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Golden Web3.0 Daily | U.S. SEC May Intervene to Investigate pump.fun
Decentralized Finance Data
1.Decentralized Finance总市值:1161.49亿美元
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Decentralized Finance总市值 数据来源:coingecko
2. $7.461 billion in trading volume on decentralized exchanges in the last 24 hours
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Trading volume of decentralized exchanges in the last 24 hours Data source: coingecko
3.Locked Assets in Decentralized Finance: 1136.19****billion USD
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Top ten rankings of locked assets in DeFi projects and the amount locked. Data source: defillama
NFT Data
1.Total Market Capitalization of NFTs: $17.963 billion
Total market value of NFTs, top ten projects by market capitalization. Data source: Coinmarketcap.
24-hour NFT trading volume: 2.653 billion dollars
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Total market value of NFTs, top ten projects by market capitalization Data source: Coinmarketcap
Top NFTs in 24 hours
Top 10 NFTs with sales gains in 24 hours Data source: NFTGO
Headlines
Analysis: The US SEC may intervene in the investigation of violations in the operation of pump.fun
According to Jinse Finance, the official X account of the Solana ecosystem Meme coin launch platform pump.fun and its founder Alon Cohen, along with several other accounts related to Meme coins, have been suspended. This suspension has sparked numerous speculations within the crypto community regarding the platform, including concerns that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may intervene to investigate potential illegal activities in the operation of pump.fun. However, as of now, the main platform of pump.fun is still operational. In January this year, pump.fun faced a class-action lawsuit, accused of providing and selling "high volatility" unregistered securities products to investors and obtaining nearly $500 million in fees.
Decentralized Finance热点
1. Fold Holdings signs a $250 million equity purchase agreement to expand Bitcoin reserves
Golden Finance reports that Fold Holdings, a Bitcoin financial services company listed on Nasdaq, has signed a $250 million equity financing agreement, with the funds primarily aimed at increasing its Bitcoin reserves. Under the terms of the agreement, Fold may, in its sole discretion, raise funds up to $250 million through the issuance of common stock in tranches, subject to satisfaction of SEC registration requirements. Cohen & Company Capital Markets acted as the exclusive placement agent for the financing.
2. Ethereum staking protocol EigenCloud completes $70 million financing, led by a16z
Golden Finance reports that Eigen Labs has announced the launch of the Ethereum re-staking protocol EigenCloud, which has completed a $70 million financing round led by a16z. This is a platform aimed at extending blockchain-level trust assurance to any Web2 or Web3 applications, and the use of EigenCloud will create new fee streams to support staking rewards. It is reported that the release of the alpha version of EigenCloud will be synchronized with the performance upgrade of EigenDA, achieving a throughput of 50MB per second on the Ethereum testnet, in addition, EigenCloud has also released a gated preview version of EigenVerify, which aims to adjudicate disputes in off-chain systems such as AI proxies or prediction markets.
3. Starknet has completed the staking migration and Staking v2 is now live on the mainnet
According to Golden Finance, Starknet announced that the stake migration has now been completed, the staking operation has been resumed, and the proof-of-block and commission adjustment functions are now live on the mainnet. The upgrade improves the economics of STRK staking and brings greater transparency to validator behavior: allowing delegators to evaluate and compare validator activity and reliability before participating in the Starknet consensus in the future (with the goal of EOY). The implementation of the v2 version is an important step towards full decentralization of Starknet, and the v3 version may be launched by the end of the year, bringing Bitcoin staking functionality to Starknet.
4. Binance will support the THORChain (RUNE) network upgrade
According to a report by Jinse Finance, Binance is expected to suspend token deposits and withdrawals for THORChain (RUNE) at 02:00 on June 18, 2025 (UTC+8) to support its network upgrade. The project team will carry out a network upgrade at block height 21,574,000 (expected on June 18, 2025, at 03:00 East Eight Time).
5**.Binance HODLer Airdrop Launches Spark (SPK)**
According to the official announcement, the Binance HODLer airdrop has now launched the 23rd phase of the project – Spark (SPK), an on-chain asset allocator that can intelligently deploy capital between DeFi, CeFi and RWA, according to Golden Finance. Binance will list SPK at 17:00 on June 17, 2025 (East 8th District Time) and open trading pairs for USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD and TRY, subject to seed label trading rules. The SPK deposit channel will open in 1 hour.