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Sun Yuchen publicly accused World Liberty Financial (WLFI) of embedding a backdoor in its smart contract, claiming that its wallet was unlawfully frozen in 2025, and pointing out four categories of misconduct by the WLFI team: charging unreasonable fees, controlling the backdoor, freezing funds, and manipulating governance. He emphasized that this conduct violates basic investor rights and called on WLFI to restore transparency.

Research from the cybersecurity startup AISLE shows that although Anthropic’s security system Mythos has powerful capabilities, a small open-source model with only 3.6B parameters can achieve similar vulnerability-detection results at low cost. AISLE notes that the development of AI cybersecurity capabilities is “uneven,” and emphasizes that the moat lies in the design of the system architecture rather than the strength of any single model.

A loan-shark smart contract scam case led by Chiou Zhihau raised over 50 billion yuan, and 14 people have already been detained. The platform lured victims with high returns of 3% to 7% monthly interest, but in reality it was a carefully designed con, using DeFi concepts to lower their guard. During the period when Chiou Zhihau was released on bail, he committed fraud again, reflecting regulatory loopholes; prosecutors are currently continuing to investigate.

Trump posted on Truth Social that many large tankers are delivering low-sulfur, high-quality crude oil to the United States, reflecting that geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran have led to rising demand in the market for alternative supplies. The United States has currently become the world’s largest crude oil producer, and its sweet crude oil has advantages in refining costs and efficiency. This kind of situation could reduce reliance on Middle Eastern oil, stabilize oil prices, and affect global risk assets, including the Bitcoin market.

Anthropic has launched Claude for Word, which supports tracked changes and file review, and integrates with the Microsoft Office suite. Its four core capabilities cover reading comments, drafting content from templates, consistency checks, and rewriting selected sections. Still in the testing phase, it’s suited to specific users and is not recommended for legal documents; it’s clearly designed to meet market needs within the Office ecosystem.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol unveiled two AI systems at the Dreamforce conference: “Green Dot” and “Smart Q.” The former acts as a real-time assistant for store employees, while the latter solves order mix-up issues to improve service efficiency. In the future, the Starbucks app will be able to predict what customers order, enabling more convenient drink preparation. This series of AI deployments is intended to strengthen Starbucks’ role as a social space for people.

On April 11, the U.S. and Iran began 20 hours of negotiations in Pakistan. The core issue was freedom of passage through the Strait of Hormuz. After Bitcoin briefly rose to $73,800, it quickly fell back to $71,557. The U.S. side took a hardline stance, demanding that Iran open the strait, while Iran insisted that easing restrictions must wait until a comprehensive agreement is reached. The two sides have not yet reached a consensus.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has open-sourced his personal AI memory system, “GBrain,” aiming to solve AI’s memory problem. GBrain helps AI achieve global recall through a distinctive “dream cycle” mechanism and hybrid search techniques. The system combines Markdown documents and Postgres, enabling developers to build a mini-AGI, and it’s a practical knowledge management tool.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at an AI strategy meeting on April 10, emphasized the importance of AI development to national sovereignty and survival. He said he plans to fully build an autonomous foundational language model and set a widespread adoption goal for 2030. He called for the whole country to pool its strength and resources, and to promote AI applications across all industries to respond to technological blockades and competition.

An Iran-U.S. peace negotiation is about to begin. The Iranian delegation consists of 71 people and is led by Speaker Kalibaf; the U.S. side has a 300-person delegation, mainly security and guard personnel. The two sides’ lineup differences are significant, and the negotiations will touch on sensitive issues such as economic sanctions and nuclear facilities.

Grayscale updated its list of “assets under consideration” on April 10, adding more than 20 emerging tokens, such as Toncoin and Hyperliquid, and these assets may be included in its investment products in the future. Despite market attention, Grayscale also emphasized that being selected does not guarantee issuance; it still must undergo dual consideration by regulators and as part of custody arrangements.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was hit with a Molotov cocktail, and police arrested a suspect. Afterward, Altman expressed strong outrage, reflecting on his conflicts with Musk and the former board of directors. He likened AGI to The Lord of the Rings, called for democratizing technology so more people can participate, and emphasized the need to reduce social polarization and prevent more violent incidents.

Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, on April 10 alone, is estimated to have gone on a buying spree of 3,468 bitcoins by issuing STRC preferred shares, with its total holdings nearing 770k BTC. STRC offers an annualized return of up to 11.5%, helping it continue to expand its capital base and become the world’s largest bitcoin holder.

The New York Times published a special feature examining the process behind Trump’s decision to go to war against Iran, revealing the strong lobbying by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition from the U.S. intelligence community. Despite concerns voiced by Vice President Vance and senior officials in the military, Trump still insisted on issuing the order to go to war, and ultimately pushed forward the “Epic Rage Action” amid pressure from multiple sides.

According to Worldcoin’s latest announcement, starting July 24, 2026, the daily unlock amount for WLD tokens will decrease by 43%, from 5.1 million tokens to 2.9 million tokens, while maintaining daily linear unlocks with no unlock cliff. This change will reduce market supply pressure and has a positive impact on price stability for the token. WLD currently has 4.9 billion tokens in an unlocked state.