DeFi

DeFi
ENS DAO Opens Temp Check on Handing Treasury and Day-to-Day Authority to ENS Foundation
An ENS DAO temp check published Friday would shift treasury control, grants administration and long-term capital strategy to an expanded ENS Foundation, while tokenholders retain protocol-layer authority.

DeFi
AWS Plugs Coinbase's x402 Into CloudFront, Letting Publishers Charge AI Agents in USDC
AWS turned on AI traffic monetization inside AWS WAF on Monday, letting any site behind Amazon CloudFront charge AI agents per request in USDC through Coinbase's x402 protocol. It is the first time a hyperscale cloud has wired onchain settlement into its content-delivery edge.

DeFi
Ondo Finance Adds 173 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs, Taking Catalog Past 430 Assets Across Three Chains
Ondo Finance expanded Ondo Global Markets with 173 new tokenized stocks and ETFs on Tuesday, lifting the platform's total catalog past 430 assets on Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain. The batch brings AI, robotics, quantum, defense tech, critical materials, and data center energy names onchain alongside BlackRock active ETFs and covered call strategies.

DeFi
Backpack's Tokenized SpaceX Token on Solana Crosses 10,000 Holders, Nearly Double xStocks' SPCXx
Backpack's tokenized SpaceX share token has crossed 10,000 onchain holders on Solana, six days after listing alongside the company's Nasdaq debut. The milestone widens the holder gap with rival xStocks' SpaceX product and lands as Backpack chief executive Armani Ferrante stakes out a structural distinction from competing onchain SpaceX exposure.

DeFi
Cap Labs CAP Token Auction Closes at $106 Million FDV With 5.5x Oversubscription
Cap Labs' batch auction for its CAP governance token drew 1,002 bids and $16.4 million in commitments, clearing at $0.011 per token for a $106 million fully diluted valuation.

DeFi
Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse Open First Confidential USDC Yield Vault on Ethereum
Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse open the first DeFi yield vault for Confidential USDC on June 23, routing encrypted cUSDC into Steakhouse Prime v2 on Morpho and putting fully homomorphic encryption to work in live lending.

DeFi
DeFi Lending and DEX Fees Slump as Leverage Drains Out After June Selloff
Fees fell as much as 65% week over week across the largest lending protocols and decentralized exchanges.

DeFi
Standard Chartered Sets UNI 2030 Price Target at 40x Current Levels
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.

DeFi
Hyperliquid-Based Ventuals Winds Down On-Chain Pre-IPO Markets
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.

DeFi
Exodus Puts 200-Plus Tokenized Stocks and ETFs Inside Its Self-Custody Wallet via Ondo
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.




