The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
LG Electronics is building a blockchain-based advertising network on its own Arbitrum-derived Layer 2, with a pilot completed and a commercial launch targeted for later this year.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
New IC3 research finds most AI-agent crypto platforms show no clear evidence of autonomous trade execution, despite combined token valuations exceeding $3 billion. The paper covers 1,900+ surveyed projects and finds token holders lost $191.7M collectively while the top 1% captured 81.4% of gains.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Coinbase has launched two onchain USDC lending vaults built on Morpho and curated by Steakhouse Financial: a conservative Prime tier backed by BTC and ETH collateral, and a Higher Yield tier drawing on Ethena-powered assets.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, a standalone account that lets AI assistants including ChatGPT and Claude execute crypto trades, manage portfolios, and pay for data autonomously under user-defined guardrails. x402 payments integration arrives next week.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
The steward of the Cardano blockchain is seeding DeFi liquidity, backing an $80M venture fund and signing enterprise deals — a reversal of its hands-off posture that lands as onchain metrics fall and the network's founder feuds with it over governance.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Binance has activated its tokenized-equity layer, converting live stock positions on its brokerage platform into BNB Chain tokens tradable around the clock. The first five bStocks include Nvidia, Tesla, Circle, Micron, and Sandisk.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong disclosed three platform-scale metrics on Thursday: approximately $1 trillion in annual stablecoin movement, $20 billion in USDC held on platform, and more than 160 million autonomous transactions via the x402 agentic payments protocol in the last year.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Citigroup is making tokenized interests in private companies available to wealth-management and institutional clients on SIX Digital Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reported. The bank has already completed its first transaction and is in talks with additional private firms.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Delaware and New Jersey each advanced bills this week to ban cryptocurrency ATMs statewide, citing over $400 million in annual nationwide fraud losses and a scam pattern that disproportionately targets older residents.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Digital Asset has closed a $355 million funding round led by a16z crypto, with HSBC, Apollo, CME, BNP Paribas, ADIA, ABN Amro, S&P Global, Tradeweb and more than 20 other institutional names joining as investors.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
The agreement with developer BHL Group is an early-stage memorandum of understanding, and the Alba Bay community is not slated to break ground until 2027
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
Binance's direct stock-trading platform drew more than 80% of its first-week volume from emerging markets, with assets under management crossing $400 million within seven days. The 2% share of TradFi-referenced perpetuals volume positions the June 1 launch as a distribution play for underserved
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
Kalshi opened more than 150 insider-trading investigations in the first quarter of 2026, blocked over 100 potential insider trades, and referred at least 20 cases to law enforcement. The CFTC-regulated prediction market paired the numbers Tuesday with a new risk-scoring framework,
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, examining whether banks unlawfully terminated customer accounts for political reasons. The probe directly validates the crypto industry's Operation Chokepoint 2.0 grievances.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
An NFT creator published a thread claiming to trace large ADA flows to IOG-linked stake pool pledges from the 2021 bull market. Cardano's founder has made no public statement in response to the new analysis. ADA is down 42% over the past 30 days.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
Robinhood Securities has received approval to serve as an IPO underwriter, CEO Vlad Tenev announced Tuesday, positioning the zero-commission broker to compete directly with Wall Street banks on the mega-IPO pipeline.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
An attacker exploited Token of Power's Aragon DAO on Tuesday to mint 10 billion TOP tokens via a malicious governance proposal, then swapped the supply for 944.2 WETH worth roughly $1.58 million.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
Raydium core contributor Infra confirmed Wednesday that an attacker drained ~$1.34M from the legacy AMM V3 program, a contract phased out in 2021. Current users were unaffected, the treasury will cover full compensation, and the root cause was a self-contained LP-mint validation flaw. PeckShield
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
ZK blockchain project Hyli is shutting down after two years, with the team citing weak demand for zero-knowledge technology. The closure comes the same day Botanix wound down its Bitcoin Layer 2.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun