The US has revoked Iran's oil sales waivers, leaving around 63 million barrels of Iranian crude oil stranded at sea.

Wormhole has announced that the Moonbeam network will officially shut down on July 31, 2026. The Moonbeam parachain will remain operational during the transition period but will cease all activities after that date. Wormhole noted that Portal and Wormhole contributors will no longer assist in recovering assets left on the Moonbeam chain post-shutdown, advising users to bridge out external assets via official Moonbeam channels before the deadline. Prior to this, Moonbeam had already announced its exit from the Polkadot ecosystem and will migrate its GLMR tokens to the Base network at a 1:1 ratio.

According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Iran's military released a statement on the 8th, stating that all U.S. military bases in the Middle East will become "legal strike targets" for Iran's military drones. The statement noted that in view of the U.S. attacks on military and civilian areas in southern Iran and its violation of the terms of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, Iran's military launched a drone strike on the U.S. military's Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain. This operation is in response to the U.S.'s blatant and repeated ceasefire violations.

Recently, the Network Security Threat and Vulnerability Information Sharing Platform (NVDB) under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) detected a severe security backdoor vulnerability in Claude Code, an AI programming tool. Developed by U.S.-based firm Anthropic, Claude Code can autonomously complete tasks like code writing and fixing based on text prompts. The vulnerability stems from its built-in monitoring mechanism, which transmits sensitive user data—including location and identity identifiers—to remote servers without user consent. Affected versions of Claude Code are 2.1.91 to 2.1.196. Relevant organizations and users are urged to conduct immediate comprehensive checks: for development terminals running the affected versions, either uninstall the tool or upgrade to the latest secure version that has removed the backdoor code. It is also recommended to strengthen control over external access permissions for development tools in core business network segments and enhance traffic monitoring to prevent unauthorized leakage of sensitive data.

According to Lookonchain's monitoring, crypto KOL Ansem's "Ansem-2" wallet spent $233,000 to purchase 2.79 million CASHCAT tokens over the past three hours. This wallet is linked to his Solana wallet CLM6E4, which holds 10.5 million ANSEM tokens valued at $2.7 million and has already realized a profit of $2.6 million from ANSEM.

South Korean fintech firm Toss has announced partnerships with Optimism and Sunnyside Labs to jointly explore a South Korean won-denominated stablecoin. Over the coming months, the three parties will conduct proof-of-concept (PoC) tests to evaluate the feasibility of building compliant blockchain-based digital financial infrastructure using the OP Stack, providing technical validation for applications related to the won stablecoin. (The Block)

Tradeweb data shows the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has climbed to a four-week high, hitting 4.565%.