The interoperability protocol enters c8ntinuum Summer ahead of a Q4 public release, with over 40,000 verified users joining its SuperApp waitlist in a single week.

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.

Sonic SVM has launched North Star, an infrastructure platform providing instant, private execution sessions for autonomous AI agents and high-frequency applications on Solana. Built on an ephemeral rollup architecture, North Star runs unmodified Solana programs in isolated runtimes at near-zero cost, with all state settling atomically back to Solana L1. Eva.fun, an autonomous agent arena, is the first application built on the platform.

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.

io.net, the world’s largest decentralized GPU network, will burn a minimum of 12 million $IO tokens over the coming year under its new Incentive Dynamic Engine, a tokenomics model that permanently destroys tokens based on real customer revenue. The launch arrives alongside an $8M enterprise contract and record AI inference volume of over 4 billion tokens per day.

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

DeFi Saver has officially integrated Hyperliquid, the leading perpetual futures DEX, bringing futures trading and DeFi lending into one unified interface. A 50,000 USDC two-season incentives campaign opens June 8th.