Two brothers from Texas admitted to holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint and forcing the transfer of $8 million in cryptocurrency.

According to MarsBit, BIG (Bigcoin), a miner coin in the Abstract ecosystem, surpassed a $12 million market capitalization on April 11, 2025, with 24-hour trading volume reaching $6.11 million.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, an address linked to F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun withdrew 54,500 ETH from Binance over about half a month after ETH fell below $1,700, and later staked 37,400 ETH.

Venus Protocol has launched collateralized lending for tokenized stocks, or bStocks, on BNB Chain. Users can now deposit on-chain U.S. stock assets such as TSLAB, NVDAB and SPCXB into the Venus Core Pool as collateral and borrow assets including USDT and USDC without selling their holdings.

Stani Kulechov said Aave V4 can use a “liquidity hub plus modular markets” structure to support securities-backed loans, repo transactions and securities lending across a multi-trillion-dollar market.

TechFlow’s June 18 intelligence roundup tracked more than 200 global sources across crypto, AI and technology. The edition highlights Solana’s $142 million record day for tokenized stock trading, OpenAI’s $13 billion in 2025 revenue against a $38.5 billion loss, Copilot’s SearchLeak issue, DeepSeek’s latest model update, AMD’s removal of memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, and broader technology, finance and product developments.

According to monitoring by Yu Jin, an address associated with F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun withdrew 54,500 ETH from Binance over roughly half a month after ETH fell below $1,700, and later staked 37,400 ETH.

Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik said the AI industry’s bubble may burst once companies effectively use Chinese large models, while falling H100 and H200 GPU rental prices show a shift in compute supply and demand.