Ethereum News. Feb 5, 2026

Vitalik criticizes the flood of copy-paste EVM chains and L1s, saying the space needs real innovation like privacy, ultra-low-latency design.

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

Have been following reactions to what I said about L2s about 1.5 days ago. One important thing that I believe is: "make yet another EVM chain and add an optimistic bridge to Ethereum with a 1 week delay" is to infra what forking Compound is to governance - something we've done

9:26 AM · Feb 5, 2026 · 102K Views

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Tally is preparing to launch its ICO and will document it over the next 60 days, they also launched an ICO platform using Uniswap’s CCA mechanism to help teams of any capital size to raise

Tally@tallyxyz

Tally has built an ICO fundraising platform, based on @Uniswap CCA that can help teams of any size raise capital in an honest, transparent, fair, and accountable way. The platform ties together the entire success of Tally products and services into one cohesive offering. Raise

6:45 PM · Feb 3, 2026 · 25.5K Views

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World Chain highlights proof of human as key to trust in an AI Agent era by allowing anonymous verification of human users, helping distinguish humans from AI, maintain control over agent networks, and ensure fair participation in digital blockchain systems

World Chain@world_chain_

https://t.co/PtabJKXjAH

9:19 PM · Feb 3, 2026 · 36.2K Views

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Ethereum L1 now holds over $59 billion in DeFi applications, making it 8 times larger than than any other network

Ethereum@ethereum

Over $59 billion is in DeFi apps on Ethereum L1, 8× more than any other network. via @DefiLlama &

institutions.ethereum.org

Ethereum for Institutions | The Institutional Liquidity Layer

5:39 PM · Feb 3, 2026 · 205K Views

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BitMine chairman Tom Lee called the firm’s $6.6B in unrealized ETH losses “a feature, not a bug,” saying such drawdowns are normal for an Ethereum treasury and similar to losses in index ETFs during market downturns.

Coin Bureau@coinbureau

🔥TOM LEE: “UNREALIZED LOSSES ARE A FEATURE, NOT A BUG” Tom Lee says criticism over Bitmine’s $6B in unrealized ETH losses miss the point of an Ethereum treasury. He calls it “a feature, not a bug”, which is no different from index ETFs during market declines.

7:20 AM · Feb 4, 2026 · 37.3K Views

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Ethena introduced Exchange Points, a new rewards system for Ethena-powered exchanges like Ethereal and Hyena. A total of 100M points will be distributed weekly per venue over six months, separate from Season 5.

Ethena@ethena

Introducing Ethena Exchange Points. Rewarding genuine trading activity on Ethena-powered exchanges @etherealdex @hyenatrade. 100m points distributed weekly per venue over six months. Rolling out now. Separate from Season 5.

2:06 PM · Feb 3, 2026 · 71.7K Views

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