AscendEX announces it is ceasing operations, with public hot wallet assets still insufficient to cover user withdrawals.

According to Lebanon's National News Agency report on the 8th, Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike on the Al-Tahir forest area in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh region early that day, following prior shelling of the area. Subsequently, the Israeli military’s warplanes carried out airstrikes on multiple targets in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil region.

According to Bloomberg, crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion to invest in artificial intelligence.

According to Iran's Tasnim News Agency, Iranian officials stated: "Trump has officially announced the end of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. Therefore, for Iran, continuing to uphold a memorandum that even Trump has formally declared dead is logically and rationally flawed. Iran should send a clear response to Trump. This memorandum was diligently advanced by Iranian negotiators, but we knew from the outset that the U.S. would not abide by any agreement, especially when Iran asserts its legitimate rights. The memorandum was stillborn from the start due to the U.S.'s bad faith, and last night merely formalized its demise."

According to market data from Bit (Bit.com), the semiconductor and storage sectors strengthened after the US stock market opened. Among them: NVIDIA (NVDA) rose 0.46%, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) rose 0.27%, Qualcomm (QCOM) rose 0.63%, Seagate Technology (STX) rose 1.28%, Western Digital (WDC) rose 3.39%, SanDisk (SNDK) rose 3.4%, and Micron Technology (MU) rose 1.1%.

According to monitoring by Dongcha Beating, the Trump administration has lifted restrictions on OpenAI's GPT 5.6.

As the 60-day ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran teeters, oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has essentially ground to a halt. Jorge Leon, head of geopolitical analysis at research firm Rystad, stated: "As of today, traffic appears to have completely halted." This "near-stagnation" reflects current risk perceptions more accurately than any statement from Washington or Tehran. According to Kpler data, only four tankers have transited the strait so far today. Naveen Das, a senior oil analyst at Kpler, noted that since the U.S. and Iran reached their 60-day ceasefire on June 17, an average of roughly 32 tankers have transited the strait daily. That figure is nearly three times the average daily traffic between the February outbreak of hostilities and the June 17 ceasefire, though it remains far below pre-conflict levels.