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Inside the Leak: Axiom's $390M Platform Is Rocked by Allegations That a Senior Employee Used Internal Dashboards to Stalk Trader Wallets for Profit
ZachXBT's February 26, 2026 investigation has named Broox Bauer, a senior business development employee at Axiom Exchange — a Y Combinator-backed Solana trading platform with over $390 million in lifetime revenue — in an alleged year-long scheme to access private wallet data through internal dashboards, compile crypto influencer trading portfolios in shared spreadsheets, and trade ahead of high-profile positions dating back to early 2025. Axiom has confirmed that access to the relevant internal tools was abused, revoked the permissions involved, and stated it is conducting a full internal investigation. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York may have jurisdiction given that Bauer is based in New York.
Solana ETF Staking Rewards: 21Shares’ Historic $0.32 Payout and What It Means for 2026
On February 17, 2026, 21Shares will make history by distributing $0.316871 per share in staking rewards to holders of its Solana ETF (TSOL), marking the first time a major U.S. crypto ETF has passed native blockchain yield directly through brokerage accounts. With Solana’s network staking yield hovering at 5–8% annually and TSOL’s AUM around $1.19 billion across U.S. Solana ETFs, this payout highlights a key differentiator: SOL ETFs aren’t just price trackers—they’re income‑generating products competing with traditional fixed income.
Alpenglow and Firedancer: Solana’s 2026 Scalability Leap
Solana is gearing up for its most ambitious upgrade cycle yet in 2026: Alpenglow, a complete rewrite of consensus and propagation layers targeting 100–150ms finality (100x faster than today’s 12.8s), and Firedancer, a new validator client with 1M TPS in tests. These changes address past outage risks, monoculture vulnerabilities, and throughput limits, positioning Solana to challenge Ethereum’s L2 dominance while courting institutional workloads like RWA tokenization and high‑frequency trading.
Supreme Court’s Trump Tariff Ruling Sends Mixed Signals to the Crypto Market
The US Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision to invalidate President Donald Trump’s emergency global tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) has scrapped one of his signature economic tools and opened the door to potential refunds on more than $100 billion in duties—just as the White House races to reinstall a 10–15% blanket tariff under a different statute. Traditional markets initially cheered the legal curb on tariff powers, while crypto, which sold off sharply on earlier tariff headlines in January, has so far taken the ruling and Trump’s rapid 15% counter‑move in stride, with Bitcoin holding near $68,000 and volatility far below the panic seen during previous trade shocks.
Solana Price in 2026: ETF Flows, On‑Chain Growth and Deep Price Predictions
Solana is trading near the mid‑80s in late February 2026 after a sharp drawdown from late‑2025 highs above 200, yet ETF inflows, DeFi TVL, and on‑chain activity point to one of the strongest fundamental setups in the Layer‑1 sector. Recent research shows Solana ETFs attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in net inflows, daily transactions in the tens of millions, and multiple 2026 price predictions clustering in a wide but bullish 120–300 range—with tail scenarios far above and below. This piece breaks down where SOL stands now, how institutions are positioning, and what realistic bull, base, and bear paths look like for the rest of 2026.