US Media: Iran Plans to Charge Some Ships in the Persian Gulf

March 10, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) Procurator-General Ying Yong presented the SPP’s work report to the Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC). Key updates from the report: - By 2025, the procuratorate will **ramp up anti-money laundering efforts**, with 3,259 people charged in cases involving virtual currencies, underground banks and related schemes. - Law enforcement actions targeting telecom fraud resulted in the prosecution of 69,000 individuals. ### Notes on U.S. language habits: 1. **Conciseness**: Used abbreviations (SPP, NPC) after full first mention (common in U.S. news). 2. **Active tone**: Phrases like "ramp up" (vs. "intensify") and "targeting" (vs. "against") feel more natural in U.S. media. 3. **Clear structuring**: Broke key stats into bullet points for readability (standard for U.S. news briefs). 4. **Common terms**: "Telecom fraud" (shortened from "telecommunications fraud") is widely used in U.S. English. A

March 10 – Virtuals Protocol has announced the launch of ERC-8183, the AI Agent Business Layer, developed jointly with the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team. ERC-8183 centers on the "Job" primitive, encompassing a client-provider-assessor triad, supporting four states (from open to completed) and extending custom logic via a Hook mechanism—including fund transfers and reputation checks. The standard forms the foundation for the ERC-8004 Trust Layer: each Job acts as a reputation signal, each submission is a deliverable outcome verifiable by validators, and each assessment serves as referenceable proof for other agents.

On March 10th, on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) noted that on March 8th, an address which previously incurred a $1.595 million loss from shorting oil re-shorted 6,562 barrels of oil at an average price of $106.28—its current value stands at $5.57 million. The address now holds a floating profit of $1.405 million, ranking second in floating profits for oil positions on the Hyperliquid platform.

**March 10** Per Bitget market data, Hong Kong-listed stock Smart Volume climbed more than 12% and is currently trading at HK$648. Smart Volume announced the official launch of AutoClaw (Chinese: Ao Long) today. Once downloaded and installed, users can easily deploy the "Lobster" tool on their local computers and access the full native capabilities of OpenClaw. The company is currently offering a limited free quota for users to test the Lobster functionality.

On March 10th, OpenAI announced it is acquiring Promptfoo. The startup’s technology will enhance OpenAI Frontier’s intelligent agent security testing and evaluation capabilities. Promptfoo will remain open-source under its current license, and OpenAI will continue serving and supporting its existing customers.

March 10: U.S. President Trump said the Iran conflict is “basically over,” with progress moving “much faster” than his initial 4–5 week timeline. Following the news, Bitget data shows crude oil prices plunged sharply—down more than 30% from recent highs, now trading at $85.58 per barrel. Easing Middle East conflict concerns fueled a late-session rally in major U.S. stock indices: The Nasdaq led gains, regaining all losses since the conflict began. At Monday’s close, the Dow rose 0.5%, the S&P 500 0.8%, and the Nasdaq 1.38%. At a press conference, Trump added U.S. military action against Iran will end “very soon.” He noted he anticipated rising oil and gas prices, but their increase was lower than expected. Asian markets reacted positively: Japan’s Nikkei 225 topped 54,000 points (up 2.65%) and South Korea’s KOSPI jumped 5.4% to 5535.22 points at today’s open. Cryptocurrencies also rallied: Bitcoin breached $69,000 (up 4.27% in 24 hours), while Ethereum topped $2,000 (3.4