SBI Shinsei Bank will start a three-month pilot on June 10 offering Japanese depositors vouchers equal to 20% of interest earned on eligible accounts. Customers can redeem the vouchers for Bitcoin, Ether, or XRP via the group's licensed exchange, SBI VC Trade, and the bank said about 4.33 million deposit accounts may qualify.

MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and Mizuho Bank plan to co-issue a Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin by the end of Japan’s fiscal year 2026 (March 2027). The project follows joint pilot testing that began in November 2025 with involvement from Japan’s Financial Services Agency, while details such as token design, target users, and settlement setup have not been disclosed.

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.

A group of more than 200 crypto companies sent a joint letter on June 7–8 urging Senate leaders John Thune and Chuck Schumer to bring the CLARITY Act to a floor vote "without delay." The bill advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee 15–9 on May 14 and reached the General Orders Calendar by June 1, but a vote has not been scheduled as lawmakers face a July 4 signing target and an approaching August recess.

MetaMask said on June 8 it introduced Agent Wallet, a self-custodial product that lets AI agents trade and use DeFi protocols under user-set rules. The early-access release supports swaps, perps, prediction markets and liquidity actions across EVM networks, plus Hyperliquid. MetaMask also includes transaction simulation, Blockaid threat detection, MEV protection and potential coverage for losses up to $10,000 under its terms.

Humanity Protocol reported a widening security incident on June 9 that grew from early estimates above $5 million to losses exceeding $32 million. Investigators said stolen assets were largely swapped into ETH and also involved an unauthorized mint of 100 million H tokens, while founder Terence Kwok confirmed a private-key compromise and told users to avoid the bridge and liquidity pools. The H token fell as much as 81% and was quoted at $0.1411 amid the fallout.

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MetaMask opened early access to its Agent Wallet on June 8, 2026, enabling AI agents to transact onchain across 10 supported networks. The CLI-based wallet lets users set spend caps, choose approved networks and protocols, and requires 2FA approvals when actions break rules or are flagged as malicious.