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Vitalik posted on the X platform stating that Ethereum has been discussing account abstraction (AA) since early 2016. Now, EIP-8141 serves as a comprehensive proposal aimed at addressing all remaining issues related to AA. The core concept of this proposal is "frame transactions," where a transaction contains N calls that can read each other's call data and can authorize the sender and gas payer.This mechanism supports various use cases: ordinary account transactions (such as multi-signature, variable keys, quantum-resistant signature schemes) are completed through validating frames and executing frames; when paying gas fees with non-ETH tokens, it can be achieved through the main contract without any intermediaries.In terms of privacy protocols, ZK-SNARK verification or the addition of two-dimensional randomness can be implemented through payment contracts. Regarding security, on-chain transactions are only valid when the validating frame returns an ACCEPT with a gas payment flag, while the memory pool layer will initially adopt conservative rules, gradually expanding later.EIP-8141 is highly complementary to FOCIL, with FOCIL ensuring quick transaction inclusion and AA ensuring that complex operations can be executed as first-class transactions directly. The proposal is also discussing EOA compatibility, which is theoretically feasible. After more than a decade of research, these technologies are expected to be implemented within a year through the Hegota fork.

YZi Labs issued a statement claiming that based on the disclosures from CEA Industries (BNC), 10X and its affiliates may exceed the 5% threshold for 13D filing by the end of 2025 due to large warrant exercises, but no corresponding disclosure has been observed; it also questioned whether the board's "poison pill" and other concerted actions and affiliations constitute an undisclosed "group," demanding immediate supplemental disclosure to the SEC.

Aave DAO is currently voting on a significant proposal that would allocate up to $42 million to Aave Labs, including $25 million for ongoing product development and a $17.5 million milestone bonus. As of Friday evening, the support votes are leading with a narrow margin of 52%, and the voting will conclude on Saturday.The controversy centers around Aave Labs' original plan to compress the development space for v3 and force users to migrate to the yet-to-be-launched v4 version. This move has sparked strong backlash, with the main contractor Bored Ghosts Developing announcing they would not renew their contract and criticizing the proposal as nearly absurd. This week, Aave Labs made concessions, promising not to enforce migration, and v3 will continue to operate.Critics, represented by Marc Zeller, argue that the requested funds are too high, accounting for 31% of the DAO's reserves, and demand that the proposal be split into multiple independent votes, but Aave Labs insists on pushing for an overall vote. Currently, Aave v3 has deposits exceeding $26.3 billion, accounting for over 97% of the total deposits in the protocol.

Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Protocol 0G Labs announced the launch of the "0G Apollo Accelerator," which plans to provide up to $20 million in funding support for incubating and scaling revenue-generating AI applications based on decentralized infrastructure.The accelerator is established in collaboration with the Blockchain Builders Fund (BBF). BBF is part of the Stanford University blockchain ecosystem, which includes projects such as the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, BASS, and MS&E 447. The project is also supported by Google Cloud, with each selected team receiving a $200,000 cloud resource allocation.In addition, the wallet infrastructure platform Privy (acquired by Stripe) will provide production-grade wallet solutions for selected teams, aiming to help projects have enterprise-level computing and infrastructure capabilities from the early stages.

According to CoinDesk, Decibel, a fully on-chain perpetual contract exchange incubated by Aptos Labs, has launched on the Aptos mainnet.The previous public testnet attracted over 700,000 independent accounts and 132,000 daily active users, with an average daily trading volume exceeding 1 million transactions. Before the mainnet launch, the pre-deposit activity promised over $58 million in funds, with about 40% coming from Ethereum and Solana users. Decibel adopts a centralized limit order book model, with order placement, matching, settlement, and risk management all executed on-chain. The protocol's default collateral is the US dollar stablecoin usDCBL issued by Bridge, a subsidiary of Stripe. Decibel plans to gradually increase spot markets, multi-collateral accounts, and tokenized real-world assets.

On February 26, Anything Labs announced a strategic partnership with the on-chain exchange UXUY. As the world's first crypto incubation institution to enter the AI stablecoin sector, Anything Labs will leverage UXUY's multi-chain ecosystem advantages to accelerate the expansion and application of AI stablecoins, exploring a new AI trading paradigm aimed at high-frequency, asymmetric trading scenarios.It is reported that the AI-native stablecoin UUSD launched by Anything Labs has seen rapid market attention just one week after its release. The UUSD team stated that they are currently accelerating penetration into the AI developer community, including OpenClaw, and addressing issues such as the native insufficiency of AI assets based on the X402 protocol.Patrick, the founder of Anything Labs, stated: "The application scenarios for AI Agents are continuously expanding, and the recent surge of Elsp further confirms the vast opportunities that AI holds in the social domain. Social scenarios will gradually generate payment demands, which will further extend to trading demands. The core value of UUSD lies in enabling stablecoins to serve not only transactions between humans but also applications in on-chain interactions of AI, building a peer-to-peer electronic cash system for the AI era."

The San Francisco-based AI agent company t54 Labs has completed a $5 million seed round financing, led by Anagram and PL Capital, with participation from Ripple, Virtuals Ventures, Blockchain Coinvestors, and ABCDE.Founded in January 2025, the company is building identity, verification, and compliance tools for AI agents that can autonomously trade on behalf of individuals and businesses. The t54 Labs platform consists of four core components: authentication, real-time risk systems, credit services, and an integrated management system. The platform is currently live on multiple blockchain networks, including XRP Ledger, Solana, and Base, and has developed an open-source trust layer, x402-secure, built for the x402 agent payment protocol incubated by Coinbase. Last month, t54 also announced a partnership with Evernorth, a digital asset treasury company supported by Ripple.

AI infrastructure company t54 Labs announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing, led by Anagram, PL Capital, and Franklin Templeton, with participation from institutions such as Ripple.The project primarily provides infrastructure for autonomous trading AI agents, including identity verification, real-time risk control, compliance, and settlement integration, and plans to offer credit lines to agents based on identity and risk scores. Currently, the protocol has been deployed on XRP Ledger, Solana, and Base, and has launched the open-source component x402-secure built on the Coinbase incubated x402 payment protocol.

The Aave community governance conflict has escalated again. The Aave Chan Initiative (ACI) and its founder Marc Zeller released an "audit" report targeting Aave Labs on the eve of a vote for a $51 million proposal known as "the largest funding request in Aave's history," sparking widespread discussion.ACI stated on social media that before the "$51M Aave Will Win" proposal enters Snapshot voting, the community should examine Aave Labs' past performance and its cumulative use of approximately $86 million in funds. Zeller mentioned that ACI has already released its own transparency report and evaluated Aave Labs using the framework of "what was delivered, how much it cost, and what the returns were." The report pointed out that Aave Labs has a cumulative "total capitalization" of about $86 million, which includes: $16.2 million from the 2017 ICO financing, $32.5 million from VC funding rounds, $31.93 million from direct DAO grants, and approximately $5.5 million categorized as "unapproved" swap fees.Zeller also noted that the founding team once held 23% of the initial supply of LEND (which later migrated to AAVE), but the current AAVE holdings have not been publicly disclosed. The report questions why Aave Labs has not released an "accountability report" that includes cost-output ratios, financial disclosures, and wallet transparency, arguing that information disclosure remains insufficient in the context of receiving large amounts of funding over the long term.

The founder of the Aave ecosystem contribution organization ACI, Marc Zeller, released a public report disclosing that Aave Labs has received approximately $86 million in capital support since 2017, including ICO, VC financing, and direct grants from the DAO. Meanwhile, the founding team retained 23% of the LEND tokens during the 2017 ICO (which were later migrated to AAVE at a ratio of 100:1).The report points out that Labs had a capital base of about $48.7 million before receiving DAO funding, and subsequently received approximately $37.4 million in grants from the DAO. They are currently applying for an additional $51 million through the "Aave Will Win" proposal.The report critically questions the past performance of Labs' products, stating that six independent products launched apart from the core protocol have either failed or not achieved profitability. Among them, the RWA project Horizon once claimed to have surpassed $1 billion in scale, but the actual RWA collateral scale is about $135 million, highly concentrated in a single asset. Since its launch in 2025, Horizon has generated approximately $216,000 in cumulative revenue for the DAO, while incentives and related costs amount to about $5.25 million, resulting in a return on investment ratio of about 24:1.The report also notes that early core developers of Aave V1, V2, and V3 left Labs between 2021 and 2022, with V3 being seen as the last major protocol version led by Labs. Subsequent versions have primarily been advanced by DAO service providers. In related governance votes, a single large delegated address played a key role in passing the Horizon proposal, sparking community discussions about the concentration of governance power and the efficiency of fund usage.This controversy comes at a time when a new proposal for a $17.5 million product growth grant is under review, further intensifying discussions within the Aave community regarding fund allocation, performance disclosure, and governance transparency.

According to Ember Monitoring, YZi Labs transferred 37.33 million EDU (4.37 million USD) to Binance 10 minutes ago. Following the liquidation of ID half a month ago and the liquidation of AI and WOO yesterday, YZi Labs has made another liquidation move.

YZi Labs transferred 13.54 million AI (worth $278,000) and 11.11 million WOO (worth $176,000) to Binance 5 hours ago. These tokens were obtained by YZi Labs as an investment institution through vesting unlock. Two weeks prior, YZi Labs had liquidated its ID tokens.

According to the WSJ, the court-appointed bankruptcy administrator of Terraform Labs has sued Jane Street in federal court in New York, accusing it of engaging in front-running trades using non-public insider information provided by Terra insiders during the collapse of Terra and profiting from it.The complaint states that shortly after Terraform Labs withdrew 150 million TerraUSD (UST) from the Curve liquidity pool, a wallet address associated with Jane Street also withdrew 85 million UST from the same pool, with a series of operations that illegally profited and accelerated the demise of Terraform Labs.

According to PR Newswire, Sonic Labs announced the launch of Spawn, an AI-driven Web3 application building platform that supports the generation, compilation, and deployment of smart contracts through natural language, while automatically generating front-end interfaces and wallet integration features.Spawn can directly convert user-input English descriptions into production-grade smart contracts, complete on-chain deployment, and generate a full front-end interface, achieving a full-stack abstraction from contract logic to UI and on-chain interactions. Users can engage in conversational iterative development through the built-in AI assistant, modifying contract logic, front-end components, and deployment configurations, and deploy applications to the Sonic testnet.

Sonic Labs releases the 2026 ecological update (Part One), announcing that CEO Mitchell Demeter and Business Head Evan Owens have stepped down, with the board currently managing in the interim and seeking a new CEO. Sonic states that the development fund has formed a long-term operating reserve, unlocking pressure on risk-free investments, with capital allocation covering assets such as S tokens, stablecoins, and government bonds.Strategically, Sonic Strategy holds approximately 127 million S tokens (multi-signature custody and prohibited from sale) and has ended its collaboration with CMCC Resonance Fund. In terms of products, the AI smart contract generation platform Spawn is currently undergoing internal testing; FeeM has allocated over 2.6 million S tokens to developers, and in the future, may adjust the 90% rebate to a tiered structure; at the same time, it has terminated the Meme Season and Sonic & Sodas incentive programs, focusing on long-term ecological construction and token economic integration going forward.

The autonomous internet protocol development company Unicity Labs announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Middle Eastern communication application Tawasal and early Web3 investment firm Outlier Ventures.The company plans to use the new funds to build a peer-to-peer encryption architecture that enables autonomous AI Agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and conduct transactions at machine speed, without the need for intermediaries or shared ledgers.

According to official news, Uniswap Labs has announced the official opening of the Uniswap developer platform in Beta version. Developers can now generate Uniswap API keys and integrate exchange and liquidity provision functionalities directly into their applications within minutes.In addition, Uniswap has also launched the Skill integration for proxy-based workflows, supporting one-click API access via the command line.

According to official news, Li Feifei's AI startup World Labs has completed a $1 billion financing round, with investments from AMD, Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, NVIDIA, and Sea.World Labs is dedicated to accelerating the mission of advancing spatial intelligence by innovating narrative methods, inspiring creativity, driving robotics, and promoting scientific discovery through the construction of world models.World Labs stated that its first product, Marble, allows anyone to create spatially coherent, high-fidelity, and persistent 3D worlds from images, videos, or text.

According to CoinDesk, South Korea's Hanwha Investment & Securities has invested approximately $13 million (KRW 1.8 billion) in the U.S. blockchain infrastructure company Kresus Labs to advance its enterprise-grade digital wallet technology and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform.The funding stems from a memorandum of understanding signed last December during Abu Dhabi Finance Week, aimed at expanding Kresus's on-chain financial workflows. Kresus focuses on developing digital asset tools for consumers and institutions, including "seedless" wallet recovery technology (which does not require traditional 12-24 word seed phrases) and a security system based on multi-party computation (MPC), as well as wallet infrastructure and tokenization platforms that meet institutional standards.Hanwha plans to leverage this technology to enhance its digital asset services and develop tokenized traditional financial products, highlighting institutional interest in blockchain infrastructure despite the volatility in the crypto market.

Circle's former BD head Sterling stated on X platform that he has joined Hyperliquid Labs and will be responsible for business development and partnership building.Sterling's initial focus will be on collaborating with developers globally to expand Hyperliquid's builder code integration ecosystem.