Crypto News. February 17, 2026

Feb 17, 2026

Zashi Wallet rebrands to Zodl, Zcash Open Development Lab.

Hi. It's a new day for Zcash! The entire former ECC team is now Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), and we are rebranding the Zashi wallet to Zodl. You don't need to do a thing, the app will rebrand with the next update. This is just a start. Big things to come.

4:12 PM · Feb 16, 2026 · 78.9K Views

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Stani envisions Aave as the onchain credit marketplace for “Abundance Assets,” like Solar infrastructure. With governments backing clean energy, sovereign-funded Solar infra becomes the ideal fit for Aave as the world transitions from scarcity to abundance.

Stani.eth@StaniKulechov

https://t.co/Ycaj8rVbjn

4:58 PM · Feb 15, 2026 · 460K Views

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OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger will join OpenAI, while OpenClaw will continue as an open-source project with support from OpenAI.

Sam Altman@sama

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our

9:39 PM · Feb 15, 2026 · 15M Views

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Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete

I'm joining @OpenAI to bring agents to everyone. @openclaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.🦞 steipete.me/posts/2026/ope…

9:54 PM · Feb 15, 2026 · 4.39M Views

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0xngmi argues that time-based token unlocks can distort incentives when tokens have perpetuals or borrowing markets.

0xngmi@0xngmi

I think ppl don't realize how bad the problem is with time-based token unlocks If the token has perps or can be borrowed anywhere, they can be hedged by shorting the token And that incentivizes team to make token price go down, as if it goes up their position blows up

12:51 PM · Feb 16, 2026 · 68K Views

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Native SOL staking went live on Jupiter Lend

Jupiter@JupiterExchange

$30B of SOL is natively staked. The largest pool of capital on Solana, earning yield but locked out of DeFi. That changes today. Introducing Native Staking as Collateral, now live on Jupiter Lend 👇

6:54 PM · Feb 16, 2026 · 88.2K Views

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deBridge Introduced deBridge MCP an open source Model Context Protocol server plugin that gives AI agents direct access to live cross-chain execution through a unified API layer.