Solana ecosystem news service SolanaFloor stated on the X platform that due to a recent theft incident involving its parent company, it will immediately cease operations after failing to explore paths for continued operations. No new content will be published in the future, but the existing website, videos, and newsletters will be preserved as an archive. Previously, the parent company was hacked, resulting in approximately $40 million in assets being stolen, and the team has initiated an investigation and suspended some operations.

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury assets, executing according to the treasury policy published last year. Today, a deposit of 2,016 Ethereum has been completed, with a total of approximately 70,000 Ethereum set to participate in staking, and the staking rewards will flow back to the foundation's treasury. This staking utilizes the open-source software Dirk and Vouch developed by Attestant, with Dirk acting as a distributed signing tool to support independent operations across multiple jurisdictions to eliminate single point failure risk, and Vouch supporting multi-client pairing strategies to mitigate client diversity risks. The foundation’s deployment architecture includes minority clients and employs a mix of managed infrastructure alongside self-hosted hardware in multiple regions.

Cryptocurrency venture capital firm Framework Ventures has reached a strategic partnership with mortgage service company Better, planning to provide approximately $500 million in credit support to Better by integrating with the DeFi protocol Sky (formerly MakerDAO) and issuing tokens linked to mortgage loans to generate income; Framework has also agreed to acquire a 10% stake in Better for approximately $45 million. The first phase of mortgage tokens will only be open to accredited investors, while Better plans to introduce a product called "Home Token" for retail investors later, with a specific timeline yet to be disclosed.

The London-listed tech company The Smarter Web Company PLC has established a strategic credit facility with Coinbase Credit, Inc., providing a $30 million limit to enhance the company's financial flexibility. The facility is designed to support the company's ongoing growth and Bitcoin reserve strategy.

BlackRock's iShares has submitted an amended S-1 to launch the "iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF," which is a statutory trust in Delaware, primarily holding Ethereum, and plans to participate in Ethereum staking to obtain staking rewards with about 70%-95% of assets through third-party nodes like Coinbase, without affecting the grantor's trust tax qualification. The product adopts a basket of 40,000 shares for redemption purposes, supporting cash or physical Ethereum redemptions, only available for authorized participants; the base fee rate is an annualized 0.25%, reduced to 0.12% for the first 12 months for the first $2.5 billion in assets.

Hyperliquid ecosystem omnichannel trading platform Based has completed $11.5 million in Series A financing, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, and Karatage; the financing structure includes equity investment and token warrants, and the round launched in the fourth quarter of 2025 and concluded last week. The company currently has over 100,000 registered users, 30,000 monthly active users, and a total trading volume of approximately $40 billion, with cumulative revenue nearing $14 million; it plans to expand its AI-driven "agentic commerce" business and further extend into the North American market.

Jiuzi Holdings is negotiating with private investors to expand its financing scale, with a preliminary plan to raise up to $100 million at a price not lower than $2 per share, to accelerate the deepening of its digital asset treasury strategy and ecosystem expansion. Relevant discussions are still ongoing, and the final scale of financing, issuance price, and terms remain uncertain.

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