WuBlockchain’s daily roundup covered a mix of macro, security and exchange-related developments, including fresh US labor data, a Tornado Cash phishing incident, comments from HTX and OKX, and a White House remark tied to Hyperliquid.
US weekly jobless claims came in at 206,000
Initial jobless claims in the US for the week ended Aug. 15 totaled 206,000, compared with an expected 210,000. The previous reading was revised from 209,000 to 212,000.
User loses 1,010 ETH after visiting expired Tornado Cash domain
According to community disclosures, one user clicked an old bookmarked link and landed on a phishing site hosted on tornado. cash, a former official Tornado Cash domain that had expired and was later re-registered. The user’s deposited 1,010 ETH was then drained by a hacker within 12 hours.
The disclosed account said Tornado Cash was unable to renew the original tornado. cash domain after OFAC sanctions. An attacker then took control of the expired domain and built a fake front end designed to steal deposit credentials.
Tracking by the victim showed that most of the stolen funds were still sitting in hacker-controlled addresses. The same disclosure said the group may have stolen nearly 4,000 ETH through similar methods over the past 12 months.
Security experts warned users not to trust expired historical domains when using decentralized privacy tools such as Tornado Cash, and advised them to rely on officially verified IPFS or ENS gateways while carefully checking contract interaction details.
HTX denies involvement in reported “poisoning” transfers
Responding to community complaints that some addresses had received “poisoning” transfers allegedly from HTX, a person identified as an HTX representative said the platform had reviewed its internal accounts and found no sign that any such activity had been initiated officially. The representative also denied that certain recent on-chain actions were linked to HTX.
The same person said HTX’s review found that some users still had funds frozen on Kraken for long periods. In the largest known case, the amount involved was about $4.2 million. HTX said it could not rule out the possibility that affected users had taken action on their own to defend their rights, and added that it had created a Kraken user group to collect cases.
HTX also said it would only freeze accounts involved in cases when cooperating with law enforcement agencies and would not actively interfere with how users use their assets.
OKX restricts Hong Kong employees from using Claude
OKX said that after its enterprise Claude account was briefly suspended in early August, it barred Hong Kong employees, as well as staff transiting through China, from using Anthropic’s Claude. The company said the enterprise account has since been restored.
According to OKX, some prior use by Hong Kong staff may not have fully complied with Anthropic’s regional access policy. The exchange said it would restrict access accordingly and reroute related AI requests to other models. Anthropic’s current policy does not allow Claude to be used in mainland China or Hong Kong.
OKX added that it had previously encouraged employees to use AI at work and had included those capabilities in performance reviews. The company said it spends about $6 million to $8 million per month across several major large-model providers.
Trump says CFTC chair is pushing Hyperliquid’s compliant US entry
US President Donald Trump said at a White House event with technology industry leaders that CFTC Chair Mike Selig approved the first “real” Bitcoin perpetual contract listed on a CFTC-registered exchange in May this year and is now pushing Hyperliquid to enter the US market in a fully compliant and legal way.
Following those remarks, HYPE briefly moved from around $62 to $72.3, for a gain of roughly 16%, according to the roundup.