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The upgrade is expected to feature EOF, PeerDAS, and EIP-7702, among other proposals.

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Succinct Announces $PROVE Airdrop
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Pectra Targeted For Q1 2025
The upgrade is expected to feature EOF, PeerDAS, and EIP-7702, among other proposals.

JP Morgan Buys $102m BMNR Shares
J.P. Morgan acquired 1,974,144 shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. (BMNR), the world’s largest Ethereum treasury company.

Succinct Announces $PROVE Airdrop
$PROVE is the native token of the Succinct Prover Network and will serve as payment for generating proofs, economic security through staking and slashing, and governance.
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The Ethereum Foundation announced a dedicated effort to strengthen DeFi on Ethereum and support Defipunk values, including permissionless, censorship-resistant, privacy-first, self-custodial, and open source. The EF believes that DeFi should not replicate TradFi, but enable financial systems that could only exist on Ethereum. Beyond DeFi’s current impact in lending, stablecoins, and open markets, the EF aims to support more experimental innovations such as AI-integrated financial systems, onchain futures markets, futarchy DAOs, and privacy-preserving undercollateralized lending using zero-knowledge (ZK) reputation. The EF’s DeFi efforts are led by Charles St. Louis, a former DELV leader and MakerDAO contributor, and Ivan Bogatyy, the co-founder of Gearbox Protocol. In 2026, the team will focus on strengthening builder relationships, improving security and privacy infrastructure, establishing standards, and expanding research.
The Protocol Support team at the Ethereum Foundation launched a new website, ps.ethereum.foundation, creating a resource hub for Ethereum developers and enthusiasts. The site aggregates protocol governance resources, including Forkcast, the Ethereum network upgrade tracker, the Project Management repository, AllCoreDevs (ACD) and breakout call coordination, the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship, and the Ethereum Study Group. Protocol Support facilitates the Ethereum protocol development process by coordinating across client teams, researchers, and the broader community, helping make governance and core development more accessible.
BGD Labs, a core development contributor to Aave, announced it will not renew its service agreement with the Aave DAO after April 1, 2026. The team said the decision stems from organizational misalignment, citing Aave Labs’ shift toward a more central role focused on Aave v4 and disagreements over the strategic direction of v3 versus v4. BGD stated that it considers its primary mission largely accomplished, describing Aave’s core infrastructure as stable, mature, and future-proof. The team plans to transition its work by moving relevant codebases to the Aave DAO GitHub with proper documentation to support the transition. BGD Labs served as one of the main technical contributors to Aave for nearly four years.
Bankr, an AI-powered crypto banker agent, crossed $100 million in volume on its custom Doppler-powered Uniswap v4 hook, tailored specifically for AI-agent token deployment flow. The hook went live earlier this month, and the volume was generated in less than two weeks from the surge of tokens launched through the Bankr bot. Uniswap Labs highlighted the achievement, noting Bankr's rapid traction at the intersection of AI and crypto.
ePBS devnet-0 soon
LUCID Encrypted Mempool
Vitalik's post on security
Ansgar on Bankless
TheDAO Fund updates
Hudson joins ECH
Daily Gwei Refuel #859
Safe hits 1b txs
Spire RPC hits $1b txn volume
Sourcify 20m contracts verified
BitMine buys 51k ETH
Terra sues Jane Street
Anthropic distillation attacks
Robinhood Ventures introduced
Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.
The Ethereum Foundation announced a dedicated effort to strengthen DeFi on Ethereum and support Defipunk values, including permissionless, censorship-resistant, privacy-first, self-custodial, and open source. The EF believes that DeFi should not replicate TradFi, but enable financial systems that could only exist on Ethereum. Beyond DeFi’s current impact in lending, stablecoins, and open markets, the EF aims to support more experimental innovations such as AI-integrated financial systems, onchain futures markets, futarchy DAOs, and privacy-preserving undercollateralized lending using zero-knowledge (ZK) reputation. The EF’s DeFi efforts are led by Charles St. Louis, a former DELV leader and MakerDAO contributor, and Ivan Bogatyy, the co-founder of Gearbox Protocol. In 2026, the team will focus on strengthening builder relationships, improving security and privacy infrastructure, establishing standards, and expanding research.
The Protocol Support team at the Ethereum Foundation launched a new website, ps.ethereum.foundation, creating a resource hub for Ethereum developers and enthusiasts. The site aggregates protocol governance resources, including Forkcast, the Ethereum network upgrade tracker, the Project Management repository, AllCoreDevs (ACD) and breakout call coordination, the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship, and the Ethereum Study Group. Protocol Support facilitates the Ethereum protocol development process by coordinating across client teams, researchers, and the broader community, helping make governance and core development more accessible.
BGD Labs, a core development contributor to Aave, announced it will not renew its service agreement with the Aave DAO after April 1, 2026. The team said the decision stems from organizational misalignment, citing Aave Labs’ shift toward a more central role focused on Aave v4 and disagreements over the strategic direction of v3 versus v4. BGD stated that it considers its primary mission largely accomplished, describing Aave’s core infrastructure as stable, mature, and future-proof. The team plans to transition its work by moving relevant codebases to the Aave DAO GitHub with proper documentation to support the transition. BGD Labs served as one of the main technical contributors to Aave for nearly four years.
Bankr, an AI-powered crypto banker agent, crossed $100 million in volume on its custom Doppler-powered Uniswap v4 hook, tailored specifically for AI-agent token deployment flow. The hook went live earlier this month, and the volume was generated in less than two weeks from the surge of tokens launched through the Bankr bot. Uniswap Labs highlighted the achievement, noting Bankr's rapid traction at the intersection of AI and crypto.
ePBS devnet-0 soon
LUCID Encrypted Mempool
Vitalik's post on security
Ansgar on Bankless
TheDAO Fund updates
Hudson joins ECH
Daily Gwei Refuel #859
Safe hits 1b txs
Spire RPC hits $1b txn volume
Sourcify 20m contracts verified
BitMine buys 51k ETH
Terra sues Jane Street
Anthropic distillation attacks
Robinhood Ventures introduced
Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.
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ETH Daily - 23rd February 📰 -EF DeFi team 🤝 -Protocol Support site ☎️ -BGD Labs leaving Aave 👻 -Bankr $100m UniV4 vol 🦄 presented by @liquityprotocol https://ethdaily.io/889
Ethereum Foundation forms a DeFi team, BGD Labs leaves the Aave DAO, the Protocol Support resource site launches, and Bankr hits $100m in volume on UniV4. Together, these updates highlight ongoing DeFi development, governance coordination, and infrastructure growth. @ethdaily.eth