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XRPLRipple is actively promoting the addition of a layer of lending infrastructure on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), enabling institutions to use on-chain tokenized assets as collateral for financing, while the loan terms are automatically executed by the protocol, with credit assessments and lending decisions still made by off-chain institutions.According to reports, the proposal is named the XRPL Lending Protocol (corresponding to the XLS-65 and XLS-66 standards), which is currently still in the technical draft stage and must be approved through validator voting before it can go live on the mainnet, but it is already available for developer testing on the test network.The design of the protocol splits the lending process into two parts: on-chain mechanisms responsible for fund pool management, interest calculation, repayment execution, and default handling; while borrower credit assessments and loan term settings remain with traditional financial institutions to meet compliance requirements in different jurisdictions.Ripple states that this mechanism is primarily aimed at institutional short-term liquidity needs, such as in cross-border payment scenarios, where temporary financing is obtained through stablecoins or collateralized assets before settlement, to enhance capital efficiency.Analysts believe that this solution attempts to introduce a "rule-based lending infrastructure" similar to traditional finance while maintaining the open network attributes of XRPL, but it still faces competition from established on-chain lending protocols like Aave, Compound, and Maple.

According to Documenting Bitcoin, the Bitcoin network successfully mined a block using the Stratum V2 protocol for the first time. Compared to the currently widely used Stratum V1, Stratum V2 allows miners to independently construct block templates and choose transactions to package, rather than being completely determined by the mining pool. This retains the mining pool's revenue distribution mechanism while reducing the mining pool's control over transaction packaging, which helps enhance the decentralization and censorship resistance of Bitcoin mining.

Vitalik Buterin published an article titled "Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)", systematically outlining the entire technical tree behind the mainline of the obfuscation protocol (iO). The article points out that obfuscation technology can transform programs into "encrypted programs", allowing computations on plaintext inputs while hiding internal logic. Theoretically, it can achieve "trustless trusted third parties", and when combined with blockchain, it can build nearly trustless voting systems, auction protocols, and various other applications. However, the current iO scheme, while technically polynomial time, incurs enormous practical overhead, with expected runtimes exceeding the lifespan of the universe.The article details the construction process of lattice-based iO, covering the stacking of primitives such as fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), attribute-based encryption (ABE), obfuscated circuits, function encryption, and XiO. Vitalik stated that the field has moved from "impossible" to "provably secure" over the past decade, but there remains a significant gap to practical application. He proposed three future paths: further optimizing the existing lattice-based route, adopting bolder cryptographic assumptions to simplify constructions, or exploring entirely new assumptions that are completely different from lattices, emphasizing that if any direction succeeds, it will largely "solve cryptography", enabling any protocol describable by an ideal trusted third party to be securely implemented.

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.

The Sui Network developer Mysten Labs announced a long-term roadmap on June 16, aiming to create underlying blockchain infrastructure that supports the flow of global value, covering stablecoins, real-world assets (RWA), institutional-level financial products, and privacy trading scenarios.The SUI ecosystem decentralized premium trading platform Premium Exchange, incubated by NAVI Protocol, also announced that its core ecological token PST will soon be available for trading. As the value hub of the PRE DEX ecosystem, PST is deeply integrated with the six major sectors of the platform. The operation of each sector will promote token consumption and supply reduction, forming a positive flywheel of "ecological use --- consume tokens --- reduce supply --- enhance value," with scarcity amplifying alongside ecological expansion.

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.

OKX will launch the ROBO (Fabric Protocol) Flash Earn Lite event on July 3 at 15:00. Users can subscribe with BTC, ETH, OKB, or ROBO to share a reward of 20,000,000 ROBO. The event will run from July 3 at 15:00 to July 7 at 15:00 (UTC+8).

Tether Asset Interoperability Protocol USDT0 announced that its cross-chain transfer volume has surpassed 10 billion USD. This milestone means that USDT0 has become the fastest project in history to reach a cross-chain stablecoin transfer scale of 10 billion USD in just 525 days.Data shows that approximately 6.5 million active wallets have adopted USDT0 as their settlement infrastructure, covering a variety of participants including exchanges, hedge funds, and ordinary users, with the network's cumulative token turnover rate reaching about 27 times.USDT0 stated that with the growth of AI Agent trading and institutional cross-chain settlement demand, the need for an "all-weather, low-friction, unified settlement system" is rapidly increasing.

Aptos Foundation announced that it has become one of the founding contributors to the Legal Context Protocol (LCP). LCP was initiated by ADR and launched in collaboration with organizations such as Google and Circle, aiming to provide verifiable legal terms, user authorizations, and dispute resolution standards for AI Agent autonomous trading scenarios, in order to enhance compliance and enforceability in the AI agent economy.

According to on-chain data monitoring, the Humanity Protocol ($H) Foundation's related addresses have completed the planned token transfers, involving a "3:10" structured hedging profit-taking plan aimed at early investors, with a token scale exceeding 540 million. According to the previously announced schedule, the related tokens will officially enter the unlocking process on June 25, marking that the plan has completed the preparatory work for payment and has entered the formal performance stage.Previously, Humanity Protocol underwent a series of ecological recovery processes due to a hacking incident, including promoting a 1:1 exchange of new and old tokens for real holding users on exchanges, and implementing KYC and AML compliance verification for the abnormal on-chain issuance chips generated after the attack to reduce market circulation risks. The timely advancement of this unlocking plan is seen as an important progress node for the project in fulfilling commitments to investors and restoring ecological order after the security incident.Humanity Protocol mainly focuses on AI identity verification and Web3 identity infrastructure. As the demand for AI agents, real-person verification, anti-witch attacks, and on-chain identity applications continues to grow, this sector still has long-term development potential. If Humanity Protocol can continue to promote product and application implementation after completing token migration and ecological recovery, its subsequent performance will still attract market attention.

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.

NEAR officially announced the next major protocol upgrade SPICE (Separation of Consensus and Execution), which is a key step towards Nightshade 3. After the upgrade is completed, the NEAR block time will be reduced from the current 600 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, achieving about a 3x speedup, approaching the maximum speed allowed by physical conditions. The core of SPICE is to decouple the consensus layer from the execution layer, allowing validators to complete block consensus without waiting for transaction execution, thereby reducing latency and supporting more complex, time-consuming transactions.NEAR stated that this upgrade will be the largest underlying architecture change since Stateless Validation in 2024. After the upgrade, the transaction experience of applications such as NEAR Intents and near.com will be further enhanced. Defuse Labs CEO Alex Shevchenko indicated that the final confirmation time for NEAR is expected to drop to about 0.4 seconds, faster than Visa's standard of about 3 seconds, achieving a payment experience close to "completed in the blink of an eye."NEAR also mentioned that faster block times are crucial for the AI Agent economy, enabling high-speed payments and complex transactions between agents, and allowing longer tasks to be executed across multiple blocks. Additionally, SPICE will pave the way for Nightshade 3 and lay the foundation for achieving cross-shard atomic execution in the future. The NEAR development team stated that this will help address the development complexity and potential vulnerabilities brought by asynchronous environments, improving network scalability and security.

DeFi protocol Altura's CEO Ranveer Arora announced that due to "unprecedented" withdrawal requests over the weekend, the platform will orderly close its stablecoin yield vault. It is reported that within 24 hours prior to the announcement, Altura processed over 8.5 million USDT in instant redemptions.This wave of withdrawals was primarily influenced by market panic triggered by the severe de-pegging of another yield-bearing stablecoin, Main Street (msUSD). Although Altura officials clarified that they have no direct risk exposure to Main Street, concerns arose in the market because both projects share the same reserve proof service provider, Accountable. Currently, Altura has notified all counterparties and has begun to unwind its strategic funds in exchanges, private credit, and real-world assets (RWA) to ensure that all redemptions can be completed fairly and transparently. It is understood that the total locked value of the vault on HyperEVM once reached 39 million dollars.

On-chain data shows that assets under Coinbase have become the most important source of traffic for the decentralized lending protocol Morpho. USDC and cbBTC together account for 53% of total deposits on the Morpho platform, with Coinbase users contributing 83% of cbBTC deposits and 59% of USDC deposits. The lending side is also highly dependent on the Coinbase ecosystem. Of the $2.3 billion USDC loans on the Morpho platform, approximately $1.2 billion comes from Coinbase users using cbBTC as collateral, accounting for more than half.Analysts point out that a deep symbiotic relationship has formed between the two: Coinbase takes on the role of user acquisition and asset flow, while Morpho acts as the yield layer that brings these assets into on-chain operations. This case once again confirms that in the crypto industry, the moat of distribution channels is often stronger than the technology itself.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the Humanity Protocol attacker has exchanged part of the stolen funds for USDC and deposited them into KuCoin.

Venus Protocol announced the launch of tokenized stock (bStocks) collateral lending functionality on the BNB Chain. Users can now deposit on-chain US stock assets such as TSLAB, NVDAB, SPCXB into the Venus Core Pool as collateral, allowing them to borrow assets like USDT and USDC while maintaining exposure to stock prices, without the need to sell their holdings. This is the first time Venus supports tokenized stocks as collateral assets.With the launch of bStocks, tokenized stocks officially join the on-chain liquidity market shared by Venus with BTC, ETH, BNB, and stablecoins. Following tokenized assets like XAUm, Venus further expands the range of on-chain collateral to include stock assets, promoting the deep integration of RWA and DeFi.

The Starknet AMM protocol mySwap disclosed that its mySwap CL protocol suffered a vulnerability attack, resulting in approximately $300,000 being withdrawn from the liquidity pool. The official statement indicated that the mySwap interface has been closed for over 6 months and is no longer accepting new liquidity injections. The affected funds were mainly the remaining LP positions scattered across more than 100,000 positions. The attacker utilized the funds stolen through bridging and obscured the asset flow using Railgun. This attack nearly depleted all remaining liquidity in the protocol.

Trent Van Epps, the former core development coordinator of the Ethereum Foundation, stated that as the foundation continues to advance its "Subtraction governance" strategy, the size of the treasury gradually shrinks, and the four-year Client Incentive Program (CIP) expires this April, the Ethereum core development ecosystem may face a slowly brewing funding crisis in the next 3 to 9 months.Trent pointed out that maintaining the normal operation of over 10 Ethereum client teams, research institutions, and coordinating organizations requires approximately $30 million in funding support each year. If funding continues to be insufficient, it may lead to the loss of key developers, a slowdown in protocol upgrades, and weaken Ethereum's long-term competitiveness in areas such as scalability, quantum computing defense, and network maintenance. The Ethereum Foundation is not designed to be a permanent governor, and new institutions will need to take on the responsibilities of protocol development over the next decade. As the foundation's influence gradually declines, the Ethereum ecosystem urgently needs to establish new funding allocation mechanisms, governance frameworks, and institutional inheritance systems to ensure the long-term sustainable development of the protocol.

Renaiss, a liquidity infrastructure for real-world collectibles, announced the completion of a $1.5 million seed round financing, led by YZi Labs, with participation from Gate Ventures, Hash Global, XIN Family, and Redline Labs. Angel investors come from Mask Network, Far East Group, Logoman, Hoopi, and Legit App.Built on the BNB Chain, Renaiss aims to connect third-party vaults, card shops, and custody nodes through Renaiss Vault OS, and uses Renaiss.XYZ as the application layer for users to access the on-chain collectibles market. It provides verifiable custody, standardized settlement, and on-chain liquidity for physical collectibles, eliminating friction in verification, custody, pricing, and cross-border transactions. Collectibles verified through custody can complete ownership transfers on-chain and circulate globally without trust and permission.The funds from this round will be used to expand the vault network, enhance product integration with the Renaiss SDK ecosystem, expand collectible categories, drive global market expansion, and support DeFi integration and AI Agent-related infrastructure development.It is reported that Renaiss has been selected for the third season of the YZi Labs incubation program EASY Residency and has won the 2025 Binance Blockchain Week Dubai Demo Night award, while ranking first in the RWA category on the BNB Chain. Since the Beta launch in November 2025, the Renaiss platform has achieved a turnover of over $20 million, with more than 260,000 users.

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.