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Theo báo cáo của Cryptopolitan, công ty an ninh Island đã công bố một nghiên cứu vào ngày 12 tháng 11, cho biết đã phát hiện 186 tên miền giả mạo 27 thương hiệu AI nổi tiếng. Trong đó, ChatGPT bị giả mạo nhiều nhất với 25 tên miền tương tự, Claude có 18 tên miền, DeepSeek có 16 tên miền, Runway có 12 tên miền. Một số tên miền tương tự này sẽ chuyển hướng người dùng đến các trang quảng cáo, một số khác thì dẫn đến các trang web độc hại.Nghiên cứu cho biết, kẻ tấn công đã thực hiện tấn công bằng cách sử dụng phương pháp TypoPrompting, lợi dụng lỗi chính tả của người dùng khi nhập địa chỉ trang web công cụ AI. Island đã theo dõi được ba con đường liên quan: chuyển hướng người truy cập đến trang xác thực Cloudflare giả mạo và dụ dỗ người dùng Windows thực hiện lệnh PowerShell; quảng bá ứng dụng Net Guard giả mạo là kiểm tra an ninh, ứng dụng này có thể chiếm quyền điều khiển trình duyệt và chạy các script từ xa; liên quan đến 30 tiện ích mở rộng trình duyệt chiếm quyền tìm kiếm, trong đó 13 cái đã bị gỡ bỏ, 17 cái còn lại có tổng cộng 972.000 người dùng. Island cho biết, 186 tên miền giả mạo là số lượng được thống kê, không phải là các trường hợp nhiễm đã được xác nhận, hiện tại vẫn chưa xác nhận hoạt động này gây ra bất kỳ thiệt hại nào.

Theo báo cáo của PR Newswire, nền tảng tài chính stablecoin ở Mỹ Latinh Takenos đã hoàn thành vòng gọi vốn hạt giống bổ sung 7 triệu USD, do North Island Ventures và Road Capital Management dẫn đầu, cùng với sự tham gia của các nhà đầu tư hiện tại như Variant, Lattice và Reverie. Vòng gọi vốn này đã đưa tổng số vốn huy động của Takenos lên 12 triệu USD.Takenos được thành lập vào năm 2022, hiện đang hoạt động tại sáu quốc gia ở Mỹ Latinh, với khối lượng giao dịch hàng năm vượt quá 5 tỷ USD, khách hàng bao gồm các doanh nghiệp toàn cầu như LATAM Airlines. Nền tảng này đã phát triển một bộ công nghệ toàn diện bao gồm các kênh thanh toán địa phương, ứng dụng cho người tiêu dùng, API cho doanh nghiệp và bàn giao dịch cho tổ chức, với các đối tác bao gồm Stripe, Mastercard và Visa. Vốn mới sẽ được sử dụng để mở rộng dịch vụ đến hơn 15 quốc gia vào năm 2027.

Theo báo cáo của Reuters, công ty khởi nghiệp trí tuệ nhân tạo Island đã công bố hoàn thành vòng gọi vốn F trị giá 400 triệu USD, do Evolution Equity Partners dẫn dắt, cùng với sự tham gia của các nhà đầu tư hiện tại như Prysm Capital, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Cyberstarts, Insight Partners và JP Morgan Growth Equity Partners.Giá trị công ty đạt 6,4 tỷ USD, nguồn vốn mới sẽ thúc đẩy công ty bước vào giai đoạn tăng trưởng và đổi mới tiếp theo, giúp doanh nghiệp mở rộng quy mô ứng dụng của các đại lý trí tuệ nhân tạo và thúc đẩy hiện đại hóa cách thức làm việc.

ChainCatcher tin tức, theo báo cáo của PR Newswire, công ty cơ sở hạ tầng thực thi trên chuỗi Birdai Labs đã công bố hoàn thành vòng gọi vốn hạt giống 4 triệu USD, vòng này do Castle Island Ventures dẫn đầu, cùng với sự tham gia của Metalayer Ventures và The Venture Dept.Birdai Labs tập trung cung cấp các biện pháp, xác minh và tối ưu hóa chất lượng thực thi giao dịch cho các chuỗi công cộng hiệu suất cao, với mục tiêu giảm thiểu sự mất mát giá trị giữa đơn hàng và giao dịch do sắp xếp và truyền tải gây ra, và mang lại nhiều giá trị hơn cho các nhà giao dịch và nhà tạo lập thị trường. Đội ngũ công ty đến từ các tổ chức tài chính truyền thống như Franklin Templeton, Citadel, đang mở rộng đội ngũ kỹ sư cao cấp và nghiên cứu định lượng để thích ứng với cạnh tranh thực thi trên chuỗi dưới kiến trúc nhiều người đề xuất, và cung cấp các tiêu chuẩn thực thi công bằng và minh bạch có thể xác minh cho sự tham gia của các tổ chức trong thị trường tài sản kỹ thuật số trong tương lai.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has disclosed that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island to prevent the state from applying its gambling laws to contract markets registered with the CFTC. CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig stated that exchanges registered with the CFTC are facing numerous lawsuits aimed at restricting Americans' participation in event contracts, which undermines the CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets.Selig emphasized that event contracts are commodity derivatives and fall entirely within the CFTC's regulatory scope. The CFTC is also facing similar jurisdictional challenges in states such as Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and Minnesota. The CFTC stated that the Commodity Exchange Act grants it exclusive jurisdiction over event contracts.

According to Fortune, Valinor, a blockchain private credit startup co-founded by former Blackstone employees, announced the completion of a $25 million seed round financing. This round was led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from the crypto division of Susquehanna, Maven11, and the founder of TeraWulf, a Bitcoin mining company transitioning to artificial intelligence.Valinor's core business is to put the private credit process on-chain. Traditional private credit institutions rely on manual verification and spreadsheet collaboration when handling revolving credit lines and other businesses. Valinor plans to replace these processes with smart contracts to achieve automated routing of funds and condition-triggered execution.Both co-founders have traditional finance backgrounds, having worked in banks and the private credit division of Blackstone before transitioning to the crypto industry in 2022. Initially, Valinor focuses on providing loans to crypto companies, and later plans to introduce blockchain technology into the loan process to enhance efficiency. Currently, the company has completed lending for several fintech and crypto companies through blockchain technology.The funds raised in this round will be used to expand the loan scale, broaden the customer base, and increase team personnel, with the current number of employees at 6.

Foreign exchange trading startup XFX, which supports stablecoin trading, has completed a $17 million financing round, led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Haun Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.Santiago Alvarado, co-founder and CEO of XFX, declined to disclose the valuation of the company in this financing round. It is reported that XFX currently allows customers to exchange between stablecoins and also permits the exchange of three fiat currencies: US dollars, Mexican pesos, and Colombian pesos.

According to Cointelegraph, M1X Global, behind the Marshall Islands UBI program, has completed a $3 million angel round of financing, with investors including former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan and Cumberland Labs CEO Tama Churchouse, among other figures in the crypto industry. The funds will be used to promote the expansion of USDM1 digital sovereign bonds into the institutional market.USDM1 was launched on the Stellar blockchain last December, but the IMF has warned that the project carries financial risks and cybersecurity vulnerabilities, believing that its returns are not proportional to its risks.

According to a report by CCTV cited by Jinshi, on March 20 local time, U.S. officials stated that the U.S. military is deploying three warships and approximately 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. Previously, informed sources indicated that the troop increase would provide U.S. President Trump with more military options, including launching operations to "clear" the Strait of Hormuz, which would require deploying air and naval forces to the Iranian coastline.According to informed sources, the Trump administration is also considering deploying ground troops to Khark Island, the "lifeline" of Iranian oil exports. This plan aims to seize the island as leverage to force Iran to restore passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Khark Island is located in the northwestern part of the Persian Gulf, more than 20 kilometers from the Iranian coast, and is Iran's largest crude oil export base, with about 90% of Iran's oil exported from here.

According to Axios, Trump is seeking to form a multinational coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and plans to announce it later this week. Four sources revealed that if the situation of oil tanker passage in the Persian Gulf continues to be obstructed, Trump is also considering seizing Iran's key oil transshipment hub, Khark Island, which would require the intervention of U.S. ground forces.Iran is currently blocking oil exports from Gulf countries while allowing tankers loaded with Iranian crude oil to pass freely. On Saturday, Trump stated on Truth Social that the U.S. and multiple countries would send warships to the Persian Gulf and called for participation from China, France, Japan, South Korea, and the UK. On Sunday, he mentioned on Air Force One that the U.S. is negotiating with seven countries, some of which have refused to participate.The White House refers to the plan as the "Hormuz Coalition," and no country has publicly committed to joining yet, but senior officials expect countries to announce support this week. On Sunday, Trump discussed the plan with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and warned NATO allies that failure to respond would have negative implications for NATO's future.Regarding Khark Island, it is located about 15 miles off the coast of Iran and accounts for approximately 90% of Iran's crude oil exports. Trump ordered strikes on military facilities on the island on Friday but did not target oil facilities. U.S. officials stated that seizing the island would constitute an economic blow to the Iranian regime but could also provoke Iran to retaliate against oil facilities in Gulf countries.

According to Iranian state media, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated that after the U.S. military attacked Iranian islands (Hark Island), U.S. ports, docks, and military bases within the UAE have become legitimate targets for strikes.On the evening of the 13th Eastern Time, U.S. President Trump posted on social media, stating that the U.S. Central Command "just" bombed the Iranian oil export hub Hark Island at his direction, "completely destroying all military targets on the island." Trump mentioned that he did not choose to destroy the island's oil infrastructure. However, he threatened that if Iran or any other country interferes in any way with the safe passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, "I will immediately reconsider this decision."

According to Fortune, stablecoin infrastructure company Cyclops announced the completion of an $8 million funding round, with the valuation undisclosed, with participation from Castle Island Ventures, F-Prime, and Shift4 Payments.Cyclops is dedicated to building a layer of infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of stablecoins. Cyclops co-CEO Alex Wilson stated, "Our vision and goal is to be the first platform that payment companies think of when building various stablecoin solutions."

The father of smart contracts and co-founder of Castle Island Ventures, Nic Carter, posted on the X platform stating that the incentivized posts on platforms like Kaito combined with AI have generated a large amount of low-quality content. The early fun of the crypto tweet circle was in grassroots gaming, but the current industry growth focus has shifted towards stablecoins and financial infrastructure, leaning more towards institutional and VC narratives, making it difficult for ordinary retail investors to feel the opportunity for "fair participation and getting rich against the odds," leading to a decline in participation enthusiasm.Additionally, the "de-niche" design of the X platform, which enhances "recommendations for you," makes it difficult for creators to reach their niche communities, resulting in fewer opportunities for crypto professional content to be recommended. Nic Carter added that the X platform has quickly responded by revoking the API access for the "InfoFi" application to reduce platform spam content, and he strongly supports this approach.

According to Bitcoin Archive, a bill for a Bitcoin tax exemption has been proposed in Rhode Island, USA, which will exempt state income tax and capital gains tax on small Bitcoin transactions with an annual transaction volume not exceeding $20,000.

The Marshall Islands distributes a national basic income (ENRA) through Stellar. The government of the Marshall Islands launched the first round of ENRA distribution on November 26, 2025, covering all citizens of the Marshall Islands, with funding sourced from the investment returns of the Compact Trust Fund (capped at 4%). The distribution methods include checks, bank transfers, and blockchain channels (Lomalo digital wallet, supported by Stellar). Additionally, the Stellar Foundation has also led the development of the digital sovereign bond USDM1. USDM1 is pegged 1:1 to short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, denominated in U.S. dollars and redeemable at face value.The national basic income is a mechanism through which the Marshall Islands ensures that national wealth is regularly shared among all citizens via this fund. The program aims to implement universal nationwide distribution for all resident citizens, with no income or employment thresholds, and maintains regular disbursements.

According to CoinDesk, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has completed the world's first on-chain distribution of Universal Basic Income (UBI) using the digital native sovereign bond USDM1 on the Stellar blockchain.The country's Ministry of Finance confirmed that this multi-million dollar initiative was developed in collaboration with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) and infrastructure provider Crossmint, as part of the local UBI program ENRA. This program replaces quarterly physical cash distributions with digital transfers, benefiting many eligible citizens living across various islands. USDM1 is a sovereign bond denominated in US dollars, fully backed by short-term U.S. Treasury securities, and distributed through the Stellar issuance platform to a customized digital wallet application called Lomalo.A spokesperson for the Marshall Islands Ministry of Finance stated that USDM1 is issued under New York law, based on established legal frameworks, rather than regulatory discretion or policy preference. The U.S. Treasury collateral is held by an independent trustee, with redemption rights being fixed, unconditional, and legally enforceable. ENRA is a fiscal distribution program, issuing one unit for every one unit in trust short-term U.S. Treasury securities, fully backed and legally isolated throughout the process. The government emphasizes that USDM1 does not compromise the country's monetary or technological sovereignty. A white paper released alongside the initiative outlines its broader policy and financial framework.