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Kraken Expands Into Onchain Solana Trading as IPO Momentum Builds
Kraken is launching onchain DEX trading directly inside its main mobile app, giving users access to thousands of Solana-based tokens. The exchange plans to extend support to additional networks over time.
The feature is powered by Privy wallet infrastructure and leading Solana DEX protocols. DEX assets will appear alongside existing holdings and can be traded using Kraken’s standard buy and sell interface with USD or USDC.
Alchemy Launches Visa-Powered Payment Cards for AI Agents
Alchemy has introduced AgentCard, a Visa-powered virtual payment card designed to help AI agents operate autonomously in the real world.
The solution combines a Visa payment token, crypto wallet, email address, and phone number through a single API, enabling AI agents to make payments and interact with merchants independently.
AgentCard supports tokenized card payments, crypto transactions, and emerging AI-native payment protocols, including Coinbase’s x402 and Stripe’s Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). The platform also includes built-in spending controls such as transaction limits, merchant restrictions, and budget management.
Moody's Brings Its Credit Ratings Onchain to Solana
Moody's Ratings has expanded its Token Integration Engine with Alphaledger, putting its credit ratings onchain on Solana.
It is the first time Moody's ratings are integrated and machine-readable on a major public, permissionless blockchain. Alphaledger handles the onchain integration, letting protocols consume Moody's credit directly.
PayPal Winds Down Its Venture Capital Arm
PayPal is winding down PayPal Ventures, its 10-year-old corporate VC arm, as the fintech restructures under new leadership. PayPal has hired Jefferies to explore selling positions on the secondary market.
The unit backed 80+ companies across $850M in funds, including Plaid and crypto custodian Anchorage, but its team has shrunk from 10+ to just two.
EarnOS Raises $6M for ero, Its Anti-AI-Slop App
EarnOS has raised $6M in a pre-Series A led by 1kx to scale ero, an app that pays users for verified human engagement — and helps brands cut the AI bots draining their ad budgets.
ero uses zkTLS to prove a real person completed a real action without exposing their data. A separate $12.5M strategic deal brings total launch funding to $18.5M.
Trace Finance Raises $32M Series A Led by CoinFund
Trace Finance, a stablecoin payments infrastructure platform, has raised $32M in a Series A led by CoinFund — bringing a roster of crypto and fintech heavyweights onboard.
Backers include Coinbase Ventures, Paxos, Jump Capital, Chainlink Labs and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko.
BitGo Offers MiCA Compliance Solution as EU Licensing Deadline Nears
BitGo (BTGO) unveiled a MiCA-compliance infrastructure service aimed at helping European crypto firms continue operating as the EU's regulatory transition deadline approaches at the end of June.
Through its BaFin-regulated platform, companies can integrate their wallet infrastructure into BitGo’s compliant custody and account system without building a fully licensed operating stack from scratch. Firms can also continue pursuing their own MiCA licenses while using BitGo’s services.
Re Raises Strategic Investment From Coinbase Ventures
Re has secured a strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures as it pushes to bring reinsurance capital onchain. The project aims to open one of the world’s largest and most traditional financial markets to a broader pool of investors.
Reinsurance is the capital that backs insurers when large claims hit, and Re says it has already written $500 million in premiums through its licensed reinsurance entity, covering nearly one million U.S. households. The company expects to add another $400 million in new business this year and reach a $1 billion annual run rate by early 2027.
Plasma One Goes Live: a Stablecoin Neobank Card
Stablecoin L1 Plasma has launched Plasma One, a neobank with a Visa card spendable at 150M+ merchants across 150 countries — plus 10%+ yield on stablecoin balances and up to 4% cashback.
Early users who join within 7 days get the Core tier free for a year — over $1,000 in value.
Satori Finance Shuts Down Despite Its $10M Raise
Satori Finance, the perpetuals DEX that raised $10M in 2022, is winding down — saying a prolonged weak market left too little revenue to keep operating.
Users have one month to close positions and withdraw funds before the platform goes offline.
MANTRA to Be Acquired by Its $20M Backer Inveniam
RWA Layer-1 MANTRA has agreed to be acquired by Inveniam Capital Partners — the strategic investor that put $20M into the project last year — in a deal set to close in Q3 2026.
It is a turnaround for MANTRA, whose OM token collapsed in 2025 and forced a restructuring and layoffs.
Axiom Launches Polymarket-Powered Prediction Markets
Solana trading terminal Axiom has rolled out prediction markets directly in-app, powered by Polymarket — letting traders bet on events without leaving the platform.
To celebrate this, Axiom gives its users 20 pUSD for free as part of the promotion. To withdraw, users have to deposit at least $17 and place a trade.
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Threads Hits 500M Active Users as Meta Rolls Out New Personalization Tools
Threads has surpassed 500 million monthly active users, Meta announced, marking nearly three years since launch as a competitor to X.
The platform is introducing a new “Your Algo” feature, allowing users to privately adjust what appears in their feed by increasing or reducing specific topics for 1, 3, or 7 days. The feature builds on the earlier “Dear Algo” tool but removes the need for public posts.
Y Combinator’s Locus Founder Turns a Text Message Into a Business
Y Combinator has unveiled Locus Founder, an AI agent that lets users text a business idea via iMessage, SMS, or Telegram and then handles the rest. The system can research markets using 40+ paid data APIs, generate branding, and even build full-stack websites.
Beyond setup, the agent can source products and run outbound marketing campaigns, including short-form video ads posted on Meta. The launch positions Locus as more than a chatbot — it is designed to act like an autonomous business operator.
Binance Faces EU Access Risk as MiCA Deadline Approaches
Binance may lose its right to serve EU clients within weeks after its MiCA licence application in Greece is reportedly set to be rejected. Without authorization, the exchange would not qualify to continue operating across the bloc from July 1.
The move comes as MiCA’s transitional period ends, forcing crypto firms to secure full CASP licensing or stop serving EU users. According to the report, roughly 210 of more than 1,200 firms with prior national VASP registrations have converted so far, leaving the majority without full MiCA approval.
Avalanche Expands Ecosystem With Payments Collective Launch
Avalanche has launched the Avalanche Payments Collective, bringing together major players across stablecoins, settlement, custody, FX, card issuance, treasury infrastructure, and global payouts.
Founding participants include Franklin Templeton, VanEck, Anchorage Digital, Paxos, Agora, Ethena, Rain, Axiym, Tassat, and others.
The collective reflects a broader shift in payments, where moving money globally requires more than fast transactions. It also needs liquidity, compliance, treasury tools, custody, foreign exchange, and local payment rails working together.
XION Becomes Verona, an Intelligence Layer for AI
XION has rebranded to Verona, shifting from web3 infrastructure to a verification and intelligence layer for AI agents — giving them portable, private, cryptographically verified real-world data.
Verona already powers 69M+ verified interactions across 3M+ users and 115+ brands, including Uber, Amazon, Nike and BMW.
OpenAI has launched LifeSciBench for Science AI
OpenAI has introduced LifeSciBench, an expert-written, expert-reviewed benchmark that tests whether AI can support real life-science research — not just answer biology questions.
Built with 173 scientists, it spans 750 expert-authored tasks across seven biological research workflows, each grounded in Ph.D.-level judgment.
re (RE) Holds Its TGE Today Across Multiple Exchanges
re is an onchain reinsurance protocol that channels stablecoin capital into fully collateralized reinsurance contracts through licensed insurers, with ~$265M in TVL.
Trading goes live at 14:00 UTC, pair RE/USDT, on Binance, Bitget, KuCoin, BingX, BitMart and MEXC.
Vercel has launched Eve, Its Agent Framework
Vercel has launched Eve, an open-source framework for building and running AI agents — pitched as 'the Next.js for agents.'
Eve ships production-ready: durable execution, sandboxed compute, human-in-the-loop approvals, subagents and Evals.
Former U.S. Congressman Kendrick Meek Joins Lumia’s Advisory Board
Lumia has announced that former U.S. Congressman Kendrick Meek is joining its Bipartisan Public Policy Advisory Board, alongside Tim Ryan and David McIntosh, strengthening the project’s U.S. policy and regulatory strategy as tokenized real-world assets move toward broader adoption.
Meek brings experience from the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Homeland Security Committees, along with roles in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He currently serves on Coinbase’s Global Advisory Council.
Bittensor Proposal Could Turn Validators Into Fund Managers
A new Bittensor proposal called Root Reborn could reshape how the decentralized AI network pays validators, turning them into something closer to fund managers. Submitted by developer unconst, the code is currently aimed at a test network rather than mainnet.
Bittensor has multiple AI subnets with their own tokens, while TAO is the main asset. Today, staking yield comes from selling rewards into TAO, creating constant sell pressure. Following proposal validators would allocate capital into subnets and reinvest yield instead of selling, while users can still withdraw TAO.
Aster Introduces Deflationary Buyback-and-Burn Model
Aster has upgraded its tokenomics, directing 99% of daily platform fees toward buying back ASTER from the market.
To reinforce the token’s deflationary model, Aster will also burn an equal amount of ASTER from reserves, effectively creating a 1:1 buyback-and-burn mechanism. The purchased tokens will be distributed to veASTER holders through staking rewards.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam Update Enters Final Testing
Glamsterdam, Ethereum's biggest planned upgrade of 2026, has entered its final development phase — core devs are running full devnet tests of a fork bundling every planned EIP before code freeze and public testnets.
The gas limit jumps 60M → 200M and L1 fees could fall up to 78%, with mainnet now targeted for Q3 2026.
Zama and Morpho Launch a Confidential Yield Vault
Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse have gone live with the first 'confidential DeFi yield' vault on Ethereum — using Zama's fully homomorphic encryption to keep depositor balances and positions private while earning onchain yield.
It is a milestone for confidential DeFi: users earn lending yield without exposing their holdings onchain.
Binance Wallet to Host re (RE) Pre-TGE Prime Sale today
re Protocol opens its Pre-TGE Prime Sale on Binance Wallet today at $0.05 per RE — a $500,000 raise for 10M tokens (1% of supply), implying a $50M FDV.
Open to Binance Alpha holders during the June 17, 12:00–14:00 UTC window (max 3 BNB each); RE airdrops to Alpha accounts on June 18.
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Argentina: the most crypto-pilled nation on earth
No country has gone deeper. A president who legalized Bitcoin contracts in his first month and cleared banks to offer crypto by 2026. 22.8% of the population in crypto, $93.9B in yearly volume, and 61.8% of it in stablecoins — the peso's quiet replacement.
It's also an exporter: Decentraland, OpenZeppelin, Rootstock, POAP — all built by Argentines and used worldwide. At home, Ripio, Lemon, Belo and Muun run the local market.
Even the national team is crypto-backed — Bybit, Nexo, LBank, BTCC all behind La Albiceleste.
And the dark side: the LIBRA scandal — a Milei-promoted token that hit $4.5B and collapsed 96% in hours, now under investigation.
One country, every layer of crypto. Mapped
Polymarket Trader Turns $4M Into $9M After Spain Shock Draw
A Polymarket wallet turned roughly $4 million into $9 million profit after betting against Spain in a World Cup match that ended in a 0–0 draw with Cabo Verde.
The account, tracked by on-chain analysts as “fishalive”, placed two large bets against Spain, one on a straight non-win and another on a handicap market. Both positions paid out after the underdog held the favorite to a draw.
HIP-3 Faces Growing Concentration Risk as More Deployers Exit Hyperliquid
Ventuals has announced it is shutting down operations and settling all active HIP-3 markets, becoming the second major HIP-3 deployer to exit after Felix. The team cited a strategic move to join another project within the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
Despite generating over $650M in trading volume and attracting more than 500K HYPE, Ventuals ultimately failed to build a sustainable business. According to Blockworks Research, most non-TradeXYZ deployers remain unprofitable, with several still operating at a cumulative loss.
Hyperliquid's HYPE Hits a New All-Time High at $76
HYPE tagged a fresh ATH of $75.96, up nearly 200% year-to-date and about 22% on the week, lifting the token to a ~$17B market cap.
Hyperliquid is the dominant perp DEX, doing ~$62.8M in 30-day onchain revenue (more than the next two protocols combined). Its Assistance Fund plows those fees straight into buying HYPE — real cash flow, real bid. HyperEVM fees just hit record highs.
