Robinhood has activated the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum, to support tokenized real-world and digital assets and give developers early access ahead of a planned mainnet later this year. Infrastructure providers including Alchemy, Allium, Chainlink, LayerZero, and TRM are integrating, with more partners expected during the early test phase.

On February 11, 2026, Ripple announced a partnership with Aviva Investors to tokenize traditional fund structures on the XRP Ledger, building on Aviva's $345 billion in assets under management as of 2025. Aviva aims to use XRPL's fast, low-cost and energy-efficient infrastructure to issue and manage tokenized funds, while Ripple continues to expand its broader tokenization efforts, including support for a $280 million diamond tokenization deal in the UAE.

On 11 February 2026, Aviva Investors announced a collaboration with Ripple to explore issuing tokenised versions of its existing funds on the XRP Ledger. The initiative focuses on using blockchain infrastructure to enhance how traditional funds are administered rather than launching a new crypto-only product. Ripple aims to extend the XRP Ledger's role in institutional finance, while Aviva Investors treats this as its first structured move into tokenised fund strategies.

Blockchain transactions-per-second metrics are often touted as proof of scalability, yet Carter Feldman argues they rarely reflect how decentralized networks perform under real conditions. As more transactions hit a chain, each node faces heavier verification and bandwidth loads, pushing practical throughput far below lab benchmarks and forcing tradeoffs unless designs shift toward proof-based systems like zero-knowledge technology.

Ripple has entered a partnership with Aviva Investors to pilot tokenized versions of traditional fund structures on the XRP Ledger, marking Ripple's first such collaboration with a European investment management firm. Aviva Investors plans to issue and oversee tokenized funds on the public XRPL blockchain as part of an initiative expected to evolve through 2026 and beyond, while Ripple positions the network as infrastructure for regulated financial assets.

The European Parliament has approved the European Central Bank's annual report, including language that brands the planned digital euro as essential to strengthening EU monetary sovereignty and the single market. Lawmakers stressed that both cash and the future digital euro should remain legal tender, while underlining that the ECB must stay independent from political pressure. Several MEPs and experts framed the digital euro as public digital money that could reduce reliance on non-EU payment providers and private stablecoins in Europe's retail payments.

At a second White House-hosted meeting with top banks and crypto firms, talks on stablecoin yield policy ended without a deal, though participants said progress was made. The administration set a March 1 deadline, with banks advocating a ban on rewards for holding payment stablecoins and industry groups seeking clearer allowances.

On Feb. 10, Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York dismissed Bancor-affiliated entities' patent claims against Uniswap, finding the asserted patents ineligible under U.S. law. The dismissal is without prejudice, giving plaintiffs 21 days to amend before it can convert to a dismissal with prejudice. The case was brought by Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin Ltd. against Universal Navigation Inc. and the Uniswap Foundation.