The Layer 1's gasless stablecoin design pushed transfer throughput to nearly $65 billion since June 10, recasting Sui as a fee-free settlement rail for institutional and agentic payments.

Bitcoin climbed past $67,000, its highest level in roughly two weeks, after President Trump declared the US-Iran deal "complete" and authorized reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Oil fell about 4% and around $150 million in crypto short positions were liquidated.

Ventuals froze its OpenAI and Anthropic pre-IPO markets at 24-hour average prices and is returning deposited HYPE to users as the team folds into another Hyperliquid-ecosystem project.

An attacker exploited a proof-verification flaw in Aztec Connect's abandoned RollupProcessorV3 contract to withdraw roughly $2.1 million, including 909 ETH, from a privacy bridge that Aztec Labs shut down three years ago and can no longer control.

The on-chain options and structured product protocol Thetanuts Finance was exploited for $2.1 million. Security firm Blockaid published the exploit transaction and exploiter address shortly after the attack.

The partnership routes Ondo Global Markets equity tokens into Exodus's non-custodial app on Solana, putting a full tokenized-equity menu inside a self-custody wallet. US users are excluded.

Michael Saylor's firm paid an average $63,024 a coin this week, roughly 17% under the $75,656 it has paid across its entire 846,842-BTC treasury.

Last week Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 — and within 48 hours it became one of the messiest releases in frontier AI. A buried line in the model's system card revealed Fable would silently degrade its own answers for anyone it suspected of building competing AI systems, with no warning. Researchers called it silent sabotage. Anthropic apologized and reversed course. Add a 30-day data-retention requirement that got the model banned inside Microsoft, and you have a live referendum on the question crypto has been asking for years: should any single company hold this much control over frontier AI?

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial funded a $250,000 Performance of the Night bonus pool at UFC Freedom 250, distributing the awards in its USD1 stablecoin on the White House South Lawn.

She arrived at the SEC in 2018 as a Republican commissioner with light crypto baggage and left this week as the regulator whose quotes had narrated the industry's regulatory story. A retrospective on eight years of dissent.