1⃣ ApeCoin surged 111% in 24 hours , at one point touching approximately $0.183, becoming the most notable volatility in the current crypto market.
2⃣ The US Department of Justice froze $701 million worth of crypto in just one day , marking the largest operation ever targeting "pig-butchering" scams in Southeast Asia.
3⃣ Justin Sun withdrew 120 million SPK (~$5.5 million) to the Cooperative Exchange, and immediately afterwards the price of SPK dropped by about 18% .
4⃣ The hacker involved in the Balancer case secretly swapped 13,191 ETH for 386 BTC (~$30.5 million) , and approximately 8,000 ETH remain unmoved .
5. The US Department of Justice concluded its investigation into Jerome Powell, removing a political risk factor. The market now expects the Fed to cut interest rates this year .
6. Senior US and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Islamabad, with the possibility of making progress considered high. Markets predict over a 50% chance of the meeting taking place before the 29th , while oil prices have fallen by more than 3% .
7⃣ The Ethereum Foundation plans to sell 10,000 ETH to BitMine at an Medium price of $2,387 .
8⃣ Google is reportedly planning to increase its investment in Anthropic to $40 billion , along with support for large-scale computing infrastructure.
9⃣ Anthropic confirmed unauthorized access to its Claude Mythos model; at the same time, OpenAI had several unreleased Codex models leaked — two major AI companies simultaneously experiencing security breaches.
