New York, United States, 18th June 2026, Chainwire New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital. The invite-only dinner…
Zama and Morpho are pushing a more privacy-aware version of DeFi with a confidential USDC yield vault design that uses fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, to bring private deposit logic to a public Ethereum environment. TL;DR Zama published a design for private deposits into public DeFi using FHE. The vault is tied to Morpho and…
Paris, France, 18th June 2026, Chainwire Paris, France, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Unlocking yield opportunities for Confidential USDC (cUSDC) holders by integrating Zama on top of Morpho and Steakhouse’s existing vaults. Zama, the fastest growing confidentiality protocol for onchain finance, today announced a landmark technical partnership with Morpho and Steakhouse Financial to launch Steakhouse Confidential…
Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, giving the stablecoin issuer a direct entry into the wrapped Bitcoin market and setting up a new challenge to existing BTC-backed DeFi assets. TL;DR cirBTC is live on Ethereum and backed 1:1 by Bitcoin. Circle says the asset uses segregated custody and Chainlink Proof of Reserve. The product is…
Reports citing Standard Chartered research say Uniswap’s UNI token could reach $100 by 2030, with the forecast built around a much larger market for tokenized real-world assets and on-chain trading infrastructure. TL;DR Published reports citing Standard Chartered research point to a long-term $100 UNI target by 2030. The original research note is not publicly available,…
A legacy Aztec Connect smart contract has been exploited for roughly $2.19 million, according to a post-mortem published by blockchain security firm SlowMist. The incident is a useful reminder that deprecated DeFi infrastructure does not simply disappear when a protocol moves on. If contracts remain live, immutable, and funded, they can still become targets —…
Road Town, British Virgin Islands, 15th June 2026, Chainwire Road Town, British Virgin Islands, June 15th, 2026, Chainwire Wallet V, a self-custody Web3 wallet, launched a public performance benchmark for the AI trading agents that its users have configured on the third-party decentralized derivatives platforms Hyperliquid and Aster. The benchmark publishes aggregate cohort performance and…
TL;DR The SEC proposed rescinding Regulation NMS Rules 611 and 610e. The proposal is aimed at modernizing equity market structure. The change could have implications for tokenized securities and automated execution models, but it is not final. SEC Targets Market-Structure Rules The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rescinding Rules 611 and 610e of…
TL;DR Aave Labs has proposed onboarding Circle Wrapped Bitcoin, or cirBTC, to Aave V3 Core and Aave V4 Core on Ethereum. The proposal says cirBTC is an ERC-20 token backed 1:1 by Bitcoin custodied at a regulated Circle entity. The move is still at the ARFC stage, meaning it needs community feedback, a Snapshot vote…
TL;DR BA Labs has proposed doubling key LITE-PSM-USDC-A parameters in the Sky stablecoin system from 400 million to 800 million. The proposal says USDC reserves stand at 4.13 billion, up 108% since the last recalibration in October 2024. The change would raise daily refresh capacity to 1.6 billion and total serving capacity to 2.4 billion,…