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.

Arthur Hayes sold his entire WLD position on June 6, less than three days after Maelstrom publicly pitched Worldcoin as a liquid AI IPO play — ending his full portfolio exit sequence across HYPE, NEAR, ZEC, and WLD.

Yuga Labs used its GrailsOTC trading desk to pull 68 blue-chip NFTs valued at more than $500,000 out of vulnerable Flooring Protocol pools before attackers could drain them.

A coalition of more than 200 organizations including Coinbase and Ripple pushed Senate leadership for a floor vote Monday. Galaxy Digital's research head simultaneously lowered his 2026 passage probability by 15 points, citing a shrinking calendar and unresolved ethics provisions.