Uniswap, DeFi's largest decentralized exchange, has added a no-code tool that lets any project configure and run an onchain token sale straight from a browser, with no smart contracts to write.

Sales use Uniswap's Continuous Clearing Auctions: bids clear across multiple blocks at one uniform price for every winner, blunting bot snipers, and the auction auto-seeds a v4 liquidity pool on close.

The move pushes Uniswap deeper into the token-launch market, taking aim at memecoin launchpads like Pumpfun.

MIM, the stablecoin issued by Abracadabra, has slid to about $0.50 — roughly half its dollar peg — after a slow-burn depeg that began near $0.82 in mid-June accelerated this week.

To defend it, Abracadabra hiked rates across every Cauldron to force MIM repayment and paused all incentives until the peg returns.

It's the latest stress test for a smaller DeFi stablecoin: with MIM near $0.50, the rate hikes and incentive pause are a bet that shrinking circulating supply can drag the token back toward $1.

Squid, the cross-chain router that has moved over $6 billion across 100-plus chains since 2023, has unveiled $QUID — its native 'Forever Token,' built on a fixed, hard-capped supply with no planned inflation.

The $QUID public sale runs June 30 to July 3, 1:00 PM UTC, through Kraken and Legion, where eligible users pledge for an allocation. Full tokenomics land June 27.

$QUID is slated for staking, governance, buybacks and in-app utility. Legion weighs past Squid usage for priority allocation, while US and UK users are routed to Kraken.

Compute marketplace Ornn has raised a $33 million seed led by a16z crypto, turning raw GPU power into a commodity that can be priced, bought and sold on an open market.

Its first product, Ornn Compute, pools dedicated GPU capacity from several neoclouds into one platform, with a single onboarding flow and a secondary market where capacity can be transferred or sublet on demand.

Backers include a16z crypto (lead), Galaxy Ventures and SV Angel. Ornn also runs the OCPI price index, the benchmark ICE is using to launch its own GPU compute futures.

Solana infrastructure provider Helius has launched Balance-At, an API endpoint that returns a wallet's exact SOL or SPL token balance at any past date, time or slot in a single call.

It replaces the brittle, multi-step RPC queries developers previously had to stitch together by hand, turning historical balance lookups into one request.

Helius pitches it for PnL tracking, portfolio charts, snapshots and cost-basis math. The endpoint ships as part of the Wallet API, currently in beta.

Avalanche has launched a major brand refresh centered around a new vision, becoming the blockchain infrastructure powering real-world business applications.

The network highlighted its key advantages for enterprises, including instant transaction finality, customizable Avalanche L1 chains, EVM compatibility, and built-in compliance solutions for regulated institutions.

Avalanche also showcased growing real-world adoption across tokenized assets, payments, fintech, and consumer engagement, featuring use cases from Dinari, OpenTrade, and leading sports organizations.

"Technology Built for Business" becomes the platform's new core message as Avalanche positions itself for the next phase of institutional blockchain adoption.

Binance says it is not leaving Europe after its bid for a MiCA licence through Greece looked set to be rejected. Its head of Europe said the exchange will seek authorisation through another EU member state.

The EU's transitional period ends June 30, after which any exchange without a CASP authorisation cannot legally serve clients in the bloc. Binance has roughly a week to secure a licence or wind down its EU business.

The firm says it remains fully committed to MiCA, pointing to more than 1,500 compliance staff, even as the standoff sets up a direct clash with European regulators.

Financial group SBI Holdings has issued JPYSC, the first yen stablecoin to apply a trust-bank structure under Japan's revised Payment Services Act, with reserves managed by an SBI-affiliated trust bank.

Classified as a Type 3 electronic payment instrument, JPYSC carries no transaction cap, unlike earlier yen stablecoins limited to 1 million yen, opening it to corporate settlement and large institutional trades.

SBI VC Trade, a licensed Japanese exchange, will handle distribution, with the token built jointly with Singapore's Startale Group after sign-off from Japan's FSA.

Exchange operator Cboe has rolled out Cboe Predicts, a suite of binary options tied to the Mini-S&P 500 Index (XSP), putting a regulated exchange into a sector so far dominated by Polymarket and Kalshi.

The first contracts, XSPBW and XSPBX, pay a fixed $100 or $0 based on where the S&P 500 settles, and are live through Interactive Brokers. Charles Schwab will add access in the coming months, with more brokers to follow.

It is one of the clearest signs yet of regulated TradFi moving into prediction markets, the same fast-growing arena Meta is reportedly eyeing with its 'Arena' app.

Password manager LastPass says attackers stole customer support and sales records through a breach at Klue, a market-research partner. Its own systems and users' password vaults were not affected.

Exposed data spans names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and support cases for a service with over 33 million users. A group calling itself Icarus claimed the hack and is threatening to leak the data unless it is paid.

No credentials leaked, but the contact and support details are prime fuel for targeted phishing, the same vector that followed LastPass's 2022 breach and fueled a wave of crypto wallet thefts.