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Digital Currency Group (DCG) subsidiary Yuma announced the launch of a market-wide fund aimed at providing investment opportunities in the Bittensor network's native token TAO and its subnet ecosystem through a single investment strategy. Currently, Bittensor has launched 128 subnets, with a total asset value exceeding $900 million.DCG founder and CEO Barry Silbert stated that most AI investments are currently flowing to a few centralized legacy companies, which are now trying to enter the public market. Bittensor offers an alternative: an open, decentralized network built by builders and innovators at the forefront of artificial intelligence development.

According to official news, the decentralized all-asset trading platform Vanta has completed a multi-million dollar seed round financing. This round of financing was led by the top TradFi platform Vantage and supported by several strategic investors, including the Co-Founder of Orderly. Vanta was founded by a core executive team from Binance, OKX, and Bitget, aiming to build an on-chain trading platform covering multiple asset classes such as crypto assets, stocks, commodities, indices, and foreign exchange.In terms of products, Vanta has launched Smart Trading and AI trading assistance features to enhance the on-chain trading experience. Currently, its public beta has started, and users participating in trading and activities during the public beta can earn double points rewards.

According to Cryptopolitan, the decentralized lending protocol Goldfinch, supported by a16z, announced it will gradually shut down. Last Friday, an anonymous investor, Edward Morra, publicly accused the protocol of mismanagement, leading to over $50 million in user fund losses, stating that borrower defaults and failed loan restructurings made it nearly impossible for depositors to recover their funds. Just a day after the post was published, the project announced it would enter a gradual shutdown phase.The protocol's native token GFI fell from a peak of $32.94 in January 2022 to below $0.07, a decline of 99.8%, with its market capitalization dropping from over $390 million to less than $6 million. Goldfinch was founded in 2021 by former Coinbase employees, aiming to connect crypto capital with credit enterprises overlooked by traditional banks, with a16z leading its $25 million financing in January 2022. Problems began to emerge months after the funding: the Kenyan motorcycle financing company Tugende Kenya defaulted, two underlying positions in the $2 billion loan from the U.S. credit fund Stratos nearly went to zero, and the Singapore borrower Lend East could only repay 58% of the principal. As the loan portfolio deteriorated, the protocol turned to institutional credit funds but ultimately could not turn the situation around.

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, stated on social media that it would be a wonderful thing if the world could have a truly trustworthy and neutral global coordination and digital asset settlement platform. It is the large-scale and rigorous decentralization achieved by the Ethereum platform that makes this vision possible. Soon, and in the near future, more organizations with trustworthy neutrality and ample funding will join in to promote this mission alongside the Ethereum Foundation.These organizations will focus on facilitating the development of the entire Ethereum ecosystem and advancing the areas of interest for many financial institutions adopting Ethereum technology, including: Ethereum Mainnet, Layer 2 networks (L2), and private Ethereum networks. In the future, these three major systems will be able to achieve near real-time interoperability and composability, while ETH will flow freely within this expanded Ethereum ecosystem landscape.

Bittensor co-founder const posted on the X platform, detailing the current state of decentralization of the project, future roadmap, and goals. Bittensor has not yet achieved decentralization at the economic incentive layer, which is still led by the core team, including const himself, two engineers, and a core group of contributors. The project has been live for over 5 years, with no pre-mining, and has 128 subnet teams and over 20 core validator teams, achieving decentralization at the ownership distribution level. The team chose to rapidly iterate at the cost of "maintaining centralization" rather than slowly advancing "democratic" decision-making.Regarding future update plans, Bittensor will promote validators to re-enter the competitive mechanism while opening liquidity pools for two-way investment to symmetrize the market and prevent on-chain signals from being manipulated. Additionally, a belief mechanism will be introduced to grant voting rights to Alpha token holders. In the coming weeks, updates will also be made to TaoFlow and its derivatives, further fine-tuning the issuance distribution algorithm to optimize the distribution method of inflation. Const expects to complete the construction of core mechanisms within the next year and a half, at which point the three pillars of incentive alignment, value optimization, and true ownership will operate in synergy, ultimately achieving complete decentralization by abandoning centralized control.

According to the official announcement, the decentralized perpetual contract exchange Satori Finance, supported by Coinbase Ventures and Jump Capital, has announced that due to a prolonged market downturn leading to unsustainable revenue, it has decided to gradually shut down the platform.All services of Satori will officially terminate at 19:59 Eastern Time on July 16, 2026. The official reminds users to close positions and withdraw all assets as soon as possible before this deadline, as funds may become inaccessible after the deadline. It is reported that the platform completed a $10 million financing in 2022, with a historical cumulative trading volume of nearly $99 billion.Recently, due to a significant correction in the crypto market, several industry startups (such as Botanix, Syndicate Labs, etc.) have announced shutdowns.

BTTInferGrid has officially launched, opening a new chapter in the decentralized AI (DeAI) track for the ecosystem. As a significant ecological upgrade to the existing BTFS services, this platform aims to break traditional computing power barriers through a trustless multi-validator consensus mechanism, establishing a solid guarantee of computational integrity. With the $BTT token serving as the foundational option for unified incentives and settlements within the ecosystem, it seamlessly and efficiently connects idle GPU resources with a wide range of AI developers. Under this network architecture, BTTInferGrid not only provides ultra-cost-effective, elastically scalable on-demand computing services for AI inference, lowering the threshold for large model inference and operation; it also empowers global hardware nodes, allowing the supply side to easily convert idle GPUs into high-value earnings through a transparent reward mechanism based on performance weight. BTTInferGrid is leading the AI infrastructure into a new round of paradigm revolution towards decentralization, relying on a strong consensus of cryptoeconomics.

Hyperbridge Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol Hyperbridge announced the completion of a comprehensive architecture reboot, re-launching after completing security audits, bug bounty incentives, and system reconstruction, and officially transforming into a "hyperstructure." The protocol was suspended after the security incident on April 13, during which it completed a joint audit with organizations such as SRLabs and paid over $150,000 in bounties to security researchers.The team stated that this upgrade removed the original centralized management keys, transitioning to a fully permissionless network of validators and provers, achieving full-stack decentralized operation.This reboot also introduced the "Hyper Fungible Token (HFT)" standard, making each cross-chain asset an independent application layer structure, with issuers autonomously controlling cross-chain behavior rules, including pause mechanisms and throttling strategies. Hyperbridge also released the OFT (Omnichain Fungible Token) adapter, which is compatible with existing cross-chain protocols like LayerZero, allowing assets to be migrated to a zero-knowledge proof-based transport layer by simply modifying configuration parameters, without the need to redeploy contracts.In addition, the protocol's business model has shifted from a pay-per-use model to a subscription model, allowing cross-chain applications to pay a stablecoin fee of $50 to $1,000 per month for bandwidth services. The official statement indicated that this upgrade marks Hyperbridge's transition from an early cross-chain bridge project to a fully decentralized infrastructure protocol, aiming to provide a unified interoperability layer for a multi-chain ecosystem without the need for trusted intermediaries.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI today released its latest research paper "PoQ-Judge," proposing a multi-architecture quality assessment framework that does not require reference answers. This means that in real deployment environments, there are often no standard answers for comparison, yet the protocol can still reliably score the quality of model responses and allocate incentives accordingly. This is a key piece that has long been missing in DGrid's decentralized LLM inference quality assessment system.PoQ (Proof of Quality) is a consensus mechanism independently developed by DGrid, designed to prevent model providers from deploying low-quality models, fabricating data, or hiding computational costs at the protocol level, thereby ensuring service quality and pricing transparency. The DGrid team has been continuously working on PoQ and has published four research papers to date. The newly released PoQ-Judge has trained three assessment models covering different quality and cost scenarios, achieving a correlation of up to 0.747 with human scoring on the retention test set, significantly outperforming all previous reference answer-based evaluators, while reducing assessment costs by over 72% through cascading evaluation and online weight calibration.With the implementation of PoQ-Judge, the entire process from quality assessment → scoring → incentive allocation has completely eliminated reliance on reference answers, thus establishing a closed loop for the quality of decentralized LLM inference.DGrid AI is a decentralized AI intelligent network dedicated to building an open, transparent, and community-driven AI infrastructure. Focusing on model invocation and application experience, DGrid has launched several core products: the AI Gateway that aggregates mainstream large models globally, the one-click deployment platform for AI agents DClaw, the anonymous model competition platform AI Arena, and the intelligent model recommendation assistant Dori, providing one-stop services for developers and users. It is reported that DGrid AI's revenue has surpassed 20 million dollars in six months.

According to official news, the decentralized futures exchange MNX, aimed at the AI economy, has completed a $6.4 million financing round, with participation from Village Global, Cambrian, Relay Digital, North Island Ventures, and others.MNX aims to build AI-native derivatives infrastructure, covering GPU leasing prices, data center electricity cost futures, valuation markets for private labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, AI benchmarks and financial forecasting markets, as well as global stock perpetual contracts related to AI. The platform supports leverage, portfolio margin, and batch auction fair execution, with settlement conducted in a completely non-custodial manner on MegaETH, and the mainnet is scheduled to officially launch this summer.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI announced an official partnership with MiniMax. Both parties will provide low-cost, high-availability access to MiniMax models for global developers and agents through the DGrid decentralized AI Gateway, jointly promoting its adoption in a broader ecosystem.DGrid is a decentralized AI infrastructure that aggregates mainstream AI models from around the world. It currently connects over 200 models, including Claude, GPT, and Gemini, enabling one-stop access through a unified API. The platform is aimed at developers and AI agent builders, offering high-availability, low-latency model access services, and is committed to lowering the entry barriers and usage costs for AI applications.MiniMax is a global leader in general artificial intelligence across all modalities and is one of the few AI companies capable of self-developing models for text, voice, video, music, and other modalities. This official collaboration with MiniMax represents another significant expansion for DGrid on the model supply side, marking a new step in connecting mainstream model vendors and building a decentralized AI ecosystem. With the integration of more high-quality models, DGrid is becoming a unified entry point for AI developers to access diverse model capabilities, providing more flexible and open infrastructure support for the next generation of intelligent applications.As part of the initial collaboration, MiniMax's flagship model M3 has been launched on DGrid, and DGrid Premium users can enjoy a 55% discount directly.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI announced the latest data on its Genesis membership program: cumulative revenue has surpassed $20 million, with over 13,000 paid subscribers. Funds are deposited into a publicly verifiable BNB Chain Safe multi-signature treasury wallet, ensuring on-chain transparency.It is understood that the growth is supported by the four core product matrices built by DGrid: AI Gateway unifies API aggregation of mainstream models such as Claude, GPT, and Gemini, offering discounts of up to 55%; AI Arena has over 300,000 participants in blind review competitions, producing high-quality manually labeled data; DClaw supports minute-level local AI assistant deployment, with persistent memory and modular plugin capabilities; a decentralized model marketplace is about to launch, supporting high-quality asset tokenization. The platform also launched the model recommendation agent Dori, which helps developers instantly match the optimal model solutions.On the technical side, DGrid prevents model providers from delivering low-quality models, fabricating data, or hiding computation costs through its self-developed Proof of Quality (PoQ) consensus mechanism, ensuring service quality and pricing transparency at the protocol level. The project has previously received seed round investments from Waterdrip Capital, IoTeX, Paramita VC, and Zenith Capital.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that he will no longer write regular blog posts and has decided to try writing some science fiction stories on the theme of decentralized governance.According to the link he posted, he has completed the first and second chapters of the science fiction novel.

According to Fortune, the decentralized derivatives trading platform Variational announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round, led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures.The company is headquartered in the Cayman Islands and is dedicated to building an on-chain derivatives protocol for institutional and traditional financial traders. By aggregating liquidity from traditional finance and the crypto market, it aims to provide an on-chain market for real assets such as oil and commodities that can be traded instantly. Its core product, the Omni platform, adopts a zero-fee model and combines a liquidity pool mechanism to enhance market depth and execution efficiency.Variational stated that its goal is not to compete directly with centralized exchanges but to connect multi-source liquidity through a "brokerage-style" model, including traditional financial market makers and mainstream crypto trading platforms, to address the "liquidity cold start" problem in on-chain markets.

Anatoly Yakovenko (toly), co-founder of Solana Labs, responded to discussions about the decentralization level of Hyperliquid, stating that he has raised the same criticism for all L2s: the key to determining whether a system is permissionless lies in whether users can participate in any part of the protocol stack using their own resources without approval from a trusted third party.If they cannot, it is not permissionless. Toly stated that no matter what users do, they cannot run the Base sequencer or the Hyperliquid sequencer, so this is the same issue he criticized with L2s.

The Bitcoin TAP protocol ecological project BIT (@dmt_bit_) has released a new roadmap, announcing a focus on the narrative of "Bitcoin Security Budget Layer," with tokens being directly issued to Bitcoin miners every block as a new source of miner subsidies.The BIT team disclosed that currently only the $NAT token enjoys the miner subsidy mechanism under the TAP protocol, and this mechanism is hardcoded in the protocol's source code (effective only for the dmt-nat token), making it unavailable for other DMT projects. The TAP protocol has also not publicly disclosed any third-party security audits to date.BIT has submitted a code upgrade proposal to TAP, hoping to open this mechanism for use by all DMT tokens, but it was rejected by the TAP officials.According to the roadmap, BIT will next develop a new protocol based on a TAP fork—any DMT token deployment party can customize the token issuance rules and miner distribution methods (including distribution by mining pool weight, independent miner prize accumulation, mixed distribution, etc.) through a single inscription, eliminating any hardcoded privileges for projects. A third-party security audit will be completed before the mainnet launch of the new protocol. $BIT will serve as the native token of the new protocol, and the ecological development of the protocol will continue to empower $BIT.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating, "The quality of prediction markets depends on their oracles," and expressed his happiness to see prediction markets beginning to shift towards decentralized and non-financial oracle solutions.He also mentioned that the next step in development should be to achieve privacy for proof-of-stake voting.