South Korean police have designated Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a suspect in a bribery probe tied to the alleged preferential hiring of an independent lawmaker’s son. The investigation adds to Bithumb’s recent regulatory and operational troubles, including a March six-month partial suspension with a $24.2 million fine and a February error that mistakenly credited users with about 620,000 Bitcoin.

Raydium said it will cover losses after an attacker drained about $1.34 million from five deprecated liquidity pools tied to its legacy AMM V3 program that has been phased out since 2021. The team said current users and active pools were not impacted, and stated reimbursement will be paid from Raydium's treasury while it reviews mainnet programs for vulnerabilities.

On June 10, 2026, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission released its first proposed framework for prediction markets, outlining how it would judge whether event contracts serve the public interest or violate federal law. The draft uses a three-step review and a flexible balancing test, and would open a 45-day public comment period after finalization, taking effect 60 days after adoption.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has asked the SEC to postpone SpaceX's Nasdaq IPO, which is slated to begin trading as early as June 12, 2026 under ticker SPCX. The deal targets a $1.75 trillion valuation via 555 million Class A shares at $135, and critics cite a roughly 103x price-to-sales multiple and potential spillover risk to index-tracking retirement funds.

Travala said it has launched an end-to-end agentic AI travel protocol that lets autonomous agents search, book, and pay for access to more than 2.2 million hotels, with user approval required at payment. The company is offering developers a 10% cbBTC rebate for bookings executed through AI agents integrated via the Travala Travel MCP. The stack uses Base and the x402 payments standard, aiming to enable gasless USDC payments with roughly $0.01 per booking.

Matt Cole of Strive and former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) pushed back against claims that Bitcoin is "dead" on Monday, with BTC trading around $62,600 and still roughly 50% below its October 2025 high above $126,000. Strive said it added 32 BTC for about $2.1 million at an average of roughly $63,911 per coin, while a Bernstein note tied weaker crypto flows to capital rotating into AI.

Databricks is in talks for a new funding round that could value the company at $165 billion to $175 billion, following a $134 billion valuation in February 2026. The company previously said its annualized revenue run rate exceeded $5.4 billion at that time, including $1.4 billion from AI products, while CEO Ali Ghodsi has indicated an IPO could come as early as 2027.

On June 8, 2026, decentralized lending protocol Morpho raised $175 million in a funding round co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital, pushing its valuation up to $2 billion. The raise comes as Morpho’s TVL has climbed to nearly $6.5 billion across 37 chains versus Aave’s $12 billion, and the project says it will deploy the capital to expand its "open credit network" infrastructure.

Asterix, a fork of the NFT liquidity platform Flooring Protocol, confirmed an exploit that drained about $40,000 and said the $ASTX token contract was hit around 4 a.m. GMT+8. The incident followed the June 8 Flooring Protocol exploit, where losses initially topped $900,000 before white hats recovered roughly $500,000 in NFTs. The back-to-back attacks underscore how unpatched flaws can propagate through forked codebases.