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Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: the Strait of Hormuz is the pillar of national security

According to the Iranian news agency Mehr, the Iranian Speaker of Parliament, Kalibaf, stated that the Strait of Hormuz is the national security pillar of Iran and that existing arrangements for this important route must be maintained. He noted that Iran was engaged in a complex struggle with the United States and must always be prepared to fight it. The United States strategy towards Iran has not changed, and its goal is not only to weaken Iran but also to create divisions within Iran. Iran ' s approach must therefore be based on reality, national interests and a long-term perspective, both in conflict and in negotiations。

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OpenAI's first open-source model, Inkling, based on DeepSeek-V3

The first general model, Inkling, was launched by Thinking Machines Lab, former CTO Mira Murati of OpenAI. The total parameter of the model is 97.5 billion, with 41 billion activated each time, supporting text, image and audio, with a maximum context of 1 million tokens. Inkling was trained from zero, but its MOE structure was mainly based on DeepSeek-V3, and later training used data generated from open models such as Kimi K2.5. Full weight has been put on Hugging Face, with Apache 2.0 permission. Thinking Machines explicitly acknowledges that Inkling is not currently the strongest model, but is primarily customized and efficient. When Terminal Bench 2.1 reached the same level of achievement, the token used was about one third of Nemotron 3 Ultra in British Weidar。

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The Iranian Revolutionary Guards claim that they will destroy the United States offensive infrastructure

On 16 July, the spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran wrote in the social media in the early hours of 16 July that Iran's current operations focused on the destruction of the United States “offensive infrastructure” in the region and that the next steps would follow. The speaker wrote: “The enemy should not think that it will be able to maintain the current combat posture and drag the fighting into a war of depletion.” Shortly thereafter, the Kuwaiti military stated in a statement that the Iranian drones were being intercepted. The Ministry of the Interior of Bahrain issued air strikes alerts demanding that residents look for bunkers. (In Russian)

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Startale Group, in collaboration with SBI and DigiFT, used JPYSC to monetize $1.3 billion in equity funds

The Startale Group announced that, in cooperation with the SBI Group and DigiFT, it would use JPYSC to stabilize the $1.3 billion equity fund for monetization. The three parties have completed the joint conceptual validation, demonstrating the full life cycle of tokenized securities using JPYSC to stabilize the currency, with the aim of filling the gap in digital capital markets。

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Sandeep Nailwal: 13 projects produced by the Polygon team through 3 days of AI hackers

The Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal stated that one third of the team was suspended for three days, and 13 projects were built with an incentive of $15,000, of which 6 were on line and 1 was processing real transactions across five chains on the main network. In Nailwal ' s view, the next decade would be defined as a team that would integrate AI into its day-to-day work, and having AI expertise was no longer an option。

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Ostium attackers have transferred 0,540 ETHs to the Mixer Tornado Cash

On 16 July, Peck Shield monitored an attack on Ostium's OLP vault, which resulted in the theft of some 24 million USDCs. The attackers subsequently converted the stolen funds into 12,080 ETH, and to date, 10,540 ETH have been transferred to Tornado Cash. In addition, the attackers initially transferred one ETH through Changenow and Bybit, respectively, to provide initial funding for the wallet 0x321D...8bfD9。

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Lauren Belive: Against Clarity Act exposes the encryption holder to risk Medium

The Ripple Global Public Policy Co-Director of Government, Lauren Belive, stated that opposition to CLARITY Act was an anti-consumer act that continued to expose encryption holders to undesirable actors who exploited regulatory arbitrage. She noted that the regulatory gaps revealed by the FTX collapse remained. CLARITY Act will give the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the United States Commodity Futures and Exchange Commission (CFTC) common jurisdiction over the digital asset market and require that tokens be subject to regulatory supervision before entering the market. The Chief Legal Officer of Ripple, Stuart Alderotey, President of the National Association of Encrypted Currency, stated that opposition to CLARITY Act would perpetuate the existing unregulated situation and be exploited by undesirable actors。

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