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According to CriptoNoticias, the Southern Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office in Chile, along with the police, dismantled a money laundering network involving approximately 90 million USD, with about 20 people arrested.The network is suspected of converting illegal funds into cryptocurrency through exchanges and transferring them abroad, with one Banco Santander account manager arrested. Prosecutor Héctor Barros stated that this is one of the largest money laundering cases in Chile in recent years, and the related illegal activities were not conducted through the bank's corporate infrastructure, with the bank cooperating in the investigation.

The stablecoin apxUSD, issued by the Apyx protocol and primarily collateralized by Strategy preferred stock STRC, briefly depegged during the time Bitcoin fell below $63,000, dropping to a low of $0.93. Apyx stated that this fluctuation was not a vulnerability but rather an expected performance of the preferred stock collateralized stablecoin. Since the reserve assets of apxUSD are mainly composed of STRC preferred stock with a face value of $100, when STRC falls below its face value in the secondary market, the market value of the reserve assets will decrease, leading to price fluctuations in the stablecoin.The protocol claims that its stability mechanism includes over-collateralization, a dividend adjustment mechanism, and cash and short-term U.S. Treasury reserves as a buffer. Data shows that since last August, STRC has fallen below its face value four times, but has ultimately returned to $100 each time. In response to market concerns about a chain liquidation in the Morpho lending market, Apyx stated that its core apyUSD/apxUSD market primarily relies on the accumulation of dividend income rather than the spot price of STRC, so related fluctuations will not trigger large-scale liquidations.

The new cryptocurrency bank and non-custodial financial application Tria officially announced the launch of Season 3 activities, introducing a brand new framework for earning points and unlocking rewards for users. Users can earn Tria points through card spending, futures trading, referring friends, and first-time product interactions. Accumulating points to reach specific thresholds will unlock blind boxes ranging from entry-level to legendary and even hidden infinite levels, and the unlocking process will not consume existing points. All blind boxes will be opened at the end of each month starting from August 31, with rewards including cash back, travel points, ecosystem rewards, and exclusive Tria equity lottery qualifications for higher tiers.In addition, this season has simultaneously upgraded the referral and cash back system. Referral levels will strictly promote between bronze, silver, and gold based on the number of active users invited; the credit card cash back mechanism has clarified the monthly limit, and spending beyond the limit can still earn cash back at the base rate. The platform is currently offering a limited-time free virtual card service. The official revealed that Tria plans to gradually launch new functional modules during Season 3, including Tria Travel (travel and real-life experiences), trading competitions, trader VIP badges, and fiat currency withdrawal and recharge.

XRP Ledger developers submitted a draft amendment called "AMM Swappable Curves," which plans to introduce three types of swappable curves for the XRPL native automated market maker: constant product, concentrated liquidity, and StableSwap, with a programmable Smart AMM to be added later. This upgrade aims to allow liquidity providers to choose more suitable pricing curves based on asset types, thereby improving capital efficiency.Concentrated liquidity is suitable for trading pairs where most transactions are concentrated within a specific price range, while StableSwap is more appropriate for assets that are close to a 1:1 exchange, such as stablecoins or pegged assets. Existing AMM pools will continue to use the current constant product model and will not require migration. This proposal is seen as an important step in addressing the shortcomings of the DeFi infrastructure on XRPL.Currently, there are over $3 billion in tokenized real-world assets on the XRPL chain, including a recent pilot for tokenized U.S. Treasury redemptions completed by Ripple and JPMorgan. However, to enable these assets to trade, lend, or generate yield more efficiently, a more mature DeFi liquidity infrastructure is still needed. Nevertheless, this proposal is still in the draft stage and will need to go through the XRPL amendment voting process, which may take several months, and there is still uncertainty about whether it will ultimately pass.

According to official news from Optimism, the OP mainnet has adjusted its transaction sorting rules for the first time starting today. For many years, the sorter only used the "highest priority Gas fee first" mechanism, and now a new priority sorting option based on staking has been added.This experiment will last for four weeks (until June 23) and was approved by the Optimism governance body earlier this month, allowing users to participate voluntarily. The participation condition is to stake no less than 100,000 OP to the PolicyEngine Staking contract.The experiment will be conducted in two phases: the first phase (Week 1) will use FIFO (first in, first out) sorting, and exceeding the minimum staking amount will not affect priority; the second phase (Weeks 2-4) will change to a priority Gas multiplier mechanism weighted by staking duration, where the longer the staking time, the higher the priority.The transaction sorting rules for users who do not participate in the experiment will remain unchanged, and the PGA mechanism will continue to operate as usual.

According to the official announcement, BitRing, a selected project from the 10th season of the BNB Chain MVB Accelerator, has announced the upcoming launch of its genesis airdrop test. It is reported that the top 10,000 users in this test will share a reward of 1,000,000 BRT tokens.According to the official introduction, BitRing allows users to participate in "fitness mining" using smart wearable devices such as Apple Watch and WHOOP to earn BRT. Currently, the development progress of the protocol has reached 90%, and the BRT Protocol is about to enter the internal testing phase, where participating users can now receive 100 tBRT test tokens.In addition, the official revealed that a live fitness coach recommendation system will be launched soon, an ambassador program recruitment will be opened, and plans to explore building personalized medical AI models based on real health data.

According to Forbes, Hyperliquid's native token HYPE reached a historic high of over $62. The market generally attributes this to the influx of institutional funds brought by the listing of the first U.S. spot ETFs, but analysts point out that the real driver of the price is the protocol's built-in continuous buyback mechanism.

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the enforcement lawsuits by Nevada and Washington against the prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket can continue in state court, and rejected the companies' request to pause the related cases during the appeal.The court stated that Kalshi and Polymarket failed to demonstrate that the state court lawsuits would cause irreparable harm, nor did they prove that their claims regarding federal question jurisdiction had a high likelihood of success. This ruling involves the enforcement actions by Nevada against Kalshi and Polymarket, as well as the case against Kalshi by Washington.

According to CoinDesk, bipartisan lawmakers Steven Horsford, Max Miller, Suzan DelBene, and Mike Carey jointly reintroduced the "Digital Asset Protection, Accountability, Regulatory, Innovation, Taxation, and Revenue Act" (also known as the "Equality Act") this Wednesday. The new version of the bill mainly covers the following points: first, it stipulates that regulated payment stablecoins do not generate gains or losses if the cost basis is not less than 99% of the redemption value; second, it establishes a safe harbor for broker-dealer transactions or taxpayer account transactions; third, it clarifies that "wash sale" rules apply to digital assets; fourth, it requires the IRS to assess the current tax burden of small cryptocurrency transactions and to study the feasibility of establishing a tax exemption for transactions under $200 and the potential risks of abuse.The cryptocurrency industry has long advocated for tax exemptions on small transactions to promote the use of cryptocurrencies in everyday payment scenarios. Lawmaker Horsford stated that tax policy is the foundation of the cryptocurrency regulatory framework, and that current tax laws have not clearly addressed many core issues related to digital assets.

Lighter officially stated on X that it has completed the escape mechanism verification conducted by the third party L2BEAT, which means that even if the sequencer at the L2 level fails, users can withdraw funds from Lighter's L2 back to Ethereum in a permissionless manner. It is the first L2 Perp DEX in the industry to achieve this functionality.

The DeFi lending protocol Alchemix announced the completion of its cross-chain infrastructure update. The old alUSD / alETH cross-chain bridge on Optimism and Arbitrum has officially been taken offline and replaced with a new cross-chain bridge compatible with v3 alchemist.Alchemix disclosed that it has synchronized the DVN (cross-chain transaction validation) configuration, maintaining a 2/3 multi-signature confirmation mechanism for cross-chain transactions, while introducing Deutsche Telekom as a validation service provider to enhance the reliability of the cross-chain validation infrastructure.

Aave has officially proposed a principal retention charitable donation layer, allowing users to continuously donate the generated income to charity while retaining control and liquidity of the principal.The proposal is currently undergoing a temp-check vote in the Aave governance forum. Its core aim is to address three major pain points of traditional charitable models: donors must permanently give up the principal, the funding flow of charitable organizations is unstable, and there is a lack of transparency in the use of funds.According to the proposal, users can deposit assets into yield-generating infrastructures like Aave, direct the earned income to donations, and withdraw the principal at any time.

According to Bloomberg, Iran has begun to launch a Bitcoin-based shipping insurance arrangement for the Strait of Hormuz to address the current high-risk navigation environment in the strait.Recently, Iran has introduced a maritime insurance platform called "Hormuz Safe," which provides digital insurance services for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz and allows payments in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin.Against the backdrop of escalating U.S.-Iran conflicts and risks in the Strait of Hormuz, the costs of war insurance for ships have surged significantly. Bloomberg previously reported that the insurance costs for some vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz have now risen to about 5% of the vessel's value.

According to Hongxing News, the police in Linyi, Shandong recently dismantled a telecom fraud gang targeting minors, seizing about 140,000 yuan in illegal gains and 20,000 in virtual currency on site. Preliminary investigations have confirmed that the gang has carried out over 200 fraud cases nationwide, involving a huge amount of money.The police disclosed that the criminal gang used "free game skins and equipment" as bait to lure minors into using their parents' phones and remotely controlling the victims' devices through screen sharing to carry out transfer fraud. The stolen money was then laundered in batches through methods such as mobile phone top-ups, electricity bills, and property fee payments. The upstream fraud platform settled funds through virtual currency, and the suspects took about 20% of the fraud amount as their share. It is reported that the gang leader had previously traveled to Myanmar to engage in fraudulent activities and has strong counter-investigation experience. The case is still under further investigation.

ZKsync's official announcement stated that following several ZK token governance proposals, the governance service provider ScopeLift has now launched the "ZK Fee Flow System" proposal on the forum. This system is a set of smart contract mechanisms that allow ZKsync Governance to route and allocate protocol revenue and fees through its controllable on-chain mechanisms. ZKsync indicated that the relevant forum post has detailed the contract architecture, operational mechanisms, security measures, and deployment addresses of the system.