Daily Recap โ€” April 8 ๐Ÿ“Š

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Iran plans to charge transit fees for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz in Bitcoin ๐Ÿช™

CertiK has launched public testing of its AI auditor โ€” according to internal data, it detects smart contract vulnerabilities with up to 88.6% accuracy ๐Ÿค–

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) released his book โ€œFreedom of Moneyโ€ and shared dozens of personal photos for the first time ๐Ÿ“–

A new ERC-8211 standard on Ethereum will allow complex DeFi operations to be bundled into a single transaction instead of multiple steps

After an 18-month investigation, The New York Times suggested that Adam Back could be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin

Stablecoins are increasingly competing with traditional banking infrastructure: in February 2026, their monthly volume exceeded the U.S. ACH Network for the first time โ€” $7.2T vs $6.8T ๐Ÿ’ฐ

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Changpeng Zhao shared that Sam Bankman-Fried once seriously asked him for a couple of billion dollars during a call โ€” โ€œlike asking for a sandwichโ€ ๐Ÿ˜„

UBS and five major Swiss banks have started testing a Swiss franc-pegged stablecoin ๐Ÿฆ

Following the book release, an old conflict resurfaced โ€” the CEO of OKX accused CZ of lying and distorting events from the OKCoin era

U.S. authorities are preparing new rules that would require stablecoin issuers (such as USDT and USDC) to be able to freeze and block suspicious transactions โš–๏ธ

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