1⃣ $APE surged 111% in 24h, briefly breaking $0.183, becoming the most extreme and attention-grabbing move in the crypto market.
2⃣ The U.S. Department of Justice froze $701M in crypto in a single day, marking the largest-ever crackdown on Southeast Asian “pig-butchering” scams.
3⃣ Justin Sun withdrew 120M SPK (~$5.51M) into HTX, after which SPK dropped 18%.
4⃣ The Balancer hacker quietly swapped 13,191 ETH for 386 BTC (~$30.54M), with another 8,000 ETH still unmoved.
5⃣ The U.S. Department of Justice ended its investigation into Jerome Powell, removing a key political overhang; Fed funds swaps now imply rising expectations for rate cuts this year.
6⃣ Senior officials from the U.S. and Iran are set to meet in Islamabad tonight, with a “high probability of breakthrough”; prediction markets price over 50% odds of a meeting before the 29th, while oil prices fell over 3%.
7⃣ The Ethereum Foundation plans to sell 10,000 ETH to BitMine at an average price of $2,387.
8⃣ Google is reportedly planning to expand its investment in Anthropic to $40B, alongside at least 5GW of compute support.
9⃣ Anthropic disclosed unauthorized access to its Claude Mythos model; on the same day, OpenAI was reported to have leaked multiple unreleased Codex models—both AI leaders facing security incidents simultaneously.
