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: Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at investment management firm Franklin Templeton, stated that the AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols to facilitate machine-to-machine micropayments. Traditional bank card networks are unsuitable for agent-based payments due to fees and settlement times. Sandy Kaul pointed out that blockchain networks like Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain are more suitable for the agent economy, with transactions settling in seconds, faster than the 1 to 3 business day settlement time of the Visa network. In a joint report, payment company Visa and investment validation platform Artemis stated that traditional bank cards designed for low-frequency human commercial activities are insufficient to support AI agents, which require near-zero fees and faster settlement. Since its launch in May 2025, the x402 payment protocol developed by Coinbase has seen an adjusted transaction volume of $15 million and over 109 million adjusted transactions.
: Prediction market platform predict.fun has announced that all Up/Down markets now feature a Maker order rebate mechanism. Users who complete trades via limit orders can receive a 25% rebate on Maker fees.Compared to Polymarket, predict.fun's Maker rebate offers two key advantages that are more direct: a higher rebate rate, and real-time settlement immediately after the trade, without waiting for finalization.For high-frequency traders, professional market makers, and users who frequently employ limit orders, real-time rebates allow for faster capital release, reducing the continuous impact of fees on trading profits. The higher rebate rate also means that as trading frequency and volume increase, the actual cost savings become more significant.This mechanism now covers all Up/Down markets on predict.fun. Users do not need to register or apply separately; rebates for qualifying orders will be automatically credited to the account upon execution.
Odaily报道, ForeGate, the next-generation event prediction trading platform globally endorsed by legendary footballer Michael Owen, has officially launched its EWC (Esports World Cup) themed zone. This zone covers all popular events of this year's EWC, offering real-time event tracking and AI-powered deep predictions.To coincide with the launch of the EWC zone, ForeGate has simultaneously initiated the "Esports Prediction Trading Competition" limited-time incentive event, with a total prize pool of up to 500,000 USDT. During the event, users can participate in trading to share the prize pool. The event runs from July 16, 14:00 to August 24, 16:00 (UTC+8). This move marks a further expansion of ForeGate's event prediction market ecosystem centered around high-frequency sports and esports. Currently, users can seamlessly access the platform directly through mainstream DApp wallets such as Binance Wallet and OKX Wallet.
According to Visa's official website, Visa and Artemis jointly released a report that deeply analyzes the current status and trends of AI agent payments based on real-time on-chain data. The report indicates that AI agent payments are divided into two categories: one is "macro commerce" where agents replace users to complete tasks like booking tickets and subscriptions, similar to traditional e-commerce payments; the other is "micro commerce" such as high-frequency, low-value API calls between software, where single transaction amounts are typically less than 1 cent. On-chain data shows that the open protocol x402, incubated by Coinbase and Cloudflare and now hosted by the Linux Foundation, has processed approximately 109 million transactions since launching in May 2025, with an adjusted transaction volume of about $15 million, mainly active on the Base, Solana, and Polygon chains; the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP), jointly built by Stripe and Tempo with Visa's contribution, launched in mid-March 2026 and completed approximately 115,000 transactions within weeks, with a settlement amount of about $25,000. The report notes that blockchain settlement costs have dropped to extremely low levels, making small payments in the 1-cent to 1-dollar range economically feasible for the first time, but agent payments still face significant challenges at the legal and regulatory level regarding trust, liability attribution, and dispute resolution. Visa stated that its goal is to build a unified foundation that simultaneously supports card-native trust authorization and machine-native settlement
Starting from July 15, 2026, 00:15 (UTC+8), Binance Futures will adjust the funding rate settlement frequency for SKHYNIXUSDT, SAMSUNGUSDT, and HYUNDAIUSDT perpetual contracts from once every 8 hours to once every 4 hours, and the funding rate cap/floor will be adjusted to ±0.50%.
: Prediction market platform Kalshi has officially launched the beta version of its professional trading terminal, Kalshi Pro. The product is targeted at high-frequency, professional event traders to meet real-time trading demands across multiple markets. The terminal is equipped with several institutional-grade features, including real-time public trade data feeds, full order book depth, multi-leg contract calculation, and batch order management. It also introduces professional charting tools and position risk management tools tailored for perpetual contracts. Kalshi Product Lead Andy Chang stated that active traders now view prediction markets and perpetual contracts as standardized trading asset classes comparable to stocks and bonds. Kalshi Pro aims to provide professional investors with the complete suite of institutional trading capabilities they require. (CNBC)
According to official announcements, the on-chain burn for GateToken (GT) in the second quarter of 2026 has been officially completed. A total of 2,570,063.3829548 GT has been transferred to the burn address, with a destruction value exceeding $17.75 million.Since the launch of the Gate Chain mainnet in 2019, GT has implemented a continuous burning mechanism. To date, a cumulative total of 189,947,219 GT has been burned, with a total cumulative destruction value exceeding $1.311 billion (based on the quarterly average price). The total token supply has been significantly reduced by approximately 63.32% from the initial 300 million tokens.As the sole Gas token for the Gate Layer, GT's usage frequency continues to rise. As the underlying infrastructure, the Gate Layer provides high-performance network support for applications such as Gate Perp DEX, Gate Fun, Gate Meme Go, and Gate Swap. Furthermore, Gate is continuously enriching its product ecosystem. Gate Stocks has established a 7×24 hour trading service system covering the three core markets of US stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and Korean stocks, encompassing over 12,500 global stocks and ETF assets. It supports fractional share trading starting from as low as 0.01 shares and provides entitlements to stock dividends. The platform also supports cross-broker transfer of US and Hong Kong stocks, and facilitates corporate actions such as stock splits and reverse stock splits, further enhancing the stock investment service experience. Gate will persistently execute a long-term, stable GT burning mechanism to form a tighter positive cycle between the token's economic model, actual usage demand, and ecosystem expansion.
Citadel Securities has filed a lawsuit in London, seeking over £6 million (approximately $7.9 million) from Leonard Lancia, its former European Head of Derivatives Systematic Market Making and co-founder of high-frequency crypto trading firm Portofino Technologies.Citadel Securities alleges that Leonard Lancia and his colleagues began planning their startup while still employed, and has won damages and legal cost support in related labor arbitration. Additionally, Citadel Securities filed a lawsuit against Portofino Technologies in the US in 2023, accusing it of stealing trade secrets. Leonard Lancia and Portofino Technologies have denied all allegations. The High Court in London rejected Leonard Lancia's request to lift the asset freezing order last Friday. (Bloomberg)
: HyperLiquid has announced an upgrade to the AQAv2 mechanism. The system will use on-chain automated trading to maintain a dynamic 1:9 balance of USDC between two core addresses in each HyperEVM block, corresponding to the contract execution layer and the treasury reserve layer, respectively.According to the mechanism design, this ratio is used for functional stratification between "high-frequency trading and liquidation liquidity" and "long-term reserves and yield pools," aiming to enhance system stability and isolate trading risks.On the technical side, the balancing process is executed automatically by the system without manual intervention. Circle is responsible for the technical deployment, while Coinbase undertakes the treasury deployment and management.Regarding the yield mechanism, AQAv2 stipulates that stablecoin issuers must distribute approximately 90% of their cost-adjusted reserve earnings generated within the Hyperliquid ecosystem to the protocol. Settlement occurs on a 30-day cumulative cycle, and the earnings will be automatically transferred to the Assistance Fund on the 8th day after the cycle ends.Additionally, the mechanism includes a transition period arrangement:1. Start of yield accrual: August 26;2. First yield payment: October 3.The market believes this design marks the evolution of stablecoins from traditional custody structures toward an on-chain infrastructure model characterized by "protocolized capital stratification + automated yield distribution."
according to an official announcement, OKX will officially list perpetual swaps for CRDO, CIEN, ISRG, and FLNC stocks on the web, App, and API on June 11.Among them, CRDO/USDT will open for trading at 17:00 (UTC+8), CIEN/USDT at 17:15, ISRG/USDT at 17:30, and FLNC/USDT at 17:45.The announcement states that the aforementioned stock perpetual swaps are all settled in USDT, support 7×24 hour trading, and have a funding fee settlement cycle of 8 hours. When the funding rate hits its upper or lower limit, the system will automatically adjust the funding fee settlement frequency to once per hour.
According to official announcements, OKX has become one of the first partners of Mastercard’s newly launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M). AP4M targets high-frequency, low-value, and automated “machine-level” payment scenarios between AI Agents and supports multiple settlement methods, including bank cards and stablecoins. OKX will integrate into this ecosystem via its Agentic Wallet and the Agent Payments Protocol (APP). AP4M is built upon Mastercard’s Agent Pay, launched in 2025, aiming to provide payment infrastructure for commercial activities among AI Agents. Over 30 organizations are among the initial participants, including Stripe, Ant International, Cloudflare, Coinbase, and OKX—spanning payment, blockchain, and AI infrastructure sectors.
As user demand for trading foreign exchange, gold, indices, and other assets continues to rise, Bitget’s CFD segment has achieved a single-day trading volume exceeding $1 billion, representing a 25% increase since early May. Previously, Bitget announced the launch of its zero-fee CFD mode. Under this mode, users are exempt from trading commissions when trading CFD products and are charged via standard spreads. Users may also freely switch between ECN and zero-fee modes based on their trading preferences. The ECN mode features low spreads plus trading commissions, making it suitable for short-term and high-frequency traders; whereas the zero-fee mode is better suited for medium- to long-term position holders and low-frequency traders.
: According to the official announcement, Bitget CFD has launched the Zero-Fee Mode. In this mode, users are exempted from trading commissions when trading CFD products, and standard spreads are used for pricing.Users can freely switch between ECN mode and Zero-Fee Mode according to their own trading habits. Among them, the ECN mode adopts a low spread plus trading commission structure, suitable for short-term and high-frequency trading users; the Zero-Fee Mode adopts a zero commission plus standard spread structure, more suitable for medium-to-long-term holding and low-frequency trading users.
Michael Saylor, chairman of Bitcoin reserve company Strategy, posted a "Working Better" message on Sunday, accompanied by a bubble chart tracking Strategy's Bitcoin purchases over the past six years. This chart has previously appeared multiple times before Strategy announced new Bitcoin purchases.This statement comes ahead of the proxy voting deadline on June 7. Strategy is seeking shareholder approval to change the dividend payment frequency of its STRC perpetual preferred stock from monthly to semi-monthly and is urging retail shareholders to submit their proxy votes. The company stated that the amendment requires at least 50% approval from the 85 million shares outstanding as of April 17, 2026, to pass. (cointelegraph)
the Solana validator client Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto, is now officially running on the Solana mainnet and has started producing blocks.Firedancer Lead Engineer Ritchie Patel stated that over the past few months, the client has processed tens of millions of transactions. However, the team is currently adopting a gradual deployment strategy and has no plans for a large-scale public rollout. Patel noted that until all security audits are complete, upgrading more than half of the network's validators simultaneously would pose significant risks.Firedancer is an independent validator client developed by Jump Crypto for Solana, aimed at enhancing network performance and reducing the risks associated with reliance on a single client. Patel indicated that the project's architecture draws from traditional high-frequency trading systems, with the goal of bringing blockchain performance closer to that of conventional financial market infrastructure.Additionally, the team has recently concluded a public security audit competition with a total prize pool of $1 million. According to Patel, with Firedancer's gradual deployment, the Solana network's stability during high-concurrency scenarios such as meme coin and NFT trading has already seen a notable improvement. (CoinDesk)
Bitget Wallet has upgraded its KOL Signal Leaderboard, continuously integrating AI and on-chain daily financial capabilities to lower the barrier for users to discover investment opportunities. This upgrade adds a new “Riding-Along Count” metric alongside the existing signal frequency metric. Users can now view both the number of signals per cryptocurrency issued by KOLs and the on-chain “riding-along” count—quantifying real capital follow-through behind each signal—and also examine the distribution of signal timestamps and corresponding buy timestamps to assess whether momentum is still building. Meanwhile, Bitget Wallet has increased its data collection frequency to the second level, enabling real-time conversion of KOL tweets into trading signals. Leveraging large language models, the system intelligently filters these signals, automatically discarding casual chatter and promotional content while extracting only genuine bullish signals—reducing information noise. Currently, this feature covers over 8,000 core KOLs across multiple regions—including China, the U.S., and Japan—as well as more than 5,000 on-chain KOL addresses. Since launch, average daily usage per user has reached 12.28 times per month.
Coinbase, a cryptocurrency trading platform, has disclosed in a technical sharing session that its internal multi-agent development tool "Mux" is reshaping software engineering workflows, transitioning the engineer's role from traditional code implementers to task orchestrators for AI agents.With the widespread internal adoption of AI programming tools such as Cursor, Copilot, OpenCode, and Claude Code, code generation efficiency has significantly improved. However, development workflows have long remained stuck in a traditional "single-task, single-branch, sequential execution" mode, creating a new collaboration bottleneck.Mux was born as an internal tool against this backdrop. By assigning each AI agent an independent git worktree, branch, and terminal environment, the system enables parallel multi-task development and conflict-free collaboration, allowing engineers to simultaneously direct multiple agents to handle tasks such as API development, test writing, vulnerability fixes, and code refactoring.Data shows that as of April 2026, Mux has covered over 600 users within Coinbase (including engineers, product managers, and designers), with 335 actively using it and 197 being high-frequency users. It has facilitated over 5,000 PR merges across 461 code repositories and 10 organizations. Engineers using Mux achieved an average of 39.6 PR merges, approximately 3.5 times the baseline of 11.4.Coinbase stated that Mux's success relies on its internal infrastructure capabilities, including an LLM Gateway, secure model access, and a code flow deployment system, enabling deep integration of multi-agent tools into real development workflows. This trend marks a structural shift in the software engineering paradigm: as AI reduces the cost of code generation, the core value of engineers is transitioning from "implementation capability" to "problem definition and agent orchestration capability."
: MoonPay has announced the acquisition of DFlow, an execution layer platform based on Solana, officially entering the trading infrastructure space.DFlow provides transaction optimization services for platforms such as Coinbase and Phantom, having processed over $50 billion in cumulative trading volume, with approximately 10 million monthly transactions.According to reports, the acquisition amount is approximately $100 million (paid in stock). MoonPay stated that integrating DFlow will enhance high-frequency trading capabilities and support a new generation of "agent-driven" financial applications.
Somnia, an L1 blockchain, has announced the launch of its ecosystem stablecoin USDso, issued and operated by the decentralized stablecoin protocol Frax Finance based on the frxUSD architecture. USDso employs an over-collateralized model and is backed by reserves including U.S. Treasury securities, enabling minting at a 1:1 ratio against assets such as USDC. Its yield distribution mechanism channels reserve yields back into the ecosystem—90% allocated to DeFi protocols and 10% reserved for an insurance fund. This stablecoin is designed to serve high-frequency trading, DeFi, and on-chain protocol use cases.
According to an official announcement, the on-chain burn of GateToken (GT) for the first quarter of 2026 has been officially completed, with a total of 2,557,729.381387 GT transferred to the burn address, representing a burn value exceeding $20.68 million.Since the launch of the Gate Chain mainnet in 2019, GT has maintained a continuous burn mechanism. To date, a total of 187,377,156 GT have been burned, with a cumulative burn value exceeding $1.382 billion (at current prices). The total token supply has been significantly reduced by approximately 62.46% from its initial 300 million tokens.With the launch of Gate Layer and the gradual rollout of native applications such as Gate Perp DEX, Gate Fun, and Meme Go, the utility frequency of GT, the sole Gas token for Gate Layer, has been continuously increasing. Concurrently, Gate is driving the coordinated development of infrastructure and applications including Gate for AI Agent, GateClaw, Gate.AI, and GateRouter, leading to a simultaneous increase in on-chain transaction and interaction demand. Gate will continue to implement its long-term, stable GT burn mechanism, fostering a tighter positive feedback loop between the token's economic model and real usage demand alongside ecosystem expansion.