Serenity poked fun at Reddit retail investors for launching a "Save Wendy's" campaign, with WEN rallying over 20% in the overnight trading session.

Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani announced that the U.S. and Iran have agreed to establish a direct communication hotline to ensure shipping safety during mine-clearing and navigation resumption in the Strait of Hormuz, and prevent misinformation from disrupting vessel traffic. The mechanism will provide an official verification channel when vessels receive threat alerts, reducing the risk of misjudgment. Mohammed added that as the Strait’s situation stabilizes, Qatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity is expected to return to near-normal operations in the coming weeks. QatarEnergy has completed relevant preparations, but lifting force majeure status entirely remains dependent on meeting Strait security conditions. He noted that shipping volumes in the Strait of Hormuz are expected to return to pre-conflict levels roughly 30 days after the memorandum of understanding (MOU) takes effect, though restoring market confidence will take time. He also warned that the impact of tight supplies of commodities including fertilizers, urea, petrochemical products, and helium is likely to emerge gradually between September and October. Mohammed emphasized that forces within Iran and across various blocs may oppose the agreement and attempt to undermine the process, adding that the current ceasefire and Strait opening arrangements remain fragile, with the real test just beginning. Additionally, the U.S. and Iran have agreed to extend the April 8 ceasefire deal by 60 days and continue advancing nuclear talks. The U.S. also issued an exemption allowing Iran to continue selling oil until August 21 as the first set of economic incentives to encourage its compliance with the agreement.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, whale address 0xEe0A liquidated 3,065 ETH (valued at around $5.92 million) two weeks ago, incurring a loss of roughly $380,000 at the time. Over the past two days, the address has rebuilt its position by purchasing 100,392 HYPE (worth about $6.69 million). The whale now holds approximately 497,212 HYPE, totaling around $30.93 million, with an overall unrealized profit of roughly $8 million.

Hyperliquid official announcement: USDH is approaching phase-out, with users advised to immediately convert USDH to USDC. As Coinbase becomes Hyperliquid’s official USDC treasury deployer, the platform will shift to using USDC as its primary stablecoin and collateral, leading to USDH’s gradual exit from circulation. USDH remains tradable and fully supported at present; during the transition period, users can convert USDH to USDC or fiat currency for free via the Native Markets USDH Dashboard. The platform will also coordinate with relevant HIP deployers to complete the migration, ensuring a secure and smooth transition of user assets.

Password management tool LastPass announced that it learned of a security incident involving Klue, its third-party market intelligence platform. Hackers stole OAuth tokens held by Klue for multiple clients—including LastPass—and used these tokens to access LastPass’s Salesforce CRM system, potentially exposing some customers’ names, phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, support case details, and other business contact and CRM data. Official reminder: LastPass’s products, services, infrastructure, and customer password vaults were not affected, nor was data from the Gong system accessed. LastPass has immediately taken measures including suspending employees’ access to Klue, rotating exposed API tokens, launching a detailed investigation, cooperating with Klue, Salesforce, and law enforcement agencies, sharing threat intelligence with the security community via its TIME team, and strengthening future defenses. Users are advised to stay vigilant against potential phishing emails, phone calls, or social engineering attacks leveraging the leaked information, and to remember that LastPass will never request master passwords, with all official communications sent through trusted channels.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has released its 2025-26 Annual Report, revealing that Hong Kong’s capital market recorded significant growth across all asset classes over the past year, including investment funds, digital assets and the stock market, with tokenized investment products seeing accelerated expansion. As of March, assets under management (AUM) of the 13 SFC-authorized retail products rose nearly sixfold year-on-year to HK$10.8 billion. Separately, the total market capitalization of 11 virtual asset spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reached HK$4.3 billion, surging 90% since their launch in 2024. The SFC also approved Asia’s first Solana spot ETF. Trading volume of 12 licensed virtual asset trading platforms jumped 125% year-on-year. Furthermore, to sustain high-quality growth, the SFC completed legislative formalities for four new regulatory regimes covering virtual asset trading, custody, advisory services and management, and issued 47 warnings targeting virtual asset trading platforms and investment products.

According to official announcements, AI-driven Web3 auxiliary infrastructure project aitraceroot has recently secured approximately $3.5 million in funding, with the round backed by multiple blockchain venture capital firms including Castrum Capital, Becker Ventures, Coinvestor and Gemhead Capital. The project specializes in on-chain AI intelligent analysis and AIGC digital asset tools. The financing proceeds will be used for large language model (LLM) R&D, developer ecosystem expansion and global operational deployment. Investors expressed optimism about the integration of AI and decentralized infrastructure, stating that the project will continue to iterate on its on-chain AI services and expand its global user ecosystem moving forward.