Key deals of February 23 - February 27, 2026 Better x Framework: Stablecoins Enter the Mortgage Engine Better is plugging mortgage origination into DeFi liquidity. The lender secured up to $500M in financing from Framework Ventures through the Sky stablecoin ecosystem , a structure rooted in MakerDAO , positioning itself as a designated capital recipient within the system. Better will continue underwriting and originating conforming home loans, while capital generated insi

Every few years, decentralized social comes back into focus. This time, the trigger was X (Twitter)’s mass bans of so-called “content farming” and airdrop platforms. The event reignited an old question: if centralized platforms are unstable, biased, or opaque, why haven’t decentralized alternatives won? In a Chinese AMA co-hosted by WuBlockchain and Mask Network , Vitalik Buterin and Suji Yan revisited that question directly. The conclusion wasn’t that decentralized socia

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