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Your Tesla Shares Can Now Pull Double Duty: Venus Opens a Tokenized-Stock Lending Market on BNB Chain
Venus Protocol switched on the first lending market on BNB Chain that accepts Binance's tokenized stocks as collateral, letting holders borrow against shares of Tesla, Nvidia and Circle while still collecting the underlying dividends.

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Jun 192 min read


Andre Cronje Walks: Sonic Labs' Founding Board Quits as $S Sinks Near All-Time Lows
Andre Cronje, Michael Kong and David Richardson have resigned from the Sonic Labs board, handing the chain to new CEO Matt Visser as the S token slips to roughly $0.031 — down about 97% from its 2025 peak.

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Jun 192 min read


Uniswap Rips 20% as Standard Chartered Slaps a $100 Target on UNI
UNI surged roughly 20% in a day, outrunning Bitcoin and Ethereum, after Standard Chartered floated a near-40x path to $100 by 2030 and Uniswap rolled out tokenized stocks.

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Jun 172 min read


Pre-IPO Perps Exploded 6,000x in Three Months — and Hyperliquid Just Crossed $10B
Pre-IPO perpetual futures volume hit roughly $12 billion in June, a 6,000-fold jump from March, as Hyperliquid's open interest topped $10 billion and traders raced to bet on SpaceX before it ever rang the bell.

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Jun 172 min read


UNI Rockets 20% as Standard Chartered Slaps a $100 Target on Uniswap
UNI surged nearly 20% in a day after Standard Chartered called for $100 by 2030 and Uniswap rolled out tokenized stocks like SpaceX and NVIDIA. Here's why the DeFi blue chip suddenly has Wall Street's attention.

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Jun 172 min read


HYPE Rips to a $77 Record as ETF Cash Floods Hyperliquid
Hyperliquid's HYPE token printed a fresh all-time high near $77, fueled by surging spot-ETF inflows and a buyback engine that torches 99% of revenue. Analysts are already mapping targets as high as $300.

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Jun 162 min read


VanEck Says Bitcoin Miners Need $50 Billion to Make the AI Dream Real
A new VanEck framework values Bitcoin miners by the megawatts they've actually energized — and finds a roughly $50 billion gap between the sector's AI ambitions and what it can currently deliver.

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Jun 162 min read


Pudgy Penguins Pulls the Plug on Its Million-Download Mobile Game — and NFT Buyers Are Fuming
Pudgy Penguins is winding down Pudgy Party despite topping a million downloads, redirecting its gaming bet to Pudgy World — and leaving holders who bought in-game NFTs without answers.

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Jun 152 min read


Wall Street Can't Get Enough of HYPE: Spot Hyperliquid ETFs Race Toward $900 Million in Volume
Combined trading in the three U.S. spot HYPE ETFs is closing in on $900 million, an early sign that institutions are treating Hyperliquid's token as more than a DeFi curiosity.

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Jun 152 min read


SpaceX Hit the Nasdaq and Hyperliquid Caught Fire: $1.4 Billion in SPCX Perps in a Day
SpaceX’s long-awaited public debut sent traders to Hyperliquid, where a single SPCX perpetual market did $1.4 billion in volume — the biggest HIP-3 market yet — as on-chain venues front-ran the biggest IPO ever.

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Jun 152 min read


A Goalless Draw in Group H Just Paid One Polymarket Trader $4.7 Million
When Cape Verde held Spain to a 0-0 draw in their World Cup debut, a Polymarket trader known as “fishalive” turned roughly $427,000 into more than $4.7 million — while a believer on the other side lost a cool $1 million.

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Jun 152 min read


$670 Million in New Supply Is About to Hit the Market — Three Unlocks Traders Are Watching This Week
LayerZero, Spark and Kaito headline a week where more than $670 million in previously locked tokens flood into circulation. Here's where the pressure lands.

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Jun 142 min read


Hoskinson Says the 'Missing' $70 Million in Bitcoin Was a 2016 Audit Bill — and He Has the Receipts
Charles Hoskinson gave his most detailed account yet of Cardano's disputed 1,096 BTC, tracing the coins to a 2016 crowdsale audit that cost about $400,000 at the time and would be worth roughly $70 million now.

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Jun 142 min read


The White House Lawn Just Became a Crypto Ad: Trump's USD1 Pays Out UFC Fighter Bonuses
World Liberty Financial sponsored UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House, handing fighters a $250,000 bonus pool denominated entirely in its USD1 stablecoin.

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Jun 142 min read


Wall Street Found a Backdoor Into Hyperliquid — and It's Already Worth $161 Million
One month after the first spot HYPE ETF hit Nasdaq, three US funds have hoovered up $161 million in net inflows with just a single down day. Here's why the flows matter more than the number.

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Jun 142 min read


Daily Digest June 9: Humanity Protocol Drained for $32M as H Token Craters 80%
A $32M private-key hack sent Humanity Protocol's token down 80%+, SBF formally asked for a pardon, and Bitcoin clung to $63K with CPI less than 24 hours away.

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Jun 94 min read


Daily Digest June 7: Zcash's Infinite Mint Bug Triggers Contagion as Crypto Hits Extreme Fear
ZEC craters 38%, the Fear & Greed Index hits 12, Bitcoin stabilizes near $62K, and Wall Street's DTCC chooses Stellar for tokenized securities. Here's everything that happened today and what's coming.

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Jun 75 min read


Daily Digest June 6: Zcash's 4-Year Secret Bug Torches ZEC While Bitcoin Bleeds Its Worst Week in Months
Crypto's red Friday gets a horror subplot: Zcash reveals a 4-year-old bug that could have let attackers print unlimited counterfeit coins — and nobody can say for sure if it already happened. BTC approaches $61K, Fear & Greed tanks to 12, and $1.8B in longs got wrecked this week.

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Jun 65 min read


🚨 Gravity Bridge Drained $5.4M in Suspected Signing Key Compromise
Attackers drained $4.3M USDC, 274 ETH, and $434K USDT from the Ethereum-Cosmos bridge after what analysts believe was a private key compromise — and they're still holding $4.2M in ETH.

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May 302 min read


🚨 Gravity Bridge Drained $5.4M in Suspected Signing Key Compromise
Attackers drained $4.3M USDC, 274 ETH, and $434K USDT from the Ethereum-Cosmos bridge after what analysts believe was a private key compromise — and they're still holding $4.2M in ETH.

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May 302 min read
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