Tether and Fasset say they have launched the world's first gold-backed neobanking Visa card, letting users pay merchants globally while earning tokenized gold via cashback and auto round-ups. The product offers up to 6% cashback paid in XAUT and is backed by up to $1 million in XAUT rewards at launch. Users convert XAUT to USDT and then to fiat at checkout, while Fasset targets its $32 billion annualized-volume user base across Asia and Africa.

Binance will discontinue NFT support on its centralized exchange on July 3, 2026, requiring users to withdraw transferable NFTs by 00:00 UTC or risk losing access. The exchange said NFT management will move to Binance Wallet, and it will offer 1 USDC to up to 100,000 users who complete eligible non-CR7 withdrawals before June 17, 2026. The move comes as NFT trading volumes fell from nearly $23.8 billion in 2022 to roughly $1.2 billion year-to-date in 2026.

Hyperliquid is becoming a preferred venue for Wall Street traders to trade perpetual futures outside traditional exchange hours, as 24/7 onchain markets absorb activity from legacy venues. The report highlighted a Saturday crude-oil trade that ended with a 243% gain and noted claims that Hyperliquid controls more than 70% of decentralized perps, alongside daily volume often above $1 billion.

On June 1, 2026, Japan put new Financial Services Agency rules into effect to recognize qualified foreign stablecoins as electronic payment instruments, while the ruling LDP's blockchain panel urged wider use of yen-denominated stablecoins for Asian cross-border payments. The shift comes as the global stablecoin market is over $240 billion and remains heavily dollar-centric, even as local players such as JPYC and bank-backed initiatives target large-scale yen issuance and settlement.

Trezor and Tropic Square disclosed a hardware weakness affecting the TROPIC01 secure element used in the Trezor Safe 7 after Ledger's Donjon team found it during an audit. The issue involves bypassing signature verification via lab-grade laser fault injection, but Trezor says private keys and user funds are not exposed because the chip is only one of three independent security layers. Tropic Square is producing a revised chip batch, while existing devices cannot be fixed through software updates.

LayerZero has published an ecosystem report positioning itself as institutional-grade finance infrastructure, including plans for "Zero," a dedicated Layer 1 aimed at tokenized assets, stablecoin settlement, and always-on capital markets. The report says the protocol has facilitated more than $260bn in value transfer and supports about 70% of cross-chain stablecoin volume. The update comes as L2BEAT questioned whether post-KelpDAO moves from LayerZero to Chainlink's CCIP necessarily deliver material security gains.

Orbs has rolled out the V5 upgrade on Ethereum and Arbitrum, introducing a hybrid Layer 3 model that shifts complex DeFi automation off-chain while keeping verification anchored on the two networks. The release adds a "Committee Sync" mechanism designed to reduce the cost and fragmentation of per-chain verification for advanced order types and automation tools.

Mastercard said it will extend its global card settlement network to support regulated stablecoins alongside existing fiat settlement, adding intraday options plus weekend and holiday processing. The program covers USDC, PYUSD, RLUSD, USDG, USDP and SoFiUSD across eight chains, with ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank and Nuvei expected to be early activators in the U.S. and Latin America. The company said the broader rollout is planned to continue through 2026 as more regions, partners and stablecoins are added.