Starknet launched STRK20 on Tuesday, a note-based privacy framework that lets users shield ERC-20 token balances and conduct private transfers and swaps on the Ethereum layer-2 network, with an encrypted viewing-key path for compliance.

Janus Henderson Investors, the $480 billion asset manager, has announced a four-part partnership with Ethena covering CLO fund distribution, a strategic ENA token investment, USDe treasury deployment, and exploration of exchange-traded instruments for USDe distribution.

The full text of H.R. 8957, the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026, is now public, revealing a mandatory 20-year prohibition on selling any acquired BTC and a requirement for quarterly, publicly audited proof-of-reserve reports.

Sam Bankman-Fried formally filed a petition for a presidential pardon with the Trump White House, his attorney confirmed Monday. FTX's FTT token surged roughly 52% on the news.

Morpho Association has raised $175 million in a round co-led by Paradigm, a16z Crypto, and Ribbit Capital, with Apollo Funds and VanEck among the strategic participants. The round, which values Morpho at $2 billion, is among the largest fundraises in DeFi history.

BitMine Immersion Technologies acquired 126,971 ETH for approximately $207 million last week at an average of $1,630 per token, its largest weekly purchase of 2026, lifting its total treasury to 5.54 million ETH, equal to 4.59% of Ethereum's circulating supply.

The Consensys-owned wallet provider opened early access Monday for autonomous AI agents to trade across 25+ EVM chains and Hyperliquid, with transaction simulation and $10,000 in loss coverage as the security pitch.

Bybit and Kraken both launched 1:1 equity-backed SpaceX exposure via xStocks, joining Coinbase International and BitMEX in a four-venue race that now splits between synthetic perpetuals and regulated tokenized equity issued by Backed Assets (JE) Limited.

Strategy purchased 1,550 bitcoin for $101.3 million between June 1 and 7, one week after its first BTC sale since 2022. Cash reserve reached $1 billion.

A Solana yield protocol's bet on a contested mid-cap token turned a dollar-stable vault into one nursing double-digit losses. Depositors are waiting on a promised post-mortem.