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Ripple expands its UAE partnership with Zand to add RLUSD support into the digital bank’s regulated digital asset custody.
The firms will work on direct liquidity links between RLUSD and Zand’s AED-backed stablecoin AEDZ to simplify USD–AED stablecoin conversion and settlement.
Ripple and UA

Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based Ethereum Layer 2, has launched a public testnet, integrating Chainlink for market data and tokenization.
Robinhood reported Q4 2025 net revenue of $1.28 billion, up 27% year over year, while crypto revenue fell 38% to $221 million. 
Robinhood has launched a

Ripple Custody partners with Figment, allowing banks to offer Ethereum and Solana staking without running validator infrastructure or extra tooling.
Figment provides non-custodial staking, validator operations, and reporting, while Ripple Custody handles custody workflows.
Ripple Custody

Polygon joins EEA to work on institutional payment rails, global settlement, and compliant movement from onchain to traditional rails.
Open Money Stack ties stablecoin rails to Coinme on/off ramps and Sequence wallet tools for merchant and user access.
Polygon has joined the Enterprise

Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov says this cycle lacks system-wide failures seen in the prior cycle, pointing to stronger risk controls and resilience.
He says RWA issuance and onchain perps keep growing even when crypto prices fall, citing commodities activity like tokenized silver.
Chainlink

Coinbase has adopted the Sui token standard, enhancing trading and custody services for Sui alongside Ethereum and Solana. This partnership aims to simplify asset management for institutions and developers, reflecting growing interest in Sui-based investment products.

Ripple is estimated at a $50 billion valuation, up from a $40 billion post-money valuation reported in Q4 2025.
The firm raised $500 million in November 2025 at a $40 billion valuation, with Fortress and Citadel affiliates leading the fundraising.
Ripple is ranked among the world’s largest p

Solana Foundation launched an institutional Trading Program with white-glove onboarding for professional firms. 
Huma Finance reported PayFi transactions surpassed $10 billion; Superteam Earn said total user earnings reached $10 million.
Solana posted a weekly roundup of product releases

The TON blockchain has launched TON Pay, a new shared payments layer for any app deployed on its network.
The new patform, which comes with instant onchain settlement, aims to turn Telegram into a crypto checkout system for over 1 billion users.
The TON blockchain has announced the launch

Analysts from Bernstein called the current dip “the weakest Bitcoin bear case in history” and expect the top crypto to bounce back and hit $150,000 this year.
They say that the drop reflects a confidence crisis and not a broken crypto market as some critics have claimed.
One of the world’s l

Cardano Rosetta Java v2.0.0 cuts initial synchronization from 52 hours to about 37 hours and upgrades PostgreSQL from v14 to v18.
Since mid-January 2026, the share of ADA supply in profit has fallen from roughly 33% to about 8%.
Cardano developers have released Cardano Rosetta Java v2.0.0, u

Ethereum EIP-8025 allows zkAttesters to validate blocks by verifying zk proofs without re-executing every transaction.
The first L1 zkEVM workshop is set for February 11, 2026, covering witness standards, CL integration, and prover setup.
Ethereum is planning a change to how block validity c

ICP has announced that V2 Caffeine AI Engine is now live and that it has hundreds of thousands of unique builders using the platform every month.
Founder Dominic Williams and his team have now shifted focus to V3, which he says he will deliver “in weeks, not months.”
Earlier this year, the I

Ondo now leads in tokenized Treasuries and equities, holding 60% market share in tokenized stocks.
New Ondo Perps platform offers leveraged futures trading on tokenized US stocks outside the US.
Ondo Finance is working toward becoming a full-service prime brokerage for tokenized assets.

SushiSwap has launched on Solana to enable over four million users to swap tokens native to Solana while using the Sushi interface.
Bridging and cross-chain swaps become operational upon launching, where Sushi routing is used and Solana speed and low fees are exploited to run them.
SushiSwap

Binance converted $300 million in stablecoins into 4,225 BTC for its Secure Asset Fund, raising its Bitcoin holdings to 10,455 BTC. Interest also surrounds its relationship with Trump-linked USD1 stablecoin, which has a $5 billion supply, primarily held on Binance.