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Social platform X announced the lifting of the ban on cryptocurrency and gambling promotional content, allowing industry KOLs to monetize crypto content commercially under the new paid partnership framework of the platform, and they must label their posts with the "Paid Partnership" tag.However, cryptocurrency promotional content remains subject to financial promotion regulations in the EU, UK, and Australia, and KOLs must ensure that relevant content is not visible in those markets. X's product head, Nikita Bier, stated that this feature aims to encourage users to grow their businesses on the platform while maintaining transparency.Additionally, Musk revealed that the payment system X Money will launch in a limited testing version within the next two months, and it is not yet clear whether cryptocurrency functionality will be integrated. The X product team also plans to launch the Smart Cashtags feature, allowing users to trade stocks and cryptocurrencies directly on the platform.

According to Coindesk, blockchain analysis company Chainalysis stated that Iran's cryptocurrency ecosystem will reach $7.78 billion by 2025, with a growth rate surpassing the previous year.Iran legalized cryptocurrency mining in 2019, allowing licensed operators to use subsidized electricity and sell the mined bitcoins to the central bank. Recent estimates indicate that Iran accounts for between 2% and 5% of the global Bitcoin mining hash rate. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as the country's main military force, has since deepened its influence in the cryptocurrency sector.Chainalysis estimates that by the fourth quarter of 2025, addresses associated with the IRGC will account for over 50% of Iran's total cryptocurrency inflows, with amounts received last year exceeding $3 billion. Another analysis by Elliptic found that the Central Bank of Iran had accumulated at least $507 million in USDT by 2025, which could help stabilize the rial exchange rate and facilitate trade. However, this effort has largely failed, with data showing that the rial has depreciated by over 96% against the dollar. Meanwhile, ordinary Iranians have begun to turn to Bitcoin. During recent protests and internet outages, the amount of Bitcoin withdrawn from local exchanges to personal wallets surged dramatically.

According to The Block, Telegram's embedded crypto wallet TON Wallet has announced the launch of on-chain yield options for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT holders. Users can deposit assets into the "vault" to participate in on-chain strategies aimed at generating variable returns.Among them, the USDT strategy can achieve an annualized return of up to 18%, supported by the Re7 DeFi strategy; the ETH and BTC vaults extend the yield functionality to the two major cryptocurrencies. This feature is implemented through TON Wallet, with integration from Morpho, TAC, and Re7.

According to Alicharts monitoring, in the past three months, the stablecoin reserves of cryptocurrency CEX have decreased by 14%, from $75 billion to $64.5 billion.

The founder of Slow Fog, Yu Xian, reposted a security reminder. Currently, the ClawHub market of OpenClaw has discovered 1,184 malicious skills that can steal SSH keys, encrypted wallets, browser passwords, and open reverse shells. A single attacker has uploaded 677 packages. The top-ranked skill has 9 vulnerabilities and has been downloaded thousands of times.Yu Xian reminds users that text is no longer just text, but instructions. It is recommended to use AI tools in isolated environments, as many OpenClaw skills pose potential risks. Furthermore, Web3 security smart contracts are only part of the issue; the real causes of incidents are far beyond just contracts. A few days ago, Moonwell was hacked for $1.78 million, with the faulty code coming from Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6.

Gemhead Capital announced on platform X that it has made a strategic investment of $5 million in the cryptocurrency data infrastructure project BihuoPro. The two parties will further collaborate on modeling cryptocurrency market sentiment data and institutional-level signal infrastructure.It is reported that BihuoPro is positioned as a "private domain financial data + sentiment consensus engine + tradable signal provider," dedicated to structuring community and private domain behavior along with public opinion information, and building an indicator system that can directly serve quantitative and trading decisions.

According to a report by TASS, Ivan Chebeskov, the Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia, stated at the Alfa Talk conference that the daily cryptocurrency trading volume in Russia is approximately 50 billion rubles (about 650 million USD), with millions of citizens participating.Chebeskov mentioned that the use of cryptocurrency in Russia continues to grow, involving millions of citizens and trillions of rubles. He stated that this trend indicates a significant increase in the interest of the Russian public in digital assets as a savings tool. The Russian Ministry of Finance has previously pointed out that the market size reaches trillions of rubles.

According to PRNewswire, the crypto payment network Mesh announced the completion of a $75 million Series C funding round, with a valuation of $1 billion. This round was led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Paradigm, Moderne Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, SBI Investment, and Liberty City Ventures, bringing Mesh's total funding to over $200 million.Mesh is dedicated to connecting the fragmented global crypto market, bypassing the slow settlements and high fees of traditional finance. The company offers a unified payment network that supports a borderless tokenized economy. Currently, Mesh's global network covers over 900 million users, and this funding will accelerate its expansion in Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

Base launches encrypted Twitter attention trading prediction market Breakout, allowing users to predict whether the relative influence of specific KOLs or crypto accounts will rise or fall in the crypto community over the next week. The platform will list the current attention percentage, odds, and liquidity of popular accounts (such as Vitalik.eth, Justin Drake, Ansem, etc.), and is currently open to non-US users.

According to 23pds, the Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog Technology, a new type of security vulnerability has emerged in the Snap Store application store on the Linux platform. Hackers are taking over application publisher accounts by hijacking expired domain names and embedding malicious code into cryptocurrency wallet applications.Attackers monitor and register developer accounts in the Snap Store associated with expired domain names, using these domain emails to trigger password resets, thereby taking over the established publisher identity with long-term credibility. The tampered applications disguise themselves as well-known cryptocurrency wallets such as Exodus, Ledger Live, or Trust Wallet, with interfaces nearly indistinguishable from the originals.Currently, it has been confirmed that the publisher domains storewise[.]tech and vagueentertainment[.]com have been hijacked. These malicious applications lure users into entering their "wallet recovery mnemonic." Once users submit this information, sensitive data will be sent to the attackers' servers, resulting in the theft of digital assets.

X product lead and Solana advisor Nikita Bier posted on the X platform, stating that since last October, there has been a notion circulating in crypto tweets (CT) that users need to reply hundreds of times daily to achieve account growth. However, each post consumes part of the day's influence, and since ordinary users only browse 20 to 30 posts a day, the platform cannot showcase all of a user's posts to all their followers. As a result, crypto Twitter users ultimately waste all their influence on hundreds of "gm" replies, while only a few pay attention when they post substantial content like project announcements. The decline of crypto tweets stems from their own behavior rather than algorithm issues, claiming that "CT is dying from suicide."This statement sparked dissatisfaction within the crypto community, with LedgArt co-founder KALEO pointing out that Nikita Bier does not support user growth and a long-term online user base from the users' perspective, and is attempting to stifle the crypto community on the X platform. He called for Nikita Bier to resign, and currently, Nikita Bier has deleted the related tweet.

On Monday night, three masked men broke into a residence in Manosque, France, threatening a woman with a gun and stealing a USB drive containing her partner's cryptocurrency data. According to the French newspaper Le Parisien, the incident occurred at a home on Cherry Path in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region.The attackers threatened the victim with a handgun and slapped her before fleeing the scene with the USB drive. It is reported that the victim was unharmed and managed to escape and call the police within minutes. Local police have opened an investigation, and the case has been handed over to the local criminal investigation department and the national police regional headquarters. Last year, security company Casa's Chief Technology Officer Jameson Lopp recorded over 70 violent attacks related to cryptocurrency in its public database, with France becoming a hotspot for such violent crimes in Europe, with more than 14 related cases.Cybercrime consultant David Sehyeon told Decrypt, "The baseline level of criminal activity in France is relatively high, and the cryptocurrency wealth held by entrepreneurs, traders, and public figures is quite visible. Coupled with the growth of local expertise in digital assets, these factors together create a breeding ground for more speculative and organized cryptocurrency-related crime."

The Slow Fog team security researcher 23pds forwarded a report from researcher Adam Chester, revealing a privilege escalation and command execution vulnerability found in Anthropic's Claude Code. Attackers can execute commands without user authorization. The vulnerability ID is CVE-2025-64755, and a related PoC has been made public.This issue has been noted to be similar to a previously disclosed vulnerability in the Cursor tool. 23pds stated that phishing hackers have already exploited the related vulnerability to attack cryptocurrency users.

AI-driven cryptocurrency browser DeepBook AI announces a $2 million investment, with participation from Castrum Capital, BD Ventures, Alpha Capital, and BlockPulse.DeepBook AI is a cryptocurrency browser that combines AI-driven discovery features with native DeFi and on-chain browsing, enabling users to better explore dApps, protocols, and crypto content.

Binance founder CZ expressed his views on "how cryptocurrency payments can ensure privacy without exposing transaction history": "This is another issue with cryptocurrency payments. In the short term, using centralized exchanges (CEX) can avoid this problem (but centralized exchanges will hold this information). In the long term, we need a comprehensive privacy solution."

According to TechCrunch, the decentralized biometric authentication project World, co-founded by Sam Altman, has released the latest version of its application, introducing several new features, including end-to-end encrypted chat integration and Venmo-like cryptocurrency transfer capabilities.The new application is referred to by the development team as a "super app," with the World Chat feature utilizing end-to-end encryption technology, providing a security level equivalent to Signal, and using colored chat bubbles to indicate whether the conversation partner has been verified through the World system. This feature aims to incentivize users to verify their identities, allowing them to confirm the real identity of their chat partners.In terms of digital payments, the new application expands its cryptocurrency transfer capabilities, enabling users to receive salaries directly through virtual bank accounts and deposit funds from bank accounts, all of which can be converted into cryptocurrency. Using these payment features does not require verification through World’s identity verification system.It is reported that World scans users' irises for authentication through its Orb device, having scanned nearly 20 million people so far, with a goal of scanning 1 billion people.