Ethereum News. Feb 25, 2026

Ethereum Foundation started staking its ETH, staking 2016 ETH, and announced it’ll stake a total of 70,000 ETH in coming weeks

Ethereum Foundation@ethereumfndn

1/ The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year. Today, the EF made a 2016 ETH deposit. Approximately 70,000 ETH will be staked with rewards directed back to the EF treasury.

8:51 AM · Feb 24, 2026 · 37.2K Views

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Aave surpassed $575M in deposits on Mantle.

Aave@aave

Aave crossed $575 million deposits on @Mantle_Official. Higher.

5:52 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 18.2K Views

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Ethereum community member YQ vibecoded ETH2030, an experimental client implementing the full draft 2030 Layer 1 roadmap, covering 65 upgrades across consensus, data, and execution layers.

YQ@yq_acc

https://t.co/iPl6IG3cHa

10:57 AM · Feb 24, 2026 · 89.5K Views

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L2BEAT introduced L2BEAT Interop, a dashboard that tracks how blockchains connect and how value moves between them.

L2BEAT 💗@l2beat

We started by bringing transparency to rollups, and we’re working to extend that clarity to every key component of the ecosystem’s tech stack. Now, we’re doing the same for interoperability. We’re thrilled to unveil L2BEAT Interop - your go-to resource for tracking how value

1:44 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 20.3K Views

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Obol introduced ObolClaw, enabling onchain execution for OpenClaw agents on Ethereum.

Obol@Obol_Collective

Introducing ObolClaw: a new framework for leveraging agents on Ethereum with @openclaw. We’re building the agent economy on Ethereum through the Obol Stack.

6:27 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 2.45K Views

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XMTP, partnered with Mask Network to provide end-to-end encrypted, decentralized messaging across Mask, Lens, Orb, and Firefly ecosystems.

XMTP@xmtp_

We're excited to collaborate with @masknetwork to bring XMTP's secure, decentralized messaging infrastructure to the Mask, Lens, Orb and Firefly ecosystems. 🧵

12:59 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 13.5K Views

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Vitalik emphasized DeFi as Ethereum’s core value and said Ethereum will focus on secure, permissionless DeFi addressing risk management and hedging, beyond basic products like stablecoins.

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

Defi is a central part of the value that Ethereum provides. Financial empowerment is a central part of what it means to have agency and freedom in our current world. Finance is far from the only thing that Ethereum is good for, but it is an important thing. This post discusses

charles (csl) ᛋ @CharlieStLouis

1/ Today the EF is sharing a bit more about how it's approaching DeFi going forward:

4:46 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 262K Views

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Uniswap published a temperature check proposal to expand v2 and v3 protocol fees across multiple chains and upgrade v3 fee management.

Hayden Adams 🦄@haydenzadams

Temp check to turn on protocol fees for 8 new chains and remaining v3 pools passed ✅ GovernorBravo has a limits of 10 actions per proposal, so this will be posted as two separate proposals First vote is live now, second will go live tomorrow 🦄 vote.uniswapfoundation.org/proposals/94

vote.uniswapfoundation.org

Protocol Fee Expansion: Vote 1

7:53 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 9.67K Views

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EtherFi launched iOS app enabling users to earn crypto as they spend

ether.fi@ether_fi

Introducing: Earn on our iOS app 🎉 Grow your crypto while you spend, with EtherFi's institutional-grade infrastructure. Now in your pocket. Download the app below to get started ↓

2:55 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 34.2K Views

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Nethermind released execution client for Arbitrum with high-throughput capabilities.

Nethermind@Nethermind

Nethermind's execution client implementation for Arbitrum is now public. Nethermind processes, on average, 1.4 Ggas/s on a typical Ethereum staking machine. With the Nethermind client on @arbitrum, we will be able to push the frontier of performance and throughput for Arbitrum

10:42 AM · Feb 24, 2026 · 8.7K Views

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Arbitrum launched an eight week mentorship program for 15 early stage teams, providing guidance from idea to launch on Arbitrum, receive mentorship, investor access, and a chance to compete for a share of $100K at Demo Day.

Arbitrum@arbitrum

Introducing the Arbitrum Mentorship Program. An eight-week program starting April 13th, where 15 early-stage teams get access to: - A clear path from idea to launch on the Arbitrum platform with infra guidance, ecosystem support, and distribution channels - Hands-on mentorship

6:29 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 40.1K Views

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The Solidity team is aligning behavior between the legacy and IR pipelines that when revertStrings is set to strip, both pipelines will now remove custom errors from require statements, not just revert strings.

Solidity@solidity_lang

The Solidity compiler has a `revertStrings` setting that controls how revert data is handled. There's currently an inconsistency between the legacy and IR pipelines: when set to `strip`, the IR pipeline removes both strings and custom errors from `require` statements, while the

5:32 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 3.07K Views

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Rainbow introduced smart wallets with single-tap approvals, simplifying crypto interactions with EIP-7702 delegations while keeping users fully in control

Rainbow@rainbowdotme

Smart wallets are coming to Rainbow this week. This is another step in our focus on making crypto easier for everyone.

5:59 PM · Feb 24, 2026 · 16.1K Views

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