protocol
Robinhood launched its Ethereum L2 on July 1 on Arbitrum Orbit with Chainlink CCIP and Data Streams live day one, Uniswap and Pleiades AMMs, and 24/7 stock tokens in 120+ countries.
governance
Solana activated Solana Governance Proposals: 100,000 SOL staked to open, 15% of active stake to advance, two-thirds supermajority to pass — with staker sovereignty for delegators.
exploit
A flash-loan-assisted exchange-rate manipulation between GOOGLx and wGOOGLx on Edel's xStock lending market inflated collateral 78×, opening ~$403K of bad debt routed through Tornado Cash.
regulation
FCA publishes final UK crypto rules June 30, 2026. Applications open Sept 30, close Feb 28, 2027; regime live October 2027; stablecoin capital floor cut from 2% to 1%.
protocol
Strategy's June 29 8-K introduces a Digital Credit Capital Framework with $2B in buybacks, a $2.55B USD reserve floor, a 12% STRC dividend, and up to $1.25B in bitcoin sales.
governance
Researchers flagged a June 25 Tornado Cash governance proposal that swaps the DAO treasury address for a lookalike — ~$23M in TORN and relayer balances at risk.
infrastructure
Loopring took its zk-rollup DEX relayer offline on June 28, 2026, ending the first production zkRollup on Ethereum. A whitelist-only smart contract upgrade returns L2 balances to L1.
exploit
A poisoned JS dependency on Polymarket's frontend drained ~$3.1M in PUSD from 11+ wallets on June 25, swapped into ~1,893 ETH. Contracts untouched; refunds promised.
on-chain
On June 26 the on-chain investigator said the BitMax-era exchange's known hot wallets on Arkham and TRM lack large-cap reserves. AscendEX has not responded.