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DeFi
Builder-Deployed Perp Markets Push Hyperliquid to Record Share of Global Perps Volume
Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework — which lets anyone deploy a perpetual futures market on the protocol's settlement layer — cleared $62 billion in May volume, pushing the venue to a record 6.63% share of global perps and 14.4% against Binance.

Markets
Bitcoin Slides Below $66,000 as Spot ETF Outflow Streak Hits a Record 12 Days
US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in another $519 million of net redemptions on June 2, extending the longest outflow run since the funds launched and tipping a leveraged market into $1.86 billion of forced selling.

Blockchains
Cardano's TapTools Winding Down is a Symptom of a Shrinking Chain
TapTools, the most-used analytics platform on Cardano, said on X it will wind down within two weeks after losing its fifth senior executive in a year. Founder Charles Hoskinson warned in a video the same day that more older Cardano-ecosystem projects will fold in the second half of 2026.

Hacks
Old DxSale Lockers Drained for $7.3M Across 1,400 BNB Chain Pools as Owner-Privilege Exploits Pile Up
A dormant launchpad contract from 2021 was emptied this week through a quiet ownership transfer and a one-wei fee reset — the latest in a string of BNB Chain drains that turn admin keys into the attack surface.

TradFi & Fintech
Mastercard Opens Card-Settlement Network on Eight Blockchains, Adding Weekend and Holiday Cycles
Issuers and acquirers can now clear card transactions in regulated stablecoins on Arbitrum, Base, Canton, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tempo and XRPL, with ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank and Nuvei lined up as the first adopters in the US and Latin America.

NFTs & Web3
Binance Closes Its Centralized NFT Marketplace, Joining Coinbase, Kraken in CEX-Backed NFT Retreat
The world's largest crypto exchange is folding its in-house NFT service into Binance Wallet by July 3, ending the centralized-marketplace bet a year after Coinbase NFT shut down and four months after X2Y2's sunset — a near-complete unwinding of the CEX-backed NFT marketplace category.

Regulation & Politics
DOJ and CFTC Open Insider-Trading Probes of George Santos Over Kalshi Bets on His Own State of the Union Appearance
Kalshi flagged the trades, froze the account, and referred the case to federal authorities — the first known criminal-and-civil enforcement track against a named individual on a CFTC-regulated US prediction market.

Regulation & Politics
160 Officials Tell Senate to Pass CLARITY Act as Floor Talks Resume
A Blockchain Association letter signed by ex-CIA, DOJ, Treasury, FBI, IRS-CI, Secret Service and military officials lands on Thune and Schumer the same day the Senate restarts crypto market-structure negotiations.

TradFi & Fintech
Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps
The $1.74 trillion asset manager is letting institutions move directly between stablecoins and shares of its tokenized US government money fund through MoonPay's new institutional rails, marking one of the first listings of a US-registered tokenized MMF on a third-party onchain trading venue.

Blockchains
Sui Blames Triple Mainnet Halt on Gas-Charging Bug and a Known-Risk Patch That Backfired
The Sui Foundation's post-mortem ties two of three outages to an edge case in the v1.72 address-balances feature, and the third to a randomness-state bug exposed by an interim fix the team shipped knowing it carried halt risk.





