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SpaceX to Acquire Cursor's Maker in a $60B Merger
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the startup behind AI coding tool Cursor, in a $60B all-stock merger — a giant step in Elon Musk's plan to turn the rocket company into an AI powerhouse.
A SpaceX subsidiary, X67 Inc., will merge into Cursor, making it a wholly owned unit. The deal is expected to close in Q3, pending regulatory approval, landing soon after SpaceX's record IPO.
Nous's Hermes Agent Can Now Pay and Buy on Its Own
Nous Research integrated Stripe's agent toolkit into its Hermes model, giving the AI agent the ability to make payments, buy goods and pay for APIs on its own.
Hermes can even provision its own SaaS subscriptions, with configurable limits capping every action, turning a language model into an economic actor that transacts autonomously.
Thetanuts Exploited for $2.1M, Whitehat Recovers $2M
Thetanuts Finance, a DeFi options protocol, was exploited for about $2.1M — but a whitehat clawed back roughly $2M, leaving only a small net loss.
The attacker swapped $105K USDC for about 60 ETH and still holds around $34K in option tokens. PeckShield flagged the incident, the latest in a brutal June for DeFi security.
👉 x.com/PeckShieldAlert/status/2066540451126190312
2026 World Cup is the most crypto-integrated event in the history of sport
This isn't marketing or a few sponsor logos on a banner. FIFA has embedded blockchain into the tournament deeper than ever before: for the first time, the World Cup has an official prediction market partner — ADI Predictstreet, which launched on-chain markets for all 104 matches, settled through Chainlink.
FIFA also stopped renting other people's chains and built its own blockchain on Avalanche L1 — that's where FIFA Collect now lives. The old partner, Algorand, is history.
Aerodrome to Pay Users for Predicting Liquidity Demand
Aerodrome, the largest DEX on Base, will launch Predictive Allocation in July, replacing performance-based reward voting with a model that pays users for forecasting where liquidity is needed next.
Call it right and you earn a bigger share of protocol revenue. Dromos Labs says the prediction-market and AMM blend can boost incentive efficiency by up to 80%, its biggest upgrade yet.
Plume Brings PIMCO-Backed Bond Yield to Bybit Users
Plume partnered with Bybit to launch institutional fixed-income vaults, letting Bybit users put idle stablecoins into onchain products backed by PIMCO and CMBI.
The vaults hold mortgage-backed securities, high-yield corporate bonds and Asia-Pacific investment-grade debt — yield from real-world credit, not crypto markets.
US Orders Anthropic to Pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5
A US export-control directive citing national security forces Anthropic to abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers and any foreign national worldwide.
Washington points to a "jailbreak" of Fable 5, but Anthropic says it only surfaced minor, already-known flaws that rival models, including GPT-5.5, can find without any bypass.
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Early SpaceX Investors Net Billions From Historic IPO
SpaceX listed on Nasdaq under the SPCX ticker after pricing its IPO at $135 per share and raising $75 billion, valuing the company at approximately $1.77 trillion.
The IPO is expected to generate historic venture capital returns. Founders Fund's roughly 3% stake is now worth over $50B, turning about $600M invested across multiple rounds into one of the biggest VC wins on record.
Crypto's $55M World Cup Bet: Who's Really Paying, and Why
Across the major CEXs (plus Jupiter), exchanges stacked $55M+ in World Cup "prize pools." But these aren't gifts, they're acquisition budgets dressed as football. The biggest pools come from the names that need traders most: Bitrue ($25M) and BingX ($10M) outspend everyone, while Binance just runs daily boxes.
Pool size tells you how hard each is fighting for relevance, not how much you'll take home. Read the volume requirements before you "play."
Ethena (ENA) Brings USDe Yield Into the Coinbase App
Ethena and Coinbase launched their first joint product, the SteakhouseFi High Yield Vault, letting users earn USDe-powered yield on USDC without leaving the Coinbase app.
Steakhouse Financial curates the vault while Morpho provides the lending rails, routing USDC into onchain markets backed by Ethena collateral.
LG Electronics Builds an Arbitrum Layer 2 for Onchain Ads
LG Electronics is building its own Arbitrum-based layer-2 to move digital advertising onchain, creating a shared ledger of ad inventory and how audiences interact with it.
The chain batches ad transactions cheaply and runs the ad market automatically — "you don't need manual interventions," said Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder.
Binance Introduces bStocks for 24/7 Onchain Stock Trading
Binance has introduced bStocks on BNB Chain, bringing 1:1-backed tokenized U.S. securities onchain as BEP-20 tokens. The assets can be traded 24/7 with zero conversion fees, while daily Proof of Collateral is available to verify backing.
The first wave includes Circle, Micron, NVIDIA, Sandisk, and Tesla, with more listings like SpaceX expected later. Users can start with as little as $5 and hold the tokens in self-custody through wallets like Binance Wallet and Trust Wallet.
FIFA World Cup 2026 Could Drive Up To $10B Volume Surge In Prediction Markets
Bernstein, a leading Wall Street research and investment firm managing nearly $900 billion in assets, called the 2026 FIFA World Cup a “watershed moment” for the prediction markets industry.
The firm estimates the expanded 48-team tournament could generate over $3 billion in additional handle and boost consumer trading volume across prediction markets by $5–$10 billion, making it the sector’s largest catalyst to date.
a16z Crypto Leads $355M Round in Canton Network developer Digital Asset
Digital Asset, the developer of the Canton Network, raised $355M led by a16z crypto at a roughly $2B valuation.
Canton has settled over $6 trillion in tokenized real-world assets, and the round drew a rare TradFi–DeFi mix betting on institutional onchain settlement.
DeepSeek has Closed $7.4B Funding at a $50B Valuation
China's DeepSeek closed one of the country's largest-ever private tech rounds, $7.4B at a ~$50B valuation, backed by Tencent, JD, NetEase, IDG Capital and CATL. Deepseek Founder Liang reportedly contributed ~40% of the round himself.
The structure is unusual: investors funded a limited partnership run by founder Liang Wenfeng, not DeepSeek directly, locked for five years with no votes — only China's National AI Fund invested directly and kept its vote.
SPCX Spikes to $230, Pricing SpaceX Near $3T
SPCX jumped from a long base near $200 to a $229.94 all-time high overnight, briefly implying a ~$3 trillion valuation. The IPO turned it into HIP-3's biggest market, drawing a $1.4B trading frenzy.
The pump rode a massive risk-on day: a US–Iran peace framework and tumbling oil added over $1T to US equities, sending the S&P up ~1.9% and Nasdaq ~3% — and pulling Bitcoin to a two-week high.
Treasuries & ETFs Board. Crypto Accumulation and Capital Flows
The last week showed a mixed picture with signs of stabilization after heavy selling pressure in early June. Outflows dominated most days but were noticeably smaller in scale, and a key positive day for Bitcoin broke a long negative streak.
Weekly flows (June 8–15):
- BTC ETFs: -$319M
- ETH ETFs: -$14.8M
Treasury activity:
- Strategy buys 1,857 BTC ($100M), total now 846,842 BTC
- Strive adds 73 BTC to its balance sheet, holds 19,105 BTC
- Bitmine: +76,881 ETH (135M), total holdings - 5.62M ETH
Aztec Connect Drained for $2.1M via ZK Proof Bug
An attacker drained funds from a deprecated Aztec Connect contract by exploiting a flaw in its ZK proof verification: a crafted rollup submission passed the proof check while the settlement logic processed a different set of transactions.
BlockSec says the exploit was repeated seven times across seven assets — 909 ETH, 270K DAI, 167 wstETH and more. Aztec Labs relinquished admin access in 2024, leaving the contracts fully immutable, so no one could pause them.
Grvt Takes Aim at Idle Capital Problem in DeFi & TradFi
Grvt has unveiled a new core thesis targeting one of crypto's persistent structural issues: the majority of capital across both DeFi and traditional finance sits idle rather than being actively deployed.
The team points to several recurring friction points: funds parked unused on platforms, cash sitting on the sidelines post-volatility, and yield products that lock capital with limited flexibility. Even actively deployed capital faces inefficiencies, with fragmented strategies spread across thousands of protocols, withdrawal delays, and constant liquidity trade-offs.
Bitcoin falls to #15 Global Asset as SpaceX Debuts at #9
It was a red month almost everywhere: gold shed $3.2T, silver −22.8%, Bitcoin −19.6%. The only newcomer climbing the board was SpaceX, debuting at #9 after its IPO. Not a crypto story, a risk-off repricing that hit every asset class at once.
$115M in Bets on the Cologne CS2 Major. Who Makes Playoffs?
IEM Cologne is the biggest CS2 tournament of the year — and Polymarket has 52 markets open on it, ~$115M in bets total.
The Major's group stage is halfway through, and the market has already sorted the field. Vitality and Spirit are near-locks for playoffs (96%+). But only 8 of 16 teams advance, and the rest are a coin-flip — every map from here decides who's in.
Prediction markets came for elections, then sports. Now they're pricing esports.
Odds tell you who. CS2Analytics tells you why → VRS ratings, advancement sims, the map pools that decide it. cs2analytics.com
Bybit & Binance Cancel SpaceX IPO Campaigns, Users to Receive Refunds
Bybit confirmed it did not receive any SpaceX allocation via xStocks, citing the provider’s inability to deliver the underlying assets. As a result, users who participated in the SpaceX IPO subscription on Bybit will not receive any allocations.
The exchange will refund 100% of user funds to original accounts, with no action required from participants. Additionally, eligible users will receive compensation based on a 10% APR for a fixed 4-day period.
Unlike Bybit, Binance also announced a $1M airdrop in the SPCXB bStocks SpaceX token, which will be distributed to campaign participants by June 18.
Lumia (LUMIA) One-Pager. The Full-Cycle RWA Chain
Lumia is the only full cycle RWA infrastructure, built on its zkEVM blockchain - covering compliant tokenization, market access, and real-world asset utility in one ecosystem.
Most RWA companies rely on external parties for liquidity, asset distribution and compliance. Lumia combines all three natively through Lumia Stream, Lumia Portal and built-in identity/regulatory-aligned tooling.
Tether Freezes $72M From a Suspicious $120M Flow
Tether blacklisted a Tron wallet holding $72M USDT after a suspicious $120.2M transfer on June 11 fanned out across KuCoin, instant exchangers, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.
Part of the flow poured into Monero, spiking XMR about 27% from $330 to $420 before it settled near $390 — a classic privacy-coin laundering footprint.
NFTfi Closes After Raising $11.9M in Private Funding
NFTfi, the pioneer of peer-to-peer NFT lending, is winding down after the NFT market shrank to where fees no longer cover the cost of running the protocol.
Since 2020 it facilitated $737M across 82,000 loans for 6,200 wallets, paying lenders nearly $17M in interest — and its contracts never lost a single NFT.
Cryptomarket Check-In. Major Events & Headlines
Tokenized capital markets moved from pilot to infra this week, with major banks planning shared deposit networks, significant raises flowing into AI, onchain lending and DeFi, signaling public market moves.
🔎 Recent Updates & Developments
– JPMorgan, Citi, BofA and Wells Fargo are planning a tokenized deposit network via The Clearing House, targeting H1 2027.
– Digital Asset raised $355M led by a16z Crypto at a $2B valuation, backed by Apollo, HSBC, CME Ventures and Citadel.
– Tether led NEURA Robotics’ $1.4B Series C, one of the largest private funding rounds in humanoid robotics to date.
– Figure acquired real-estate lender Kiavi for $717M, adding $7B in annual first-lien volume to its onchain credit platform.
– Morpho raised $175M at a $2B valuation led by a16z, Paradigm and Ribbit, with Apollo and Circle Ventures participating.
– OpenAI confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC, keeping its IPO option open without committing to any timeline.
XPIN eSIM Goes Live On Binance Marketplace
XPIN Network has launched its eSIM service on Binance Marketplace, becoming the first dedicated eSIM provider featured on the platform.
The service offers instant mobile connectivity across 149+ countries and regions, allowing users to activate data plans globally without physical SIM cards.
XPIN says it has already served over 200,000 users and aims to build the connectivity infrastructure for a borderless digital economy through seamless worldwide access.
Figure Acquires Kiavi in $717M Onchain Lending Deal
Blockchain lender Figure is acquiring Kiavi, a real-estate investor-loan platform, for $717M, pushing deeper into first-lien lending and tokenized credit markets.
The deal adds over $7B a year in new first-lien volume to Figure Connect and more than $100M monthly to Democratized Prime, its onchain warehouse platform — a market Figure calls 25x larger than second liens.
Vinyl Equity Raises $20M to Build for Tokenization
Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent, raised a $20M Series A led by Jump Capital to modernize how shares are recorded, issued, and transferred across private and public markets.
Jump Capital led the round, calling the tokenization of securities an active shift most legacy infrastructure is unprepared for — and Vinyl is building for exactly that.