Ethena allocates $250M to Securitize’s STAC fund as it expands to Solana — Twitter

xStocks unable to deliver SpaceX shares; Bybit cancels IPO allocations, issues full refunds — Twitter

Blockworks acquires rival Messari for $10M+, down from $300M valuation in 2022 — WSJ

White House official Patrick Witt says the administration is aiming to pass the crypto Clarity Act by July 4 — CoinDesk

Zimbabwe is moving to regulate its crypto sector, requiring firms to register with the central bank — The Block

Trump says the US–Iran deal is now complete, sealing the de-escalation that drove Bitcoin to a two-week high — Truth Social

Aerodrome will launch Predictive Allocation in July, replacing reward voting with a prediction-market model that pays users for forecasting where liquidity demand goes next — CoinDesk

A hacker drained ~$2.1M from a deprecated, now-immutable Aztec Connect contract by exploiting a flaw in its ZK proof verification — Cointelegraph

Strategy bought another 1,587 BTC for ~$105M — Saylor keeps stacking straight through the dip — SaylorTracker

Hyperliquid pre-IPO markets platform Ventuals winds down; vHYPE holders get 1:1 HYPE back — Twitter

Kraken Pro adds 16 perpetual futures contracts for US traders under CFTC regulation — Twitter

Nvidia launches $20B investment-grade bond sale, first since 2021, across seven maturities — Twitter

Upbit listed $SPX across KRW, BTC and USDT markets — a notable Korean-market access point for the token — Upbit

Standard Chartered says Wall Street adoption could lift Uniswap's UNI nearly 40x by 2030 — Decrypt

HashKey Chain partnered with Morpho to push institutional CeDeFi and RWA lending, pairing HashKey's compliance infrastructure with Morpho's open credit network — HashKey

Nous Research's Hermes agent integrated Stripe Skills for autonomous commerce — it can now make payments, buy things, pay per-call APIs and spin up its own SaaS — Nous Research

DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation, with founder Liang Wenfeng reportedly funding ~40% himself and investors locked into a 5-year, no-voting LP — Reuters

MARA adds 1,000 BTC via FalconX months after selling 20,880 BTC for $1.5B in Q1 — Twitter

Polygon zkEVM shuts down July 1 after running at $1M+ annual losses — Twitter

Coinbase and AWS integrate x402 to enable AI agent payments on CloudFront and WAF — Twitter