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According to Decrypt, two brothers from Texas, Isiah Garcia and Raymond Garcia, recently pleaded guilty in federal court in Minneapolis, admitting to a home invasion at a residence in Grant, Minnesota, in September 2025, where they held a family hostage for 8 hours and forced the homeowner to transfer over $8 million in cryptocurrency. During this time, the suspects also escorted the victims to their northern cabin to retrieve additional cold wallets for further transfers. After the victim's son reported to the police, the FBI tracked the two to the Houston area through evidence left at the scene and arrested them. Both face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison and agreed to pay over $8 million in restitution.

According to Arkham monitoring, Morgan Stanley has recently "bought the dip," increasing its total holdings by 266.56 BTC through its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund MSBT, worth 17.26 million USD. As of now, its total Bitcoin holdings have reached 4,348 BTC, valued at approximately 273.8 million USD.

"On-chain detective" ZachXBT published a case analysis stating that in a cryptocurrency asset case involving an Indian scam gang, the relevant individuals reported the case to law enforcement after their assets were frozen, drawing attention. The incident began when a user sought help, claiming that approximately 5.73 BTC (about $475,000) was frozen on Changelly in March 2025.Subsequent on-chain analysis revealed that these funds could be traced back to multiple social engineering attacks and theft cases related to Bitcoin ATMs targeting U.S. users, with a total amount involved exceeding $1 million and several elderly victims. The investigation showed that the individual provided multiple changing explanations for the source of the funds, including "loan," "boss transfer," and "investment from 2014-2015," and there were significant contradictions in the evidence chain.More concerning is that this user had previously filed a police report in India in December 2025, attempting to recover the frozen funds (case number 3207-P/2025). Subsequent on-chain evidence collection and email data analysis indicated that they might be a "mule" for transferring funds, with some bank documents inconsistent with their identity information. ZachXBT noted that such cases demonstrate that social engineering attacks and cross-border fund transfers continue to occur and remind users to avoid interacting with funds from suspicious sources to prevent triggering compliance freezes or legal risks.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $1,772, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $863 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $1,605, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $697 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $65,567, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.73 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $59,825, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.239 billion.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes, 0x795d...5eA0) deposited 6,000 ETH into FalconX and Galaxy Digital, worth 10.14 million USD.

According to Coinglass data, the Coinbase Bitcoin premium index briefly turned positive this Monday but has now turned negative again, currently reported at -0.103%, indicating that purchasing power in the U.S. market continues to weaken.The Coinbase Bitcoin premium index is used to measure the difference between the Bitcoin price on Coinbase and the global market average price. A negative premium typically reflects significant selling pressure in the U.S. market, a decline in investor risk appetite, an increase in market risk aversion, or capital outflows.

According to South Korean media SBS Biz, South Korea is considering allowing various parties, including exchanges and fintech companies, to participate in the upcoming virtual asset overseas remittance business system. This system is expected to be implemented in December this year. Relevant individuals revealed that the government has recently begun drafting the implementation details of the partial amendment to the Foreign Exchange Transaction Act and is reviewing the registration requirements for virtual asset transfer businesses.The core content of the amendment is to include cross-border virtual asset transfers within the regulatory framework of the Foreign Exchange Transaction Act, defining it as "virtual asset transfer business." Companies intending to engage in virtual asset transfer business must register with the Office of the Minister of Economy and Finance of South Korea and report relevant information through the foreign exchange computer network of the Bank of Korea when cross-border transfer transactions occur. Previously, cross-border virtual asset transactions had been outside the foreign exchange regulatory framework, raising concerns that these transactions could be used for illegal foreign exchange trading or money laundering activities. This system improvement aims to incorporate virtual asset transfer transactions into the management and regulatory system.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event of "The location of the next diplomatic meeting between the US and Iran" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Switzerland" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 34.6% an hour ago to the current 13.5% (a fluctuation of 21.1%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to an analysis of the latest leaked data by WIRED, the secretive society Dialog, co-founded by Peter Thiel, has an extremely ruthless and biased "grading and elimination" mechanism.Dialog implements a secret rule of "rating upon entry." Although the club has thousands of members, only 192 personal profiles (including 130 formal members and some candidates) were leaked and reviewed by WIRED. They reveal the club's counterintuitive hierarchy of disdain: C-level is the highest VIP, B-level is the overwhelming majority of ordinary members, while the A-level, usually regarded as the best, is actually the least known bottom tier.This rating is directly tied to members' wallets. Only about 25% of VIP "C" level big shots are required to pay the full attendance fee, while among the bottom "A" level members, the proportion paying the full attendance fee of tens of thousands of dollars is as high as 70%.Ironically, the AI screening mechanism introduced by Dialog is extremely superstitious about so-called "national recognition." For example, actor Josh Brolin, who played "Thanos," has never attended but wins VIP "C" level status due to box office success and millions of fans; meanwhile, academic giant Tyler Cowen was deemed "not famous enough among ordinary people" by the AI and nearly classified into the ordinary tier, only barely promoted to C-level through human intervention.The "value-added points" serve as a scythe for eliminating "useless people," specifically measuring members' resource connections and intellectual contributions to other club giants. After each gathering, staff review members' performances like "code review," and those with too low value-added points, cultural mismatches, or declining visibility will be ruthlessly removed from the invitation list.Additionally, the leaked database also exposed its built-in social and dating matching system (10% of members join the singles pool), which has a "no-match list" while recommending pairings.This so-called objective assessment system is also filled with biases: women make up one-third of the members but only receive 18% of VIP seats; politically, it is even harder to escape differential treatment. Although more than half of the members identify as "left-leaning," the probability of "right-leaning" members obtaining VIP status is more than twice that of left-leaning members, and even the "left-leaning" label of an environmental leader was forcibly rewritten to "right-leaning" by staff in the background.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet address withdrew 533 BTC from Binance, worth approximately 33.4 million USD. This fund may be related to the Bhutanese government, as the withdrawal amount matches the amount deposited to Binance by a related address two days ago. However, this attribution has not yet been officially confirmed and remains to be further verified.

OKX will launch the ZAMA (Zama) Flash Earn Lite event on June 23 at 15:00. Users can participate by subscribing to OKB, ETH, or ZAMA to share a reward of 6,250,000 ZAMA. The event runs from June 23 at 15:00 to June 27 at 15:00 (UTC+8), and users must complete identity verification to participate.

According to Greeks.live data, a total nominal value of $2.13 billion in BTC and ETH options is set to expire, with 31,000 BTC options expiring, a Put Call Ratio of 0.78, a maximum pain point of $65,000, and a nominal value of $1.9 billion; 138,000 ETH options are expiring, a Put Call Ratio of 1.03, a maximum pain point of $1,725, and a nominal value of $230 million.

According to Gate market data, Nasdaq futures fell by 1%, and S&P 500 index futures fell by 0.6%.

According to Jinshi reports, the USD/CHF has expanded its intraday increase to 0.5%, currently reported at 0.8086.

According to Gate market data, the US Dollar Index DXY continues to rise, breaking above 101, reaching the highest level since May 2025.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 13, down 1 point from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 17, and the average over the past 30 days is 19.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index futures fell by 0.5%, and the Nasdaq index futures fell by 0.8%.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $1,781, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $956 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $1,613, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $538 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $65,856, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.724 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $59,804, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $965 million.