Technology Provider of the Year: Overall 🏆
Pyth has been recognized by the Hedgeweek Global Digital Assets Awards 2026 for powering the next generation of financial markets.
Thank you to everyone building, publishing, and powering markets with Pyth every day.
NEAR operates one of the most mature and transparent cryptoeconomic systems in the industry.
With NEAR Intents all-time volume now over $19 billion, and NEAR AI powering workloads for major platforms like Venice, Brave, Abound, and more, NEAR is primed to capture value from the growth of both DeFi and the agent economy.
NEAR Intents are the privacy-preserving rails for connecting global liquidity and agentic commerce, with confidential volume growing steadily, support for new asset classes like RWAs, and a key role to play in large stablecoin swaps through the Stablecoin Transport Protocol.
Intents now routes value across 35+ chains, 135+ assets, and is integrated across major DeFi infrastructure, aggregators, and wallets. Over $1.5 billion in ZEC volume has moved across Intents. Since the fee switch went live at NEARCON, NEAR has generated over $8 million in revenue that is directed toward NEAR buybacks.
NEAR’s network fundamentals are designed to accelerate a deflationary economic flywheel through increased network usage and ecosystem growth. The network’s token supply is fully unlocked. The halving upgrade reduced maximum annual inflation by 50%. And core products are generating real, recurring revenue.
This is how NEAR becomes the foundation for the AI economy and the currency of agents.
In an agent economy, the infrastructure layer will capture the most value. Agents will converge on the infrastructure that settles at scale, reaches the most liquidity, and keeps their operations confidential. NEAR has been uniquely architected from the beginning to combine scalable settlement, cross-chain execution, privacy-preserving execution, and private inference all into a single protocol.
👀The Year of the Fire Horse begins on February 17, 2026, and ends on February 5, 2027. Traditionally, this is often a time of strong turning point energy: more change, more decision-making, more “visibility” – and with it, more chances to overdo it or rush things. #btc
DeFi adoption of Ondo tokenized stocks is now live and powered by Chainlink as the official data oracle.
Institutional-grade pricing for QQQon, TSLAon, & more unlocks onchain equities as high-quality collateral across DeFi.
With deep TradFi liquidity + reliable oracle data, Ondo tokenized U.S. stocks can now power lending, borrowing, and structured products onchain - starting with vaults on @eulerfinance, risk-managed by @SentoraHQ and secured by @chainlink.
This is the first time tokenized stocks are available for use as collateral on @ethereum DeFi.
In a landmark first, Ondo has received EU regulatory approval to list the first round of Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs.
500 million investors across 30 markets in the EU and EEA can now access Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs, including:
✅ GOOGLon
✅ AMZNon
✅ NVDAon
✅ CRCLon
✅ METAon
✅ MSFTon
✅ AAPLon
✅ TSLAon
✅ QQQon
The approval follows the November approval of the Ondo Global Markets Base Prospectus by the Financial Market Authority Liechtenstein, a recognized European regulator with passporting rights across the EU and EEA.
Ondo Global Markets is already the largest tokenized equities platform globally with $550M+ in TVL, $9B+ in cumulative volume, the most integrations, and tens of thousands of holders.
We built a database from scratch because existing ones couldn't keep up with blockchain at scale.
The result? 10x less disk writes, lower latency, and stable performance under sustained load.
Storage was becoming the bottleneck. Not anymore.
Introducing Tidehunter 👇
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LATEST: ⚡️ The SEC has dropped its multi-year investigation into Ondo Finance without filing any charges, with ONDO jumping 5% following the announcement.
🚨🇪🇺BREAKING: European Central Bank REFUSES to Back €140 Billion Payout to Ukraine!
Frozen Russian Assets Will Stay Locked.
ECB ruled the European Commission’s proposal is a clear overreach of its powers.
A huge thank you to @KevinMurcko and @CoinMetro for supporting the Kadena Community Edition fork!
Let's build the future of $KDA.
Thank you chad Kevin 🧡
#kadena $KDA
LATEST: 🚀 BitMine chairman Tom Lee told Bloomberg that $150,000-$200,000 is still very much in the cards for Bitcoin by the end of January, regardless of the current market downturn.