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Codex Launches Blockchain for Stablecoins with Native USDC Support
> Codex is a new purpose-built blockchain for stablecoins and its now live with native USDC
> It aims to solve the fiat <> crypto boundary, which are the bottlenecks for stablecoin adoption.
> Backed by Dragonfly Capital
Source: https://www.codex.xyz/blogs/native-usdc-is-now-live-on-codex
Drift Launches Zero-Fee BTC Perpetual Trading with Up to 101x Leverage
Source: https://x.com/DriftProtocol/status/1937512183254143225
The Future of Blockchain Oracles: Key Insights from Bering Waters' Latest Report
A deep dive into the evolution of oracles, their growing influence, and the cutting-edge innovations shaping their future. It covers key themes and trends including:
> Institutional adoption & RWA tokenization
> Impact of oracles on the blockchain ecosystem
> New use cases across gaming, insurance, and compliance
> Oracle architecture, token models & decentralization
> AI-powered oracle validation
> Zero-Knowledge Proofs for privacy
> Multi-chain infrastructure, and more👇
https://x.com/Bering_Waters/status/1914770156774924539
Source: www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-blockchain-oracles-key-insights-from-bering-9mame/
Anthony Pompliano's ProCap BTC Acquires 3,724 Bitcoin at an Average Price of ~$103,785 Per BTC
Source: https://x.com/APompliano/status/1937519817767936038
Grayscale Introduces the Artificial Intelligence Crypto Sector
> The AI sector will include the protocols for which AI applications are the primary use case
> The Artificial Intelligence Crypto Sector currently includes 20 tokens with a combined market cap of $21B — up from just $4.5 billion in Q1 2023.
Source: https://research.grayscale.com/reports/introducing-the-artificial-intelligence-crypto-sector
Grasshopper: First Hardware Built for the Grass Network, Launching on Solana
Join waitlist: grasshopper.grass.io/👇
Source: https://x.com/grass/status/1937167617946722700
Trump Announces Israel and Iran Have Agreed There Will Be a Complete and Total Ceasefire
"The 12-Day War” Ends
Source: https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1937270682381173050?s=52&t=txFAbiSPTdLLDlAYj9X_AA
a16z: 5 Charts That Explain Crypto Right Now
> Monthly mobile wallet users: +23%
> Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume: +49%
> ETP net flows (Bitcoin and Ethereum): +28%
> DEX to CEX spot trade volume: +51%
> Total txn fees (demand for blockspace): -43%👇
Source: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/5-charts-explain-crypto/
Iran Preparing to Fire Missiles at U.S. Bases Within Minutes - Axios Reporters on X
Source: https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1937187763637428568
GTE Has Raised a $15M Series A from Paradigm to Scale the Global Token Exchange.
> GTE is an end-to-end decentralized trading venue with CEX-level performance.
> Powered by MegaETH
Source: https://x.com/GTE_XYZ/status/1937148640507867438
Iran Could Retaliate Against US Forces in Next 2 Days: RTRS
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-retaliation-against-us-forces-could-come-soon-us-officials-say-2025-06-23/
June 22nd Rollup
🐚 Research and Ideation 💡
- theshortbear: On U.S. Involvement in the Iran–Israel War
🐚 Podcast 🎙️
- The People's AI Podcast: How Decentralized Data Marketplaces Could Reshape AI Forever
🐚 News 📕
- Iran Says Nuclear Sites Are Being Rebuilt, Vows to Resume Activity with Greater Power
- Trump: If Iran Can’t Make Itself Great Again, Why Not Regime Change?
- U.S Issues Worldwide Caution Amid Israel-Iran Conflict and Travel Disruptions
🐚 Project Updates 🔔
- Talus Partners with Swarm Network to Scale Multi-Agent Coordination
Microstrategy Acquires Another 245 Bitcoin at ~$105,856 Per BTC and Now Holds 592,345 BTC
Source: https://x.com/saylor/status/1937118945057915061
U.S. State Department Issues Worldwide Caution Amid Israel-Iran Conflict and Travel Disruptions
> “The conflict between Israel and Iran has resulted in disruptions to travel and periodic closure of airspace across the Middle East.”
> “There is the potential for demonstrations against U.S. citizens and interests abroad.”
> “The Department of State advises U.S. citizens worldwide to exercise increased caution.”
Read Advisory of Each Country Before Travel
Source: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/ea/worldwide-caution2.html
Iran Says Nuclear Sites Are Being Rebuilt, Vows to Resume Activity with Greater Power
Source: https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1936853271022297421
Chainlink Partners with Mastercard to Enable Cardholders Purchase Crypto Directly Onchain.
> Chainlink verifies & synchronizes key transaction details to enable Mastercard holders to access crypto directly onchain.
Source: https://x.com/chainlink/status/1937512981064974756
Coinbase Assists the Secret Service Seize $225M in Stolen Crypto from Pig Butchering Scams
> The U.S. Secret Service has successfully taken control of $225 million in USDT stolen through “pig butchering” scams, with Coinbase playing a key role in this landmark operation.👇
Source: https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/blog/consumer-protection-tuesday-how-coinbase-helped-secret-service-seize-stolen-crypto
Covalent: On-chain Data Meets Agency
> Covalent is building multi-agent systems that can reshape how we work and interact onchain.
> It enables truly autonomous agents for DeFi via its ZEE framework and shared memory layer, MCP.
> The Zero Employee Enterprise (ZEE) framework is an autonomous system powered by a swarm of specialized AI agents, with each agent leveraging Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning.
> MCP, the shared memory layer, lets agents share context with each other, using verified data from Covalent’s GoldRush API for accurate coordination
Source: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/covalent-on-chain-data-meets-agency#key-takeaways
June 23rd Rollup
🐚 Research and Ideation 💡
- Messari: Base Has Accounted for 67% of L2 Fees in 2025
- Blockworks: Leading Crypto Cards and their Key Features
- a16z: 5 Charts That Explain Crypto Right Now
- Helius: Real World Assets on Solana - A Comprehensive Overview
🐚 News 📕
- Trump Announces Israel and Iran Have Agreed There Will Be a Complete and Total Ceasefire
🐚 Project Updates 🔔
- 3Jane: Pool Backing Analysis of Assets
- Prime Intellect Launches SYNTHETIC-2
- Telegram Android Contest 2025
- Grayscale Introduces the AI Crypto Sector
🐚 Raises 💰
- GTE Raises a $15M Series A from Paradigm
Helius: Real World Assets on Solana - A Comprehensive Overview
> A comprehensive overview of the Solana’s RWA landscape, showcasing the growing diversity of RWA offerings and their practical applications
> The core analysis is structured around: Equities, Money Market Funds, Commodities, Stablecoins, Private Credit, Real Estate, and Collectibles👇
Source: https://www.helius.dev/blog/solana-real-world-assets
Prime Intellect Launches SYNTHETIC-2
Next-Gen Open Reasoning Dataset and Planetary-Scale Synthetic Data Generation Run.
> Powered by their peer-to-peer inference stack and DeepSeek-R1-0528, SYNTHETIC-2 verifies traces for the hardest RL tasks.
> Supports heterogeneous compute and ensures honest computation with TOPLOC v2 proofs.
Source: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/synthetic-2
3Jane: Pool Backing Analysis of Assets
Since its launch, 3Jane has a total verified value (TVV) of $368M across over 1,000 power users, with an average credit score of 749/850.
This consists of assets from:
> Ethereum: $183M (56.7%)
> HyperEVM: $56M (17.02%)
> Arbitrum: $21M (6.45%)
> Base: $15M (4.48%)
> Sonic: $14.4M (4.41%)
> Unichain: $10M (3.12%)
> Berachain: $7M (2.23%)
> Other: $61.6M (16.7%)
Source: https://x.com/3janexyz/status/1937179854329577515
Leading Crypto Cards and their Key Features
> Exchange-issued crypto cards, such as those from Binance, Coinbase, and Crypto.com, enable spending crypto directly or via fiat conversion
> Wallet-linked crypto cards like Metamask & Fuse offer direct spending from multiple cryptos/stables
> Crypto.com and Nexo cards blend wallet and exchange features, linking staking and lending to premium rewards.
> Notable limitations of crypto cards include:
- regional restrictions
- staking lock-ups for premium benefits
- standard KYC/AML verification requirements👇
Source: https://x.com/blockworksres/status/1937186411322704322
Telegram Android Contest 2025: $50K Prize and a Path to $1M/Year in Dubai
> Telegram is hosting a contest for Android devs to implement a redesigned profile appearance.
> Task is to rework the profile screens to match the new design flow based on provided mockups.
> In addition to prize money, the winner may join Telegram in Dubai and earn $1M/year after tax by year 3.
> Deadline: 23:59 on July 11 (Dubai time)
Telegram Contests: t.me/contest/420
Source: Pavel Durov
Base Has Accounted for 67% of L2 Fees in 2025
Source: https://x.com/MessariCrypto/status/1937133413728702867
Trump Says Everyone Should “Keep Oil Prices Down" and that He is “Watching."
Source: https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1937143132044349728
Financial-Technology Giant Fiserv Launches New FIUSD Stablecoin for Financial Institutions
> “FIUSD expects to use stablecoin infrastructure from Paxos and Circle, with the intention of making it interoperable with several leading stablecoins, and it will be available to fiserv clients via solana”
Source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250623052523/en/Fiserv-Launches-New-FIUSD-Stablecoin-for-Financial-Institutions
Metaplanet Acquires Additional 1,111 BTC and Now Holds Total of 11,111 BTC
Source: https://x.com/Metaplanet_JP/status/1936983388730356066
Trump: If the Current Iranian Regime is Unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, Why Wouldn't there Be a Regime Change?
Source: https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1936891747147059399
Talus Partners with Swarm Network to Scale Multi-Agent Coordination
> Talus will integrate Swarm’s no-code coordination tools with their Nexus framework, bringing onchain execution to multi-agent workflows.
Source: https://blog.talus.network/talus-partners-with-swarm-network-to-scale-multi-agent-coordination/