XION has rebranded to Verona, shifting from web3 infrastructure to a verification and intelligence layer for AI agents — giving them portable, private, cryptographically verified real-world data.

Verona already powers 69M+ verified interactions across 3M+ users and 115+ brands, including Uber, Amazon, Nike and BMW.

The rebrand lands with the launch of ero, its consumer app, and an $18.5M raise for flagship EarnOS, plus $30M in brand spend.

No matter what the market's doing — green, red, sideways — new projects keep launching every week. And the best window to get involved is the earliest one: before the token, before the crowd, while the door's still open.

So we rounded up 15 fresh projects with open waitlists into one Early Access Radar — AI trading, perp DEXs, prediction markets, crypto cards. A few minutes each, all in one place, so you don't have to go hunting.

One rule first: these are early-stage and unproven. A waitlist is a cheap option, not a promise — do your own research, and never connect a wallet or send funds to something you haven't checked. With that said, here's the board 👇

1. Aurus — Trading platform on Solana with lower fees and wallet cost-basis tracking. Website

2. Barter — DeFi infrastructure for liquidity and capital efficiency across networks. Raised $3M (Maven 11). Website

3. Boost (RabbitHole) — Protocol to deploy, manage and distribute on-chain token incentives. Website

4. Fact Machine — Opinion market where users bet on which view wins a majority vote. Website

5. Flip — AI financial assistant built right into iMessage. Raised $1.4M (a16z). Website

6. Horizon — No-code platform to build, backtest and automate trading strategies. Website

7. Hypernova — On-chain prop trading on Arbitrum with instant smart-contract payouts. Raised $3M (Lemniscap). Website

8. HyperSignals — Social on-chain analytics and copy-trading, built on Hyperliquid. Website

9. JTX — Self-custody trading + perps on Solana, from the team behind Jito. Website

10. Kairos — Execution and intelligence layer for prediction markets (Kalshi + Polymarket). Raised $2.5M (a16z). Website

11. MNX — Futures DEX for AI valuations, stocks, compute prices and prediction markets. Raised $6.4M. Website

12. Nof1 — AI research lab behind Alpha Arena, where LLMs trade live capital. Raised $15M (Sui Group). Website

13. Pear — Social-centric prediction-market platform, multiple venues in one interface. Website

14. Slush — Slush Card: a crypto debit card for the Sui ecosystem, by Mysten Labs. Website

15. Superluminal — Perpetual DEX on Fogo Chain using a Dual-Flow Batch Auction. Website

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None of this is financial advice. Early-stage projects carry real risk — DYOR.

Lumia has announced that former U.S. Congressman Kendrick Meek is joining its Bipartisan Public Policy Advisory Board, alongside Tim Ryan and David McIntosh, strengthening the project’s U.S. policy and regulatory strategy as tokenized real-world assets move toward broader adoption.

Meek brings experience from the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Homeland Security Committees, along with roles in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He currently serves on Coinbase’s Global Advisory Council.

His appointment comes as Lumia positions itself as infrastructure for compliant, institution-ready tokenized markets. The focus includes market access, disclosures, and regulatory alignment to support real-world asset adoption in the U.S.

Meek will support policy positioning and institutional engagement as the company expands its footprint. His experience in financial access and public-sector policy is expected to help bridge traditional institutions with onchain markets.

The last week showed a mixed picture with signs of stabilization after heavy selling pressure in early June. Outflows dominated most days but were noticeably smaller in scale, and a key positive day for Bitcoin broke a long negative streak.

Weekly flows (June 8–15):

- BTC ETFs: -$319M

- ETH ETFs: -$14.8M 

Treasury activity:

- Strategy buys 1,857 BTC ($100M), total now 846,842 BTC 

- Strive adds 73 BTC to its balance sheet, holds 19,105 BTC

- Bitmine: +76,881 ETH (135M), total holdings - 5.62M ETH

Plume partnered with Bybit to launch institutional fixed-income vaults, letting Bybit users put idle stablecoins into onchain products backed by PIMCO and CMBI.

The vaults hold mortgage-backed securities, high-yield corporate bonds and Asia-Pacific investment-grade debt — yield from real-world credit, not crypto markets.

It is a clean RWA distribution play: TradFi fixed income packaged onchain and dropped straight into an exchange's user base.

IEM Cologne is the biggest CS2 tournament of the year — and Polymarket has 52 markets open on it, with ~$115M in total bets.

The Major's group stage is halfway through — and the market has already sorted the field. Vitality and Spirit are near-locks for playoffs (96%+). But only 8 of 16 teams advance, and the rest are a coin flip — every map from here decides who's in.

Prediction markets came for elections, then sports. Now they're pricing esports.

Odds tell you who. CS2Analytics tells you why → VRS ratings, advancement sims, the map pools that decide it. cs2analytics.com

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Lumia is the only full cycle RWA infrastructure, built on its zkEVM blockchain - covering compliant tokenization, market access, and real-world asset utility in one ecosystem.

Most RWA companies rely on external parties for liquidity, asset distribution and compliance. Lumia combines all three natively through Lumia Stream, Lumia Portal and built-in identity/regulatory-aligned tooling.

Tokenized capital markets moved from pilot to infra this week, with major banks planning shared deposit networks, significant raises flowing into AI, onchain lending and DeFi, signaling public market moves.

🔎 Recent Updates & Developments

– JPMorgan, Citi, BofA and Wells Fargo are planning a tokenized deposit network via The Clearing House, targeting H1 2027.

– Digital Asset raised $355M led by a16z Crypto at a $2B valuation, backed by Apollo, HSBC, CME Ventures and Citadel.

– Tether led NEURA Robotics’ $1.4B Series C, one of the largest private funding rounds in humanoid robotics to date.

– Figure acquired real-estate lender Kiavi for $717M, adding $7B in annual first-lien volume to its onchain credit platform.

– Morpho raised $175M at a $2B valuation led by a16z, Paradigm and Ribbit, with Apollo and Circle Ventures participating.

– OpenAI confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC, keeping its IPO option open without committing to any timeline.

XPIN Network has launched its eSIM service on Binance Marketplace, becoming the first dedicated eSIM provider featured on the platform.

The service offers instant mobile connectivity across 149+ countries and regions, allowing users to activate data plans globally without physical SIM cards.

XPIN says it has already served over 200,000 users and aims to build the connectivity infrastructure for a borderless digital economy through seamless worldwide access.

The integration expands XPIN’s reach to Binance’s global user base while strengthening the project's vision of decentralized and accessible connectivity.