IoTeX released proposal IIP-56: Completely abandon CIOTX; attacked chains can switch to other methods to claim compensation and regain IOTX.
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Vitalik Buterin released a new proposal suggesting that the consensus layer state be drastically reduced to only 6 bytes.
According to Foresight News , Vitalik Buterin has released a new proposal, "The Extremely Lean Chain." The core of this proposal is to significantly simplify the state stored by each validator in the current Beacon chain (public key, withdrawal certificate, activation/exit epoch, etc.), retaining only 6 bytes (1 byte for effective balance + 5 bytes for deposit tree index). Validators will need to track their deposit Merkle proofs themselves and asynchronously update their effective balance and participation records using daily generated STARK proofs, instead of having these updates processed in real-time on-chain every epoch. The proposal is planned to proceed in multiple phases: removing public key storage and replacing it with a deposit tree index, with daily STARK proofs used to update the balance; subsequently, a daily public key refresh mechanism will be introduced to achieve strong anonymity of validator identities, while naturally supporting Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE). This design is considered feasible in the context of Lean upgrades such as single-slot finality (SSF) and recursive STARK, aiming to significantly reduce consensus layer state overhead and computational burden, support the number of validators to the millions, and provide strong privacy protection in advanced versions.
Helius researchers have released a proposal suggesting that the SOL inflation decline rate be increased from -15% to -30%.
According to Mars Finance, on June 17th, Helius researchers released a proposed bill, SIMD-550, suggesting an update to Solana's inflation plan. This bill would increase the deflationary rate from -15% to -30%, effectively doubling the rate of inflation decline. This would bring the long-term ultimate rate of inflation to 1.5% within 2.8 years (first half of 2029), instead of 5.7 years (first half of 2032). Based on their model, this proposal would reduce the issuance of SOL by 18.89 million tokens over six years, worth approximately $1.51 billion, while gradually reducing the nominal staking yield over the first three years, from approximately 5.84% to approximately 4.34%, 3.00%, and 2.25%. They anticipate that doubling the deflationary rate will have a limited impact on the number of profitable validators: 2 validators will go from profitable or break-even to losing money in the first year, 13 in the second year, and 30 in the third year. SIMD-550 is an update to SIMD-411 (November 2025), which was discontinued due to the ecosystem awaiting new tools. SIMD-550 can be seen as part of a broader effort to improve the economics of the SOL token. Other components include SIMD-553, which proposes adding resource fees for burning, and Alpenglow's validator entry ticket (VAT).
The SOON community has released a proposal to "unlock 30 million SOON tokens to incentivize early-stage AI capital market projects".
According to Foresight News , the SOON Foundation has released a proposal in the community to "unlock 30 million SOON to incentivize early-stage AI capital markets projects." The proposal involves unlocking 30 million SOON from 52,499,999 staked ecosystem tokens on June 17th and distributing them as incentives to outstanding early-stage projects in the AI capital markets, specifically: AI Super Quant (10 million), Polyfollow (5 million), signlOs (5 million), Big Squirrel (5 million), and DucLuck (5 million). The remaining 22,499,999 tokens, along with all other staking allocations, will remain unchanged and continue to be staked long-term.
Proposal ERC-8126 has been released, introducing a standardized verification framework for Ethereum AI Agents.
According to Foresight News , Don Johnson, Head of Business Development at Virtuals Protocol, tweeted that Ethereum Improvement Proposal ERC-8126 has been officially released. The proposal was co-authored by Leigh Cronian, Chris Johnson, and others, with contributions from Virtuals Protocol. ERC-8126 aims to form a three-layer infrastructure for the AI Agent economy, alongside ERC-8004 (Identity) and ERC-8183 (Commerce). ERC-8126, based on the ERC-8004 intelligent agent registration standard, introduces a standardized verification framework for AI agents, covering five verification dimensions: Ethereum Token Verification (ETV), Media Content Verification (MCV), Solidity Code Verification (SCV), Web Application Verification (WAV), and Wallet Verification (WV). Each verification type returns a risk score from 0 to 100, categorized into five levels from low to severe. Furthermore, the proposal supports privacy-preserving verification through zero-knowledge proofs and reserves an optional extension interface for quantum cryptography verification (QCV).
GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.5 Pro, and Grok 4.5 will all be released soon.
PANews reported on July 7th that, according to market sources, Gemini 3.5 Pro will be officially released on July 17th. Its front-end and visual code generation capabilities are said to have seen a significant leap forward, outperforming Anthropic's Fable 5 in multiple tests. However, it still lags behind its competitor in hardcore inference and complex engineering tasks. Furthermore, Google DeepMind has abandoned the original 2.5 Pro platform, opting instead for completely new pre-training on Gemini 3.5 Pro, thus delaying the release date from the original June 2026 to July 17th. Elon Musk previously announced that xAI's latest large model, Grok 4.5, has begun beta testing within SpaceX and Tesla.
BonkDAO was attacked by a malicious governance proposal, resulting in the theft of approximately $20 million in BONK.
According to Odaily Odaily, Bonk Inu's official X account stated that BonkDAO suffered a malicious governance proposal attack, resulting in the theft of approximately $20 million worth of BONK tokens from its DAO vault. Attackers allegedly transferred BonkDAO vault assets through a questionable governance proposal. The stolen BONK subsequently began flowing into exchanges, putting downward pressure on the BONK price. Data from The Block shows that the BONK price has fallen by more than 9%. South Korean exchange Upbit subsequently issued a statement saying it had temporarily suspended BONK deposits and withdrawals in response to the incident and to guard against potential risks. (The Block)