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Crypto exchange news, citing Axios: The U.S. is demanding that Iran publicly state, no later than Saturday, that it will no longer attack the Strait of Hormuz.

CoinWorld News, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas cited Brian Daly from the SEC's Division of Investment Management, stating that the SEC believes its previous mishandling of cryptocurrency regulation has damaged market trust and aims to restore trust by establishing a more orderly approval process. Currently, the SEC receives approximately 200 ETF applications per month, including new products such as prediction markets. Daly emphasized that the SEC supports innovation while fulfilling its investor protection responsibilities, does not want approval efficiency to hinder the launch of new products, and is researching the establishment of a more comprehensive approval mechanism, including considering allowing confidential submissions for some ETF applications to protect innovation and prevent copycat applications.

Coin World News reports that the commodity trader “WTI Crude Oil TOP 1 Short” increased its short position holdings by 3,763.37 contracts on the SPCX platform, which is approximately $488,950.97. Its position size reached $5,150,376.65, and the average price fell from $169.95 to $168.74. The current profit/loss on this short position is +$398,637.49 (+14.90%). The current price is $156.62, and the liquidation price is $232.16. The address also holds $33 million worth of WTI crude oil short positions, prefers to open commodity-related positions, indirectly involves transactions related to U.S. stocks, and has a monthly profit of $17 million.

American Bitcoin, a U.S. bitcoin mining company, announced that it will implement a 1:15 reverse stock split next week, effective after Thursday’s market close, to meet Nasdaq’s minimum $1 share price requirement. A/B shares will be consolidated from 15 into 1, reducing outstanding shares from about 1.09 billion to about 73 million. The stock traded at about $0.64 on Wednesday, down more than 64% year-to-date. In the first quarter, due to unrealized losses from bitcoin holdings, the net loss was about $81.8 million. It currently holds about 7,500 BTC, the 16th-largest publicly listed bitcoin holder globally.

CoinWorld News: Strategy director Jarrod Patten recently reduced his holdings of MSTR stock, which hit a 52-week low, prompting scrutiny of the company's Bitcoin asset strategy. SEC filings show that after exercising options at $18.236 on June 23, he sold all 1,500 shares on the same day at $106.08, with an exercise cost of approximately $27.5k, a gross profit of about $159k, and a pre-tax profit of approximately $131.8k. In the previous three months, he had sold a total of 55,750 Strategy shares, worth about $9 million. Meanwhile, market criticism of the company's financing strategy and the potential impact of additional stock issuance is also increasing.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin challenges internet users to use AI text analysis to identify the Ethereum documents he wrote anonymously in his early years, aiming to turn privacy debates into public testing.
The test focuses on stylometry, requiring comparison of his extensive public writing records to determine authorship, with no publicly confirmed results yet.
He also emphasizes AI safety and privacy, advocating for local-first AI, and warns about potential data leaks and misuse from cloud-based tools.

Texas brothers Isiah Angelo Garcia and Raymond Christian Garcia have admitted to armed intrusion into a Minnesota home in 2025 and stealing over $8 million in cryptocurrency. The U.S. Department of Justice states that the two traveled from Texas to Minnesota to commit the crime, binding and armed controlling the victims' family for over 8 hours, forcing them to transfer crypto assets. Both men pleaded guilty to a charge of interfering with commercial activity through robbery, facing up to 20 years of federal imprisonment, and agreed to pay over $8 million in restitution. (Decrypt)

CryptoWorld News reports that on the 18th local time, an informed source stated that due to Israel's ongoing attacks on southern Lebanon, the Iranian negotiation delegation has postponed its trip to Switzerland. The source said that before deciding to suspend the trip, the delegation was originally preparing to depart and planned to initiate the first round of 60-day negotiations. Iran had previously informed the United States and mediators that the Lebanon issue remains a core component of the Iran-U.S. negotiations and will directly impact whether the talks continue or are halted.

Crypto.com reported that DeepSeek senior researcher Chen Deli open-sourced Deli AutoResearch, with the fourth review written entirely by an autonomous agent. AI calls sub-intelligent agents to collaborate and complete the entire research process through the skill.md protocol file. The self-play review independently planned GPU experiments for the first time without human intervention, and conducted reinforcement learning training on the 285B parameter DeepSeek model, using the GRPO algorithm to complete the research loop from design to conclusion, achieving an 8.6/10 in simulated peer review. Previously, this method produced three reviews, with the first approximately 60 iterations and a total time of about 10 hours, validating the feasibility of AI-native research pathways.

CryptoWorld News: Bitcoin mining difficulty has decreased by 10% in its 11th largest adjustment in history, easing the pressure on miners. At the same time, hash rate has fallen 23% from its peak in October.

Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra publicly criticizes ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood's Bitcoin price forecast, calling it "embarrassing," highlighting the ideological conflict between traditional gold advocates and crypto supporters. Wood reaffirmed a basic Bitcoin price target of about $730k by 2030, with an extreme scenario of $1.5 million, and stated that the bull market is still ongoing, with a 50% correction being more "manageable" at 85-95%. Giustra, taking a gold-backed stance, rebutted that BTC will not rise to a million dollars, sparking a backlash in the crypto community.

CryptoWorld News reported that XBIT DEX said XLM performed strongly over the past week: its price rose from $0.146 on Wednesday to $0.298 on Saturday, for a gain of 102%. This breakout has brought XLM back into market focus—currently ranked 14th and nearing the top 10. The price increase is related to the Stellar network’s announcement of a collaboration with DTCC to develop tokenization of traditional assets; DTCC will introduce tokenized traditional assets on the Stellar chain, which is expected to add value to the Stellar chain. On the 28th, XLM’s spot inflow exceeded $20 million, the largest single-day inflow in nearly 10 months. Although there was a $9.15 million outflow on the 29th, the overall bullish trend remains strong.