🔮 ZenDaily - 16th June 2026 🔮
UFC Fighters Earn USD1 Bonuses, Polygon Shuts Down zkEVM Network, Telegram Offers $200K Creator Rewards, And More.
🗞 NFT NEWSFLASH
The current Bitcoin price is $66.43K, ETH is $1.79K, and BNB is $613.45.: https://tinyurl.com/4w5m5cfe
UFC fighters receive crypto bonuses in USD1 stablecoin. World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin funded a $250,000 bonus pool for fighters at the White House-hosted UFC Freedom 250 event, marking one of the token's biggest sports integrations to date.: https://tinyurl.com/4y6rjck4
Polygon pulls the plug on zkEVM after $250M bet. The Ethereum scaling project will shut down zkEVM on July 1 as Polygon pivots fully toward PoS and AggLayer.: https://tinyurl.com/37t2uy9n
India's ED files charges in the $20M Coinbase scam case. Authorities allege fraudsters used fake Coinbase platforms to siphon millions from unsuspecting crypto investors.: https://tinyurl.com/3meuhmcc
Standard Chartered sees UNI hitting $100 by 2030. Bank forecasts a 37x surge in DeFi activity as tokenized assets move on-chain.: https://tinyurl.com/ym2598ca
Coinbase and AWS bring AI-Powered payments to the web. Coinbase and AWS have integrated x402 with CloudFront and WAF, enabling websites and APIs to accept direct payments from autonomous AI agents.: https://tinyurl.com/m9urmrvm
Telegram launches $200K creator challenge for digital freedom. Pavel Durov is offering a $200,000 prize pool to creators who produce videos promoting digital freedom and surpass 10,000 organic views on major social platforms.: https://tinyurl.com/2s6f32yy
Sri Lanka moves toward its first crypto regulatory framework. The country’s SEC and Digital Economy Ministry have begun formal discussions on a virtual asset framework, marking the country's first major step toward regulating crypto markets.: https://tinyurl.com/4nnf84rc
💸 NOTABLE MEME-COIN MARKET MOVES
SKYAI is up 30% at $0.4148
ASTEROID is up 16% at $0.0001186
PURR is up 14% at $0.1214
SPX is up 10% at $0.3818
KISHU is up 8% at $0.091644
💸 NOTABLE ETHEREUM MARKET MOVES
REMNANTS is up 5% at 4.19 ETH
LilPudgys is up 3% at 0.49 ETH
PudgyPenguins is up 2% at 4.75 ETH
Beeple Spring Collection is down 24% at 6.09 ETH
Miady is down 4% at 1.12 ETH
💰 NOTABLE NFT SALES
Bored Ape Yacht Club #1203 - 10.25 ETH
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Bored Ape Yacht Club #1203 - 9.60 ETH
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