DeFi

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.

DeFi
Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer
The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.

DeFi
IC3 Paper Finds Most AI Agent Platforms Show No Evidence of Autonomous On-Chain Trading
New IC3 research finds most AI-agent crypto platforms show no clear evidence of autonomous trade execution, despite combined token valuations exceeding $3 billion. The paper covers 1,900+ surveyed projects and finds token holders lost $191.7M collectively while the top 1% captured 81.4% of gains.

DeFi
Polymarket World Cup Winner Markets Cross $1.8B in Volume as France-Spain Group Stage Opens
Polymarket's 2026 FIFA World Cup prediction markets have accumulated more than $1.8 billion in cumulative trading volume as the tournament's group stage gets underway, with France and Spain trading as the narrowest co-favorites.





