Data: Web3 social application Towns has over 400,000 total users, with over 200,000 token holders

June 15 – PeckShield Alert, a blockchain security firm, has flagged an attack on Thetanuts Finance, with initial estimated losses totaling roughly $2.1 million. Per reports, approximately $2 million worth of options tokens were recovered via a white-hat hacker intervention. The attacker swapped around $10,500 in USDC for about 60 ETH, while still holding roughly $34,000 worth of options tokens denominated in USDC. Full details of the incident remain under verification, and no official comprehensive postmortem report or vulnerability disclosure has been released to date.

June 15th. The U.S. and Iran have struck a ceasefire deal, sparking a broad rally across risk assets. Bitcoin kept climbing, briefly touching the $67,000 level, but the market is deeply split on where it’s headed next. Market data shows Bitcoin extended its rally during Monday’s U.S. stock market open, notching roughly 1.5% on the day. Gains were fueled by the U.S.-Iran ceasefire progress and falling oil prices, which sent the S&P 500 and Nasdaq up 2% to 2.4% in lockstep. Traders note the current market is being pushed more by "liquidity" than trend-following buying. A number of analysts think BTC could face short-term selling pressure around the $67,000 level—a zone seen as a key area of concentrated liquidity. Order book data, meanwhile, signals market depth remains thin, leaving prices vulnerable to sharp jumps or drops within a narrow range. Derivatives liquidation data also points to a wave of concentrated short liquidations during the U.S. stock market open, amplifying p

June 15: Following a landmark ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran, tensions in the Middle East have entered a period of de-escalation. Yet Gulf countries are now rethinking their long-standing dependence on U.S. security commitments. A report from The New York Times details that over nearly four months of regional conflict, Iran and its allies carried out attacks on multiple nations—including Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE—targeting military facilities and energy infrastructure. These strikes briefly disrupted operations at the Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping lane. Though the fighting has subsided, analysts note two key U.S. missteps that’ve sparked fresh doubt among Gulf states about the reliability of America’s “security umbrella”: its performance defending against Iranian drone and missile attacks, and its inadequate response to the risk the Strait of Hormuz would be closed. Sanam Vakil, head of the Middle East program at the Chatham House think tank, stated:

June 15: CNBC reports that Anthropic is scheduled to meet with Trump administration officials today regarding its "Mythos" large language model. Earlier today, BlockBeats put out a report citing a source close to Anthropic, who revealed that senior technical staff from the company have traveled to Washington to hold a meeting with White House officials. The purpose of this meeting is to resolve an export control dispute that led Anthropic to forcibly take its two most powerful large-scale models—Mythos and Fable—offline.

June 15 — Cross-chain interoperability protocol Hyperbridge announced it’s completed a full architectural overhaul, wrapping up a process that includes a security audit, bug bounty program, and system refactoring before relaunching as a "Hyperstructure" to boost cross-chain interoperability. The protocol was suspended back on April 13 following a security incident. During the downtime, the team partnered with SRLabs and other institutions for a joint audit, and paid out over $150,000 in bug bounties to security researchers. A core update: it removed the old centralized management key, shifting to a fully permissionless network of validators and verifiers to achieve full-stack decentralization. This reboot also introduces the new Hyper Fungible Token (HFT) standard, letting each cross-chain asset function as an independent application layer structure. Issuers have full control over cross-chain behavior rules, such as pause mechanisms and rate-limiting strategies. Hyperbridge also lau

June 15: "White-Haired Stock Guru" Serenity reviewed its core long positions in the European market on social media, focusing on areas like photonics, semiconductor materials, epitaxial wafers, power devices, and edge AI hardware, while analyzing the industry positioning and valuation logic of multiple holdings. Its core portfolio includes: Sivers Semiconductors, LPKF Laser & Electronics, Soitec, Raspberry Pi Holdings, IQE plc, Riber, and X-FAB Silicon Foundries. Key insights from the analysis: - Sivers Semiconductors is viewed as a key player in the next-generation photonics supply chain, poised to benefit from the upgrade to 1.6T optical modules and CPO (Co-Packaged Optics) architecture. The firm has integrated its solutions into the supply chains of multiple supercomputers, offering medium-term volume growth upside. - LPKF Laser & Electronics is described as a near-monopoly in the glass core substrate processing equipment space. Its LIDE technology has been validated by most leadin