regulation
BoE policy statement on sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins removes individual holding caps, adds a temporary £40bn cap per issuer, raises gilt share of backing to 70%. Feedback by 22 Sept.
protocol
A June 21 ethresear.ch post by Clément Lesaege would let Ethereum validators vote to redirect 0–10% of staking rewards — ~50–70k ETH a year — to ecosystem funding via a splitter contract.
exploit
Taiko's chain state verification was compromised on June 22; proposers stopped producing blocks, the ERC20 Vault on Ethereum was drained for an estimated $1.7M, and all bridges are flagged unsafe.
exploit
Attacker farmed approvals from Ethereum's largest sandwich bot using 66 fake WETH/USDC/USDT tokens, then swept ~1,474 WETH, 2.87M USDC and 2M USDT in a single sweep tx.
exploit
Attacker forged IBC transfers against Namada's shielded pool, swept liquid assets cross-chain and left staked holdings behind. A stale indexer kept showing balances while live RPC reported zero.
exploit
Forged-packet attack on Secret's ICS-20 contract minted unbacked wrapped tokens, then redeemed them via the legitimate Axelar IBC channel. Caught June 17 when an escrow accounting check failed.
protocol
Beryl ships a native B20 token precompile, cuts L1 withdrawal delay from 7 to 5 days, and lands Reth V2 with ~50% lower disk and +33% throughput. Sepolia live June 18, mainnet June 25.
regulation
On June 18, the CFTC entered a consent order in SDNY permanently banning Alex Mashinsky from trading and CFTC registration. No additional monetary penalty.
protocol
The Protocol Version 11 hard-fork action was submitted to the Cardano chain on June 16, 2026. Earliest possible enactment: June 28.