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DeFi
a16z-Backed Goldfinch Finance Winds Down After Originating $100M in Loans
Warbler Labs posted an official governance proposal on June 12 to wind down Goldfinch Prime and move the protocol to maintenance mode. A Snapshot vote is passing 100% in favor. Depositors face a two-or-more-year recovery horizon as GFI trades 99.8% below its January 2022 all-time high.

DeFi
Chainlink Brings Samsung, Toyota and Sony Pricing On-Chain With APAC Equities Streams
Chainlink launched APAC Equities Streams on Monday, putting live pricing for large-cap Asian companies on-chain to power equity perps, prediction markets and structured products in Asian time zones.

TradFi & Fintech
NYSE Parent ICE and OKX Form 50-50 Joint Venture for Tokenized Equities, Co-Chaired by Andrew Cuomo
Intercontinental Exchange and OKX will build a U.S. broker-dealer to route OKX's customers into NYSE tokenized equities and ICE futures, pending regulatory approval.

Blockchains
Ethereum Foundation’s Interim ED Lays Out Execution Plan: MEV Elimination, Default Privacy, ETH Pay
Bastian Aue, the Ethereum Foundation’s interim executive director, outlined how EF will implement its new mandate: treating MEV extraction as a structural threat, making privacy a protocol default, and moving EF compensation into ETH and Ethereum-native stablecoins.

People
Five Former EF Researchers Launch Ethlabs, an Independent Non-Profit R&D Lab for Ethereum
Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf, and Julian Ma have launched Ethlabs, an independent non-profit R&D lab backed by Bitmine, Sharplink, and Consensys founder Joe Lubin, with a thesis that Ethereum will become the universal onchain settlement layer.

TradFi & Fintech
Franklin Templeton Closes 250 Digital Acquisition, Launches Franklin Crypto for Institutional Allocators
The $1.78 trillion asset manager stands up a dedicated institutional crypto unit, extending a platform that already includes the BENJI tokenized money-market fund and a proposed pair of dividend-into-bitcoin ETFs.

DeFi
WSJ: $1.9M in Fake Bets Propped Up Polymarket Creator Videos
A Wall Street Journal investigation found that roughly $1.9 million in bets shown across more than 1,100 creator videos promoting Polymarket were not real, part of a paid influencer program in which creators filmed fake trades on dummy versions of the platform.

Regulation & Politics
1,200 Tech Companies Tell Senate to Pass CLARITY Act as Lummis Calls Code-as-Crime Risk an 'Absurdity'
The Consumer Technology Association, representing more than 1,200 firms including Amazon, Apple and Google, urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act without delay. Senator Cynthia Lummis followed with an on-record statement that the bill ends the 'absurdity' of developers needing lawyers to know whether shipping code is a crime.

TradFi & Fintech
Morgan Stanley Files Amended S-1s for Spot Solana and Ethereum Trusts
Morgan Stanley's amended S-1 filings for its spot Solana and spot Ethereum trusts name BNY Mellon and Coinbase Custody as joint custodians, set a 0.14% sponsor fee, and reserve the tickers MSOL and MSSE on NYSE Arca. Both products include staking provisions.

TradFi & Fintech
Andrew Cuomo Tapped to Co-Chair OKX-ICE Crypto Joint Venture
Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo will co-chair a joint venture between OKX and NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange with ICE futures-exchanges chief Trabue Bland. Cuomo has advised OKX on policy since 2022, spanning the exchange's $504 million DOJ settlement. The venture is the consumer-facing wedge of ICE's $25 billion strategic tie-up with OKX.





