DeFi

DeFi
a16z-Backed Goldfinch Finance Winds Down After Originating $100M in Loans
Warbler Labs posted an official governance proposal on June 12 to wind down Goldfinch Prime and move the protocol to maintenance mode. A Snapshot vote is passing 100% in favor. Depositors face a two-or-more-year recovery horizon as GFI trades 99.8% below its January 2022 all-time high.

DeFi
Chainlink Brings Samsung, Toyota and Sony Pricing On-Chain With APAC Equities Streams
Chainlink launched APAC Equities Streams on Monday, putting live pricing for large-cap Asian companies on-chain to power equity perps, prediction markets and structured products in Asian time zones.

DeFi
WSJ: $1.9M in Fake Bets Propped Up Polymarket Creator Videos
A Wall Street Journal investigation found that roughly $1.9 million in bets shown across more than 1,100 creator videos promoting Polymarket were not real, part of a paid influencer program in which creators filmed fake trades on dummy versions of the platform.

DeFi
Re7 Labs Opens $223K USDC Compensation Pool for USR Exploit Victims
Re7 Labs opened a 223,000 USDC compensation pool for wallets affected by the March exploit of Resolv Labs' USR stablecoin. The Morpho curator joins Gauntlet, which opened a 4.37 million USDC payout earlier this month, in publishing claim mechanics.

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.

