Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the New York Stock Exchange’s parent, and crypto platform OKX announced a 50-50 joint venture to link OKX’s 120 million global users with U.S.-regulated futures markets and tokenized equities. The companies said Monday the venture is intended to provide infrastructure for tokenized and digitally native financial products. The planned entity is expected to seek U.S. broker-dealer and futures commission merchant registration, subject to regulatory approvals.

Taiko said users should withdraw funds from every bridge deployed on its network after confirming its chain state verification mechanism was compromised. The incident followed a reported exploit of Taiko’s ERC20 Vault on Ethereum (ETH), with Blockaid estimating losses had exceeded $1 million. Taiko has temporarily stopped block production and asked centralized exchanges to suspend TAIKO deposits.

Taiko urged users to withdraw immediately from all network bridges. The project also asked all centralized exchanges to suspend TAIKO deposits.

The DeFi sector is absorbing a steady string of blows, pushing investors to be more cautious.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis is urging colleagues to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, saying it would protect software developers from prosecution for simply publishing code. In a statement shared on June 22, she highlighted the legal exposure faced by developers behind DeFi tools, wallets and other onchain services. Lummis argues that without clearer rules, routine engineering work can be treated as criminal activity after the fact.

Tensor (TNSR) registers an impressive 47.28% breakout on June 21, 2026, reclaiming major short term support levels amid a broad revival across Solana ecosystem assets.

Bitget has launched Stock+, a feature that lets users buy US stocks using crypto that is converted into USDC. The exchange says users gain ownership of the underlying shares rather than a synthetic token. Shareholder rights, including voting, are exercised through Bitget’s platform. The rollout excludes the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia, and a range of other markets.

Ethereum layer-2 network Taiko said users should immediately withdraw funds from all bridges deployed on its network after it confirmed a security breach. The team said Taiko’s chain state verification mechanism was compromised, undermining the security assumptions of those bridges. There was no official information on how much money was at risk or whether anything had been stolen.