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According to Iranian media Fars News, an advisor from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard stated that they will soon block the "illegal" shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, CoinRoutes co-founder Dave Weisberger stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that the biggest unreleased factor for Bitcoin is not ETFs or corporate hoarding, but rather collateral treatment. He pointed out that banks face a nearly 100% discount when holding Bitcoin, and once Bitcoin is treated like other assets based on volatility and liquidity, the situation for lending institutions and companies like Strategy Inc (formerly MicroStrategy) will change.Weisberger referred to this adjustment as the "final hurdle" and mentioned that both the Basel Committee and regulators believe this change is inevitable, but it has not yet been fully realized. He also discussed topics such as asset tokenization, Hyperliquid, and Federal Reserve policies, believing that Wall Street is providing support for related directions under the trend of tokenization.He further stated that the influx of ETF funds has reduced Bitcoin's volatility; every 25 basis points change in interest rates adds $100 billion to the U.S. fiscal deficit; Bitcoin still possesses asymmetric option characteristics, and the issue of "clean collateral" has not been resolved, so market FOMO sentiment has not truly begun.

According to the Slow Mist security team, the BonfireSwap router contract suffered a loss of approximately $50,000 due to a lack of access control in the transfer function. This function did not verify whether the caller was the from address, nor did it check the caller's authorization for the assets of the from address. As a result, attackers could set users who had pre-authorized the router as the from address and themselves as the to address, thereby stealing the victim's TOKEN and exchanging it through the same token pool.Slow Mist stated that a total of 41 TOKEN holders who had authorized the router were affected; the vulnerable contract address is 0x17e801e17cefc6334059189c178d4783830e03d3.

According to Slow Fog monitoring, a certain Router contract was attacked due to security flaws in the Swap entry and uniswapV3SwapCallback, resulting in a loss of approximately 62.28 BNB.The Router did not verify whether the caller was a legitimate V3 Pool, and it also failed to bind the payer in the callback to the original transaction context. The attacker forged a V3 Pool/adapter and injected the victim's address as the payer, utilizing the ERC-20 authorization previously granted to the Router by the user to execute transferFrom() and transfer assets. Users who had previously granted sufficient token authorization to the Router may have their authorized assets transferred away even without further interaction.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the meme coin ROUTE on the Robinhood Chain broke through 13 million dollars this morning, and has now fallen back to 7.2 million dollars, with an intraday increase of over 990 times.It is reported that this project is a DEX aggregator on Robinhood, and the community associates it with the developers of Pear Protocol, attempting to build a narrative backed by technology. The price of meme coins is highly volatile, please be aware of trading risks.

Router Protocol, a cross-chain infrastructure project supported by Coinbase Ventures, announced that it will cease all operations by September 30 and plans to permanently destroy 303,333,198 ROUTE tokens held in its treasury, accounting for about 30% of the total supply of nearly 1 billion tokens. The team released a statement on X, stating that over the past year, they attempted commercialization, licensing, and acquisition negotiations, but failed to achieve sustainable operational results.Router identified the flow of funds from the cryptocurrency sector to artificial intelligence and the decline in cross-chain asset transfer fees as core challenges facing its operations. As activities concentrated on fewer networks and standardized infrastructure, the demand for its services has decreased. The team noted that bridging economic profits are thin, fees have been compressed, and costs have never stopped. As part of the closure, Router will negotiate with centralized exchanges to stop supporting ROUTE tokens, and the delisting arrangements and withdrawal processes may vary across exchanges.Router raised $4.1 million from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Polygon in 2021 and launched the proof-of-stake Layer 1 blockchain Router Chain in July 2024, but it was shut down in September 2025 due to infrastructure costs, validator expansion, and security risks. The team also disclosed two security incidents in 2025: in February, approximately 80% of the value was recovered through negotiations after a vulnerability incident, while losses from a chain-level vulnerability in July could not be recovered.

The cross-chain protocol Router Protocol announced that after more than four years of development, it has decided to gradually cease operations and will fully shut down before September 30, 2026. The team stated that over the past two years, Web3 liquidity has remained scarce, the market focus has shifted to AI, the enthusiasm for cross-chain interoperability has waned, and the revenue from bridging services has been insufficient to cover costs. Although various paths such as commercialization, licensing, and acquisitions were attempted in the past year, no sustainable solution was achieved. Router Protocol will permanently destroy 303,333,198 ROUTE tokens pending in the treasury and will coordinate with centralized exchanges to delist ROUTE. Holders need to withdraw their tokens according to the arrangements of each exchange before the deadline. In addition, the project will not launch any new plans related to ROUTE and plans to open-source some technical components for community use.

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has suspended its Black Sea route service to Russia due to a drone attack.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the TRUMP token team's address (2RH...FSK) transferred 3.837 million SOL one hour ago, worth 9.33 million USD, and entered OKX after being routed through BitGo.

The decentralized exchange protocol atomiq announced that it has made the difficult decision to temporarily take all atomiq swap routes offline. The project stated that, as a small team, it is currently unable to withstand a large number of complex AI-assisted attacks targeting its infrastructure.atomiq emphasized that, due to the trustless nature of the exchange protocol, user funds are not at risk. The related web application remains accessible, and users can request refunds for past swaps at any time. For any questions, users can contact through their support channels. The team thanks its loyal users and states that it will strive to return with a stronger presence.

According to Axios, payment giant Stripe stated in a letter to investors that January 1 marks "the beginning of a singularity," viewing it as a significant turning point in a long-term trend, and believes that maintaining a private structure is best suited for this critical moment, with the IPO likely to remain on hold. The company reported a 41% year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of the year and a 43% increase in free cash flow; 88% of the companies in Forbes AI 50 (including OpenAI and Anthropic) are building on its platform, with revenue from AI and crypto companies more than doubling year-on-year.Stripe also confirmed the acquisition of the AI routing platform OpenRouter, with the transaction amount not publicly disclosed; Axios learned that the amount exceeds $8 billion and is primarily paid in stock. Stripe stated that remaining private helps advance mergers and acquisitions and long-term investments without diluting shareholders, with its equity count now lower than three years ago, and a compound annual return of about 31% since the D round. The company stated that the total payment volume on its platform is expected to reach $1.9 trillion by 2025, a year-on-year growth of 34%; in February this year, the employee stock purchase valuation was approximately $159 billion. There are also reports that Stripe is in discussions with Advent International to acquire PayPal for about $53 billion.

The U.S. military has established a shipping corridor in the Strait of Hormuz, transporting about 10 million barrels of oil daily, which is about half of the pre-war shipping volume. This move alleviates the impact of the war on oil supplies and has a significant effect on the global energy market.

According to Business Insider, Stripe is in talks to acquire the AI model marketplace startup OpenRouter for over $8 billion.If the deal goes through, the more than 17% stake held by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) will be worth nearly $1.5 billion, while it initially invested about $20 million; Menlo Ventures holds over 6% of the stake, having invested less than $50 million, and its current value has exceeded $500 million. The total return for the two institutions is close to $2 billion.

Market news indicates that Stripe is about to acquire the artificial intelligence company OpenRouter for over $7 billion. The final price of the acquisition may still fluctuate.It is reported that OpenRouter was established in 2023 and is positioned as an AI infrastructure platform that connects users with various large language models, allowing developers to call AI models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google through a unified interface, and choose different models based on performance, price, and availability.If the deal is completed, it will become one of Stripe's significant moves in the AI field in recent years. Stripe has previously focused mainly on payment infrastructure, financial services, and enterprise software, and the acquisition of OpenRouter may further drive its expansion into the AI developer infrastructure sector.Additionally, the tokenized asset data platform RootData shows that OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah is also a co-founder and CTO of OpenSea.

Iran and Oman have reached an agreement on the shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, and both sides are gradually reaching an agreement on the management of this waterway.The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that the finalized "shipping map" is part of a broader agreement that will ensure the safe passage of vessels.

Justin Drake posted on the X platform that Ethereum L1 will no longer use the SNARK-friendly hash function Poseidon, which has dominated since 2019, and will instead turn to traditional hash functions such as SHA2 or BLAKE2s.This adjustment is based on advancements in the field of SNARK design, shifting the focus from "SNARK-friendly hashing" to "hash-friendly SNARK." By aligning Boolean operations in traditional hashing with binary field native, the proof performance of traditional hashing in SNARK has reached 1 million per second, with an overhead of about 100 times.Research from Binius and Flock has driven relevant progress. The Ethereum Foundation's post-quantum team is advancing this route, with a roadmap that includes deploying production-level leanVM in 2027, and deploying in the consensus layer, execution layer, and data processing layer in 2028.Justin Drake also stated that the enhanced capabilities of AI in cryptanalysis have recently led to setbacks for the lattice-based scheme HAWK and the homomorphic scheme SQIsign, with hash-based schemes being used for post-quantum signatures on the blockchain. The trend of open-source automated research is also accelerating, with SNARK.fast achieving 1.8 million BLAKE3 proofs per second.