24H Hot Coins & Headlines｜Ethereum Foundation Announces Restructuring and Layoffs of ~20% Staff; Strait of Hormuz Allows Only a Certain Number of Vessel Passages Daily (June 24)
- Key Takeaways: Today's briefing indicates the cryptocurrency market is under overall pressure, with mainstream coins generally declining. Meanwhile, the Ethereum Foundation is undergoing a major restructuring with layoffs; traditional finance and AI giants are accelerating their push into cryptocurrency and cybersecurity, reflecting a complex trend of internal industry adjustments coupled with external integration.
- Key Elements:
- Market Performance: Popular CEX coins are broadly down, with WLD seeing the largest decline (-14.26%); on the gainers' list, DYDX (+13.4%) and G (+13.32%) led.
- Institutional Changes: The Ethereum Foundation has restructured into five main divisions and laid off 20% of its staff (approximately 54 people), aiming to optimize its structure.
- AI Security Race: OpenAI has launched GPT-5.5-Cyber, which surpassed Anthropic's Mythos 5 in vulnerability reproduction tests.
- Prediction Market Boom: Meta is developing the Arena app, and CBOE has launched the Predicts platform, competing with prediction markets like Polymarket.
- Regulatory Developments: South Korean regulators are focusing on the risks of leveraged ETFs, which could impact market stability; the U.S. Senate is advancing a framework for cryptocurrency tax legislation.
- Active Investment & Fundraising: Blockchain data company Allium secured $40 million in Series B funding, and on-chain trading ecosystem TurboFlow raised $6 million in seed funding.
1. CEX Hot Tokens
CEX Top 10 by Trading Volume & 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 Crypto-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. On-Chain Hot Memes (Data Source: GMGN):
- Solana: three, QUEST
- BSC: MAME, LENGJIAOMAO
Headlines
Iranian Media: Only a Limited Number of Ships Allowed to Pass Through the Strait of Hormuz Each Day
Odaily Planet Daily reports: According to Iranian media Fars News, a military source stated that only a certain number of ships are permitted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz daily, with the exact number adjusted based on daily circumstances. (Jinshi)
Ethereum Foundation: Restructures and Cuts ~20% of Staff
Odaily Planet Daily reports: According to official sources, the Ethereum Foundation has completed a months-long restructuring. It is now reorganized into five business divisions: Protocol Layer, Access Layer, User Layer, Community Layer, and Institution Layer, in addition to operations and management support teams.
Due to these structural, activity, and expenditure adjustments, the Ethereum Foundation has laid off 54 employees, approximately 20% of its total workforce. The foundation will provide severance pay and transition support for departing employees. The severance is calculated as one month's salary per year of service at the foundation, or the higher local statutory standard.
AP News: Anthropic's Mythos Model Found Vulnerabilities in US Government Classified Systems
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Anthropic's cybersecurity system, Mythos, discovered vulnerabilities in US government classified systems during testing. (Jinshi)
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Binance co-founder He Yi stated on social media that CoinUp operator Zhu Pan once impersonated another person in an attempt to defraud her, but was unsuccessful.
He Yi also revealed that Zhu Pan had previously even impersonated her to defraud TRON founder Justin Sun.
CoinUp: Zhu Pan is Not a Platform Member, Only the Project Party for a Listed Project
Odaily Planet Daily reports: CoinUp responded to the topic of "CPX price volatility and related personnel identity," stating that Zhu Pan is not a CoinUp platform member and has not participated in the platform's core management operations. His identity is solely that of the project party for a project listed on the CoinUp platform.
Regarding the recent short-term extreme volatility in the CPX/USDT trading pair, CoinUp stated that its preliminary assessment attributes it mainly to concentrated market selling pressure, and the platform is further investigating and verifying the specific causes.
CoinUp also emphasized that the platform has not suffered hacker attacks, data breaches, or system exploits, and its wallet system, account system, and asset custody services are currently in a secure and controllable state.
Industry News
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Recently, Lee Chan-jin, Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea, stated that the authority is considering taking separate stabilization measures for single-stock leveraged ETFs. At a press conference on June 22, 2026, Lee Chan-jin said the negative effects generated by single-stock leveraged ETFs have intensified. In addition to strengthening trading behavior monitoring, regulators are also considering other market stabilization measures to hedge against the chain risks that could be triggered by sharp fluctuations in single-stock leveraged ETFs tracking SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics. Lee Chan-jin stated, "I am deeply concerned, as ordinary investors find it difficult to obtain substantial returns, while the profit dividends end up entirely in the pockets of the operating institutions."
On May 27, 2026, single-stock leveraged ETFs targeting Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix were listed on the local Korean exchange, attracting a massive influx of market funds. According to FSS statistics, the total market capitalization of these single-stock leveraged ETFs doubled from 4.5 trillion won on the listing day to 9.6 trillion won by June 12. The average daily turnover rate for these ETFs reached 122.5%, significantly higher than the 30.2% turnover rate of other leveraged and inverse ETFs. (Caixin)
Potentially influenced by this news, Korea's KOSPI index once plummeted by 7% today, triggering a circuit breaker.
Odaily Planet Daily reports: On Monday, investors sold off the "Magnificent Seven" stocks, and SpaceX also fell by 16%, its third consecutive day of decline. "Anything related to AI and technology remains the focus for retail investors. They were more active in trading individual stocks in the past, but they are not as active now."
Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab, stated, "This is not necessarily a loss of interest in the tech or AI sector as a whole, but a change in trading methods. I think the focus is currently more on broader ETF trading rather than buying and selling individual stocks."
Sonders also mentioned that corporate earnings remain the most important fundamental factor supporting stocks. (Jinshi)
OpenAI Releases Full Version of GPT-5.5-Cyber, Outperforms Mythos 5 on CyberGym Benchmark
Odaily Planet Daily reports: OpenAI announced the upgrade of its Daybreak cyber 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 cybersecurity is shifting from "finding vulnerabilities" to "automatically fixing vulnerabilities." To this end, the company has also upgraded the Codex Security plugin, allowing developers to automatically analyze vulnerabilities and generate fix patches within the Codex environment. Since its preview release in March this year, Codex Security has scanned over 30 million code commits and automatically confirmed fixes for 500,000 security defects. The new version also supports CodeQL query integration and SARIF standard file export.
Furthermore, OpenAI, in collaboration with Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and other organizations, has launched the "Patch the Planet" open-source security project, providing ChatGPT Pro subscriptions and API credits to over 30 mainstream open-source projects like cURL and Go, with a team of security experts manually verifying patch quality. Regarding the Daybreak Partner Program, security vendors like Palo Alto Networks and Wiz have already integrated the relevant capabilities.
Meta Develops Prediction Market Application 'Arena'
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently dispatched a team to develop a smartphone application named Arena. This app is independent 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 in nature. Users will not bet with real money but will rely on a points system similar to video games. However, the possibility of eventually using real currency for betting is not ruled out. Additionally, Meta is testing another independent app called Meta Photos, which will use AI technology to create new media types. Meta has declined to comment on this. (New York Times)
CBOE Launches 'CBOE Predicts' Prediction Platform
Odaily Planet Daily reports: The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has launched the CBOE Predicts prediction platform, listing its first batch of products in this new prediction market series. (Jinshi)
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Increases SpaceX Stake by Over $21 Million
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Walter Bloomberg posted on X that ARK Invest added over 210,000 shares of SpaceX after its stock price fell 16%, valued at least $32 million. This increase represents ARK's additional holdings after SpaceX's IPO, with Cathie Wood viewing the sell-off as a buying opportunity.
Despite the recent price drop, SpaceX's stock price remains above its $135 IPO price.
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Franklin Templeton announced the completion of its acquisition of 250 Digital, an active crypto investment management firm, and the creation of a new division named Franklin Crypto. The asset manager, which oversees $1.7 trillion in assets, did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. The new division aims to provide institutional investors with actively managed cryptocurrency strategies.
The new division will combine the investment capabilities of the former 250 Digital team with Franklin Templeton's global distribution channels. As part of the agreement, Franklin Templeton will also invest its own capital into these liquidity strategies. The new unit has absorbed the entire 250 Digital investment team and all liquidity 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 reports: Monitored 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 reports: The decentralized lending protocol Goldfinch community has published a proposal titled "Approving Goldfinch Operational Maintenance and Gradual Liquidation of Goldfinch Prime." Voting ends tomorrow, and the current approval rate is 100%.
The proposal includes the orderly termination of Goldfinch Prime business operations and transitioning Goldfinch into "maintenance mode." Subsequent work priorities will include supporting the ongoing liquidation of legacy borrower pools, maintaining access to older versions of the application so users can continue to claim 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 as a new budget and $50,000 reallocated from previously approved operational budgets. These funds will support the Goldfinch Prime and foundation liquidation, business transition, and technical and operational maintenance of legacy borrowing pools for the next two years or longer.
Previously, Goldfinch completed a $25 million funding round in 2022, led by a16z.
Odaily Planet Daily reports: 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. At the same time, 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. 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 reported, Taiko's cross-chain bridge suffered an attack, with potential losses reaching up to $1.7 million.
Funding & Investments
Blockchain Data Analytics Firm Allium Raises $40 Million
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Blockchain data analytics firm Allium announced the completion of a $40 million Series B funding round. Amplify Partners led the round, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures.
The project's main business is providing blockchain data analysis services. It currently employs 50 people, and its data sources are used by institutions such as Visa, the US 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 reports: 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). This round of funding will be used to integrate perpetual contracts and prediction markets into a high-performance platform, making sophisticated trading products accessible to a wider audience.
TurboFlow is an on-chain trading ecosystem that merges perpetual contracts and prediction
