Crypto fear remained entrenched through all of February 2026, with the Fear & Greed Index back at 6. Bitcoin fell to $65,088 and Ether dropped to $1,873.
The US Clarity Act may be delayed to May after banks pushed back against stablecoin yield provisions, while Kelp DAO suffered a $290 million hack that also strained Aave markets.
On June 3, David Schwartz and Brad Garlinghouse marked XRPL's 14th anniversary, praising community contributions. On-chain data shows the network processed ~1.44 million payments on June 2, while the recent XRPL 3.2.0 upgrade enhanced security and ecosystem functionality.
Institutional crypto trading platform Talos closed a $45M Series B extension, bringing total B round to $150M at a ~$1.5B valuation. Investors include Robinhood, a16z Crypto, BNY, Fidelity. The firm offers trade execution and risk tools for professional investors.
EIP-8025 introduces optional execution proofs, replacing traditional block replay with zero-knowledge verification. The upgrade requires 12 GPUs on average, raising centralization concerns, while pushing statelessness and forcing L2s to find new differentiation. Draft phase, long-term play.
Hyperliquid generated $1.19 million in fee revenue today and burned 17,600 HYPE valued at about $1.03 million, according to a post by Onchain Lens on X cited by Odaily. The update focused on the platform’s single-day revenue and token burn data. No additional operating details were disclosed in the source. The item was published under the whale movement category.
The open-source project agency-agents has topped 84,000 GitHub stars and 13,000 forks, offering more than 144 AI employee personas across 12 departments with workflows and measurable KPIs.
Bitcoin slid from $82,833 to an intraday low of $79,500 on May 7, wiping out weekly gains. The move triggered about $270 million in crypto liquidations, including $91 million in bitcoin longs.
