Fees fell as much as 65% week over week across the largest lending protocols and decentralized exchanges.

Coinbase announced plans for what it calls the first tokenized U.S. stocks backed 1:1 by actual shares, with automatic on-chain dividend distribution. The exchange described the product as 'no derivatives, no IOUs,' a direct contrast to the synthetic equity structures currently dominating on-chain equity trading.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called Monday for an overhaul of the U.S. accredited-investor framework, arguing that wealth-based gatekeeping concentrates private-market gains among the already wealthy. He proposed replacing the net worth and income test with a financial literacy exam, or removing the requirement entirely.

Humanity Protocol has announced a full token migration and 1:1 airdrop of a new H token after the June 8 exploit that drained approximately $36 million.

BlackRock listed the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) on Nasdaq, overlaying a covered-call strategy on IBIT to generate monthly income while capping upside participation.

Robinhood is cutting roughly 10% of its full-time employees in a corporate restructuring CEO Vlad Tenev has framed as a push for a high performance culture, with $28 million in charges expected in Q2 2026.

Kraken and Coinbase each launched perpetual futures products Monday, with Kraken going live on CFTC-regulated crypto contracts via Bitnomial and Coinbase introducing four thematic equity-index perpetuals on US soil.

Paradigm has led a roughly $9 million round in El Dorado, the stablecoin-powered payments app that has signed up more than a million users across Latin America. The bet extends the venture firm's push into dollar-rails for emerging markets.

Standard Chartered Global Research initiated coverage of Uniswap, with Geoff Kendrick framing the decentralized exchange as the trading hub for tokenized real-world assets and setting a $100 UNI price target for end-2030, roughly 40x current levels.

A single dominant wallet offloaded roughly 92% of SIREN's total supply across two days, collecting $64.8 million in Tether and gutting the BNB Chain AI token.