Over the past week, developments across crypto markets were driven by AI & trading expansion, infrastructure upgrades, and broader adoption.

🔎 Recent Updates & Developments

– Visa introduced AI commerce infrastructure, enabling agent-based payments across global payment networks

– Circle launched managed USDC payments, allowing banks to access stablecoin rails without holding crypto

– TON achieved sub-second finality, significantly improving transaction speed and execution performance

– Ant Group launched Anvita platform, enabling AI agents to hold assets and execute autonomous transactions

– Polymarket began major platform upgrade with new order book and native collateral token

– Pharos Network raised $44M to build institutional Layer 1 infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets

– Kalshi partnered with Fox to integrate prediction data across major media platforms

Tether has introduced QVAC SDK, an open-source, cross-platform toolkit designed to let developers build and run AI directly on local devices without relying on cloud infrastructure.

QVAC will help developers to build applications that run consistently across environments while improving performance, privacy and reliability, especially in low-connectivity or offline scenarios.

The SDK allows AI models to run, train and be fine-tuned locally across iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux using a single codebase, removing the need for platform-specific implementations.

Supported capabilities include:

 • text generation and embeddings

 • speech-to-text and text-to-speech

 • translation and OCR

 • vision and multimodal processing

👉 x.com/qvac/status/2042279032461431151?s=20

OKX Ventures has made a strategic investment in CAEX, a Vietnam's crypto exchange, joining local partners VPBankS and LynkiD alongside HashKey Capital to support the launch of a regulated trading platform in the country.

The funding is aimed at helping CAEX reach the required ~$380M (VND 10 trillion) capital threshold needed to qualify for Vietnam’s government-backed pilot program, where only a limited number of licensed exchanges will be allowed to operate.  

As part of the partnership, OKX will contribute not only capital but also infrastructure, compliance systems, risk management, and liquidity support, positioning CAEX as a fully regulated, institution-grade platform aligned with Vietnam’s tightening regulatory framework and growing demand for local crypto services.

👉 x.com/OKX_Ventures/status/2042433565804413087?s=20

Startale has opened its app to all users after onboarding more than 300,000 users during beta. The app is positioned as a gateway to the Soneium ecosystem, where users can manage assets, earn STAR Points, and access a growing set of Mini Apps. 

Startale is a Web3 company/product group building onchain infrastructure and apps, best known for helping develop Sony-backed Ethereum Layer 2 Soneium.

Base Batch 003 feels like a snapshot of what early crypto startups look like in 2026. AI-native tools, social trading, embedded finance, and new consumer apps are all starting to take shape inside the Base ecosystem.

Prediction Markets feature allows users access to probability-based markets tied to real-world outcomes. At launch, the feature connects users to markets provided by Predict Fun, an on-chain prediction market platform built on BNB Chain.

Users can trade using balances from their Spot and Funding Accounts, with both market and limit orders.

Morpho has introduced Morpho Agents, a beta interface that allows AI agents to interact directly with its lending infrastructure across Ethereum and Base through a machine-readable layer.

The system combines built-in tools with simulation capabilities, enabling agents to access protocol data, test actions before execution and carry out transactions, while simplifying integration for developers building agent-based workflows.

The release also introduces dedicated components, including:

 • User Agent (CLI + MCP server) for direct interaction

 • Builder Agent providing structured protocol knowledge

 • Contract references for easier integration

 • Integration guides for developers

Oh has raised $7.5M in a Series A round, bringing total funding to $12M, with the round led by Maven 11 and backed by L1D, Auros, Hashed, Maelstrom, Cadenza and others.

The company is building an adult-focused AI platform that combines consumer applications with infrastructure, including its OhChat product and API layer, while reporting hundreds of thousands of users, consistent revenue growth and a 60x increase in creators over the past year.

The funding will support expansion across consumer, infrastructure and creator tooling, as the company positions itself as a dominant player in the emerging adult AI category.

OFC trading starts today at 10:00 UTC, backed by $307M in private funding. This board compares potential FDV scenarios using benchmarks from other SocialFi projects like MEET48, Zora & Chiliz.

Beefy Finance (BIFI), FIO Protocol (FIO), FunToken (FUN), MDT (MDT), Orchid (OXT), and Wanchain (WAN) trading will be ceased at 3:00 UTC. Users will be able to withdraw assets until June 23rd.