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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.

Blockchains
Aztec Reaches L2Beat Stage 2 After Governance Revokes Rollup Contract Ownership
On-chain governance stripped admin control over Aztec's rollup contract, freezing the code in place and clearing the technical bar for L2Beat's top decentralization tier.

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.

DeFi
Re7 Labs Opens $223K USDC Compensation Pool for USR Exploit Victims
Re7 Labs opened a 223,000 USDC compensation pool for wallets affected by the March exploit of Resolv Labs' USR stablecoin. The Morpho curator joins Gauntlet, which opened a 4.37 million USDC payout earlier this month, in publishing claim mechanics.

Markets
World Liberty Financial's USD1 Supply Grows 9.7% in a Week to $4.85 Billion
USD1's circulating supply expanded 9.7% over the past seven days to $4.85 billion, a 100th-percentile move that pushes the World Liberty Financial-issued stablecoin past Sky's USDS in net weekly inflows.





