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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, announced continued growth across its ecosystem as cumulative trading volume approached $1 billion, reaching $946.29 million alongside $20.71 million in Total Value Locked (TVL), according to on-chain data from DefiLlama. This surge is directly driven by the protocol’s native VIP Program, which aligns active traders with ecosystem success by distributing 30% to 50% of platform fee revenue back to high-volume users. With annualized protocol revenue currently tracked at $1.07 million, the VIP reward pool distributes hard USDC yield directly back to participants,…

Eightco treasury composition as of June 24, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $436 million Worldcoin token (WLD) now listed on Robinhood, expanding access to millions  OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc.…

Zug, Switzerland, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire Anyone can now execute mass payouts across EVM chains and Tron from a single platform and can choose between multiple wallet screening providers. Just three weeks after releasing major upgrades for crypto payment collection, the Request Network Foundation today announced another expansion of its stablecoin payment platform. The release introduces one-click mass payouts on both EVM and Tron, alongside built-in bridging and token swapping across EVM chains. The update also expands compliance capabilities through the integration of Merkle Science as an additional wallet screening provider. Together, these capabilities reinforce Request Network’s vision of providing…

Ether falls harder than Bitcoin in a market-wide risk-off move, while Aave bucks the selloff on V4 and Grayscale tailwinds; total DeFi value drops to about $69 billionBitcoin slid below $60,000 and Ether fell harder still on Wednesday, as a selloff in AI and semiconductor stocks and rising bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike pushed investors out of risk assets across the board.Bitcoin dropped about 4% over the prior 24 hours, slipping under the $60,000 level for the first time in roughly two weeks, while Ether fell about 5%, according to data from CoinGecko. The broad crypto market followed…

The American Arbitration Association and a broad coalition of tech, crypto, and enterprise companies have launched the Legal Context Protocol, an open standard designed to add a legal layer to agentic AI transactions.The not-for-profit American Arbitration Association (AAA) announced LCP with Integra Ledger on Wednesday, aimed at addressing legal issues that could arise during agent-to-agent transactions.“The legal infrastructure that has supported e-commerce over the last 20 years… like click-throughs and terms of service — none of that translates… when agents are negotiating with other agents,” said Bridget McCormack, the president and CEO of AAA, when talking about the protocol during a…

Bitcoin dropped to $59,175 overnight, its lowest point since early June, before recovering to about $61,500 by Thursday morning, per CoinDesk data. Nearly $1 billion worth of futures positions were liquidated across crypto majors, such as bitcoin, ether, solana, and others, to tokenized versions of stocks, such as Micron Technology Inc (MU) and Sandisk (SNDK).The dip triggered roughly $430 million in long liquidations on bitcoin-tracked futures, or bets on higher prices that were automatically closed as the price fell.No single catalyst drove the move. Bitcoin has lost about 10% since Monday’s peak near $65,500, pulled lower by the same forces…

Prediction market Kalshi is in talks to raise capital at a valuation of about $40 billion. According to the Financial Times, citing people familiar with the discussions, the round could close in the third quarter. Prediction Markets Draw Wall Street Capital The financing would follow a $1 billion Series F raise completed last month. That earlier round valued the company at $22 billion. Coatue led the round. Other backers included Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest. Kalshi’s valuation has climbed steeply. The platform was worth $11 billion in December 2025 and about $5 billion earlier…

Meanwhile, RLUSD continues to rise in terms of usage and market cap, hitting $1.6 billion on CG. By extending its collaboration with long-term local partner SBI Group, Ripple has received approval from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA) to launch its stablecoin available in the country. The company’s Senior Vice President of Stablecoins praised the Japanese regulatory environment and called it a leader in cryptocurrency adoption. RLUSD in Japan The green light became possible from SBI Holdings, through its Electronic Payment Instruments Exchange Service Provider-licensed subsidiary SBI VC Trade Co., LTD, announced the launch of RLUSD in the Japanese market.…

Aave climbed more than 15% in 24 hours to trade around $82.77, bucking a broad crypto selloff that dragged Bitcoin (BTC) below $60,000 for the third time in June. While most major tokens fell in lockstep with a broader crypto leverage selloff, AAVE pushed higher on improving protocol fundamentals and fresh institutional attention. USDT Deposits Signal Returning Capital On-chain data is driving some of the renewed interest. USDT deposits are flowing back into the protocol, with Aave’s Ethereum V3 Core market approaching $3 billion in stablecoin deposits. USDT by @tether on Aave’s @ethereum Core market is approaching $3 billion deposits.…

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire Sui aims to transition more of Bitcoin’s $1.2T market cap into verifiable, productive onchain products. Hashi, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, gains more institutional support ahead of the scheduled launch of its global testnet this July.   Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, announced today that Cumberland, Fluid, and SwissBorg have joined the Hashi ecosystem, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, weeks ahead of its scheduled global testnet launch this July. The expanding coalition addresses a critical bottleneck in crypto: solving the persistent capital inefficiency by unlocking over a trillion dollars of…