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According to official social media news, the HTX Genesis Hackathon, hosted by HTX DAO and B.AI, and co-organized by OpenCSG and TinTinLand, has recently selected the Top 15 teams. These 15 developer teams will advance to the finals held offline on July 19 during the WAIC World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. In addition, community voting will soon begin, and users can go to the HTX DAO official website to stake and vote for their favorite teams.It is reported that the total prize pool for the HTX Genesis Hackathon is 20,000 USDT, and it provides over $100,000 in computing power support. Participating teams will innovate around the application scenarios of $HTX, B.AI ecological applications and computing power services, AI Agent finance, on-chain asset management, trading infrastructure, DAO tools, and smart financial operating systems.

According to local media reports in Thailand, Thailand will require individuals to verify the source of funds when depositing more than 5 million Thai Baht (approximately 150,000 USD) in cash. This intervention expands the compliance responsibilities of commercial banks regarding cash networks, large currency exchanges, precious metal transactions, and suspicious stablecoin transactions, directly preventing regulated entities from fostering systemic corruption or a shadow economy.In addition, the Bank of Thailand and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have jointly conducted audits focusing on Tether (USDT) to identify and prevent illegal fund flows. This crackdown also includes strengthening controls over precious metal transactions, requiring banks to report suspicious patterns, such as rapid digital purchases and same-day physical withdrawals, to combat money laundering activities.

According to official social media news, Huobi HTX will hold a themed live broadcast today at 19:00 titled "Oil Mutation Night: Ceasefire Collapsed, US Bombed Iran, What Trading Opportunities Are Hidden Behind the Surge in Oil Prices?" At that time, crypto KOLs such as 0xJoker, Dada Dada Dada, OxPink, and Huabai Blockchain will be invited to attend and engage in an in-depth discussion on the escalation of the Middle East situation, the drastic fluctuations in international oil prices, and their impact on global risk assets.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale 0x2684 has once again purchased 9,882 ETH (17.27 million USD) today.In the past 10 days, this whale has cumulatively withdrawn 34,577 ETH (57.53 million USD) and 250 WBTC (15.66 million USD) from Binance.

According to CNBC, as concerns about insider trading arise from prediction markets, Goldman Sachs has prohibited employees from trading contracts related to the bank's own events, elections, financial markets, macroeconomic data, and geopolitical issues. Financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America are formulating or updating relevant policies, with Bank of America explicitly prohibiting certain behaviors related to prediction market trading for its employees.Previously, the CFTC and the Department of Justice charged a Google employee with profiting approximately $1.2 million by trading "annual search" related contracts on Polymarket using non-public information. Legal experts stated that the CFTC is "still a blank slate" in terms of insider trading enforcement, but the variety of contract types on the platform makes comprehensive regulation difficult. Kalshi and Polymarket have respectively launched employment verification tools and collaborated with Chainalysis and Palantir to monitor suspicious activities. Lawyers recommend that companies update their insider trading policies to cover event contracts, establish monitoring agreements, and even prohibit access to prediction markets on company devices.

According to Jinshi reports, the New York Fed's open market account manager Perli stated that the money market conditions are expected to tighten due to an increase in Treasury bill issuance.

According to Jinshi, the number of people continuing to claim unemployment benefits in the United States for the week ending June 27 was 1.814 million, slightly lower than the market expectation of 1.815 million. The previous value was revised from 1.814 million to 1.806 million.

According to Jinshi, the U.S. Secretary of Defense stated that if Trump gives the order, the U.S. will strike Iran tonight.

Recently, international crude oil prices have fluctuated and rebounded, with active trading in the energy market. According to market data from the Gate platform, WTI crude oil (CLUSDT) reached a high of $72.80 in 24 hours, currently reported at $72.43, with a 24-hour increase of 4.79%; Brent crude oil (BZUSDT) reached a high of $76.52 in 24 hours, currently reported at $76.13, with a 24-hour increase of 4.96%. CoinGlass data shows that the trading volume of the Gate CLUSDT contract reached $8.2895 million in 24 hours, with an open interest of approximately $8.2299 million; the BZUSDT contract had a trading volume of $3.3371 million in 24 hours, with an open interest of approximately $2.7695 million, both ranking among the industry's leaders.

The prediction market platform Polymarket announced support for instant, self-custodied deposits via the Bitcoin Lightning Network, powered by the Spark protocol. Compared to the previous on-chain deposit method that required waiting for 3 to 6 block confirmations, taking about 10 to 60 minutes, the new solution allows for deposits to be credited in seconds, while lowering the deposit threshold and transaction costs.According to the introduction, Spark can complete checks for double-spending risk, fees, and Replace-by-Fee (RBF) at the time of transaction broadcasting, achieving "zero-confirmation" crediting. It also supports on-chain, Lightning Network, and stablecoin payment channels without the platform needing to operate Lightning Network nodes itself. Polymarket stated that this move will further enhance the capital efficiency for Bitcoin users and strengthen its competitiveness against rival Kalshi.

According to official social media news, Huobi HTX will hold a live debate themed "STRATEGY: The Commitment to Never Sell Coins is Broken: Where Will Institutional Holding Models Go?" today at 20:00. At that time, Shouyi, Maomaojie, Wang Fugui, and DeFi Sniper will represent the affirmative side, while the opposing side will consist of 0824, Mo Cheng, Nika, and Daidai engaging in a clash of viewpoints. Both sides will conduct an in-depth discussion on key topics such as why institutions are beginning to adjust their holding strategies and how market liquidity will evolve, jointly analyzing the new changes and trends in the cryptocurrency market.

According to Gate market data, the three major U.S. stock index futures opened slightly lower on Wednesday.