protocol
The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 staff (~20%) and slashed its 2026 budget 40% on June 23, reorganizing into five layer-clusters under a 5% endowment-spend target by 2030.
exploit
SecondFi disclosed a key-generation bug in its web wallet on June 23, draining ~16M ADA from 178 users; SlowMist puts total exposure at up to 129M ADA.
regulation
The Senate folded a four-year CBDC prohibition into a bipartisan housing bill on June 22; stablecoins are exempt. The bill now returns to the House before Trump's signature.
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.