SummaryCompaniesMicron sees strong memory chip demand from AI spending growthSupply constraints on production expected to last for at least two yearsMicron forecasts capex of around $10 billion in Q4June 24 (Reuters) - Micron Technology (MU.O), opens new tab forecast quarterly earnings above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling heavy investments in AI-related infrastructure will drive strong demand for memory chips and sending shares up more than 15% in extended trading.
The company expects fourth-quarter revenue of $50 billion, plus or minus $1 billion, compared with analysts' average estimate of $43.58 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.
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The results and forecast show how the explosive growth of generative AI has turned products such as high-bandwidth memory (HBM) into critical components for large-scale data centers.
The strong results add to a stock rally that allowed Micron to enter the elite $1 trillion club earlier this year on the back of its memory chip business.
The stock has surged more than threefold this year, despite a 13% plunge on Tuesday as part of a broader selloff.
SUPPLY CONSTRAINTS TO LASTMicron, a key supplier for Nvidia's (NVDA.O), opens new tab AI processors, has benefited as AI chip and server makers rush to secure a limited supply.
Micron, the only U.S.-based manufacturer of high-end memory chips, has seen demand for its HBM chips far outstrip its production capacity, and analysts expect demand to exceed supply for the next two to three years.
"The size and scale of the AI build out has been underestimated at every turn and memory will continue to command premium pricing on supply constraints," said Daniel Newman, CEO of tech research firm Futurum Group.
Major memory chip makers are prioritizing high-bandwidth memory to meet AI demand, leaving consumer electronics makers scrambling to secure conventional memory and driving prices of products higher.
"We expect tight conditions to persist beyond calendar 2027 as a result of AI-driven demand across all segments coupled with structural supply constraints," Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in the company's prepared remarks.
"Even as we expect industry supply to improve gradually in 2028, we currently do not have line of sight as to when memory supply will be able to catch up with increasing demand," he added.
SPENDING RAMPSMicron said it intends to increase its capital return, while it invests heavily in expanding infrastructure to satisfy soaring demand.
The company expects fourth-quarter capital expenditure of around $10 billion, while analysts expect spending of $8.89 billion.
Big Tech firms are expected to spend more than $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year, up from around $400 billion in 2025.
It reported third-quarter revenue of $41.46 billion, flying past estimates of $35.85 billion.
The company reported adjusted profit of $25.11 per share, compared with estimates of $20.78 per share.
Micron expects fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $31, plus or minus $1, compared with the estimates of $25.84 per share.
Reporting by Anhata Rooprai and Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru, Editing by Deepa Babington and Anil D'Silva
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Key HighlightsPrivacy Features Integrated Directly Into ERC20 Token TransfersViewing Key System Enables Controlled Information AccessstrkBTC Serves as Initial Implementation of STRK20 Protocol Starknet introduces STRK20 protocol for confidential ERC20 token transactions. The framework implements balance shielding without relying on conventional mixer architectures. Selective disclosure via viewing keys enables compliance with regulatory inquiries. strkBTC emerges as the inaugural asset implementing Starknet’s STRK20 standard. The protocol positions itself as a privacy solution compatible with regulatory frameworks. Starknet has rolled out STRK20, a zero-knowledge-based privacy protocol designed for ERC20 tokens operating on its platform. The new standard enables confidential transactions and hidden balance features while maintaining channels for lawful information disclosure. It provides developers with a straightforward method to integrate privacy capabilities without additional external systems.
Privacy Features Integrated Directly Into ERC20 Token Transfers The STRK20 protocol enables any ERC20 token on Starknet to facilitate confidential transactions and balance concealment. Developers can implement these privacy features across various applications including token swaps, lending protocols, staking mechanisms, payment systems, and charitable contributions. Consequently, privacy functionality becomes natively integrated into standard token operations across the network.
Rather than employing traditional mixer technology, the framework utilizes an integrated masking approach. Conventional mixers typically route assets through isolated pools or multiple addresses to obscure transaction trails. STRK20 embeds the privacy layer directly within the ERC20 token’s transaction flow.
This architectural approach enables users to transition seamlessly between transparent and confidential transaction modes using compatible Starknet wallets and decentralized applications. It eliminates the requirement for standalone privacy infrastructure. As a result, developers can construct private token experiences with reduced technical complexity.
Viewing Key System Enables Controlled Information Access STRK20 incorporates a viewing key mechanism that facilitates regulated disclosure of wallet data. These cryptographic keys permit designated information sharing when legally mandated requests arise. The architecture doesn’t expose complete wallet transaction histories to public scrutiny.
The development team at Starknet emphasized that this approach distinguishes STRK20 from mixer-based privacy protocols. The goal is to safeguard transaction privacy while maintaining accessibility to compliance mechanisms. Financial institutions and application developers can leverage privacy features without eliminating their ability to respond to lawful requests.
Damian Chen, Vice President of Growth at Starknet Foundation, stated that STRK20 delivers functional privacy for end users, developers, and institutional participants. He emphasized that the protocol maintains confidentiality from public observation while supporting legitimate disclosure requirements. His statement positions STRK20 within the broader industry movement toward regulatory-compatible blockchain privacy solutions.
strkBTC Serves as Initial Implementation of STRK20 Protocol The protocol has been deployed on strkBTC, which represents bitcoin-backed assets on the Starknet network. STRK20 now empowers strkBTC holders to conceal balances and execute confidential transfers. This deployment provides the framework with its first significant production implementation.
The strkBTC launch demonstrates how ERC20 tokens can incorporate privacy features while remaining within Starknet’s application ecosystem. Users can transition bitcoin-linked assets between public and private modes through compatible infrastructure. Meanwhile, developers can integrate these capabilities into broader decentralized finance and payment platforms.
Eli Ben-Sasson, CEO of StarkWare, suggested that zero-knowledge privacy mechanisms could enable more precise regulatory enforcement in the future. He noted that current privacy-related investigations may impact numerous wallets beyond the specific subjects under review. Consequently, STRK20 positions Starknet’s privacy approach around controlled access, cryptographic shielding, and compliant disclosure protocols.
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Micron's (MU) posted a significant beat on EPS, revenue, margins, and guidance — all showing signs that AI memory demand isn't slowing down. Marley Kayden, Sam Vadas, and Alex Coffey offer more insight into all of the key metrics surrounding Micron's report immediately following its release as shares rally after hours.
The company has been reaping the benefits of an industrywide shortage of memory technology, an important component of artificial-intelligence hardware.
Starknet has launched STRK20, a zero-knowledge privacy framework that gives ERC-20 assets shielded balances and private transfers, according to information shared with The Block.
Summary
STRK20 gives ERC-20 assets shielded balances and private transfers without requiring separate privacy infrastructure stacks. Viewing keys allow targeted disclosure for valid legal requests while protecting other users’ transaction histories. strkBTC provides the framework’s first live use case, adding optional privacy to Bitcoin activity. Developers can add confidential flows without building a separate privacy system for each token.
The framework supports transfers, swaps, lending, staking, payments and donations through compatible wallets and applications. Viewing keys can also provide limited transaction records when authorities present a valid legal request.
STRK20 brings private balances to Starknet tokens STRK20 lets users move assets between public and shielded states while keeping the same underlying ERC-20 token. A zero-knowledge proof confirms that each private action follows network rules without exposing a balance or full transaction history.
The system uses Starknet’s native proof infrastructure and Cairo-based contracts. Users place assets into a shared privacy pool, transact inside it and withdraw when needed. Starknet says this avoids creating isolated private tokens or splitting liquidity across separate markets.
Meanwhile, each participant registers an encrypted viewing key. An independent auditing party can use it to reconstruct one user’s activity after receiving a valid legal or regulatory request. Other accounts in the pool remain hidden.
“This is practical privacy in the truest sense,” Starknet Foundation growth vice president Damian Chen said. He described the design as a way to preserve public confidentiality while retaining a route for required disclosure.
Starknet said STRK20 differs from a mixer because privacy remains part of the asset’s normal movement. Mixers usually send tokens through a separate service to obscure transaction history. STRK20 instead adds shielding to supported wallet and application flows.
strkBTC becomes the first major STRK20 use case strkBTC became the first asset built on STRK20. The Bitcoin-backed ERC-20 token offers public and shielded modes, allowing users to hide selected balances and transfers before returning assets to a transparent state.
The rollout supports shielding through Ready X and Xverse wallets. Starknet is also expanding private swaps through avnu and Ekubo, while lending through Vesu and staking through Endur form part of the wider plan.
Some parts of these DeFi transactions may remain visible. Starknet notes that amounts routed through public liquidity can appear onchain even when the direct link to a user’s wallet is hidden. Privacy also strengthens as more users enter the shared pool.
Starknet expands a privacy plan announced in March As previously reported by crypto.news, Starknet introduced STRK20 in March for confidential ERC-20 balances and selective disclosure. Its v0.14.2 mainnet upgrade later added native proof verification for encrypted balances and private transactions.
StarkWare chief executive Eli Ben-Sasson said zero-knowledge systems could allow future investigations to request narrower information. The approach has not yet faced broad regulatory testing, and institutions will still need to assess its legal, security and operational controls before adoption.
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Micron Technology Inc. delivered a sales forecast that topped Wall Street estimates after AI-fueled shortages of components sent prices soaring. Revenue is projected to be $50 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter.
Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) shares rose about 14% in extended trading on Wednesday after the memory chipmaker reported fiscal third quarter results that exceeded Wall Street expectations and issued stronger-than-anticipated guidance for the current quarter.
The company posted non-GAAP earnings of $25.11 per share on revenue of $41.46 billion for the quarter ended May 28, surpassing analyst estimates of $20.39 per share and $35.1 billion in revenue, respectively.
Revenue more than doubled from $9.3 billion a year earlier and increased from $23.86 billion in the previous quarter. GAAP net income climbed to $28.24 billion, or $24.67 per diluted share, from $1.89 billion, or $1.68 per share, in the year-ago period.
Operating cash flow totaled $25.39 billion, compared with $11.9 billion in the prior quarter and $4.61 billion a year earlier.
Adjusted free cash flow reached $18.3 billion, while capital expenditures were $7.1 billion. Micron ended the quarter with $30.2 billion in cash, marketable investments and restricted cash.
"Micron's record fiscal Q3 financial results and even stronger outlook for Q4 reflect the strategic value of memory in the AI era," Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in a statement.
"Micron is investing at record levels in technology, products and supply to address our customers' rapidly growing demand. We believe our multi-year Strategic Customer Agreements will significantly enhance the durability and predictability of Micron's strong financial performance."
The company highlighted what it described as transformational Strategic Customer Agreements, which it said are expected to improve the predictability of its business over multiple years.
Micron's Cloud Memory Business Unit generated revenue of $13.77 billion during the quarter, while the Core Data Center Business Unit contributed $11.52 billion.
The Mobile and Client Business Unit recorded revenue of $11.52 billion, and the Automotive and Embedded Business Unit reported $4.63 billion.
For the fiscal fourth quarter, Micron forecast revenue of approximately $50 billion, plus or minus $1 billion, and non-GAAP earnings of about $31 per share, plus or minus $1.00. The company expects non-GAAP gross margin of roughly 86%.
Micron also declared a quarterly dividend of $0.15 per share, payable on July 21 to shareholders of record as of July 6.
Skip to contentSTRK20 brings privacy into the assets, wallets, and applications already used on Starknet.
Onchain privacy has felt harder to use than it shouldThe need is obvious: people, companies, and institutions need ways to use crypto without exposing every balance, transfer, position, and interaction by default. But in practice, privacy has usually meant accepting trade-offs across assets, wallets, applications, liquidity, and user experience.
That is not how privacy becomes useful at scaleFor privacy to matter in onchain finance, it has to work inside the environment people already use. It needs to support existing assets, applications, and liquidity, while still making sense for builders, institutions, and businesses that need confidentiality without giving up accountability.
That is what STRK20 brings to StarknetSTRK20 introduces a privacy framework for all ERC-20 assets on Starknet. It brings privacy into Starknet’s assets, wallets, and applications, allowing supported assets to move through private flows and applications to offer privacy directly to users.
That changes what crypto privacy can be: not an alternative environment for users willing to leave DeFi behind, but a native capability to an existing ecosystem that can add enhanced capabilities to improve the products, assets, and financial flows already being built on Starknet.
Privacy Starts in Your Wallet
This is the first phase of STRK20 live today on Starknet:Privacy begins in the wallet: Accessed through Ready X and Xverse. Shield the asset: Inside the wallet, users select the asset they want to shield. This is a one-click, near instantaneous action.Shielded Assets: Once shielded, a public balance becomes a private balance hidden from public view, controlled by the same wallet. Use private swaps: Once shielded, users can access private swaps using the same wallet, with routing across liquidity in the Starknet ecosystem.Use private transfers: Users can also make private transfers to others inside the privacy pools.Unshield when needed: Move assets back from a private balance to a public balance with a simple one-click flow. No waiting or hidden charge. This is a one-click action. How STRK20 Works
STRK20 uses a note-based privacy pool on Starknet. When an ERC-20 asset is shielded, it is deposited into the STRK20 privacy pool and represented as an encrypted note. Private actions spend existing notes and create new ones, allowing activity to be verified without exposing the full transaction details.
Each private transfer is validated by a zero-knowledge proof. The proof confirms that the notes being spent exist, belong to the spender, have not already been spent, and that input and output values balance. Starknet verifies the proof onchain before the pool state is updated.
Public observers can see encrypted notes and required protocol metadata. For private transfers, they do not see the sender, receiver, amount, or which private balances were used.
STRK20 is built for Starknet’s proving environment. Proofs are generated with Stwo, while Cairo is used across the proof logic and contract code. Encrypted notes are stored directly in Starknet contract storage. This matters because privacy systems depend on the soundness of the proving stack. StarkWare has spent years investing in the reliability and formal verification of core Cairo and STARK infrastructure, giving STRK20 a strong technical foundation to build on.
STRK20 also supports multiple token types in a single pool, avoids scanning the entire pool for note discovery, and removes the need for a separate note-commitment tree by storing encrypted notes directly onchain.
Together, these design choices give STRK20 private transfers, double-spend protection, efficient note discovery, multi-asset support, Starknet DeFi integration, and a path toward private onchain activity with defined disclosure when required.
For further reading: Technical Paper linked here
Disclosure, When Required STRK20 is built for privacy without removing accountability.
By default, private transfers do not reveal the sender, receiver, amount, or notes being spent. But STRK20 also includes an encrypted viewing key framework that gives a path to disclose specific transaction information when required.
This allows a third party auditing entity to trace specific information (such as a user’s transaction history) in response to a legitimate compliance or regulatory request, without exposing uninvolved users or the wider privacy pool.
The result is privacy with defined disclosure: confidential by default, accountable when required.
Why Starknet Takes A Different ApproachSTRK20 is designed around a simple principle: privacy should work inside normal onchain activity, not outside it.
Starknet makes this practical through STARK proofs, scalable verification, and Cairo-based execution. Private transactions require proof generation and onchain verification, and Starknet is built to make that computation efficient enough for regular use.
Shielded transactions cost 4 STRK, giving STRK20 a practical cost profile for wallet, payment, trading, and DeFi activity.
That foundation creates benefits across the ecosystem.
For users, privacy becomes easier to access because it is integrated into familiar wallet flows.For builders, privacy becomes easier to adopt because applications can integrate private flows via SDK, without needing to build an entirely separate privacy stack from scratch.For institutions, privacy becomes operationally useful because confidentiality can exist alongside a path for disclosure when required.For asset issuers, STRK20 gives supported tokens a path to privacy on Starknet without deploying a separate privacy-specific version or fragmenting liquidity.What STRK20 Enables Across Starknet
STRK20 is a framework that teams across the Starknet ecosystem can build into their own products.
Privacy can now appear across wallets, trading, lending, payments, vaults, games, identity systems, and new financial applications without every team needing to build a separate privacy stack.
It also creates room for products built around privacy from day one, including payroll, donations, treasury flows, private markets, and other forms of confidential onchain activity.
Below are some of the teams bringing these use cases to Starknet.
Wallets and identity
Ready and Xverse have integrated one-click shielding for assets on Starknet, with native private swapping routed using avnu. Support across both mobile and desktop extensions.Trading and liquidity
avnu provides trading routing across all Starknet venues and gasless execution for private asset flows through its Paymaster.Ekubo serves as a key liquidity venue where private swaps can settle against existing Starknet markets. Lending, yield, and vaults
Vesu will support shielded assets, bringing privacy to lending and borrowing.Endur, Starknet’s liquid staking layer, supports private staking flows for shielded tokens such as xstrkBTC and more.ForgeYields, a cross-chain yield allocator, is applying privacy to its protocol, enabling private yield farming for DeFi.Troves is building automated yield and vault strategies with private deposits and positions.Privily is building a privacy neobank and financial appchain, anchored on a STRK20 privacy-enabled stablecoin.Zylith is a call auction darkpool that enables private order flow while reducing timing and access-pattern leakage.Prediction markets
Polyhedge is building autonomous prediction agents that earn on idle capital, with position and intent kept private.Gaming
Provable Games, the team behind Loot Survivor, is exploring the opportunity to use STRK20 for hidden in-game information and private governance.For more use cases and ideas: 11 Things You Can Build with STRK20
What Comes NextToday’s launch is the first phase of STRK20 on Starknet: wallet-enabled privacy, shielded balances, and private swaps through supported wallets.
From here, support will expand across the rest of Starknet DeFi. That includes private lending, broader trading interfaces, expanded wallet support, and more applications integrating STRK20 into their core products.
The next phase is developer-facing. Starknet will open-source the wallet API and release SDK infrastructure so builders can add private flows without building a separate privacy stack from scratch.
That next phase will also extend STRK20 beyond Starknet-native users. Applications and users on other EVM chains, Solana and more will be able to access Starknet’s privacy pool as a privacy layer for cross-chain activity, bringing immediate cross-chain capabilities to private flows.
Where To StartSTRK20 is live, and there are several ways to get involved:
Use privacy on StarknetDownload Ready X or Xverse to shield supported assets and access private swaps.Download the Ready X WalletDownload the Xverse WalletExplore the Privacy HubVisit strk20.starknet.io the privacy hub, with activations, rewards, and ecosystem updates planned. Activations will roll out continuously over the coming weeks.Build with STRK20Request access to developer tooling, including the wallet API and SDK infrastructure. Access the STRK20 website here.Apply to the Proof of Privacy IncubatorTeams with privacy-focused ideas can apply to Proof, the Starknet Foundation-backed incubator.Applications will open this weekPrivacy where crypto worksOn Starknet, it starts with shielding in the wallet. From there, the goal is broader: privacy as a native capability across the assets, applications, and financial flows people already use, giving builders a way to add privacy to existing products or build entirely new privacy-first applications. This is how better applications get built on Starknet.
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Deepwater Asset Management Managing Partner Gene Munster breaks down Micron earnings on "Bloomberg The Close." He says hyperscalers will grow faster for longer than investors expected.
Starknet launched STRK20 on Tuesday, a note-based privacy framework that lets users shield ERC-20 token balances and conduct private transfers and swaps on the Ethereum layer-2 network, with an encrypted viewing-key path for compliance.
Starknet rolled out STRK20, a note-based privacy layer for ERC-20 tokens, on Tuesday, allowing users to shield balances and conduct private transfers and swaps on the Ethereum layer-2 network.
The launch is the first phase of STRK20, a framework Starknet has been building since its v0.14.2 protocol upgrade in April, which introduced native in-protocol proof verification.
How STRK20 WorksSTRK20 operates as a note-based privacy pool rather than a mixer. When a user shields an ERC-20 token, it is deposited into the pool and represented as an encrypted note. Private transfers spend existing notes and generate new ones. Each transfer is validated by a zero-knowledge proof confirming that the notes spent exist, belong to the spender, have not been double-spent, and that input and output amounts balance.
Starknet verifies the proof on-chain before updating pool state. Public observers can see encrypted notes and required protocol metadata, but cannot see the sender, receiver, amounts, or which balances were used, according to Starknet's announcement.
Compliance Path Built InSTRK20 includes an encrypted viewing-key framework designed to address regulatory requirements. A third-party audit firm holds a viewing key that can be used to trace specific transaction history in response to a valid legal or regulatory request, without exposing uninvolved users.
The design mirrors the compliance disclosures built into protocols such as Aztec and Aleo: private by default, accountable when required.
The Competitive LandscapeStarknet's launch arrives as on-chain transaction privacy is under scrutiny. Zcash's Orchard shielded pool suffered a counterfeiting flaw disclosed last month that caused ZEC to lose more than half its value. A formal Ironwood upgrade to restore supply verification and add formal proof verification is now targeting a late-July mainnet date.
Aztec Network shipped Nyx v2 with private accounts governed by Ethereum keys earlier this year, and Sui launched a confidential-transfers feature in public beta this week. For the first time, three distinct L1/L2 networks are offering transaction-level privacy simultaneously.
STRK20 differs from those approaches in one respect: it targets existing ERC-20 assets rather than requiring users to move to a separate privacy-native asset. Any ERC-20 on Starknet can be shielded through the same pool without fragmenting liquidity.
What Is Not Yet AvailableThe current launch covers wallet-level shielding, private swaps, and private transfers. Broader DeFi integration, including private lending and borrowing, is not yet live. Starknet plans to open-source the wallet API and release an SDK for builders to integrate STRK20 into their own products in the next phase.
Cross-chain capabilities, which would allow users on Ethereum and Solana to access Starknet's privacy pool without bridging manually, are also planned but not yet available. No adoption metrics, wallet counts, or shielded volume figures were disclosed at launch.
ToplineMicron shares rocketed Wednesday after the chipmaker reported the most profitable quarter in its history, further cementing its role as a beneficiary of the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom.
Micron shares rocketed Wednesday.
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Key FactsMicron shares briefly jumped more than 15% in extended trading Wednesday after it closed the day down a fraction of a percent.
Micron reported third-quarter revenue of $41.4 billion, up from $9.3 billion in the same period a year ago, according to a filing.
Adjusted diluted earnings per share came in at $25.11, a massive jump from the $1.91 posted in the year-ago quarter, while net income reached $28.24 billion.
Micron set its fourth quarter revenue guidance to $50 billion alongside adjusted diluted earnings per share of $31.00.
Bulls behind Micron’s stock will likely point to the earnings report as proof the company’s earnings stream will prove more durable than bears fear, according to a note from market insights firm Vital Knowledge, which noted supply and demand conditions for Micron will remain tight for at least the next one and a half years.
ContraBears are likely to remain concerned about how Micron can keep up its supply for extreme AI demand, Vital Knowledge’s note added. Micron’s High Bandwidth Memory chips, which allow AI processors to work faster, are completely sold out, as the company has reportedly allocated all of its chip supply for 2026 to commitments with AI data centers. Vital Knowledge also identified management’s expectation for higher capital expenditure ($10 billion in fiscal quarter four) as a potential red flag.
Key BackgroundMicron’s stock has been highly volatile recently. A global chip selloff Tuesday pushed the company’s shares down 13%, erasing two days’ worth of gains. JPMorgan analysts said Tuesday the selloff may have been provoked by anxiety around Micron’s earnings, which are usually seen as a bellwether for AI demand. However, Wednesday’s after-hours surge brought shares from about the $1,050 mark to around $1,175. While concerns have mounted over whether Micron’s stock is driven by momentum trading or fundamentals, the chipmaker has traded up more than 260% since the start of the year amid the AI boom and its demand for Micron products.
Further ReadingMicron Tumbles 13% As South Korean ETF Warning Fuels Chip Sell-Off (Forbes)
StarkWare has launched a new privacy framework for Starknet tokens that allows users to conceal balances and transaction details while preserving tools for compliance reviews and regulatory disclosures.
Summary
StarkWare launched STRK20, a Starknet privacy standard that hides balances and transaction data while allowing disclosures for compliance reviews. Sui opened public testing for confidential transfers that conceal balances and transfer amounts but keep key transaction metadata visible. Recent developments at Zama and Zcash have increased attention on privacy systems that combine confidentiality with auditability. According to StarkWare, the newly released STRK20 standard brings privacy features to ERC-20 tokens on Starknet by enabling users to shield balances and transaction information on-chain.
The framework was announced on Tuesday as developers across the crypto industry continue looking for ways to offer transaction privacy without removing oversight mechanisms relied upon by institutions, exchanges, and regulators.
Providing details on how the system works, StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson notes that STRK20 should not be viewed as a guarantee of regulatory approval or legal compliance. Instead, he said the framework follows a risk-based approach where privacy remains conditional.
Ben-Sasson explained that screening occurs before assets enter shielded pools and that viewing-key technology can be used to disclose information when lawful requests require access.
Unlike traditional privacy-focused cryptocurrencies that seek to obscure most transaction data, STRK20 introduces disclosure tools designed to balance confidentiality with accountability.
Under the model described by StarkWare, transaction details remain hidden from the public while authorized disclosure remains possible under specific circumstances.
Privacy tools are adding disclosure mechanisms Elsewhere in the sector, developers are adopting similar approaches to encrypted transactions. According to an announcement published on June 8, Sui opened public testing for confidential transfers on its Devnet. The feature encrypts token balances and transfer amounts while leaving sender and recipient addresses, token types, and transaction timestamps visible on-chain.
As reported by crypto.news, Sui stated that authorized parties can access relevant data when required for auditing or compliance purposes. A Testnet rollout is scheduled for later this year.
Rather than removing transparency entirely, the Sui design keeps selected transaction information visible while concealing financial details. The network described the system as a way to support privacy requirements without limiting access for compliance teams and auditors.
Taken together, the launches from StarkWare and Sui highlight how blockchain developers are increasingly incorporating controlled disclosure features into privacy products instead of relying on complete anonymity.
Recent events have increased focus on oversight At the same time, several privacy-focused projects have recently faced scrutiny over compliance and operational safeguards.
Earlier this month, blockchain privacy company Zama said it would speed up work on its compliance roadmap after approximately $12.5 million in USDC held within its confidential USDC wrapper was frozen under a court order. According to Zama, the restriction was later removed once the underlying legal request was resolved.
Following the incident, the company highlighted disclosure tools and regulatory coordination procedures available for encrypted transactions.
Meanwhile, developers behind Zcash recently disclosed a vulnerability that raised concerns about the possible creation of counterfeit tokens. According to the project, an emergency network upgrade completed in early June addressed the issue, and no evidence of exploitation has been found.
Zcash developers noted that reconstructing historical activity inside shielded pools can be difficult after vulnerabilities are disclosed, a limitation that has renewed discussion around how privacy systems can provide confidentiality while still supporting verification and oversight when needed.
SummaryMicron Technology, Inc. delivered historic Q3 results, with record revenue, margin expansion, and robust free cash flow, underscoring surging AI-driven memory demand.MU's forward guidance significantly exceeded consensus, with management securing HBM capacity commitments through 2027 and projecting HBM TAM to surpass $100 billion by 2028.Despite a strong rally, MU remains undervalued, trading at 14x forward EPS, and could appreciate another 50% while maintaining reasonable valuation metrics.We continue to recommend accumulating MU on pullbacks, given its compelling growth-and-value profile, operational execution, and strong shareholder return strategy.Looking for a helping hand in the market? Members of BAD BEAT Investing get exclusive ideas and guidance to navigate any climate. Learn More »Sitewide Sale 2026: Get 20% Off itsarasak thithuekthak/iStock via Getty Images
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The S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.10%) slipped 0.10% to 7,358.22, the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0.43%) fell 0.43% to 25,476.63 on semiconductor volatility, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.35%) gained 0.35% to 51,848.90 as it welcomed new components.
Gold futures fell 3.20% to $4,016.82, and the 10-Year Treasury yield slipped 0.09% to 4.40% as of U.S. market close. Sector performance was mixed, as healthcare stocks gained 1.17% while technology dipped 0.69%.
Today's biggest movesAmazon.com shares edged up slightly on Prime Day optimism, but other tech giants such as Nvidia and Apple fell. Today’s big story was Micron Technology, which reported earnings after the close. The stock finished down 0.31% but soared over 13% in after-hours trading following a beat on analyst estimates and strong guidance.
Chipmaker Cerebras Systems crashed following its first earnings report as a public company. Wendy's jumped 26% today after the stock went viral. Hertz tumbled over 40% after announcing a $100 million stock offering and lower guidance.
What this means for investorsMajor U.S. indexes were little changed today, as falling oil prices helped improve sentiment and tech stocks stemmed recent losses. Micron’s strong results may go some way to reassure investors worried about high artificial intelligence (AI) spending.
If you are unsure about how to navigate the current markets, a mid-year note from JPMorgan may help. Analysts highlighted earnings resilience as they increased their end-of-year S&P 500 price target from 7,600 to 7,800 — a 6% increase on today’s close.
However, with anticipated rate hikes and high levels of speculative trading, the report warns that it won’t be plain sailing, noting the strong possibility of a reversal or flash crash. In that scenario, a stock market crash could be an opportunity to pick up quality stocks with strong long-term potential.
JPMorgan Chase is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Emma Newbery has positions in Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Micron Technology, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
The Starknet Foundation is betting that privacy and compliance can coexist on the same blockchain. Its new incubator program, called Proof of Privacy, is now accepting applications from teams building on STRK20, the privacy framework that quietly went live in early June.
Think of it as a startup accelerator, but instead of pitching the next food delivery app, teams are competing to build the most useful privacy tools in decentralized finance. The first cohort will receive eight weeks of mentorship and milestone-based support.
What STRK20 actually does The framework, which launched around June 9-10, introduces zero-knowledge privacy features for ERC-20 tokens. It lets users shield their balances and make private transfers without moving assets to a separate, purpose-built privacy chain.
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The technical architecture relies on client-side zero-knowledge proofs built with StarkWare’s Stwo prover and Cairo programming language. These proofs conceal the sender, receiver, and amount of a transaction from public observers.
STRK20 includes optional viewing keys that allow lawful disclosure. So a user can prove the legitimacy of their transactions to an auditor without exposing those details to everyone else on the network.
“This is practical privacy in the truest sense,” said Damian Chen, VP of Growth at the Starknet Foundation.
The framework is also designed to integrate with existing wallets and DeFi applications. An open-source SDK accompanies the release, enabling developers to build private swaps and other confidential financial primitives on top of the standard.
Why an incubator, and why now The Starknet Foundation is targeting teams that want to apply STRK20’s capabilities to real-world use cases like payroll, lending, and identity verification.
The eight-week program structure suggests the Foundation is looking for teams that already have a working concept rather than purely theoretical proposals. Milestone-based support implies that funding and resources are tied to demonstrable progress, not just promising pitch decks.
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ToplineMicron shares rocketed Wednesday after the chipmaker reported the most profitable quarter in its history, further cementing its role as a beneficiary of the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom.
Micron shares rocketed Wednesday.
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Key FactsMicron shares briefly jumped more than 15% in extended trading Wednesday after it closed the day down a fraction of a percent.
Micron reported third-quarter revenue of $41.4 billion, up from $9.3 billion in the same period a year ago, according to a filing.
Adjusted diluted earnings per share came in at $25.11, a massive jump from the $1.91 posted in the year-ago quarter, while net income reached $28.24 billion.
Micron set its fourth quarter revenue guidance to $50 billion alongside adjusted diluted earnings per share of $31.00.
Bulls behind Micron’s stock will likely point to the earnings report as proof the company’s earnings stream will prove more durable than bears fear, according to a note from market insights firm Vital Knowledge, which noted supply and demand conditions for Micron will remain tight for at least the next one and a half years.
ContraBears are likely to remain concerned about how Micron can keep up its supply for extreme AI demand, Vital Knowledge’s note added. Micron’s High Bandwidth Memory chips, which allow AI processors to work faster, are completely sold out, as the company has reportedly allocated all of its chip supply for 2026 to commitments with AI data centers. Vital Knowledge also identified management’s expectation for higher capital expenditure ($10 billion in fiscal quarter four) as a potential red flag.
Key BackgroundMicron’s stock has been highly volatile recently. A global chip selloff Tuesday pushed the company’s shares down 13%, erasing two days’ worth of gains. JPMorgan analysts said Tuesday the selloff may have been provoked by anxiety around Micron’s earnings, which are usually seen as a bellwether for AI demand. However, Wednesday’s after-hours surge brought shares from about the $1,050 mark to around $1,175. While concerns have mounted over whether Micron’s stock is driven by momentum trading or fundamentals, the chipmaker has traded up more than 260% since the start of the year amid the AI boom and its demand for Micron products.
Further ReadingMicron Tumbles 13% As South Korean ETF Warning Fuels Chip Sell-Off (Forbes)
Skip to contentStarkscan is the block explorer and self-serve data API for Starknet.
Starkscan is the block explorer and self-serve data API for Starknet. It gives developers, applications, and AI agents structured, decoded access to Starknet activity through a public API and CLI, and gives people a clean explorer for looking up transactions, contracts, and wallets. Starkscan is live in public beta at starkscan.co
Starknet is read by more than humansA growing share of activity on Starknet is no longer read by a person clicking through an explorer. It is read by software: applications, dashboards, wallets, scripts, bots, monitoring systems, AI agents, protocol teams, and trading tools that need structured access to what is happening onchain, often continuously and at scale.
That shift requires more than a traditional block explorer. Most explorers were built for one job: a person looking up a single transaction. They were never designed for an agent polling network state every few seconds, a dashboard tracking contract activity over weeks, or a wallet checking balances across thousands of accounts.
Starkscan is built for both audiences from the same data surface. The explorer is the human surface. The API is the programmable surface.
What is Starkscan?Starkscan is two products on one data layer:
A Starknet block explorer. A clean, readable interface for the moments when someone needs to understand what happened onchain. Look up a transaction, trace a contract call, check a wallet, and inspect decoded activity. Starknet-specific concepts: Cairo contracts, account abstraction, and privacy pool activity, are rendered as something you can actually read, not raw calldata.
A self-serve Starknet data API. Generate an API key in seconds and start querying decoded Starknet data: balances, transactions, transfers, contract events, and wallet activity. Predictable schemas and decoded outputs mean you can build against the API without scraping explorer pages or stitching together raw RPC responses.
Because both surfaces sit on the same data, anything you can see in the explorer, you can query programmatically and route into a workflow.
How the Starkscan API worksGetting onchain data out of Starknet takes one call:
The response is decoded JSON. No scraping, no manual ABI decoding, no assembling fragmented third-party infrastructure. Generate a key at starkscan.co/api-key and you are reading Starknet in under a minute.
The API and CLI are designed for workflows that read the network repeatedly:
Agents and scripts querying Starknet state and activity on a loopDashboards tracking transactions, volumes, and contract usage over timeWallets and apps checking balances, transaction status, and account activityMonitoring systems watching specific contracts for events or anomaliesProtocol teams auditing user activity across their deploymentsTraders and power users running frequent network scans without rate-limit gymnasticsBuilt for AI agents and automated workflowsAI agents are becoming first-class consumers of blockchain data, and they need data they can query repeatedly, parse reliably, and chain into multi-step investigations.
A concrete example: an agent can ask which wallets interacted with strkBTC in the last few hours, then inspect which of those wallets also touched the Privacy Pool contract. Starkscan exposes the underlying transfers, wallet activity, and contract events through the same API and CLI surface, turning what used to be a one-off explorer search into a repeatable, automated workflow.
This matters more as Starknet expands into new use cases, including privacy-enabled Bitcoin through strkBTC. As the network’s surface area grows, the ecosystem needs data infrastructure that keeps up, including visibility into privacy pool activity that other tooling does not decode.
Get startedStarkscan is live in public beta. Anyone can explore the network in the UI, generate an API key, and start building.
Explorer: starkscan.coAPI key: starkscan.co/api-keyDocs: starkscan.co/docsThis is the first version, and it will evolve with the ecosystem. Structured for agents. Readable for humans.
Frequently asked questionsWhat is Starkscan?Starkscan is the block explorer and self-serve data API for Starknet, built for the Starknet ecosystem. It lets people look up transactions, contracts, and wallets in a web UI, and lets developers and agents query decoded Starknet data programmatically via API and CLI.
Is Starkscan free to use?Starkscan is in public beta. Anyone can use the explorer and generate an API key to start querying Starknet data. See starkscan.co/docs for current access details.
How do I get a Starkscan API key?Generate one self-serve at starkscan.co/api-key. No sales contact or approval process is required. You can start querying within a minute.
How is Starkscan different from other block explorers?Most explorers are built for humans looking up individual transactions. Starkscan is built for continuous, programmatic reads as well: it pairs a human-readable explorer with a structured API that returns decoded JSON, with predictable schemas designed for agents, dashboards, wallets, and monitoring systems. It also decodes Starknet-specific activity such as Cairo contracts, account abstraction, and privacy pools.
Can AI agents use Starkscan?Yes. The API and CLI are designed for agent workflows: repeatable queries, decoded outputs, and consistent schemas that can be chained into multi-step investigations for example, tracing which wallets interacted with a token and then checking their activity against another contract.
What data can I query through the Starkscan API?Transactions, transfers, balances, wallet activity, contract events, and decoded Starknet-specific activity, including privacy pool interactions related to products like strkBTC.
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Starkscan just dropped a revamped block explorer and data API for Starknet, and the most interesting part isn’t the explorer itself. It’s who the platform is building for: not just human developers, but AI agents too.
The new offering bundles REST endpoints, a TypeScript SDK, a command line interface, and machine-readable documentation under a single API key. One key unlocks pretty much every way you’d want to query Starknet data, whether you’re a developer debugging a contract or an AI system autonomously pulling transaction histories.
What Starkscan actually built At its core, Starkscan provides decoded data for blocks, transactions, contracts, and tokens across Starknet’s mainnet. The network’s block height now exceeds 10.8 million.
The free-tier API key grants access to the full stack of tools: REST, SDK, CLI, and hosted MCP interfaces.
The machine-readable documentation is specifically designed for what Starkscan calls “agent-native querying,” building an on-ramp for AI systems to interact with Starknet programmatically.
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Starknet’s broader momentum Starknet, the ZK-rollup Layer 2 network developed by StarkWare, has been on a feature shipping spree.
The network introduced strkBTC on May 12, 2026, a Bitcoin bridging solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to bring shielded Bitcoin assets onto Starknet.
Around June 11, 2026, Starknet rolled out STRK20 privacy updates, extending the network’s confidential transaction capabilities.
A v0.14.3 upgrade is also in the pipeline, targeting performance improvements and user experience refinements across the network.
STRK, Starknet’s native token, functions as both a staking asset and the medium for transaction operations within the ecosystem.
What this means for investors Starknet is simultaneously expanding its asset base with strkBTC, enhancing privacy with STRK20, improving performance with upcoming upgrades, and now getting better developer tooling through Starkscan.
For STRK holders, more developer tools means more developers, more applications, and more transactions consuming STRK as gas.
Investors should track whether Starknet’s recent feature launches, particularly strkBTC and the privacy updates, drive sustained transaction volume growth or merely generate a brief spike of activity.
If Starkscan’s API becomes the default data layer for AI agents interacting with Starknet, it creates a sticky relationship that benefits both the explorer and the broader ecosystem. Watch for developer adoption metrics and API usage data in the coming months to gauge whether Starkscan’s bet on agent-native infrastructure is paying off.
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PANews, June 20 – Starknet AMM protocol mySwap disclosed that its mySwap CL protocol suffered a vulnerability exploit, resulting in approximately $300,000 being drained from liquidity pools. The team stated that the mySwap interface has been shut down for over six months and no longer accepts new liquidity injections, with the affected funds primarily consisting of residual LP positions spread across more than 100,000 positions. The attacker bridged the stolen funds and used Railgun to obfuscate the asset flows. The exploit nearly depleted all remaining liquidity in the protocol.
Key Takeaways South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix said it's looking to list on the Nasdaq as soon as July 10.The Nvidia partner's stock has helped send Korea- and chip-themed funds higher this year as AI demand drives up sales. Get personalized, AI-powered answers built on 27+ years of trusted expertise.
One of the world's hottest names in memory could be coming to the U.S. stock market soon.
South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix, the Nvidia (NVDA) partner and Micron (MU) rival that's played a key role in driving Korea- and chip-themed funds higher this year, said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it's looking to list on the Nasdaq as soon as July 10.1 The company plans to list on the Nasdaq with the ticker symbol "SKHY," the filing said.
To get there, the company said it plans to issue 17.79 million new shares; they will trade in the U.S. as American depositary receipts. The deal will raise 45.45 trillion won ($29.65 billion), according to the filing. Its shares listed in Korea added 1% yesterday; they have roughly tripled in value since the year began and are up some 800% over the past 12 months.
Why This Matters to Investors The move would make it easier for American investors to get direct exposure and widen SK Hynix's investor base, which could also boost the shares.
A memory shortage driven by booming demand for AI hardware has led to soaring profits for major memory chipmakers such as SK Hynix, which holds nearly 60% of the global market for high-bandwidth memory, according to a report earlier this month from Counterpoint Research.2 SK Hynix in April posted record first-quarter sales to the tune of 52.58 trillion Korean won, or around $34.09 billion.3
Its American rival Micron, which reported earnings after the closing bell today, turned in revenue of $41.46 billion for the quarter ended in May, well ahead of estimates compiled by Visible Alpha.45 Micron's stock, which set a record high on Monday, is up some 260% for the year so far and 700% over the past 12 months.
Exchange-traded funds heavily concentrated in SK Hynix, along with Micron, have seen big gains this year as investors clamored for exposure to memory as "pick-and-shovel" plays for the AI boom.
The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM)—comprised nearly 75% of SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron—has soared more than 150% from where it opened at the beginning of April, making it the best-performing non-leveraged U.S. equity ETF this year, according to TradingView data.
Starknet just made private DeFi about as easy as toggling on dark mode. The Ethereum layer 2 network has published a walkthrough for accessing its privacy features through compatible wallets, turning what used to be a multi-step cryptographic headache into something approaching a one-click experience.
The guide centers on Starknet’s STRK20 privacy framework, which went live around June 9. It allows users to shield ERC-20 assets directly from wallets like Xverse and Ready, then interact with DeFi protocols, including swaps, lending, and staking, without broadcasting every detail of their financial life to the entire blockchain.
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How the shielding actually works Starknet’s approach lets users convert standard tokens into shielded versions through their wallet interface. The framework is designed to maintain composability with public liquidity pools, meaning private transactions can tap into existing liquidity rather than being confined to isolated ecosystems where shielded assets could only interact with other shielded assets.
Transactions using the privacy features settle in under five seconds at low costs, according to Starknet. That’s roughly the same speed as a standard Starknet transaction, meaning the privacy layer doesn’t introduce meaningful friction.
strkBTC and the Bitcoin angle Starknet launched strkBTC back in May, a shielded representation of Bitcoin on its network. strkBTC lets Bitcoin holders participate in Starknet’s DeFi ecosystem without their BTC positions being publicly visible. Both Xverse and Ready wallets support one-click shielding and unshielding of strkBTC alongside other assets, making the process uniform regardless of the underlying token.
The compliance question The STRK20 framework includes compliance features built into its architecture: viewing keys are encrypted for an integrity council, creating a mechanism that blends user privacy with regulatory requirements. This design allows transactions to be private by default yet auditable under specific conditions, occupying a middle ground that could work for compliance-conscious players.
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@StarkWareLtd has unveiled a zero-knowledge identity system designed to let users pass a KYC check without surrendering their personal data to a central verifier. The prototype, called Private KYC, is built on STRK20, @Starknet's privacy layer, and works by flipping the logic of how identity verification is typically done.
How it works A user scans their passport using their phone's NFC chip. That identity data is then encrypted and bound to their own Starknet account rather than stored on a third-party server. When a KYC check is required, the system generates a zero-knowledge proof of just the fact that matters, such as confirming the user is over 18, while name, date of birth, and document number remain sealed. No central verifier holds a copy of the document, so there is no database to breach.
STRK20, which launched in early June, introduces zero-knowledge privacy features for ERC-20 tokens, letting users shield balances and make private transfers without moving assets to a separate privacy chain. The technical architecture relies on client-side zero-knowledge proofs built with StarkWare's Stwo prover and Cairo programming language. Private KYC extends that same infrastructure into identity verification.
Targeting a well-documented problem The timing of the demo is pointed. A KYC store becomes a data honeypot the moment it concentrates identity records someone else wants, and that concentration is something the rulebook compels, not something a control choice creates. The scale of recent incidents makes the case plainly: IDmerit, disclosed in February 2026, exposed a data set running to roughly 1 billion records, including approximately 203 million US records. Unlike traditional passwords or credit card numbers, biometric data cannot be changed if compromised, posing long-term security risks. If fingerprints or iris patterns are stolen, the victim is permanently vulnerable to identity theft.
StarkWare's architecture sidesteps this problem by design. Because no raw document is ever handed to a verifier, there is no archive to steal. StarkWare chief executive Eli Ben-Sasson has said zero-knowledge systems could allow future investigations to request narrower information, though the approach has not yet faced broad regulatory testing, and institutions will still need to assess its legal, security, and operational controls before adoption.
For now, Private KYC is a demonstration pitched at government and institutional audiences, not a live product. Whether regulators will accept a ZK proof as a substitute for a stored document copy remains an open question. But as centralized identity databases continue to attract attackers, the architectural argument for an alternative is only getting stronger.
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Starknet: Make ERC-20 Tokens Private with STRK20
Finextra: The KYC Data Honeypot Is a Retention Mandate, Not a Security Failure
Fincrime Central: IDMerit data breach, 1 billion records exposed
Zero-knowledge scaling company StarkWare has introduced Private KYC on Starknet, enabling users to complete know-your-customer requirements without revealing their full personal information.
The system, announced Tuesday as a demo, uses STRK20 privacy features and zero-knowledge STARK proofs to let users prove specific attributes, such as being older than 18 or holding valid credentials, without revealing their full passport details or address.
“Whether you need to prove you’re over 18, hold a valid credential or meet an eligibility rule, verification should only confirm the precise fact,” StarkWare said. Corporations should not collect the full identity behind it, “because every identity database becomes a liability the moment it exists.”
KYC compliance involves handing over personal information and trusting companies to keep it safe. The rollout comes as the US hit a record 3,322 data compromises in 2025, a 79% increase over five years, and the global average cost of a data breach is $4.4 million, according to StationX.
StarkWare users start by scanning their passport on their phones, using the camera and NFC chip to read and confirm the document is genuine and signed by its issuing authority.
They can then encrypt identity data to their Starknet wallet, register attributes in a public onchain registry, and submit zero-knowledge proofs for selective checks. Verifiers can confirm eligibility by reading the public registry without ever seeing the actual identity data.
“Private KYC shows that verification and privacy aren’t a trade-off,” StarkWare said. “An institution can confirm exactly what it needs without assembling another copy of someone’s identity it then has to defend.”
Contracts check the proofs, not the passports. Source: StarkWare
“Identity checks today ask for your whole document when they only need one fact,” the Starknet team said.
The system is similar to Sam Altman’s World ID (Worldcoin), which uses zk-proofs to verify humanness via iris scans on hardware orbs. However, World ID faced backlash over centralized biometric custody, whereas StarkWare’s self-custody model aims to address that issue.
Data breaches cost millions According to Axis Intelligence, more than 1 billion health care records have been breached, with an average cost of $7.42 million, as of 2026. In the US, 772 large health care data breaches were confirmed in 2025, the highest annual total ever recorded.
The largest and most damaging data breach in the crypto industry occurred at hardware wallet provider Ledger, which suffered a massive database hack in 2020, resulting in the leak of more than 270,000 customer records and a wave of phishing attacks that continue to this day.
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StarkWare has introduced Private KYC on Starknet, a demo that lets users meet know-your-customer checks without giving companies full copies of identity documents.
Summary
Private KYC lets users prove age facts without sending companies complete identity documents or addresses. StarkWare links the demo to STRK20 privacy tools built for selective disclosure and onchain verification. The launch follows rising breach costs and concern over large databases holding personal KYC records. The system uses zero-knowledge STARK proofs and STRK20 privacy features to confirm specific facts, such as age, valid credentials or eligibility.
“Identity checks today ask for your whole document when they only need one fact,” said the Starknet team.
The system aims to let verifiers confirm what they need while keeping passport details, addresses and other personal data away from company databases.
Private KYC, on Starknet.
Identity checks today ask for your whole document, when they only need one fact. With STRK20’s selective disclosure, apps can verify what matters without taking custody of your data.
Prove the fact, not the file.
🧵 in QRT https://t.co/9hbLb4dcUv
— Starknet (Privacy Arc) (@Starknet) June 23, 2026 The process starts when a user scans a passport on a phone. The phone camera and NFC chip check that the document is genuine and signed by its issuing authority. After that, users can encrypt identity data to a Starknet wallet.
StarkWare said users can register selected attributes in a public onchain registry. Verifiers can then check zero-knowledge proofs against that registry without seeing the identity data behind them.
Data breach risk shapes the rollout The launch comes as companies face growing costs from storing personal data. KYC checks often require passports, addresses and other records. Those records can create risk once they sit inside company systems.
The Identity Theft Resource Center reported 3,322 U.S. data compromises in 2025, a record total and a 79% increase over five years. IBM also placed the global average cost of a data breach at $4.4 million in its 2025 report.
Crypto users have already seen the risk of exposed identity data. Ledger suffered a 2020 breach that exposed more than 1 million email addresses. The leaked data also included names, phone numbers and physical addresses.
“Private KYC shows that verification and privacy aren’t a trade-off,” said StarkWare.
The company said institutions should be able to confirm exact requirements without creating another copy of someone’s identity to protect.
STRK20 provides the privacy layer Private KYC builds on Starknet’s wider STRK20 privacy framework. STRK20 lets ERC-20 assets use shielded balances and private transfers while keeping a path for lawful, targeted disclosure when required.
As previously reported by crypto.news, Starknet launched STRK20 privacy for ERC-20 tokens earlier this month. The system lets users move assets between public and shielded states, while zero-knowledge proofs confirm that private actions follow network rules.
STRK20s is officially live.
Practical privacy for all assets, accessible in one click, with deep DeFi integration.
We’re fixing onchain privacy for good, and for everyone. https://t.co/5eEG011zBz
— StarkWare 🥷 (@StarkWareLtd) June 9, 2026 In a recent update, crypto.news covered StarkWare and Sui as both projects moved toward privacy tools with compliance features. StarkWare said STRK20 should not be viewed as a guarantee of legal approval, but as a risk-based framework.
Private KYC applies that same approach to identity checks. It does not remove KYC. It limits what companies receive when they only need to confirm one fact.
Self-custody model sets it apart The system uses a self-custody model tied to a Starknet wallet. That means users keep control over encrypted identity data instead of sending complete files to every platform that asks for verification.
The model differs from World ID, which also uses zero-knowledge proofs but has faced criticism over biometric checks through iris-scanning hardware. StarkWare’s demo focuses on passport-based checks, phone verification and selective disclosure through Starknet.
Adoption will depend on legal review, app support, verifier trust and security testing. For now, the demo adds identity verification to StarkWare’s privacy roadmap and places KYC data exposure at the center of the discussion.
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Canadian DJ BLOND:ISH, a key resident at Pacha Ibiza and a rising figure in Web3 music, has just deployed the portal for her $NRG token on Solana. The concept: transform community energy into tangible access: guestlists, backstage, exclusive music through a deflationary mechanism anchored on the blockchain. The launch follows Paris Blockchain Week 2026, where $NRG powered the official closing party in the Gustave Eiffel Salon on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in front of 300 founders and investors. A model that goes beyond the simple fan token to lay the foundations of what the team calls an “energy economy.”
In Brief The $NRG portal is live: token holders on Solana gain direct access to guestlists and backstage areas of BLOND:ISH and Abracadabra shows worldwide. Three access tiers (Explorer, Insider, Supreme) determined by the number of tokens held for at least 30 days. Each backstage access requires a burn of $NRG: circulating supply decreases with each use, creating a deflationary mechanism. The Paris Blockchain Week 2026 closing party, held on April 17 at the Gustave Eiffel Salon, showcased the model with support from OKX, PSG Labs, and Matchain. BLOND:ISH has 6.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify and 141 releases on labels such as Kompakt, Defected, and Insomniac Records. How does the $NRG portal work? The portal accessible at https://www.everythingisnrg.xyz/ serves as the entry point to the ecosystem. Its operation is based on a simple principle: holding $NRG for 30 days unlocks access to BLOND:ISH shows and those of her label Abracadabra worldwide. The more tokens held, the greater the privileges. The first tier, Explorer, starts at 13,333 $NRG and offers two guestlist spots per year. The Insider level (100,000 $NRG) adds backstage access and a 20% discount via the burn mechanism. The Supreme tier (333,333 $NRG) increases to eight guestlists and four annual backstage accesses, with a 40% discount on burn.
The burn is the cornerstone of the economic model. Unlike traditional fan tokens that simply grant voting rights or community badges, $NRG requires the permanent destruction of tokens to access premium experiences. Each backstage access permanently removes $NRG from circulation. The total supply therefore contracts as the token’s real utility is used. The portal also offers a “Fast Track” for non-holders: a one-time purchase allows access to a show without holding the token, but at a premium price that makes holding more advantageous over time.
This mechanism differs from previous attempts at artistic tokenization. BLOND:ISH had already experimented with a community token, $ISH, via the P00LS platform, with results limited to access to exclusive content. $NRG takes it a step further by introducing what the team calls an “energy tax”: any promoter, festival, or Web3 project wishing to collaborate with the artist or Abracadabra must go through the token. Demand therefore no longer comes only from fans, but from the entire professional ecosystem surrounding the brand.
$NRG at the Eiffel Tower: When music meets blockchain The official closing party of Paris Blockchain Week 2026, held on April 17 in the Gustave Eiffel Salon, embodied the project’s philosophy at scale. Around 300 founders, investors, and operators from the crypto, tech, and cultural ecosystem gathered on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower for an invitation-only event, with BLOND:ISH performing a DJ set from 10:15 PM to 11:45 PM. The event was co-produced by INDIGO Fund, the digital asset investment fund co-founded by BLOND:ISH (Vivie-Ann Bakos), Thomas Puech, and Nathanaël Cohen, alongside the American production company Rasa.
The list of sponsors illustrates the convergence between culture and digital finance. OKX, one of the largest global exchanges, PSG Labs, the Web3 arm of Paris Saint-Germain, and Matchain were among the confirmed partners. The event was livestreamed on Twitch and Pumpfun, allowing the $NRG community to attend in real time. This type of activation is not isolated: INDIGO and $NRG had already organized similar events at the W Hotel during Art Basel Week in Miami and at TOKEN2049 in Dubai, positioning each gathering as a networking hub anchored in the token.
The model driven by $NRG raises a question that the entire crypto ecosystem is watching closely: can the tokenization of cultural access move beyond the stage of a one-off event? The bullish outlook relies on network effects: the more shows multiply, the more the burn reduces supply, and the more attractive holding becomes.
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In brief The Labor Department launched an AI apprenticeship portal on Wednesday. The site offers AI literacy tools and industry-specific training resources. The move signals a broader federal push to prepare workers for AI adoption. The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday announced the launch of a new website aimed at helping workers and employers build artificial intelligence skills and expand AI-focused apprenticeship programs.
The website, called the AI in Registered Apprenticeship Innovation Portal, debuted during a National Apprenticeship Week event as a one-stop resource to help organizations build AI literacy and create or update Registered Apprenticeship programs with AI-related skills.
“The department is committed to ensuring that every American has the opportunity to thrive in our nation's workforce, especially in a world that is rapidly being reshaped by artificial intelligence,” Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling said in a statement, calling it a major step forward in preparing the American workforce for the jobs of the future.
The announcement also comes amid growing fear that artificial intelligence could disrupt or replace jobs across industries, prompting growing pressure on the government and employers to provide training and pathways to adapt to the technology.
The apprenticeship initiative builds on the department’s AI Literacy Framework, released in February, which offers guidance for integrating AI skills into apprenticeship programs through training resources, industry-specific tools, and flexible pathways.
According to the Labor Department, the portal organizes its resources into three areas: AI skills and literacy in Registered Apprenticeship programs, AI skill-building by industry, and ways to integrate AI into existing or new apprenticeship programs. It includes AI training modules tailored to industries, including education, finance, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing.
“The launch reflects this Administration’s commitment to ensuring American workers and businesses are equipped to lead in an AI-driven economy,” Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Henry Mack said in a statement. “By providing employers with the resources to develop AI-ready Registered Apprenticeship programs and workers with the skills to thrive in them, the Department is taking concrete action to build the workforce of the future, today.”
The department said employers can also use the portal to join existing national apprenticeship programs, create new programs for AI-focused roles, or update existing programs to include AI-related skills.
The announcement also comes as the Donald Trump administration pushes a broader national AI agenda, including a White House policy framework released in March that calls for federal AI standards, expanded infrastructure, and a unified national approach to issues ranging from workforce development and child safety to innovation, and free speech as businesses and government agencies adapt to the technology’s rapid spread across industries.
“The Trump Administration is committed to winning the AI race to usher in a new era of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security for the American people,” the White House said in a statement. “Achieving these goals requires a commonsense national policy framework that both enables American industry to innovate and thrive and ensures that all Americans benefit from this technological revolution.”
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Rubio: US and Iran to continue technical consultations at the end of this month
Multiple foreign media outlets reported on the 24th that US Secretary of State Rubio said technical teams from the United States and Iran will hold further talks in Switzerland by the end of June. (Xinhua News Agency)
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US Treasury Secretary: AI boom may boost productivity and help curb inflation.
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950 organic holders, $3.6M market cap, zero paid marketing. Launching alongside a Summer 2026 World Tour spanning 13 countries and a 12-week Pacha Ibiza residency. Starting with BLOND:ISH, built for every artist
IBIZA, Spain – April 28th, 2026 — BLOND:ISH, the internationally touring DJ and producer Vivie-Ann Bakos, has launched The NRG Portal — a token-gated access platform on Solana that replaces the broken guestlist system in live music with on-chain infrastructure. The Portal launches alongside her Summer 2026 World Tour: 45+ shows across 13 countries from May to August, anchored by a 12-week residency at Pacha Ibiza and headline appearances at Primavera Sound, Pukkelpop, Loveland, and Slottsfjell. The Portal is live at everythingisnrg.xyz
The Problem: 500 DMs Per Show Every BLOND:ISH show generates hundreds of direct messages from fans requesting guestlist and backstage access. Fans DM promoters who ghost them, beg friends-of-friends, stand in line hoping, and get turned away. Artists face a different version of the same problem — no fair way to choose, guilt from saying no, middlemen taking cuts, and a lost direct connection with their community. The guestlist system in dance music has been broken since it was invented.
The Solution: Access as Infrastructure $NRG replaces DMs, luck, and who-you-know with a transparent, on-chain access layer. Holders who maintain $NRG for 30 days unlock guestlist and backstage access at any BLOND:ISH or Abracadabra show worldwide, over 120 performances annually across 30+ cities.
The Portal operates on a three-tier membership system based on token holdings:
Explorer (13,333 $NRG) — 2 guestlist spots per year, early access to unreleased music Insider (100,000 $NRG) — 4 guestlist + 2 backstage spots per year, 20% burn discount, guaranteed popup access Supreme (333,333 $NRG) — 8 guestlist + 4 backstage spots per year, 40% burn discount, guaranteed popup access Backstage access requires burning $NRG, permanently removing tokens from circulation. Every burn shrinks total supply, meaning every remaining holder benefits each time someone walks backstage. A non-holder Fast Track option also exists for one-time guestlist or backstage access, though holding $NRG is always cheaper.
Not a Meme. Energy as Infrastructure. $NRG is positioned not as a speculative token but as coordination infrastructure for artist-fan access at scale. The portal organizes all inbound demand around BLOND:ISH and Abracadabra, from fans who want guestlist and backstage, to unreleased music, to partners who want to collaborate.
Access is the real currency in culture, and right now it’s negotiated in the worst place possible: scattered DMs, luck, and who you know. $NRG is a coordination layer that makes access scalable for the people in my culture and for partners who want skin in the game. My goal is to unlock one billion people living their best life through my music, and $NRG is how that scales.
— Vivie-Ann Bakos, founder of $NRG and creator of the Abracadabra event series The model is designed to extend beyond a single artist. The two-sided problem: fans with no reliable path to access, artists drowning in unmanageable demand – exists for every performing artist in the world. $NRG starts with BLOND:ISH and is built for everyone.
Since launching organically with no paid marketing, $NRG has grown to 950 holders with a market capitalization of $3.6 million on Solana.
Holders can now claim guestlist and backstage at any Summer 2026 tour date, including the Pacha Ibiza residency, Primavera Sound, Pukkelpop, Loveland, and the already-sold-out Toronto Sunnyside Sessions — at everythingisnrg.xyz
About $NRG $NRG is the access token of the BLOND:ISH and Abracadabra universe, built on Solana. Not a meme, energy as infrastructure. It replaces broken guestlist systems with token-gated, on-chain membership that scales with the artist’s culture.
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Key HighlightsPlatform Facilitates Digital Asset Collateral Across Multiple Trading VenuesStreamlined Collateral Deployment for Institutional Trading OperationsFinancial Sector Advances Blockchain-Based Collateral Infrastructure LMAX Group introduces Kiosk platform for institutional crypto collateral management. Platform enables digital asset deployment across foreign exchange, metals, and CFD trading. Kiosk integrates custody solutions with multi-market trading execution capabilities. Unified portal consolidates collateral management, security controls, and treasury operations. Launch aligns with institutional movement toward blockchain-based collateral infrastructure. LMAX Group has unveiled its Kiosk platform designed to facilitate institutional deployment of cryptocurrency holdings across diverse trading environments. This integrated portal merges custodial services, collateral management, and trade execution within a unified operational framework. The introduction addresses increasing institutional appetite for digital asset-backed trading solutions.
Platform Facilitates Digital Asset Collateral Across Multiple Trading Venues The LMAX Kiosk platform permits institutional participants to transfer cryptocurrency holdings directly into LMAX Custody infrastructure. These deposited digital assets can subsequently serve as collateral throughout the organization’s comprehensive trading environment. Market access encompasses foreign exchange pairs, precious metal contracts, cryptocurrency instruments, contracts for difference, and perpetual futures products.
The solution addresses operational complexity challenges faced by organizations managing cryptocurrency exposure. It consolidates deposit functionality, withdrawal processing, API authentication management, WalletConnect integration, security configurations, and treasury administration within a singular interface. Consequently, institutional clients can oversee collateral requirements without navigating multiple fragmented platforms.
According to LMAX Group, Kiosk represents an expansion of its established institutional framework. The company maintains operational presence across both conventional foreign exchange and digital asset marketplaces. Accordingly, this interface advancement furthers its strategic initiative to bridge traditional financial services with cryptocurrency market participation.
Streamlined Collateral Deployment for Institutional Trading Operations The platform introduction provides institutions with streamlined pathways for converting crypto holdings into operational trading strategies. Participants can pledge cryptocurrency assets as margin while executing transactions across diverse asset categories. This architecture potentially enhances capital efficiency for institutional balance sheet management.
David Mercer, Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, emphasized that optimized collateral mechanisms will underpin next-generation integrated capital markets. He highlighted that Kiosk delivers protected custody arrangements, frictionless connectivity infrastructure, and immediate collateral deployment capabilities. He further noted the product facilitates institutional incorporation of digital assets into fundamental trading systems.
LMAX has positioned Kiosk as a regulatory-compliant, institutional-caliber offering. The organization emphasizes the platform delivers access to established liquidity sources alongside secured custody arrangements. It provides participants with streamlined methods for expanding digital asset service capabilities.
Financial Sector Advances Blockchain-Based Collateral Infrastructure This platform debut coincides with broader financial industry experimentation regarding collateral frameworks connected to distributed ledger technology. Tokenized investment vehicles, cryptocurrency instruments, and regulated custody products increasingly influence market infrastructure development. Trading venues and investment managers are constructing systems enabling cross-market collateral utilization.
Franklin Templeton launched an institutional collateral initiative with Binance during the current year. That framework permits participants to pledge tokenized money market fund units as trading margin. Simultaneously, underlying assets maintain positioning within regulated custodial structures.
DTCC alongside additional prominent financial entities have similarly investigated tokenized collateral architectures. These initiatives reflect an industry-wide transition toward accelerated settlement processes and adaptable margin deployment. Through Kiosk, LMAX participates in this evolution by connecting cryptocurrency assets with foreign exchange, precious metals, derivatives, and digital asset trading environments.
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What Happened in the THORChain Exploit? THORChain has confirmed a $10 million exploit and launched a recovery portal for affected users, giving them a self-custodial route to revoke malicious token approvals and submit refund claims backed by a treasury-funded pool of the same size.
The protocol said affected users can now check what compensation they are eligible to receive after the attack. The recovery portal cites a PeckShield post-mortem saying the exploit was detected at 02:14 UTC on May 11, when node operators flagged anomalous outbound transactions. Trading and outbound signing were paused within 8 minutes.
The attacker drained 36.75 BTC, worth about $3 million, along with roughly $7 million in tokens across BNB Chain, Ethereum and Base. The incident affected 12,847 wallets across 4 chains, making it another reminder that cross-chain infrastructure remains one of DeFi’s most exposed risk areas.
How Will User Compensation Work? Affected users have 21 days to submit claims through THORChain’s recovery portal. The refund window closes on June 4, after which any unclaimed allocation will roll over into the protocol’s insurance fund.
The refund structure is important because it gives users a defined recovery path rather than leaving compensation open-ended. The treasury-provisioned pool also limits the immediate reputational damage by matching the reported exploit size, though it does not remove the deeper security questions raised by the breach.
For users, the main practical issue is timing. Claims must be submitted before the deadline, and users also need to revoke malicious approvals through the recovery process. For the protocol, the larger challenge is proving that the compromised infrastructure has been isolated and that similar vault-level risks cannot reappear.
Investor Takeaway THORChain’s refund pool may reduce immediate user losses, but the exploit raises a broader valuation issue for DeFi protocols: treasury strength now matters only if security architecture can protect the assets those treasuries are meant to support.
How Was THORChain Drained? THORChain said the leading theory is that the attacker exploited a vulnerability in the GG20 threshold signature scheme implementation. According to the protocol, the flaw allowed sensitive vault key material to leak gradually. After accumulating enough leaked data over time, the attacker was able to reconstruct the vault’s private key and authorize unauthorized outbound transactions.
The protocol also said a newly churned node entered the network several days before the attack and is currently believed to be linked to the incident. THORChain said onchain links were identified between the node’s bonding addresses and wallets that received the stolen funds.
“The Treasury is actively collecting forensic data and coordinating with Outrider Analytics and relevant law enforcement agencies in an effort to identify the attacker and pursue recovery of stolen funds where possible,” the protocol wrote.
The mechanics of the exploit matter because they point beyond a simple smart contract failure. If the leading theory is correct, the breach involved vault key reconstruction through leaked threshold-signature material, placing node operations, key management and cross-chain signing controls at the center of the investigation.
Why Does This Matter for DeFi Security? The THORChain exploit comes after a sharp rise in crypto losses. Crypto hacks reached $629.7 million in April, the worst month for the industry since February 2025, when $1.47 billion was stolen. KelpDAO’s $293 million exploit and Drift Protocol’s $280 million hack accounted for most of April’s losses, representing 82% of the total.
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Oracle Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of our feeds’ coverage on COTI to support the launch of the COTI Privacy Portal, the simplest way for anyone to convert public tokens into private tokens on the COTI Network.
TL;DRBand is expanding its price feed coverage on the COTI Network with the addition of ADA, USDT, and gCOTI, building on the existing WBTC, ETH, COTI, and USDC feeds from our 2024 integration.COTI Privacy Portal is now live: convert public tokens to private in one click, and back again whenever you choose.The Band Unified Data Layer powers all price data powering the Portal.The Portal is non-custodial, fully on-chain, and powered by COTI's Garbled Circuits technology. Supports 7 tokens: COTI, ETH, WBTC, USDT, USDC, ADA, and gCOTI.IntroductionWhen Band integrated with COTI in late 2024, the goal was clear: bring reliable, decentralized price data to COTI's growing privacy-focused ecosystem. Today, that partnership takes a major step forward.
Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of our feeds’ coverage on COTI to support the launch of the COTI Privacy Portal, the simplest way for anyone to convert public tokens into private tokens on the COTI Network. Band is proud to be a core infrastructure partner, powering all price data that drives the portal’s functionality.
This is the partnership in action. It is a real product (not just infrastructure), live now, that any user with a MetaMask wallet can access at https://privacy.coti.io/.
What is the COTI Privacy Portal?The COTI Privacy Portal is the simplest way to take your tokens private and bring them back to the public without leaving your wallet. It gives anyone access to on-chain privacy in just one click: no technical setup, no complexity, no compromise on control. Your assets stay fully liquid and fully yours, whether they are private or public.
This opens the door to a new class of use cases, from confidential payments and private DeFi strategies to enterprise-grade privacy for supply chains and payroll, all at the fastest speed and lowest cost of any privacy protocol in the world.
The Band Unified Data Layer Powers All Price Data on the COTI Privacy PortalEvery token available in the COTI Privacy Portal, from COTI and WETH to gCOTI and WADA, has its price data served in real time by our flagship product, Band Price Feeds.
Reliable price data is foundational to any blockchain application, including the token portal. Even when balances are encrypted on-chain, accurate market pricing is needed to display values, support liquidity decisions, and enable the DeFi applications built on top of the Portal. Band's decentralized oracle infrastructure ensures this data is always available, tamper-proof, and sourced from multiple independent providers worldwide.
With the launch of the Privacy Portal, Band is expanding its feed coverage on the COTI Network to include three new price feeds: ADA, USDT, and gCOTI. This builds directly on the foundation laid in our 2024 integration, which first brought WBTC, ETH, COTI, and USDC price feeds to COTI. Together, Band now provides complete price data coverage for every asset available in the Portal.
For Developers on COTIIf you're already building on COTI using Band Price Feeds, nothing changes. The integration works exactly as before. Same proxy contracts. Same Band Standard Reference Contracts (Solidity). Same data flow.
Band Developer PortalBandChain DocumentationCOTI Developer DocumentationCOTI Privacy PortalWhat You Can BuildThe COTI Privacy Portal is the front door to a new class of Web3 applications that combine the transparency of public blockchains with the confidentiality of encrypted computation. With Band Price Feeds underpinning every token, developers can build with confidence:
Private peer-to-peer transactions: send and receive tokens with encrypted balancesConfidential payments and private payroll: businesses can process payments without exposing amounts on-chainPrivate DeFi strategies: execute trading and yield strategies without revealing positionsSupply chain settlements: settle invoices and contracts with privacyIdentity and asset protection: shield holdings from public visibility while maintaining auditabilityPrivate token transfers on COTI are among the fastest and lowest-cost of any privacy protocol, a fraction of a COTI token per transfer, making these use cases practical at scale.
Get StartedPrivacy Portal: https://privacy.coti.io/MetaMask Snap: metamask.coti.io/installCOTI Documentation: docs.coti.ioBand Documentation: docs.bandchain.orgAbout Band
Band is the data layer that trains AI engines and powers blockchain applications. By empowering DeFi, GameFi, and AI agents, it enables developers, institutions, and users to access real-time data with zero counterparty risk. With Band’s open, battle-tested data infrastructure built for blockchains and LLMs, it ensures that real-time information is always accessible, fueling everything from financial protocols to autonomous AI systems.
More about Band: https://linktr.ee/bandprotocol
About COTI
COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3. Built for enterprises, builders, and agents. Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits and enterprise-grade COTI Nightfall (ZK), COTI enables encrypted computation on any public blockchain. Fast, low-cost, and compliant privacy across DeFi, AI, and beyond.
The Arbitrum Portal is now your single interface for moving and growing assets across Arbitrum, the largest financial ecosystem on Ethereum. Swap to any destination chain in a few clicks and put your assets to work in leading market opportunities without ever switching apps or reconnecting wallets.
Try Earn: https://portal.arbitrum.io/earn
Screenshot of Arbitrum Portal EarnStreamlined assets, built for speedThe new Arbitrum Portal interface enables you to move, swap, and earn in a single dashboard. No more tab-switching or managing dozens of open connections, just a seamless experience operating at software speed.
Get there faster: cross-chain swapsThe days of manual bridging and navigating disparate exchanges are over. Powered by LI.FI, the Arbitrum Portal now allows you to swap assets to any EVM destination chain in just a few clicks. Whether you’re moving from Ethereum mainnet or another network, you can acquire the assets you need and land them exactly where they need to be in one fluid motion.
Earn smarter: high-fidelity yieldThe new Earn feature is designed to simplify how you interact with some of the most established protocols in the programmable economy, allowing you to access a wide range of opportunities directly from the Arbitrum Portal interface, with no additional fees:
Lending & Variable Yield: Put your assets to work through Aave, Morpho, Fluid, and more.Liquid Staking: Maximize your ETH utility with Lido (wstETH) and Ether.fi (weETH).Fixed Yield: Access predictable returns on assets via Pendle.Anchored in security with autonomy by designWhile the Arbitrum Portal enables seamless cross-chain transfers from across the EVM, landing your assets on Arbitrum grants you direct access to the platform's predictable execution, rapid speeds, and low overhead, all secured by Ethereum’s public settlement layer.
Non-custodial by designThe Arbitrum Portal is a technical interface, not a middleman. Ownership and autonomy are preserved by design; you remain in total control of your funds at all times. Arbitrum Earn simply structures the transaction payload for you to interact directly with the verifiable software of certain established protocols. You leverage the native security of systems like Aave or Pendle without any intermediary contracts.
Supercharging the ecosystemThis upgrade serves as a powerful distribution engine for the builders leveraging the Arbitrum Platform. By surfacing top-tier protocols within a unified interface, we’re driving deeper liquidity and higher visibility to the teams building automated, software-driven markets.
For buildersThis seamless experience extends beyond the Arbitrum Portal. Application developers can bring this same universal onboarding experience to their own products using the Embedded Bridge Widget. This iframe-based solution allows you to embed native bridge and swap functionality directly into your frontend, ensuring your users can move assets leveraging mature market infrastructure without ever leaving your site.
What’s next?The Arbitrum Portal will continue to evolve, expanding support for more asset types, deeper cross-chain functionality, and a widening array of protocol integrations to further eliminate friction across the programmable economy.
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Earning yield on stablecoins just got a little less painful for Arbitrum users. The Arbitrum Portal, the Layer 2 network’s native gateway for users, now features direct deposits into Morpho-powered stablecoin vaults, turning what was once a multi-step DeFi scavenger hunt into something closer to a one-click experience.
The flagship offering is a USDC vault on Arbitrum One, currently sporting a 3.31% APY with $13.3 million in total value locked.
What Morpho actually does here Morpho is a credit network that optimizes lending across decentralized protocols, including heavy hitters like Aave and Compound. Think of it as a routing layer for your deposits: instead of you manually picking which lending pool to park your stablecoins in, Morpho’s infrastructure, called MetaMorpho, curates strategies across multiple markets to squeeze out better risk-adjusted returns.
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The vaults themselves are curated by entities like Steakhouse and Gauntlet, firms that specialize in risk analysis and parameter optimization for DeFi protocols. Gauntlet, in particular, has built its reputation on quantitative risk modeling for some of the largest lending protocols in crypto.
The Arbitrum Portal integration bundles this vault access with cross-chain swap capabilities and vault management tools. Users can deposit, monitor positions, and move assets across chains without leaving the portal interface.
The bigger picture: DeFi yield goes mainstream Morpho has been on a quiet integration spree, embedding its vault infrastructure into wallet providers and enterprise platforms. Trust Wallet and Fireblocks have both adopted Morpho’s solutions, bringing stablecoin yield access to millions of users who might never visit a DeFi dashboard directly.
When Bitget Earn launched its own yield product recently, over $50 million in USDT was deposited shortly after release, signaling genuine demand for optimized lending solutions, especially when the onboarding friction is low.
What this means for investors This product is not targeting yield farmers chasing triple-digit returns on obscure liquidity pools. It is targeting the much larger cohort of crypto holders who want their stablecoins to do something other than sit idle in a wallet.
What differentiates Morpho’s approach is the institutional-grade curation layer. Having named risk managers like Gauntlet and Steakhouse overseeing vault strategies is a meaningful distinction from platforms where yield sources are opaque or purely algorithmic.
The risk profile is worth considering, though. Even curated vaults carry smart contract risk, oracle risk, and the ever-present possibility that lending market conditions shift unfavorably. Users should understand that this is not a bank deposit with FDIC insurance. It is a DeFi product with real, if managed, risk.
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The COTI Foundation, a non-profit organization behind the COTI blockchain network, is launching the COTI Privacy Portal. The Privacy Portal’s launch marks a key landmark in advancing blockchain-based privacy innovation. As COTI Foundation revealed in its official X announcement, the development enables consumers to seamlessly convert public tokens with one click, making them private. Hence, the move enables confidential transfers without any sacrifice on liquidity.
The COTI Privacy Portal is live 🔐
One click to make your tokens private. One click to bring them back.
✅ 7 supported tokens at launch.
✅ Send and receive private tokens
✅ Encrypted balances, visible only to you
✅ You hold the keys$COTI private tokens. Now in your hands.
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— COTI Foundation (@COTInetwork) May 31, 2026 COTI Foundation Unveils Privacy Portal to Enable One-Click Public-Private Token Conversion COTI Foundation’s launch of the COTI Privacy Portal enables public tokens’ conversion into private tokens with just a click. As a result, the consumers can enjoy confidential transfers with no sacrifice on liquidity. The portal currently supports 7 prominent tokens, providing consumers with instant access to robust private transactions across diverse assets.
Additionally, due to encryption, the balances are only visible to those owning the wallets. This guarantees maximum confidentiality. At the same time, with this move, COTI is getting a leading status in the privacy-driven decentralized finance (DeFi). In this respect, it provides a way for the management of private assets while retaining complete key controls.
Reinforcing Alignment with Regulatory and Enterprise Needs Along with that, the Privacy Portal of COTI Foundation is set to streamline the procedure of public-private toggling for digital assets. Consumers can receive and send private tokens seamlessly while retaining the option to revert their state to public when required. Such a dual functionality delivers flexibility to enterprises and individual traders seeking both confidentiality and transparency.
The COTI Foundation considers this partnership a notable move to fill the gap between blockchain innovation and institutional requirements. Moreover, the inclusion of the cutting-edge privacy features could advance adoption among entities concerned about regulatory alignment and confidentiality. Overall, with this initiative, the COTI Foundation has provided a practical solution to empower consumers to take full control of digital assets in a user-friendly, flexible, and secure way.
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Rubio: US and Iran to continue technical consultations at the end of this month
Multiple foreign media outlets reported on the 24th that US Secretary of State Rubio said technical teams from the United States and Iran will hold further talks in Switzerland by the end of June. (Xinhua News Agency)
5 hours ago
Over the past 24 hours, total crypto market liquidations hit $606 million, with more than 130,000 traders liquidated.
According to Coinglass data, the global cryptocurrency market recorded $606 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours, including $542 million in long-position liquidations and $68.22 million in short-position liquidations. A total of 135,785 traders worldwide were liquidated in the same period, with the largest single liquidation order occurring on Binance’s BTCUSDT trading pair, valued at $12.0111 million.
5 hours ago
Bitcoin falls below $60,000
According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has fallen below $60,000, with a 4.3% drop in the past 24 hours.
5 hours ago
US Treasury Secretary: AI boom may boost productivity and help curb inflation.
US Treasury Secretary Bessent told CNBC in an interview that he hopes the Federal Reserve will remain "open-minded" about the inflation pattern after the reversal of Iran-related energy price hikes. Bessent noted that the U.S. could enter an economic environment marked by high GDP growth without a corresponding rise in traditional inflation. He cited that in the 1990s, Alan Greenspan foresaw that office modernization and the internet could drive non-inflationary growth, and allowed the economy to keep expanding. Bessent believes the U.S. has a strong chance of seeing a similar scenario again. When asked whether the Fed still needs to worry about potential inflation and whether interest rate cuts are possible this year or next, Bessent declined to comment. However, he argued that it is necessary to stay open-minded about the price or inflation impacts from the Iran conflict, and monitor inflation performance after those effects subside. Bessent also said an open mind is needed, as the AI boom could boost productivity and deliver disinflationary effects, helping inflation return to the Fed’s target level. He added that he believes Kevin Warsh will choose the optimal path that meets both the Fed’s inflation and growth mandates. Bessent also noted that Warsh previously took a hawkish stance on inflation.
5 hours ago
US stocks' intraday storage sector sees broad declines, with Western Digital and Seagate Technology both falling over 4%.
According to Bitget data, during U.S. stock trading hours, the storage sector saw broad declines: Western Digital (WDC) fell 4.47%, Seagate Technology (STX) dropped 4.17%, SanDisk (SNDK) declined 2.31%, and Micron Technology (MU) edged down 0.96%. Most optical communication concept stocks rose, with Corning (GLW) leading the gains at 9.75%, followed by Ciena (CIEN) up 3.24%, Coherent (COHR) rising 2.93%, Lumentum (LITE) gaining 2.61%, and Nokia (NOK) advancing 1.82%. Additionally, Marvell Technology (MRVL) fell 2.59% and Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) declined 1.90%.
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During intraday trading in U.S. stocks, crypto-related concept stocks fell broadly, with MSTR dropping more than 7%.
According to Bitget market data, the three major U.S. stock indexes rose broadly: the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.94%, the S&P 500 increased 0.60%, and the Nasdaq rose 0.63%. Crypto-related stocks fell across the board, with declines as follows: Strategy (MSTR) down 7.33%; Circle (CRCL) down 4.35%; Bitmine (BMNR) down 3.97%; Coinbase (COIN) down 3.73%; Robinhood (HOOD) down 3.70%; Gemini (GEMI) down 3.27%; Bullish (BLSH) down 3.25%; Sharplink (SBET) down 3.19%.
MySDMC SSO (My School District of Manatee County Single Sign-On) is the official centralized login portal for students, parents, teachers, and staff in Manatee County, Florida. Access it at launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools. One set of district credentials unlocks Canvas, Microsoft 365, Google Classroom, Schoology, Focus SIS, WebNet, IXL Learning, and all other district-approved applications — no separate logins required. The portal is free, mobile-compatible, and available 24/7.
Key Takeaways:
Official login URL: launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools (ClassLink LaunchPad for Manatee Schools) Single sign-on: one username and password gives access to all district apps including Focus, Canvas, Schoology, and Microsoft 365 Mobile app: download ClassLink LaunchPad on iOS or Android — select “Manatee County School District” on setup Pre-K through Grade 2 students use Quickcard QR codes instead of typed passwords IT Service Desk: (941) 209-7400 | System status: status.mysdmc.manateeschools.net What Is MySDMC SSO? MySDMC SSO stands for My School District of Manatee County Single Sign-On. It is the centralized digital authentication gateway used by the School District of Manatee County (SDMC) — Florida’s 36th largest school district — to give every student, teacher, parent, and staff member secure access to all district educational tools through a single login.
Before SSO systems like this existed, users had to maintain separate usernames and passwords for every educational platform: one for Schoology, another for Canvas, another for Microsoft 365, another for the Focus gradebook, and so on. MySDMC SSO eliminates this by acting as a master key — log in once, and every district-approved application is instantly accessible from a single dashboard without re-entering credentials.
The system is powered by ClassLink, an enterprise education technology company whose LaunchPad SSO platform is used by school districts across the United States. Manatee County’s instance runs at launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools and is provided at no cost to all enrolled students, parents, and district employees.
Who Uses MySDMC SSO? The portal serves four distinct user groups within the Manatee County school community:
Students use MySDMC SSO to access their assignments, digital textbooks, grade reports, collaborative tools (Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams), and all curriculum platforms. Students from Pre-K through Grade 12 are provisioned with district credentials from enrollment.
Teachers and Staff use it to manage class rosters, submit grades, access curriculum resources, complete HR-related functions through WebNet, and use district-wide communication tools. Employee credentials are issued by the district’s IT department.
Parents and Guardians access MySDMC SSO primarily to reach the Focus Parent Portal — where they can monitor their child’s grades, attendance records, assignment completion, and school announcements. Parent accounts are separate from student accounts and require initial setup through the child’s school office.
Administrators use the SSO platform for school management functions, staff directory access, and district-level reporting dashboards.
How to Log Into MySDMC SSO: Step-by-Step Method 1: Browser login (desktop or mobile browser)
Open any web browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) Navigate to launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools — this is the official ClassLink LaunchPad for Manatee County Schools Enter your district-issued username and password Students: use your student ID number as username + district-assigned password Teachers/Staff: use your employee email credentials Parents: use the credentials provided during Focus Parent Portal setup Click Sign In Your personalized dashboard loads, showing all accessible applications as tiles Click any app tile to launch it — no additional login required Tip: Bookmark launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools for faster daily access. On Chrome, you can also add it to your home screen for one-tap access on mobile.
Method 2: ClassLink LaunchPad mobile app
Download the ClassLink LaunchPad app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store (search “ClassLink LaunchPad”) Open the app and search for “Manatee County School District” Select the district and enter your login credentials Your full app dashboard appears — identical to the browser version The mobile app adds push notifications and QR badge login not available in the browser Method 3: MySDMC Focus App (separate app)
The MySDMC Focus app is a standalone application for accessing the Focus Student Information System specifically. Download from:
Google Play: search “MySDMC Focus” (package: com.focusschoolsoftware.mysdmc) Apple App Store: search “MySDMC Focus” (App ID: 1508420361) The Focus app requires the same SSO credentials as the ClassLink portal.
What Apps Are Available in MySDMC SSO? The MySDMC SSO dashboard provides access to the full suite of district-approved educational platforms. The specific tiles visible on your dashboard depend on your user role (student, teacher, parent, staff):
ApplicationPurposeUsersFocus SISGrades, attendance, schedulesStudents, Parents, TeachersCanvasLearning management, assignmentsStudents, TeachersSchoologyCourse content, collaborationStudents, TeachersMicrosoft 365Word, Excel, Teams, emailAll usersGoogle ClassroomAssignments, Drive, MeetStudents, TeachersIXL LearningMath and language arts practiceStudentsPearsonDigital textbooks and assessmentsStudents, TeachersWebNetHR, payroll, employee functionsStaff onlyCleverApp launcher for younger studentsK-5 StudentsDiscovery EducationVideo and curriculum resourcesStudents, Teachers The dashboard is personalized — students see student-facing apps; teachers see classroom management tools and student data. Administrators see district-wide management dashboards not visible to other user types.
Students using the portal for academic research increasingly supplement district tools with AI assistants. ChatGOT is a free multi-model AI chatbot — no sign-up needed for 10 daily queries — that students use alongside school platforms for homework help, essay drafting, and research summaries across GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini simultaneously.
MySDMC SSO Focus: The Gradebook Portal The Focus Student Information System (Focus SIS) — accessible directly through MySDMC SSO — is the most frequently used tool for both parents and students monitoring academic progress. Focus contains:
For students:
Current grades in all classes Assignment completion status and scores Attendance records (absences, tardies, early releases) Class schedule and room assignments Upcoming assignment due dates Standardized test score history For parents (Focus Parent Portal):
All of the above for their enrolled child/children Direct messaging to teachers Notification settings for grade thresholds (e.g., alert when a grade drops below 70%) Bus route and transportation information Fee payment and lunch account management Parents access Focus through the same MySDMC SSO portal. If you have not yet set up your parent account, contact your child’s school office directly — they will issue initial credentials linked to your child’s student record.
MySDMC SSO for Pre-K Through Grade 2: Quickcards Young students in Pre-K through Grade 2 typically cannot type complex passwords reliably. MySDMC SSO addresses this with Quickcards — printed cards containing a unique QR code assigned to each young student.
To log in using a Quickcard:
Open the ClassLink LaunchPad app on a device camera Select the QR code / Quickcard login option Hold the student’s Quickcard in front of the device camera The system reads the QR code and logs the student into their age-appropriate app dashboard Quickcards are distributed by teachers at the beginning of the school year. If a Quickcard is lost or damaged, the classroom teacher or school office can print a replacement.
Resetting Your MySDMC SSO Password Self-service reset (recommended):
Go to launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools Click “Help, I forgot my password” or “Forgot Password” below the login fields Follow the on-screen recovery steps (typically involves entering your student ID or email and answering a security question) Create a new password meeting the district’s password requirements If self-service reset fails:
Students: contact your school’s front office or media center — staff can reset student passwords during school hours Parents: contact your child’s school office directly; parent account passwords are managed at the school level Staff/Teachers: contact the IT Service Desk at (941) 209-7400 during business hours (Monday–Friday, 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM) Password requirements: District passwords typically require a minimum of 8 characters, at least one number, and at least one special character. Students may be given a temporary password on first login that must be changed immediately.
MySDMC SSO Troubleshooting Problem: Can’t reach the login page
Check your internet connection Try a different browser or clear cache/cookies in your current browser Check if the district is experiencing a system outage at status.mysdmc.manateeschools.net If a 302 redirect error appears on focus.manateeschools.net, use the direct ClassLink URL: launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools Problem: Username or password not accepted
Confirm you are using your current district credentials (passwords expire periodically) Students: verify your student ID number is correct — no leading zeros are usually needed Try the self-service password reset tool Contact your school’s front office if reset is unavailable Problem: Dashboard loads but specific app won’t open
The issue may be with that specific application’s server, not the SSO Try opening the application in a new tab or incognito window If the app is Google Workspace, check G Suite status at workspace.google.com/status Report persistent app-specific issues to IT at (941) 209-7400 Problem: Mobile app not working
Ensure you have the latest version of ClassLink LaunchPad installed Verify you selected “Manatee County School District” (not a different district) Delete and reinstall the app if login loops occur Check that your device’s date/time is set correctly — incorrect device time can cause authentication failures Problem: Parent portal not showing child’s information
Confirm your parent account is properly linked to your child’s student record Contact your child’s school office if the link is missing — they can update the parent-student association Some changes (new enrollment, class changes) take 24–48 hours to appear in Focus MySDMC SSO on Mobile: ClassLink LaunchPad App Features The ClassLink LaunchPad mobile app (iOS and Android) offers several features beyond the basic browser experience:
Push notifications: Receive alerts for new assignments, grade updates, or school announcements QR badge login: Students can display a personal QR code on their device screen for quick station login in computer labs Biometric authentication: Face ID and fingerprint login on supported devices Offline access: Some resources remain accessible offline after initial load Instant directory: Browse school staff contacts directly from the app The app is available at no cost on the Apple App Store and Google Play. After installing, select “Manatee County School District” from the district search to connect to the correct ClassLink instance.
MySDMC SSO Security The School District of Manatee County prioritizes cybersecurity and student data privacy within the SSO system:
Encrypted connections: All data transmitted through the portal uses HTTPS/TLS encryption Multi-factor authentication (MFA): Available for staff accounts as an additional security layer FERPA compliance: Student educational records are protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act COPPA compliance: The district’s data handling meets Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act requirements for students under 13 Centralized access control: When a student withdraws or staff member separates, all application access is revoked from one central point — immediately and automatically Activity monitoring: District IT can monitor unusual login patterns to detect unauthorized access attempts Students and parents should never share SSO credentials with anyone — including friends — as this violates district acceptable use policies and can result in disciplinary action.
The broader question of who controls student identity data is increasingly relevant as schools digitize. While MySDMC SSO centralizes access through ClassLink, an emerging alternative model uses blockchain-based decentralized identity (DID) — explored in Ontology’s $10 million DID initiative, which would let students own and control their credentials rather than relying on district-managed portals.
Support TypeContactHoursIT Service Desk (staff/teachers)(941) 209-7400Mon–Fri 7:30 AM–4:30 PMSchool front office (students/parents)Your school’s direct numberSchool hoursSystem statusstatus.mysdmc.manateeschools.net24/7 onlineDistrict websitemanateeschools.net— For after-hours emergencies, the status page at status.mysdmc.manateeschools.net shows real-time information about any system outages or scheduled maintenance windows.
Frequently Asked Questions What is MySDMC SSO? MySDMC SSO stands for My School District of Manatee County Single Sign-On. It is the official centralized login portal for students, teachers, parents, and staff in Manatee County, Florida. One set of district-issued credentials gives access to all educational platforms including Canvas, Microsoft 365, Schoology, Google Classroom, Focus SIS, and IXL Learning — without needing separate passwords for each application. Access it at launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools.
How do I log into MySDMC SSO? Go to launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools in any browser. Enter your district-issued username and password — students use their student ID and district password; parents use credentials from Focus Parent Portal setup; staff use employee login details. Click Sign In to reach your dashboard. For mobile access, download the ClassLink LaunchPad app and select "Manatee County School District."
What is the MySDMC SSO login URL? The official MySDMC SSO login URL is launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools. An alternative access point is my.sdmc.manateeschools.net, which also connects to the ClassLink LaunchPad for Manatee Schools. Bookmark the official ClassLink URL for reliable daily access — some older URLs redirect and may cause login issues.
How do I reset my MySDMC SSO password? Click "Forgot Password" or "Help, I forgot my password" on the login page at launchpad.classlink.com/manateeschools. Follow the self-service recovery steps. If self-service fails, students should contact their school's front office; teachers and staff should call the district IT Service Desk at (941) 209-7400 during business hours (Monday–Friday, 7:30 AM–4:30 PM).
What is MySDMC Focus? MySDMC Focus refers to the Focus Student Information System (Focus SIS) — the grade and attendance tracking platform accessible through the MySDMC SSO portal. Students use Focus to view grades and assignments; parents use the Focus Parent Portal to monitor their child's academic progress, attendance, and schedule. The standalone MySDMC Focus app is available on iOS (App Store ID: 1508420361) and Android (Google Play package: com.focusschoolsoftware.mysdmc).ShareContentThe theoretical threat of quantum computers to Bitcoin’s cryptographic security now has a dollar figure: $469 billion. That’s the value of 6.04 million BTC, or 30.2% of the total issued supply, whose public keys are exposed on-chain today and could be exploited if a sufficiently powerful quantum compastedQuick Answer: AMP is currently trading near $0.000841, down roughly 99.3% from its June 2021 all-time high of $0.1208. Third-party forecasts for 2026 range widely — from $0.0009 on the bearish end (CoinCodex) to $0.0100 on the bullish end (PricePrediction.net) — with the base-case consensus sitting pasted
App Review Summaries and Replies Are Now Live in the Solana dApp Store Publishing Portal
Ratings & Reviews is live in the Solana dApp Store publishing portal. Every rating, every review, an AI-powered weekly digest, and the ability to reply directly, all from the publishing portal. This is the most-requested feature from dApp Store publishings, and it’s available today at https://publish.solanamobile.com/
The Solana dApp Store now hosts over 900 apps. Your users have been rating and reviewing your dApp since the day you launched. Thousands of reviews are flowing in every week across the ecosystem. Until today, that feedback existed in a place publishers couldn’t reach from their own tools.
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Ratings & Reviews is live in the Solana dApp Store publishing portal. Every rating, every review, an AI-powered weekly digest, and the ability to reply directly, all from the publishing portal. This is the most-requested feature from dApp Store publishings, and it’s available today at https://publish.solanamobile.com/
What’s New in the Updated Publishing PortalReview AnalyticsThe publishing portal now gives a full picture of how your app is performing since its first release. Star distribution, total review count, and reply rate — all visible at a glance, plus review quality filters.
The data and filters are there to help you get more signal and less noise. If your 1-star reviews are climbing after a specific release, you’ll see it immediately. If 87% of your users are on the latest version but your rating is dropping, that tells you the update broke something.
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Every week, the publishing portal generates an AI-powered summary of your recent reviews. LLMs read every review from the past seven days and tell you three things: what users love, what’s broken, and what they’re asking you to build next.
The digest identifies patterns across reviews that you might not catch reading them one by one. If twelve users in the same week mention wallet connection issues — phrased twelve different ways — the digest catches that and surfaces it as a single, actionable takeaway. If a cluster of 5-star reviews all mention the same feature, you know what’s working and can double down.
It also flags review quality. Not every 5-star review is organic, and not every 1-star review is legitimate. The digest notes when high-rated reviews look like gibberish or don’t reference your product, so you can separate real user feedback from spam before making product update decisions.
Key takeaways from the digest are listed at the bottom of each summary with priority flags, so you can scan them in thirty seconds and know where to focus your next sprint.
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This matters more than it sounds. A user who leaves a 3-star review about a bug and gets a direct response saying it’s fixed in the next release is a user who updates their review. A user who feels heard is a user who stays.
Replies are public, so other users browsing your app’s reviews will see that there’s an active team behind the product. For developers and founders building trust with a new audience, that signal compounds.
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Rubio: US and Iran to continue technical consultations at the end of this month
Multiple foreign media outlets reported on the 24th that US Secretary of State Rubio said technical teams from the United States and Iran will hold further talks in Switzerland by the end of June. (Xinhua News Agency)
5 hours ago
Over the past 24 hours, total crypto market liquidations hit $606 million, with more than 130,000 traders liquidated.
According to Coinglass data, the global cryptocurrency market recorded $606 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours, including $542 million in long-position liquidations and $68.22 million in short-position liquidations. A total of 135,785 traders worldwide were liquidated in the same period, with the largest single liquidation order occurring on Binance’s BTCUSDT trading pair, valued at $12.0111 million.
5 hours ago
Bitcoin falls below $60,000
According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has fallen below $60,000, with a 4.3% drop in the past 24 hours.
5 hours ago
US Treasury Secretary: AI boom may boost productivity and help curb inflation.
US Treasury Secretary Bessent told CNBC in an interview that he hopes the Federal Reserve will remain "open-minded" about the inflation pattern after the reversal of Iran-related energy price hikes. Bessent noted that the U.S. could enter an economic environment marked by high GDP growth without a corresponding rise in traditional inflation. He cited that in the 1990s, Alan Greenspan foresaw that office modernization and the internet could drive non-inflationary growth, and allowed the economy to keep expanding. Bessent believes the U.S. has a strong chance of seeing a similar scenario again. When asked whether the Fed still needs to worry about potential inflation and whether interest rate cuts are possible this year or next, Bessent declined to comment. However, he argued that it is necessary to stay open-minded about the price or inflation impacts from the Iran conflict, and monitor inflation performance after those effects subside. Bessent also said an open mind is needed, as the AI boom could boost productivity and deliver disinflationary effects, helping inflation return to the Fed’s target level. He added that he believes Kevin Warsh will choose the optimal path that meets both the Fed’s inflation and growth mandates. Bessent also noted that Warsh previously took a hawkish stance on inflation.
5 hours ago
US stocks' intraday storage sector sees broad declines, with Western Digital and Seagate Technology both falling over 4%.
According to Bitget data, during U.S. stock trading hours, the storage sector saw broad declines: Western Digital (WDC) fell 4.47%, Seagate Technology (STX) dropped 4.17%, SanDisk (SNDK) declined 2.31%, and Micron Technology (MU) edged down 0.96%. Most optical communication concept stocks rose, with Corning (GLW) leading the gains at 9.75%, followed by Ciena (CIEN) up 3.24%, Coherent (COHR) rising 2.93%, Lumentum (LITE) gaining 2.61%, and Nokia (NOK) advancing 1.82%. Additionally, Marvell Technology (MRVL) fell 2.59% and Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) declined 1.90%.
5 hours ago
During intraday trading in U.S. stocks, crypto-related concept stocks fell broadly, with MSTR dropping more than 7%.
According to Bitget market data, the three major U.S. stock indexes rose broadly: the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.94%, the S&P 500 increased 0.60%, and the Nasdaq rose 0.63%. Crypto-related stocks fell across the board, with declines as follows: Strategy (MSTR) down 7.33%; Circle (CRCL) down 4.35%; Bitmine (BMNR) down 3.97%; Coinbase (COIN) down 3.73%; Robinhood (HOOD) down 3.70%; Gemini (GEMI) down 3.27%; Bullish (BLSH) down 3.25%; Sharplink (SBET) down 3.19%.
Rubio: US and Iran to continue technical consultations at the end of this month
Multiple foreign media outlets reported on the 24th that US Secretary of State Rubio said technical teams from the United States and Iran will hold further talks in Switzerland by the end of June. (Xinhua News Agency)
5 hours ago
Over the past 24 hours, total crypto market liquidations hit $606 million, with more than 130,000 traders liquidated.
According to Coinglass data, the global cryptocurrency market recorded $606 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours, including $542 million in long-position liquidations and $68.22 million in short-position liquidations. A total of 135,785 traders worldwide were liquidated in the same period, with the largest single liquidation order occurring on Binance’s BTCUSDT trading pair, valued at $12.0111 million.
5 hours ago
Bitcoin falls below $60,000
According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has fallen below $60,000, with a 4.3% drop in the past 24 hours.
5 hours ago
US Treasury Secretary: AI boom may boost productivity and help curb inflation.
US Treasury Secretary Bessent told CNBC in an interview that he hopes the Federal Reserve will remain "open-minded" about the inflation pattern after the reversal of Iran-related energy price hikes. Bessent noted that the U.S. could enter an economic environment marked by high GDP growth without a corresponding rise in traditional inflation. He cited that in the 1990s, Alan Greenspan foresaw that office modernization and the internet could drive non-inflationary growth, and allowed the economy to keep expanding. Bessent believes the U.S. has a strong chance of seeing a similar scenario again. When asked whether the Fed still needs to worry about potential inflation and whether interest rate cuts are possible this year or next, Bessent declined to comment. However, he argued that it is necessary to stay open-minded about the price or inflation impacts from the Iran conflict, and monitor inflation performance after those effects subside. Bessent also said an open mind is needed, as the AI boom could boost productivity and deliver disinflationary effects, helping inflation return to the Fed’s target level. He added that he believes Kevin Warsh will choose the optimal path that meets both the Fed’s inflation and growth mandates. Bessent also noted that Warsh previously took a hawkish stance on inflation.
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US stocks' intraday storage sector sees broad declines, with Western Digital and Seagate Technology both falling over 4%.
According to Bitget data, during U.S. stock trading hours, the storage sector saw broad declines: Western Digital (WDC) fell 4.47%, Seagate Technology (STX) dropped 4.17%, SanDisk (SNDK) declined 2.31%, and Micron Technology (MU) edged down 0.96%. Most optical communication concept stocks rose, with Corning (GLW) leading the gains at 9.75%, followed by Ciena (CIEN) up 3.24%, Coherent (COHR) rising 2.93%, Lumentum (LITE) gaining 2.61%, and Nokia (NOK) advancing 1.82%. Additionally, Marvell Technology (MRVL) fell 2.59% and Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) declined 1.90%.
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During intraday trading in U.S. stocks, crypto-related concept stocks fell broadly, with MSTR dropping more than 7%.
According to Bitget market data, the three major U.S. stock indexes rose broadly: the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.94%, the S&P 500 increased 0.60%, and the Nasdaq rose 0.63%. Crypto-related stocks fell across the board, with declines as follows: Strategy (MSTR) down 7.33%; Circle (CRCL) down 4.35%; Bitmine (BMNR) down 3.97%; Coinbase (COIN) down 3.73%; Robinhood (HOOD) down 3.70%; Gemini (GEMI) down 3.27%; Bullish (BLSH) down 3.25%; Sharplink (SBET) down 3.19%.
Key Takeaways WIF defended $0.76 support as whales accumulated on spot markets. Open Interest rose, reinforcing optimism, but cooling futures activity raised caution, hinting at consolidation before any decisive upside breakout.
dogwifhat [WIF] retested its key ascending trendline support at around $ 0.76 on the 26th of August. The support level has repeatedly cushioned pullbacks this year.
The memecoin showed early signs of stabilization on the daily chart. Buyers were defending the level as seen from the accumulating bullish momentum.
Source: TradingView WIF whales are stepping in to ‘buy the dip’ Large holders were quietly accumulating long positions at these trading prices.
CryptoQuant’s Spot Average Order Size chart showed consistent Big Whale Orders on the Spot market, suggesting confidence in WIF’s medium-term outlook.
Historically, whales avoid chasing short-term spikes. Their steady activity lent credibility to projections of a longer-term bullish run.
Source: CryptoQuant Similarly, Open Interest (OI) in WIF Futures rose steadily into the 26th of August, pointing to a growing institutional activity. Higher OI usually signals that bigger players are positioning for an extended move.
The surge, coupled with spot accumulation, reinforced investor confidence to extend long positions
Source: CoinGlass Is dogwifhat’s Futures market losing momentum However, the picture wasn’t one-sided.
The Futures Volume Bubble Map showed cooling activity. Traders turned less aggressive as speculative momentum slowed.
WIF’s spot market looked bullish, and yet the derivatives side told a more cautious story.
When whales buy but Futures traders pull back, markets often enter standoff phases. Price held steady, but explosive momentum often slowed.
Source: CryptoQuant What to watch next At the time of writing, the $0.76 trendline support stood as a critical inflection point for WIF.
If this level holds, the bullish momentum could persist, potentially driving the token toward higher resistance zones in the upcoming sessions, especially with strong whale demand acting as a catalyst.
However, if Futures Volume continues to decline, upward momentum may weaken before a breakout can materialize.
In that case, WIF could enter a phase of sideways consolidation, limiting near-term price action.
Memecoins have lately been showing a slow yet steady price momentum. With memecoins making up a significant chunk of the cryptocurrency market, coins like Bonk. DogWithHat and Dogecoin have all adapted to a sluggish price pace, but with the growing ETF momentum, the cryptocurrency is all set to experience a bullish upheaval, which could signal a wave of fresh inflows to cater to the memecoin mania as well. Will Dogecoin, Bonk, and DogWifHat be able to score some major wins by the end of this month? Let’s find out.
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Memecoin Price Prediction: WIF, DOGE, BONK1. DogWithHat Price ForecastSource: TwitterDogWifHat has lately adopted a slow price momentum. WIF, in its earlier price rallies, has enjoyed historic highs, the ones that helped the token claim the $3 price mark and beyond. The token at present is sitting at $0.93, heavily dependent on market changes and volatility to ascend and descend accordingly. As per CoinCodex Dogwifhat data, WIF is expected to note further price downfalls this month, ending September on a bearish note. WIF may fall to a new low of $0.72 per CC’s latest data.
Source: CoinCodexBy mid-October, the token may fall further to explore the $0.69 price range.
Source: CoinCodex“According to our current Dogwifhat price prediction, the price of Dogwifhat is predicted to drop by -25.33% and reach $0.697881 by October 17, 2025. Per our technical indicators, the current sentiment is bullish, while the Fear & Greed Index is showing 53 (neutral). Dogwifhat recorded 16/30 (53%) green days with 5.72% price volatility over the last 30 days. Based on the Dogwifhat forecast, it’s now a good time to buy Dogwifhat.”
Dogecoin Price PredictionSource: ForbesDogecoin is a leading cryptocurrency meme coin, gaining steady momentum as of late. This momentum is primarily driven by the rising ETF hype and the fact that the token is in the queue to dominate the market in the form of a Dogecoin ETF. Several companies have filed for a DOGE ETF, making it a top investment contender to explore at the moment.
According to CoinCodex DOGE data, Dogecoin may hit $0.27 by September 30th, 2025.
Source: CoinCodexBy mid-October, the token is expected to fall, hitting $0.30 in the process.
Source: CoinCodex“According to our current Dogecoin price prediction, the price of Dogecoin is predicted to rise by 15.63% and reach $0.309738 by October 17, 2025. Per our technical indicators, the current sentiment is bullish, while the Fear & Greed Index is showing 52 (neutral). Dogecoin recorded 16/30 (53%) green days with 9.40% price volatility over the last 30 days. Based on the Dogecoin forecast, it’s now a good time to buy Dogecoin.”
3. BONK Price ForecastSource: Inside BitcoinsBONK is another leading memecoin that has recently joined the growing ETF race. Per Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg ETF specialist, Tuttle has recently filed for a Bonk Income Blast ETF, delivering a new wave of attention and spotlight to the meme token at the moment.
According to CoinCodex Bonk data, Bonk may surge to sit at $0.000018 by September 30.
Source: CoinCodexBy October, the token may decline further to explore $0.00001768 price range.
Source: CoinCodex“According to our current Bonk price prediction, the price of Bonk is predicted to drop by -25.04% and reach $ 0.00001768 by October 17, 2025. Per our technical indicators, the current sentiment is neutral, while the Fear & Greed Index is showing 53 (neutral). Bonk recorded 15/30 (50%) green days with 7.17% price volatility over the last 30 days. Based on the Bonk forecast, it’s now a good time to buy Bonk.
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