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The FBI, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies from Dubai, China, and Thailand, conducted a transnational operation, dismantling at least 9 overseas cryptocurrency scam centers, arresting 276 suspects, with the involved amount totaling millions of dollars.
The involved gangs used "pig-butchering" romance scams to lure investments, and after money laundering, transferred funds into criminal accounts.
The U.S. San Diego Federal Court charged 6 suspects with federal telecommunications fraud and money laundering.
The operation aligns with the executive order signed by Trump in 2026, and Operation Level Up has notified approximately 9,000 victims, recovering about $562 million.

Deep Tide TechFlow News, April 30th, according to official sources, the underlying blockchain protocol project IOTA announced the completion of a major consensus upgrade, with the IOTA mainnet switching from Mysticeti to Starfish.
Cross-border trade systems operate across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes, so maintaining reliability under unpredictable real-world conditions is crucial for the infrastructure supporting trade, logistics, and regulatory environments. As an evolved version of the consensus engine Mysticeti, Starfish represents a new type of distributed ledger technology prototype that decouples the consensus process from validators, aiming to ensure that even if some validation nodes experience delays or disconnections, the network can still maintain reliability and stability, just like its name, the starfish, which can regenerate its arms without dying.
Starfish's design goals are not only

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US Stocks: Dow Jones Falls for the Fifth Consecutive Day, Nasdaq Holds Up with Tech
On Wednesday, Wall Street experienced the most chaotic day since this rebound began.
The Dow plummeted 280.12 points (-0.57%), closing at 48,861.81, marking the fifth straight day of decline, quietly setting the longest losing streak since the Iran war rebound. The S&P 500 barely moved, down only 0.04% to close at 7,135.95. The Nasdaq flipped green, slightly up 0.04% to close at 24,673.24, the most peculiar number on the entire daily chart: tech stocks held the market in place based on post-earnings expectations.
Two sets of numbers divided the logic of this day into two completely different halves: before the open, the Federal Reserve's statements and oil prices; after the close, four reports that will determine the future direction.
After Wednesday's market close, Alphabet, Meta, Micr

Deep Tide News reports that an early SHIB whale transferred approximately 800 billion SHIB to Coinmena within the past 24 hours, with a market value of about $4.91 million. This whale bought 103 trillion SHIB for 37.8 ETH in 2020, accounting for 17.4% of the total supply at that time; at its peak in 2021, the value of its holdings had reached approximately $910 million. It still holds about 16.2% of the total SHIB supply, with a market value of around $588 million.

According to Fortune, Meta has launched stablecoin payments based on USDC, providing services to creators in Colombia and the Philippines, supporting Solana/Polygon, and allowing third-party wallet addresses to be entered for Facebook withdrawals; it does not offer USDC to fiat currency exchanges, with taxes handled by Stripe. Polygon Labs stated that by the end of the year, expansion will reach over 160 countries, more than four years after the termination of Libra/Diem.