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Michael Saylor stated that the biggest evolution of Bitcoin in the next decade will come from fewer changes at the protocol layer and a greater role in other areas. He believes that the foundational layer of Bitcoin will become more solid, capital markets will continue to deepen, applications will expand, institutions will enter, and the world will build on Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not a tech stock, a payment company, or a software platform competing to add features, but a monetary network whose purpose is not to act quickly and disrupt things, but to move slowly and remain unbroken.Saylor indicated that Bitcoin has won the first important battle, and the world is increasingly understanding that Bitcoin is digital capital, possessing attributes such as scarcity, durability, portability, divisibility, programmability, and global transferability. The strongest version of Bitcoin is not to "replace all payment rails," but to become a neutral, global, scarce asset around which capital, credit, and commerce are organized. The foundational layer is not optimized for coffee payments, but designed for final settlement, reserve assets, collateral settlement, and ultimate ownership transfer.He believes that the four-year cycle of Bitcoin is still important, but no longer the dominant model. In the next decade, Bitcoin's price movements will be driven less by miner issuance and more by capital flows from ETFs, corporate treasuries, sovereign reserves, bank credit, derivatives, insurance, collateral, and global savings. Halving will tighten supply, while capital flows will determine the growth trajectory. Digital credit will accelerate Bitcoin adoption, connecting Bitcoin capital with the broader financial system.Saylor stated that the main question in the next decade is not whether Bitcoin can survive, but whether economic exposure is still connected to real Bitcoin or if too much "paper Bitcoin" is being formed. Custodial transparency, proof of reserves, risk management, capital structure, and counterparty risk will all become important.He expects that by 2036, Bitcoin will be more widely held, more deeply institutionalized, more politically significant, and become an important collateral asset in the digital credit market; while the foundational protocol itself may change less than everything built around it.

Robinhood has launched its Layer 2 blockchain Robinhood Chain public mainnet, enabling tokenized stock trading in over 120 countries, and introduced the decentralized lending product Robinhood Earn, which offers approximately 7% yield based on USDG. Robinhood is expanding from brokerage services into cryptocurrency, tokenized assets, and AI-driven trading.

According to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency sector has generally declined, with the Layer2 sector dropping 3.57% in 24 hours. Among them, Mantle (MNT) fell 4.97%, Starknet (STRK) fell 4.93%, and Celestia (TIA) fell 9.54%. At the same time, Bitcoin (BTC) dropped 1.89%, falling below $59,000; Ethereum (ETH) fell 0.98%, dropping below $1,600.In other sectors, the PayFi sector declined 0.29%, but Stellar (XLM) rose 11%; the CeFi sector fell 0.87%, with Binance Coin (BNB) down 1.19%; the Meme sector dropped 1.05%, while MemeCore (M) rose 22.6%; the Layer1 sector fell 1.41%, with Cardano (ADA) relatively strong, rising 1.32%; the DeFi sector dropped 2.79%, with LAB (LAB) down 14.83%. Additionally, the SocialFi and NFT sectors remained relatively strong, rising 0.5% and 0.54%, respectively. Within the SocialFi sector, Gram (GRAM) rose 1.01%; within the NFT sector, Audiera (BEAT) rose 7.87%.

ZetaChain announced that as it transforms into an AI-oriented private memory layer, it will gradually shut down the old cross-chain infrastructure and focus on new directions such as Anuma, user-owned memory, identity, permissions, payments, and agency.According to the plan, ZetaChain has closed platform recharges as of June 1, 2026, and opened the final withdrawal window. Previously, on April 27, ZetaChain was attacked by exploiting a vulnerability in the cross-chain messaging system, resulting in the theft of $333,868 from three internal team wallets.

According to official news, AI-assisted development of the Web3 infrastructure layer Canopy has completed a $8.5 million seed round financing, with participation from Arrington Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Borderless Capital, and SNZ Capital.The raised funds will be used to support its mainnet launch, expansion of the engineering team, and the development of native AI development tools.

According to The Block, Spark and Uniswap have jointly launched the stablecoin exchange system FX Layer. It is reported that FX Layer aims to help institutions trade between tokens pegged to the US dollar by creating a shared pool for issuers to access, minimizing slippage.Spark stated that it will migrate $150 million from its USDS ecosystem to Uniswap v4 to establish a liquidity foundation for the swap pool supporting USDS, Tether's USDT, and PayPal's PYUSD.FX Layer acts as a shared liquidity and trading infrastructure on Uniswap v4, allowing multiple stablecoin issuers such as banks, fintech companies, and payment companies to access a universal system instead of building and launching their own liquidity pools, market makers, and inventory management. Spark serves as the orchestration layer, deciding how to allocate, manage, and coordinate liquidity among different stablecoins, while Uniswap provides a programmable AMM architecture.

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, stated on social media that it would be a wonderful thing if the world could have a truly trustworthy and neutral global coordination and digital asset settlement platform. It is the large-scale and rigorous decentralization achieved by the Ethereum platform that makes this vision possible. Soon, and in the near future, more organizations with trustworthy neutrality and ample funding will join in to promote this mission alongside the Ethereum Foundation.These organizations will focus on facilitating the development of the entire Ethereum ecosystem and advancing the areas of interest for many financial institutions adopting Ethereum technology, including: Ethereum Mainnet, Layer 2 networks (L2), and private Ethereum networks. In the future, these three major systems will be able to achieve near real-time interoperability and composability, while ETH will flow freely within this expanded Ethereum ecosystem landscape.

Syscoin released a bridge security incident report, disclosing details of the UTXO-to-NEVM bridge vulnerability incident, which reportedly led to approximately 5 billion SYS being unauthorizedly released on the UTXO side. The related funds have since been returned to the official recovery address and destroyed through the standard OP_RETURN method, making them unusable by the protocol again. The on-chain reported SYS supply has been restored to the expected value, and the bridge function remains suspended while the team completes the final review and fixes.Syscoin pointed out that it will fix the cross-layer parsing defects. The core lesson from this incident is that cross-layer systems must uniformly standardize data processing, and any ambiguous bridge proof should be considered a default failure.

The stablecoin infrastructure platform Interlace announced a joint initiative with multiple ecological partners including X-Agent, Cobo, BlockSec, Stable, Conflux, Bitget Wallet, and Hetu to launch the white paper titled "The Value Transmission Layer of the AI Economy: From Concept to Implementation."The white paper systematically proposes the eight-layer architecture of Agentic Payment infrastructure for the first time, covering key aspects such as Agent applications, payment execution, custody and governance, trust and compliance, stablecoin settlement, public blockchain foundation, user access and liquidity, and causal verification. All parties believe that the value flow of the AI economy requires cross-domain collaboration, rather than being accomplished independently by a single protocol or product.The white paper is expected to be officially released in the next 1 to 2 months, during which in-depth discussions will be held on core topics such as AI Agent payment permissions, compliance risk control, and cross-chain interoperability.

Syscoin released a bridge security incident report, disclosing details of the UTXO-to-NEVM bridging vulnerability incident. It is reported that this incident led to approximately 5 billion SYS being unauthorizedly released on the UTXO side. The related funds have since been returned to the official recovery address and destroyed through the standard OP_RETURN method, making them unusable by the protocol again, and the on-chain reported SYS supply has been restored to the expected value. The bridging function is currently still suspended, and the team is completing the final review and repair.

This morning, Strategy founder Michael Saylor proposed the concept of "Modern Digital Asset Stack," believing that Bitcoin is not only digital capital but will also become the underlying foundation for financial products such as digital credit, digital money, digital yield, and digital equity, driving Bitcoin's evolution from a single asset to a global financial architecture.Saylor stated that Bitcoin does not require protocol modifications, staking, or issuance increases, and its volatility can be transformed into yield-generating products through capital structure. Among them, digital credit represented by STRC-type products can provide yields, while digital money can build stable value instruments with a yield of about 6%-8% by combining Bitcoin-supported credit assets with cash equivalents.He believes that in the future, stablecoins, payment networks, wallets, exchanges, and DeFi protocols can all operate based on Bitcoin-supported capital structures, providing digital capital, yield products, and stable value assets for investors with different risk preferences.Saylor emphasized that Bitcoin will still maintain a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins, and the vast majority of innovations should occur at the levels of custody, securities, credit, payment systems, and capital markets, rather than changing the Bitcoin protocol itself, stating, "Bitcoin is digital capital, and the world will build a financial system on top of Bitcoin."

Imran Khan, co-founder of Alliance, stated on the X platform that he remains optimistic about the development prospects of the cryptocurrency industry, noting that the market has previously overestimated the speed at which cryptocurrency would become the next mainstream computing paradigm. Many had originally expected cryptocurrency to lead the next platform revolution, but ultimately, it has largely been artificial intelligence (AI) that has taken on this role.Khan pointed out that over the past decade, a significant amount of capital has flowed into the cryptocurrency industry, but a considerable portion of that funding has been used for overbuilding. The industry has not focused on a few applications with clear advantages but has attempted to reshape multiple fields such as finance, social networking, and governance simultaneously. The adjustments and consolidations currently experienced in the market are essentially a natural return after previous overexpansion and do not mean that the core logic of the cryptocurrency industry has failed.He believes that the greatest path to success for the cryptocurrency industry may not be to first create a killer application, but rather to become the global financial infrastructure. As stablecoins, cryptocurrency wallets, tokenized stocks, and on-chain financial services reach more users through digital banking and ultimately serve AI agents, the cryptocurrency network will become the default value settlement layer of the internet. Once these infrastructures are widely adopted, innovations such as DAOs, decentralized markets, and machine-to-machine payments, which were previously difficult to implement due to timing, may finally see true large-scale application opportunities.

The Ethereum Layer 2 network Ink, incubated by Kraken, announced last night that the network is experiencing a full-chain outage, with current network availability being intermittent and services not yet stabilized.The official statement noted that before the chain returns to normal operation, user transactions and cross-chain bridging operations may experience instability. Ink is collaborating with its infrastructure partner Gelato to investigate the root cause of the failure and to advance network recovery efforts. As of the time of publication, Ink has not announced any further progress or recovery timeline.

The Ethereum Layer 2 project Movement, which fell into controversy shortly after its launch last year, is seeking transformation. Move Industries' new CEO Torab Torabi stated that Movement has been repositioned as an independent Layer 1 blockchain, aiming to become the settlement infrastructure for stablecoins in emerging markets.Move Industries announced on Tuesday that over the past few months, the company has gained access to a compliant payment network covering the United States, Canada, and the European Union by collaborating with regulated remittance institutions and electronic money institutions, laying the foundation for stablecoin payments and cross-border settlement operations. According to the announcement, the company has currently established partnerships with stablecoin issuer Circle, wallet project KAST, and Sorted, as well as tokenization projects Oro, Yuzu Money, and Zoth.In addition, Avant Protocol has chosen Movement Network as the infrastructure platform for its revenue and fund management products, further expanding Movement's application scenarios in the fields of stablecoins and real-world assets (RWA).

Layer 1 blockchain Tempo proposed TIP-1061, a native multi-signature account proposal, aiming to introduce multi-signature as a native account type at the protocol layer, allowing multi-signature control without the need to deploy smart contract wallets like Safe.This solution supports M/N multi-signature, weighted multi-signature, as well as Secp256k1, P256, and WebAuthn signatures, and allows for subsequent adjustments of members and permissions while keeping the account address unchanged. This proposal is primarily aimed at scenarios involving DAOs, institutions, and validators, and is currently still in the draft stage.

According to Front Office Sports, former NBA player Tristan Thompson is suing the UK-based cryptocurrency company World Mobile Group, accusing it of fabricating excuses to terminate a $2 million endorsement deal and continuing to use his name, image, and likeness without authorization.Thompson claims that under an agreement signed in May 2025, he was promised cryptocurrency tokens worth up to $2 million from the company, WMTX. He stated that he had been fulfilling his obligations under the agreement, including promoting the company on social media and participating in public events, but the company terminated their collaboration in March of this year. According to the agreement, World Mobile Group was to make quarterly installment payments of the token amounts. In December 2025, the company informed Thompson that they had unexpectedly issued him more WMTX tokens than anticipated. Thompson stated that he proposed a "reasonable solution: to offset the excess tokens against the upcoming quarterly dividends due in about 60 days." Three months later, the company issued him a "notice of material breach and termination of contract." The case is still pending in court.