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BlockBeats News, June 19th - In Waller, Texas, USA, two brothers, Isiah Angelo Garcia and Raymond Christian Garcia, admitted to committing an armed kidnapping. On September 19, 2025, the two broke into a home in Grant, Minnesota, where they used a gun to threaten and tie up the family for over 8 hours. They forced the father to transfer over $8 million from his cryptocurrency account and compelled him to go to a northern cabin to retrieve more storage devices. After the victims' son called the police, the two escaped but were later arrested in the Houston area. Recently, in a Minneapolis federal court, the brothers pleaded guilty to "interference with commerce by means of robbery." Each faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and has agreed to compensate over $8 million. The sentencing date is yet to be determined.

The first dividing line of the Waller era has emerged! When the Federal Reserve is no longer in a rush to tell the market which way to go, what should we look at next? This article thoroughly explains the real changes brought about after Waller took office!

Odaily reports that Ethereum has released its monthly ecosystem summary, with multiple launches and upgrades covering areas such as L2 scaling, privacy payments, institutional finance, developer tools, and governance infrastructure: 1. In terms of scaling and infrastructure, Ronin Network completed its migration to Ethereum L2; Arbitrum Foundation announced that the LG Electronics blockchain team is piloting on-chain advertising on its network; Base launched its first independent upgrade "Azul," reportedly boosting performance to around 5,000 TPS and introducing several execution and consensus improvements. 2. In the payment and finance sector, Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support, covering assets such as USDC and PYUSD, and enabling settlement on both Ethereum mainnet and L2 networks; Cash App launched USDC functionality, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive on-chain directly; JPMorgan Chase launched its second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum. 3. In privacy and security, the Clear Signing standard was officially launched to address the "blind signature" issue; SEAL 911 and Wonderland jointly introduced the DARC risk and compliance standard. 4. On the development and tools side, Hardhat 3 was released as a stable version, supporting Solidity testing and multi-chain development; the ENS ecosystem launched ENS8004, transforming domain names into verifiable on-chain AI agents. 5. Multiple experimental and ecosystem projects are advancing simultaneously, including the LIFI Intents execution framework and Aragon's on-chain governance materialization.