BGD, a core engineering vendor to Aave DAO, said Friday it will not renew its contract, which ends on April 1. The company cited disagreements over shifting users from Aave v3 to the forthcoming v4. AAVE fell more than 6% after the notice, while Aave Labs said v3 will remain supported with no immediate migration timeline.

Cardano is preparing an intra-era hard fork to protocol version 11, with targeted upgrades to Plutus performance, ledger consistency, and node security. On Feb. 21, the X account Cardano Updates announced the Plutus 1.58.0.0 release, while Intersect confirmed the van Rossem hard fork naming on Feb. 19.

Darknet marketplaces and drug vendors took in nearly $2.6 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, with inflows to drug-linked addresses slightly above $2.5 billion. From mid-2023, payments for fentanyl precursors fell sharply, and larger transfers over $500 correlated with worse Canadian health outcomes, underscoring how on-chain activity can act as an early warning for public health and enforcement.

On February 20, 2026, analyst Ali Martinez said ETH shows a bullish flag on an inverted chart and warned a larger move could drive prices below $1,400. On February 21, 2026, Daan Crypto Trades highlighted weak early-2026 performance, while the article notes roughly $113 million in spot ETH ETF outflows and continued BitMine accumulation.

Polygon’s POL token was trading near $0.108, holding the $0.10 support after a 4.06% daily gain and a 17% rise in volume. The network recently burned 100 million POL in a major deflationary move, while indicators like Stochastic RSI, Stock-to-Flow Ratio, and exchange supply ratio pointed to a tug-of-war between bullish momentum and elevated selling pressure.

On Feb. 20, US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $88.1 million in net inflows, led by BlackRock's IBIT with $64.5 million and Fidelity's FBTC with $23.6 million. The move followed a $165.8 million outflow on Feb. 19, while Ethereum flows were broadly flat and Solana funds added $3.7 million.

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller reallocated $290,836,000, increasing Duquesne Family Office's positions in Alphabet by 277% to 385,000 shares and in Amazon by 69% to 737,940 shares. Filings also show he exited Citigroup, Bank of America and Capital One, reducing each holding to zero.

The Netherlands Gambling Authority has ordered Polymarket’s Dutch affiliate Adventure One to immediately halt unlicensed prediction market betting for local users or face penalties of up to $990,000. The action targets wagers on events such as national elections and comes amid broader Dutch debates on stricter crypto taxation and growing indirect exposure to digital assets.