Du Jun remains convinced that blockchain will eventually reshape financial infrastructure and continues to invest in the crypto space.
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American Express is hiring a Vice President of Stablecoin and Blockchain Strategy to develop next-generation payment infrastructure.
PANews reported on June 29 that, according to The Block, American Express is hiring a Vice President of Stablecoin and Blockchain Partnerships and Strategy. This position will be responsible for the implementation of "how American Express participates in the next generation of programmable money, stablecoin payments, and blockchain financial infrastructure."
IMF: Tokenization may reshape financial settlement and stability, but fragmented regulation may bring new risks.
PANews reported on July 3rd, citing Cointelegraph, that Tobias Adrian, Financial Advisor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), stated in a blog post that tokenization could fundamentally reshape how financial markets operate. By integrating assets, settlement, and accounting onto a shared ledger, it could compress settlement processes that previously took days into near-instantaneous completion. Adrian also warned that tokenization shifts risk from traditional financial intermediaries to the underlying infrastructure (including smart contracts, distributed ledgers, and service providers). Without unified standards and coordinated regulation, the tokenized financial market could become fragmented due to platform incompatibility, creating new systemic risks.
Tom Lee: The Ethereum Foundation is addressing key issues such as financial infrastructure, which are of concern to governments, policymakers, and markets.
According to Odaily Odaily, Tom Lee posted on the X platform that he was pleased to see the Ethereum Foundation carefully addressing key issues concerning the role of governments and policy markets in financial infrastructure, economics, and the crucial role of neutral blockchains like Ethereum.
Data: Total investment and funding in the crypto market reached $898 million in June, with infrastructure and DeFi leading the way.
According to ChainCatcher and RootData's funding data, 42 investment, financing, and M&A events were disclosed in the primary crypto market in June 2026, with a total funding amount of approximately $898 million, a decrease of 60.5% month-over-month and 67.3% year-over-year. There were also 15 M&A events, with a disclosed amount of approximately $305 million. Overall, funds continued to flow concentratedly into infrastructure, DeFi, and CeFi, institutional capital markets, on-chain lending, derivatives trading, and stablecoin payments/settlement as the main growth drivers. DeFi was the most active sector this month, completing 18 investment, financing, and M&A events with a disclosed amount of approximately $330 million. Morpho completed a $175 million funding round, becoming the largest funding project in the DeFi sector this month; Fomo completed a $75 million Series B funding round, indicating that on-chain transactions and consumer-level entry points remain attractive. The infrastructure sector saw 13 deals, disclosing approximately $453 million, ranking first in terms of amount. Projects such as Digital Asset, Ornn, and Trace Finance received funding for institutional-grade capital markets, the financialization of AI computing power, and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, respectively. CeFi saw 12 deals, with fewer non-M&A financings, but M&A and institutional trading services performed strongly. SBI Holdings acquired the Japanese crypto exchage Bitbank for approximately $289 million, becoming the largest M&A deal this month; SignalPlus completed a $50 million Series B1 funding round, and EDGE Markets completed a $29.2 million Series A funding round, indicating that institutional-grade trading, derivatives, and compliant financial services remain key areas of capital investment. The top five projects this month totaled approximately $944 million, accounting for about 76% of the total disclosed amount. The top three projects in terms of funding and M&A amount were: Digital Asset (US$355 million), an institutional-grade crypto exchage infrastructure company; Bitbank (US$289 million, acquired); and Morpho (US$175 million), an on-chain lending protocol. In terms of investment institutions, Coinbase Ventures, a16z, Pantera Capital, CoinFund, Paradigm, Animoca Brands, and HashKey Capital remained active, with leading capital firms favoring projects with clear institutional clients, compliance pathways, and real-world use cases.
Opinion: The next phase of crypto may shift towards AI financing infrastructure, with blockchain becoming a key player in the capital market.
According to an analysis by Michael Anderson, co-founder of Framework Ventures, as reported by Odaily Odaily, the core opportunities in the next phase of the crypto industry may no longer be limited to crypto assets themselves, but rather become the financing infrastructure for capital-intensive industries such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and energy, with blockchain becoming the capital layer. Compared to the 2020-2021 cycle centered on DeFi and crypto speculation, tokenization and stablecoins are evolving from native crypto applications into financial infrastructure serving the real economy. They can provide more efficient financing channels for assets such as GPU computing power and energy projects. Currently, there is over $300 billion in on-chain stablecoin liquidity, providing new funding sources for asset-backed lending and enabling traditionally difficult-to-securitize equipment (such as servers and computing hardware) to be packaged as financeable assets. (CoinDesk)
Ant Financial, Edfin Financial, and Panrui Capital signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in new energy and blockchain finance.
According to Foresight News , citing Aastocks Finance, Ant Financial, Edfin Financial, and Panrui Capital have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly explore blockchain applications in Hong Kong's green energy sector, leveraging the decentralized and traceable characteristics of blockchain technology to enhance the transparency of ESG and green projects.