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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has noted Iran's threats to shipping and its demands for "tolls" to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. These demands may include various payment methods, such as fiat currency, digital assets, offset arrangements, informal swaps, or other physical forms of payment, such as nominal charitable donations to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, the Bonyad Mostazafan Foundation, or accounts of Iranian embassies.OFAC issued this warning to remind U.S. and non-U.S. entities that making payments to the Iranian regime or seeking passage guarantees carries sanctions risks, regardless of the payment method. Under U.S. sanctions regulations, U.S. entities and their foreign entities that are owned or controlled are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with the Iranian government, including providing or receiving services, unless exempted or authorized. Additionally, U.S. entities are also prohibited from engaging in transactions with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is listed on multiple sanctions lists and designated as a foreign terrorist organization.U.S. entities are also generally prohibited from trading with Iranian digital asset trading platforms, which are considered sanctioned Iranian financial institutions. Furthermore, non-U.S. entities that engage in unauthorized transactions with the Iranian government or IRGC may also face sanctions risks, including "secondary sanctions" on relevant financial institutions, restricting their access to the U.S. financial system. Conducting business with sanctioned Iranian digital asset trading platforms may also be viewed as supporting Iran's sanctioned financial system and could lead to sanctions. If relevant transactions result in U.S. entities (such as insurance companies, reinsurance firms, or financial institutions) violating sanctions regulations, non-U.S. entities may also face civil or criminal liability.

Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, published a lengthy article on the X platform pointing out that the quantum computing "canary warning" mechanism cannot provide sufficient buffer time for BTC. Classical computers can currently crack approximately 117 to 130 bits of the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP), and results below this threshold are often questioned for "classical cheating" or pre-set answers, thus failing to form an effective signal.Nic Carter believes that once quantum computers truly break this classical limit, the time left for a direct attack on the 256-bit secp256k1 curve used by Bitcoin may only be a matter of months, while the migration to post-quantum (PQ) signatures after Bitcoin's completion could take years. Whether setting up quantum cracking bounty addresses or relying on Satoshi's early dormant addresses as on-chain warnings cannot guarantee sufficient early detection of risks. Therefore, the truly feasible approach is not to wait for clear warnings but to immediately begin preparations for post-quantum migration. Previously, BitMEX Research proposed a quantum freeze alternative: the "canary address" trigger mechanism.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a report indicating that cryptocurrency exchanges are gradually providing bank-like services, such as lending and earn products, but lack the regulation and deposit protection found in traditional financial systems, posing systemic risks.The report states that these high-yield products are essentially closer to "unsecured loans," where user assets are often used by the platform for high-risk operations such as lending, trading, or market making, and users only hold a creditor position against the platform. If the platform encounters problems, users will be directly exposed to repayment risks. The BIS also noted that leading cryptocurrency platforms have evolved from single exchanges into "multi-functional intermediaries," integrating the functions of banks, brokerages, and exchanges, but lacking transparency and risk isolation mechanisms. The previous collapses of Celsius Network and FTX are typical cases of such structural risks. Additionally, the report mentioned that the flash crash in the cryptocurrency market in October 2025 triggered approximately $19 billion in forced liquidations, highlighting the chain reaction risks under high leverage and opaque structures.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines has issued an investor warning, reminding the public not to invest in seven cryptocurrency trading platforms including dYdX, Aevo, gTrade, Pacifica, Orderly, Deriv, and Ostium.The SEC stated that the aforementioned platforms are not registered with the commission and have not obtained the necessary authorization required under the cryptocurrency asset service provider (CASP) framework. At the same time, the SEC warned that individuals promoting these platforms within the Philippines may be held criminally liable, facing fines of up to 5,000,000 Philippine pesos (approximately 89,000 USD) or a maximum of 21 years in prison.

According to the official announcement, Upbit has placed SPURS on the trading warning list.

According to the official announcement, Bithumb has announced that GRACY, SPURS, ZTX, WIKEN, and FITFI will be placed on the trading warning list, with a tentative notice for designated postponement/cancellation/termination of trading support to be issued during the third week of July (between July 13 and July 17).

The People's Bank of China Shaoguan Branch, in conjunction with the Shaoguan Municipal Government Office, issued a virtual currency risk warning on the occasion of "4·15" National Security Education Day, and announced four typical cases: "High Salary for U Part-time" money laundering, "Guaranteed Principal High Interest Cryptocurrency Trading" illegal fundraising, "RWA Digital Cultural Tourism Fund" pyramid scheme fraud, and offline "Coin Exchange" disguised foreign exchange trading.Regulators have made it clear that virtual currency exchange, trading, and RWA tokenization activities are illegal financial behaviors. Projects claiming "high returns, low risk, guaranteed profits" are mostly scams. The public should abandon the fantasy of getting rich quickly, stay away from virtual currency-related investments, choose legal financial channels, and report any abnormalities to the police in a timely manner to reduce losses.

On Monday local time, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office stated that Daniel Moreno-Gama, the suspect who attacked OpenAI founder Sam Altman last week, has been charged with attempted murder. The Department of Justice announced that the suspect also faces federal charges, including attempting to use explosives to damage property and illegal possession of an unregistered firearm.According to the indictment submitted to the San Francisco federal court on Monday, Daniel Moreno-Gama was arrested after the attack on Friday, and officers from the San Francisco Police Department found a document on him detailing his intentions. In the document, Daniel Moreno-Gama expressed his intent to kill Altman and warned that humanity would be "on the verge of extinction" due to artificial intelligence.

According to CCTV News, on the 11th local time, Iran stated that a U.S. destroyer was detected sailing from the port of Fujairah in the UAE towards the Strait of Hormuz. After closely monitoring its movements, the Iranian armed forces immediately informed the Iranian delegation negotiating in Pakistan.The delegation then conveyed their relevant position to the U.S. side through a Pakistani mediator and issued a clear warning to the destroyer: if it continued to approach the Strait of Hormuz, it would be struck within 30 minutes, and the negotiations would also be affected. Due to the resolute response from the Iranian armed forces and the timely warning from the negotiation team, the U.S. side ultimately ordered the destroyer to stop advancing and turn back.

According to the WSJ, just hours after President Trump suddenly announced a suspension of attacks on Iran last month, the White House warned staff not to abuse their power to place bets in prediction markets at the right moment. According to informed sources, the Office of Management and Budget issued this warning on March 23.Earlier that day, Trump announced the decision to suspend airstrikes via Truth Social. About 15 minutes before the sudden policy shift, there was a wave of mysterious trading activity in the futures market, with Dow Jones market data showing that contracts worth over $760 million in oil futures changed hands in less than two minutes.Recently, three accounts on the Polymarket platform profited over $600,000 by accurately predicting the timing of this week's ceasefire in Iran. Critics of Trump, including many Democrats, immediately inferred that someone had profited from having advance knowledge of the policy shift.The White House confirmed the authenticity of this warning, with Trump's spokesperson Engel stating, "The only special interest that can guide President Trump's decision-making is the best interest of the American people."

According to The Kobeissi Letter data, U.S. government job vacancies in February fell to 701,000, the second lowest since December 2020, a decrease of 524,000 from the peak in 2022. Federal government vacancies are down to 89,000, with the hiring rate dropping to 1.4%, matching the lows of 2016 to 2017. Private companies are also significantly laying off employees, with Oracle reportedly cutting as many as 30,000 jobs, Amazon reducing 16,000 positions, and Block laying off over 4,000 people.In terms of consumer confidence, only 27.3% believe that jobs are plentiful, far below the approximately 55% in 2022; the labor market disparity indicator has dropped to 5.8 percentage points, the lowest since the pandemic. Kobeissi points out that this indicator has historically been a reliable leading signal for rising unemployment, with the current level only appearing before and after economic recessions.

According to market news, Socket has detected that version 1.14.1 of the npm core package axios is experiencing an active supply chain attack. The attacker injected a malicious dependency package to implant malicious code into axios. Developers using axios are advised to immediately pin the version and review the project's lock files.

Huma Finance issued a reminder on platform X that its partner Arf's official X account @arf_one has been hacked. Please do not interact with any posts from that account until it is restored.

According to Bloomberg, Andrew Ferguson, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, sent letters to payment companies such as Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe, warning them not to refuse services based on users' political views or religious beliefs.Ferguson stated that preventing law-abiding individuals from conducting legitimate business is not in line with American values. This move comes as the Trump administration focuses on the issue of "de-banking," with the government previously suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon, accusing the bank of cutting off services to Trump and his businesses for political reasons. The Trump Organization has also sued Capital One Financial Corp., alleging political discrimination. Both JPMorgan Chase and First Capital deny the allegations. Stripe responded that it would not restrict services based on political views.

According to Cointelegraph, Google has set 2029 as the deadline for its post-quantum cryptography migration, warning that the threat of quantum computing may arrive sooner than expected.Google stated that the rapid advancements in quantum computing hardware and quantum error correction, along with updates to the timeline for quantum computers to break current encryption standards, have heightened the urgency for action. This is the first time Google has set a timeline for the deployment of post-quantum capabilities in its products, ahead of some industry predictions for "Q-Day." Google is developing its quantum chip Willow, which has 105 qubits and is one of the most powerful quantum processors currently available.

According to Binance's official blog, Binance has released a red flag guide for cryptocurrency market makers, warning users and project parties to be cautious of the following risky behaviors: aggressive sell-offs that conflict with token release plans, one-sided sell orders, cross-platform coordinated sell-offs, high trading volumes that do not match price trends, and abnormal price fluctuations caused by insufficient liquidity.Binance recommends that project parties conduct strict due diligence when selecting market makers, clarify contract terms, prohibit profit-sharing models, and continuously monitor market maker activities after listing. Binance stated that it will take punitive measures such as blacklisting against non-compliant market makers and will open reporting channels.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog Technology, 23pds, posted on platform X reminding all users to update their iOS systems in a timely manner. The DarkSword attack program has been leaked, and its core capability is: to extract forensic-level data from iOS devices via HTTP interfaces.In actual attacks, attackers can use social engineering or watering hole attacks to lure users into falling victim, thereby stealing data from iPhones/iPads and uploading it to servers controlled by the attackers.

Upbit has lifted the trading warning for IoTeX (IOTX). Upbit communicated with the IOTX team and received information regarding the security incident and subsequent response measures, which were reviewed. As a result, it was determined that the reasons for designating the trading warning have been eliminated.

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges Bithumb and Upbit have issued trading warnings related to the stablecoin USR, reminding investors that USR has encountered security issues and significant price fluctuations, and to exercise extra caution when investing in REOLV.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning that fake tokens impersonating the FBI have appeared on the Tron network, urging users to remain vigilant.The FBI's New York field office stated on social media that users who receive tokens claiming to be from the FBI in their wallets should exercise caution and never provide any personal identification information to related websites. According to disclosed information, these scams typically operate based on the TRC-20 token standard, where attackers send so-called "FBI tokens" to users' wallets and threaten to freeze assets under the pretext of violating anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, thereby inducing users to submit sensitive information and executing phishing attacks. The FBI also recommends that users report any suspicious activities through its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). It is currently unclear how many users have been affected.