Ethereum News. Feb 12, 2026
Aztec said it is proceeding with its TGE despite weak market conditions
Davide and Vitalik propose replacing identity with a stake system, users or AI agents deposit crypto as collateral to access APIs and services anonymously, with misbehavior punished by slashing their stake, this preserves privacy and stops bad actors
Builders Garden launched Sign In With Agent (SIWA), a standard to give AI agents an identity and wallet built on EIP-8004 and EIP-8128
Coinbase’s Developer Platform launched Agentic Wallets, a wallet infrastructure designed for AI agents.
TheDAO Security Fund has announced its inaugural allocations, donating 69 ETH to SEALOrg and 133.7 ETH to SEAL911, along with perpetual SuperfluidHQ streams
Securitize partnered with Uniswap to bring on-chain trading of BlackRock’s tokenized BUIDL fund via UniswapX.
Ondo Finance partnered with Chainlink to deliver oracle pricing for its tokenized US stocks and ETFs through Ondo Global Markets on Ethereum.
Base launched leaderboards on base(.)dev to boost App discovery.
Status Network launched FIRM, a native stablecoin for gasless L2 economy.
UniFi AVS received a grant from the EigenFoundation to support its work on preconfirmations, a mechanism enabling fast, trustless execution for rollups while preserving decentralization.
Aave officially launched V3 on Mantle
Jumper Earn enabled users to deposit into Optimism vaults on OP Mainnet in a single transaction from any asset or chain.
Web3Privacy released a research report mapping the Ethereum privacy ecosystem
Multiswap introduced Randomizer, to dynamically route transactions across multiple providers using proprietary rules.
The Ethereum Foundation has published detailed requirements for the zkVM architecture whitepaper, to be delivered in three milestones (W1–W3).
ethPandaOps has added execution trace data to Xatu, including per-opcode gas consumption for blocks and transactions across nine new tables covering call frames, opcode gas, and daily/hourly aggregates.
Obol released Charon v1.8.2, which removes a dependency to slightly improve proposal success in the first slot of each epoch.
Teku has released version 26.2.0, an update featuring RocksDB as the default database for new setups and improved node blobs custody backfilling.

































