🤔 Base plans to consolidate key network components into its own unified codebase, requiring node operators to follow Base’s release versions. Over the coming months, Base will gradually move away from the OP Stack while continuing to work with Optimism as an OP Enterprise customer. This shift is expected to increase its upgrade cadence from three to six times per year and advance a transition from optimistic proofs toward TEE/ZK-based proofs in future hard forks. As the highest-revenue L2 in the OP Stack ecosystem, greater independence for Base could also mean it no longer shares sequencer revenue with Optimism. link

🥷 OpenAI and Paradigm launched EVMbench, a benchmark designed to measure how well AI agents can detect, patch, and exploit vulnerabilities across EVM ecosystems such as Ethereum. The benchmark is built from 120 high-severity vulnerabilities curated from 40 audits and includes scenarios related to the Tempo chain. Tests show GPT-5.3-Codex scored 72.2% in "exploit" mode compared to GPT-5 at 31.9%, while coverage for vulnerability detection and patching remains incomplete. #hack link

🔮 TD Cowen: Despite CFTC intervention, states maintain an advantage in legal battles in prediction markets. theblock regulation #regulation link

🗽 The Ethereum Foundation released its 2026 protocol priorities update, outlining three tracks: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1.

The update highlights continued efforts to push the gas limit toward 100M+, advance ePBS and further blob parameter increases, develop a zkEVM attester client, and continue security work focused on censorship resistance and post-quantum readiness. link

📉 The crypto market is neutral.

BTC Dominance - 57.67%

Market Cap - $2.32T
BTC - $66,983 (-0.95%)
ETH - $1,972 (-1.36%)
BNB - $607 (-1.72%)
SOL - $81 (-4.11%)
INJ - $3.41 (+9.71%)

🤔 #APT Aptos plans to revise the tokenomics to scale the deflation of APT. Cointelegraph link

🤝 #RWA Kraken acquires tokenization platform Magna ahead of potential IPO. cointelegraph link

💳 #ETHFI #SCR
Etherfi will migrate credit cards from ether.fi Cash on Scroll to the main OP Mainnet.
The Block link

📊 An analysis found that Kalshi’s implied forecasts for the federal funds target rate had an average absolute error over a 150-day horizon comparable to that of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s professional forecasters. The author argued that macro expectation data from markets like Kalshi, which is backed by real capital and continuously updated, could provide researchers and policymakers with a new real-time benchmark for expectations. #macro link

There’s not much left for the price to reach the target.

#GALA #Crypto #SignalsToday

@Signals2day

📊 Brian Armstrong claims that banking trading groups are responsible for the deadlock situation with the market structure bill. link

🐳 Three days ago, a whale deposited $8.58M $USDC into Lighter_xyz and yesterday opened a $BTC long position with 20x leverage.

Stats:

- Amount: 1,000 $BTC
- Value: $67.12M
- Entry price: $67,096
- Liquidation price: $58,409.82 link

🇺🇸🏆 On Feb. 18 (ET), U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net outflows of $133 million. The BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT saw the largest single-day net outflow at $84.19 million.

Spot Ethereum ETFs posted total net outflows of $41.83 million, with the BlackRock spot Ethereum ETF ETHA logging the largest single-day net outflow at $29.93 million. #etf link

🧑‍💻 DerivaDEX is launching a derivatives exchange licensed in Bermuda and managed by a DAO. link

🧑‍💻 DerivaDEX is launching a derivatives exchange licensed in Bermuda and managed by a DAO. link

📊 #BTC Bitcoin’s short-term Sharpe ratio has reached a level typically associated with generational buying opportunities. The chart indicates that each previous extreme negative reading was followed by significant recoveries to new highs. link link

🙅 $J, $WEN, $PERP delisted from Bybit spot link

🕵️ CEO of Robinhood, Vlad Tenev, stated that in the first week of testing on the Robinhood Chain network, 4 million transactions were made.

The Block link

🇰🇷🕵️ #RWA Kresus has raised approximately $13 million from Hanwha Investment & Securities. The funding will be used to support the infrastructure of corporate wallets and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platforms. link

Market review 19.02.2026

https://youtu.be/ypywY0LBZoc

⛏️ The UAE has mined $453.6M worth of Bitcoin via Citadel. Most of the $BTC is still being held, per Arkham.