Chainlink se stává klíčovou infrastrukturou pro prediction markets a jeho Data Streams už pohánějí trhy na Polymarketu i Jupiter Exchange. ADI Predictstreet navíc zvolil Chainlink jako exkluzivní oracle pro oficiální trh pro FIFA World Cup 2026.
From crypto markets to the World Cup@chainlink is building a quiet but significant lead as the infrastructure layer beneath one of crypto's fastest-growing product categories. A string of integrations announced in recent months points to a single direction: automated, tamper-resistant settlement is replacing manual resolution across prediction markets, and Chainlink is the common thread.
@Polymarket's 5-minute and 15-minute $BTC markets both run on Chainlink Data Streams. Both markets use Chainlink Data Streams to provide price updates from major trading venues. The combined volume across those short-duration markets has already cleared over $3 billion. The broader picture for Polymarket is equally striking: the platform has cleared $4.9 billion in cumulative volume so far in 2026, after receiving full CFTC approval in the US.
@JupiterExchange, Solana's largest DEX aggregator, has plugged in the same infrastructure for its own 5-minute and 15-minute markets on $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL. Then there is @world_xyz, a Solana project that spent months as little more than a glowing globe with no public details. It revealed itself this week inside Phantom, reaching 20 million users and relying on Chainlink for automated market resolutions.
The FIFA deal cements the patternThe clearest signal yet came on June 9, 2026. ADI Predictstreet, the official prediction market partner of the FIFA World Cup 2026, announced it has adopted Chainlink as its exclusive oracle infrastructure to power accurate market resolutions and unlock instant payouts. To meet the scale of the tournament, ADI Predictstreet adopted the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to automate market creation, resolution, and settlement using high-quality FIFA data.
The deal placed Chainlink at the center of the official prediction markets for the biggest sporting event in history, a tournament spanning 48 teams, 104 matches, 16 host cities across three countries, and an estimated six billion fans.
While legacy prediction markets suffer from slow manual resolution and market outcome disputes, Chainlink's oracle infrastructure provides a robust source of truth for prediction markets on the world's largest sporting event. That structural shift, away from social-consensus or committee-based resolution and toward cryptographically verified, automated settlement, is what ties all of these integrations together.
The throughline across @Polymarket, @JupiterExchange, @world_xyz, and the official @FIFAWorldCup prediction market is the same: when platforms need fast, reliable, and dispute-free resolution at scale, they are reaching for the same oracle layer.
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New York Life Investment Management a Centrifuge spustily svůj první tokenizovaný produkt, NYLIM Anemoy U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Segregated Portfolio, vypořádaný v USDC. Američtí investoři do něj nemají přístup kvůli regulaci.
New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM) has partnered with Centrifuge to launch its first tokenized product, the NYLIM Anemoy U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Segregated Portfolio. This move marks a significant step towards integrating blockchain technology into traditional finance, allowing institutional access to tokenized fixed-income assets. The new fund, which is settled in USDC, is not available to U.S. investors due to regulatory limitations. The announcement has triggered market discussions, with implications for the perceived value of tokenized asset-related entities.
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Key Takeaways The partnership between New York Life and Centrifuge appears to suggest increased institutional interest in tokenized assets. Market pricing indicates a moderate increase in STRC’s perceived value following the announcement. The launch of the tokenized bond fund is consistent with scenarios where institutional access to blockchain-based financial products expands. What to Watch Observers may find it valuable to monitor further institutional moves towards tokenization, as these could influence market dynamics. Regulatory developments in the U.S. concerning tokenized assets remain a potential catalyst for changes in market sentiment. Key actors such as Michael Saylor and Phong Le may play roles in shaping future discussions around blockchain integration in traditional finance.
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Jeremy Allaire odmítl argumenty kolem OUSD a řekl, že USDC má silné distribuční, likviditní a regulatorní výhody. Akcie Circle po spuštění konsorcia Open USD klesly o více než 17 %.
Jeremy Allaire argued that stablecoin networks are winner-take-most businesses built over years, two days after the launch of the 140-plus-firm Open USD consortium sent Circle's stock down more than 17% in a single session.
Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire published a lengthy rebuttal on X on July 1 to the pitch behind OUSD, the stablecoin launched by the Open Standard consortium, arguing that USDC's advantages in distribution, liquidity and regulatory licensing are not easily replicated.
"We've had lots of questions from our investor community looking for thoughts on OUSD, and so I thought I'd share my direct views here," he wrote, describing stablecoin networks as "platform and network effect businesses that are established over a long period of time" and built on three layers: developer and application integrations, liquidity depth, and regulatory licensing accumulated over years, including USDC's approvals in the European Union and Japan.
Open Standard, the independent company formed to govern Open USD, unveiled the token on June 30. According to Open Standard's announcement, OUSD rests on three design principles: partner businesses can mint and redeem the token without fees or volume caps; partners receive nearly all reserve earnings after a management fee; and the token is governed collectively by a board of partner companies rather than a single issuer.
Reserves are described as maintained at financial institutions in compliance with U.S. regulatory requirements, though specific custodians and attestation practices had not been disclosed as of launch, as The Defiant reported.
Zach Abrams, Open Standard's founding CEO and a co-founder of Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure company Stripe acquired for $1.1 billion in 2025, said in the announcement: "Existing stablecoins have great strengths, but to use them at scale, businesses need something that's open, low-cost, high-throughput, broadly accessible, and aligned to their interests."
Stripe president of technology and business Will Gaybrick said Open USD will be the default stablecoin for businesses running on Stripe.
The partner list spans more than 140 companies, including payment networks Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover; financial institutions BlackRock, BNY and Standard Chartered; technology firms Google and Shopify; and crypto platforms Coinbase, Ripple and Solana, according to Open Standard's site. Circle, Tether and PayPal are not among the backers.
Allaire's Point-by-Point RebuttalAllaire addressed three specific arguments made for OUSD. On fee-free minting and redemption, he said Circle already addresses large-partner economics through contractual arrangements rather than a blanket policy, and questioned whether removing fees entirely is sustainable market-wide.
On revenue sharing, he argued that distributing nearly all reserve income to partners risks starving the infrastructure needed to run a global stablecoin network — "giving away all income is a recipe for starving your infrastructure, systematically underinvesting and ensuring that your platform will remain limited in scope" — noting Circle already shares the majority of its income with distribution partners.
On consortium governance, Allaire pointed to Circle's own history — it co-founded the Centre Consortium with Coinbase before consolidating USDC issuance under Circle alone — and said the track record of similar multi-company products reaching scale "is absolutely dismal," citing coordination problems and slow decision-making among large corporate partners.
On usage, Allaire cited data he attributed to Artemis showing USDC processed roughly $30 trillion in onchain transactions in the first quarter of 2026, about 80% of dollar-stablecoin transaction volume, with USDT accounting for most of the rest and all other stablecoins combined under 0.5%.
On Coinbase specifically — notable because Coinbase is both a USDC revenue-sharing partner and an OUSD backer — Allaire wrote that Circle's "stablecoin partnership with Coinbase remains as strong as ever."
The Coinbase Economics at StakeCircle's own SEC filing spells out why the Coinbase relationship draws scrutiny: Coinbase earns 100% of interest income on USDC held within its own products, and 50% of the residual reserve income on USDC held elsewhere — a split that moves with how much USDC sits on Coinbase's platform, which Circle's filing put at 20% of total supply in 2024. That mechanism traces back to the actual Circle-Coinbase Collaboration Agreement, filed as an exhibit to Coinbase's 10-K, which defines Coinbase's cut through an "Issuer Retention" and "Residual Payment Base" formula and sets an initial three-year term running from the agreement's August 18, 2023 effective date — putting it up for renewal around August 18, 2026, with automatic three-year renewals contingent on Coinbase meeting the product and reseller thresholds in Section 3.2.
Bernstein analysts wrote in a research note that the arrangement accounts for close to 20% of Coinbase's total revenue, flagging Coinbase's participation in the 140-company OUSD consortium as something that "has raised eyebrows" given how much the exchange earns from USDC.
Market ReactionCircle's stock fell more than 17% on June 30 to close at $62.63, its weakest level in four months and down 55% from mid-May. CRCL had priced its IPO at $31 per share in June 2025 and reached an intraday all-time high of $298.99 (closing high of $263.45) on June 23, 2025, before its prolonged decline. As of DefiLlama, USDC's market capitalization stood at $73.9 billion against USDT's $184.9 billion, with total stablecoin market capitalization at $313.2 billion.
Circle reported first-quarter 2026 revenue and reserve income of $694 million, up 20% year-over-year, with reserve income of $653 million making up 94% of total revenue, according to Circle's Q1 2026 results.
Wall Street's initial read was skeptical of the selloff's magnitude. Bernstein reaffirmed an "Outperform" rating and $190 price target, citing Visa onchain data showing USDC processed $5.3 trillion in the first half of 2026 alone. William Blair kept its own Outperform rating, calling OUSD "a solution searching for a problem" and telling clients the selloff was a buying opportunity
Analysts pointed to Paxos's Global Dollar Network (USDG) — a similar consortium-backed, revenue-sharing stablecoin launched in 2024 — which has grown to only about $3 billion in supply, as a precedent for how new entrants have struggled against USDC and USDT.
Allaire closed his thread by saying Circle continues to work with OUSD's founding members as USDC customers and partners, and that Circle welcomes continued competition in the stablecoin market.
Uniswap v2, v3, v4 i UniswapX jsou nyní na Robinhood Chain, kde Uniswap funguje jako hlavní veřejný AMM. Robinhood Stock Tokens podporuje od prvního dne přes Web App, Wallet i API přes UniswapX i AMM.
Uniswap v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX are live on Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 built by Robinhood Crypto. Uniswap serves as the primary public AMM on Robinhood Chain with support on the Uniswap Web App, Wallet, and API available from day one. The uniswap-trading-tools AI plugin, which will include three new skills, is coming soon.
Robinhood Chain on Uniswap Robinhood and Uniswap share a mission to democratize finance for all. Robinhood opened access to investing from inside traditional finance while Uniswap pioneered open, self-custodial markets in DeFi, where anyone can swap, provide liquidity, and own assets without an intermediary. On Robinhood Chain, those two paths converge with Uniswap serving as the primary public AMM.
Anyone can now swap, provide liquidity, buy stock tokens, program AI agents, and explore Robinhood Chain with Uniswap. It’s the same trusted set of products millions of users already rely on, now available on Robinhood Chain.
Stock Tokens From day one, Uniswap supports Robinhood Stock Tokens on the Web App, Wallet, and API via UniswapX, Uniswap’s intent based trading infrastructure, and the AMM. Stock Tokens are fully transferrable on Robinhood Chain, offering users around the world a chance to trade and own Stock Tokens 24/7, unlocking new DeFi opportunities outside the constraints of traditional finance.
Developers and Agents For developers, Uniswap API makes it easy to add trading for crypto and real-world assets on Robinhood Chain, directly into applications and bots. To add support:
Go to the developer dashboard to create an account and get an API key Follow the Quickstart Guide to integrate your first trading experience, setting the chain ID 4663 for Robinhood Chain. To help builders move faster, Uniswap Labs has also built an open-source AI skill library that teaches any coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, or your own custom agent) how to integrate Uniswap:
npx skills add Uniswap/uniswap-ai
What you can build on Robinhood Chain
Integrate trading (swap-integration): Generate code to quote and execute swaps via the Uniswap API, Universal Router, or direct contract calls. Point it at chain 4663; it handles approvals, calldata, and slippage. Build with the v4 SDK (v4-sdk-integration): Create trading tools specific to building swap and liquidity UX. Discover and plan (swap-planner, liquidity-planner): Research Robinhood Chain assets and pools and surface trade or LP options before anything executes. A liquidity layer for tokenized value As tokenized value moves onchain, from equities to RWAs to stablecoins, it needs deep, reliable, accessible liquidity. Uniswap is a critical liquidity layer for these assets, now live on Robinhood Chain.
Swappers: explore tokens, swap, and provide liquidity Builders: add Robinhood Chain to your app using the API Agents: add uniswap-ai to integrate Uniswap
Avalanche Treasury Corp varovala regulátory, že kvůli ztrátám z AVAX a tlaku na likviditu by letos nemusela přežít. Její akcie za měsíc spadly o více než 90 %.
TLDRAVAX Holdings Decline and Balance Sheet PressureStock Collapse Follows AVAX Treasury StrategyOther AVAX Treasury Firms Show Similar DeclinesGet 3 Free Stock Ebooks Avalanche Treasury Corp told regulators it may not survive the year due to financial strain. The company cited “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern. AVAX price declines led to major writedowns and over $26 million in quarterly losses. The firm’s AVAX holdings dropped to nearly half of their original purchase value. Shares collapsed over 90% within a month and now trade below $0.73. Avalanche Treasury Corp told regulators it may not survive the year after a steep decline in its finances. The company disclosed material losses and liquidity pressure linked to falling AVAX prices. It also warned that current conditions raise “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue operations.
AVAX Holdings Decline and Balance Sheet Pressure The company previously promoted a large AVAX treasury valued near one billion dollars during last year’s expansion phase. However, market conditions changed, and the value of its AVAX holdings dropped sharply over recent months. As a result, its market capitalization fell below thirty million dollars, reflecting severe investor concern.
Its operating unit reported losses exceeding twenty-six million dollars in one quarter due to AVAX writedowns. The firm bought AVAX for about two hundred sixty-five million dollars, yet the holdings fell to nearly one hundred twenty-three million dollars. This gap left the company holding assets worth far less than their original purchase cost.
AVAX prices declined forty-seven percent this year and nearly two-thirds over the past twelve months. Consequently, the treasury strategy weakened as asset values dropped and reduced the firm’s financial flexibility. The company stated that these conditions created ongoing uncertainty regarding its financial stability.
Stock Collapse Follows AVAX Treasury Strategy Avalanche Treasury Corp completed a merger with a blank check company and entered public markets with high expectations. However, investor sentiment turned negative as disclosures revealed risks tied to its AVAX exposure and financial position. The stock fell from above ten dollars to below two dollars within days of additional filings.
Shares continued to decline and traded below seventy-three cents, entering penny stock territory. In total, the stock lost more than ninety percent of its value within one month. This decline reflected market concern over the sustainability of its AVAX treasury model.
The company also pledged a large portion of its AVAX holdings as collateral for a loan agreement. It committed nearly seven point eight million AVAX tokens from a total of thirteen point eight million holdings. This move increased financial risk as falling prices could pressure collateral requirements.
Other AVAX Treasury Firms Show Similar Declines Other firms pursuing AVAX treasury strategies reported similar declines in value after initial expansion plans. AgriFORCE Growing Systems rebranded as AVAX One and announced a large capital raise to acquire more AVAX. The company aimed to build a significant AVAX treasury supported by strategic investors and advisors.
Despite those plans, its market value dropped sharply and now stands near forty-three million dollars. The firm’s shares declined sixty-eight percent this year and over ninety percent in the past year. These figures highlight the broader pressure affecting companies holding large AVAX reserves.
Data across the sector shows a consistent downward trend in treasury company valuations linked to AVAX exposure. Companies that accumulated AVAX during earlier market optimism now face reduced asset values and weaker investor confidence. This trend underscores the risks tied to concentrated digital asset treasury strategies.
June 2026 marked another milestone month for tokenization across the Solana ecosystem. Trading activity accelerated to record levels as tokenized equities attracted growing participation from both institutional and retail investors. Financial institutions continued launching regulated investment products on Solana, while tokenized funds, commodities, and real-world assets expanded into new markets.
The month also highlighted the increasing integration between traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure. From tokenized stocks and funds to museum-grade dinosaur fossils, June demonstrated the widening range of assets finding their way onchain.
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June 10: Jupiter Adds Leveraged Tokenized Equities Jupiter Exchange integrated SHIFT's leveraged tokenized equities, bringing Series Tokens to Solana.
The products track leveraged stock ETFs, while Jupiter introduced a dedicated screener displaying price, trading volume, holder count, and discount to mark value, making these products easier for users to monitor.
June 12: SpaceX Trading Arrives Onchain Backpack Securities launched tokenized SpaceX stock under the ticker $SPCX on Solana on the same day SpaceX became available in traditional financial markets.
The tokenized asset generated $51 million in trading volume during its first 24 hours, making it one of the strongest launches for a tokenized equity on the network.
The same day, Securitize launched STAC, its tokenized AAA CLO fund, on Solana. The fund is backed by Bank of New York Mellon as custodian and sub-adviser, while Ethena Labs announced plans to allocate $250 million to the product.
June 16: SpaceX Volume Surpasses $100 Million Demand for tokenized SpaceX shares continued to accelerate. 24-hour trading volume for $SPCX exceeded $100 million for the first time, underscoring growing investor interest in tokenized equity exposure.
June 17: Institutional Listings Continue to Expand Ondo Finance announced the addition of 173 new tokenized stocks and ETFs, expanding its catalog to more than 430 traditional financial assets.
On the same day, Onpharma launched a security token offering on Solana with First Block and Crito Capital.
Trading activity also remained strong. Solana recorded $116 million in tokenized equities volume, accounting for approximately 94% of all tokenized stock trading volume across blockchain networks.
$SPCX led activity with nearly $90 million in trading volume, while Backpack accounted for approximately 95% of that trading.
June 21: Collector Crypt Reaches Revenue Milestone Collector Crypt generated more than $5 million in weekly revenue for the first time.
The milestone pushed the platform's cumulative lifetime revenue beyond $68 million, highlighting continued demand for tokenized collectibles within Solana's growing real-world asset ecosystem.
June 22: UK Regulated Fund Launches Onchain $BAGEY, the first publicly available fully native UK-regulated tokenized fund built with BNY, launched on Solana.
The launch represents another example of regulated investment products adopting blockchain infrastructure for fund administration.
June 23: Tokenized Funds and Stocks Reach New Milestones Allfunds, one of the world's largest fund distribution networks, expanded its tokenized funds to Solana. The integration connects more than 3,300 financial firms and nearly €1.8 trillion in administered assets to onchain markets, broadening institutional access to tokenized investment products.
The same day, total tokenized stock transfer volume on Solana surpassed $10 billion, underscoring the rapid growth of tokenized securities activity across the network.
June 24: Tokenized Assets Reach New Highs June 24 produced one of the busiest days of the month for tokenization on Solana. Tokenized assets accounted for approximately 19% of all daily DEX volume on Solana, representing a new all-time high of roughly $569.19 million in trading activity. For the day, tokenized assets generated more trading volume than memecoins.
Tokenized stock trading volume also reached a record $683 million in 24-hour trading volume. Trading activity centered on tokenized shares of SpaceX and Micron, which ranked among the most actively traded assets. Backpack Securities and Sunrise continued to expand the market by listing tokenized SanDisk shares under the ticker $SNDK that same day.
Outside traditional financial assets, JurassicFi announced plans to tokenize Deaton, a museum-grade Triceratops prorsus skull with approximately 60-65% bone completeness and all 3 original horns intact.
June 25: Institutional Adoption Expands Internationally Paxos launched its tokenized gold asset, PAXG, on Solana through Sunrise. The launch marks the first expansion of PAXG beyond Ethereum.
The same day, the Solana ETF SOLZ_KZ began trading on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, providing qualified investors in Kazakhstan with regulated exposure to Solana.
Kazakhstan Exchange also outlined plans to enable domestic companies to issue ETFs and tokenize assets using Solana infrastructure, reflecting growing international interest in blockchain-based financial products.
June 28: Raydium Surpasses $3 Billion Tokenized Equities Volume Raydium surpassed $3 billion in cumulative tokenized equities trading volume after crossing the $2 billion milestone earlier in the month, on June 6.
June 29: Tokenized Equities on Solana Records Its Largest Week Ever Solana achieved its largest week on record for tokenized equities. Weekly trading volume reached approximately $1.36 billion while the network captured 96% of all tokenized stock trading volume across blockchain ecosystems.
The achievement also extended Solana's lead over all Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains to 56 consecutive weeks, reinforcing its position as the leading network for tokenized equities.
Internet Capital Markets Continue Rapid Expansion Last week, SolanaFloor's The Big Picture podcast went live on X, with Seraphim from the Solana Foundation discussing stocks on Solana, how to solve liquidity issues, what comes next for digital asset tokens, and whether Solana perps can compete. He noted that tokenized equity trading volumes could consistently outpace memecoin trading volumes, driven by growing demand for stocks on Solana. “We have to enable stuff that allows you to trade assets people want to trade, and that's stocks at the moment,” he added.
Open Standard also launched $OUSD, a new stablecoin backed by over 140 partners including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, Coinbase and BlackRock. The protocol promises to distribute earnings from reserves among partners alongside fee-free redemption and minting.
Throughout the month, Solana maintained its leadership in tokenized securities. Record trading volumes, expanding institutional participation, and continued product launches highlighted the network's growing role within global tokenized markets.
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Solana has received another major injection of stablecoin liquidity after Circle reportedly minted an additional $1 billion in USDC on the network around July 1. The move adds to a year that has already seen unusually large gross USDC issuance on Solana, a chain where stablecoins have become central to swaps, leverage, payments, and on-chain trading activity.
TL;DR Circle reportedly minted another $1 billion in USDC on Solana. The mint follows another $1 billion Solana USDC issuance in mid-June. Gross 2026 USDC issuance on Solana is now reported at $64.25 billion. That figure is gross issuance, not current circulating supply. The distinction between issuance and supply is important here. A large mint does not mean all of that USDC remains circulating on Solana forever. Tokens can be burned, redeemed, bridged, or otherwise moved as market demand changes. The $64.25 billion figure refers to cumulative gross issuance during 2026, not the live amount of USDC currently sitting on Solana.
Why Solana wants deep stablecoin liquidity Stablecoins are the base layer for a lot of crypto trading behaviour. On Solana, they are especially important because the network is built around fast, low-cost settlement. Traders use USDC as collateral, as a settlement asset, and as a quick way to move between volatile positions without leaving the chain.
When more USDC is minted onto Solana, it usually points to demand for on-chain dollar liquidity. That demand can come from market makers, DeFi protocols, retail traders, or institutions routing activity through Solana-based venues. It does not automatically mean prices will rise, but it does show that the network remains a live venue for capital movement.
Gross issuance is not the same as circulating supply This is the part worth spelling out because the headline number can be easy to misread. Gross issuance counts how much USDC has been minted onto Solana across a period. Circulating supply reflects what remains after redemptions, burns, and transfers are accounted for.
So the $64.25 billion figure should not be treated as a claim that Solana currently has that exact amount of USDC active on-chain. Instead, it is a signal of throughput. It shows how much dollar liquidity has been created through the network during the year, even if some of that liquidity later moved elsewhere or was redeemed.
A stronger foundation for Solana DeFi For Solana’s DeFi ecosystem, this matters because stablecoin depth affects trading quality. More available USDC can improve routing, reduce friction, support lending markets, and make it easier for larger participants to enter and exit positions. In a market where liquidity often moves quickly between chains, stablecoin depth is one of the clearer signs of where users are actually active.
The latest mint also arrives at a time when Solana remains closely tied to high-velocity trading, meme coin activity, and decentralized exchange volume. That can make liquidity demand volatile. But it also keeps Solana near the center of the market’s most active trading lanes. For now, the fresh USDC mint reinforces the view that Solana is still attracting serious on-chain dollar flow.
This report is based on information from Solscan.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
Solana price is trading near $77, roughly flat over the past 24 hours, with the broader crypto market holding a cautious equilibrium as Q2 2026 closes. The session’s most consequential data point is not a price move, it is a revenue figure: Solana’s decentralized application ecosystem generated $257 million in Q2 2026, topping every Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchain on the market for the ninth consecutive quarter.
Among notable altcoin moves, Ethereum is up roughly 1.2% over 24 hours while Base-native tokens show mixed performance. Total market 24-hour volume is tracking near $98 billion, marginally above the prior session, suggesting participation is steady rather than surging.
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Nine Quarters, One Network: What Solana’s Revenue Streak Actually Means The central question this data raises: is Solana’s dominance a cyclical accident or a structural reality? Nine consecutive quarters of leading all blockchains in dApp revenue, a streak running since early 2024, argues strongly for the latter. Ethereum, Tron, Base, and Hyperliquid have each had moments at the top. None has dislodged Solana.
The $257 million Q2 2026 figure represents a slight year-over-year dip from Q2 2025’s $271 million, but the competitive gap remains wide. According to Syndica’s January 2026 deep dive, Solana held 41% of total Web3 dApp revenue at the start of the year, up from 33% in December 2025, with global Web3 dApp revenue totalling $385 million that month and Solana’s $158 million slice representing a 72% month-over-month jump.
That is not a plurality. That is a near-majority of an industry-wide metric held by a single network.
📊DATA: In Q2 2026, @Solana dApps generated $257M in revenue, leading all L1 and L2 blockchains for the 9th consecutive quarter. pic.twitter.com/syrtL3LFjY
— SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) July 1, 2026
Protocol-level data from TheStreet adds granularity. In Q1 2026, Solana posted $292 million in dApp revenue, with two applications accounting for the bulk of it: Pump.fun generated $123 million (42% of the network total) and Axiom contributed $58 million (20%).
Those two platforms alone, a memecoin launchpad and a trading terminal, captured nearly two-thirds of Solana’s entire quarterly haul. The concentration is notable: Syndica’s data found the top eight Solana dApps accounting for 78% of the network’s own revenue.
Weekly competitive data reinforces the trend’s durability. In the week ending April 20, 2026, Solana posted $16.94 million in weekly dApp revenue, its fifth consecutive week at number one, ahead of Hyperliquid at $14.18 million and Ethereum at $13.55 million.
In May 2026, Solana generated $91 million in monthly application revenue versus Hyperliquid’s $53 million and Ethereum’s $52 million, according to DefiLlama data cited by Bitcoin.com.
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The Memecoin Risk Embedded in Solana’s Revenue Model Blockchain revenue figures matter precisely because they are harder to game than alternative metrics. Total value locked, TVL, the sum of assets deposited into DeFi protocols – can be inflated through recursive deposits, where the same capital is counted multiple times across lending and liquidity pools. Daily active addresses can be manufactured. Revenue cannot: it reflects users paying fees for something they chose to use.
That said, Solana’s revenue mix carries a concentration risk that investors in SOL should price honestly. Memecoins and memecoin-adjacent trading infrastructure, Pump.fun being the clearest example, have driven a disproportionate share of the network’s fee income. If speculative appetite in that category cools materially, the quarterly totals will register it.
The $200 million-plus threshold is the number to watch for Q3 2026: can Solana hold it without a memecoin trading supercycle providing the floor? Solana memecoin DEX volume trends heading into July 2026 suggest the category remains active, though below its early-2026 peak.
Solana's revenue is twofold. People only talk about half of it, but retail will trade both
Memes: Pumpfun is the memecoin casino, which brings attention and volumes to the chain
Then you have productive assets like MetaDAO, perps onchain , etchttps://t.co/ypVkyFVE4g pic.twitter.com/vdtSfDLQQQ
— Ansem 🐂🀄️ (@blknoiz06) June 25, 2026
The more constructive read is that DeFi and consumer applications are maturing as a second revenue pillar. Axiom’s sustained presence in the top two earners, $58 million in Q1 2026 after a breakout $126.6 million in Q2 2025, according to The Currency Analytics, shows that trading infrastructure beyond pure memecoin issuance is generating durable fees.
For a fuller picture of how institutional capital is positioning around Solana’s structural lead despite recent price softness, the SOL institutional adoption and price divergence analysis lays out the tension clearly.
Meanwhile, Ethereum’s path back to dApp revenue leadership runs through its Layer 2 ecosystem, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, but that revenue remains fragmented across multiple chains. Aggregated, it still does not consistently match what Solana generates as a single unified network.
Ethereum’s own challenges at the base layer, detailed in the current Ethereum price and key levels outlook, compound the difficulty of closing that gap in the near term.
Nine quarters of leading all blockchains in dApp revenue is no longer a streak. It is a structural baseline, and the Q3 2026 data will show whether Solana’s non-memecoin revenue base has grown enough to defend it independently.
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Forward Industries koupila ve fiskálním 3. čtvrtletí přes 500 000 $SOL a drží už 7,55 milionu $SOL v hodnotě zhruba 576 milionů USD. Tím dál rozšířila náskok jako největší veřejně obchodovaná pokladnice v Solaně.
Record SOL Holdings After a Big Q3 Buy@FWDind shares jumped more than 17% on Wednesday after the Nasdaq-listed company disclosed it purchased over 500,000 $SOL during its fiscal third quarter, which ended June 30. Total holdings now stand at 7.55 million $SOL, worth roughly $576 million, acquired at an average price near $79 per token.
That haul puts $FWDI well ahead of its nearest rivals. Forward Industries holds the largest publicly listed Solana treasury, bigger than its next three competitors combined. The latest quarterly purchase only extended that gap.
Since launching its treasury strategy in September 2025, Forward has assembled what it describes as the largest Solana treasury in the world, staked the majority of its SOL to its own validator infrastructure, and launched fwdSOL as a liquid staking token. The company's stated long-term goal is to compound SOL per share materially faster than the SOL staking rate.
Russell Index Inclusion Opens a New Capital Channel Forward Industries joined the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 on June 29, 2026, and the company said index inclusion may improve liquidity and expand its shareholder base. Management is leaning on that new visibility to raise fresh capital and continue scaling its $SOL position.
Chief Investment Officer Ryan Navi said inclusion in both indexes marks an important milestone and reinforces growing institutional recognition of the company's strategy. He added that the listing is expected to expand Forward's shareholder base and improve trading liquidity.
$FWDI was trading near $4.93 at the time of the announcement. $SOL touched a one-month high above $77, recovering sharply from a June low near $60.
The company deploys its assets through a range of on-chain opportunities, including staking, lending, and participating in decentralized finance. Forward Industries maintains sufficient operating capital and carries no corporate debt.
Sources:
Forward Industries SEC Form 8-K Filing (FY2026)
GlobeNewswire: Forward Industries Set to Join the Russell 2000 and 3000 Indexes
Decrypt: Forward Industries Shares Spike as Leading Solana Treasury Adds $38 Million in SOL
Solana spustila onchain governance: validátoři s alespoň 100 000 SOL mohou podávat návrhy a hlasování se otevře po dosažení 15% podpory staku. Hlasování je vážené podle staku a delegátoři mohou hlas svého validátora přepsat.
Solana Foundation says onchain governance is now live, letting validators with at least 100,000 SOL delegated open proposals that go to a stake-weighted vote once they clear 15% cluster support.
Solana Foundation announced Wednesday that onchain governance is live on the network, letting validators propose and vote on protocol-level decisions through a system called Solana Governance Proposals, or SGPs.
The mechanism is fully onchain, stake-weighted and verified by Merkle proof, according to the Foundation's announcement thread. Any validator with at least 100,000 SOL delegated can open a proposal, and a proposal only opens for a vote once it clears 15% of cluster stake support. Delegators who disagree with how their validator voted, or whose validator did not vote at all, can override that vote using their own stake weight.
Merkle-Verified VotesThe system runs on two onchain programs described in the project's technical documentation: an NCN, or Node Consensus Network, snapshot program that establishes verifiable stake weights, and a voting program called svmgov. Whitelisted operators independently build Merkle trees of validator stake from the Solana ledger and vote on a canonical snapshot. Once they agree, a consensus result publishes onchain, and validators prove their stake weight against it with a Merkle proof when they vote.
The two onchain programs are deployed as `ncn-snapshot` and `svmgov`, according to the governance documentation, with the snapshot program building the canonical stake tree that the voting program checks against for every ballot cast.
SGPs Versus SIMDsSGPs sit apart from Solana Improvement Documents, or SIMDs, the process core developers already use for technical protocol changes. Per the solana-governance-proposals repository, a SIMD answers "how exactly do we do this," decided by technical review from core developers, while an SGP answers "should we do this," decided by a stake-weighted onchain vote. By default, decision-making stays with core developers and the SIMD process; an SGP interrupts that path only when the 15% stake-support threshold is met, and does not block a SIMD from moving forward on its own.
The Foundation pointed validators and delegators to the governance dashboard, documentation and the svmgov codebase to start participating.
The launch follows a run of Solana Foundation initiatives aimed at institutional and validator participation, including a native payments rail for subscriptions and allowances and MoneyGram joining the network as a validator.
Arcus od dYdX Labs a Robinhood Crypto je po roce vývoje spuštěn a nabízí spotové obchodování s 95 Stock Tokens a 35 perpetuals na reálná aktiva. Přístup k perpetual kontraktům je zatím jen na čekací listině.
A new decentralized exchange born from a collaboration between dYdX Labs and Robinhood Crypto is officially open for business. Arcus, which offers perpetual futures and tokenized equities, went live after roughly a year of development, marking one of the more ambitious attempts to merge traditional finance assets with DeFi infrastructure.
The platform currently supports live spot trading across 95 Stock Tokens and 35 Real World Asset perpetuals. Access to perpetual contracts remains on a waitlist for now.
What Arcus actually is The platform runs on Robinhood Chain, an EVM-compatible Layer-2 solution that enables 24/7 trading. Robinhood brings a retail user base exceeding 25 million people, and Arcus is positioning itself to tap directly into that audience.
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Eddie Zhang serves as CEO of Arcus. Zhang previously worked at Meta and co-founded Pocket Protector, a social trading app that dYdX acquired in July 2025. That acquisition was explicitly part of building toward the Arcus launch, bringing product development talent and social trading expertise into the fold.
Antonio Juliano, the founder of dYdX, has called Arcus the best advancement for the dYdX ecosystem.
Why dYdX needed a new approach dYdX Chain, the protocol’s v4 iteration, achieved full decentralization of an order book-based perpetuals exchange. The problem was that being fully decentralized didn’t automatically translate into being fast or easy to use. Platforms like Hyperliquid and others gained significant traction by prioritizing speed and user experience, and dYdX’s share of on-chain perpetuals volume shrank.
Token economics and community incentives Arcus hasn’t launched a token yet, but any future Arcus token will reserve allocations specifically for dYdX community members, granting them priority access and trading capabilities on the platform.
What this means for investors Perpetual contracts are still waitlisted, meaning the core product isn’t fully live yet. How quickly the team opens up perpetuals access, and how the platform performs under real trading load, will determine whether Arcus becomes a genuine competitor.
The social trading elements inherited from the Pocket Protector acquisition could also prove to be a differentiator. Pocket Protector had over 50,000 users prior to acquisition. Bringing copy trading and social mechanics to a decentralized environment, where trades settle on-chain and users maintain custody, would be a new offering in the market.
Traders and investors should watch three things closely: the timeline for opening perpetuals access beyond the waitlist, early volume numbers once perps go live, and any announcements around the Arcus token launch and its specific allocation mechanics for dYdX holders.
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1inch se stal spouštěcím partnerem Robinhood Chain a přidal podporu swapů tokenizovaných reálných aktiv v 1inch dApp, 1inch Wallet i přes Swap API. Cílem je zlepšit přístup, routing a likviditu pro obchodování s RWA.
Robinhood Chain brings tokenized real-world assets on-chain. 1inch makes them easier to trade.
What chain should you use to trade RWAs smoothly and efficiently? One answer is Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based network specifically built for real-world asset trading. 1inch has integrated Robinhood Chain with a simple goal: make tokenized real-world assets easier to access, route and trade through 1inch.
“Robinhood Chain brings tokenized real-world assets on-chain,” says Sergej Kunz, 1inch co-founder. “Our role is to provide the infrastructure that makes them liquid and tradable. As one of the largest US retail crypto platforms enters the RWA market, efficient routing, deep liquidity and reliable execution become increasingly important. That’s what 1inch has spent years building.”
Bringing RWA swaps to 1inchRobinhood Chain is expected to become a high-visibility network for tokenized assets. For eligible users, this means a new network focused on real-world assets. Now, 1inch brings its routing and swap infrastructure to one of the most closely watched RWA ecosystems from the start.
As a launch partner on Robinhood Chain, 1inch supports RWA swaps on the 1inch dApp and in 1inch Wallet, helping eligible users access tokenized assets through a familiar DeFi flow. Beyond 1inch’s consumer apps, Robinhood Chain RWA swaps will also be accessible via the 1inch Swap API, available on 1inch Business alongside other APIs - enabling third-party apps and partners to integrate Robinhood Chain swaps directly.
No waiting for the bell. No fragmented manual routing. Just on-chain access through 1inch.
Why Robinhood Chain mattersRWAs are changing what can move on-chain.
Tokenized RWAs and other real-world assets can enable eligible users to gain exposure to more traditional financial products. But tokenization alone is not enough. These assets also need liquidity, pricing and reliable execution.
That is where swap infrastructure matters.
If users need to move between venues, chains and interfaces just to trade an RWA, the experience remains too fragmented. Robinhood Chain can bring assets on-chain. 1inch can help make them tradable.
Built for 24/7 tokenized marketsThe product promise is clear: traditional markets close at 4 pm, but tokenized markets can move around the clock.
With Robinhood Chain integration, 1inch aims to let eligible users swap tokenized real-world assets anytime during the work week, from anywhere, using the execution quality 1inch is known for.
This matters because RWA liquidity can be fragmented across issuers, venues and market participants. 1inch routing helps eligible users access available liquidity more efficiently, also supporting intent-based execution where available.
For RWA traders, that means less manual route hunting and a simpler path to execution.
Supporting the Robinhood Chain ecosystemThe integration is not only about users.
Token issuers, liquidity providers and ecosystem partners also need infrastructure that can support early network growth. By integrating and supporting Robinhood Chain at its launch, 1inch can help create a smoother trading environment for the assets and partners building on the network.
This is how DeFi infrastructure scales: not through isolated products, but through connected systems.
Robinhood Chain brings RWAs on-chain. 1inch helps make them swappable.
The next phase of RWA tradingRWA markets are moving from issuance to usability.
The next question is not only which assets can be tokenized. It is whether eligible users can actually trade them easily, efficiently and securely across DeFi.
By supporting Robinhood Chain, 1inch is one of the first major routing and swap platforms available on the network. This strengthens 1inch’s role in RWA execution and gives eligible users a new way to access tokenized asset markets through the 1inch dApp and 1inch Wallet.
Swap on 1inch across networks, including Robinhood Chain.
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GMX uvedl, že jeho chytré kontrakty zůstávají otevřené všem uživatelům, včetně těch z EU, navzdory pravidlům MiCA. Zatímco centralizované platformy zpřísňují přístup, GMX zůstává dostupný bez omezení.
Most major EU crypto platforms have begun restricting access to users due to the implementation of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulations. However, GMX, a decentralized perpetual exchange, announced that its smart contracts remain open to all users, including those in the EU. This divergence underscores the regulatory impact of MiCA, which mandates that centralized platforms comply with stringent authorization and operational requirements, while decentralized protocols like GMX are less affected due to their lack of a centralized operator. The new rules, effective July 1, 2026, conclude an 18-month transition period for EU-based Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs) to comply or cease operations.
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Key Takeaways Market activity suggests a possible decrease in Bitcoin’s future price expectations, with implications that regulatory pressures like MiCA could hinder market growth. GMX’s ability to operate outside MiCA’s scope could provide it an advantage over centralized platforms now facing stricter compliance requirements. The adjustment in Bitcoin market pricing appears consistent with participants viewing regulatory developments as a constraint on the cryptocurrency reaching higher price targets. What to Watch The EU’s MiCA regulations have introduced significant changes for crypto platforms, with centralized exchanges facing new compliance hurdles. Observers should monitor how these developments affect user behavior and market dynamics, particularly if decentralized platforms like GMX attract users from centralized exchanges. Additionally, the response from key market actors and potential regulatory adjustments will be crucial in determining the future landscape for crypto assets in the EU.
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Robinhood spustil veřejný mainnet Robinhood Chain a zároveň uvedl Stock Tokens i on-chain půjčování přes Morpho. Firma také chystá obchodování s kryptoměnami ve Velké Británii a rozšiřuje služby do Kanady a Singapuru.
At a London keynote, the trading platform opened its Arbitrum-based Layer 2 to the public, rolled out new stock tokens and a Morpho-powered lending product, and confirmed launches in Canada and Singapore alongside plans for crypto trading in the UK.
Robinhood put its blockchain ambitions into production on July 1, launching the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain and pairing it with a wave of trading and lending products built to run on top of it.
The announcements came during a keynote called "Robinhood Presents: The World is Flat," streamed live from the Old Royal Naval College in London and hosted by CEO Vlad Tenev and Johann Kerbrat, SVP and General Manager of Crypto and International.
"Decentralized finance unlocks possibilities beyond what traditional finance can offer, but historically, it has required technical expertise to navigate," Kerbrat said in the announcement. "We're bringing the best of traditional finance and DeFi together, and in doing so, expanding financial ownership to every corner of the globe."
Robinhood Chain Moves From Testnet to MainnetRobinhood Chain first went live as a public testnet in February, when the company launched the Arbitrum-based Layer 2 at Consensus Hong Kong. The network is now live in production, with Robinhood describing it as an institutional-grade, permissionless chain built for tokenized real-world assets and DeFi primitives like onchain lending and borrowing.
Uniswap is deploying a dedicated automated market maker on the chain to act as a public liquidity venue, and a firm called Pleiades is deploying its own AMM as a proprietary trading venue, according to Robinhood. The company also named Alchemy, BitGo, and Chainlink as infrastructure partners providing custody, oracle, and data services.
Stock Tokens Go Live in the Robinhood WalletRobinhood is rolling out a new version of its tokenized-equity product, called Stock Tokens, inside the Robinhood Wallet in more than 120 countries, though availability depends on jurisdiction. Under the new structure, eligible users can trade around the clock on Robinhood Chain and use the tokens as collateral or deposit them into lending pools across DeFi. Trading will route through decentralized exchanges including Uniswap, Rialto, Lighter, Arcus, and 1inch.
Per Robinhood's disclosures, Stock Tokens are tokenized debt securities issued by Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Limited that track the price of the underlying stock but do not confer any legal or beneficial ownership in the security itself — a distinction that drew scrutiny when Robinhood first launched tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX in the EU last year and OpenAI publicly said it had not endorsed or partnered on the product. The original version of the product, now called Classic Stock Tokens, remains available as a derivative contract through the Robinhood Europe app.
Stock Tokens are not available to US persons and are restricted in a number of other jurisdictions, including Canada, the UK, Switzerland, and the UAE, according to Robinhood.
Onchain Lending Robinhood is also rolling out Robinhood Earn to eligible US users, a self-custody lending product that lets people lend USDG for an estimated 7% APY. Robinhood said the lending runs on Morpho, the lending protocol that currently holds roughly $6.6 billion in total value locked across chains, according to DefiLlama.
Robinhood named Steakhouse, Ethena, Spark, and Maple as partners on the product and said losses from cyber or smart-contract exploits are covered by insurance procured through Lloyd's of London and RELM.
Perpetuals Expand in the Wallet and in EuropeRobinhood updated its self-custody Wallet app to integrate more directly with Robinhood Chain, and eligible users in select jurisdictions can now trade perpetual futures on Lighter, a decentralized derivatives exchange, from within the Wallet.
Lighter said it has committed $11 million worth of its LIT token to Robinhood users, who can earn points toward that allocation at a 2x rate when trading through the Wallet versus 1x on Lighter's own app. LIT was trading around $1.65 on CoinGecko at time of publication, with the token's most recent moves tied to momentum around the CLARITY Act, US market-structure legislation, rather than the Robinhood integration.
Separately, Robinhood is expanding perpetual futures in Europe beyond crypto for the first time. Eligible EU users can now trade perpetuals on commodities, ETFs, and FX pairs — including gold, silver, QQQ, EUR/USD, WTI and Brent crude, and EWY — with up to 10x leverage, rolling out in waves. Crypto perpetuals became one of Robinhood's fastest-growing products in Europe after the company expanded its regulated platform to 30 EU and EEA countries last year.
In the US, Robinhood is introducing maker order types for crypto traders, with fees as low as 0% based on volume for professional and advanced traders providing liquidity.
Global FootprintRobinhood said it now serves nearly 28 million customers across 38 countries on three continents, and it paired the keynote with several regional updates.
Robinhood said it plans to launch crypto trading in the UK "soon," a step that would add crypto to the equities, options, and futures products already offered through Robinhood UK Ltd, which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
In Canada, Robinhood said its app is now officially available to Canadian residents, following the close of its acquisition of WonderFi, the parent company of crypto platforms Bitbuy and Coinsquare. Crypto services in Canada are offered through Coinsquare Capital Markets Ltd., and Robinhood said Canadian customers will pay zero trading commissions through September 30.
Robinhood Singapore said it has received a capital markets services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, which the company described as a significant step toward offering brokerage services in the country. MAS had granted Robinhood in-principle approval for the licence in April, according to earlier reporting, meaning Wednesday's announcement marks the conversion of that preliminary approval into a full licence.
Agentic Trading Extends to CryptoRobinhood is preparing to expand Agentic Trading to crypto for eligible US users. The company introduced Agentic Trading and the Agentic Credit Card in late May, letting customers connect third-party AI agents to a dedicated account through Robinhood's Trading MCP server; that initial beta supported equities, with options and other asset classes described as coming later.
Robinhood said the crypto version will let eligible traders connect an AI model of choice to Robinhood's data and execute strategies automatically, while giving users control over capital allocation and safety guardrails. The company said Agentic Trading for crypto will roll out at no additional cost.
Robinhood's own disclosures caution that agentic trading carries the risk that AI agents can misinterpret instructions, act on outdated information, or behave unexpectedly, and that the company does not guarantee the accuracy of any agent-generated trade.
Robinhood shares (NASDAQ: HOOD) were trading around $108, up more than 7% on the day, according to StockAnalysis.com — a move that predates the keynote and tracks with strong preliminary June trading volumes and a string of Wall Street price-target increases in the days before the event, rather than a reaction to Wednesday's announcements.
Gate Europe získala licenci MiCA CASP i licenci platební instituce, což jí poskytuje regulovaný rámec pro provoz v Evropě. V EU nyní bez schválení nesmějí působit neregulované kryptoburzy a platformy cílící na klienty z EU.
The MiCA deadline is here, which means the European market is now closed to unlicensed crypto exchanges and platforms targeting EU clients. MiCA is the biggest regulatory overhaul in digital asset history. The new framework has seen many giant exchanges like Binance exit the €10 billion market. However, some exchanges, like Gate, have successfully achieved this regulatory milestone.
So, what is the secret behind the MiCA success? The case of Gate, a crypto exchange with over 54 million global users, can provide some insight.
The MiCA Maze: A Challenge Worth Facing? MiCA has replaced Europe’s fragmented national crypto rules with a common framework for issuers and crypto-asset service providers. The regime puts authorisation, governance, client protection, operational controls, and market integrity at the centre of crypto activity in the EU.
Gate Europe enters this period with two important approvals in place. The company obtained a MiCA CASP license and a Payment Institution license at an early stage, giving its European business a regulated base for digital asset services, payment activity, and long-term regional expansion.
Platforms serving EU users now need stronger internal controls, compliance teams, reporting systems, and governance processes. Users and institutions are also placing greater focus on regulatory oversight when choosing where to trade, hold assets, or build partnerships.
The grace period closes on July 1, 2026. This period allowed crypto-asset service providers already active in the EU before MiCA’s main CASP rules applied on December 30, 2024, to continue operating temporarily while seeking authorization from their national regulator. After July 1, platforms without approval must complete their exit from the European market.
Individual users now have more information for evaluating platforms. A licensed provider operates under defined rules covering client assets, complaints, conflicts of interest, and business conduct. These standards give users a stronger basis for comparing platforms beyond fees, token coverage, and app design.
Institutional clients face an even higher bar. Banks, asset managers, fintech firms, and professional trading desks need crypto counterparties capable of passing compliance reviews, vendor checks, and legal assessments. MiCA gives these clients a common European benchmark for assessing regulated crypto service providers.
Gate’s Licensing Journey Was Eight Years in the Making Gate Europe’s compliance path began in 2018, years before MiCA became the central EU framework for crypto-asset service providers. The company describes its European regulatory work as a multi-year process built through early registrations, internal compliance development, and engagement with regional authorities.
Securing a MiCA license requires an application plus governance, risk controls, reporting procedures, operational oversight, and compliance systems capable of meeting financial supervision standards. These elements require investment across legal, product, security, finance, and management teams.
Gate Europe’s early preparation gave the company more time to build those capabilities before the final MiCA grace window. By the time authorization became central to EU market access, Gate Europe had already developed a regional compliance base designed for a supervised market.
The company’s MiCA license now supports regulated crypto-asset services across Europe, while its Payment Institution license strengthens the link between digital asset activity and payment services. Together, these approvals give Gate Europe a more complete regulatory foundation in the region.
“Europe is setting a high standard for digital asset regulation, and we view compliance as the foundation for sustainable growth in the region,” said Dr. Giovanni Cunti, CEO of Gate Europe. “We remain focused on building a secure and trusted platform for our users.”
The Licence is Only the Start Gate now faces the harder part of MiCA: maintaining the standard after approval. Authorisation gives the company market access, but supervision will test how well its controls work in practice.
That means keeping client assets properly protected, managing conflicts of interest, maintaining reliable reporting, strengthening complaint handling, and ensuring that governance decisions match regulatory expectations. It also means proving that growth across Europe does not weaken internal controls.
It’s 8-years of preparation and a head-start does give the exchange a competitive advantage that others have failed to achieve or sustain in this market.
Elizabeth Warren chce přísnější pravidla, která by Donaldu Trumpovi a jeho rodině zabránila vydělávat na kryptu. Nové finanční přiznání ukázalo příjmy přes 1,2 miliardy USD v roce 2025.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pushed for stronger legislation to bar President Donald Trump and his family from profiting off cryptocurrency, after new disclosures on Tuesday revealed income in excess of $1 billion in 2025.
Warren Demands Improved Crypto BillWarren said that the cryptocurrency legislation, i.e., the Clarity Act, eligible for a full floor vote in the Senate, must have provisions to stop Trump and his family from making money from cryptocurrency ventures.
Steve Rattner, a well-known Wall Street financier, weighed in on the financial benefits of the “Trump family’s White House self-dealing.”
‘Not A Good Look’Lawrence Lepard, an investment manager and Austrian economist, said that the disclosure didn’t give a “good look” and could spark political backlash against cryptocurrency if Democrats regain power.
Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb was sharply critical of Trump’s cryptocurrency fortune, deeming it as “greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind.”
Trump Made A Bomb With CryptoAccording to financial disclosure released on Tuesday, Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures netted him roughly $1.2 billion in 2025, the very first year of his presidency.
The windfall included over $520 million from the sale of tokens issued by World Liberty Financial and more than $635 million in royalties collected from the Official Trump (CRYPTO: TRUMP) memecoin.
The White House didn’t immediately return Benzinga’s request for comment.
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Vývojáři Bitcoinu řeší BIP-110, který by omezil typy transakcí jen na platby a peer-to-peer převody. Debata míří hlavně na Ordinals a Runy, ale nejde o plánovaný hard fork.
A new Bitcoin improvement discussion is putting one of the network’s most divisive questions back in the spotlight: what should Bitcoin block space be used for? BIP-110, a proposal under developer discussion, aims to limit transaction types to payments and peer-to-peer transfers, a move that could affect inscription-heavy activity such as Ordinals and Runes.
TL;DR Bitcoin developers are discussing BIP-110. The proposal would aim to filter transaction types viewed as on-chain spam. Ordinals and Runes traffic sit at the center of the debate. BIP-110 is a proposal, not an active or scheduled hard fork. The debate is not new. Since Ordinals brought inscription-style activity to Bitcoin, users have argued over whether that demand is a healthy fee market or a misuse of the chain. Supporters say Bitcoin is a permissionless network and users should be free to pay for block space. Critics argue that non-payment data clogs the network and moves Bitcoin away from its original monetary purpose.
The payment purist argument The case behind BIP-110 is rooted in a simple view of Bitcoin: the network should prioritize payments and value transfer. From that perspective, transactions that carry inscription data are treated as a distraction from Bitcoin’s core function. If the network becomes too congested with non-payment traffic, regular users may face higher fees and slower confirmation times.
That argument has gained renewed attention because Ordinals and Runes reportedly account for a large share of current Bitcoin network traffic. Some estimates place inscription-related activity at more than two-thirds of traffic. Even if that figure changes over time, it explains why the issue keeps returning. Block space is scarce, and everyone using Bitcoin is competing for it.
The open block-space argument The other side sees the proposal very differently. For Ordinals and Runes supporters, the point of Bitcoin is that users can broadcast valid transactions without asking permission. If someone pays the fee and follows consensus rules, they argue the network should not decide whether the transaction is morally or culturally acceptable.
There is also an economic argument. More activity means more fees. As Bitcoin’s block subsidy continues to decline over time, transaction fees become increasingly important for miner revenue. From that view, inscriptions may be messy, speculative, or even annoying, but they also help build the fee market that Bitcoin eventually needs.
Proposal, not policy The most important caveat is that BIP-110 is not a scheduled hard fork and should not be reported as one. It is an active proposal and debate. Bitcoin’s development process is deliberately slow, conservative, and difficult to force through. A technical idea can create a lot of noise without ever becoming network policy.
Still, the conversation matters because it shows Bitcoin’s identity debate is far from settled. Is Bitcoin only money, or is it a settlement layer where any valid transaction can compete? BIP-110 may or may not advance, but the argument around it will continue to shape how users, miners, and developers think about the network’s future.
For readers, the next few sessions matter because Bitcoin often needs confirmation from several places at once: spot demand, exchange flows, derivatives positioning, and the broader macro mood. One signal can start the conversation, but the stronger read comes when those signals begin lining up.
This report is based on information from Bitcoin BIPs GitHub Repository.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
Ripple chce z XRP Ledger udělat hlavní blockchain pro institucionální platby a přirozený domov pro regulované stablecoiny. Monica Long to potvrdila po zapojení Ripple do Open USD jako partnera pro denní integraci.
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Ripple President Monica Long recently shared a vision for the future of digital payments. "The future of payments will be multichain, interoperable, and built on institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure," said the Ripple President.
The future of payments will be multichain, interoperable, and built on institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure.
Our focus is simple: continue making the XRPL the leading blockchain for institutional payments – and a natural home for the next generation of key regulated… https://t.co/8Pc5Yleskr
— Monica Long (@MonicaLongSF) June 30, 2026 Long was reacting to recent developments, including Ripple joining the Open USD stablecoin as a day-one integration partner, highlighting the company's commitment to open, multichain infrastructure that supports institutional adoption across the digital asset ecosystem.
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Open USD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, was launched by a consortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, on Tuesday.
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The roll call of backers resembles a cross-section of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Ripple, BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, Google and Shopify are all listed as founding partners.
With financial institutions showing growing interest in blockchain-based settlement and regulated stablecoins, Ripple President Long highlights the company's long-term strategy for expanding the role of the XRP Ledger, XRP and RLUSD in institutional finance.
XRP, XRPL and RLUSD vision outlinedAccording to Long, Ripple's focus remains simple: to continue making the XRP Ledger the leading blockchain for institutional payments. This demonstrates that Ripple is positioning the XRP Ledger as infrastructure for institutions seeking blockchain-based settlement solutions.
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Ripple is also concentrating its efforts to make the XRP Ledger a natural home for the next generation of key regulated stablecoins while growing the utility and adoption of RLUSD and XRP globally.
Long's comments show Ripple's commitment to enhancing the real-world utility and adoption of XRP alongside RLUSD as institutional demand continues.
Ripple Prime processes over $3 trillion annually on behalf of over 300 institutional clients, according to Mike Higgins. During a recent discussion, the Ripple Prime CEO shared where the infrastructure is headed next in an effort to bring the prime brokerage and clearing layer directly onto the XRP Ledger.
Klíčový whale indikátor pro XRP se po téměř čtyřech měsících obrátil do záporu a poprvé od února vysílá prodejní signál. Současně funding rate na Binance klesl na téměř -0,0139, nejníže za více než tři měsíce.
In a major XRP news today, a key on-chain whale indicator flipped negative for Ripple’s native crypto asset XRP. The on-chain metric now flashes a sell signal for the first time since February. Will XRP price witness further selling pressure and drop below $1 in the coming days amid growing headwinds?
Ripple Whale Flow Turns Negative for the First Time in 4 Months The XRP Whale Flow 30-DMA metric has now flipped negative, according to CryptoQuant on-chain data. This marks the first time the key Ripple whale indicator signaled selling pressure among whales after nearly 4 months.
XRP faced renewed distribution pressure over the past few weeks despite XRP Ledger upgrades, with Ripple whales liquidating their holdings. XRP price top in mid-May coincided with sustained whale distribution and a subsequent correction.
As CoinGape warned earlier, XRP whale activity has kept declining since early May. The whale accumulation dropped from 9-13 million daily whale activity to nearly 4 million XRP per day.
On Tuesday, whale flow dropped to 1.24 million. This indicates a shift in whale behavior amid rising uncertainty and a broader crypto market crash.
Ripple executive chairman Chris Larsen’s wallet addresses also became active again during this period. However, the transfers were significantly lower to shake XRP price.
XRP Whale Flow. Source: CryptoQuant XRP Funding Rates on Binance Hit 3-Month Low As XRP price failed to build upside momentum, funding rates for XRP perpetual contracts on Binance continued to fall. This indicates increasing selling pressure for Ripple’s native crypto asset in the derivatives market.
According to the latest funding rates data, the funding rate has fallen to almost -0.0139, the lowest level in more than three months. This means a shift in trader sentiment toward short positions.
Funding rates have fluctuated between positive and negative values over the past few months, triggering rising XRP prices and increased demand for long positions. However, this balance gradually shifted as bullish momentum weakened.
While persistently negative funding rates reflect weak market sentiment, reaching extremely low levels can sometimes trigger a short squeeze.
XRP Funding Rates. Source: CryptoQuant Will Price Fall amid Bearish XRP News? XRP price fell to a 24-hour low of $1.02 in the past 24 hours. But the price has since rebounded to $1.04, with a 24-hour high of $1.05. Moreover, trading volume has remained low in the past few days, indicating a decline in interest among traders.
Analyst Ali Martinez pointed out that XRP price could find support at $0.90. He highlighted that the UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD) on-chain data showed $0.80, $0.62, and $0.51 as key support levels to watch.
Moreover, XRP futures open interest fell nearly 2% to $2.28 billion as the Clarity Act passing odds tanked. The total open interest dropped more than 0.50% on CME and more than 2.30% on Binance.
Moreover, spot XRP ETFs recorded $2.83 million in net outflows on Tuesday, with Bitwise XRP ETF recording $5.82 million in redemptions. Also, Canary’s XRPC saw $2.99 million in inflows.
JPMorgan has voiced its support for the CLARITY Act, a legislative proposal designed to bring clearer rules to digital assets in the United States. Arguing that a transparent and consistent regulatory framework is vital for the growth of the crypto sector, the bank also cautioned that regulation should not be rushed.
Cautious optimism alongside support for regulationIn a joint opinion piece, JPMorgan executives Umar Farooq and Peter Muriungi stated that digital assets have moved beyond the realm of experimentation and are now becoming core elements of modern finance. The pair highlighted the growing use of digital assets in payment systems, trading, settlement, and cross-border transactions.
Umar Farooq and Peter Muriungi emphasized that digital assets have left behind their experimental phase, and are now a visible part of the financial infrastructure, from payments to international transfers.
According to the executives, the next frontier in financial innovation will be tokenization and programmable money. By moving real-world assets onto blockchain networks and automating transactions through smart contracts, processes such as settlement can be accelerated, costs lowered, and global payments made more efficient.
Glossary: Tokenization refers to creating a digital representation of real-world assets—such as stocks, bonds, or real estate—on a blockchain. Programmable money describes digital currencies that can transfer automatically when certain conditions are met.
Still, JPMorgan stressed that innovation should be matched by robust safeguards. The bank argued that an effective legal framework must clearly define consumer protections, market integrity, and the responsibilities of regulatory bodies. Without these, there is a risk that vulnerabilities will shift to less well-supervised areas.
Why this matters for Ripple and XRPThis approach carries particular significance for XRP and Ripple. Ripple has long grappled with regulatory uncertainty in the US. Its high-profile legal battle with the SEC concluded in August of last year. Despite some notable court victories for Ripple, a comprehensive framework governing the oversight of digital assets remains unresolved.
The CLARITY Act is designed to reduce this uncertainty and distribute regulatory responsibilities more clearly. With more defined rules, banks, fintechs, developers, and institutional investors could be expected to place greater trust in blockchain-based financial products.
Potential boost for institutional adoptionClearer regulation could provide a favorable environment for Ripple, which aims to enable faster and lower-cost cross-border payments. As the legal landscape becomes more defined, financial institutions may be more inclined to integrate Ripple’s payment technology and use XRP as an on-demand liquidity bridge asset.
JPMorgan’s support highlights a growing shift toward blockchain-backed financial infrastructure on a broader scale. Should the CLARITY Act become law, it is expected to reduce at least part of the regulatory uncertainty seen as a major obstacle to institutional participation.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Ripple has released 1 billion XRP into the market squarely on schedule.
Executed in the early hours of July 1, the release follows a predetermined, mathematically enforced cryptographic schedule that has governed the asset's supply since 2017.
According to on-chain tracker Whale Alert, the 1 billion tokens (valued at approximately $1.04 billion) were released across three separate tranches.
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On-chain data logged the transactions taking place at approximately 07:30 AM, confirming the exact 1 billion token figure. The funds were released from Ripple's escrow accounts in three distinct instalments.
Ensuring predicability The mechanism behind this massive monthly release is fully automated and hardcoded into the ledger. In December 2017, Ripple sought to eliminate fears of a sudden market dump by placing 55 billion XRP into a series of smart-contract-based escrows on the XRP Ledger. The system is programmed to release a maximum of 1 billion tokens on the first day of every month.
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A billion tokens unlocked does not mean a billion tokens flood the open retail market. Historically, Ripple returns a significant majority (often between 600 million and 800 million XRP) back into new escrow contracts shortly after the unlock, keeping only a fraction for operational expenses and institutional sales.
The primary metric the market watches is not the unlock itself, but rather the subsequent "re-escrow" transactions that typically follow within 24 to 48 hours. Those secondary transactions dictate the net new supply actually entering circulation for the month.
As reported by U.Today, CTO Emeritus David Schwartz addressed speculation that Ripple's XRP escrow could run dry by 2035. He stated that pinpointing an exact year is impossible because it depends entirely on Ripple's future operational needs and how much of the monthly 1 billion unlocked XRP gets returned to escrow.
In the meantime, crypto commentator Bill Morgan recently urged Ripple to speed up the release of its escrowed XRP tokens instead of continuously re-locking them. He argues that getting the circulating supply to 100% faster would allow XRP to quickly become "the best hard money."
Current estimates suggest it will take another nine years (around 2035) for Ripple’s remaining stash of roughly 38.15 billion XRP to be completely emptied.
XRP a HYPE ETF v červnu přilákaly čisté přílivy 59 milionů USD a 161 milionů USD. To naznačuje rostoucí institucionální zájem navzdory odlivům z Bitcoin ETF a Ethereum ETF.
XRP and HYPE ETFs saw significant net inflows in June 2026, amounting to $59 million and $161 million, respectively, according to CoinDesk. This development contrasts with the broader trend of outflows in Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs during the same period. These inflows may indicate increased institutional interest in these assets, supported by regulatory developments such as the CLARITY Act for XRP and strong on-chain demand for HYPE. XRP’s price hovered around $1.30 in early June, while HYPE reached approximately $57, close to its all-time high.
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Key Takeaways XRP and HYPE ETFs’ net inflows in June suggest growing institutional interest, contrasting with outflows in other crypto ETFs. Market pricing suggests that the inflow into XRP ETFs could influence XRP’s price, potentially pushing it higher. Regulatory clarity and robust on-chain demand appear to support these inflows and the positive market sentiment surrounding XRP and HYPE. What to Watch Watch for the potential impact of regulatory developments, particularly the passage of the CLARITY Act, which could further influence XRP’s price movement. Additionally, any significant announcements from major asset managers regarding XRP ETFs might affect the pricing. Observing XRP’s ability to break resistance levels, such as $1.45, and market reactions to broader crypto trends will be crucial in the coming days.
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REAL spustil soukromou vrstvu pro vypořádání pro banky a fondy, která jim umožní spravovat tokenizovaná aktiva onchain s ochranou soukromí. Zúčtování probíhá na Ethereum.
REAL launches a confidential execution layer using ZKsync's Prividium tech, letting banks and funds manage tokenized assets onchain with privacy controls and Ethereum settlement.
REAL, a blockchain infrastructure provider focused on tokenized real-world assets, has rolled out a confidential execution layer aimed at regulated financial firms that want to operate onchain without broadcasting every move.
The new layer runs parallel to REAL's public Layer 1 network and uses ZKsync's Prividium technology, which gives banks, asset managers, and funds privacy controls over positions, allocations, and counterparty data. Settlement still happens on Ethereum, so institutions retain access to public liquidity even while keeping sensitive activity off the open network.
For years, regulated firms have faced a structural tradeoff. Public blockchains offer global reach, near-instant settlement, and composability, but they also expose treasury strategies, portfolio positions, and trading relationships to anyone watching the chain. That visibility has kept many of the largest potential participants out of the tokenized real-world asset market, even as issuance volumes climbed.
REAL is positioning the confidential layer as a direct response to that gap. The architecture lets firms keep privacy and public settlement together, with the confidential chain handling sensitive activity while the public chain provides access to onchain liquidity.
"Institutions shouldn't have to choose between public liquidity and operational privacy. We're building infrastructure that delivers both," said Ivo Georgiev, CEO of Real Finance.
The company's view is that issuance volumes alone will not define the next phase of tokenization. What matters is whether institutions can run their daily operations on these systems.
The new layer is designed around workflows where confidentiality is a baseline requirement: wealth and asset management mandates, balance sheet operations, tokenized deposit structures, and selective disclosure to auditors, compliance officers, and regulators when a review calls for it. Firms still get blockchain-native settlement and distribution, but their portfolio activity does not sit in plain view.
The release extends REAL's broader pitch around the lifecycle of tokenized real-world assets, which spans issuance, risk assessment, insurance, trading, and institutional execution under one compliance-aware architecture. The company has been building toward an environment where regulated capital can move onchain without forcing operators to rebuild reporting and oversight processes from scratch.
"This is about giving institutions a practical path into onchain finance," Georgiev added. "Real-world assets onchain require infrastructure that reflects how regulated finance actually operates. That's what we're building."
Tokenized real-world assets have drawn growing interest from major banks, asset managers, and other regulated firms over the past two years. The pitch is straightforward: blockchains can move money and assets faster and at lower cost than legacy rails. The friction has come from infrastructure that does not match how institutional desks actually operate, especially around confidentiality of positions and counterparties.
REAL is built on Cosmos Tendermint and uses a dual-validator model that includes both technical validators and business validators such as tokenizers, risk scorers, insurers, and credit agencies. Prividium, the underlying privacy infrastructure for the new layer, is ZKsync's product for regulated entities seeking configurable confidentiality and Ethereum settlement.
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Arkham uvedl, že Winklevossovi přesunuli na Gemini BTC za 60 milionů USD a ETH za 7 milionů USD, což podle něj odpovídá prodejním vzorcům. Bitcoin i Ethereum zůstávají pod tlakem.
Winklevoss Twins are moving Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) to Gemini crypto exchange, blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence flagged the transfers as selloffs by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Meanwhile, BTC and ETH prices continue to remain under pressure.
Winklevoss Twins Are Dumping Bitcoin and Ethereum to Gemini Arkham Intelligence reported on July 1 that the Winklevoss Twins transferred $60 million in Bitcoin (BTC) to hot wallets associated with their Gemini crypto exchange. The blockchain analytics firm claimed that the move signals usual selling patterns.
The Winklevoss Twins have made about $1.7 billion in total Bitcoin profit since 2015. They still hold over $300 million in BTC.
In addition, they moved $7 million in Ethereum (ETH) to Gemini hot wallets from custody. These transfers come amid recent weakness in the broader crypto market. Also, it coincided with a significant drop in odds of the Clarity Act passing this year after President Trump disclosed $1.4 billion in crypto windfall.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss last transferred Bitcoin worth $67.5 million to hot wallets associated with their Gemini crypto exchange in June. They also transferred $130 million in March this year.
Winklevoss Twins Move Bitcoin and Ethereum to Gemini. Source: Arkham BTC and ETH Prices to Fall Deeper? Citigroup further lowered its 12-month price forecasts for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Citigroup cut Bitcoin price target from $112,000 to $82,000 and Ethereum price target from $3,175 to $2,240.
Bitcoin price tanked to a low of $57,747 over the past 24 hours and is currently trading near $58,600. Furthermore, trading volume has increased by 9% over the last 24 hours, but $4.5 billion in net outflows from Bitcoin ETFs in June kept investors at bay.
Analyst Ted Pillows said “Sellers are still dominating, while Coinbase Bitcoin Premium is at its lowest level this cycle.” If Bitcoin loses the $57,000-$58,000 zone, the price could drop deeper towards $50K.
Bitcoin Price in Daily Timeframe. Source: Ted Pillows Meanwhile, Ethereum price is trading 1% lower at $1,572. The intraday low and high are 1,549 and 1,600, respectively, with a further drop in trading volume over the past 24 hours.
Analyst Cheds Trading pointed out that Ethereum has made its lowest monthly close since 2023. Also, the monthly chart has formed Red Marubozu pattern, indicating bearish continuation.
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Crédit Agricole prostřednictvím CACEIS vydává na Ethereu eurový stablecoin EURXT v souladu s MiCA. Startuje s počátečním oběhem 20,02 milionu tokenů a je určen pro institucionální klienty.
CACEIS Brings Institutional Euro Stablecoin to EthereumCrédit Agricole, Europe's third-largest bank by assets, has launched the EURO eXchange Token (EURXT), a euro-backed stablecoin issued through its asset-servicing arm, Crédit Agricole Caisse d'Epargne Investor Services (CACEIS). The token is designed for institutional and corporate clients as part of the group's broader push into tokenized financial infrastructure.
Compliant with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory guidelines, EURXT launched with an initial circulating supply of 20.02 million tokens on Ethereum using the ERC-20 standard, backed 1:1 by euro-denominated cash held on CACEIS Bank's balance sheet. According to the project's white paper, there is no hard cap on EURXT issuance, meaning the supply can expand based on demand through its smart contract system.
One notable feature is that this is a bank-issued EMT, where the CACEIS balance sheet backs the token, with plans to segregate reserves internally, including CACEIS cash and up to 70% in highly liquid securities. The minimum subscription amount is set at €10,000, keeping the product firmly within institutional territory for now. The token will initially be made available to institutional and corporate clients of CACEIS, though the project's website indicates plans to support retail investors in the future.
First Use Case and Broader Market ContextAlongside the EURXT launch, Crédit Agricole announced the first subscription via EURXT into a tokenised Amundi money market fund, described as a European first. The token forms part of the group's ACT 2028 strategy, which includes the development of blockchain-based settlement and asset servicing tools.
The launch comes a year after CACEIS secured a MiCA crypto-asset service provider (CASP) license from French regulators in June 2025. The launch of EURXT adds to a wave of fresh stablecoin launches both in Europe and globally as traditional finance and crypto-native companies compete to issue regulated digital euros and dollars. HSBC and BNP Paribas, Europe's top two banks by assets, last September joined the Canton Foundation to accelerate tokenization of institutional real-world assets, while a separate consortium of major European lenders including ING, UniCredit, and BNP Paribas is also preparing a competing MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin under the Qivalis venture.
For Crédit Agricole, the EURXT debut represents a concrete step beyond regulatory preparation. With a fully operational EMT on a public blockchain, the bank is positioning CACEIS as a gateway for institutional capital flows into tokenized markets under Europe's mature MiCA framework.
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Cointelegraph: Crédit Agricole Launches EURXT Stablecoin On Ethereum
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Vznikla nezávislá nezisková organizace Ethereum Institutional, která má urychlit institucionální adopci Etherea. Cílí na banky, správce aktiv a firmy při využití tokenizace, stablecoinů a další onchain infrastruktury.
A new independent nonprofit, Ethereum Institutional, has launched to accelerate institutional adoption of Ethereum, providing banks, asset managers and other enterprises with a neutral point of contact as they evaluate the blockchain for tokenization, stablecoins and other financial applications.The launch comes as the Ethereum Foundation narrows its focus to stewarding the core protocol, with independent organizations like EthLabs emerging to take on ecosystem functions such as research & development.A new independent non-profit, Ethereum Institutional, has launched with the goal of accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum, its layer-2 networks and the broader ecosystem.
The organization is led by David Walsh, Marius Smith and Matthew Dawson. Walsh previously led the Ethereum Foundation's enterprise efforts, while the organization said its leadership brings experience spanning institutional engagement, capital markets and Ethereum ecosystem development. It said its mission is to provide institutions with a neutral, independent point of contact as they evaluate Ethereum for tokenization, stablecoins and other onchain financial infrastructure.
In announcing the initiative on X, Ethereum Institutional said institutions need "a credible, independent front door" to the Ethereum ecosystem. While Ethereum's neutrality is one of its defining strengths, the group argued, that neutrality has often left enterprises without a clear organization to engage as they make long-term infrastructure decisions.
The launch comes as the Ethereum Foundation continues to narrow its role to stewarding the core protocol, with ecosystem participants increasingly spinning up independent organizations focused on specific areas such as business development, institutional outreach and developer support. The shift follows broader changes at the foundation, including leadership restructuring and longstanding community calls for greater transparency.
Ethereum Institutional is also the latest addition to a growing network of Ethereum-focused organizations. It follows the launch of EthLabs, another initiative aimed at strengthening Ethereum's ecosystem, as the network seeks to capitalize on growing institutional interest in tokenization, stablecoins and blockchain-based financial markets.
The non-profit said its work will focus on institutional engagement, market intelligence, ecosystem marketing, industry research and events. It launched with backing from BitMine, Nasdaq-listed SharpLink Gaming and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, with additional institutional and individual supporters expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
"The world's largest institutions are deciding where tokenization, stablecoins, and onchain markets will settle," the organization said. "We're ready to make Ethereum the base layer for institutional finance."
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Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Jun 30, 2026
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
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Podíl ETH ve stakingu poprvé překročil 33 % a dosáhl nového historického maxima 33,06 %. Tím se snižuje likvidní nabídka, i když ETH zůstává pod tlakem.
TL;DR Ethereum’s staking rate has climbed above 33% for the first time, setting a new all-time high. Around 33.06% of the total ETH supply is now locked in staking, reducing the liquid supply in circulation. A newly created wallet withdrew 9,876 ETH worth $15.4 million from Binance and staked the entire amount. Ethereum price continues to hold above the $1,550 support level, while $1,700 remains a key resistance to watch. Ethereum staking participation has reached a new milestone, with the network’s staking rate climbing above 33% for the first time since the Merge upgrade. According to CryptoQuant data, approximately 33.06% of the total ETH supply is now locked in staking, marking a new all-time high even as the Ethereum price remains near $1,500.
The latest figures highlight a growing divergence between investor behavior and market performance. While Ethereum’s price has moved through several periods of volatility, staking participation has continued to rise steadily, suggesting that many long-term holders are choosing to lock up their ETH rather than sell during the current market downturn.
Adding to the trend, blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain reported that a newly created wallet withdrew 9,876 ETH, valued at approximately $15.4 million, from Binance before staking the entire amount.
Ethereum Staking Reaches Record High as Investors Lock Up More ETH CryptoQuant’s data shows Ethereum’s staking rate has maintained a consistent upward trajectory since the network transitioned to Proof-of-Stake. The latest increase to 33.06% means that roughly one-third of the total ETH supply is now committed to staking, reducing the amount of Ether available in circulation.
ETH Staking Data | Source: CryptoQuant The continued growth in staking participation suggests that investors remain committed to Ethereum’s long-term outlook despite ongoing market uncertainty. Instead of moving assets to exchanges for potential selling, more holders are choosing to secure the network while earning staking rewards.
Although a rising staking rate does not guarantee an immediate increase in Ethereum price, it does reduce the liquid supply of ETH. If market demand strengthens in the future, a smaller circulating supply could support stronger price movements.
Ethereum Price Holds Key Support but Faces Resistance Ahead While staking continues to set new records, Ethereum price remains under pressure. At the time of the accompanying data, ETH was trading near $1,571, while the CryptoQuant chart showed the asset around the $1,500 level as staking reached its highest level on record.
Technical charts by analysts indicate that Ethereum has so far managed to hold above the $1,550 support area, even as Bitcoin fell to a new yearly low. According to the analyst’s view provided with the chart, Ethereum has displayed relative strength compared with Bitcoin during the recent market decline.
1-day ETH/USDT Chart | Source: X However, the analysis also notes that ETH is not yet out of danger. The chart identifies $1,700 as a key resistance level, indicating that Ethereum would need to reclaim that area before the risk of another move lower begins to ease.
For now, the data points to a market where long-term participation continues to strengthen despite short-term price weakness. With staking at a record high and more ETH being removed from the liquid supply, investor conviction appears to remain intact even as Ethereum price continues to trade below key resistance levels.
EthLabs, nové neziskové výzkumné uskupení, vzniklo uprostřed zásadní personální proměny Ethereum Foundation. Má doplnit práci nadace hlavně v adopci a technickém rozvoji Etherea.
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s tech newsletter covering the most important stories in blockchain. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk.
We’re giving you a deeper look at the biggest trends, breakthroughs and debates shaping blockchain technology each week.
This week, we’re diving into the creation of EthLabs, and why it was launched during a period of transition for the Ethereum ecosystem.
EthLabs, Ethereum’s newest nonprofit research organization, has demurred at insinuations that it is attempting to replace a struggling Ethereum Foundation. Instead, its founders, former leaders of the foundation, argue it's a response to a changing Ethereum ecosystem, one where the foundation is narrowing its focus while new organizations step in to tackle broader adoption.
The timing of EthLabs' launch calls that into question.
The organization publicly unveiled itself just one day before there were major layoffs at Ethereum Foundation, and only a few days after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced her resignation, adding to what has become a period of significant turnover at Ethereum's most influential institution. Since January, at least nine prominent members of the Ethereum Foundation have departed as the organization undergoes a broader strategic realignment.
For many observers, the departures have fueled questions about the foundation's future role and whether Ethereum's governance model is entering a new chapter. According to EthLabs executive director Ansgar Dietrichs, that transition is exactly why the organization was created.
"We looked around, didn't see anyone else stepping up," Dietrichs told CoinDesk in an interview. "After two months of that, we looked at each other and said, 'Well, if no one else is stepping up, then it has to be us.'"
Dietrichs, along with four other former Ethereum Foundation researchers and developers, some of whom left the foundation just this year to launch EthLabs, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing Ethereum's technical roadmap with a stronger emphasis on real-world adoption.
The creation comes as Dietrichs describes Ethereum as entering a fundamentally different phase of its evolution. "The decade of infrastructure build-out of Ethereum is coming to an end," he said. "Now it's much more about actual institutional adoption."
Over the past decade, Ethereum's developer community focused on building the foundational pieces of the network: from smart contracts and decentralized finance to scaling technologies and layer-2 networks. With those building blocks largely in place, Dietrichs believes the next challenge is ensuring Ethereum can support large-scale financial infrastructure.
"I don't think crypto and Ethereum will ever go back to a time like it was in the past," he said, arguing that the ecosystem has moved beyond the boom-and-bust cycles that previously defined it.
That transition has also reshaped the Ethereum Foundation itself.
Earlier this year, the foundation published a renewed mandate emphasizing Ethereum's core values: including credible neutrality, self-sovereignty and open infrastructure, while reducing its involvement in some implementation-focused initiatives. Combined with ongoing budget constraints, the shift has resulted in restructuring across the organization.
Dietrichs views those changes less as a crisis than an overdue evolution. "It's more a transition period," he said. "Ethereum is now much more intentionally, proactively reorienting itself to be ready for this new time period."
Filling in the gapsBut as the turmoil started to unveil itself at the EF, many have started to wonder whether EthLabs would replace it. Dietrichs sees that rather than competing with the foundation, EthLabs intends to complement it. "We're deliberately positioning ourselves to fill the gaps that the Ethereum Foundation now deliberately leaves," Dietrichs said. "We're not trying to create a competing vision for Ethereum."
Those gaps, he argues, center on adoption-oriented engineering work, like improving Ethereum's scalability, strengthening layer-1 performance, advancing interoperability, and identifying the technical barriers preventing broader institutional use.
"The gap we see is this more practical, adoption-oriented work, making Ethereum, practically useful for the real world," he said. EthLabs plans to continue work its founders previously led within the foundation, including layer-1 scaling research, while expanding into areas like interoperability and engagement with financial institutions exploring blockchain infrastructure.
For that, Dietrichs deliberately chose to structure the organization as a nonprofit, and its sole objective is supporting Ethereum's long-term success rather than generating commercial returns. "The only interest is we help Ethereum," Dietrichs said. "There's no other incentive we have other than we help Ethereum."
A broader vision for EthereumThe changes come as the direction of the Ethereum network is heading for a revamp. For Dietrichs, EthLabs is about more than protocol development. He believes Ethereum itself needs a clearer narrative for what comes next.
"Ten years ago everyone knew what Ethereum was trying to achieve," he said. "Today it's not so clear that there's a shared answer." He sees the coming years as defining Ethereum's role in an increasingly onchain financial system.
"I think there's a world in which Ethereum really is at the very center of the global financial system as it comes onchain," he said.
Whether EthLabs succeeds remains to be seen. As a newly formed nonprofit, it must establish its own funding base while proving it can influence Ethereum's technical direction outside the foundation.
But its emergence reflects something larger than the creation of another Ethereum organization. Many at the top of the industry are pushing for a broader redistribution of responsibility across the ecosystem, one where the foundation is becoming a steward of the protocol's core values, while independent organizations like EthLabs take on the work of driving adoption and implementation.
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Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Jun 30, 2026
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Why it matters:
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
The stablecoin market on the Cardano network recorded a double-digit increase over the past week, pushing its valuation above the $60 million mark.
According to data from DeFiLlama, Cardano’s stablecoin market cap climbed to $60.39 million, representing a 14.67% increase over the past seven days. The rise marks one of the strongest short-term expansions in the network’s stablecoin sector in recent months and signals increasing participation in Cardano’s decentralized finance ecosystem.
Cardano Stablecoin Market Cap Soars USDCx Fuels Cardano Stablecoin Valuation The surge came only days after an unidentified user bridged more than $10 million worth of USDCx onto the Cardano blockchain. Several ecosystem participants highlighted the transaction, including Cardano DeFi aggregator DEX Hunter.
Meanwhile, additional USDCx tokens have continued to enter circulation on Cardano. Data shared by SNEK co-founder Rami indicates that roughly $4.5 million worth of USDCx was minted on the network within two days, further strengthening stablecoin liquidity. As a result, the fresh capital inflow has deepened liquidity across the ecosystem.
USDCx, the Circle-backed stablecoin introduced to Cardano earlier this year, has quickly established itself as the dominant stable asset on the network.
Currently, USDCx commands a market share of 59.38%, accounting for $35.85 million of Cardano’s total $60.39 million stablecoin market cap. The rapid growth highlights increasing adoption of the asset as users seek seamless access to cross-chain liquidity within the ecosystem.
Stablecoin Growth Supports Total Value Locked The rise in stablecoin liquidity also lifted Cardano’s total value locked (TVL), which climbed to approximately $82 million earlier this week before retreating to around $75 million following the latest decline in ADA’s price.
Despite the pullback, analysts believe the recent increase in stablecoin reserves provides a stronger foundation for future DeFi expansion on the network. Cardano research analyst Dr. Cuadrado believes the recent influx of stablecoin liquidity marks the beginning of a major growth phase for the ecosystem.
According to him, the most explosive stage of the current bull market could begin once Cardano’s stablecoin market cap surpasses its total value locked. He argued that such a development would signal the presence of excess liquidity waiting to be deployed across decentralized applications.
In his view, higher stablecoin reserves would lead to deeper liquidity pools, increased borrowing and lending activity, larger trading volumes, and more attractive yield opportunities across the network.
ADA Remains Under Pressure Despite Improving Fundamentals Meanwhile, ADA continues to face bearish pressure despite the improvement in on-chain metrics. The asset has gradually slipped down the global cryptocurrency rankings and currently stands as the world’s 18th-largest crypto by market cap.
At press time, ADA had a market valuation of $5.53 billion and traded at $0.1519 per token, representing a 35.43% decrease over the past month.
DisClamier: This content is informational and should not be considered financial advice. The views expressed in this article may include the author's personal opinions and do not reflect The Crypto Basic opinion. Readers are encouraged to do thorough research before making any investment decisions. The Crypto Basic is not responsible for any financial losses.
CSWAP přidal podporu Phantom Wallet do BTC Karma, takže držitelé bitcoinu mohou přímo připojit peněženku a během pár kliknutí stakovat BTC na Cardanu. Firma říká, že tím snižuje bariéry pro vstup bitcoinové likvidity do ekosystému Cardano.
CSWAP has highlighted a new integration aimed at simplifying how Bitcoin holders can participate in decentralized finance on the Cardano network.
The update follows an announcement from BTC Karma, CSWAP’s Bitcoin-native DeFi protocol, confirming support for the Phantom Wallet. With the integration now live, Bitcoin users can connect their Phantom wallets directly to BTC Karma and stake BTC in just a few clicks.
According to BTC Karma, the new wallet support removes onboarding friction and creates a more straightforward path for Bitcoin holders seeking yield opportunities through decentralized finance applications.
CSWAP Positions Wallet Expansion as a Liquidity Gateway Following the announcement, CSWAP emphasized the broader importance of the integration for the Cardano ecosystem.
The protocol noted that every additional wallet it supports lowers the barriers that prevent Bitcoin liquidity from flowing into Cardano-based applications. Consequently, the addition of Phantom support marks another step toward attracting the next generation of Bitcoin DeFi users.
“Every wallet we support makes it easier for Bitcoin liquidity to enter the Cardano ecosystem,” CSWAP remarked.
CSWAP CEO Hints at More Integrations Reacting to the launch, CSWAP founder and CEO Jon Kravetz reiterated the team’s commitment to expanding BTC Karma’s reach across additional wallets and user communities.
He described the Phantom integration as part of a broader effort to extend the BTC Karma ecosystem across the cryptocurrency industry. Furthermore, Kravetz hinted that the team is already developing additional integrations, signaling plans to continue lowering entry barriers for Bitcoin holders interested in Cardano’s DeFi opportunities.
Just added @phantom wallet support on @btc_karma.
We're spreading good $KARMA far and wide.
We're turning bitcoin…in to productive capital one wallet at a time. (There's more coming!) https://t.co/npV7lJoNyQ
— Jon Kravetz (@CSWAP_Destroy) June 30, 2026
For context, BTC Karma is widely regarded as the first Bitcoin-native DeFi protocol operating directly on the Cardano mainnet. The platform serves as a bridge, allowing Bitcoin holders to earn yield and receive new tokens while participating in the Cardano ecosystem.
Notably, the protocol’s design aligns closely with Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson’s vision of bringing idle Bitcoin capital into the ADA ecosystem. Hoskinson argued that Cardano can unlock more than $2 trillion in Bitcoin DeFi opportunities, stressing that the network has a strong chance of becoming a major player in the emerging sector.
Cardano Continues to Expand Its Bitcoin DeFi Ambitions Meanwhile, Cardano continues to advance its broader DeFi strategy through several processes, including Bitcoin integration initiatives.
Earlier this year, Fluid Tokens completed the first atomic swap between Bitcoin and Cardano, demonstrating growing interoperability between the two networks. In addition, Cardano previously introduced its first Bitcoin DeFi protocol, Cardinal, which allows BTC holders to bridge and stake their assets without selling them.
Hoskinson also revealed plans earlier this year to launch a one-click Bitcoin yield system on Cardano before year-end. However, the project has yet to provide an update on its progress.
In the meantime, competition in the Bitcoin DeFi sector continues to intensify, with rivals such as Flare arguing that they are better positioned to lead the race for Bitcoin-based decentralized finance.
DisClamier: This content is informational and should not be considered financial advice. The views expressed in this article may include the author's personal opinions and do not reflect The Crypto Basic opinion. Readers are encouraged to do thorough research before making any investment decisions. The Crypto Basic is not responsible for any financial losses.
TRON Nile Testnet nasadil upgrade GreatVoyage-v4.8.2-PQ1-build1 s podporou postkvantových digitálních podpisů. Jde o první takové řešení na veřejném blockchainu.
Quantum computers can’t break blockchain cryptography today. But “today” has an expiration date, and TRON is apparently not waiting around to find out when it arrives.
On June 30, the TRON Nile Testnet deployed GreatVoyage-v4.8.2-PQ1-build1, an upgrade that introduces end-to-end support for post-quantum digital signatures. The build integrates two NIST-standardized signature schemes into the network’s core functions: transactions, block signing, peer-to-peer handshakes, and smart contract verification through new TVM precompiles.
Two signature schemes, two very different tradeoffs The upgrade introduces FN-DSA-512, based on the Falcon-512 standard, and ML-DSA-44, based on Dilithium-2. Both are algorithms that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has formally standardized for post-quantum use.
The two schemes differ meaningfully in their technical profiles. FN-DSA-512 produces variable-length signatures capped at 667 bytes. ML-DSA-44 outputs fixed signatures at 2,420 bytes. That size difference matters more than it sounds like it should.
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Current ECDSA signatures used by most blockchains, TRON included, run about 64-72 bytes. A jump to 667 bytes is notable. A jump to 2,420 bytes is a different conversation entirely, one that involves bandwidth costs, storage requirements, and downstream effects on every wallet, explorer, and dApp that touches the chain.
Both schemes are activated through separate on-chain committee proposals, meaning the TRON community gets to vote on each one independently after a hard-fork gate.
Why post-quantum matters now Justin Sun announced TRON’s formal post-quantum initiative on April 14, and the Nile Testnet deployment followed roughly eleven weeks later.
The upgrade builds on earlier Nile Testnet iterations. Version 4.8.0 landed in Q1 2025, and v4.8.1 followed in late 2025, both focused on network performance improvements and better alignment with Ethereum Virtual Machine standards. The post-quantum build represents a sharper pivot toward security hardening rather than feature parity.
The infrastructure headache hiding in larger signatures When signature sizes balloon from 72 bytes to potentially 2,420 bytes, every piece of infrastructure downstream needs to accommodate the change. Wallets need to handle larger transaction payloads. Block explorers need to parse and display new signature types. Exchanges that support TRON deposits and withdrawals need to update their signing and verification logic. dApps that verify signatures on-chain need to integrate with the new TVM precompiles.
If post-quantum signatures increase per-transaction data by 10x to 30x compared to current ECDSA signatures, the aggregate bandwidth impact could be material, particularly for super representatives and full nodes.
What this means for investors TRON is positioning itself ahead of most major Layer 1 chains on quantum resistance. Bitcoin and Ethereum have both seen community discussions about post-quantum upgrades, but neither has deployed NIST-standardized PQ signatures on a testnet, let alone a mainnet.
The key metric to watch is whether TRON’s ecosystem of wallets, dApps, and infrastructure providers actually builds out PQ support during the testnet phase. The real test is whether TronLink, major exchanges, and high-volume dApps integrate the new signature types before any mainnet proposal goes to vote.
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BNB Agent Studio je nyní spuštěn na BNB Smart Chain mainnetu a umožňuje vytvořit AI agenta z jednoho promptu. Agent si navíc sám doplňuje platby přes x402 a získává onchain identitu přes ERC-8004.
TL;DRBNB Agent Studio is live on BNB Smart Chain. Builders describe an AI agent in one prompt inside platforms like Cursor, Claude Code and other platforms, and it ships to the chain.Agents pay their own LLM bills from a wallet you fund. They top up automatically via the x402 protocol, so the agent keeps running between your wallet refills.Each agent gets an onchain identity via ERC-8004 and a task interface via ERC-8183. Other agents can find it and call it.Open standards across the stack: x402, ERC-8004, ERC-8183. Nothing about the agent is locked into a single vendor.If you want to ship a useful AI agent on chain today, you have to assemble at least five things separately:
A walletAn identityA payment railA hosting environmentAccess to a Large Language Model. Each one is a different vendor, a different SDK, a different login. Every seam in that stack is a place something can break, and every dependency is a future migration headache waiting to happen.
Even when that stack is wired up correctly, the agent often doesn't last long. The moment its language model credits run out, it stops. It has no way to refill its own balance. The result is an agent that looks autonomous until it isn't, and you end up checking on it the way someone checks on a houseplant.
BNB Agent Studio is a developer product that takes those pieces and puts them inside one workflow. You describe the agent in one prompt inside Cursor or your favourite vibecoding platform, and the product handles the rest. Your agent comes out of deployment already paying its own bills and already addressable on BNB Smart Chain.
Inside BNB Agent StudioThe whole flow lives inside an AI IDE. Install the bnb CLI, describe what you want the agent to do, and BNB Agent Studio scaffolds the code, sets up the wallet, registers the agent's onchain identity, and deploys it to a managed runtime.
The pieces underneath:
bnb CLI - A single-line install. Detects supported AI IDEs (Cursor, Claude Code) and registers Studio's MCP server with them automatically.Studio MCP server - Exposes Studio's tools to the IDE, so the AI assistant can scaffold and deploy agents on your behalf.BNB Chain SDK - Runtime layer with primitives for identity, payments, and language model calls. Available in Python today, with additional languages coming.AWS Bedrock AgentCore - Where your deployed agent runs. Agents live on production-grade infrastructure rather than your laptop.x402 payment protocol - The payment rail an agent uses to top up its own balance.ERC-8004 - Agent identity standard. Each deployed agent gets its own onchain identity.ERC-8183 - Agent task interface standard. Other agents can discover and call the one you've built.From One Prompt to a Live AgentThe developer experience is meant to look like a normal coding session.
Local testing happens in the same environment. Once you're satisfied, deployment is a single instruction. Behind that, Studio compiles the agent, pushes it to AWS Bedrock AgentCore, registers an ERC-8004 identity for it, binds its wallet to that identity, registers the ERC-8183 task interface, and turns on the self-funding loop.
Self-funding is the part that does the heavy lifting once your agent is live. Your agent watches its own language model balance. When the balance falls below a threshold, the SDK initiates a payment over x402, drawing from the wallet you funded at deployment and settled in $U on BNB Smart Chain. Your agent stays online during the top-up. When the underlying wallet runs low, you refill it.
Less Plumbing, More AgentWhat changes for you is mostly what you no longer have to build. Wallets, identity, payments, and hosting are part of the product. The SDK ships in Python today, with more languages coming. The CLI works in any MCP-compatible AI IDE, which means your existing Cursor and Claude Code workflows pick up Studio without any extra setup.
Three things to know about how this actually works:
Your agent handles its own credit top-ups, drawing from the wallet you fund. That changes the operational model. An agent you deploy today keeps running without you intervening between tasks. You only step in when the underlying wallet runs low.Open standards are the default. ERC-8004, ERC-8183, and x402 are all open. Nothing about your agent's identity, payments, or task interface is locked to BNB Chain or to Studio.Studio doesn't get in the way of how you build. The user flow above is a reference shape, not a contract. The SDK and CLI work fine if you want to wire things up differently.To get started, read the quickstart in the docs.
Live Today on BNB ChainBNB Agent Studio is live on BNB Smart Chain mainnet. The CLI is publicly available, the SDK installs via pip, and the supported AI IDEs at launch are Cursor and Claude Code, with additional MCP-compatible environments coming through MCP itself.
AWS Free Tier: A Limited-Time Free ExperienceTo support developers, the BNB Agent Studio AWS Free Tier offers a no-cost way to try the full cloud agent deployment pipeline using only a GitHub login with no AWS account or credit card required.
From there you get access to agent creation, cloud deployment, onchain registration via ERC-8004, and ERC-8183 / x402 onchain interactions, all without setting up your own infrastructure first.
This is a limited-time campaign with a capped budget, so access closes once it's gone. Here's everything you need to know about how it works.
Eligibility Dimension
Rule
GitHub account
Must be registered for at least 30 days.
Participation limit
Each GitHub account may participate once only. No re-enrollment.
Network
bsc-testnet only. Mainnet is not supported.
Total campaign budget
Limited on a first come, first served basis. Campaign ends automatically once the budget is exhausted.
Timing Dimension
Rule
Timer start
First successful bag deploy (not at login).
Trial duration
48 hours.
Expiry reminders
CLI reminders at 12 hours and 1 hour before expiry.
On expiry
All cloud resources automatically and permanently deleted. Cannot be recovered.
Login without deploying
Does not count toward the 48 hours. No resources consumed.
Usage limits Limit
Default Value
Invocation rate
60 requests / minute
Concurrent invocations
Max 2
Max single session duration
5 minutes (forcibly terminated on timeout)
Idle auto-reclaim
Reclaimed after 1 minute of inactivity
Max agents per user
10
Deployments per hour
Max 10
Concurrent in-flight deployments
Max 3
Zip package size
≤250 MB
Container image size
≤2 GB
Single request size
Max 10 MB
Campaign End MechanismWhen total campaign spend reaches the budget threshold ($3,000 × 80% ≈ $2,400), campaign end is automatically triggered:
New user entry is immediately closed: Deploy and invoke requests return "Campaign has ended."Users already inside their 48-hour window are unaffected and continue running until their individual expiry.Note: AWS billing has a delay of roughly 24 hours, so the actual trigger point is based on estimated spend reaching the threshold (subject to adjustment). Final spend is determined by actual AWS billing.
Data After ExpiryWhen the 48-hour trial ends, all cloud resources are immediately and permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. Onchain identity and transaction records are permanently retained and unaffected.
Content
Status After 48 Hours
Local code files (main.py, etc.)
Fully retained (stored locally on user's machine)
Onchain identity (ERC-8004)
Permanently retained (on BSC)
Onchain transaction records
Permanently retained (on BSC)
Local wallet files
Retained (stored locally on user's machine)
Cloud AgentCore runtime instance
Permanently deleted
CloudWatch runtime logs
Permanently deleted
ECR images (runtime + user-uploaded)
Permanently deleted
Secrets (wallet keys, etc.)
Immediately and permanently deleted. No recovery window.
S3 code bundle
Permanently deleted
Important:
Always use a testnet-dedicated wallet. Never use a mainnet wallet holding real assets.The system sends CLI reminders before expiry. Back up your local code in time.What’s Next?The current shape of the product is the developer surface for shipping individual agents. Further work covers ecosystem features and additional wallet and language model integrations. None of that is required for you to start building today.
Here’s what’s to come:
Late June 2026 - more options at every step:
TWAK wallet integration as an additional wallet option.BinancePay B402 merchants integration, so agents can purchase CMC data through x402.Microsoft Azure as a cloud runtime option alongside AWS.Free AWS runtime for up to 48 hours.Mid July 2026 - more choice and control:
Developer dashboard to view, pause, and restart agents without touching the CLI.Enterprise-grade security model for agent wallet private keys.Additional wallets to pick from and more data services your agent can pay to use.The roadmap updates regularly as we ship. For the latest, see the BNB Agent Studio page:
bnbchain.org/en/bnb-agent-studio
BNB Chain has been pointing toward a chain where autonomous software does real work for some time. BNB Agent Studio is the developer surface that makes that workable. The product is built for you if you want to ship agents that actually do the work, not chatbots that need supervision.
Britská FCA navrhla u stablecoinů nižší kapitálové rezervy, zatímco EU drží přísnější rámec MiCA. Pro Binance a BNB to znamená větší regulační nejistotu v Evropě.
Let me tell you about a regulatory tug-of-war happening right now that most crypto headlines are ignoring, but that matters a lot for the fourth-largest cryptocurrency. While everyone obsesses over Bitcoin’s slide, two of the world’s biggest financial jurisdictions, the UK and the EU, are quietly pulling in opposite directions on stablecoin rules, and the outcome has real stakes for Binance and its token, BNB. Let me walk you through it.
First, the price. BNB is trading at $546.54, down about 1.3% on the day and 5.7% on the week, holding up roughly in line with the broader market through a rough stretch (live BNB price on CoinGecko). It has been more resilient than many altcoins over the longer run, and there is a structural reason for that, which we will get to. But right now, the interesting story is regulatory.
The tug-of-war: UK versus EU Here is what is happening. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority just proposed lowering the capital buffers, essentially the financial cushions, that firms must hold against stablecoins. This follows the Bank of England backtracking on limits to how much stablecoin value an individual could hold. The clear direction: the UK is moving to make itself more welcoming to stablecoin businesses.
At the same time, this move directly undercuts the EU’s MiCA framework, which imposes stricter requirements. So you have got two major jurisdictions competing, the UK loosening up to attract crypto business, the EU holding a tighter line. For a global company, that competition creates both opportunity and complication: friendlier rules somewhere, tighter rules elsewhere, and the constant challenge of navigating both.
Why this matters for BNB specifically Now here is the connection to BNB, and it is a direct one. Unlike most cryptocurrencies, BNB’s fortunes are tied tightly to Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, because BNB is the native token of the Binance ecosystem. So anything that affects Binance’s regulatory standing affects BNB more directly than regulatory news affects, say, a decentralized coin.
And Binance has a specific, live regulatory situation in Europe: it is facing a looming rejection of its MiCA license application in the EU, though it has said it is seeking alternative ways to maintain its European presence. So this UK-versus-EU stablecoin tug-of-war is not abstract for BNB holders. A more welcoming UK could offer Binance an alternative path in a key market, while the tighter EU stance is exactly the kind of pressure that has complicated its European operations. The regulatory chessboard genuinely matters here.
The structural strength underneath Let me balance the regulatory uncertainty with what is actually working for BNB, because it is real. BNB is not a purely speculative token. It has genuine utility: people use it to pay trading fees at a discount on Binance, and to power activity on BNB Chain. On top of that, Binance regularly burns BNB, permanently removing coins from supply, a deflationary mechanism that supports the price over time.
That combination, real utility plus shrinking supply, is why BNB tends to hold up better than many altcoins in downturns, and it is doing exactly that this week. The recent Maxwell upgrade to BNB Chain also improved the network’s performance, and integrations like Tether Gold keep expanding what people can do on it. These are the quiet, steady strengths that sit beneath the regulatory noise.
So how do you read BNB right now? This is the balance. On one side, BNB has real utility, deflationary burns, an improving network, and better resilience than most altcoins. On the other, it carries a concentrated risk tied to Binance’s regulatory standing, and right now that standing sits in the middle of a genuine UK-versus-EU regulatory divergence with real consequences.
That makes BNB a fundamentally different kind of hold than something like Bitcoin. When you own BNB, you are partly betting on Binance successfully navigating a complex, shifting global regulatory landscape, with all the upside if it does and the specific risk if it stumbles. Both sides deserve your attention.
The levels worth watching On the downside, the $540 area is immediate support, with $520 below it as the level that has held through recent pressure. Holding $520 keeps the structure intact. On the upside, BNB needs to reclaim $560 to ease the pressure, then the $580 to $600 zone to signal a stronger recovery is taking shape.
Where this leaves us BNB at $546 is holding up reasonably through a rough week, supported by its real utility and deflationary burns, with the Maxwell upgrade strengthening the network underneath. But it sits in the middle of a genuine regulatory tug-of-war: the UK loosening stablecoin rules to attract business while the EU holds its tighter MiCA line, with Binance’s European future caught in between.
So watch both sides. The $520 support and the $560 reclaim are the levels to track on the chart. And keep an eye on the UK-versus-EU regulatory story, because for BNB more than almost any other major coin, the fate of the exchange and the token are bound together. That is what makes BNB both more resilient and more regulatory-sensitive than it looks.
FAQ What is the BNB price today?
BNB is trading at $546.54 on July 1, 2026, down about 1.3% on the day and 5.7% on the week, holding up roughly in line with the broader market. It remains the fourth-largest cryptocurrency.
What is the UK stablecoin news?
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority proposed lowering the capital buffers firms must hold against stablecoins, following the Bank of England backtracking on stablecoin holding limits. This moves the UK toward friendlier stablecoin rules, undercutting the EU’s stricter MiCA framework.
Why does the UK-EU regulatory divergence matter for BNB?
BNB is tied closely to Binance, so regulatory shifts affecting the exchange affect BNB directly. A friendlier UK could offer Binance an alternative path, while the tighter EU stance, including a looming MiCA license rejection, complicates its European operations.
Why does BNB hold up better than other altcoins?
BNB has real utility (fee discounts and BNB Chain activity) plus regular token burns that shrink supply. This combination of genuine demand and deflationary supply tends to make it more resilient than purely speculative coins in downturns.
What are the key BNB levels to watch? I
mmediate support is $540, with $520 below it. Holding $520 keeps the structure intact. On the upside, BNB needs to reclaim $560, then the $580 to $600 zone to signal a stronger recovery.
This is not investment advice. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile. Always do your own research.
XLM za 24 hodin vzrostl asi o 10 %, protože Stellar Development Foundation se připojila k Open USD jako launch partner a účastník Open Standard. Open USD podpořilo přes 140 firem včetně Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, BlackRock a Coinbase.
Stellar Signs On as Open USD Launch PartnerStellar's native token $XLM climbed roughly 10% over 24 hours after the Stellar Development Foundation joined the launch of Open USD as both a launch partner and Open Standard participant. The move ties one of crypto's most established payments-focused blockchains to what is shaping up to be the most broadly backed stablecoin debut in the industry's history.
More than 140 companies, including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, BlackRock and Coinbase, have joined Open Standard to launch Open USD (OUSD), a new stablecoin that shares most of the earnings from its reserves. The project is led by founding CEO Zach Abrams, co-founder of Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure startup acquired by Stripe for $1.1 billion in 2024.
The coin is designed to address longstanding complaints about the stablecoin industry: high fees for minting and redeeming tokens at scale, issuers that keep the interest earned on reserves, and a lack of input from the businesses actually using the coins. Open Standard said businesses will be able to mint and redeem Open USD without fees or volume limits, while most of the income generated by its reserves will be distributed to participating businesses after a small management fee.
A Broad Coalition, and What It Means for $XLMThe 140-plus partners span four main categories: payment networks and processors such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, and Western Union; financial institutions including BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, DBS, and U.S. Bank; technology and commerce firms such as Google, Samsung Electronics, IBM, Shopify, and DoorDash; and crypto ecosystem players including Coinbase and Solana.
Open USD will be managed by an independent organization with governance shared among partner companies, rather than a single controlling issuer. The announcement had an immediate ripple effect across markets, with Circle shares falling sharply on the day as traders priced in OUSD as a direct competitor to USDC.
For Stellar, the partnership reinforces the network's positioning as institutional payments infrastructure. Stellar's speed, low fees, compliance tools, and anchor network provide financial institutions the infrastructure needed to tokenize assets while maintaining regulatory compliance. The Open USD partnership adds to a string of recent institutional milestones for the network. In May 2026, the DTCC announced plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to Stellar, with XLM designated as the settlement token and live assets targeted for the first half of 2027, covering Russell 1000 equities and U.S. Treasury bonds.
Open USD is expected to go live later in 2026, with issuance planned across Solana, Stellar, Base, and Polygon.
Sources:
The Block: Visa, Stripe, Coinbase and more join Open USD stablecoin
CoinDesk: DTCC taps Stellar for tokenized securities network
Crypto Briefing: Dozens of major companies join Open USD as launch partners
Circle-backed Arc se připojil k programu Chainlink Scale, čímž vývojáři získají přístup k CCIP, Data Streams, Data Feeds a Proof of Reserve. Arc je nyní ve veřejném testnetu před spuštěním mainnetu.
Arc Plugs Into Chainlink's Enterprise Oracle StackArc, the Layer-1 blockchain backed by Circle, has joined the Chainlink Scale program, opening up a suite of enterprise-grade oracle and interoperability services to developers building on the network.
Through the partnership, builders on Arc can now tap CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol), Data Streams, Data Feeds, and Proof of Reserve. Chainlink CCIP is a blockchain interoperability protocol that enables developers to build secure applications that can transfer tokens, messages, or both across chains. Data Streams, meanwhile, provides pull-based oracles with sub-second latency, enabling DeFi applications to access high-quality financial market data.
The Scale program, which stands for Sustainable Chainlink Access for Layer 1 and 2 Enablement, is centered around accelerating the growth of blockchain and layer-2 ecosystems. It allows blockchains and layer-2 networks to fast-track smart contract innovation by covering the operating costs of Chainlink oracle networks for a period of time. In doing so, developers get access to a variety of important oracle services, including configurations specific to their ecosystem needs, such as Data Feeds with higher update frequencies to enable more advanced and low-latency smart contract applications.
What Arc Brings to the Table Arc features predictable dollar-based fees using stablecoins as gas, opt-in configurable privacy that supports compliance obligations, and direct integration with Circle's full-stack platform, making it uniquely suited for use cases like lending, capital markets, FX, and payments.
Chainlink has been selected as a core ecosystem partner of Arc, the newly launched layer-1 blockchain by Circle. The Chainlink Scale membership now formalises and expands that relationship, putting the full oracle toolkit directly in the hands of Arc's developer community.
Arc is currently in public testnet, with strong developer adoption and sustained network activity ahead of mainnet launch. Launch partners include BlackRock, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, Amazon Web Services, and Coinbase, representing diverse segments of the financial ecosystem from asset managers to payment processors to infrastructure providers. The addition of Chainlink Scale infrastructure is likely to deepen that institutional appeal as Arc prepares for its mainnet debut.
Arc official website | Chainlink Scale program overview, Chainlink Blog | Arc on Chainlink Ecosystem
World je nyní spuštěn jako plně on-chain predikční trh na Solaně přímo v peněžence Phantom i na world.xyz. Uživatelé mohou obchodovat kontrakty na ceny krypta a MS ve fotbale 2026 s vypořádáním v CASH stablecoinu.
World is a new onchain prediction market on Solana that allows users to trade event contracts like crypto prices and the 2026 FIFA World Cup.The platform is now live within the Phantom wallet and at world.xyz, utilizing Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure for market data.World enables users to trade directly from their Solana wallets, with positions, settlement, and redemptions occurring fully onchain using CASH stablecoin.World, the mysterious Solana project that garnered millions of views on X with little more than a glowing globe, cryptic posts and the tagline “Trade Everything,” is now live as a fully onchain prediction market inside Phantom.
The platform is online at world.xyz and in the Phantom wallet on iOS, Android and desktop, with Chainlink serving as its primary oracle infrastructure for its data.
Users can trade event contracts tied to crypto prices and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with additional markets on sports, geopolitics, and macroeconomics planned for the near future, according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk.
World’s world_xyz account has built attention throughsocial media posts offering scant product details, fueling speculation that the project could be a meme coin, trading app or broader Solana infrastructure play. Copycat WORLD-themed tokens have appeared on token launchpads, though those tokens are not official World assets.
The platform's identity stayed hidden until late June, when a legal disclosure on Phantom's site surfaced on X.
World is instead a non-custodial prediction market, with users being able to trade directly from their Solana wallets and funds moving only when they enter a market. Positions, settlement and redemptions happen onchain.
World uses Phantom’s CASH stablecoin as its settlement asset, allowing winning positions to be redeemed automatically inside the wallet. Phantom gives World immediate distribution through one of Solana’s largest consumer apps and follows Phantom’s broader push into in-app markets, including Kalshi prediction markets and regulated derivatives.
“Prediction markets are one of the most powerful applications you can build on a high-performance blockchain,” Pedro Miranda, head of consumer at the Solana Foundation, in Wednesday's announcement. “World is designed to show what Solana makes possible: real-time markets, onchain settlement, and a user experience that meets people where they are.”
Chainlink will provide World with market data and resolution infrastructure through Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment.
The setup is meant to reduce reliance on human-led resolution, a longstanding friction point in prediction markets. Other event-contract platforms have also moved toward oracle-based settlement, including Polymarket for some price-based markets.
World is not the only Solana-native prediction market. Jupiter unveiled its Forecast beta on June 29, offering 15-minute bitcoin price markets.
The Phantom debut is the first of several frontend distribution partnerships World plans to activate across traditional fintech and crypto platforms in July.
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Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Jun 30, 2026
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Why it matters:
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
World XYZ nasadila Chainlink jako hlavní oracle infrastrukturu pro rychlejší a přesnější vypořádání na Solaně. Integrace má zlepšit spolehlivost dat i okamžité výplaty.
World XYZ, a prominent prediction market on the Solana blockchain, has announced its adoption of Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure. This integration aims to enhance the speed and accuracy of market resolutions, particularly in categories such as cryptocurrency, sports, elections, and macroeconomic events. Chainlink serves as a critical link, connecting Solana’s smart contracts to real-world data through verified data aggregation from independent node operators. This move is expected to provide immediate resolution and payout capabilities, bypassing traditional banking delays through stablecoin rails.
The integration of Chainlink is seen as a significant enhancement for World XYZ, addressing the “oracle problem” by ensuring data accuracy and reliability. With Chainlink’s established network, which has facilitated over $6.9 trillion in transaction value since 2022, the partnership is anticipated to bolster confidence in prediction markets on Solana. Market participants may interpret this development as supportive of higher trust and efficiency, potentially influencing market dynamics across various sectors.
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Market reactions have been observed in related prediction markets, specifically in the pricing of Bitcoin. Current data suggests a notable increase in confidence for Bitcoin to reach certain price ranges by July 1, with an 84% likelihood of Bitcoin being priced between $58,000 and $60,000, up from 38% just 24 hours ago. This shift appears consistent with enhanced market confidence stemming from World XYZ’s integration of Chainlink.
Key Takeaways World XYZ’s integration of Chainlink appears consistent with efforts to enhance prediction market efficiency and reliability. Market pricing suggests increased confidence in Bitcoin price predictions, with significant movements in sub-market odds. Chainlink’s established infrastructure is expected to provide immediate payout capabilities, enhancing user experience on World XYZ. What to Watch Market participants may look for further developments in World XYZ’s performance metrics following the integration. Any additional partnerships or technological advancements could further influence market dynamics. The impact on Bitcoin’s market pricing will be crucial to observe, especially as additional data from Chainlink is utilized. Watch for statements from key financial regulators or announcements from World XYZ that could further shape market perceptions.
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Jeremy Allaire uvedl, že USDC má konkurenční výhodu díky síťovým efektům, hluboké likviditě a regulaci. V 1. čtvrtletí 2026 jeho on-chain objem transakcí téměř dosáhl 30 bilionů USD.
PANews July 1 news, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that the stablecoin market is inherently a platform business driven by strong network effects, often showing a "winner-takes-all" pattern. Its core moats mainly come from three aspects: network effects formed by the application and developer ecosystem, global liquidity depth, and deep integration with regulatory systems across countries.
According to Allaire, USDC has built an access network of thousands of service providers and has become one of the three most liquid digital assets globally. In Q1 2026, USDC on-chain transaction volume approached $30 trillion, accounting for approximately 80% of USD stablecoin transaction volume, while USDT accounted for the remaining roughly 20%, and all other stablecoins combined accounted for less than 0.5%.
In response to OUSD's proposed "free minting and redemption, revenue sharing, and alliance governance," Allaire said that fully relinquishing reserve revenues could lead to insufficient infrastructure investment, while large alliance models typically suffer from slow decision-making and misaligned incentives, hindering product innovation. He emphasized that Circle still welcomes OUSD to join the ecosystem, but believes that the long-term winner will remain a platform with deep liquidity, regulatory compliance, and sustained capital investment.
Lending protocol Aave saw its strongest day of new-wallet creation on Ethereum since 2021 on June 30, adding 1,806 wallets even as the broader crypto market weakened.The AAVE token is up about 9% over the past week, and the protocol now holds roughly $12.2 billion in total value locked, helped by anticipation around a version upgrade and revenue-focused changes.Standard Chartered’s $3,500 price target for AAVE by 2030 and the recent wallet surge have revived interest in DeFi, though analysts warn that new addresses must translate into real usage to sustain the rally.Aave, one of the largest decentralized lending protocols by locked value, recorded its strongest day of new-wallet creation in almost five years on June 30, a sign of fresh interest in the AAVE token even as the wider crypto market weakens.
The protocol added 1,806 new wallets on the Ethereum blockcain in 24 hours, its highest single-day total since October 2021, according to analytics firm Santiment.
Network growth measures how many new addresses hold or use a token, and an increase points to new participants arriving rather than existing holders simply trading among themselves.
AAVE has moved with that interest. It traded around $86.2 on Tuesday, down about 2.4% over 24 hours, in line with a broad market pullback. Still, it's gained roughly 9% over the past week, CoinDesk data show, one of the few major cryptocurrencies in the green over that stretch.
The protocol holds about $12.2 billion in deposits, or total value locked, the sum users have supplied to earn yield or borrow against.
Several threads are feeding the attention. Aave is rolling out the Ethereum version of its V4 upgrade, a rebuild of how the protocol handles lending, and has seen active governance debate over borrowing limits alongside a growing focus on protocol revenue through a mechanism it calls Smart Value Recapture, which routes value back to the system.
Standard Chartered also published a long-term price outlook in June, forecasting a $3,500 level by 2030 if it capitalizes on the growing tokenized assets trend. The mix has drawn renewed notice to DeFi at a moment when most of the market has been falling.
"For price, this is the kind of signal traders usually want to see as July begins," Santiment said. "New wallets showing up at this pace suggests interest is growing beneath the surface and supporting the price momentum."
Whether that holds is the open question, as new wallets show attention, not commitment, and the number matters only if it converts into deposits, borrowing and the revenue that follows.
Meanwhile, AAVE faces headwinds in the near term amid a tepid crypto market. Bitcoin BTC$58,779.77, the largest cryptocurrency, is stuck below $60,000 and most large tokens fell in the first half.
If the participation deepens into real usage, it gives AAVE a firmer base than a price bounce alone. If it fades with the market, the wallet spike will read as a burst of speculative interest rather than the start of a recovery.
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Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Jun 30, 2026
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Why it matters:
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Internet Computer Crosses 294 Billion Transactions@Dfinity's Internet Computer Protocol ($ICP) has officially crossed 294 billion total transactions, reinforcing its position as one of the highest-throughput layer-1 blockchains in the crypto space. The network is recording real-time activity of 910.6 transactions per second, with a 480ms block time and near-instant finality.
The milestone builds on a rapid trajectory. According to Coinpedia, Internet Computer had already processed nearly 288 billion transactions in mid-June 2026, making it the most-used blockchain network globally by total activity at that point. The network has since pushed past 294 billion.
Low Fees, Growing InfrastructureOne of the protocol's most cited selling points is its fee structure. Average transaction costs on the network sit at roughly $0.00008845, a level that makes it practical for high-frequency on-chain applications, enterprise systems, and decentralized websites. BanklessTimes reported in May 2026 that Internet Computer averaged 2,554 transactions per second over a prior week period, more than double Solana's 1,153 over the same window.
The network currently operates with 673 validators and $506.4 million in total stake. Its fully diluted market cap stands at $1.16 billion. The architecture splits workloads across independently running subnets, each with its own consensus layer. Crypto News Navigator noted that late-2025 infrastructure upgrades, including the Fission and Stellarator milestones, delivered a 50% increase in compute throughput and doubled subnet storage capacity to 2 TiB per subnet.
On the tokenomics side, Mission 70, a governance proposal that passed with over 53% support in January 2026, targets a reduction in annual $ICP inflation from 9.72% to approximately 2.92% by end of 2026. If achieved, the supply dynamics would shift materially in favor of existing holders.
Despite the on-chain activity figures, $ICP's market price remains well below its 2021 launch highs. The gap between network usage and token valuation continues to be a point of debate among market participants, with some viewing the transaction milestone as a potential narrative catalyst if broader crypto market conditions remain supportive.
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Coinpedia: ICP Price Eyes Breakout as Internet Computer Becomes Crypto's Most Used Blockchain
BanklessTimes: Internet Computer Tests Key Resistance After 11% Move
Crypto News Navigator: Internet Computer Blockchain Hit 1B Transactions in Q1 2026
PancakeSwap zalistoval $CREV, token na BNB Chain, který poskytuje syntetickou ekonomickou expozici na před-IPO akcie Revolut. Token byl spuštěn 28. května, měl čistou hodnotu aktiv 2 139 USD na token a celkovou hodnotu aktiv přibližně 88 milionů USD při 41 185 tokenech v oběhu. Token neposkytuje přímé vlastnictví akcií ani hlasovací práva.
You can now trade synthetic exposure to Revolut shares on a decentralized exchange.
PancakeSwap has listed $CREV, a BEP-20 token on BNB Chain that offers tokenized economic exposure to pre-IPO equity in the British fintech giant. The token, issued by Swiss-based Colb Finance, launched on May 28 with a net asset value of $2,139 per token and a total asset value of roughly $88 million across 41,185 tokens in circulation.
What $CREV actually is (and isn’t) $CREV does not give holders direct ownership of Revolut shares. Instead, it’s structured as a Swiss-regulated certificate that provides economic exposure to the underlying equity. You get the price upside (or downside) tied to Revolut’s valuation, but you’re not technically a shareholder with voting rights or a seat at the cap table.
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The minimum subscription is $25,000 in stablecoins, with a 2.5% subscription fee. There are no management or performance fees attached. It’s aimed at professional and qualified investors who want private market exposure without the traditional gatekeeping of venture capital or secondary share platforms.
Each token is backed 1:1 by the economic rights of the equity it represents, according to Colb Finance’s structure.
The bigger picture: private equity goes on-chain $CREV isn’t Colb Finance’s first rodeo on PancakeSwap. The firm previously launched $CSPX, a similar tokenized certificate offering pre-IPO exposure to SpaceX shares.
What this means for investors A $25,000 minimum and a 2.5% entry fee means this is not the kind of token most retail traders will stumble into. The qualified investor requirement adds another filter.
There are real risks to consider. The 1:1 backing claim relies entirely on Colb Finance’s custody and legal structure. If the issuer faces regulatory challenges, or if the underlying equity position is impaired, token holders bear that risk. There’s also the question of what happens to $CREV if Revolut actually does IPO. The conversion mechanism, whether tokens are redeemed for cash at IPO price or continue trading, is a detail that qualified investors should examine closely before committing capital.
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Binance Closes In on 90 Billion LUNC BurnedBinance burned over 600 million $LUNC tokens on July 1, according to data from LUNC Metrics. The latest burn brings the exchange's cumulative total to 87.37 billion Terra Classic tokens permanently removed from circulation, putting the 90 billion milestone firmly within reach.
The burn forms part of Binance's long-running monthly program, which allocates 50% of LUNC trading fees collected on the platform to be permanently removed from circulation. Binance has burned LUNC every single month since late 2022, using trading fees collected from LUNC spot and margin pairs, converting them into LUNC and permanently sending them to the burn address.
The program has made Binance the dominant force in Terra Classic's deflationary effort. Binance remains the largest single contributor to this effort, having permanently removed over 84.94 billion LUNC tokens through its ongoing burn program as of early May 2026, a figure that has continued to climb with each subsequent monthly burn.
Supply Pressure Builds, But Price Under PressureThe July 1 burn arrives amid mixed market conditions for Terra Classic. LUNC trading volume is up 5% over the past 24 hours according to CoinMarketCap data, though the token has shed nearly 30% of its value over the past month.
LUNC's burn mechanism, combining a 0.5% on-chain transaction tax with exchange-led burns, remains the cornerstone of the community's deflationary strategy. Despite the steady pace of supply reduction, the token's structural challenges remain significant. With 5.52 trillion LUNC still in circulation out of 6.46 trillion total, the daily burn rate is marginal against the float.
With a total supply still at 6.46 trillion, the current burn rate is mathematically insufficient for fundamental revaluation alone, and price gains from burns are vulnerable to reversal if staked supply is unlocked or if broader market sentiment sours. Still, the community views consistent exchange-led burns as a key pillar of the project's long-term recovery thesis, with sentiment remaining largely positive around the burns as a steady contribution toward rebuilding confidence in LUNC, though meaningful price appreciation will likely depend on a combination of sustained burns, successful network upgrades, increased utility, and broader market conditions.
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LUNC Metrics: Binance LUNC Burn Tracker
CoinReporter: Binance Burns 2.19 Billion LUNC in June 2026
Crypto Times: Terra Luna Classic Surges 150% in a Month Amid Binance Burn
Americké spotové Bitcoin ETF zaznamenaly v červnu čisté odlivy 4,5 miliardy USD, nejvíc od spuštění v lednu 2024. Nejvíc utrpěl IBIT od BlackRocku s odlivem 3,55 miliardy USD.
US-listed Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $4.5 billion in net outflows during June 2026. This was the worst monthly figure since the products launched in January 2024.
The redemptions coincided with a sharp price decline. Bitcoin fell 20.48% over the month, its steepest monthly drop since June 2022, when the asset shed 37.28% during that cycle’s collapse.
IBIT Leads the Institutional RetreatJune’s outflows broke the previous monthly record of $3.56 billion, set in February 2025 during an earlier stretch of market stress.
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Bitcoin ETF Monthly Flows. Source: SoSoValueBlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) accounted for the bulk of the outflows. The fund alone shed $3.55 billion, close to 79% of the category’s total redemptions.
That concentration is striking. IBIT’s single-fund outflow nearly matched the entire category’s prior monthly record on its own.
The price data reinforces the pressure. Bitcoin closed four of 2026’s first six months in negative territory, with June’s 20.48% decline the deepest of the year.
How Crypto ETFs Performed in June 2026The weakness extended beyond Bitcoin, though the scale varied across categories. Ethereum (ETH) ETFs posted $528.99 million in June outflows, SoSoValue data showed.
Solana (SOL) ETFs recorded net outflows of roughly $786,580. The figure is small, but it marks the first monthly outflow for Solana ETFs since their launch, ending a run of positive months.
Top Crypto ETFs Performance in June. Source: BeInCryptoNot every category turned negative. XRP (XRP) ETFs drew $59.46 million in net inflows during June, holding positive despite the broader downturn.
Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETFs led the group with $161.05 million in inflows, the strongest June showing across the products.
The split suggests capital rotated within crypto rather than exiting entirely. Newer altcoin products absorbed fresh money even as the two largest categories saw sustained redemptions.
Whether that rotation hardens will depend on how Bitcoin trades in July, since a price rebound could pull capital back toward the incumbents.
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Toss Bank a Solana Foundation podepsaly memorandum o spolupráci na testu stablecoinových převodů a remitencí v rámci proof-of-concept. Projekt má ověřit levnější a efektivnější přeshraniční platby v souladu s AML/KYC pravidly.
Beyond the details provided by the official announcement, the timing of the alliance between South Korea's third-largest internet-only bank and a public blockchain says a lot.
On June 19, Toss Bank, an online-only bank in Korea, and the Solana Foundation, an organization that supports Solana, signed a memorandum of agreement in Seoul. This is the first direct relationship between these two entities.
To see whether stablecoins can help with international transactions and remittances cheaper and more effectively than conventional banking systems, the effort will go through a proof-of-concept phase.
Currently, seven distinct currencies power Toss's operations in thirty different nations.
The deal was sealed at Toss Bank's headquarters in Seoul by Park Jin-hyun, head of strategy, and Lily Liu, president of the Solana Foundation.
No binding legal force may be exerted by the memorandum of understanding. The significance of the element is overshadowed by the surrounding context.
The IPO Subtext
Reports indicate that Viva Republica, the parent company of Toss Bank, is valued at more than $10 billion, with some estimations coming close to $20 billion.
The corporation is preparing for an American IPO.
The paid-in capital of Toss Bank has increased to almost 1.4 trillion won through six rounds of fundraising, with the organization successfully securing over $1.2 billion from major investors including GIC, Sequoia China, and Kleiner Perkins.
A prospectus is improved in three major ways compared to a remittance feature alone when an agreement is reached with a blockchain foundation four months before a listing roadshow.
At first, this changes Viva Republica's image from that of a small-town neobank to that of an important participant in the international payments system, interacting with a worldwide payments industry that, according to some estimates, is nearly $320 trillion.
This narrative, in contrast to being referred to as "Korean Chime," receives a different valuation on Nasdaq.
Next, it highlights a compliance-oriented strategy by highlighting features like AML/KYC integration, a well-established banking license, and regulatory frameworks.
US institutional investors, who differentiate between licensed financial tech firms investigating blockchain and those operating in the unregulated cryptocurrency arena, find this very attractive.
As a third benefit, blockchain settlement may lead to lower marginal costs per transaction, which is an important factor for pre-IPO margin calculations.
This is not just an attempt to sweeten the sale. The time between the events of "MOU signed" and "shipped product" should be taken into account when determining values, not disregarded.
What's Actually Being Tested
The mechanics are purposefully limited in their use. The Solana Foundation supplies the infrastructure for settlement, while Toss oversees the user experience and financial services.
In the first stage, we test the waters to see if we can transfer stablecoins on the Solana network and integrate settlement with existing remittance processes in a way that complies with the anti-money-laundering, know-your-customer, and consumer protection rules that govern Toss's licensed transfer operations.
In January 2026, Toss expanded its foreign remittance service to 30 countries; this proof of concept builds upon that base instead of beginning from square one.
If the first phase is successful, the next steps will involve tokenizing physical assets, expanding the range of digital assets offered, and payment methods.
When contrasted with the antiquated SWIFT system, which is weighed down by long settlement delays and various intermediary fees, Solana's near-instant finality and transaction costs of a fraction of a penny stand out.
The uptime record has improved greatly since the network's reputation was established by the failures.
The fact that Solana has gone more than 15 months without a major consensus failure is taken seriously by institutional risk committees as proof of reliability, not luck.
Skepticism is evident, nevertheless, because the viewpoint that "Solana requires three years without an outage" is still voiced, even in comment letters sent to the SEC.
In late 2025, with the release of Firedancer and the upcoming Alpenglow consensus update, validator client diversity will be implemented to resolve concerns by drastically decreasing the finality time from 12 seconds to 150 milliseconds.
These innovations address the widespread doubt by providing technological answers.
Despite increases in throughput and uptime, they haven't totally resolved the issue; the number of validators has reduced from over 2,500 to about 800, suggesting a tendency towards concentration that goes against the narrative of decentralization.
Korea's Crowded Stablecoin Field
Solana has had and will continue to have many institutional partners in Korea, including Toss.
A pilot initiative centered on stablecoin payments was launched in April by Shinhan Card and the Solana Foundation. Shinhan Card is the top credit card provider in the country.
Wavebridge and Solana have separately signed an MOU that will center on a won-pegged stablecoin developed for use by institutions. In conjunction with well-known Korean financial institutions, this project will introduce on-chain settlement and tokenized deposit features.
Currently, eight different commercial banks are undergoing regulatory examination as they develop a KRW stablecoin that is built on trust and backed by deposits.
A wholesale CBDC and tokenized-deposit trial is underway at the Bank of Korea, and 100,000 users are a part of it.
This project lays the groundwork for a compliant innovation in bank-grade stablecoin remittance products, rather than a strategy to take advantage of regulatory loopholes.
The tendency is toward more scrutiny, not less, and that framework is changing fast.
The Financial Intelligence Unit of South Korea pushed for the elimination of the worldwide minimum transaction threshold for the Travel Rule during the June 15–19 FATF plenary in Paris.
The Toss-Solana signing occurred around the same time as this endeavor, as they argued that the current limit of 1 million won (about $730) promotes "smurfing," the practice of dividing large transactions into smaller sums in order to avoid detection.
That threshold will be eliminated entirely on August 20, 2026, according to a change to the Enforcement Decree in Korea.
Furthermore, stablecoins used in international transactions would be classified as an official "means of payment" under the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act under the Digital Asset Basic Act, which is Korea's "Phase 2" framework.
It is expected to be implemented beginning in December 2026 and will provide a new registration system for cross-border virtual-asset transfer enterprises as well as mandate over 100% reserve backing.
Now is the time for a financial institution to position itself ahead of that deadline while still functioning inside a regulated and compliance environment.
Adjustments will be made to improve operations by a financial technology business that transitions later on, beyond its existing scope.
The Market's Verdict, So Far: Muted
As trading activity increased by single-digit percentages, SOL's price rose slightly to around $74 after the news.
It was already difficult to pin the shifts in risk assets that week on the Toss news alone when concomitant reports about U.S.-Iran peace talks began making headlines.
There is meaning in that muted reaction.
The market has grown accustomed to discounting collaborations announced at this level until concrete proof-of-concept data and regulatory permissions are revealed.
This trend has been seen before with Shinhan, Western Union’s Solana-based stablecoin attempts, and a slew of bank MOUs.
Until the end of June, the price of SOL ranged from $60 to $88.
A weekly closing below the $60-65 area might imply a probable collapse towards $30, according to analysts.
Even though the network has processed more than 100 billion transactions in its history, spot Solana ETFs have had net outflows as late as June 26.
Forming the crucial structural framework for the Toss agreement is the difference between rising on-chain use milestones and lacklustre ETF flows, as well as a price that is still around two-thirds below its all-time highs.
Among the many prominent institutional relationships that Solana is amassing are those with Toss, Shinhan, Western Union, and integrations with Visa-related commerce, as well as a staking ETF linked to Morgan Stanley.
Supporters of the changes are hoping that the network's risk premium would go down as a result.
Although it has improved, its dependability history is still not up to the long-term criteria that institutional risk teams are looking for, and it still has validator concentration and an unsolved securities-classification issue.
The Takeaway
Rather than being a finished solution, the Toss-Solana MOU shows a major path for the future of Korean banking infrastructure.
The biggest neobanks in Korea aren't sitting on their hands; instead, they're getting ready for the impending foreign-exchange revamp in December and the tightening of the Travel Rule in August.
Rethinking the best way for US allocators to model the company has been prompted by the incorporation of a blockchain framework into Viva Republica's IPO story.
This bodes well for Solana's institutional pipeline, which is large, strong, and growing; yet, until the proof-of-concept data passes compliance review and a working product is released, these agreements are only declarations of intent.
All eyes are on the memorandum of agreement. The results that matter the most will be disclosed in the second round of testing after Toss begins to connect its AML/KYC systems and partner networks.
Aptos Labs has joined more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, and BlackRock, in backing the launch of Open USD, a new stablecoin designed to solve persistent cost and access problems in global payments. The @Aptos network is listed alongside other blockchain infrastructure providers as one of the platforms on which the token will eventually be available.
A New Economic Model for Stablecoins Open USD charges no fees to mint or redeem, even at scale, eliminating a cost barrier that has slowed institutional stablecoin adoption for treasury and payments teams operating at high volume. That is a deliberate break from existing products. Revenue from reserve economics is shared with companies that grow adoption, with most revenue generated from reserves returned to participants after a small management fee, inverting the standard issuer-capture approach in which the issuing company retains float income on dollar-backed assets as its primary revenue stream.
The token, ticker OUSD, will be operated by Open Standard, an independent company whose board is composed of the stablecoin's partners. Zach Abrams, co-founder and CEO of Stripe-owned stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge, leads Open Standard as its founding CEO.
Broad Industry Coalition and Market Context Payment networks and processors including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, and Adyen are involved, alongside major global banks such as BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, DBS, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Technology companies including Google, Samsung Electronics, IBM, and Shopify have also signed on, as has a broad swath of the crypto industry, including Aptos Labs, Solana, Coinbase, Ripple, Aave, and Fireblocks.
Open USD is planned on four blockchain networks, including Solana, Polygon, Aptos Labs, and Stellar, when it goes live later in 2026. The launch arrives as the broader stablecoin market continues to expand. The total stablecoin market cap has surpassed $300 billion, reflecting growing demand for blockchain-based payment infrastructure from both crypto-native companies and traditional financial institutions.
Circle was the news's clearest casualty, with CRCL stock falling to a four-month low and closing down 17.55% on the day of the announcement. The reaction reflects how directly Open USD's model threatens Circle's core business, which relies on retaining the interest earned on USDC's reserves rather than sharing it with distributors.
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The Block: Visa, Stripe, Coinbase and more join Open USD stablecoin that shares reserve revenue
Blockhead: Visa, Stripe, BlackRock among 140 firms backing new Open USD stablecoin
CoinLaw: Open Standard Launches Open USD Stablecoin Backed by 140 Companies
Bittensor po prosincovém halvingu snížil denní emise TAO z 7 200 na 3 600, zatímco asi 70 % nabídky je uzamčeno ve stakingu. Síť tak má utaženou nabídku, ale cena poroste jen při silnější poptávce.
Bittensor cut its emissions in half in December, and roughly 70% of the supply is locked in staking. The supply side looks tight, but a halving only moves price if demand shows up to meet it.
Summary
Bittensor (TAO) ran its first halving on Dec. 12, 2025, cutting daily emissions from 7,200 to 3,600 TAO against a fixed 21 million cap, the same hard-cap design Bitcoin uses. TAO trades near $250 as of late June 2026, roughly 65% below its early-2024 record near $757, ranked around #27 to #37 with a market cap close to $3 billion and only about 11 million tokens in circulation. The bull case rests on a tightening float: with around 70% of supply staked for roughly 10% yield, the halved emissions slowly thin out sell-side pressure, which can lift price if demand holds or grows. The bear case is that a halving is a supply event the market already knew about, and TAO’s real problem is proving its subnets capture lasting value instead of riding AI-narrative momentum that fades. Analyst forecasts for 2026 run wide, from Gate near a $236 average to Coinpedia eyeing a $500 reclaim, with the outcome hinging on subnet revenue, ETF flows, and the broader AI trade more than on the halving alone. Bittensor’s first halving is already in the past. It happened on Dec. 12, 2025, and the daily issuance of TAO dropped from 7,200 tokens to 3,600 overnight. So the live question for 2026 is not whether the halving will happen. It is what a halving actually does to a token whose price sits 65% below its record, whose technical picture is bearish, and whose deeper story is still unproven. The supply math is real. Whether it matters depends on demand, and that is the harder part of the forecast.
This piece walks through how the Bittensor halving works, why a supply cut takes months to filter into the market, the demand-side question the halving does not answer, what the charts say at current levels, the institutional wildcard around a possible spot ETF, and where analysts think TAO could trade in 2026. It closes with bull, base, and bear scenarios and a short FAQ.
How the Bittensor halving actually works Bittensor is an open marketplace for machine intelligence. Models, compute, and data compete inside specialized markets called subnets, and the network scores their output through a mechanism known as Yuma Consensus.
TAO is the settlement token that pays for useful work and secures the network through staking. The protocol was started in 2019 by AI researchers Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves, and its token design borrows directly from Bitcoin: a fixed cap of 21 million coins and a halving schedule that cuts new issuance over time.
The December 2025 halving was the first of these events. Daily emissions fell from 7,200 TAO to 3,600. In plain terms, the network now mints half as much new TAO each day as it did before. Miners and validators who earn TAO for their contributions receive a smaller flow of new tokens, which over time means less fresh supply hitting the market. The mechanism is the same logic that underpins Bitcoin halvings, where reduced issuance has historically preceded periods of price strength, though the cause and effect is never as clean as the charts make it look in hindsight.
The key difference between a halving in theory and a halving in practice is timing. Issuance dropped instantly on the halving date, but the effect on circulating supply is gradual. The tokens already in circulation do not disappear, and the slower drip of new supply only changes the balance of buyers and sellers over weeks and months, not in a single candle. That is why the halving is better understood as a structural shift in the background rather than a switch that flips price higher on the day.
Why the supply cut takes months to bite The most important number for the supply thesis is not the emission rate. It is how much TAO is locked away and cannot be sold. Roughly 70% of the circulating supply is staked by validators and delegators, who earn an annual yield in the region of 10% for securing the network. Staked tokens are not idle, but they are also not sitting on exchange order books waiting to be dumped. That combination, halved emissions plus a high staking ratio, is what makes the Bittensor float look unusually thin compared with most tokens of similar size.
Here is the chain of logic the bulls lean on. New supply has been cut in half. A large majority of existing supply is staked and earning yield, so holders are paid to keep it locked. If demand for TAO stays flat or rises while the liquid, sellable float shrinks, the price pressure shifts upward over time. This is the classic supply-shock argument, and on paper it is coherent. With only about 11 million of the 21 million cap in circulation and most of that staked, the genuinely tradable supply is a fraction of the headline number.
The honest caveat is that supply shocks are slow and conditional. The phrase doing the heavy lifting is “if demand stays flat or rises.” Reduced emissions cannot lift a price by themselves if buyers walk away faster than sellers do. Through the first half of 2026, that is roughly what happened: TAO slid toward $200 in early June before rebounding, even though the halving was months in the rearview mirror. The supply setup was already in place, and it did not stop the drawdown. The lesson is that the halving loads the spring, but something on the demand side has to pull the trigger.
The demand side the halving does not solve This is the part of the forecast that actually decides where TAO goes, and it has nothing to do with the halving. Bittensor’s value depends on whether its subnets capture real, durable economic demand for machine intelligence, or whether TAO is mostly a high-beta proxy for AI enthusiasm that rises and falls with the narrative.
There is a real case to make. The subnet ecosystem has expanded past 120 active markets, each handling a specialized task such as inference, compute, data, or prediction. The network reported around $43 million in Q1 2026 revenue from AI services, which is a concrete sign that money is moving through the system instead of just speculation.
The Dynamic TAO, or dTAO, upgrade lets subnets allocate emissions based on real demand instead of fixed rewards, which is meant to price intelligence by the market and push Bittensor from a research project toward actual economic activity. The ambition is large: to be the settlement layer for intelligence itself, the place where models, compute, data, and incentives meet in one market.
The bear reading is that this is still unproven, and the network has shown it can break. In April 2026, a high-profile subnet exit triggered a roughly 25% price drop, exposing how much concentration and governance fragility sit underneath the optimistic story. The market punished the weak decentralization signal fast.
The deeper worry is value capture: even if subnets generate revenue, it is not yet clear how much of that value flows back to the TAO token itself rather than to the subnet operators or token holders downstream. An AI token can have busy subnets and still struggle to translate that activity into sustained token demand.
When AI excitement runs hot across the market, TAO tends to jump, and when attention rotates elsewhere, it tends to fade. That correlation is the bear case in one sentence: if TAO is mostly AI-hype beta, the halving will not save it.
NEW: $TAO rallies 30% in 12 hours after Anthropic AI model suspension. The move highlights interest in decentralized AI alternatives like Bittensor pic.twitter.com/YrNJDKlks3
— crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) June 16, 2026 What the charts say right now At current levels near $250, TAO sits in a bearish-to-neutral technical posture. Through June, it traded below the cluster of 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day exponential moving averages sitting roughly between $256 and $270, which means the medium-term trend has been pointing down and that band overhead acts as resistance. Momentum readings have hovered in weak-to-neutral territory, with relative strength index values in the mid-30s to mid-50s depending on the day, not oversold enough to scream reversal and not strong enough to confirm one.
TAO daily price chart — June 30 | Source: crypto.news The levels traders watch are clear. On the downside, the $200 area has acted as a line in the sand through June, and a decisive break below it opens the door toward the February low near $163. On the upside, the first hurdle is reclaiming that $256 to $270 moving-average band, and above it the structure points toward $352 and then $396, the levels several analysts flag as the gateway to a larger move.
The longer-term chart frames the whole range: an accumulation floor around $160 to $200 and a distant ceiling near the $720 to $760 zone that produced the record in early 2024. TAO has cycled inside that channel before, finding demand at the lows and heavy profit-taking at the highs.
The takeaway from the charts is that TAO is not in a breakdown, but it is not in an uptrend either. It needs to reclaim its moving averages before the supply thesis gets any technical confirmation, and until it does, the halving narrative is a fundamental tailwind fighting a bearish trend.
The institutional wildcard The most underpriced catalyst in the TAO forecast may be the one that has nothing to do with the chart. Grayscale filed an S-1 for a Bittensor trust on Dec. 30, 2025, and its Grayscale Bittensor Trust is already live over the counter, giving accredited investors a regulated wrapper for TAO exposure. Bitwise has also filed for a spot TAO product, with a U.S. regulatory decision expected around August 2026. The exact timing is not guaranteed, and approval is not certain, but the direction of travel matters.
The reason this is a wildcard rather than a sure thing is the corridor it opens. Once an asset is treated as ETF-eligible, it stops being dismissed as a pure speculation and starts being treated as infrastructure exposure that funds can hold without touching spot crypto directly. Bitcoin went through this in its earlier institutional phase, and Ethereum followed.
TAO is now entering the same corridor as the leading decentralized-AI asset. Anticipation alone can move price, because spot buyers tend to position early when future access looks credible.
There is a broader narrative tailwind too. When confidence in centralized AI wobbles, capital has flowed toward decentralized alternatives, and one such episode pushed an estimated $2.87 billion into AI crypto tokens inside a single week. TAO is the default beneficiary of that rotation given its position as the category leader by market cap. The flip side is that this same dependence on the AI narrative is exactly the fragility the bears point to: flows that arrive on a narrative can leave on one too.
What analysts forecast for TAO in 2026 Forecasts for TAO in 2026 span an enormous range, which is itself the honest signal: the outcome depends on variables no model can pin down. The figures below are third-party projections, presented as a spread of views, not as targets this publication endorses.
On the cautious end, Gate’s model centers 2026 around an average near $236, with a projected low close to $130 and a high around $318, essentially expecting TAO to hold near current levels with wide swings. Coindataflow’s experimental forecast sits in a similar low band, with a 2026 high near $281. In the middle and higher, Changelly’s analysis points to a 2026 range of roughly $388 to $472 with an average near $402, while Cryptopolitan’s technical read frames a $134 to $570 band with an average around $475.
Coinpedia takes a more constructive technical view, arguing that if TAO clears resistance at $352 and $396 in the 1st half of the year, the path opens toward a $500 reclaim. Looking further out, long-term projections from several of these firms cluster in a $900 to $3,000 range for 2030, premised on decentralized AI demand expanding and TAO holding its category lead.
The width of that spread, from a low near $130 to highs above $570 in the same year, is not a failure of analysis. It is an accurate reflection of how much hinges on whether subnet demand compounds, whether an ETF arrives, and whether the AI trade stays in favor. The halving sets the supply backdrop. These other forces decide the magnitude.
How the Bittensor halving compares with Bitcoin’s The halving thesis borrows its emotional weight from Bitcoin, where four-year supply cuts have lined up with major bull runs. The comparison is useful, but it breaks down in ways that matter for the forecast. Bitcoin’s halving reduces the new supply paid to miners who secure a settlement network whose demand driver is, broadly, monetary: people want to hold Bitcoin as a store of value.
Bittensor’s halving reduces the new supply paid to miners and validators who produce and verify machine intelligence, and TAO’s demand driver is supposed to be usage of that intelligence through subnets. Those are different engines.
The practical consequence is that a Bittensor halving cannot lean on the same reflexive narrative. Bitcoin’s halvings work partly because a huge population of holders believes they work, which makes the belief partly self-fulfilling. TAO does not yet have that scale of conviction, and its price has shown it: the token fell after the December halving instead of rallying on it, because the AI-token market cared more about subnet performance and the broader risk environment than about a supply chart. The halving is real and structurally helpful, but anyone modeling TAO on a clean Bitcoin-style post-halving curve is importing an assumption the data has not yet earned.
There is also a proportionality difference. Bitcoin’s reduced issuance is a small fraction of its already-large circulating supply, so the supply effect is gradual while the narrative effect is immediate.
For TAO, the emission cut is proportionally larger against a much smaller circulating base, which should make the mechanical supply effect more potent over time, yet the narrative effect is weaker because fewer participants treat the halving as gospel. The net is a token where the fundamentals of the halving may matter more than they do for Bitcoin, while the storytelling matters less.
The deeper design point sits underneath all of this. Bittensor was built by Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves in 2019 around Yuma Consensus, the mechanism that scores and rewards useful machine-intelligence work. That design is what lets the network claim it pays for output instead of raw hardware uptime, and it is the foundation of the value-capture argument. The halving sharpens the supply side of that design, but it does not resolve whether the scoring turns into durable token demand, which remains the open question the price keeps asking.
What to watch through the rest of 2026 For readers tracking TAO instead of chasing headlines, a short list of signals will reveal which scenario is unfolding well before the price confirms it. The first is subnet revenue: the roughly $43 million reported for the first quarter is the number to watch for growth, because rising real revenue is the strongest evidence that the value-capture story is working instead of stalling. The Second is the moving-average band between $256 and $270; reclaiming and holding above it would be the first technical sign the bearish trend has turned.
The third is the ETF timeline, with a U.S. decision expected around August 2026. An approval, or even rising odds of one, would open the institutional corridor the bull case needs, while a denial or a delay removes a catalyst the market has started to anticipate.
The fourth is governance stability: after the April subnet exit that triggered a 25% drop, any repeat of concentration or governance trouble would confirm the fragility the bears emphasize and could undo months of recovery in days. The fifth is the health of the broader AI trade, since TAO has behaved as a high-beta proxy for AI sentiment, and a rotation out of AI tokens would pressure it regardless of its own progress.
Watched together, these five tell a more reliable story than any single price target. If subnet revenue climbs, the moving averages flip, and the ETF path advances, the supply setup from the halving finally has demand to work with, and the bull case gains real footing. If revenue stalls, governance wobbles, and the AI trade cools, the thin float will amplify the downside instead of cushioning it. The halving set the stage in December. These signals decide whether anyone shows up to use it.
Bull, base, and bear scenarios for TAO The scenarios below combine the supply setup with the demand and institutional variables that actually drive the outcome. They are illustrative ranges built from the third-party forecasts above and current market structure, not guarantees.
Bull case In the bull scenario, the halving thesis works as designed and demand shows up to meet the tightening float. Subnet revenue keeps climbing from the $43 million Q1 pace, dTAO routes emissions toward markets with real usage, and the value-capture question starts to resolve in TAO’s favor. A spot ETF decision lands favorably or looks likely, pulling regulated capital into a thin float where roughly 70% of supply is staked and out of reach. TAO reclaims the $256 to $270 moving-average band, breaks $352 and $396, and runs toward the $500 area that Coinpedia and others flag, with the more aggressive long-term models pointing higher into 2027 if the AI trade stays hot. This case depends on the AI narrative staying strong and the network avoiding another governance shock.
Base case In the base scenario, the halving slowly does its quiet work but no single catalyst fires hard. Subnet activity grows unevenly, the ETF path advances but without a clean approval inside 2026, and the AI trade runs warm instead of euphoric. TAO spends the year chopping inside its broad trading channel, roughly between the $200 floor and the low-$400s, with the average landing near the $236 to $402 zone that the Gate and Changelly models bracket. The thin float keeps downside contained on dips, but the unproven value-capture story caps rallies. This is the “constructive but unconfirmed” outcome where the supply setup helps at the margin without overpowering a cautious market.
Bear case In the bear scenario, the halving is revealed as a supply event the market already priced, and TAO behaves as AI-hype beta. The value-capture question stays unanswered, another subnet exit or governance dispute dents confidence the way April’s did, and the broader AI trade rotates out. TAO loses the $200 floor and slides toward the February low near $163 or lower, with the bearish low-end forecasts near $130 coming into view. In this case, the staking lockup offers little protection, because holders unwind positions when yield no longer offsets falling token value, and the thin float that amplifies rallies amplifies declines just as efficiently.
Frequently Asked Questions When was the Bittensor halving and what changed? The first Bittensor halving took place on Dec. 12, 2025. Daily TAO emissions were cut in half, from 7,200 tokens to 3,600. The network follows a Bitcoin-style design with a fixed 21 million supply cap, so issuance steps down over time. The supply effect is gradual, filtering into circulating supply over months instead of moving price on the halving date itself.
Does a halving guarantee TAO goes up? No. A halving reduces the rate of new supply, which can support price if demand holds or grows, but it cannot lift a token on its own. TAO slid toward $200 in the months after the December halving before rebounding, which shows that reduced emissions do not override weak demand or a bearish trend. The halving loads the supply side, but demand has to do the rest.
Why is roughly 70% of TAO staked, and why does it matter? Holders stake TAO to help secure the network through validators and delegators, and they earn an annual yield around 10% for doing so. Staked tokens are locked and not readily available to sell, which thins the liquid float. Combined with halved emissions, the high staking ratio is the core of the supply-shock argument, since it shrinks the genuinely sellable supply.
What is the biggest risk to the TAO forecast? The biggest risk is that TAO is valued mostly on AI-narrative momentum instead of durable demand for its subnets. The subnet ecosystem generates revenue, but how much value flows back to the TAO token is unproven, and a high-profile subnet exit in April 2026 triggered a roughly 25% drop. If the AI trade cools or governance fragility resurfaces, the supply setup will not protect the price.
Could a spot TAO ETF change the picture? Possibly. Grayscale’s Bittensor Trust is already live over the counter, Grayscale filed an S-1, and Bitwise has filed for a spot product, with a U.S. decision expected around August 2026. A favorable outcome would open a regulated channel for institutional capital into a thin float, which the bull case leans on. Approval and timing are not guaranteed, so it remains a catalyst to watch instead of a certainty.
Where do analysts think TAO could trade in 2026? Third-party forecasts span a wide range. Cautious models such as Gate center near a $236 average with a low around $130, while higher views from Changelly and Cryptopolitan point to averages around $400 to $475 and Coinpedia flags a possible $500 reclaim if key resistance breaks. Long-term 2030 projections from several firms cluster between $900 and $3,000. The spread reflects genuine uncertainty about subnet demand, ETF flows, and the AI trade.
Disclaimer: This article is for information purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Cryptocurrency prices are highly volatile, and price predictions are speculative estimates that may not occur. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any asset. Always do your own research and consider consulting a licensed professional before making financial decisions. Figures are accurate as of June 30, 2026, and will change.
Trumpovo finanční přiznání ukázalo asi 646 milionů USD z kryptoměnových aktivit, což překonalo jeho příjmy z nemovitostí a resortů. Nejvíc vynesl World Liberty Financial s asi 588 miliony USD z prodeje tokenů.
According to Donald Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure, the former US President’s income from cryptocurrency-linked ventures soared to approximately $646 million. The filings show that revenue from the Trump family’s digital asset activities outpaced other sources during a period marked by friendlier administration policies toward crypto. However, critics argue that this surge in income has reignited debates about potential conflicts of interest.
Crypto revenues take the leadOne of the most notable entries in the disclosure is World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform operated by the Trump family, which generated about $588 million through token sales. DeFi platforms facilitate financial transactions on the blockchain without intermediaries—offering an alternative to traditional banking systems.
Glossary: DeFi refers to blockchain-based services delivering financial products without the need for traditional intermediaries, such as banks or brokers. A cold wallet is a type of storage method that keeps digital assets offline, enhancing security against online threats.
Trump’s crypto-related earnings surpassed even his well-known real estate and resort income. The disclosure listed more than $290 million in combined revenue from Florida’s Mar-a-Lago Club and various golf resorts and vacation properties.
Income SourceAmountTotal crypto-linked incomeApproximately $646 millionWorld Liberty Financial token salesApproximately $588 millionReal estate and resort incomeOver $290 millionWhite House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly argued that Trump has positioned the US as a global crypto leader, insisting that neither the former president nor his family face any conflicts of interest and will continue to avoid such situations in the future.
Bitcoin and Ether holdings declaredThe disclosure also revealed that Trump holds more than $50 million in Bitcoin stored in cold wallets. In addition, he reported between $5 million and $25 million in Ether, along with declarations of USDC and USD Key assets.
Throughout 2025, the Trump administration gained attention for introducing more crypto-friendly regulatory frameworks, executive actions supporting digital assets, and policy choices favoring the sector. As a result, crypto markets reached all-time highs, further boosting revenues from the family’s digital ventures.
Criticism and responseThe Trump Organization defended the scope of the financial disclosure, stating it demonstrates a commitment to transparency. The company highlighted that the detailed nature of these documents serves to inform the public.
Robert Weissman, co-president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, contended that Trump’s personal financial interests are now closely tied to the crypto industry, warning that this could pave the way for regulations potentially harmful to consumers and financial stability.
Public Citizen, a nonprofit focused on consumer rights, issued a sharp critique of the earnings report. The organization has called on Congress to investigate potential conflicts of interest and take appropriate action if necessary.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Phantom přijal tříčlenný tým z Ventuals, včetně zakladatelů Alvina a Emily Hsia a inženýra Arise Samada, a dál posiluje expanzi do derivátů. Jde o příchod lidí s praxí z Hyperliquid, nikoli o koupi firmy.
The Solana wallet is bringing on the three-person team behind a pre-IPO perpetuals platform, deepening its push into derivatives.
Phantom, the largest Solana wallet by market share, said the team behind Ventuals is joining the company this week, weeks after the Hyperliquid-based perpetuals venue shut down.
The hires are Ventuals co-founders Alvin Hsia and Emily Hsia, along with engineer Aris Samad, Phantom said in an announcement on its X account and a company blog post. The deal is not a purchase of the company or its product.
Ventuals wound down its onchain pre-IPO trading platform in mid-June, reporting more than $650 million in lifetime trading volume and over 500,000 HYPE raised across its run.
The move folds talent from one of Hyperliquid's earliest pre-IPO perpetuals builders into a consumer wallet that has been expanding aggressively into derivatives. Phantom added in-wallet perpetual futures, powered by Hyperliquid, in July 2025, and has since extended into equity and pre-IPO-style markets. Hiring the Ventuals founders gives Phantom people who built and operated their own markets on Hyperliquid.
HYPE, the token underpinning Hyperliquid, traded around $65, down about 2% over 24 hours, roughly in line with Bitcoin's 2.8% slide over the same period, and up about 6% over the past week, according to CoinGecko.
Phantom has not said what the Ventuals founders will build at the company or whether the hire signals a deeper move into pre-IPO or equity perpetuals.
A Team With Hyperliquid PedigreeVentuals described itself as the first onchain derivatives protocol for private, pre-IPO company valuations, with each market tracking a synthetic price rather than a claim on shares. Alvin Hsia was the company's chief executive and Emily Hsia its chief technology officer; both previously worked at Goldfinch and Airbnb, and earlier co-founded a project called Shadow.
The team built its markets through Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework, which lets outside developers deploy and run their own perpetual-futures markets backed by a HYPE stake. Ventuals' flagship contracts let traders take leveraged positions on the valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic, neither of which is publicly traded. In the wind-down, those markets were frozen at their trailing 24-hour average prices and settled, and the team confirmed there would be no Ventuals token.
Phantom's Derivatives PushPhantom is the dominant wallet in the Solana ecosystem, with roughly 39% of Solana wallet market share and 15 million to 20 million monthly active users, and a $3 billion valuation set in a January 2025 Series C led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm. The wallet has moved well beyond storage, adding swaps, staking, a prediction-market feature and, since mid-2025, perpetuals.
Phantom's perps product runs on Hyperliquid and surpassed $10 billion in cumulative trading volume within months of its July 2025 launch, the company has said. It has since added equity perpetuals deployed through HIP-3. The Ventuals founders' background in deploying and running such markets maps directly onto that roadmap, though Phantom did not detail the team's specific roles.
HYPE got its first U.S. exchange-traded fund in May, ran 16 straight days of inflows, then saw money walk out the door. The ETF is a new demand channel, but the first outflow is the first test of it.
Summary
Hyperliquid (HYPE) trades in the mid-$60s as of late June 2026, roughly 14% below its $76.67 record set on June 16, with a market cap near $14 billion to $16 billion and a fully diluted valuation around $60 billion. The Bitwise HYPE ETF launched on May 14, 2026, giving regulated investors a wrapper for HYPE exposure, after Bitwise had already listed a Hyperliquid staking product in Europe in April. The fund logged 16 consecutive days of inflows before its first daily outflow of nearly $3 million on June 5, a small figure in dollars but a notable turn in the early demand story. HYPE’s core engine is a buyback that routes 97% of protocol fees into purchasing and burning the token, which has retired over $1 billion of HYPE and pulled circulating supply below 300 million, working against a roughly 1.2 million monthly unlock to insiders. Forecasts run from Coinpedia’s high-$30s average to Arthur Hayes at $150, with prediction markets leaning toward HYPE clearing $80 by year-end, so the ETF flow and the buyback-versus-unlock balance, not any single target, will decide the path. In May 2026, Hyperliquid crossed a line that most tokens never reach: it got its own U.S. exchange-traded fund. The Bitwise HYPE ETF gave ordinary brokerage accounts and institutions a regulated way to hold exposure to one of the most talked-about assets in crypto.
For 16 trading days, the money flowed in. Then, on June 5, it reversed, with the fund posting its first daily outflow of close to $3 million. The amount was tiny next to HYPE’s multibillion-dollar market cap, but the symbolism was real, and crypto.news flagged the turn at the time.
This piece looks at HYPE’s price through the lens of that ETF and its first outflow, which is a different question from whether HYPE can reach $100. It covers what the Bitwise fund changed, what the early outflow signals, the buyback engine the ETF flows into, the unlock overhang pulling the other way, the regulatory cloud overhead, where the chart sits, and what analysts and prediction markets expect. It closes with bull, base, and bear scenarios and a short FAQ.
The Bitwise ETF and why it mattered The Bitwise HYPE ETF debuted on May 14, 2026, pitched as targeted exposure to the infrastructure behind on-chain derivatives. It was not Bitwise’s first Hyperliquid product. In April, the firm listed a Hyperliquid staking exchange-traded product, BHYP, on Deutsche Boerse’s Xetra venue in Europe, one of a growing suite of staking vehicles.
Bitwise also leaned into Hyperliquid’s own transparency ethos, committing to publish the ETF’s wallet addresses so investors could verify the fund’s holdings on-chain rather than take them on trust.
The reason an ETF matters for price is access. A token that previously required a self-custody wallet or an offshore exchange suddenly becomes reachable through a regulated product that fits inside retirement accounts and institutional mandates. That widens the pool of potential buyers and, in theory, adds a steady bid that is less reactive than crypto-native flows.
For HYPE, which already carried a large following, the ETF was a credibility marker as much as a demand channel: it signaled that a serious asset manager judged the token investable enough to wrap and sell.
The catch is that an ETF is a pipe, not a pump. It makes buying easier, but it does not create demand on its own. The flows that move through it can run in either direction, and that is exactly what the first month showed.
The first outflow, and what it signals For 16 straight sessions after launch, the Bitwise HYPE ETF took in money. That streak was the bullish read in action: regulated demand arriving day after day, exactly the steady bid the ETF was supposed to deliver. Then on June 5, the fund recorded its first daily outflow, nearly $3 million leaving in a single session. In dollar terms, it was almost nothing against a market cap in the tens of billions. As a signal, it carried more weight than its size.
The outflow is best read as the first test of the ETF demand story rather than its failure. It coincided with HYPE pulling back from its mid-June record and the broader market sliding into a risk-off, extreme-fear posture, so some of the selling was almost certainly market-wide rather than HYPE-specific. But it punctured the clean narrative of one-directional institutional accumulation. ETF flows, it turned out, would ebb and flow with sentiment like everything else, and that makes them a variable to track instead of a guaranteed tailwind.
For the forecast, the practical point is that ETF flow is now one of the clearest real-time gauges of institutional appetite for HYPE. A return to sustained net inflows would confirm the bull thesis that regulated demand is building. A pattern of choppy or net-negative flows would suggest the early enthusiasm has cooled, and that the price has to lean on its other engines instead.
The buyback engine the ETF flows into What makes HYPE structurally unusual is where its trading fees go. Roughly 97% of the protocol’s fees feed an Assistance Fund that continuously buys HYPE on the open market and burns it. This is not a promise of future buybacks; it is a live mechanism funded by real activity. Cumulative buybacks have passed $1 billion; the program has burned around 4.17% of total supply, pushing circulating supply below 300 million tokens. The platform’s daily revenue has run near $2.5 million, HyperEVM transaction fees have set records, and cumulative trading volume has crossed $4.15 trillion.
The ETF and the buyback connect in a way that matters for price. The buyback is powered by trading volume, because more volume means more fees and therefore more HYPE bought and burned. The ETF, by widening the holder base and supporting the token’s profile, can indirectly feed the system if it helps sustain attention and activity on the platform.
The product expansion compounds the same way: the FOMO app launched on June 11, letting users trade perpetuals across equities, pre-IPO stocks, crypto, indices, and commodities from one interface, while HIP-3 and HIP-4 push the platform toward prediction markets and options. Each new market is a potential new source of the fees that drive the burn.
The bull case in one line is that this engine eats its own supply faster than the unlocks can replace it. The more the platform grows, the more it buys back, and the thinner the float becomes. The ETF is one more on-ramp pointed at that engine.
The unlock overhang pulling the other way Against the buyback sits the supply schedule. Only about 27% of HYPE’s roughly 953 million to 1 billion maximum supply is in circulation, which means a large share is still locked and scheduled to come to market over years. Roughly 1.2 million HYPE per month is distributed to team members and early backers, a steady stream of new sellable supply that the buyback has to absorb just to stay even.
The fully diluted valuation near $60 billion is the number the skeptics point to: it implies a very large eventual supply, and the gap between the circulating market cap and the FDV is the overhang the market has to digest over time.
This is the tug-of-war that defines HYPE. The buyback pulls supply off the market and burns it; the unlocks push new supply on. ETF inflows can tilt the balance toward demand; ETF outflows tilt it back. The reason forecasts vary so wildly is that the outcome depends on which side wins, and that in turn depends on whether platform volume keeps growing fast enough to keep the burn ahead of the unlocks. No model can know that in advance, which is why honest analysis tracks the variables instead of betting the house on a single price.
The regulatory cloud HYPE carries a regulatory question mark that the ETF does not erase. In one episode, Singapore’s monetary authority added Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert List, a reminder that a permissionless derivatives venue draws scrutiny from regulators who worry about access and oversight.
Hyperliquid also operates in a legal gray zone in some jurisdictions, including restrictions affecting users in the United States, and the traditional derivatives establishment has been pressing regulators to bring platforms like it under tighter rules, citing concerns about manipulation and permissionless markets.
For the price, regulation cuts both ways. A clear, favorable framework would remove an overhang and could unlock broader access, especially in the United States where the platform’s reach is constrained. A crackdown, or even sustained uncertainty, could cap institutional participation and weigh on the very ETF demand the bull case depends on. The ETF brings HYPE closer to the regulated world, which is a benefit when the rules are friendly and a liability when they are not.
Where the chart and the price sit HYPE trades in the mid-$60s as of late June, roughly 14% below the $76.67 all-time high set on June 16. The price history is a story of violent moves: the token launched near $7.56 in November 2024, climbed to about $35 by year-end, peaked near $59 in September 2025, then corrected hard to the $21 to $26 range in early 2026 with a February low around $21. From there it built a long base and broke out through the $50 to $52 zone in June, ran to its record, and pulled back. That $50 to $52 area now reads as structural support, the floor the breakout set.
Hyperliquid price chart | Source: crypto.news The short-term picture is post-record consolidation. After a sharp run to a new high, the token is digesting gains, with momentum cooled from its peak. The bullish structural read is that the correction is happening while the platform’s fundamentals, volume, revenue, and fees keep setting records, which is the opposite of a top built on fading activity.
The bearish read is that a second failed push at the high would raise doubts and open the door back toward the low-$50s support. Reclaiming and holding above the record is what would put price discovery back in play.
What analysts and prediction markets expect Third-party forecasts for HYPE span an enormous range, which reflects the genuine uncertainty in the buyback-versus-unlock outcome. These are external projections, offered as a spread of views instead of targets this publication endorses.
On the cautious side, Coinpedia’s 2026 model runs from roughly $19.85 to $54.87 with an average near $37, and Cryptopolitan points to a peak around $58 with a separate analysis near a $40 average. In the middle, several views see a return toward or past the all-time high if adoption continues.
At the bullish extreme, Arthur Hayes has floated $150 by August 2026, premised on the buyback, organic volume growth, and the prediction-market and options expansion all firing together, while Multicoin Capital argues for $319 by 2028 on the thesis that the market underrates Hyperliquid as an emerging “everything exchange” instead of just a perpetuals venue. Prediction markets in mid-2026 leaned toward HYPE clearing $80 before year-end, with a smaller share betting on $100 and bets on a drop below $50 carrying meaningful odds.
The spread, from the high $30s to $150 in the same year, is the point. It is not noise; it is an honest map of how much depends on volume, flows, and regulation. The ETF is one input into that map, not the whole territory.
How HYPE’s ETF compares with the Bitcoin and Ether funds The clearest way to read the Bitwise HYPE ETF is against the template set by the Bitcoin and Ether funds that came before it. Those products showed the playbook: a regulated wrapper opens a corridor for capital that cannot or will not touch spot crypto directly, and once that corridor exists, an asset stops being treated as a fringe speculation and starts being treated as an allocatable holding.
The Bitcoin funds in particular showed how powerful steady, structural inflows can be when they arrive day after day from advisers and institutions instead of from reactive crypto traders.
HYPE inherits that template, but with important differences that cut against a clean comparison. It is far younger and far smaller than Bitcoin or Ether, which makes its ETF flows more volatile and more capable of moving the underlying price in both directions. Its fully diluted valuation near $60 billion sits well above its circulating market cap, so the supply overhang is larger and more present than it was for the major assets when their funds launched. And HYPE’s regulatory standing is less settled, which caps how aggressively some institutions can participate.
The European staking product, BHYP on the Xetra venue, adds a second access point and a yield angle that the early Bitcoin funds lacked, but it does not change the core asymmetry: a smaller, younger token feels ETF flows more sharply than a trillion-dollar asset does.
The takeaway is that the ETF is a genuine structural positive that should not be mistaken for a guaranteed one. For Bitcoin, the funds eventually delivered sustained net demand. For HYPE, the first month already showed flows can reverse, so the corridor is open but the traffic through it is not yet proven to run one way.
What to watch: the metrics that decide HYPE For readers tracking HYPE instead of reacting to each candle, a handful of metrics will signal which scenario is unfolding. The first and most direct is ETF flow direction. Sustained net inflows would confirm the bull thesis that regulated demand is building, while a pattern of choppy or negative flows, in the vein of the June 5 outflow, would suggest the early enthusiasm has cooled, and the price must lean on its other engines.
The second is weekly trading volume and fee revenue, because those power the buyback. As long as volume keeps setting records and fees keep feeding the Assistance Fund, the burn stays strong, and supply keeps tightening. A slowdown in volume would weaken the buyback at the worst possible time, just as fresh unlocks arrive.
The third is the unlock pace itself, roughly 1.2 million HYPE a month to insiders, and whether the buyback is retiring tokens faster than the schedule releases them. The fourth is regulation: any movement on the U.S. access question or follow-through on alerts like the one from Singapore’s authority would shift the institutional calculus quickly.
The fifth is the chart structure around two levels. Reclaiming and holding above the $76.67 record would put HYPE back into price discovery and validate the optimistic targets, while losing the $50 to $52 breakout support would confirm the post-record correction has turned into something deeper.
Tracked together, these five say more about HYPE’s path than any single forecast, because they map directly onto the buyback-versus-unlock tug-of-war that the ETF flows now sit on top of. The ETF made HYPE easier to buy. These metrics decide whether buyers keep showing up.
Bull, base, and bear scenarios for HYPE The scenarios below combine the ETF flow story with the buyback, the unlocks, and the regulatory backdrop. They are illustrative ranges drawn from the external forecasts and current structure, not guarantees.
Bull case In the bull scenario, ETF flows turn decisively net positive again after the early wobble, confirming that regulated demand is building. Platform volume keeps climbing as the FOMO app, prediction markets, and options add fee sources, so the buyback accelerates, and the burn stays ahead of the roughly 1.2 million monthly unlocks. Regulation breaks favorably, easing the access overhang. HYPE reclaims $76.67, enters price discovery, and runs toward the optimistic targets in the $90 to $150 range that Telegaon and Arthur Hayes describe, with the “everything exchange” thesis supporting a higher multi-year path. This case needs volume growth to outrun the unlocks and the regulatory cloud to lift.
Base case In the base scenario, the ETF settles into choppy flows that neither confirm nor break the demand story, and the buyback roughly offsets the unlocks without overwhelming them. HYPE holds its $50 to $52 breakout support and trades in a wide band beneath the record for much of the year, with the average landing somewhere around the high $30s to high $50s that the cautious Coinpedia and Cryptopolitan models bracket, punctuated by sharp moves in both directions as sentiment shifts. The fundamentals stay strong, but the supply overhang and regulatory uncertainty cap sustained upside. This is the “strong business, range-bound token” outcome.
Bear case In the bear scenario, ETF outflows persist and signal that institutional enthusiasm has cooled, while a risk-off market and any regulatory escalation, building on the MAS alert and U.S. access concerns, weigh on demand. Platform volume slows, the buyback weakens just as fresh unlocks arrive, and the FDV gap reasserts itself. HYPE loses the $50 to $52 support and slides toward the low-$30s or below, in line with the bottom of the cautious forecast range. In this case, the buyback cannot keep pace with the unlocks, and the ETF that was supposed to be a tailwind becomes a visible scoreboard for fading demand.
Frequently Asked Questions When did the Bitwise HYPE ETF launch? The Bitwise HYPE ETF debuted on May 14, 2026, offering regulated exposure to Hyperliquid’s token. Bitwise had earlier listed a Hyperliquid staking product, BHYP, on Deutsche Börse’s Xetra venue in Europe in April 2026. The firm also committed to publishing the fund’s wallet addresses so investors could verify holdings on-chain.
What was the first HYPE ETF outflow, and does it matter? After 16 consecutive days of inflows, the Bitwise HYPE ETF recorded its first daily outflow of nearly $3 million on June 5, 2026. The dollar amount was small relative to HYPE’s market cap, and it coincided with a broad risk-off pullback, so it was not a HYPE-specific collapse. It matters as a signal: it showed ETF flows will move with sentiment, making them a variable to track instead of a guaranteed source of demand.
How does the HYPE buyback work? Roughly 97% of Hyperliquid’s protocol trading fees flow into an Assistance Fund that buys HYPE on the open market and burns it. Cumulative buybacks have passed $1 billion, around 4.17% of supply has been burned, and circulating supply has fallen below 300 million. The buyback is powered by trading volume, so more platform activity means more buying and burning.
What is the main force working against HYPE’s price? The main counterweight is the token unlock schedule. Only about 27% of the maximum supply circulates, and roughly 1.2 million HYPE per month is released to team members and early backers. That steady new supply, plus a fully diluted valuation near $60 billion, is what the buyback has to absorb. The balance between buyback and unlocks is the central question for the price.
Is HYPE affected by regulation? Yes. Singapore’s monetary authority placed Hyperliquid on its Investor Alert List, and the platform operates in a legal gray zone in some jurisdictions, including restrictions affecting U.S. users. Favorable rules could broaden access and support ETF demand, while a crackdown or prolonged uncertainty could limit institutional participation and weigh on the price.
What do forecasts say HYPE could reach? External forecasts vary widely. Coinpedia’s 2026 range runs from about $20 to $55 with an average near $37, and Cryptopolitan points to a peak around $58. More bullish views include Arthur Hayes at $150 by August 2026 and Multicoin Capital at $319 by 2028. Prediction markets leaned toward HYPE clearing $80 by year-end. The wide spread reflects how much depends on volume, ETF flows, and regulation.
Disclaimer: This article is for information purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Cryptocurrency prices are highly volatile, and price predictions are speculative estimates that may not occur. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any asset. Always do your own research and consider consulting a licensed professional before making financial decisions. Figures are accurate as of June 30, 2026, and will change.
Bitcoin zůstává pod tlakem po odlivech z ETF, které za pět dní dosáhly -34 267 BTC. K33 ale čeká, že kvartální rebalancování může v příštích dnech přinést dočasnou úlevu.
Bitcoin (BTC) could see a short-term relief from heavy selling pressure as quarter-end portfolio rebalancing could potentially revive spot BTC exchange-traded funds (ETFs) inflows, according to a K33 report on Tuesday.
The firm stated that aggressive ETF selling has become one of the biggest drivers of Bitcoin's recent weakness, noting that five-day net ETF flows plunged to -34,267 BTC last week, marking the second-largest five-day outflow on record.
1-Week Flow BTC ETFs. Source: K33Bitcoin ETF selling pressure could ease due to quarter-end rebalancingDespite the outflows, the firm noted that quarter-end portfolio rebalancing could offer temporary relief in the coming weeks.
"As we await the end of yet another quarter of significant BTC underperformance, rebalancing may once again push flows from negative to positive over the coming week," K33's Head of Research Vetle Lunde wrote.
The firm stated that in nine of the past 18 months, ETF flows diverged from the prevailing trend for the rest of the month during the six trading days around month-end.
In several instances, periods when Bitcoin underperformed the S&P 500 were followed by stronger ETF inflows as investors increased their Bitcoin exposure during portfolio rebalancing.
Bitcoin Monthly Returns Relative to SPX vs ETF Flows +-3 Days From Month End. Source: K33However, K33 cautioned that the relationship has not been consistent enough to be viewed as a reliable market signal. The firm stated that the other nine months failed to follow the same pattern, indicating that rebalancing is only one of several factors influencing ETF demand.
"If this relationship persists, quarter-end rebalancing could provide a well-needed relief for Bitcoin during the first few trading days of July," the report said.
K33 also examined recent changes at Strategy, saying the company's expanded liquidity reserve reduces immediate concerns about forced Bitcoin sales while introducing a new source of uncertainty.
The report noted that Strategy increased its USD reserve to $2.55 billion, extending preferred dividend coverage from roughly 10 months to more than 17 months.
The company also established a Bitcoin Monetization Program, allowing it to sell up to $1.25 billion in Bitcoin to fund obligations and share repurchases.
"The possibility of BTC sales from its 847,363 BTC holdings remains a risk to market sentiment, particularly if investors continue to worry about a potential doom loop in which Strategy ultimately suspends dividends on its preferred securities,” K33 added.
Wintermute suggests downside could persist before a market bottomWintermute analysts shared a similar sentiment in a report made public on Tuesday, arguing that although several indicators point to an advanced stage of Bitcoin's bear market, a definitive bottom has yet to form.
Wintermute pointed to deeply depressed sentiment, with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index remaining in extreme fear territory and an increasing share of Bitcoin's circulating supply now being held at a loss.
The firm also viewed Strategy's newly announced capital framework as reducing the risk of a disorderly unwind while underscoring the current market environment.
"A Bitcoin treasury company now reserving the right to sell Bitcoin to cover its dividends tells you something about where we are in the cycle," Wintermute wrote.
Wintermute analysts noted that Bitcoin has historically not bottomed during the summer months, as thin trading volumes limit meaningful accumulation.
The firm expects further downside into September or October before a potential recovery, depending on macroeconomic conditions.
Bitcoin is trading at $58,690, down 2% over the past 24 hours at the time of writing.
