24H Hot Coins & Headlines｜Ethereum Foundation Announces Restructuring and Layoffs of ~20%; Strait of Hormuz Limits Daily Vessel Passages (June 24)
- Core Viewpoint: Today's news indicates that the cryptocurrency market is under overall pressure, with mainstream coins generally declining. Meanwhile, the Ethereum Foundation is undergoing a major restructuring and layoffs; the traditional finance and AI sectors are accelerating their integration with cryptocurrency and cybersecurity, reflecting a complex landscape of internal adjustments and external convergence.
- Key Elements:
- Market Performance: Hot coins on CEXs broadly fell, with WLD suffering 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 main divisions and laid off 20% of its staff (~54 people), aiming to optimize its structure.
- AI Security Race: OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber, outperforming Anthropic's Mythos 5 in vulnerability reproduction tests.
- Prediction Market Surge: Meta is developing the 'Arena' app, and CBOE launched the 'Predicts' platform, competing with prediction markets like Polymarket.
- Regulatory Dynamics: South Korean regulators are concerned about the risks of leveraged ETFs, which could impact market stability; the US 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 CEX Tokens
CEX Top 10 by 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 Top 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 Top Equity 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. Trending On-Chain Meme (Data Source: GMGN):
- Solana: three, QUEST
- BSC: MAME, Angular Cat
Headlines
Iranian Media: Only a Limited Number of Ships Allowed Through the Strait of Hormuz Daily
Odaily Planet Daily News According to Iranian media Fars News: A military source stated that only a limited number of ships are allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz daily, with the specific number subject to adjustment based on daily conditions. (Jin Shi)
Ethereum Foundation: Restructured and Laid Off Approximately 20% of Staff
Odaily Planet Daily News According to official sources, the Ethereum Foundation has completed a months-long restructuring. Currently, the Ethereum Foundation has been reorganized into five business segments, including the Protocol Layer, Access Layer, User Layer, Community Layer, and Institutional Layer, in addition to operations and management support teams.
Due to this structural, activity, and expenditure adjustment, the Ethereum Foundation has laid off 54 employees, accounting for approximately 20% of its total workforce. The Ethereum Foundation will provide severance pay and transition support for departing employees, with severance pay equivalent to one month's salary for each year of service at the Ethereum Foundation, or the higher of the local statutory standard.
AP News: Anthropic's Mythos Model Found Vulnerabilities in US Government Classified Systems
Odaily Planet Daily News The cybersecurity system Mythos, developed by Anthropic, discovered vulnerabilities in US government classified systems during testing. (Jin Shi)
Odaily Planet Daily News Binance Co-founder He Yi stated on social media that CoinUp operator Zhu Pan once impersonated others in an attempt to scam her but failed.
He Yi also revealed that Zhu Pan had even impersonated her 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 to the topic of "CPX price fluctuation and related personnel identity," stating that Zhu Pan is not a member of the CoinUp platform and has not participated in the platform's core management operations. His identity is only that of a project party for a project listed on the CoinUp platform.
Regarding the recent short-term significant fluctuation in the CPX/USDT trading pair, CoinUp stated that its preliminary judgment attributes it mainly to concentrated market selling pressure. The platform is further investigating and verifying the specific reasons.
CoinUp also emphasized that the platform has not suffered a hacker attack, data breach, or system vulnerability exploitation. The wallet system, account system, and asset custody services are currently in a safe and controllable state.
Industry News
Odaily Planet Daily News Recently, Lee Chan-jin, Governor of South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), 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 stated that the negative effects generated by single-stock leveraged ETFs have intensified. In addition to strengthening transaction behavior monitoring, regulators are also considering other market stabilization measures to hedge against the chain risk that may be triggered by the volatile single-stock leveraged ETFs tracking SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics. Lee Chan-jin said, "I am deeply concerned. Ordinary investors find it very difficult to obtain substantial returns, while the profit benefits entirely end up in the pockets of operating institutions."
On May 27, 2026, single-stock leveraged ETFs with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix as underlying assets were listed on South Korean local exchanges, attracting a frenzy of market capital inflow. According to statistics from the FSS, the total market capitalization of such single-stock leveraged ETFs doubled from KRW 4.5 trillion on the listing day to KRW 9.6 trillion on June 12. The average daily turnover rate of these single-stock leveraged ETFs reached 122.5%, significantly higher than the 30.2% turnover rate of other leveraged and inverse ETFs. (Caixin)
Potentially affected by this news, South Korea's KOSPI index once plummeted 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, and SpaceX also fell sharply by 16%, closing lower for the third consecutive trading day. "Anything related to artificial intelligence and technology remains the focus for retail investors. They used to be more active in trading individual stocks, but they are no longer as aggressive now."
Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab, said, "This is not because they are uninterested in the overall tech or AI sector, but the trading method has changed. I think the current focus is more on broader ETF trading rather than buying and selling individual stocks."
Sonders also stated that corporate earnings remain the most important fundamental factor supporting stocks. (Jin Shi)
OpenAI Releases Full Version of GPT-5.5-Cyber, Outperforming 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.
On the CyberGym benchmark, 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 cybersecurity is shifting from "discovering vulnerabilities" to "automatically fixing vulnerabilities." To this end, the company has simultaneously upgraded the Codex Security plugin, which supports developers in automatically analyzing vulnerabilities and generating 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 fixing of 500,000 security defects. The new version also supports integration with CodeQL queries and SARIF standard file export.
Additionally, OpenAI, in collaboration with organizations such as Trail of Bits and HackerOne, has launched the "Patch the Planet" open-source security project, providing ChatGPT Pro subscriptions and API credits support for over 30 mainstream open-source projects like cURL and Go, with patch quality manually verified by a team of security experts. Regarding the Daybreak Partner Program, security vendors like Palo Alto Networks and Wiz have been among the first to integrate relevant capabilities.
Meta Developing Prediction Market App 'Arena'
Odaily Planet Daily News Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently dispatched 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 app is currently in internal development and is experimental. Users will not use real money for bets but will rely on a points system similar to video games, though the possibility of eventually using real currency for betting exists. Additionally, Meta is testing another standalone app named Meta Photos, which will use AI technology to create new types of media. Meta declined to comment on this. (New York Times)
CBOE Launches 'CBOE Predicts' Prediction Platform
Odaily Planet Daily News The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has launched the CBOE Predicts prediction platform, with the first batch of products set to go live in the new prediction market series. (Jin Shi)
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Increases Stake in SpaceX by Over $21 Million
Odaily Planet Daily News Walter Bloomberg posted on the X platform stating that ARK Invest added over 210,000 shares of SpaceX following a 16% drop in SpaceX's stock price, valued at least $32 million. This increase represents an additional position by ARK after the SpaceX IPO, with Cathie Wood viewing the sell-off as a buying opportunity.
Despite the recent decline in stock price, SpaceX's stock price remains higher than its IPO price of $135.
Franklin Templeton Completes Acquisition of 250 Digital, Forms New Crypto Division 'Franklin Crypto'
Odaily Planet Daily News Franklin Templeton announced the completion of its acquisition of 250 Digital, an active crypto investment management firm, and the formation of a new division named Franklin Crypto. The asset manager, managing $1.7 trillion in assets, did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. The new division aims to provide actively managed cryptocurrency strategies for institutional investors.
The new unit will combine 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 in these liquidity strategies. The new unit has absorbed the entire 250 Digital investment team and all liquid crypto strategies previously operating under CoinFund. Crypto industry veterans Christopher Perkins and Seth Ginns will co-lead the new division. (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) added $4.57 million worth of BTC and ETH in 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 "Approval of Goldfinch Operations Maintenance and Gradual Liquidation of Goldfinch Prime." Voting ends tomorrow, and the current approval rate is 100%.
The proposal content includes orderly winding down the Goldfinch Prime business operations and transitioning Goldfinch into "maintenance mode." Subsequent work priorities will include supporting the continued liquidation of historical borrower pools, maintaining access to historical versions of the application for users to continue claiming repayments and principal, and completing the foundation's wind-down and related administrative obligations.
Additionally, Warbler Labs will receive a fixed service fee of $150,000, with $100,000 being a new budget allocation and $50,000 reallocated from the previously approved operating budget. These funds will be used to support the liquidation and business transition of Goldfinch Prime and the Foundation, as well as the technical and operational maintenance of historical borrower pools for the next two years or longer.
Previously, Goldfinch completed a $25 million financing round in 2022, led by a16z.
Odaily Planet Daily News Taiko officially posted 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 trace and freeze the hacker's assets. The remaining funds in the cross-chain bridge are currently safe. We will announce the next steps in subsequent updates. To focus on fixing the vulnerability and protecting user assets, we will pause updates for a few hours."
Previously, it was reported that the Taiko cross-chain bridge suffered an attack, with potential losses reaching up to $1.7 million.
Fundraising
Blockchain Data Analysis Company Allium Raises $40 Million
Odaily Planet Daily News Blockchain data analysis firm Allium 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's main business is providing blockchain data analysis services. It currently has 50 employees, and its data sources are used by institutions such as Visa, the U.S. Federal Reserve System, Coinbase, and Andreessen Horowitz. (Fortune Magazine)
On-Chain Trading Ecosystem TurboFlow Completes $6 Million Seed Round Led by Pantera Capital
Odaily Planet Daily News According to official sources, 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). The funding will be used to integrate perpetual contracts and prediction markets into a high-performance platform, making complex trading products accessible to a wider audience.
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