Data: Web3 social application Towns has over 400,000 total users, with over 200,000 token holders

February 26th — Forbes reports a top editor on Mr. Beast’s team has been banned from Kalshi for two years and fined approximately $20,000. The penalty stems from a $4,000 predictive trade using insider information between August and September 2025. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig noted the agency has formed a Prediction Market Advisory Committee to collaborate with industry participants on combating insider trading, warning wrongdoers they face legal consequences. Separately, a former California gubernatorial candidate has been barred from Kalshi for insider trading violations. The candidate bet roughly $200 on his own election odds during last year’s campaign and posted related content on X. Kalshi imposed a five-year ban and $2,000 fine; the individual is identified as Kyle Langford, who is currently running for Congress.

Update: As of February 26, per Onchain Lens monitoring, Vitalik’s planned sale of 16,384 ETH is 94% complete. Since February 2, he has sold 15,479 ETH totaling $30.94 million, with an average price of $1,999. Only 905 ETH remain, and the sale could wrap up within the next 3-4 hours.

February 26: Crypto incubator WebN Group—backed by billionaire Alan Howard—is shutting down. The firm previously invested in digital asset infrastructure projects including KAIO (formerly Libre), Twinstake, TruFin, and Geometry, and secured funding from Laser Digital in 2023. Laser Digital is a crypto joint venture platform under Japan’s Nomura. Sources say WebN is viewed as having “completed its mission,” with some employees moving to work at Brevan Howard. Earlier, Brevan Howard’s digital asset fund posted a nearly 30% loss in 2025 and slashed its stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust by roughly 85%. (CoinDesk)

On February 26, t54 Labs announced the close of a $5 million seed round, led by Anagram, PL Capital, and Franklin Templeton, with participation from Ripple and other institutional investors. The firm focuses on infrastructure for self-sovereign trading AI agents, including "know your agent" (KYA) identity verification, real-time risk control, compliance solutions, and settlement integration. It plans to offer credit limits to agents based on their identity and risk scores. Currently, the protocol is deployed on XRP Ledger, Solana, and Base. t54 Labs has also released x402-secure—an open-source component built on the x402 payment protocol, which was incubated by Coinbase. (Source: The Block)

On February 26, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake announced the organization’s "strawmap" roadmap, which outlines seven hard forks scheduled through the end of 2029. The roadmap includes five key milestones: - Fast Layer 1 (L1) finality - A "gigagas" L1 network capable of 10,000 TPS via zkEVM - A "teragas" Layer 2 (L2) network enabled by data availability sampling - Post-quantum cryptography integration - Native L1 privacy features for shielding ETH transfers This version aligns with U.S. English news conventions: concise, clear structure, and industry-standard terminology used naturally.

On February 26, crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon lunched with a Republican senator today, with the discussion centered on advancing cryptocurrency market structure legislation to strengthen the U.S.'s global leadership in crypto and AI.