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April 13: A spokesperson for Iran’s Armed Forces’ Hattam Anbiya Central Headquarters stated Iran will decisively implement a “permanent mechanism to control the Strait of Hormuz” in response to U.S. threats, per Golden Finance.

April 13: European stocks opened lower, per Bitget market data. The Euro Stoxx 50 index fell 1.02%, Germany’s DAX dropped 1.42%, the UK’s FTSE 100 was down 0.5%, Spain’s IBEX 35 declined 1.06%, and France’s CAC 40 slid 0.89%.

April 13 (CCTV International News) — Joe Kent, former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, said in a late-night post on April 12 local time that U.S.-Iran talks could have succeeded, but demands for "zero uranium enrichment" caused the negotiations to break down. He called for sticking to U.S. demands — not Israel’s position — to salvage the situation within the remaining 9-day ceasefire window. Kent noted the U.S. government’s red line has never been "zero uranium enrichment" but "Iran not having nuclear weapons" — a point Iran also agrees to. Iran has not sought to develop or acquire nuclear weapons since 2003, he added, and its need to retain uranium enrichment capability makes U.S.-Iran negotiations feasible. His top priority now: restrain Israel, reach an agreement, and open the Strait of Hormuz.

April 13th — Per HyperInsight monitoring (via its Telegram channel: https://t.me/HyperInsight), a whale with address **0x004edcd40360e293e4cf260d2ebdf8c7076c1bb8** opened a 33x leveraged short position on BTC in the past 30 minutes. Key details: - Average entry price: $70,745 - Position size: 200 BTC (~$14.15M) - Current unrealized loss: 10% Earlier this morning, the address closed its prior BTC short position at break-even before immediately re-entering a new short — marking its 5th short trade this month.

On April 13, CertiK monitoring revealed that the Hyperbridge cross-chain gateway contract on Ethereum was exploited in a vulnerability attack. Attackers manipulated the admin permissions of the Polkadot token contract by forging messages, minted 10 billion DOT tokens, and dumped all of them—ultimately netting a modest profit of just around $237,000. The profit was far lower than the minted value due to extremely limited on-chain liquidity: intense selling pressure immediately crashed the price from $1.22 to nearly zero, making most of the minted tokens nearly illiquid. The attack targeted the bridged version of DOT assets on Ethereum, not the Polkadot native chain itself. To date, neither Hyperbridge nor the official Polkadot team has issued a formal response.

April 13 — Genius, the perpetual DEX trading terminal developed by YZi Labs, announced the addition of a "Refund" feature to its airdrop program in response to widespread community queries about token allocation. Per the official announcement, users may opt to burn all GENIUS airdrop allocations within 48 hours post-TGE (Token Generation Event) to claim a refund of net transaction fees collected by the platform. Genius stresses the refund is tied to net fees (not total fees): the platform has cumulatively refunded over $7 million to its trading community and distributed over $1.3 million in referral rewards—both amounts deducted from the refundable pool. Additionally, the refund only applies to fees collected by Genius directly; fees from third-party protocols (e.g., PancakeSwap) are excluded. The official statement notes users have full discretion to either hold GENIUS or request a refund, and warns any misinformation about "partial refunds" will be addressed immediately.