24H Popular Coins & Headlines｜Ethereum Foundation Announces Restructuring and ~20% Staff Reduction; Hormuz Strait Permits Only Limited Number of Vessel Passages Daily (June 24)
- Core Viewpoint: Today's news indicates overall pressure on the cryptocurrency market, with most major coins experiencing declines. Concurrently, the Ethereum Foundation is undergoing a major restructuring and layoffs; traditional finance and AI giants are accelerating their布局 in cryptocurrency and cybersecurity. This reflects a complex situation where the industry is adjusting internally while integrating externally.
- Key Factors:
- Market Performance: Popular coins on CEXs generally fell, with WLD recording the largest drop (-14.26%); on the gainers' list, DYDX (+13.4%) and G (+13.32%) led.
- Institutional Changes: The Ethereum Foundation restructured into five major departments and laid off 20% of its staff (approximately 54 people), aiming to optimize its structure.
- AI Security Competition: OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber, which outperformed Anthropic's Mythos 5 in vulnerability reproduction tests.
- Prediction Market Surge: Meta is developing the app Arena, and CBOE launched the Predicts platform, competing with prediction markets like Polymarket.
- Regulatory Updates: South Korean regulators are focusing on the risks of leveraged ETFs, which could affect market stability; the U.S. Senate is advancing a legislative framework for cryptocurrency taxation.
- Active Investment & Financing: Blockchain data company Allium secured $40 million in Series B funding, and on-chain trading ecosystem TurboFlow raised $6 million in seed funding.
1. Popular Tokens on CEX
CEX Top 10 Trading Volume and 24h Change:
- BTC: - 2.3%
- ETH: - 3.77%
- TAO: -2.7%
- SOL: - 3.25%
- XRP: - 1.91%
- ZEC: - 6.56%
- WLD: - 14.26%
- BNB: -2.25%
- MEGA: - 3.3%
- SPACEB: + 1.16%
- DOGE: - 3.54%
24h Gainers (Data Source: OKX):
- DYDX: + 13.4%
- G: + 13.32%
- DEGEN: + 8.25%
- GRASS: + 7.04%
- BASED: + 5.11%
- ALGO: + 4.32%
- DASH: + 4.27%
- DOOD: + 4.06%
- RESOLV: +4.03%
- KAT: + 3.68%
24h Equity Token Gainers (Data Source: msx.com):
- INFQ: 18.63%
- MSTZ: 15.68%
- ZSL: 13.45%
- QNT: 12.48%
- SOXS: 11%
- ABTS: 10%
- HIVE: 9.86%
- NVDQ: 9.72%
- NVO: 9.52%
- SMCI: 9.39%
2. On-Chain Popular Meme (Data Source: GMGN):
- Solana: three, QUEST
- BSC: MAME, Angled Cat
Headlines
Iran Media: Only a Limited Number of Ships Allowed to Pass Through the Strait of Hormuz Each Day
Odaily Planet Daily News: According to Iranian media Fars News, a military source stated that only a limited number of ships are permitted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz each day, with the exact number subject to daily adjustments. (Jinshi)
Ethereum Foundation: Restructured and Laid Off Approximately 20% of Staff
Odaily Planet Daily News: According to an official announcement, the Ethereum Foundation has completed a restructuring process that took several months. The Ethereum Foundation is now restructured into five business units, including the Protocol Layer, Access Layer, User Layer, Community Layer, and Institutional Layer, in addition to operations and management support teams.
As a result of these structural, activity, and expenditure adjustments, the Ethereum Foundation has laid off 54 employees, representing about 20% of its total workforce. The foundation will provide severance packages and transition support for departing employees, where the severance is one month's salary per year of service at the Ethereum Foundation, or the local statutory minimum, whichever is higher.
AP: Anthropic's Mythos Model Found Vulnerabilities in US Government Secret Systems
Odaily Planet Daily News: Anthropic's cybersecurity system, Mythos, discovered vulnerabilities in U.S. government secret systems during testing. (Jinshi)
Odaily Planet Daily News: Binance co-founder He Yi stated on social media that CoinUp operator Zhu Pan once impersonated someone else in an attempt to scam her, but failed.
He Yi also revealed that Zhu Pan had even impersonated her previously to scam TRON founder Justin Sun.
CoinUp: Zhu Pan is Not a Platform Member, Only the Project Party for a Listed Project
Odaily Planet Daily News: CoinUp responded regarding the topic of "CPX price volatility and related personnel identities," stating that Zhu Pan is not a member of the CoinUp platform and has not participated in the platform's core operational management. His identity is only that of the project party for a specific project listed on the CoinUp platform.
Regarding the recent significant short-term volatility in the CPX/USDT trading pair, CoinUp stated that its preliminary assessment attributes it mainly to concentrated market selling pressure. The platform is further investigating and verifying the specific causes.
CoinUp also emphasized that the platform has not suffered from hacker attacks, data breaches, or system exploits. The wallet system, account system, and asset custody services are all currently in a safe and controllable state.
Industry News
Odaily Planet Daily News: Earlier, Lee Chan-jin, Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea, stated that they are considering taking separate stabilization measures for single-stock leveraged ETFs. At a press conference held on June 22, 2026, Lee Chan-jin noted that the negative effects generated by single-stock leveraged ETFs have intensified. Besides strengthening transaction behavior monitoring, regulators are also considering other measures to stabilize the market to hedge against the cascading risks potentially triggered by the sharp volatility of single-stock leveraged ETFs tracking SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics. Lee Chan-jin said, "I am deeply concerned that ordinary investors find it difficult to obtain substantial returns, while the profits all end up in the pockets of the operating institutions."
On May 27, 2026, single-stock leveraged ETFs with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix as underlying assets were listed on the local South Korean exchange, attracting a massive influx of market funds. According to statistics from the Financial Supervisory Service, the total market capitalization of these single-stock leveraged ETFs doubled from 4.5 trillion won on their listing day to 9.6 trillion won by June 12. The average daily turnover rate for these single-stock leveraged ETFs was as high as 122.5%, far exceeding the 30.2% turnover rate of other leveraged and inverse ETFs. (Caixin)
Possibly affected by this news, South Korea's KOSPI index once plunged 7% today, triggering a circuit breaker.
Charles Schwab: Retail Investors Currently Focus More on Trading Tech ETFs Than Individual Stocks
Odaily Planet Daily News: On Monday, investors sold off 'Magnificent Seven' stocks broadly, and SpaceX also fell 16%, marking its third consecutive losing day. "Anything related to AI and tech remains the focus for retail investors. They used to be more active in individual stock trading, but now they are not as enthusiastic."
Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab, stated, "It's not that they have lost interest in the overall tech or AI sector, but their trading method has changed. I think the focus is currently more on broader ETF trading rather than buying and selling single stocks."
Sonders also said that corporate earnings remain the most crucial fundamental factor supporting stocks. (Jinshi)
OpenAI Releases Full GPT-5.5-Cyber, Outperforms Mythos 5 on CyberGym Benchmark
Odaily Planet Daily News: OpenAI announced an upgrade to its Daybreak network defense toolchain and officially launched the full version of the GPT-5.5-Cyber model for cybersecurity defense scenarios.
In the CyberGym benchmark test, which evaluates AI agents' ability to reproduce known vulnerabilities, GPT-5.5-Cyber achieved a single-model score of 85.6%, surpassing GPT-5.5's 81.8% and Anthropic Mythos 5's 83.8%.
OpenAI stated that as AI significantly improves vulnerability discovery efficiency, the core bottleneck in the cybersecurity field is shifting from "discovering vulnerabilities" to "automatically fixing vulnerabilities." To this end, the company simultaneously upgraded the Codex Security plugin, enabling developers to automatically analyze vulnerabilities and generate fix patches within the Codex environment. Since the preview release in March this year, Codex Security has scanned over 30 million code commits and automatically confirmed the fix of 500,000 security defects. The new version also supports CodeQL query integration and SARIF standard file export.
Additionally, OpenAI, in collaboration with organizations like Trail of Bits and HackerOne, launched the "Patch the Planet" open-source security project, providing ChatGPT Pro subscriptions and API credits support to over 30 mainstream open-source projects such as cURL and Go, with security expert teams manually verifying patch quality. On the Daybreak partner program front, security vendors like Palo Alto Networks and Wiz have already integrated the relevant capabilities.
Meta Developing Prediction Market App Named Arena
Odaily Planet Daily News: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently deployed a team to develop a smartphone application named Arena. This app operates independently of Facebook and Instagram and aims to compete with major prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
The application is currently in internal development and is experimental in nature. Users will not place bets with real money; instead, it relies on a points system similar to video games. However, the possibility of eventually using real currency for betting cannot be ruled out. Furthermore, Meta is also testing another standalone app called Meta Photos, which will leverage AI technology to create new types of media. Meta has declined to comment on this. (New York Times)
Chicago Board Options Exchange Launches CBOE Predicts Platform
Odaily Planet Daily News: The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has launched the CBOE Predicts prediction platform, set to debut its first batch of products in a new prediction market series. (Jinshi)
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Increases Stake in SpaceX by Over $21 Million
Odaily Planet Daily News: Walter Bloomberg reported on X that ARK Invest increased its stake by over 210,000 SpaceX shares following a 16% drop in SpaceX's stock price, valued at least $32 million. This increase represents ARK adding to its position after the SpaceX IPO. Cathie Wood views the sell-off as a buying opportunity.
Despite the recent stock price decline, SpaceX's stock price remains above its IPO price of $135.
Franklin Templeton Completes Acquisition of 250 Digital, Launches New Crypto Unit Franklin Crypto
Odaily Planet Daily News: Franklin Templeton announced the completion of its acquisition of active crypto investment management firm 250 Digital and the establishment of a new unit named Franklin Crypto. The asset manager, which oversees $1.7 trillion in assets, did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction. The new unit aims to provide actively managed cryptocurrency strategies for institutional investors.
The new unit combines the investment capabilities of the former 250 Digital team with Franklin Templeton's global distribution channels. As part of the closing agreement, Franklin Templeton will also invest its own capital into these liquidity strategies. The new unit absorbed the entire 250 Digital investment team and all liquidity cryptocurrency strategies previously operating under CoinFund. Crypto industry veterans Christopher Perkins and Seth Ginns will co-lead the new unit. (coindesk)
F2Pool Co-founder Wang Chun Adds $4.57 Million in BTC and ETH
Odaily Planet Daily News: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) increased his position by $4.57 million in BTC and ETH over the past 24 hours, withdrawing 50 WBTC at $62,260 and 822.51 ETH at $1,771.89.
Project News
Odaily Planet Daily News: The decentralized lending protocol Goldfinch community has published a proposal titled "Approving Goldfinch Operations Maintenance and Gradual Liquidation of Goldfinch Prime." Voting ends tomorrow, and the current approval rate is 100%.
The proposal includes an orderly wind-down of Goldfinch Prime business operations and transitioning Goldfinch into "maintenance mode." Future focuses include supporting the continued liquidation of historical borrower pools, maintaining access to historic versions of the application so users can continue to claim repayments and principal, and completing the foundation's closure and related administrative obligations.
Additionally, Warbler Labs will receive a fixed service fee of $150,000, of which $100,000 is a new budget and $50,000 is reallocated from previously approved operational budgets. These funds will be used to support the liquidation of Goldfinch Prime and the foundation, the business transition, and technical and operational maintenance of historical borrower pools for the next two years or more.
Previously, Goldfinch completed a $25 million funding round in 2022, led by a16z.
Odaily Planet Daily News: Taiko official stated on X: "We have identified the root cause of this attack and are currently developing a fix patch to restore the blockchain's online operation as soon as possible. Simultaneously, we are working closely with major exchanges and security partners to track and freeze the hacker's assets. The remaining funds in the cross-chain bridge are currently safe, and we will announce the next steps in upcoming updates. To focus on fixing the vulnerability and protecting user assets, we will pause updates for a few hours."
As previously reported, the Taiko cross-chain bridge was attacked, with potential losses reaching up to $1.7 million.
Funding and Investment
Blockchain Data Analytics Firm Allium Raises $40 Million
Odaily Planet Daily News: Allium, a blockchain data analytics firm, announced the completion of a $40 million Series B funding round, led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures.
The project primarily provides blockchain data analytics services and currently has 50 employees. Its data sources are utilized by institutions such as Visa, the U.S. Federal Reserve System, Coinbase, and Andreessen Horowitz. (Fortune)
On-Chain Trading Ecosystem TurboFlow Raises $6 Million Seed Funding, Led by Pantera Capital
Odaily Planet Daily News: According to official news, on-chain trading ecosystem TurboFlow announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round, led by Pantera Capital, with strategic participation from quantitative trading giant Susquehanna Crypto (SIG Crypto) and Digital Currency Group (DCG). This funding will be used to integrate perpetual contracts and prediction markets into a single high-performance platform, making sophisticated trading products accessible to more
