DeFi

PancakeSwap has launched AMM v2 and v3 on Robinhood Crypto Chain, enabling swaps, liquidity provision and yield opportunities. The exchange also listed nine new bStocks—$MSFTB, $METAB, $PLTRB, $MSTRB, $QQQB, $AMDB, $INTCB, $LITEB and $EWYB—alongside Tokenized Revolut ($CREV) and Anthropic ($CANP). Five Monad pools, including USDCMON and MONUSDT, added new incentives via Merkl, while PancakeSwap reported 357k CAKE burned and net emissions of 207k CAKE for the week.

Hermes’ AI agent platform said it has added cross-chain crypto transaction support through its AgentKit plugin, with compatibility spanning Ethereum mainnet, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Chain, Berachain and Metis. The company said users can connect wallet and payment functions to an AI agent in a few clicks, enabling on-chain actions such as transfers and contract calls. Hermes said the update is an infrastructure-level expansion and does not involve a new token issuance or fundraising event. The upgrade strengthens the feasibility of deploying AI agents in areas including DeFi, RWA and on-chain automation.

StandX has launched the SIP-4 protocol on BNB Chain, introducing DeFi’s first native American-style options on perpetuals and generating more than $40M in on-chain notional volume. The project’s DUSD stablecoin has a supply of $94M, with more than 19,000 holders. StandX said it is built entirely on BNB Chain’s native infrastructure rather than a fork or copy. The team plans to follow with SIP-5, a universal markets protocol.

Symbiosis Finance said its quarterly trading volume, transaction count and number of unique wallet addresses on BNB Chain rose by nearly two times or more, according to an official post on X. The statement did not provide specific figures or a precise time window beyond “one quarter,” and it did not cite a year-on-year baseline. No third-party data was offered to verify the figures.

Lido DAO voted on June 22, 2026 to revoke the canonical status of wstETH bridge endpoints on nine networks: zkSync Era, Mode, Scroll, Mantle, Swell, Zircuit, Soneium, Polygon PoS, and Lisk. The move was presented as a risk-management step and a consolidation of resources amid rapid multichain expansion. The decision followed the April 2026 KelpDAO incident.

Binance and World Liberty Financial (WLFI) have launched a limited-time yield promotion for the USD1 stablecoin, running through July 27, 2026. The offer pays an 8.5% annualized yield on the first $2,000 equivalent in USD1, while any amount above that earns 0.5%. The product is principal-protected and allows withdrawals at any time. The campaign has no overall participation cap and is positioned as an incentive to encourage USD1 deposits, holding, and everyday use.

European licensed fintech Spiko has deployed its UCITS-compliant tokenized money market fund, SAFO, on the Solana blockchain. Managed by Amundi, the fund uses Circle’s USDC as the sole settlement asset for subscriptions and redemptions and delivers yield via fully collateralized total return swaps, with Chainlink updating its on-chain net asset value. Spiko said SAFO handles about 500 subscription and redemption operations per day across 10,000 active institutional users. Spiko also described the move as the first launch on Solana by a European real-world asset issuer, expanding USDC-based institutional cash management on a high-throughput chain.

TermMax said it has partnered with Native.fi on BNB Chain to advance bStocks, synthetic stock-like assets issued on BNB Chain. The collaboration focuses on improving bStocks product capabilities, liquidity, and broader integration across the ecosystem, positioning it as a notable protocol partnership within the BNB Chain landscape. The announcement did not disclose figures such as TVL, a launch timeline, or any tokenomics changes.

Ripple said it plans to introduce a native lending framework for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) through two protocol amendments, XLS-65 and XLS-66, announced in July 2026. The proposal is designed to let financial institutions and payment providers borrow digital assets without reducing their XRP holdings. It includes compliance-oriented features such as permissioned participation, credentialed domain verification, token freeze, and clawback mechanisms. Ripple did not disclose a specific launch timeline or any TVL target.

In June 2026, TRON ranked first on the Symbiosis cross-chain bridge by both volume and number of transactions, surpassing Bitcoin, Ethereum and BNB Chain. TRC-20 USDT was the top asset by trading volume on the platform. Data show users were actively bridging assets from multiple major chains into the TRON network.