SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX, pricing 555.6 million shares at $135 for a roughly $1.77 trillion valuation and a $75 billion raise, the largest IPO in United States history. The book, led by Goldman Sachs,…
SpaceX Is Draining Bitcoin’s Liquidity, and Here Is the Twist: It Holds 18,712 BTC on Its Balance Sheet
Bitcoin did not crash this month because something broke in crypto. It crashed, in meaningful part, because the most exciting trade of 2026 is happening somewhere else. Reuters has explicitly tied Bitcoin’s weak 2026 performance to booming AI stocks and…
OpenSea Just Built an App Store for AI Agents vs What ERC-8257 Actually Does and Why NFT Holders Should Pay Attention
On May 27, 2026, OpenSea deployed ERC-8257, a new Ethereum standard it describes as an app store for AI agent tools. The standard creates a permissionless on-chain registry where developers can publish tools, set pricing and access rules, and allow…
MetaMask Just Gave AI Bots the Keys to DeFi and But Not a Blank Check: Inside Agent Wallet’s Guard Mode and Beast Mode
MetaMask launched Agent Wallet on June 8, 2026: a self-custodial wallet purpose-built for AI agents to autonomously execute trades, manage liquidity positions, and interact with DeFi protocols without a human approving every transaction. Roughly 200 users are in the Early…
Apollo and VanEck Just Backed a DeFi Protocol: Morpho’s $175M Raise Is the Clearest TradFi Surrender Signal Yet
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…