Weekly Project Updates: Ethereum Foundation Begins Staking Treasury ETH, Uniswap Unveils New AI Agent "Skills", Magic Eden to Shut Down Bitcoin and EVM Marketplaces, etc

Feb 28, 2026

1. Ethereum Foundation Launches Treasury ETH Staking Program, Plans to Stake Approximately 70,000 ETH link

The Ethereum Foundation has announced the start of staking a portion of its treasury funds, in line with the treasury policy released last year. The Foundation deposited 2,016 ETH today and plans to stake approximately 70,000 ETH in total, with all staking rewards to be returned to the Foundation’s treasury. The staking operation uses open-source software Dirk and Vouch, developed by Attestant: Dirk serves as a distributed signer, enabling individual operations across multiple jurisdictions with no single point of failure; Vouch supports multi-client pairings to reduce client diversity risks. The Foundation employs a minority of clients, combined with custodial infrastructure and self-managed hardware, and deploys across multiple jurisdictions. The Foundation stated that this move will help secure the Ethereum network while providing financial support for core activities such as protocol research and development, ecosystem growth, and community grant funding.

2. USD1 Suffers Coordinated Attack; Accounts of Multiple WLFI Co-Founders Hacked link

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Trump family’s crypto project, stated in a post that USD1 had been subject to a “coordinated attack,” including the hacking of multiple WLFI co-founders’ accounts, paid FUD dissemination, and large-scale short-selling of WLFI to profit from market volatility. Earlier, Eric Trump, the second son of Donald Trump and co-founder of World Liberty Financial, deleted some tweets related to WLFI. Affected by this, WLFI briefly plunged by more than 8%, and the USD1 stablecoin temporarily depegged to 0.9802 USDT.

The Trump family’s crypto project clarified that no smart contracts or wallets of WLFI or USD1 were hacked. The incident only involved unauthorized access to co-founders’ X accounts and did not affect the protocol’s infrastructure.

3. Uniswap Labs Unveils 7 New AI Agent “Skills” to Support Building On-Chain Agent Workflows link

Uniswap Labs has announced the launch of seven new “Skills” that enable AI agents to perform operations on Uniswap. Through the open‑source uniswap‑ai repository, developers gain structured access to core protocol operations, providing a starting point for on‑chain agent workflows. As demonstrated in the official terminal operation demo, users can integrate these features via commands. The seven core Skills are: v4‑security‑foundations, configurator, deployer, viem‑integration, swap‑integration, liquidity‑planner, and swap‑planner.

4. Meme Coin TRUMP Team Plans to Deploy Up to 5% of Tokens for Ecosystem Growth Initiatives link

The team behind the meme coin TRUMP has announced the next phase of its development, which will focus on boosting market liquidity and expanding use cases, while driving long-term value through more disciplined capital management. Holders will be able to participate in the Kamino vault to earn TRUMP and stablecoin rewards, with an incentive pool of up to over $10 million. Professional market makers will also be brought in to optimize liquidity across both centralized exchanges (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX). Over the coming months, the team will strategically use unlocked tokens accounting for no more than 5% of the total supply, allocating them to an ecosystem fund (up to $3.5 million), partnership and acquisition initiatives, and the development of the Web3 game TRUMP Billionaires Club.

5. zkSync Sets May 4 to Discontinue Lite, Focusing on Era Ecosystem link

zkSync announced that it will officially discontinue support for its Lite version nodes and infrastructure on May 4, 2026, while the ecosystem will continue to integrate around the Era product line. According to the official statement, the adjustment aims to focus resources and development efforts on the Era mainnet and its expanding ecosystem, simplify the protocol architecture, and reduce overlapping maintenance and community fragmentation. Migration guides will be provided to Lite users and developers to ensure a smooth transition.

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6. x402 Trading Volume Nears $400,000, Reaching a Two-Month High link

On February 23, x402 transaction volume reached nearly $400,000, a two-month high, with filtered real transaction volume at $290,000. Notably, Virtuals Protocol has become the largest x402 Facilitator, processing approximately $270,000 in real transaction volume that day. In addition, x402 transactions are mainly used for Agent-to-Agent services.

7. UniSat to Continue Investing in Bitcoin Mainnet Ecosystem Development, Announces Public FB Buyback link

On February 27, UniSat announced on social media that the team had noticed recent changes in the Bitcoin ecosystem. For UniSat, its direction has always been clear: to firmly support the development of the Bitcoin mainnet ecosystem and continue investing in the infrastructure of Ordinals, Runes and BRC-20.

Starting March 1, 2026, UniSat will implement a 90-day platform-wide fee-free service policy for its Ordinals and Runes marketplace, UniSat Marketplace. Note that the policy covers all Bitcoin mainnet assets including Ordinals, Runes and BRC-20 without exception.

UniSat revealed it will acquire FB from the open market in phases to participate in the Fractal index mining mechanism set to launch in the second quarter. The initial phase will purchase no less than 500,000 FB, with deployment to start and complete within 15 days. The FB acquired will be used for long-term index staking. Its goal is to maintain a stable and influential share in future index staking.

8. Magic Eden to Shut Down Bitcoin and EVM Marketplaces, Gradually Discontinue Multi-Chain Wallet link

Magic Eden will close its Bitcoin and EVM marketplaces and discontinue support for its multi-chain wallet. The Bitcoin and EVM marketplaces are scheduled to shut down in the first week of March. The multi-chain wallet will enter export-only mode in mid-March and fully cease services in early April. The company will continue to support Solana NFTs and assets. Magic Eden was once a major trading platform for Bitcoin Ordinals, once accounting for approximately 80% of Ordinals and Runes trading volume, with Bitcoin assets making up as much as 70% of its platform’s trading activity at their peak.

9. Binance Partners with Ondo Finance to Relaunch Tokenized U.S. Stock Trading link

Binance has relaunched tokenized U.S. stock trading through a partnership with Ondo Finance, marking its first return to the offering since terminating the product in 2021 due to regulatory warnings. Binance Alpha and Binance Wallet have added 10 Ondo tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, including AAPLon, GOOGLon, TSLAon, NVDAon, and QQQon. This feature is not available to users in the United States.

10. Terraform Liquidator Sues Jane Street, Alleging Insider Trading Accelerated Collapse link

Todd Snyder, the court-appointed liquidator of Terraform Labs, has sued Jane Street, its co-founder Robert Granieri, and two employees in federal court in New York, alleging they engaged in front-running using material non-public information obtained from Terraform insiders, profiting from the trades and accelerating the company’s collapse. The complaint states that Jane Street established a private communication channel via Bryce Pratt, a former Terraform intern, to access confidential information. On May 7, 2022, less than 10 minutes after Terraform withdrew 150 million TerraUSD from a Curve liquidity pool, Jane Street simultaneously withdrew 85 million UST; it continued trading using the relevant information thereafter.

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