governance
Cardano IO Research 32.9M ADA vote closes today, trailing 86.7% no
Input Output Global's 32.9M ADA Cardano Vision 2026 research ask is on track to fail its DRep vote today, June 8, with 86.72% no — Hoskinson says IOG will not resubmit.
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exploit
Yuga Labs whitehats 68 NFTs out of a live Flooring Protocol exploit
Yuga's blockchain lead 0xQuit and researcher Coffee pulled 29 BAYC, 2 CryptoPunks and 37 other blue-chips out of Flooring before an attacker could redeem them through the fpToken bug.
protocol
IoTeX activates v2.4.0 Yap hard fork tonight, pulls in four Pectra EIPs
IoTeX mainnet hard-forks at block 48,985,561 (~23:52 UTC on June 7). v2.4.0 'Yap' ships EIP-7702 account abstraction, EIP-7623 calldata repricing, EIP-2935 and EIP-2537.
governance
Arbitrum Foundation goes back to the DAO for a $43.5M 2027 budget
The Foundation proposes a $43.5M 2027 operating budget — $16M stablecoins/RWA, 1,740 ETH and 230M ARB — drawn from the DAO treasury. On-chain vote opens June 8.
infrastructure
Mastercard opens card settlement to stablecoins across eight chains
Mastercard's June 3 update lets issuers settle card flows on-chain in USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD and SoFiUSD across Ethereum, Solana, XRPL and five others.
protocol
Zcash patches Orchard soundness bug with NU6.2 emergency hard fork
An under-constrained Orchard circuit could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC. Zcash froze the pool with a June 2 soft fork, then re-enabled it via NU6.2 the next day.
exploit
Gnosis Pay halted after Zodiac Delay Module exploit; Gnosis to cover losses
Gnosis co-founder Martin Köppelmann confirms an active exploit on Gnosis Pay tied to Zodiac Delay Modifier v1.1.0 and Roles Modifier v2; Gnosis pledges to cover all user losses.
regulation
SEC draft strategic plan FY26-FY30 adds digital assets objective
The June 2 draft (File DSP-3) makes digital assets and DLT a standalone SEC objective for fiscal years 2026-2030; comments due July 2.
on-chain
Whitehat unlocks 1,003 ETH stuck in 2016 HongCoin ICO contract
Researcher 0xFlorent_ found an integer-overflow path in the HongCoin admin function and unlocked 1,003.62 ETH (~$2M) trapped in the 2016 ICO refund contract for nine years.