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Securitize Locks In $400M and an NYSE Ticker — Tokenization's Biggest Name Goes Public Next Week
BlackRock-backed Securitize is set to raise roughly $400 million and start trading on the NYSE as SECZ on July 2, putting the largest real-world-asset tokenizer on the public market for the first time.

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Jun 262 min read


Base Freezes Up Again — Coinbase's Layer-2 Stalls for the Second Time in 48 Hours
Base halted block production for the second time in two days, with the chain recovering at 16:11 UTC after an alert went out at 15:33. The repeat stall lands right on top of the network's Beryl upgrade.

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Jun 262 min read


Base Freezes Again: Coinbase's L2 Stalls Twice in 48 Hours
Base halted block production for the second time in two days, stopping the chain cold before resuming. The repeat outage raises hard questions about its single-sequencer design.

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Jun 262 min read


XRP Loses Its Last Floor as a Four-Year Oversold Signal Flashes Under $1.05
XRP slid through support near $1.04 as its weekly RSI sank to a four-year oversold low. Here's what the on-chain data says about whether this is capitulation or a coiled spring.

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Jun 252 min read


Kraken Bids $385M for a Piece of Aave — Stani Kulechov Says the DeFi Giant Isn't Selling at a 70% Discount
Kraken parent Payward is in talks to take a 15% stake in Aave, but founder Stani Kulechov says the protocol isn't for sale 'at a 70% discount' — and is leaning on token buybacks instead.

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Jun 252 min read


Standard Chartered Tells Aave Holders a 50x Is on the Table by 2030
A Standard Chartered note initiates Aave coverage with a $3,500 target for 2030 — roughly 50x current levels — betting tokenized assets and institutional DeFi carry the lending giant past Bitcoin and Ether.

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Jun 242 min read


Ethereum's Biggest Corporate Holders Just Funded a Lab to Keep ETH From Buckling Under Wall Street
Bitmine, SharpLink and Joe Lubin are bankrolling Ethlabs, a new nonprofit run by five former Ethereum Foundation researchers, built to harden the network for the institutional money already piling in.

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Jun 222 min read


An $8.5M Bank Run Hit a Vault With No Exposure to the Coin That Started It
DeFi yield protocol Altura is winding down its $39M USDT vault after $8.5M was pulled in a single day — not because anything broke, but because a shared auditor collapsed elsewhere and panic did the rest.

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Jun 222 min read


A Korean Bank With 15 Million Users Just Pointed Its Cross-Border Rails at Solana
Toss Bank signed a direct cooperation deal with the Solana Foundation to test stablecoin-based remittances, becoming the first South Korean internet bank to route a settlement experiment onto a public layer-1.

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Jun 222 min read


Sweden Just Got Its First Real Stablecoin — And the Dollar Already Owns the Room
AllUnity, the DWS-Flow Traders-Galaxy venture, launched SEKAU, the world's first fully reserved, MiCA-compliant Swedish krona stablecoin across five chains. The bigger question is whether anyone outside the dollar will use it.

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Jun 222 min read


A Stablecoin Lost Its Auditor, Then Lost the Dollar — and Now the Contagion Is Reaching the Vaults
Main Street's msUSD collapsed from $1 to roughly $0.29 after its verifier walked away. Now Altura is winding down a stablecoin vault amid 'unprecedented' withdrawals, and Morpho lenders are stuck at 100% utilization.

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Jun 212 min read


Taiko Tells Everyone to Get Off Its Bridges After a $1.7M Verification Hack
An attacker broke Taiko's chain-state verification, drained about $1.7 million, and the team is now telling users to pull funds from every bridge on the network.

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Jun 212 min read


Daily Digest June 21: Ethereum Buckles to Bitcoin as ETH/BTC Hits Early-2023 Lows
A quiet green-tinged Sunday on the screens hid the real story underneath: ETH/BTC slid to 0.027, its weakest since early 2023, while the Fear & Greed Index sat pinned at 22. Here's the full picture and what's coming this week.

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Jun 213 min read


Dash Sets Its Sights on the Philippines — One of Crypto's Last Real Payments Battlegrounds
Dash is scoping the Philippines for a crypto-payments push as regulators ease business registration. The catch: even with a friendlier on-ramp, compliant entry can take years.

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Jun 212 min read


$2.48 Billion in ‘Lost’ Bitcoin Just Moved — and It Could Sink a Lawsuit Targeting Satoshi's Coins
A New York lawsuit trying to seize 3.799 million dormant BTC as “lost property” just hit a wall: 52 of the targeted wallets have moved about $2.48 billion in Bitcoin, proving they were never abandoned.

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Jun 212 min read


The Sandwich Bot Got Sandwiched: jaredfromsubway Drained for $7.5M in a Honeypot Built Just for It
Ethereum's most notorious sandwich-attack bot was tricked into draining itself, losing roughly $7.5 million to an attacker who spent weeks baiting it with 66 fake tokens.

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Jun 212 min read


A Three-Year-Old Bug Just Cost Secret Network $4.67M — and the Hacker Built a Whole Blockchain to Find It
An attacker spun up a custom one-validator chain, forged deposit packets, and minted millions in unbacked tokens through Secret Network's Axelar bridge. The flawed code had been live since March 2023.

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Jun 202 min read


When the Verifier Walks Away: Main Street's msUSD Stablecoin Collapses 90% After Accountable Pulls Out
Main Street's yield-bearing stablecoin msUSD lost its dollar peg and cratered roughly 90% after the protocol's third-party verifier, Accountable, ended its monitoring deal, erasing most of an ~$82M token's value almost overnight.

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Jun 202 min read


Pudgy Penguins Waddles Onto Target Shelves — and Drags Web3 Into the Toy Aisle
The NFT-born franchise just dropped its biggest physical trading card set, Birb & Pengu, into Target stores nationwide — pushing circulated cards past 15 million and putting a crypto IP shelf-to-shelf with Pokemon.

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Jun 202 min read


Ethereum's $30M Question: A Departing Insider Warns of a Funding Cliff, Tom Lee Says Relax
A former Ethereum Foundation coordinator warns core development could hit a funding crunch in 3 to 9 months as a second co-director exits. Tom Lee says there's 'zero chance' — corporate validators will cover the bill.

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Jun 203 min read
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