Iranian Embassy in Lebanon: Strait of Hormuz will not open due to US pressure

According to Stalkchain monitoring, a whale address cluster purchased a total of 10.43 million ANSEMs through six wallets within a few days, invested 2.551 million US dollars, and then sold them all, resulting in a loss of 60700 US dollars. Arkham data shows that the cluster initially built positions in batches through four addresses: Eo3ck... EhWQ bought 827000 $ANSEM ($225000), CzZF7... RE74C bought 668000 $191000, FY8nW... b9L5Ag bought 758000 $215000, and BMRse... 25rHT bought 641000 $184000. The four wallets mentioned above hold a total of 2.894 million ANSEMs (814600 US dollars) and have transferred them to the main wallet GFsqy... 26SM. The main wallet purchased 7.535 million ANSEMs (1.737 million US dollars), bringing the cluster's holdings to 10.34 million ANSEMs (2.551 million US dollars). The main wallet sold 6.938 million ANSEM coins (1.943 million US dollars), and the remaining 3.491 million coins were transferred to the wallet 62dT... LrUE and sold (546900 US dollars).

Alpaca, an AI and tokenized financial infrastructure, has raised $135 million in funding, led by Peak XV and followed by Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures, and Unbound, bringing the total financing to $435 million. The new funds will be used to accelerate the construction of AI native brokerage infrastructure and API priority main brokerage business, helping fintech companies, banks, securities firms, wealth management institutions, and encrypted financial platforms build investment products, and connect to global cryptocurrency exchanges, asset tokenization platforms, and financial institutions.

According to China News Service, US Treasury Secretary Besson announced on the 15th that the US Mint will mint a $1 coin with President Trump's portrait on the front to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The obverse of the coin is printed with "Freedom", "We Believe in God", and "1776-2026", while the reverse features a bald eagle pattern. Trump expressed his "honor". Critics question the legality of the coin, pointing out that a law passed by the US Congress in 2020 authorizes the minting of commemorative coins, but prohibits the printing of portraits of living people on the coin.

Binance has announced the addition of MINIMAXUSDT (MINIMAX), MINIMAXUSDT (ZHIPU), MINIMAXUSDT (HK0700), and 5 other tokens to multiple services, including futures contracts, officially launching on 2026-07-17 at 11:00 (UTC+8). Notes: - The listed contracts include Quanto perpetual contracts and USDT-margined contracts, both with a maximum leverage of 25x. - Funding rate settlement frequency is every 8 hours, with an upper/lower limit set at +2.00%/-2.00%. - Contract trading involves high market risk. Binance reserves the right to adjust leverage, margin, and funding rate parameters at any time.

According to official announcements, Binance will launch five U-based perpetual contracts, MINIMEXUSDT, ZHIPUUSDT, HK0700USDT, HK1810USDT, and TENCENTUSDT, on Binance RIE on July 17, 2026. Among them, HK0700USDT and HK1810USDT are Quanto contracts that support up to 25 times leverage.