star

According to the Korea Herald, the South Korean government is improving the debt adjustment program "New Start Fund" for small business owners and individual entrepreneurs, incorporating virtual assets into the review process.Under the revised system, the debt relief rate will be adjusted based on the applicant's repayment ability, and the assessment of repayment ability now considers their holdings of cryptocurrency assets. Previously, the fund mainly verified the debtor's income and assets through financial statements submitted by the applicant and data available from the public administrative information network, which made it difficult to identify such investment assets.To address this issue, since January of this year, the fund has utilized virtual asset balance certificates in property assessments after negotiations with the five major Korean won market cryptocurrency exchanges. Applicants recognized as members of the aforementioned exchanges are now required to submit these certificates directly.

USDC announced on platform X that the USDC privacy feature is now live on Starknet, implemented through STRK20------this is the privacy feature Starknet provides for ERC-20 tokens, with built-in compliance capabilities. Users can mask, send, and unmask USDC while keeping balance, amount, and counterparty information private on the public ledger. USDC remains a dollar-pegged stablecoin, and the new privacy feature is applicable to payments, fund flows, payroll, and on-chain financial activities on Starknet.

WEEX officially launches the global recruitment for "Star Alliance Partners," aiming to recruit content creators, community leaders, KOLs/KOCs, and ecological partners from the Chinese-speaking market to jointly create an open and diverse Web3 collaborative ecosystem. Eligible partners can learn about the program details and submit their application through the pinned posts on the official Chinese social media.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the Ethereum treasury company Sharplink, which has not purchased ETH for 8 months, has resumed accumulation today, receiving 5,000 ETH (7.85 million USD) from FalconX 6 hours ago. It currently holds 876,000 ETH (1.37 billion USD), with an average cost of 3,609 USD, resulting in an unrealized loss of 1.789 billion USD (-56%).

According to The Information, cloud computing startup Runpod announced the completion of a $100 million financing round and stated that it has rejected multiple acquisition offers, with specific investor information not yet disclosed.The company focuses on providing GPU computing power rental services for developers, supporting the deployment of open-source models and AI applications. Currently, this sector generally relies on NVIDIA GPU servers for computing resources. As AI applications expand, the market demand for low-cost, highly flexible computing infrastructure continues to rise, driving up the valuations and financing enthusiasm for cloud service providers like Runpod.

The Ethereum Layer2 project Taiko has released the latest developments on the security incident, stating that this incident will not result in any loss of user funds. Currently, the bridged assets are in a state of insufficient collateral, and all additional collateral will be completed before the bridge reopens, ensuring that each user's balance receives 1:1 support, consistent with the situation before the incident occurred.Since the occurrence of this security incident, cautious measures have been taken, including controlling the scope of impact, determining the cause of the incident, and collaborating with the board to develop a plan to protect user assets. In addition, the CEO of Taiko has submitted a formal report to the relevant authorities in Singapore, and the team will fully cooperate in tracing the responsible parties. Users currently do not need to take any action; at this stage, the completed repair plan is being tested, and the chain and bridging services will be reopened as soon as safety is ensured. Users are also reminded to be vigilant against scams; the Taiko team will not proactively message users, and there are no websites for claiming or refunds. Any links provided for such purposes are scams.

StarkWare launches the STRK20 privacy token standard, allowing users to hide on-chain balances and transaction details while maintaining compliance checks and regulatory disclosure mechanisms.

According to official news, Gate officially launched a semiconductor stock benefit event from June 23 at 17:00 to July 1 at 00:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who purchase any stock in the Gate stock sector will have the chance to receive SK Hynix stock rewards.Registered users can share a fractional stock prize pool of SK Hynix worth 3,400 USDT, and new users who complete their first order can also participate in sharing a total value of 17,000 US dollars in SK Hynix stock. Each user trading stocks can receive up to 2 shares of SK Hynix, helping new users smoothly start spot stock trading.Currently, Gate stocks exclusively offer Korean stock trading across the network, covering three core markets: US stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and Korean stocks, supporting over 10,000 US stocks and ETFs, more than 1,500 Hong Kong stocks, and over 1,000 Korean stocks, totaling over 12,500 stock and ETF assets worldwide. Relying on a unified account system, users can participate in global stock trading using USDT in a one-stop manner, and fractional stock trading is supported starting from as low as 0.01 shares.At the same time, Gate stocks have fully integrated into the platform's VIP level system, and users with a position of 2,000 US dollars can upgrade to VIP status, enjoying exclusive benefits such as a minimum stock trading fee rate of 0.023% and a 1V1 customer manager.

According to Techstartups, AI infrastructure startup Upscale AI announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $190 million, with investors including NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures. After this round of financing, the company's valuation reached $2 billion.This round of financing is part of its Series A extension, bringing Upscale AI's total financing to $500 million, led by Premji Invest, with new investors such as Temasek and Seligman Ventures participating, while existing shareholders including Maverick Silicon, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, StepStone Group, and Tiger Global continue to invest.Upscale AI focuses on building network infrastructure for large-scale AI clusters, attempting to solve the "computing power interconnection bottleneck" problem in AI training and inference. The company is developing a full-stack AI network architecture covering chips, systems, and software, aiming to create an open standard network interconnection solution suitable for large-scale AI workloads.The company stated that as the scale of AI clusters continues to expand, network performance is becoming a key limiting factor affecting GPU utilization and training efficiency. Inefficient interconnection can directly lead to wasted computing power and increased training costs. Currently, Upscale AI has begun collaborations with several hyperscale cloud providers and "new cloud" infrastructure providers for evaluation and deployment, but has not disclosed specific client information.Analysts point out that investment in AI infrastructure is spreading from the model layer to the underlying hardware and network layers, with network interconnection becoming one of the most关注的 key infrastructure tracks following GPUs.

According to Axios, cryptocurrency payment company MoonPay announced the acquisition of AI accounting startup Entendre, which focuses on providing intelligent accounting solutions for businesses using stablecoins and other digital assets.MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright stated that after this acquisition, the company will continue to seek more merger and acquisition opportunities to further expand its business landscape.

According to Techfundingnews, the medical AI startup Prosper AI announced the completion of a $30 million Series A funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Base10 Partners, Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, and others. After this round of financing, the company has raised a total of approximately $36.6 million.Prosper AI focuses on covering the entire patient visit process through AI voice agents, including appointment scheduling, insurance verification, communication with insurance companies, and billing processing. It has currently served over 150,000 medical institutions. The company stated that the U.S. healthcare system wastes over $450 billion annually due to administrative processes, and its AI system can handle key processes from appointment to payment on a single platform, reducing the costs for medical institutions associated with switching between different systems.It was reported that Prosper AI's revenue has grown approximately five times since the last funding round in September of last year, and it has established partnerships with large healthcare IT platforms such as Athenahealth and ImagineSoftware. Investor a16z noted that healthcare institutions are shifting from "point automation tools" to "end-to-end process automation," and Prosper's goal is to eliminate all administrative friction between patient care and payment.

According to Fortune, cryptocurrency trading startup Fomo announced the completion of a $75 million Series B funding round, led by Index Ventures, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus, Discord CEO Humam Sakhnini, and Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz, among others. The company's valuation has reached $550 million.Fomo was founded in 2025 by former dYdX team members Paul Erlanger, Se Yong Park, and Prashan Dharmasena.

According to on-chain analyst ZachXBT, an address related to the $575 million Hashflare investment scam (0xff57...5d22) has transferred 10,600 ETH (approximately $18.5 million) about 3 hours ago after being dormant for 3.5 years.The two Estonian founders of the case, Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin, pleaded guilty in 2025 and forfeited approximately $450 million in assets to the U.S. government. The transferred funds were then laundered through HiFiSwap and Near Intents, crossing from Ethereum to Bitcoin, using two instant exchange platforms. The fund flow addresses include 0xc82f...9d04 and 0x3297...2527.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Leadership Change Before 2027" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Starmer - Prime Minister of the UK" has experienced significant fluctuations, rising from 28.5% an hour ago to the current 43.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Starmer Stay or Leave" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "June 22" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 52.5% an hour ago to the current 67.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Starmer Resignation Timing" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "June 22" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 61% an hour ago to the current 82.5% (a fluctuation of 21.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The Starknet AMM protocol mySwap disclosed that its mySwap CL protocol suffered a vulnerability attack, resulting in approximately $300,000 being withdrawn from the liquidity pool. The official statement indicated that the mySwap interface has been closed for over 6 months and is no longer accepting new liquidity injections. The affected funds were mainly the remaining LP positions scattered across more than 100,000 positions. The attacker utilized the funds stolen through bridging and obscured the asset flow using Railgun. This attack nearly depleted all remaining liquidity in the protocol.

ChainCatcher, regarding the incident of OKX employees leaving to join Binance, OKX founder Star tweeted that over the past few years, many excellent OKX colleagues have joined other companies in the industry, including Yuki. We are proud of them for gaining recognition and favor from competitors, and we sincerely wish them success in their future development.OKX has hundreds of former employees from BN, including regional CEOs, product leaders, technical leaders, and many outstanding business and functional colleagues. They have brought valuable experience, perspectives, and input to OKX and have made significant contributions to the company's development. More importantly, they have deeply integrated with the OKX team and become part of OKX's culture and success. We have never treated this matter as marketing material to hype up.Talent mobility within the industry is a normal phenomenon and a sign of industry maturity. What truly matters is not where people come from, but whether they can continuously create value. Of course, for the very few who violate laws, business integrity, and professional ethics, we will take resolute measures and legally protect the company's legitimate rights and interests."A company that constantly talks about its vision, where the founder even in writing a book does not forget to heavily belittle former employees including the former CFO and former Asia head, is often the one with the least vision," Star said.Previously, according to RootData, former VIP account manager of OKX Yuki left to join Binance as a key account manager, sparking discussions among many crypto KOLs such as KuaiDong.