10 #Bitcoin ETFs inflows 2,586 $BTC(+$247.92M) and 9 #Ethereum ETFs outflows 20,884 $ETH(-$70.69M) yesterday.

April 13 — U.S. President Donald Trump took to his personal social media platform again early on April 13 Eastern Time (ET) to announce the U.S. will block ships entering and leaving Iranian ports starting at 10 a.m. ET that day. Following unsuccessful U.S.-Iran negotiations, Trump said on April 12 he didn’t care whether Iran returned to the negotiating table, noting the U.S. would impose a blockade on Iran at 10 a.m. ET on the 13th and expressing disappointment that NATO had not backed the U.S. in the Iran conflict.

April 13 — PeckShield monitoring has detected that 1 billion DOT tokens were maliciously minted and sold on the Ethereum blockchain. On-chain data shows that roughly an hour ago, the attacker exploited admin privileges to transfer contract control to a malicious address, minted 10 billion DOT, and immediately dumped the tokens — sending the price plummeting from $1.22 to near zero. The situation remains ongoing, with no official response yet from Polkadot. The attack targeted bridged assets on Ethereum, not Polkadot’s native chain.

April 13 — Per on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s tracking, a suspected BSC Life whale has withdrawn 57.88 million tokens from Binance via 6 addresses over the past 20 hours, worth roughly $9.37 million. Back in late February, the whale also pulled 59 million tokens from Binance through two linked wallets. Currently, it holds ~116.9 million BSC Life tokens on-chain—11.7% of the total supply—valued at ~$21.71 million. Additionally, GMGN data shows the meme coin has surged 6x in nearly two weeks (climbing from $0.037 to $0.22). It now trades at $0.177, with a market cap of ~$177 million and 24-hour trading volume of $12.7 million. [View GMGN data: https://gmgn.ai/bsc/token/i_m4TE56o8_0x924fa68a0fc644485b8df8abfa0a41c2e7744444]

April 13 — Hyperliquid founder Jeffrey Yan rejected a $100 million investment offer tied to a ~$1 billion valuation, just months after the blockchain protocol launched (less than a year online). The team had been self-funding operations throughout, with Yan personally covering monthly project costs before and after the investment proposal emerged. Yan consulted multiple entrepreneurs and VCs on fundraising’s purpose and value but never bought into the idea that external capital would boost the protocol’s intrinsic worth. He formally informed his team of the rejection this Monday. Fund management team members were stunned by the call, as they’d already made extensive preparations for the fundraising push, per insiders. Yan’s key rationale: Hyperliquid isn’t a traditional company but a blockchain protocol requiring neutrality. He argued external equity capital could undermine the protocol’s “permissionless, neutral” positioning — conflicting with its long-term design goals. H

On April 13, U.S. President Trump proposed a maritime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to pressure Iran into making concessions in negotiations. U.S. Central Command stated the blockade would target vessels entering or exiting Iranian ports and has a set start time. Multiple security and military experts have noted a maritime blockade is effectively an act of war—one requiring massive naval power to sustain long-term, lacking a clear exit strategy, presenting high execution challenges, and raising doubts about its sustainability. Dana Stroul, for instance, said the move would be hard to pull off alone and may not hold up over the medium to long term. Analysts warn the blockade could trigger reciprocal retaliation from Iran. Former U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Gary Roughhead cautioned Iran might attack Gulf shipping or U.S. military installations in the Middle East, escalating regional conflict further. Additionally, the strategy faces complex practical hurdles during implementation: