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The official post from Switchboard Foundation Group (@SwitchboardFDN) announces the formal closure of the decentralized oracle protocol Switchboard, with all support ending on September 25, 2026.Switchboard stated that the widespread adoption of AI technology has reduced the pricing power of oracles, the bear market has compressed new chain budgets, and the trend of direct collaboration between institutions like Hyperliquid and S&P has weakened the value proposition of third-party oracles. After exhausting all alternatives, the core development contributor Switchboard Technology Labs Inc. has decided to cease operations, and all implemented versions are deprecated as of today.Protocols currently relying on Switchboard must immediately migrate to other oracle service providers, with the official recommendation being Pyth or Redstone as alternatives. The technical support team will provide migration guidance in the final week.

Cybersecurity company Hudson Rock disclosed that the Reddit verified account of the streaming service HBO Max was hijacked earlier this month and deployed 108 malicious ads within approximately 48 hours. These ads used a non-existent HBO Max native macOS application as bait, luring users to open Terminal or PowerShell and paste malicious commands, a technique known as ClickFix.Researchers named this operation PasteSwitch, and its delivery system adapts based on the visitor's device and the advertised software. Observed Mac payloads include MacSync and Atomic macOS (AMOS) information-stealing trojans, targeting browser credentials, Telegram data, Apple Notes, saved passwords, and cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases. The malware also utilized Binance Smart Chain contracts as variable C2 address delivery points and was associated with a cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker that replaces clipboard wallet addresses.According to Malwarebytes, Reddit administrators have suspended the related ads and initiated a security investigation following reports. The report did not specify how the account was compromised or the number of victims, nor was there evidence found that the HBO Max streaming service itself was breached. The ClickFix technique has previously been used multiple times in attacks targeting cryptocurrency users, including approximately 2,000 compromised WordPress sites and malicious activities disguised as CAPTCHA.

Predict.fun posted on platform X that it has launched the Predict Developer Dashboard, a self-service portal for creating applications, generating keys, and managing usage and rate limits. Through this interface, users can manually request higher usage-based tiers and import existing keys.Predict.fun has also implemented "trade burst" limits to restrict the number of calls for creating and canceling orders per second. New applications have this limit enabled by default, while existing applications will have this limit applied the next time the user requests rate limits.

The decentralized oracle protocol Switchboard tweeted that there were reports last night about a possible intrusion on the Switchboard network implemented in the Move language. Contributors have coordinated with relevant teams and security organizations to suspend the Switchboard network on Aptos, Sui, Iota, and Movement.Although there have not been similar reports of an intrusion on the Solana implementation, users are advised to migrate to other alternatives at least temporarily as a precaution, while the issue is under investigation. More details will be announced later.

DefiLlama has partnered with the Web3 investment banking and consulting platform Forgd to launch a universal token rating dashboard, which rates over 100 DeFi tokens with a score from 0 to 100 and assigns letter grades from AAA to CCC, mirroring traditional credit ratings. The ratings are continuously updated based on changing token-related metrics.The dashboard aims to standardize the assessment of crypto tokens, providing traders and investors with a transparent and unified measurement scale, enhancing transparency and trust in the context of inconsistent metrics in the DeFi sector.

DeFi Development Corp, a publicly traded company in the United States, announced the launch of State of Solana, a free public data dashboard that aggregates market, network, staking, and ecosystem metrics for Solana. The company is the first publicly traded firm in the U.S. to establish a treasury strategy around accumulating SOL, currently holding 2,294,576 SOL, valued at approximately $208 million, making it the second-largest holder of Solana treasury after Forward Industries.Pete Humiston, Chief Marketing Officer of DeFi Development Corp, stated that the company has spent considerable time explaining why they believe Solana is one of the most important networks in the crypto space, but this argument goes far beyond the price of SOL. State of Solana allows investors and ecosystem participants to view the underlying data themselves. The dashboard tracks SOL returns over five time windows, rainbow chart price history, real-time epoch progress and block times, transactions per second throughput, estimated staking yield and inflation rate, top yields in Solana DeFi, cross-chain activity comparisons, and validator staking distribution (including the Nakamoto coefficient).The company's stock, DFDV, is currently trading at approximately $4.50, with a market capitalization of about $140 million, down about 16% since the beginning of the year and down about 72% from $16 a year ago.

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed charges against 17 hackers allegedly affiliated with Iran's Mabna Institute, accusing them of participating in years-long cyber attack activities, including the 2017 breach of U.S. cable network HBO, where they stole data and demanded approximately $6 million in ransom paid in Bitcoin. Prosecutors claim that the organization conducted hacking attacks on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other Iranian government clients, targeting hundreds of universities, businesses, and government agencies worldwide, stealing at least 31.5 TB of academic data and intellectual property.The organization also targeted over 100,000 professor accounts, breaching about 8,000 accounts across 144 U.S. universities and 178 foreign universities. The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the whereabouts of five of the defendants. In recent months, the U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on several Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges and frozen over $131 million in cryptocurrency assets related to the Iranian central bank and the Revolutionary Guard.

Flashbots strategic leader Hasu stated that charging fees to passive holders, allowing them to pay for projects investing in your ecosystem (such as Lido, Aave, and DAT, which collectively fund Ethereum client teams, multiple EF derivative projects, overall DeFi construction, etc.), is actually very good. The problem with Ethereum has never been excessive ETH issuance, but rather insufficient ecosystem investment.Reducing inflation will inevitably suppress investment reduction. Unfortunately, the Ethereum research community has never been good at predicting these second or third-order effects.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, a new real-time dashboard is mapping the ongoing exploitation of the COLDCARD vulnerability in real-time. @jamesob is deploying honeypot wallets and gradually increasing additional entropy, including dice rolls and mnemonic phrases, to measure the current brute-force cracking boundaries.The control wallet with an additional entropy value of 0 was emptied in 1 hour and 18 minutes. The project's goal is to determine the types of wallets that attackers can currently crack and how this capability changes over time.

According to Jinshi reports, southbound funds had a significant net purchase of 11.031 billion yuan today. In the Hong Kong Stock Connect (Shanghai), the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong and Tencent Holdings received net purchases of 4.75 billion Hong Kong dollars and 1.498 billion Hong Kong dollars, respectively; SMIC had the highest net sell amount, totaling 371 million Hong Kong dollars.In the Hong Kong Stock Connect (Shenzhen), Alibaba-W and Tencent Holdings received net purchases of 3 billion Hong Kong dollars and 935 million Hong Kong dollars, respectively; SMIC had the highest net sell amount, totaling 692 million Hong Kong dollars.

According to Jinshi reports, southbound funds had a significant net sell of 8.571 billion yuan today. In the Hong Kong Stock Connect (Shanghai), the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong and Pop Mart were net sold 1.972 billion HKD and 385 million HKD respectively; Tencent Holdings had the highest net buy amount, totaling 444 million HKD.In the Hong Kong Stock Connect (Shenzhen), SMIC and Alibaba-W were net sold 1.376 billion HKD and 993 million HKD respectively; Tencent Holdings had the highest net buy amount, totaling 568 million HKD.

According to CoinDesk, after selling 70% of its Bitcoin holdings, there are reports that the Kingdom of Bhutan may have stopped or slowed down its Bitcoin mining activities, in stark contrast to the actions of other major institutions and sovereign nations that are increasing their holdings in cryptocurrencies and gold (El Salvador's current Bitcoin holdings have exceeded 7,618 coins).It is reported that due to economic pressure, its hydropower is currently used more for selling electricity to neighboring India rather than for Bitcoin mining. Additionally, the decline in Bitcoin prices, the increase in network difficulty, and halving pressure are all squeezing the profit margins for mining.As of now, the national sovereign wealth fund managing Bhutan's Bitcoin assets, Druk Holding and Investments, has not publicly commented on the status of fund transfers or its mining operations.

According to Jinshi citing CCTV news, Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei delivered his first public speech on the 12th through national television.The speech mainly focused on domestic unity in Iran, external conflicts, regional relations, and mourning for the late leader Ali Khamenei. When discussing the current situation, Mojtaba Khamenei expressed gratitude to the Iranian military and the "Resistance Front" armed forces, stating that Iranian soldiers have prevented enemies from controlling or dividing Iran.He also stated that Iran will continue to adopt strategic measures, including blocking the Strait of Hormuz, and will open new fronts when necessary. In discussing the regional situation, he called on neighboring countries to close military bases used by the United States within their borders, and emphasized that Iran's targets for strikes are only related military facilities, not the countries themselves. He also stressed that Iran still hopes to maintain friendly relations with neighboring countries.

Iran has stated that if neighboring countries cannot contain Trump, oil prices will rise to a record $200 per barrel.

The Ethereum Foundation announced the launch of the "Trillion Dollar Security Dashboard," which showcases the overall security posture, risks, mitigation measures, and progress of the Ethereum ecosystem, covering 6 dimensions: User Experience (UX), Smart Contract Security, Infrastructure and Cloud Security, Consensus Protocol, Monitoring and Incident Response, and Social Layer and Governance.

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Coinbase Markets posted on the X platform that Coinbase Markets has launched a global derivatives data dashboard.This feature supports viewing perpetual contracts, options, and scheduled futures data from Coinbase International Exchange and Deribit in a unified interface.

Flashbots' Strategic Director and Lido Strategic Advisor Hasu stated, "The worst thing is not that token holders don't care about the project, but that those who think they understand how to run a company actively intervene. What is infuriating now is that many investors are forcing startup teams to conduct buybacks, pushing unverified incentive mechanisms, and proposing various governance ideas that would destroy the value of startups, resulting in massive value destruction.If I were to start a business in the crypto industry today, I would never advise issuing tokens before being ready for 'going public.' Treat tokens like an IPO, and even then, try to maintain complete control of the company by the founders. Almost every founder today regrets issuing tokens because they were swept along by that seemingly 'cheap capital' wave, but now the cheap capital has shown its fangs and is biting back.In the crypto industry, the drawbacks of 'going public' and losing control over one's finances is a severely underestimated and under-researched issue. 90% of crypto projects should not issue tokens at all."