloads.
🔥Binance Alpha Is Heating Up — But Don’t Get Blinded by Green Candles
Today’s top gainers on Binance Alpha are exploding — led by names like $SAHARA , $TAKER , and $RDO , all pushing 30–40% in just 24 hours.
At first glance, it looks like a full-blown AI narrative breakout. But zoom out — this is rotation, not confirmation. Most of these tokens share the same pattern:
LayerZero Co-founder: DAO Has Burned All Remaining $STG ; STG-to-$ZRO Conversion Contract Remains Fully Open
LayerZero Labs co-founder and CEO Bryan Pellegrino announced on social media that, as previously committed, all remaining $STG tokens held by the DAO have been permanently burned.
He further confirmed that the token conversion contract remains fully accessible to all users, allowing continued swapping from STG to ZRO coin. In addition, STG has now been officially rebranded as ZRO, marking a completed transition within the protocol’s token framework.
🚀 Binance & Binance Future Listings Are Hitting ATHs - But Here’s the Catch
Amid growing market pessimism as Bitcoin and other major projects remain under heavy selling pressure, smaller-cap projects are seizing the opportunity to stand out, capturing increasing attention from investors seeking alternative momentum.
New tokens listed on Binance and its futures market are rapidly pushing to all-time highs. The Top List includes: $ESP $SIREN $POWER $GUA $PIPPIN
Listings concentrate liquidity, while futures add leverage. Combine that with market attention, and you get a short-term feedback loop:
According to an official announcement, the DeFi protocol @ListaDAO - has introduced Lista Credit, described as the first on-chain credit lending system, aiming to provide unsecured financing channels for users. This product enables borrowers to access liquidity on demand based on their cash flow needs, attempting to move beyond the traditional overcollateralized lending model that dominates DeFi today.
Per the official overview, Lista Credit incorporates a token incentive mechanism to support repayment. Borrowers can reduce their repayment costs through daily and weekly LISTA incentives, while also being able to borrow and repay using stable “U” assets, enhancing flexibility in capital utilization.
ListaDAO stated that this launch marks a potential shift in DeFi lending—from a “collateral-based” framework toward a “credit-based” model. If successfully implemented, this approach could unlock new use cases for on-chain consumer finance, operational funding, and cash flow management.
Tokenized equities aren’t a side narrative anymore - they’re quietly becoming one of the cleanest bridges between TradFi and crypto.
Names like Alphabet, Tesla , and @Circle USDC dominate the board, showing where demand naturally flows: familiar assets with strong narratives. But what’s more interesting is the duplication - the same stocks appearing in multiple tokenized versions. That’s not inefficiency; it’s competition for liquidity.
Meanwhile, exposure to nvidia, MicroStrategy , and even commodities via tokenized trusts signals a broader shift: users don’t just want crypto-native assets anymore - they want everything, but on-chain.
Lower down the list, smaller plays like Nest Alpha or tokenized oil hint at experimentation still happening at the edges
$ETH | Founder Selling Activity Amid Sustained Market Pressure Over the past week, Vitalik Buterin has sold approximately $7.3M worth of $ETH, with transactions gradually distributed from the $2.3K range down to current levels At the same time, the broader crypto market continues to experience persistent downside pressure, accompanied by weakening sentiment and reduced risk appetite This activity could contribute to a continuation of negative short-term sentiment, in line with the broader market’s prevailing downtrend
According to monitoring by Ember, @YZi Labs transferred 37.33 million $EDU tokens (worth approximately $4.37 million) to Binance just 10 minutes ago.
Following its full liquidation of $ID about two weeks ago, as well as the recent sell-offs of $AI and $WOO yesterday, this marks yet another liquidation move by YZi Labs.
Binance HODLer Airdrop Projects Are Mostly Flops. The Tier List Says Everything
You scroll the list expecting a winner - a breakout airdrop that actually stuck. There isn’t one
This isn't due to the bar being too high, but rather because the nature of the game has evolved. Most @binance HODLer airdrops today are designed for distribution, not long-term value. Supply hits the market fast, early users cash out, and narratives fade before fundamentals even have time to matter.
A-tier projects stand out with real traction - showing solid price momentum and actual utility, not just narratives. They didn’t win; they just dumped slower like $BARD . Some have decent traction, maybe a working product, maybe a growing user base. But none have reached that rare point where demand truly absorbs supply. Other A Tier Projects are: $FF and $HOME
B and C tiers tell a more familiar story: decent ideas, weak retention, and charts that look better in hindsight than in real time. Kaito and Solayer are perfect examples of how they led a specific narrative but were unable to withstand it for long.
And D-tier… that’s where hype went to die. Take Berachain ( $BERA ) as an example; with a total $142M total fundraising valuation, it is a huge flop right now.
This is a snapshot of a market where attention is greater than fundamentals, and liquidity decides everything.
The probability of insider trading exposure involving Meteora ( $MET ) once surged to 48%, temporarily ranking it as the most likely project to be implicated in the crypto space.
According to monitoring by Polymarket, within the market titled “Which crypto company will ZachXBT expose for insider trading?”, Meteora’s probability has now declined to 35%, though it still tops the list. Other projects remain significantly lower, around the 10% range.
Notably, Meteora—known as the issuer behind the $MELANIA meme coin linked to Melania Trump—has faced prior legal scrutiny. Last year, the U.S. sued its senior executives over allegations of launching tokens despite anticipating a sharp collapse. The project has also been accused of being behind the celebrity token $LIBRA, associated with Javier Milei.
Lookonchain's on-chain data reveals that a newly created Polymarket account wagered $5,891 on Meteora, exposing it to insider trading. The same wallet deposited 11,500 USDC into Hyperliquid, opening a 3x leveraged short position of 186,435 MET, valued at approximately $33,000.
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT previously hinted at releasing a major investigation on February 26, targeting one of the most profitable entities in the crypto industry, with multiple employees allegedly engaging in prolonged insider trading using internal data.
Today’s top gainers show a clear narrative forming - AI + infra plays are quietly leading the charge.
Pippin tops the list (+21.6%), followed by $ARC (+14.3%) and $DEXE (+12.6%). What’s interesting is the consistency: @KITE AI 中文 , @Unibase @AWE Network ,… all moving in sync
Even older names like @DigiByteCoin - $DGB are catching a bid, suggesting liquidity is rotating across both narratives and legacy assets
This doesn’t look like a random pump - it’s structured, sector-driven momentum.
If this trend holds, AI could be setting up for another short-term expansion phase
Wednesday (Feb 25) - President Trump Speaks - Significance: Presidential speeches can trigger high volatility across all financial markets Friday (Feb 27) - Core PPI m/m & PPI m/m - Significance: key gauge of inflation from the producer's perspective
⚠️ Medium-Impact News - Thursday (Feb 26) - Unemployment Claims: Weekly data that provides early clues on labor market shifts
🛡 Brace for impact! High volatility ahead. Stay disciplined and protect your capital. No FOMO preservation over FOMO
Vitalik Buterin proposes integrating transaction simulation to enhance security and user experience for Ethereum wallets and smart contracts.
The @Ethereum co-founder suggests improving both usability and safety through features such as “transaction simulation,” allowing users to first express their intended on-chain actions and then choose to confirm or cancel after reviewing simulated outcomes.
In addition, he proposes integrating mechanisms like spending limits and multi-signature authorization to better align user intent, expected results, and risk boundaries—thereby reducing the likelihood of high-risk or unintended transactions.
However, he also acknowledges that accurately defining user intent is extremely complex, making “perfect security” unattainable. As a result, he advocates for multi-layered verification of user intent to strengthen overall system security.
Security remains one of the core elements of the blockchain “trilemma,” alongside decentralization and scalability—both of which, especially scalability, have received increasing attention within the Ethereum ecosystem recently.
Bitcoin has returned to extreme fear levels after erasing its weekend gains, experiencing a sharp decline of over $3,000 within two hours to approximately $64,300, following a daily drop exceeding 4% on Monday.
This downturn has pushed the Crypto Fear and Greed Index to a historic low of 5/100, reflecting heightened market anxiety.
More than 136,000 traders were liquidated over the past 24 hours, with total liquidations reaching $458 million, of which approximately 92% were leveraged long positions.
This came from Donald Trump announces increase in global tariffs from 10% to 15% event - The US president stated that the move targets countries that have allegedly “exploited” the United States for decades. - He also indicated that additional tariff measures are expected to be implemented in the coming months.
$BTC is currently trading about 48% below its all-time high of $126,000 recorded in October, and 5.5% below the previous cycle peak of $69,000 established in 2021.
@IoTeX Network is currently investigating a suspected security breach involving one of its token safes, after on-chain analysts detected unusual activity suggesting a potential compromise.
The $IOTX token declined by more than 8%, falling to approximately $0.0049, as traders reacted to the incident.
It is estimated that around $4.3 million was drained from the affected wallet, including assets such as USDC, USDT, IOTX, and wrapped Bitcoin. The stolen funds were subsequently converted into Ether and transferred across multiple blockchain networks.
Fake Uniswap Ads Drain Six-Figure Wallets as Crypto Exploits Reach $3.7 Billion in January
Hayden Adams, founder of the decentralized exchange @Uniswap Protocol , has issued a warning to users regarding fraudulent online advertisements impersonating the platform, following an incident in which a victim lost an entire six-figure crypto wallet.
In January alone, a total of $3.7 billion was lost to exploits and scams—the highest level recorded in the past 11 months—with a single victim reportedly losing approximately $2.84 billion through a social engineering attack.
These malicious advertisements have appeared at the top of Google search results, mimicking Uniswap’s official interface to deceive users into connecting their wallets and approving unauthorized fund withdrawal transactions.
Espresso - a protocol emerges as an EVM-compatible blockchain offering scaling and privacy solutions for Web 3 applications - has experienced a new ATH today!
However, $ESP current Market Cap is still in an extremely reasonable price: at $44M