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On June 12, Theker, an AI robotics startup based in Barcelona, Spain, completed an $85 million Series A funding round, which the company claims is the largest Series A financing in the history of the European robotics industry. This round was led by the American venture capital firm CRV, with participation from Aglaé Ventures, an investment firm under Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, and Samsung Electronics. Theker is dedicated to developing versatile industrial robots, featuring a modular design that allows for the interchange of robotic arms, grippers, and overall forms to adapt to various scenarios such as parcel sorting, clothing packaging, and beverage handling, rather than being limited to a single task. Inditex, the parent company of Zara, is one of its early investors. Co-founder Carla Gómez Cano stated that the company aims to move beyond the pilot phase and directly advance commercial implementation in logistics and operations. In addition to the retail sector, Theker also plans to further penetrate more complex industrial scenarios such as manufacturing. Theker intends to expand in Europe, the United States, and Asia, and to grow its technology, deployment, and sales teams. The company revealed that it has received over 15,000 job applications, with the workforce expected to increase to around 120 employees by the end of the year. The co-founder noted that the funding amount ultimately reached twice the original target, which has strengthened the company's confidence in maintaining its headquarters in Barcelona.

On May 1, the Curve team announced a voluntary recovery path based on an on-chain market for the CRV-long Llamalend market affected by the market crash in October 2025. The approach involves creating a dedicated liquidity pool between the stablecoin crvUSD and the token cvcrvUSD, which represents creditor claims, using Curve's existing infrastructure. This allows affected users to exchange their claims for liquid crvUSD at market prices, rather than passively waiting for a single recovery outcome. The design offers users three options: sell their claims for immediate exit, hold their claims and wait for subsequent recovery, or provide liquidity to earn trading fees and potential CRV incentives, with an understanding of the associated risks. This does not eliminate losses or guarantee repayment, but transforms claims into tradable on-chain assets, allowing the market to price recovery expectations. The model indicates that as the price of CRV rises, the overall repayment capacity for remaining loss positions will gradually improve—starting to partially cover bad debts when CRV reaches approximately $0.957, and potentially achieving full repayment around $1.242. If CRV incentives are added to the pool in the future, veCRV voters can further enhance liquidity and improve exit conditions by allocating token emissions. Curve has strengthened the interface to more clearly display market repayment capacity and bad debt information.

On April 27, the Curve team proposed a recovery plan for approximately $700,000 in bad debt in the CRV-long LlamaLend market. The proposal aims to establish a special Curve stable swap pool that allows for the exchange of treasury tokens, introducing market-driven funds for recovery without the need for permission or off-chain agreements. If the price of CRV rises, the bad debt positions can be gradually recovered through liquidation and hard liquidation; if CRV falls, the collateral level of the treasury deposits will not deteriorate further. The proposal also requests Curve DAO to approve the Gauge for this fund pool and retain management fees obtained in the form of treasury tokens.