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a16z and Paradigm Back DeFi Lender Morpho With $175M

Morpho Association raised $175M from the likes of a16z and Paradigm, marking the largest funding round in DeFi history and valuing the protocol at approximately $2Bn. Co-founded by Merlin Egalité, the protocol boasts over $11Bn in deposits and powers lending…

Let Bots Trade Your Crypto

MetaMask launched Agent Wallet on June 8, 2026, a self-custodial wallet purpose-built for AI agents to autonomously execute trades and DeFi interactions without users ever surrendering their private keys. Roughly 200 users are in an Early Access Program right now,…

Circle Just Launched cirBTC ‘Wrapped Bitcoin’

Circle, the regulated financial infrastructure company behind USDC, launched cirBTC on Ethereum on June 8, 2026, adding a new 1:1 BTC-backed wrapped Bitcoin token to a market already anchored by WBTC at roughly $8Bn in market capitalization and Coinbase’s cbBTC…

XRP Ripple Ledger 3.2.0 Upgrade Targets June 15

XRP Ripple Ledger 3.2.0 is targeting a June 15 release, bringing two headline changes: the core server software is renamed from rippled to XRPLD, and the upgrade promises 30–40% lower memory usage across network nodes. XRPL Operations announced the update…

Bank Makes Huge Claim for BTC in 2026

In JPMorgan crypto news today, one of the bank’s top analysts, Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, has identified two catalysts that will define crypto’s second-half 2026 performance: Strategy’s ability to fund roughly $1.7Bn in annual preferred stock dividends without selling Bitcoin, and US…

HTX Delists USD1 Stablecoin After Wallet Freeze

Justin Sun and his HTX exchange delisted the USD1 stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial on June 7, 2026, after WLFI froze multiple HTX on-chain addresses in what it described as a sanctions compliance review. All USD1 holdings on HTX…