Ground, the money infrastructure company co-founded by Superstate co-founder Reid Cuming, has launched out of stealth alongside a $3.6M pre-seed round led by Bain Capital Crypto and ParaFi. The company's API plugs into existing fintech interfaces to let banks, neobanks, exchanges, and fund managers embed onchain yield and asset management without building custom blockchain integrations.

Bitcoin’s slide from above $80,000 to the low $60,000s has reset the conversation, and the most structurally significant development is a sustained outflow from spot Bitcoin ETFs, including a 13-session streak that saw $4.4 billion redeemed between May 15 and June 3. The market is now discovering what Bitcoin looks like when that ETF tailwind stalls, with AI-linked equities competing for the same capital that fueled crypto’s recovery.

Glider and Ondo Global Markets have launched a direct-indexed Magnificent 7 portfolio that holds the underlying stocks directly and pays an additional yield (currently around 5%, variable) on top of the equities. The product carries no expense ratio, no balance minimum, and is the first to pay yield on the Magnificent 7 position itself rather than cash held alongside it.

Cosmos Labs is consolidating the Cosmos ecosystem’s shared infrastructure under one roof, acquiring the Mintscan product suite and forming Cosmos Labs Korea, a Seoul-based subsidiary that will take stewardship of Skip:Go, IBC Eureka, and Mintscan. The deal opens a broader APAC expansion and frees engineering capacity for the Cosmos Hub roadmap.

A regulated security backed 1:1 by independently certified bitumen reserves — issued under ERC-3643, settled on Ethereum, and offered to accredited investors through a dedicated SPV. The thesis: a structural supply shock in U.S. asphalt binder, met with a tokenization framework purpose-built for the kind of long-lifecycle, securities-compliant commodity exposure institutional balance sheets actually want.

Model lock-in keeps hundreds of millions of users tethered to platforms that train on their data, but ZetaChain has built an exit ramp.

KGeN, the verified human network powering training of foundation models for Frontier AI and Robotics Labs, today launched $KGEN 2.0, a framework that permanently links its growing revenue to recurring token supply reduction. The Genesis Burn retires 22M $KGEN tokens (10% of circulating supply) in the largest single supply retirement event in the protocol's history.

AI-powered platform maintains automated strategy execution through nine-day institutional outflow streak; new users can access live trading trial with no deposit required.

Hardware wallets are quietly converging on a new feature: native DeFi yield. Ledger launched stablecoin yield with Kiln in April 2025. Tangem followed with Aave in late 2025. Trezor’s version, powered by Morpho, launched in late May 2026.

By 2026, AI trading bots have become one of the most widely used tools for automated investing and passive income generation.