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BlockBeats report: On June 30, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy, crude oil inventories in the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) decreased by 5.5 million barrels to 325.7 million barrels, the lowest level since May 1983. The reduction in stocks is part of an agreement reached by the United States, under which 172 million barrels of crude oil will be released from the reserve in order to fill the global inventory gap after the conflict with Iran, and to help lower fuel prices.
Due to strong U.S. crude oil exports and refining demand, U.S. crude inventories have fallen rapidly in recent weeks. Since the outbreak of the conflict at the end of February, as of June 19, the total U.S. inventory—including commercial stocks and strategic petroleum reserves—has decreased by 111.4 million barrels to 743.3 million barrels, the lowest level since 1984. (Jinshi)

BlockBeats report: On June 30, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a final ruling against the crypto platform NanoBit, ordering the parties involved to pay more than $5 million in fines. The case was originally filed in September 2024 during the Biden administration. The SEC alleged that from September 2023 to June 2024, NanoBit and related individuals posed as financial professionals in WhatsApp groups to gain investors’ trust and induce them to invest in NanoBit, falsely claiming that its affiliated company was an SEC-registered broker.
SEC says that so-called financial professionals promoted a fraudulent initial coin offering, but no transactions occurred on the NanoBit platform. Instead, investors’ funds were actually routed to the scam participants—more than $2 million was transferred to Hong Kong bank accounts, and several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of crypto assets were also misappropriated.

BlockBeats news: On June 30, U.S. technology stocks rebounded strongly on Monday, pushing all U.S. stocks to close higher. According to Bitget data, on Monday’s close, the Dow Jones rose 0.59%, the S&P 500 rose 1.18%, and the Nasdaq rose 2.07%. Most of the popular tech stocks climbed: Tesla rose more than 8%, SpaceX rose more than 7%, and Google rose more than 4%.
Semiconductor sector broadly rose. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 3.83%; KLA surged more than 11%; Applied Materials rose more than 10%; TSMC rose more than 5%; ASML rose nearly 5%; Marvell Technology (MRVL) rose more than 4%; and AMD rose more than 3%.
The storage sector rose across the board. Western Digital (WDC) rose more than 11%, Seagate Technology (STX) rose more than 7%, Micron Technology rose more than 1%, after having fallen more than 9% earlier.

BlockBeats message, on June 30, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said that Iran’s top priority at present is to ensure that all provisions of the memorandum of understanding are implemented. Regarding the U.S. commitments under Article 10 that allow Iran’s oil exports, the U.S. has already issued the necessary licenses, and the Iranian side is following up on the implementation progress. Regarding the lifting of Iran’s frozen assets under Article 11, the relevant implementation procedures are also under way. This week, Iran will dispatch a technical delegation to Qatar to consult on the implementation of the memorandum of understanding, including Article 11.

BlockBeats message: On June 30, blockchain analytics company Chainalysis released a proposal for a blockchain tracing ontology, attempting to establish industry standards for clustering and tracking on-chain addresses. The document breaks the “cluster (address cluster)” into finer structures such as “wallet fragments,” and proposes a two-layer framework: the first layer builds an address relationship graph, and the second layer labels analytical credibility to help law enforcement and prosecutors determine whether the data can be used in cases.
Based on its hands-on experience in a money-laundering case involving co-founder Roman Sterlingov of the Bitcoin Fog mixing service, which was handled in the U.S. Department of Justice, Chainalysis said that the judge in that case previously found its Reactor tool to be “highly reliable” after a Daubert hearing. The company emphasizes that on-chain analysis alone cannot directly identify the final user’s identity; it needs to be supported by offline information such as court subpoenas, and it calls on the industry to keep independently reviewing and providing feedback on the methodology.

According to a BlockBeats report, on June 29, during an interview, CZ said that the MiCA license application Binance submitted in Greece had fully met regulatory requirements before it was withdrawn and was close to being approved, but the process was ultimately halted due to “the intervention of external political factors.”
CZ said that within the EU, multiple countries had previously shown interest in this license, with even a certain degree of “competitive bidding.” However, ultimately, the regulatory push was affected by factors outside the regulator, forcing the application to be withdrawn. Binance officially withdrew its Greek application last week and said it would pivot to other EU member states to continue advancing its MiCA authorization. Regarding market rumors that it is connected with senior political figures in the EU, CZ said he had not seen any verifiable documents and only saw similar claims online, without confirmation.