Morpho Association raised $175 million on June 9 in one of the largest funding rounds in DeFi history, at a $2 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital. But the names that matter most…
From $30 Billion to $5 Trillion: Securitize’s CEO Just Made the Biggest RWA Call of 2026 at ETHConf
Carlos Domingo runs the company that tokenizes BlackRock’s funds. So when the Securitize CEO stood on an ETHConf panel in New York on Tuesday and put a number on where real-world assets are heading, the room paid attention. His math:…
The USDC Company Wants Your Bitcoin Too: Circle Launches cirBTC and the Wrapped Bitcoin War Is On
Circle, the company behind the $60 billion-plus USDC stablecoin, launched cirBTC on Ethereum on June 8, 2026: a wrapped Bitcoin token backed 1:1 by native BTC held in segregated, regulated custody and verified in real time through Chainlink Proof of…
Pudgy Penguins and Moonbirds Are Getting Their Own Trading Cards vs What Vibes TCG Tells Us About the Only NFT Segment That Is Actually Growing
On June 18, 2026, Pudgy Penguins and Moonbirds will collide in a trading card game. Vibes TCG Series 3: Birb and Pengu, developed by Orange Cap Games, adds 195 new cards to the Pudgy Penguins-inspired TCG and marks the first…
Yuga Labs Just Rescued $500K in NFTs From a Hack vs And the Attacker May Have Used AI to Find It
On June 8, 2026, a smart contract exploit on Flooring Protocol allowed an attacker to convert a dust amount of WETH into a near-infinite fpToken balance, drain multiple NFT pools, and walk away with hundreds of thousands of dollars in…
SBF Files for a Trump Pardon, FTT Jumps 50%, and Will it Work?
Sam Bankman-Fried formally applied for a presidential pardon from Donald Trump on June 8, 2026. The application is listed as pending with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney under case number P338490. Bankman-Fried confirmed on Fox…
Humanity Protocol $32M Hack: ZachXBT Says It May Be Staged
Humanity Protocol, the palm-scan biometric identity project positioned as a rival to Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, lost more than $32 million on June 9, 2026, after attackers drained 17 foundation wallets, swapped the stolen H tokens for ETH, and then minted…
ETHConf Day 1: SEC’s Crypto Task Force, BlackRock, DTCC, and Joe Lubin Walk Into the Same Room at the Javits Center
The inaugural ETHConf opened on June 8 at the Javits Center in New York City with 47 sessions across four stages, 5,000 attendees, and a speaker list that would have been unimaginable at an Ethereum conference three years ago. The…
Crypto Exchanges Are Crashing the IPO Party: Bybit Opens SpaceX to Retail at IPO Price While Wall Street Gatekeeps
For decades, getting into a major IPO at the offering price required being a large institutional client of a Wall Street underwriter, a private banking customer, or an insider with the right relationships. If you were a retail investor watching…
AI Agents Book Hotels With USDC: Crypto Mass Adoption Now?
Travala CEO Juan Otero did not mince words when his company launched Travel MCP on June 5, 2026. “The launch of the world’s first agentic AI travel protocol marks the death of the checkout button.” That is either an extravagant…
SecondFi, the Wallet Emurgo Built, Just Lost $2.4 Million of Its Users’ ADA and and Up to $20 Million Remains at Risk
On June 23, 2026, SecondFi confirmed three separate external attacks had drained approximately 16 million…
Vitalik Buterin Unveils Kohaku: The Game-Changing Privacy Framework Revolutionizing Ethereum Wallets in 2025-2026
Buenos Aires, Argentina – In a highly anticipated keynote at Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2 on…
