protocol
Japan's dominant security-token platform completes 'Project Keystone', porting all live RWA — corporate bonds, real estate, funds — from Corda 5 onto a dedicated Avalanche EVM L1 with sub-2s finality.
protocol
The EF Protocol Support account announced its own dissolution on July 9, absorbing the team that ran All Core Devs into the new Protocol Layer cluster from the June 23 restructure.
protocol
Protocol 27 lands on Stellar mainnet on July 10, adding CAP-0071-01 authentication delegation for Soroban custom accounts and CAP-0071-02 address-bound credentials.
protocol
A consensus bug hit during vault rotation forces THORChain to pause churning. v3.19.4 is scrapped; the fix ships in v3.20 alongside XMR and router V6. Solana re-enables first.
protocol
VALR, Africa's largest regulated exchange, ships 200+ cross-asset perps on July 6 by natively integrating Hyperliquid's L1 — the first CEX to route perp order flow to an on-chain DEX.
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.
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.
infrastructure
A consensus bug sequenced an invalid block, halting Base's single sequencer for ~2 hours. Sequencing restored by 17:51 UTC; Beryl mainnet upgrade still set for 18:00 UTC.
infrastructure
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe announced on June 25, 2026 a ~15% headcount cut — about 90 jobs — and a refocus on security, trading, stablecoins, settlement and AI-powered infrastructure.
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
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
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.
protocol
Glamsterdam-devnet-5 and -6 are now running with every planned EIP — ePBS, BALs, gas repricing. Foundation engineers describe it as the last phase before testnet hardening.
infrastructure
Backpack Securities and Sunrise launched SPCX on Solana on June 12, the day SpaceX priced at $135 on Nasdaq. The token is 1:1-backed and redeemable into shares via ACATS.
protocol
Validator voting for NEAR protocol version 84 opened June 10, 2026, 00:00 UTC. nearcore v2.12.0 switches the contract runtime to Wasmtime and enables Wasm bulk memory ops.
protocol
Stellar publishes a three-stage Quantum Preparedness Plan. Stage 1 (2026) ships ML-DSA-44/65 verification as Soroban host functions, then quantum-safe contract accounts.
protocol
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.
infrastructure
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
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 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
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.
regulation
Paxos Securities Settlement Company, LLC won temporary SEC registration as a clearing agency under Section 17A — the first blockchain-native firm to clear and settle US securities.
exploit
Cosmos-Ethereum Gravity Bridge lost ~$5.4M on May 30. Peckshield and on-chain analyst Specter call it a signing key compromise. Team halted validators; attacker holds ~2,102 ETH.
protocol
Zcash Foundation ships Zebra 4.5.0 plus a 4.5.1 hotfix, closing 15 advisories including a critical P2SH disabled-opcode sigop undercount that could split the chain.
infrastructure
DTC will tokenize Russell 1000 equities, ETFs and US Treasuries on Stellar under its SEC no-action letter. First production trades targeted for July, broader rollout October.
infrastructure
Leap Wallet shuts down all products on May 28, 2026 — browser extension, mobile apps, Compass, Swapfast and the Leap Cosmos Hub validator. ATOM stakers need to redelegate before the unbonding window.
exploit
Bybit's primary ETH cold wallet lost about 401,000 ETH on Feb 21, 2025 via a Safe{Wallet} UI manipulation. Arkham and the FBI attribute the attack to Lazarus.