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According to Cointelegraph, the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has granted the 50th Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license to the tokenized asset platform Tribe Tokenisation FZE. VARA stated that licensed enterprises must undergo a controlled operation phase before officially providing services. By the end of 2025, 39 licensed VASPs will be fully operational, and the latest data for 2026 is still being verified. In comparison, Singapore currently has 37 licensed digital payment token service providers, while Hong Kong has only 13 licensed virtual asset trading platforms.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reminds victims of the OneCoin international cryptocurrency investment scam that they can apply for compensation through a special program by the Department of Justice (DOJ) before the deadline.This process allows individuals who purchased OneCoin and suffered direct financial losses due to the OneCoin scheme between 2014 and 2019 to submit applications. Victims can submit applications via mail, email, or an online form. However, submitting an application does not guarantee financial compensation.The DOJ stated that global investors in OneCoin have collectively lost over $4 billion.

The decentralized trading platform Oxium on the Sei network announced that it will gradually cease operations.The team stated that due to the long-term adverse market environment, the platform's revenue can no longer support ongoing operations, and therefore, they have decided to shut down related services. Among them, the Oxium front-end interface will officially go offline on August 1, 2026.Oxium reminds users to cancel any unfilled orders, close existing positions, and withdraw assets in a timely manner before the interface shuts down.The team also emphasized that user assets are always controlled by the users themselves and are not held on the platform. Even after the front-end interface is closed, users can still access and retrieve their funds directly through smart contracts.

Cardano wallet service provider SecondFi stated that it has identified the root cause of the recent security incident and has deployed patches for the unaffected wallets, and will soon resume normal operations. SecondFi disclosed that there were a total of 4 incidents of funds being transferred out, of which 3 were carried out by external attackers, resulting in approximately 16 million ADA being transferred from 374 addresses. To reduce further losses during the ongoing attacks, SecondFi initiated an emergency transfer, moving approximately 129 million ADA to an independent third-party custodian for safekeeping, and has hired an external accounting firm for a special audit to facilitate subsequent verification and return assets to the affected addresses. SecondFi advises affected users to submit claims through the official support page and currently not to import their mnemonic phrases into other Cardano wallets, as the security risk occurs at the address and signature level.

On June 12, Kain Warwick, the founder of Synthetix, and core contributors proposed SIP-423, which aims to freeze and deprecate the sUSD contract. This is the first time Synthetix has proposed to retire rather than fix sUSD. The current price of sUSD is approximately $0.25, deviating about 75% from the $1 target, having dropped about 61% in the past 30 days.According to the proposal, each sUSD will be compensated to holders at a face value of $1 with 4 SNX (valued at $0.25), with SNX having a one-year lock-up period and one year of linear vesting. The proposal also includes a conditional USDT pathway: if the protocol generates over $10 million in revenue during the two-year lock-up period, 25% can be distributed as USDT to sUSD holders who prefer cash.SIP-423 also aims to close the 420 Pool under SIP-420 and cancel the sUSD staking ratio requirement. The current status of the proposal is pending vote, and the technical implementation plan SIP-424 has not yet been released. According to DefiLlama data, the circulation of sUSD is approximately $17.5 million, and Synthetix's TVL is $32.5 million.

According to Jinshi reports, the United States and Iran announced an immediate and permanent end to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon. The United States will fully end its maritime blockade against Iran within 30 days.

The DeFi lending protocol Ionic Protocol announced on platform X that due to the ongoing impact of a security breach incident that occurred in 2025, the project has been forced to immediately cease all operations, and all users need to withdraw their assets from various deployments as soon as possible. Ionic Protocol added that this closure decision was "without choice," and relevant services have now entered the termination process.

According to official news, Pyra stated that after evaluating all feasible options, the company has decided to gradually shut down its operations. The official statement mentioned that the Drift vulnerability attack incident had a severe impact on its business and users. Despite continuously searching for a path to continue operations over the past few months, they ultimately failed to find a sustainable solution.

Pudgy Penguins' Web3 game Pudgy Party announced it will cease development and fully shift to the browser-based free game Pudgy World.In August last year, the NFT brand Pudgy Penguins launched a Web3 mobile game called Pudgy Party, developed in collaboration with Mythical Games, featuring fast-paced mini-games, customization, and digital collectibles. In March this year, Pudgy Penguins launched the browser-based free game Pudgy World.

According to Gate market data, the US Dollar Index DXY rose after President Trump accused Iran of shooting down a helicopter, currently up 0.01% at 100.01. The Euro to US Dollar EUR/USD has seen a pullback in its gains, currently up 0.03% at 1.1537.

According to the Korea Herald, the five major virtual asset trading platforms in South Korea (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, Gopax) have experienced a total of 57 hacking and system failure incidents over the past six years (from 2020 to April 2026), with a total compensation amount of approximately 7 billion Korean won (about 5.1 million USD). By exchange, the number of incidents is as follows: Upbit 26 incidents, Bithumb 14 incidents, Gopax 8 incidents, Coinone 6 incidents, Korbit 3 incidents.Among them, Bithumb compensated approximately 2.5 billion Korean won (about 1.8 million USD) for the BTC misissue incident in February this year, Upbit compensated approximately 790 million Korean won (about 570,000 USD) for a hacking incident in November 2025, and compensated approximately 3.2 billion Korean won (about 2.3 million USD) for a system incident on December 3, 2024. It is worth noting that the standards for compiling incident reports by exchanges and the scale and form of compensation vary. For example, Gopax counts errors that occur when viewing the asset list as system failures, while Bithumb only counts situations where all customers encounter difficulties using core services for more than 10 minutes as system failures.In addition, Bithumb also provided some applicants who suffered losses due to system failures with free fee vouchers instead of cash compensation. The compensation amounts for system failures are as follows: Upbit approximately 3.21 billion Korean won, Bithumb approximately 3.2 billion Korean won, Coinone approximately 49 million Korean won. Korbit and Gopax did not provide any compensation.

Drift Protocol stated that its current top priority is to restart the platform and restore revenue-generating capabilities to expedite the recovery process of user funds. After the platform restarts, it will become the largest USDT-based perpetual contract trading platform on Solana, and the related revenue will be used to support a specially established user compensation fund.Drift claims that substantial progress has been made in the restart efforts with strategic support from Tether and other partners. To enhance security, Drift announced the appointment of Noah Prince, the former head of engineering at Helium Protocol, as the protocol lead, responsible for protocol restructuring and security system upgrades.Meanwhile, former members of the Gauntlet team have also joined the restart efforts, providing risk management and treasury design support for the platform, including clearing engine reviews, funding rate optimization, market parameter adjustments, and ongoing risk monitoring. Additionally, Drift has hired the cybersecurity company Mandiant to conduct an independent forensic investigation of the attack incident.The investigation results indicate that this attack can be clearly attributed to the North Korean hacker group UNC6862, which is associated with multiple cyber attack operations. Drift stated that it will continue to prioritize security in advancing the platform restart and will announce the user compensation mechanism and specific timeline in the future.

According to The Defiant, Binance announced that it will officially stop centralized NFT market services starting from July 3, 2026, and all NFT functions will be migrated to the self-custody Binance Wallet.This move marks a near-complete retreat of NFT markets supported by centralized exchanges (CEX). Previously, platforms such as Coinbase NFT, Kraken NFT, Gemini Nifty Gateway, and X2Y2 have successively closed or transformed.Binance stated that this adjustment aims to provide users with a more seamless Web3 NFT experience. Users must withdraw transferable NFTs to Binance Wallet or other self-custody wallets by July 3 at 23:59 (UTC), and the platform will reimburse part of the withdrawal fees.

The edgeX official report on the abnormal price fluctuations of the EDGE token states that the EDGE price once dropped from approximately $1.12 to about $0.32 within about 1 hour, during a period of weak liquidity, due to concentrated sell-offs from multiple addresses combined with high-leverage long liquidations and flash crashes triggered by CEX interactions. There were no changes to the team address during this period.edgeX stated that it will strengthen market making and liquidity, and set up a reward of 200,000 USDC on-chain to trace the addresses associated with the attack. At the same time, for users who incurred actual realized losses due to long positions in EDGE being liquidated or triggering stop-losses on edgeX Perp V1/V2 within a specified time window, the platform will provide goodwill compensation based on the actual loss amount, with a limit of 100,000 USDC per person, of which 50% will be distributed in USDC within 7 days after review, and 50% will be distributed in EDGE based on the 7-day TWAP in the first week of April 2027.

According to Gate market data, influenced by reports of Iran halting communication with the United States, the US Dollar Index DXY rose to a daily high of 99.23.

The Hyperliquid ecosystem project Ventuals posted on X: "We have noticed that about an hour ago, there was an incident in our SPACEX market. One of the off-chain data providers, which is a component of the oracle price, returned erroneous data, causing severe fluctuations in the oracle price and mark price of that market, which in turn triggered the liquidation of some users' positions.We have taken immediate measures to prevent similar situations from occurring in any Pre-IPO market and are assessing the impact of this incident on affected users to formulate an appropriate compensation plan. Affected users will receive compensation within the next 48 hours.According to previous news from ChainCatcher, the SPACEX-USDH perpetual contract on Hyperliquid experienced a 45% flash crash last night."

According to Decrypt, the Digital Chamber has written to OCC Director Jonathan Gould, urging him to stick to the decision to grant national trust bank charters to crypto companies like Coinbase, Ripple, and Circle.Previously, Senator Elizabeth Warren accused the approval of these charters of violating the National Bank Act and posing a threat to the safety of the U.S. banking system. The Digital Chamber countered that Congress has effectively authorized the OCC to extend bank charters to stablecoin businesses through the GENIUS Act, and that the approved companies do not accept FDIC-insured deposits, thus not constituting traditional banking operations.

According to Decrypt, MoonPay has launched a dedicated app within the ChatGPT application, allowing users to purchase cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, XRP, Solana, and USDC directly within the OpenAI chatbot. Users can ask ChatGPT for cryptocurrency information and then request to purchase a specified amount, after which ChatGPT will generate a MoonPay checkout link. Users must complete the standard KYC process and connect their wallets.MoonPay's blockchain engineer stated that ChatGPT is becoming an entry point for financial research, and the cryptocurrency purchasing feature has been previously missing. This app is part of MoonPay's expansion into AI-driven cryptocurrency tools. Earlier this month, MoonPay also acquired the AI trading startup Dawn Labs and launched the trading assistant Dawn CLI. Arifin mentioned that chatbots like ChatGPT are becoming the new entry points to the internet.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission issued a notice reminding the public to remain highly vigilant against scams that impersonate the Investor Compensation Fund. These scams often cause victims to suffer secondary losses. Scammers contact individuals who have previously suffered investment losses and falsely claim that the victims are eligible to recover losses from the compensation fund, demanding that they only need to pay an additional "deposit" or "fee" to arrange for the compensation fund to provide "compensation," resulting in many victims being defrauded a second time.The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission reminds the public that the Commission will not contact investors through social media or instant messaging platforms to request payments related to compensation claims.

According to Bits.media, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced the initiation of a compensation program for victims of the cryptocurrency mining scam AirBit Club. Founded in 2015, AirBit Club operated a financial pyramid scheme under the guise of cryptocurrency mining and virtual currency trading platforms. U.S. authorities have seized over $400 million in assets for compensation. Victims who previously provided information to the FBI or prosecutors will be contacted by RCB Fund Services. Prosecutors stated that there are no fees for the compensation process.The founder of AirBit Club was charged with money laundering and fraud by the Southern District of New York in August 2020, and the trial concluded in September 2023, with the court ordering the forfeiture of all fraud proceeds, including over 16,000 bitcoins.