Huobi HTX has launched AERGO perpetual contracts and kicked off a contract trading party.

On February 28, Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said Coinbase and CEO Brian Armstrong have been in negotiations for months and have proposed multiple potential compromise solutions. Coinbase has consistently prioritized safeguarding the GENIUS Act and the interests of ordinary Americans, and expressed appreciation for the work of Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the Digital Asset Advisory Committee, to advance resolution of the issue. The company looks forward to smoothly advancing the President’s crypto agenda. Decrypt senior reporter Sander Lutz noted that the White House had initially aimed to strike a deal on stablecoin yields by this weekend. However, a banking industry source with direct involvement in the talks said the target “won’t be met.” Current tensions between the crypto industry and banking lobbying groups over whether stablecoins should earn yields remain substantial. This rift has emerged as a key barrier to advancing the crypto market structure bill,

On February 28, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) posted a message criticizing The New York Times for promoting his upcoming memoir *The Power of Money* without his authorization. He noted the outlet had only obtained a very early draft of the book. In a separate declaration, CZ’s lawyer Teresa Goody Guillén stated: “We’re pleased The New York Times is so interested in *The Power of Money*—one of the year’s most anticipated books—even though their reporting relies on content not in CZ’s final book or his own words. We look forward to readers accessing CZ’s actual writing in the published version.” CZ also confirmed the memoir is nearing publication.

On February 28, the Uniswap community launched the final vote to activate the protocol fee switch across eight chains: Base, Arbitrum, Optimism Mainnet, World Chain, X Layer, Celo, Soneum, and Zora. The fee switch proposal aims to redirect at least one-sixth of transaction fees on these networks from LP revenue to UNI token holders via equivalent UNI burns. Ethereum Mainnet v2 and select v3 pools have had fee sharing in place since late last year, generating roughly $3.3 million in revenue. The proposal also plans to cover the remaining v3 pools on Ethereum. The final two proposal votes are set to conclude on March 4.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) approved two real-world asset (RWA) tokenization products from Dory Holdings on February 26, with the news disclosed on February 28. The offerings include the Dory Securities Distribution RWA Token and the tokenization of fund interests by Dory Digital Family Office. Their underlying assets consist of a limited partnership fund holding Hong Kong Central’s Dory Building and another limited partnership fund invested in Animoca Brands. This marks Hong Kong’s first approved real estate RWA case, a key milestone for establishing a compliant pathway for RWA tokenization under a licensed regulatory framework.

February 28 — According to The Wall Street Journal, NVIDIA is set to launch an AI chip tailored specifically for processing tasks, aiming to disrupt the competitive landscape of AI computing. OpenAI is poised to be one of the chip’s largest buyers. The processor is optimized to handle AI query “inference” needs rapidly, reducing AI model response latency. It is scheduled to be unveiled at NVIDIA’s GTC developer conference next month in San Jose.