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According to Jinshi, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Intercontinental Exchange Group (ICE) plans to launch new futures contracts linked to global monetary policy decisions and U.S. natural gas inventories, aimed at providing investors with a way to hedge against economic event risks. ICE plans to introduce futures products based on interest rate decisions from the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and Bank of England, expected to go live on August 10 after obtaining regulatory approval.

According to The Bitcoin Historian (@pete_rizzo_), the $2 billion lending giant Ledn has removed cryptocurrencies from all its products and fully shifted to a pure Bitcoin strategy. Ledn stated that this adjustment is a strategic transformation aimed at aligning with the core principles of Bitcoin.

Base officially released an analysis report on the interruption of block production, which disclosed that the Base mainnet experienced two interruptions in block production on June 25 and 26, lasting 116 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. The security of on-chain assets was not affected, and funds remained in a secure state.The root cause of the incident stemmed from a logic flaw in the sequencer's block construction: after a transaction execution failure, the old journal state was not correctly cleared, leading to gas calculation errors during the execution of subsequent valid transactions, which in turn generated invalid state transition blocks, causing the entire L2 chain to pause block production.Base stated that the issue has been resolved through a patch, and it will strengthen the protocol's fuzz testing and stress testing systems to identify potential malicious transaction paths, while also optimizing monitoring and operational processes. Additionally, there are plans to introduce a recovery mechanism to enhance the ability to recover quickly from similar incidents in the future.

Polymarket's Vice President of Product Engineering and former Craft co-founder Balint Orosz tweeted that Polymarket has acquired the productivity app Craft Agents, and some team members from Craft will join Polymarket.

The Sui ecosystem lending protocol Suilend officially announced that the DeFi development team Bluewater Labs will acquire Suilend and its ecological products SpringSui and STEAMM (AMM), and will take over its subsequent development and operational work. In addition, Bluefin co-founder Zabi will serve as the new CEO of Suilend.The announcement stated that after the acquisition is completed, Suilend will continue to operate as an independent platform, retaining its own brand, product direction, and underlying infrastructure. During the transition period, the team will adopt a security-first strategy, and users will not need to take any action; all current protocol functions such as deposits, lending, staking, and trading will continue to operate as usual.

Former Ren Protocol founder Loong Wang announced the launch of the tokenized financial product settlement network Metal and completed a seed round financing co-led by Airwallex and Capital49, with Airwallex also joining as the first design partner. Metal was co-founded by Loong Wang and former Libra project partner lead Catherine Porter, aiming to build an institutional-grade full-stack infrastructure for tokenized financial products, natively supporting AI agents, authentication, and authorization, while providing global withdrawal and recharge channels covering 200 countries and 90 currencies.

According to Wall Street News, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at the annual shareholder meeting that the era of AI agents has officially arrived. He redefined the new type of data center as an "AI factory" specifically for producing tokens, and revealed that the new Vera CPU and Vera Rubin platform, designed to meet the ultra-low latency demands of agents, have fully entered mass production. Huang emphasized that as AI creates substantial economic value, the demand for computing power is showing an accelerating expansion trend, and its core software ecosystem CUDA is gradually transforming into a toolbox dedicated to agents.Regarding market access and compliance, Huang revealed that the U.S. government has now approved the export of H200 chips to Chinese customers, but this business has yet to generate any revenue, and there remains uncertainty regarding actual importation. At the same time, he rarely issued a public warning about the risks of chip smuggling, clearly stating that NVIDIA will not provide any hardware or software support and repair services for restricted smuggled products, and bluntly said that relying on smuggling to piece together advanced AI data centers is a "dead end." Additionally, he reiterated the long-term commitment to capital returns, planning to return over 50% of free cash flow to shareholders.

According to The Block, Bitcoin miner revenue continues to decline, with the 7-day moving average dropping to about $30,000,000 per day, down from over $50,000,000 last summer. The contribution from transaction fees has become negligible, at less than $250,000 per day. The current trading price of BTC is about $62,500, significantly lower than JPMorgan's estimated production cost of around $78,000, a gap that has persisted for five months, the longest in this cycle. Production costs have historically been seen as a soft price floor, and currently, about 20% of miners are operating at a loss.Network-level pressure is becoming evident. Over the past six months, the beta value of mining difficulty relative to BTC price has risen to 0.62, with high-cost miners switching off their machines based on price fluctuations rather than continuing to operate at a loss. In the second week of June, difficulty decreased by 10%, marking the second similar adjustment this year. Publicly listed mining companies have sold over 32,000 BTC in the first quarter to cover operating costs, rather than further reducing production capacity.

Bitcoin miner revenue has continued to decline over the past year, with the current 7-day moving average daily income at approximately $30 million, significantly lower than last summer's level of over $50 million. Among this, transaction fees have dropped to less than $250,000 per day, almost negligible compared to block subsidies.Meanwhile, the price of Bitcoin is around $62,500, below JPMorgan's estimated production cost of about $78,000. This state of being below production costs has persisted for five months, the longest duration in this cycle. Historically, production costs are often seen as a soft bottom area for Bitcoin prices. Currently, it is estimated that about 20% of miners are in a loss position at the current price, and the pressure is beginning to reflect at the network level.Over the past six months, the sensitivity of mining difficulty to Bitcoin prices has risen to 0.62, indicating that high-cost miners are increasingly inclined to turn off their mining machines based on price fluctuations rather than continue mining at a loss. In the second week of June, Bitcoin mining difficulty decreased by 10%, marking the second occurrence of a similar magnitude adjustment this year. A comparable adjustment also occurred in the previous quarter, with both instances happening during periods when prices remained below production costs, indicating that pressure on the miner side is deepening.

According to Jinshi, IBM's stock rose 2% after hours, after the company announced a collaboration with OpenAI to launch artificial intelligence products related to enterprise network security defense.

Taiko posted on platform X stating that all Proposers (nodes responsible for producing new blocks) have suspended block production. Taiko mentioned that the team is currently investigating the breach of the chain state validation mechanism and is continuously assessing the scope of the incident's impact and subsequent response measures. Previously, Taiko confirmed that its chain state validation mechanism had been compromised and advised users to immediately withdraw funds from cross-chain bridges deployed on Taiko.

In response to recent community doubts about the Ethereum Foundation and the potential for a funding crisis, Grayscale Research Director Zach Pandl posted on the X platform, stating that in the long run, the current institutional adjustments being made by the Ethereum Foundation are positive for Ethereum for two main reasons: first, more development work will be transferred to commercial organizations, which can reduce the development responsibilities borne by the Foundation and may encourage more work to be driven by commercial entities, thereby improving the overall efficiency of the ecosystem; second, the structural adjustments help maintain Ethereum's core principles as a digital currency infrastructure, and a Foundation with clearer responsibilities and a more focused scope may be more beneficial in ensuring that Ethereum continues to adhere to the "CROPS" principles necessary for building a sound digital currency.If the Ethereum Foundation reduces its direct involvement in ecosystem development in the future and focuses on maintaining Ethereum's long-term core goals, it may help strengthen ETH's positioning as a decentralized digital asset infrastructure.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) today announced the launch of a joint pilot project to explore new digital payment solutions for trading during after-hours sessions in the derivatives market. This pilot project aims to optimize Hong Kong's capital markets and meet the growing demand for after-hours trading sessions. HKEX and HKMA are studying the introduction of "digital Hong Kong dollar"—a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) operating on a 24/7 model—for the payment of pre-paid margins during after-hours trading sessions, to enhance the risk management capabilities of the derivatives market outside of banking hours while maintaining existing operational processes.

Aztec Labs stated that it is investigating a suspected exploitation incident involving its Aztec Payments product, which was launched in 2021 and is now discontinued. Approximately 2 million dollars have been transferred from the related immutable smart contracts.

According to official news, Tether announced that after evaluating user activity, market demand, and the company's overall strategic priorities, it will gradually stop supporting the Alloy by Tether platform and aUSD₮. Effective immediately, the platform will close the functions for opening new positions and minting new aUSD₮. Existing users can still return aUSD₮ and withdraw the gold stablecoin XAU₮ within the next three months. Starting from September 17, 2026, users who have not completed the return will no longer be able to retrieve XAU₮ through the platform. Tether stated that it will subsequently focus resources on XAU₮ and other core products within the ecosystem.

Ionic Digital released the mining and operations update for May 2026. The data shows that the company mined a total of 24.77 bitcoins that month, a month-over-month increase of 21.1%; the average daily hash rate was 1.74 EH/s, a month-over-month improvement of 15.3%, mainly driven by the improvement in capacity and operational performance at the Midland mining area.

DeFi structured protocol Thetanuts Finance issued a statement in response to the security incident involving its Vault. Preliminary investigations indicate that the relevant Vault is an old version contract that was deprecated and migrated years ago, and it is not associated with any currently running contracts or products. Further details are still under investigation, and a complete post-incident analysis report will be released once more information is available.Earlier reports suggested that Thetanuts Finance may have suffered an attack, with preliminary estimates of losses around $2.1 million.

Plasma announced that the native digital banking application for stablecoins, Plasma One, is officially launched. Users who join within the next 7 days can receive a Core level for free in the first year, valued at over $1000.Plasma stated that users can currently download Plasma One on iOS and create an account, with the Android version launching this month. In addition, the Plasma One platinum card will be available to XPL holders, allowing users to earn up to 10% cashback in categories such as AI and aviation.