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Regulation & Politics
Warren Pushes to Bar Trump Family From Crypto Profits After $1.4B Disclosure
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing to add a provision to pending Senate crypto legislation barring President Trump, his family and senior officials from profiting off digital assets, after a disclosure showed his crypto ventures made more than $1.4 billion last year.

Markets
ShapeShift's Voorhees Defends Venice Token Terms After Critics Call Deal Underpriced
Erik Voorhees pushed back on X against critics who said Venice's $65M Series A undervalued VVV tokens, saying the deal could bring in $131M for 6.5 million tokens locked four years.

Blockchains
ENS DAO Sunsets Public Goods Working Group After 4.5 Years of Ecosystem Grants
The working group's final term committed $450,000 in USDC and 72.5 ETH to Ethereum infrastructure projects including Vyper, Argot Collective and Remix Labs before it was wound down.

People
Strategy CEO Phong Le Buys 11,000 STRC Shares Through Revocable Trust
Phong Le acquired the Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock at a weighted average price of $90.796 per share on June 22, an SEC filing shows, after weeks of pressure on the security.

TradFi & Fintech
Securitize Tokenizes Its Own NYSE Stock SECZ on Its First Day as a Public Company
Securitize put its own newly listed common stock onchain the same day SECZ began trading on the NYSE, launching tokenized shares on Avalanche and Solana through its regulated platform.

Blockchains
Solana Launches Onchain Governance With Stake-Weighted Voting for Validators
Solana Foundation says onchain governance is now live, letting validators with at least 100,000 SOL delegated open proposals that go to a stake-weighted vote once they clear 15% cluster support.

Markets
Venice Raises $65M Series A at $1B Valuation Led by Dragonfly
Erik Voorhees' privacy-first AI platform Venice landed a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion equity valuation, its first outside capital, after hitting profitability in Q1.

DeFi
Cloudflare Launches Monetization Gateway for Stablecoin Payments via x402
Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, letting customers charge for web pages, datasets, APIs or MCP tools with payments settling in stablecoins over the x402 protocol. Will Papper, formerly of Syndicate, joined the company as product manager for Agent Payments to lead the effort.

Blockchains
Avalanche Treasury Corp Stock Crashes 93%, Warns SEC It May Not Survive the Year
Avalanche Treasury Corp told the SEC its ability to continue as a going concern is in doubt after its Nasdaq-listed stock lost 93% of its value in a month, with its AVAX position now worth less than half of what it paid.

Regulation & Politics
Supreme Court Overturns Humphrey's Executor, Clearing Trump to Fire SEC and CFTC Commissioners
The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter overturns a 91-year-old precedent shielding independent agency commissioners from at-will removal, with direct implications for SEC and CFTC leadership as the CLARITY Act nears a floor vote.





