LG Electronics Builds an Arbitrum Layer 2 for Onchain Ads
LG Electronics is building its own Arbitrum-based layer-2 to move digital advertising onchain, creating a shared ledger of ad inventory and how audiences interact with it.
Already piloted with a Japanese ad agency, LG joins a wave of corporates — Stripe, Circle, Robinhood — launching their own chains; ARB rose about 5% on the news.
LG Electronics is building its own Arbitrum-based layer-2 to move digital advertising onchain, creating a shared ledger of ad inventory and how audiences interact with it.
The chain batches ad transactions cheaply and runs the ad market automatically — "you don't need manual interventions," said Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder.
Already piloted with a Japanese ad agency, LG joins a wave of corporates — Stripe, Circle, Robinhood — launching their own chains; ARB rose about 5% on the news.
$115M in Bets on the Cologne CS2 Major. Who Makes Playoffs?
IEM Cologne is the biggest CS2 tournament of the year — and Polymarket has 52 markets open on it, ~$115M in bets total.
The Major's group stage is halfway through, and the market has already sorted the field. Vitality and Spirit are near-locks for playoffs (96%+). But only 8 of 16 teams advance, and the rest are a coin-flip — every map from here decides who's in.
Prediction markets came for elections, then sports. Now they're pricing esports.
IEM Cologne is the biggest CS2 tournament of the year — and Polymarket has 52 markets open on it, ~$115M in bets total.
The Major's group stage is halfway through, and the market has already sorted the field. Vitality and Spirit are near-locks for playoffs (96%+). But only 8 of 16 teams advance, and the rest are a coin-flip — every map from here decides who's in.
Prediction markets came for elections, then sports. Now they're pricing esports.
US Orders Anthropic to Pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5
A US export-control directive citing national security forces Anthropic to abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers and any foreign national worldwide.
Anthropic says no universal jailbreak exists and stands by its safeguards; all its other models stay online, with the company promising more details within 24 hours.
A US export-control directive citing national security forces Anthropic to abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers and any foreign national worldwide.
Washington points to a "jailbreak" of Fable 5, but Anthropic says it only surfaced minor, already-known flaws that rival models, including GPT-5.5, can find without any bypass.
Anthropic says no universal jailbreak exists and stands by its safeguards; all its other models stay online, with the company promising more details within 24 hours.
Plume Brings PIMCO-Backed Bond Yield to Bybit Users
Plume partnered with Bybit to launch institutional fixed-income vaults, letting Bybit users put idle stablecoins into onchain products backed by PIMCO and CMBI.
It is a clean RWA distribution play: TradFi fixed income packaged onchain and dropped straight into an exchange's user base.
Plume partnered with Bybit to launch institutional fixed-income vaults, letting Bybit users put idle stablecoins into onchain products backed by PIMCO and CMBI.
The vaults hold mortgage-backed securities, high-yield corporate bonds and Asia-Pacific investment-grade debt — yield from real-world credit, not crypto markets.
It is a clean RWA distribution play: TradFi fixed income packaged onchain and dropped straight into an exchange's user base.
Aztec Connect Drained for $2.1M via ZK Proof Bug
An attacker drained funds from a deprecated Aztec Connect contract by exploiting a flaw in its ZK proof verification: a crafted rollup submission passed the proof check while the settlement logic processed a different set of transactions.
Today's Aztec Network and its users are unaffected. Per DeFiLlama it is June's 13th crypto exploit, after a month already marked by the $30M Humanity Protocol hack.
An attacker drained funds from a deprecated Aztec Connect contract by exploiting a flaw in its ZK proof verification: a crafted rollup submission passed the proof check while the settlement logic processed a different set of transactions.
BlockSec says the exploit was repeated seven times across seven assets — 909 ETH, 270K DAI, 167 wstETH and more. Aztec Labs relinquished admin access in 2024, leaving the contracts fully immutable, so no one could pause them.
Today's Aztec Network and its users are unaffected. Per DeFiLlama it is June's 13th crypto exploit, after a month already marked by the $30M Humanity Protocol hack.
DeepSeek has Closed $7.4B Funding at a $50B Valuation
China's DeepSeek closed one of the country's largest-ever private tech rounds, $7.4B at a ~$50B valuation, backed by Tencent, JD, NetEase, IDG Capital and CATL. Deepseek Founder Liang reportedly contributed ~40% of the round himself.
China's DeepSeek closed one of the country's largest-ever private tech rounds, $7.4B at a ~$50B valuation, backed by Tencent, JD, NetEase, IDG Capital and CATL. Deepseek Founder Liang reportedly contributed ~40% of the round himself.
The structure is unusual: investors funded a limited partnership run by founder Liang Wenfeng, not DeepSeek directly, locked for five years with no votes — only China's National AI Fund invested directly and kept its vote.
Binance Faces EU Access Risk as MiCA Deadline Approaches
Binance may lose its right to serve EU clients within weeks after its MiCA licence application in Greece is reportedly set to be rejected. Without authorization, the exchange would not qualify to continue operating across the bloc from July 1.
Binance said it has been working with regulators for the past 18 months and believes it has met the requirements for MiCA authorisation.
The deadline could reshape Europe’s crypto market, with licensed platforms gaining an edge while unlicensed exchanges may be forced to limit services, pause onboarding, or exit the region.
Binance may lose its right to serve EU clients within weeks after its MiCA licence application in Greece is reportedly set to be rejected. Without authorization, the exchange would not qualify to continue operating across the bloc from July 1.
The move comes as MiCA’s transitional period ends, forcing crypto firms to secure full CASP licensing or stop serving EU users. According to the report, roughly 210 of more than 1,200 firms with prior national VASP registrations have converted so far, leaving the majority without full MiCA approval.
Binance said it has been working with regulators for the past 18 months and believes it has met the requirements for MiCA authorisation.
The deadline could reshape Europe’s crypto market, with licensed platforms gaining an edge while unlicensed exchanges may be forced to limit services, pause onboarding, or exit the region.
Binance Wallet to Host re (RE) Pre-TGE Prime Sale today
re Protocol opens its Pre-TGE Prime Sale on Binance Wallet today at $0.05 per RE — a $500,000 raise for 10M tokens (1% of supply), implying a $50M FDV.
re Protocol routes stablecoin capital into fully collateralized reinsurance contracts through licensed insurers — an RWA-insurance project with ≈$265M TVL.
re Protocol opens its Pre-TGE Prime Sale on Binance Wallet today at $0.05 per RE — a $500,000 raise for 10M tokens (1% of supply), implying a $50M FDV.
Open to Binance Alpha holders during the June 17, 12:00–14:00 UTC window (max 3 BNB each); RE airdrops to Alpha accounts on June 18.
re Protocol routes stablecoin capital into fully collateralized reinsurance contracts through licensed insurers — an RWA-insurance project with ≈$265M TVL.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam Update Enters Final Testing
Glamsterdam, Ethereum's biggest planned upgrade of 2026, has entered its final development phase — core devs are running full devnet tests of a fork bundling every planned EIP before code freeze and public testnets.
Key changes: EIP-7732 (ePBS) moves block-building on-chain to curb MEV; EIP-7928 adds block-level access lists for parallel execution; EIP-7904 reprices gas — cheaper compute, pricier state.
Glamsterdam, Ethereum's biggest planned upgrade of 2026, has entered its final development phase — core devs are running full devnet tests of a fork bundling every planned EIP before code freeze and public testnets.
The gas limit jumps 60M → 200M and L1 fees could fall up to 78%, with mainnet now targeted for Q3 2026.
Key changes: EIP-7732 (ePBS) moves block-building on-chain to curb MEV; EIP-7928 adds block-level access lists for parallel execution; EIP-7904 reprices gas — cheaper compute, pricier state.
Moody's Brings Its Credit Ratings Onchain to Solana
Moody's Ratings has expanded its Token Integration Engine with Alphaledger, putting its credit ratings onchain on Solana.
Moody's Ratings has expanded its Token Integration Engine with Alphaledger, putting its credit ratings onchain on Solana.
It is the first time Moody's ratings are integrated and machine-readable on a major public, permissionless blockchain. Alphaledger handles the onchain integration, letting protocols consume Moody's credit directly.
Early Access Radar: 15 Waitlists to Join Now
No matter what the market's doing — green, red, sideways — new projects keep launching every week. And the best window to get involved is the earliest one: before the token, before the crowd, while the door's still open.
So we rounded up 15 fresh projects with open waitlists into one Early Access Radar — AI trading, perp DEXs, prediction markets, crypto cards. A few minutes each, all in one place, so you don't have to go hunting.
No matter what the market's doing — green, red, sideways — new projects keep launching every week. And the best window to get involved is the earliest one: before the token, before the crowd, while the door's still open.
So we rounded up 15 fresh projects with open waitlists into one Early Access Radar — AI trading, perp DEXs, prediction markets, crypto cards. A few minutes each, all in one place, so you don't have to go hunting.
Kalshi Tops $2B Annualized Revenue and Eyes an IPO
Prediction-market platform Kalshi has crossed $2B in annualized revenue, roughly 3x since November, and has opened early, informal IPO talks with investment banks.
It comes fresh off a $1 billion Series F that valued Kalshi at $22 billion, backed by Coatue, Sequoia, a16z and ARK — with any IPO still likely a year or more away amid state-level legal fights.
Prediction-market platform Kalshi has crossed $2B in annualized revenue, roughly 3x since November, and has opened early, informal IPO talks with investment banks.
The surge was driven by traders betting on the World Cup, fresh off a $1B Series F that valued Kalshi at $22B.
It comes fresh off a $1 billion Series F that valued Kalshi at $22 billion, backed by Coatue, Sequoia, a16z and ARK — with any IPO still likely a year or more away amid state-level legal fights.
Base Targets June 25 for Beryl and B20 Tokens
Coinbase's L2 Base is targeting a June 25 mainnet activation of Beryl, a hard fork that introduces B20 — a new native standard for permissioned tokens.
Beryl deploys new precompiles — B20Factory, PolicyRegistry and ActivationRegistry — and has already landed on Base's Sepolia testnet ahead of mainnet.
Coinbase's L2 Base is targeting a June 25 mainnet activation of Beryl, a hard fork that introduces B20 — a new native standard for permissioned tokens.
B20 lets transfers enforce on-chain allowlists and blocklists, making it suited for stablecoins, security tokens and other RWA.
Beryl deploys new precompiles — B20Factory, PolicyRegistry and ActivationRegistry — and has already landed on Base's Sepolia testnet ahead of mainnet.
JaredFromSubway MEV Bot Drained in $7.5M Honeypot
Notorious sandwich-attack bot 'jaredfromsubway' was drained after an attacker spun up 66 fake wrapper tokens and pools mimicking WETH, USDC and USDT to lure it in.
Blockaid pegs the loss near $7.5M; Jared himself claims $15M. About 1,000 ETH was then routed through Tornado Cash.
Notorious sandwich-attack bot 'jaredfromsubway' was drained after an attacker spun up 66 fake wrapper tokens and pools mimicking WETH, USDC and USDT to lure it in.
No code was hacked: lured by fake 'arbitrage', the bot kept approving attacker contracts, which then swept ~1,475 WETH plus ~$4.9M in USDC/USDT in one tx.
Blockaid pegs the loss near $7.5M; Jared himself claims $15M. About 1,000 ETH was then routed through Tornado Cash.
GoMining Takes On Dorsey's Square With Native BTC Payments
GoMining opened its GoBTC Pay protocol to merchants with a Gen1 SDK and API — putting it in direct competition with Block's Square in the race for everyday BTC payments. The new product enables merchants, wallet providers, and partners to integrate Bitcoin payments into real-world products and services.
Built on GoMining's private 15 EH/s Stratum V2 mempool with ~12h settlement and a 0.2% fee split between wallets and miners; an initial ~10 merchants are onboarding. GoMining currently serves 5M users.
GoMining opened its GoBTC Pay protocol to merchants with a Gen1 SDK and API — putting it in direct competition with Block's Square in the race for everyday BTC payments. The new product enables merchants, wallet providers, and partners to integrate Bitcoin payments into real-world products and services.
The twist: GoMining merchants receive actual Bitcoin, settled on-chain and non-custodial — where Square and most rivals convert BTC to fiat by default. The bet: businesses want to keep their BTC.
Built on GoMining's private 15 EH/s Stratum V2 mempool with ~12h settlement and a 0.2% fee split between wallets and miners; an initial ~10 merchants are onboarding. GoMining currently serves 5M users.