South Korea’s KOSPI index opens 2.54% higher, with SK Hynix and Samsung leading the gains.

According to PeckShield monitoring, DeFi protocol Nostra has fallen victim to an oracle attack. A manipulated NSTR oracle price allowed a single account to borrow roughly $3.5 million worth of ETH, STRK, USDC, USDT, WBTC, and DAI on Nostra’s Starknet money market using NSTR as collateral. The attacker has since bridged approximately $1.92 million in stolen funds—including 234.57 ETH and 1.3 million DAI—to Ethereum.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, as ZEC prices rise, multiple newly created wallets have recently continued withdrawing ZEC from centralized exchanges (CEXs). Among them, address t1UcyM withdrew 15,860 ZEC (valued at approximately $22.69 million) from Binance today; address t1fXjw has withdrawn 7,081 ZEC (valued at roughly $10.29 million) from CEXs over the past two days; address t1YLeD withdrew 5,818 ZEC (valued at around $8.45 million) today; and address t1gxP4 withdrew 3,534 ZEC (valued at about $4.72 million) from Binance today.

"Fed mouthpiece" Nick Timiraos reported that Trump has long criticized the Federal Reserve for keeping interest rates at excessively high levels, but after the Fed’s latest rate hike this week, he claimed he had already approved the decision during a call with Fed Chair Walsh a few days before the policy move. According to people familiar with the matter, Trump’s call with Walsh came as a surprise to many of the president’s close advisors. This "truce" clearly signals that Walsh has temporarily reversed the previously tense dynamic where the White House viewed the Federal Reserve as an adversary. The risk is that this status quo may only hold until the Fed’s next rate hike. A senior government official noted that if the Fed decides to raise rates again in October (on the eve of the midterm elections), Walsh could face closer scrutiny from Trump and his advisors.

$ZEC is pumping! Many newly created wallets are accumulating $ZEC. t1UcyM withdrew 15,860 $ZEC ($22.69M) from Binance today. t1fXjw withdrew 7,081 $ZEC ($10.29M) from exchanges over the past 2 days. t1YLeD withdrew 5,818 $ZEC ($8.45M) from exchanges today. t1gxP4 withdrew

According to HTX market data, NEAR briefly touched $3.1 and is now trading at $3.1074, with a 24-hour gain of 16.3%. BlockBeats previously reported that NEAR is repositioning itself as the underlying infrastructure for multi-chain transactions and AI agents: users do not need to understand the complex structure of blockchain, as wallets and agents can automatically handle cross-chain operations, swaps, and payments. NEAR’s investment thesis is shifting from a high-performance Layer 1 to chain abstraction, cross-chain settlement, and AI agent infrastructure, aiming to secure larger growth opportunities from the multi-chain ecosystem.

According to Reuters, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against BitBank, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange (CEX) controlled by Iranian financier Babak Zanjani. The Treasury accuses the exchange of processing payments to ensure the safe passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz and transferring hundreds of millions of dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). BitBank’s software developer and three associates of Babak Zanjani were also included in the sanctions list. The U.S. Treasury stated that the exchange is a key infrastructure for Iran to evade sanctions using digital assets.