Chainlink's CCIP drew over $1.1 billion in token value this week as Virtuals Protocol, Pleasing Market, and Zest Protocol joined a migration wave that has now moved nearly $5 billion in total value away from LayerZero since April's Kelp DAO exploit.

A Dragonfly Capital general partner partially walked back the attack on named investors. The founder responded by calling Schmidt a former backer turned hostile critic.

Bitcoin fell below its 200-week moving average dropping below $61,000 for the first time since the 2022 bear market, triggered by a blowout May payrolls report that repriced Fed rate-cut expectations and exposed a $1.2 billion options wall at $60,000.

JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and more than a dozen peers have announced a joint initiative to put commercial bank deposits onchain, operated by The Clearing House and targeting a first-half 2027 launch.

Apyx Finance's apxUSD stablecoin slipped to $0.94 after Bitcoin fell to $63K, the first concrete peg break in the chain linking Strategy's BTC treasury to on-chain dollar instruments.

CME Group CEO Terry Duffy warned that newly approved US-regulated perpetual futures are "a disaster waiting to happen," citing excessive leverage and retail risk — a pointed critique from the incumbent US institutional crypto derivatives exchange.

The Zcash developer said researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic's latest AI model to find a flaw that could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC inside the Orchard privacy pool. It wants a further network upgrade to prove the supply is sound, beyond the emergency fix activated June 3.

0x Protocol has opened its Cross-Chain API to general availability with 12 bridge providers live from day one, including Circle, LayerZero, Stargate and Across — accessible through a single API integration.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes sold his full Hyperliquid and NEAR Protocol holdings on June 4, citing rising energy prices, a pipeline of AI IPOs, and a predicted Trump pivot against AI. A fuller rationale arrives in his "Reality Test" essay on June 9.

What if the blockchain token you hold doesn't actually give you ownership of the underlying asset? Dennis O'Connell of the ERC-3643 Association joins Converge to expose the hidden differences between tokenization standards — and why knowing which one you're buying matters more than most people realize.