PANews reported on February 20 that Unicity Labs, an autonomous internet protocol development company, announced the completion of a $3 million seed funding round led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Middle Eastern communications app Tawasal and Web3 early-stage investment firm Outlier Ventures. The company plans to use the new funds to build a peer-to-peer encrypted architecture that enables autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and conduct transactions at machine speed, without the need for intermediaries or shared ledgers.



Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin defended his blockchain’s 45-day exit queue after Galaxy Digital’s head of digital called it “troubling,” sparking backlash. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has finally addressed some concerns over the lengthening Ethereum staking exit queue, which has now grown to 45 days. His response came after Galaxy Digital’s head of DeFi, Michael Marcantonio, called the exit queue length “troubling” on X and compared it to Solana which only needs two days to unstake. He has since deleted the posts. However, Buterin seemingly took a more ideological stance on the subject, describing unstaking from Ethereum as “more like a soldier deciding to quit the army,” adding that staking is more about “taking on a solemn duty to defend the chain.”Read more