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Polymarket 公布功能更新最新进展，包括推出延迟垃圾请求（latency spam）缓解措施以保障订单下达与取消操作，修复“余额/授权不足”报错问题，另一个影响限价买单的核心问题预计将在未来几天完成修复。此外，Polymarket 表示已识别并封禁多个“幽灵成交（ghost-fill）”账户集群，相关账户均早于充值钱包（deposit wallet）系统上线前创建，一旦出现“幽灵成交”行为的账户都会进行识别与封禁，而充值钱包系统也将阻止违规账户继续批量创建新账户，未来一周还将继续发布更多更新以解决此前遗留问题。
According to Finance Feeds, the Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority (EFSA) has issued an investor warning against BB Trade Estonia OÜ, the operator of the Zondacrypto exchange, for failing to publish a white paper for the “TeamPL” token listed on its platform, as required under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). This constitutes a violation of Article 9(1) of MiCA, which mandates transparency and investor disclosure obligations. This latest warning—coming amid previously reported withdrawal difficulties and ongoing cross-border investigations—continues to intensify regulatory pressure on the exchange.
Kelp stated that within the next 24 hours, the team will collaborate with Aave to execute a series of smart contract operations as part of the next phase of the rsETH asset backing process. During this period, users are not required to take any action. Kelp also reminded users that information regarding the reopening of the time window should be taken solely from official channels; subsequent arrangements will be announced after the relevant operations are completed.
Wasabi Protocol released a security incident update, stating that the attacker exploited a Spring Boot Actuator configuration vulnerability in its AWS infrastructure to steal private keys controlling EVM smart contracts, and subsequently drained approximately $4.8 million in user funds and $900,000 from the protocol’s treasury—totaling roughly $5.7 million in losses. The attack chain originated from a public-facing analysis server whose Actuator heap dump was not properly password-protected, enabling the attacker to obtain credentials for another server and ultimately gain control of the smart contract private keys. This incident affected only EVM deployments—including certain treasuries on Ethereum, Base, Blast, and Berachain—while Solana deployments and the Prop AMM remained unaffected. No final user compensation plan has been announced yet; however, “ensuring all affected users are compensated” remains the team’s top priority. Updates on the investigation will be shared with the community via Discord.
Decentralized USDD released its April 2026 Monthly Transparency Report. The report shows that USDD’s total supply peaked at $1.558 billion in April, representing a month-on-month increase of approximately 10.87%; as of April 30, 2026, the total value of collateralized assets reached $2.16 billion, with the overall collateralization ratio maintained at 146% at month-end. Smart Allocator’s cumulative earnings surpassed $16.24 million, with approximately $2.46 million in new earnings generated during the month. Additionally, USDD further optimized its reserve composition this month by introducing the WBTC Vault, increasing the proportion of non-native collateral assets. It also launched the MCP functionality and machine-readable documentation tailored for large language models (LLMs), supporting the development of the AI Agent ecosystem. According to the official USDD team, future priorities include strengthening stability, optimizing the yield system, upgrading transparency, and expanding the ecosystem—aiming to become a trusted stablecoin infrastructure within both the AI Agent economy and decentralized finance (DeFi) use cases.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the 81st anniversary Victory Day military parade that Russian troops participating in the special military operation are confronting "aggressive forces backed by NATO" and continue to advance.
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer released its latest Bitcoin holdings data on X. For the week ending May 8, its Bitcoin mining output was 193.8 BTC, but during the same period, it sold 193.8 BTC, resulting in a net addition of 0 BTC. It currently maintains zero Bitcoin holdings.
according to official sources, Gate has now launched PROS perpetual contract trading (USDT settlement), supporting 1-20x leverage.
Odaily Seer Channel monitoring shows that Polymarket has launched a new prediction event titled "When will the Trump administration declassify the next batch of UFO files."According to information on the U.S. government's official website, the Trump administration has released UAP-related records through the war.gov/ufo page. U.S. media reports indicate that the Pentagon published the first batch of previously undisclosed UAP/UFO-related documents, images, videos, and reports on May 8, 2026.The settlement rules for this event are as follows: If the Trump administration declassifies any previously undisclosed documents related to extraterrestrial life and/or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) before 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the specified date, the corresponding market will be resolved as "Yes." Otherwise, the market will be resolved as "No."In this market, "Trump administration" includes the Executive Office of the President during President Trump's term, as well as all executive departments, agencies, and their subordinate offices under the jurisdiction of presidential authority, including the Department of Defense and its constituent entities.Cases where declassification is merely announced but not actually completed within the timeframe specified by the market will not count toward the settlement conditions.The primary basis for determining whether declassification has occurred is official U.S. government information, but consensus from credible media reports may also be considered as a reference.Odaily Seer Channel continues to monitor prediction markets, seeing changes before pricing.
in response to the claim of "earning $500,000 in weekly interest income," the Hanba Dragon King released a screenshot from Binance showing that over the past 6 days, the account earned a total of $125,000 in funding fees.
According to GlobeNewswire, IREN, a Nasdaq-listed company, released its latest financial results and disclosed that it has signed a $3.4 billion AI cloud contract with NVIDIA. Under the agreement, IREN will deploy air-cooled Blackwell GPU infrastructure for NVIDIA over a five-year term. The financial report also indicates that IREN is accelerating its transition from Bitcoin mining to AI cloud services. Construction of the data center related to its $9.7 billion contract with Microsoft is underway. As of April 30, IREN held $2.6 billion in cash. Revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 totaled $144.8 million, down from $184.7 million in the prior quarter. The company reported a net loss of $247.8 million, primarily driven by non-cash impairments related to the retirement of mining equipment.
According to PRNewswire, enterprise blockchain infrastructure provider Antier Solutions announced the completion of a $3 million funding round, led by GVFL. The new capital will support the development of secure transactions, verifiable workflows, and institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure; expand deployments in the government and banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sectors; and grow its business operations in the United States, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific markets.
The WeChat official account of the Haidian District People’s Court of Beijing Municipality disclosed a case involving “doxxing” using virtual currencies. Between 2023 and 2025, the defendant illegally obtained personal information of Chinese citizens via encrypted communication tools and other channels—acquiring over 900 million pieces of personal data in total—and built a “social engineering database” website storing over 170 million pieces of citizens’ personal information. The defendant also profited by selling such information, receiving payments exclusively in virtual currencies. Additionally, the defendant used encrypted communication tools to establish “doxxing” and “outing” chat groups for disseminating illegal content, including privacy violations. The court convicted the principal offender, Lin某某, of the crimes of infringing upon citizens’ personal information and illegally utilizing information networks, sentencing him to seven years’ imprisonment and imposing a fine of RMB 70,000.
According to Decrypt, publicly traded Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf (WULF) released its Q1 2026 financial results, reporting a net loss of $427 million for the quarter—significantly higher than the $61.4 million net loss in the same period last year. Total revenue amounted to $34 million, of which AI high-performance computing (HPC) revenue accounted for 60%, or approximately $21 million—a 117% sequential increase. In contrast, Bitcoin mining revenue declined by 50% sequentially to roughly $13 million, marking the first time AI compute revenue has surpassed mining revenue. The company previously signed a 25-year lease agreement with FluidStack, valued at approximately $9.5 billion in total, and has received Google’s endorsement.
Alex Thorn (@intangiblecoins), Head of Research at Galaxy Research, published a post revealing that Galaxy Research has released a new report refuting banking industry claims that the GENIUS Act would erode U.S. bank deposits—and providing quantitative estimates. Key findings from the report include: - Under the GENIUS Act framework, 60%–70% of new stablecoin issuance would originate overseas; inflows of foreign deposits would be approximately twice the volume of domestic deposit migration—indicating a net increase in total deposits rather than a zero-sum reallocation. - Each newly minted GENIUS stablecoin would generate approximately $0.32 in net credit for the U.S. economy. - In the base-case scenario, total credit expansion by 2030 would reach roughly $400 billion; under the optimistic scenario, it could reach $1.2 trillion. - Short-term U.S. Treasury yields (T-bills) would compress by 3–5 basis points, potentially saving taxpayers up to $3 billion annually in borrowing costs. - The report also notes that the interest pass-through mechanism does not pose an existential threat to U.S. banks—it merely represents a reallocation of profit margins and will not reduce overall credit capacity.
According to The Block, blockchain security firm CertiK released a report on May 8 stating that 34 confirmed “wrench attacks” (i.e., offline physical assaults and extortion targeting cryptocurrency holders) occurred globally in the first four months of 2026—an increase of 41% compared to the same period in 2025. Victims’ total losses amounted to approximately $101 million. If this trend continues, the annual number of incidents is projected to reach around 130, with losses potentially totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Geographically, 28 of the 34 incidents (82%) occurred in Europe, with France standing out particularly: 24 cases were recorded there in the first four months of 2026 alone—exceeding the full-year total of 20 incidents in 2025. CertiK attributes this surge to France’s hosting of flagship crypto firms such as Ledger and Binance, frequent data breaches, and a community culture of conspicuous wealth display and proactive doxxing. In contrast, reported incidents in the U.S. dropped from nine in Q1 2025 to three in Q1 2026, while Asia saw a decline from 25 to two. Regarding attack patterns, CertiK notes that criminal groups have shifted toward a “data-driven targeting” model—purchasing victims’ names, addresses, and asset information from data brokers, thereby reducing the need for physical reconnaissance. Over half of this year’s incidents involved threats against or direct harm to victims’ family members (spouses, children, elderly parents) as a coercive tactic. Operationally, small gangs of three to five individuals typically carry out these attacks via
According to The Block, Julio Moreno, Research Director at on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant, released a report on May 8 stating that Bitcoin has surged over 20% since early April, reaching a three-month high. However, the firm characterizes this rally as a “bear market bounce” and warns that profit-taking pressure may intensify further. On the data front, Bitcoin holders’ daily realized profit reached 14,600 BTC on May 4—the highest level since December 10, 2025. Meanwhile, the Short-Term Holder Spent Output Profit Ratio (STH-SOPR) has remained consistently above 1.00 since mid-April, indicating the market has entered a sustained profit-taking phase. On a 30-day rolling basis, holders’ net realized profit turned positive at +20,000 BTC—the first time since December 22, 2025—after net losses plunged as deep as -398,000 BTC between February and March. Nonetheless, Moreno notes that the current net profit level of +20,000 BTC remains far below the historical 130,000–200,000 BTC threshold typically required to confirm a bull market transition, reinforcing the view that this is a “bear market bounce” rather than a structural trend reversal. Additionally, the current unrealized profit ratio stands at approximately 18%; historical experience shows that when this indicator rises to elevated levels, holders tend to sell to lock in gains, increasing correction risk.
According to Xinhua News Agency, U.S. President Trump told the media at the White House on the 8th that the United States may resume the “Freedom Operation,” aimed at facilitating the passage of vessels stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, and expected to receive Iran’s response that evening to the U.S.-Iran agreement proposal put forward by the United States. Trump stated that he believed the “Freedom Operation” was a good idea, but “there are other solutions.” If no progress is made, the U.S. side may restart the “Freedom Operation.” However, “it would be an upgraded version—the ‘Enhanced Freedom Operation’—meaning additional measures beyond the original plan.”
According to The Block, Lee Reiners—a lecturer in law at Duke University and former examiner at the New York Federal Reserve—published a post on May 8 stating that WLFI, the governance token issued by the DeFi project World Liberty Financial—which is closely associated with the Trump family—may constitute an unregistered security. Reiners cited the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recently released token classification framework, arguing that WLFI is not a “pure digital commodity” and therefore falls under SEC regulatory scrutiny. He contends that WLFI was publicly presold—approximately 25 billion tokens—prior to the protocol’s launch and was marketed leveraging the Trump family’s brand, leading buyers to reasonably expect profits—a key element of the SEC’s “Howey Test” for determining whether an asset qualifies as a security. Regarding decentralization claims, Reiners referenced litigation filed by Justin Sun, noting that World Liberty unilaterally froze Sun’s tokens and revoked his governance rights—revealing a high degree of centralized control. Additionally, he highlighted clear conflicts of interest: the project borrowed $75 million in stablecoins from the Dolomite protocol, using 5 billion WLFI tokens as collateral; notably, a co-founder of Dolomite also serves as an advisor to World Liberty, and part of the borrowed stablecoins flowed directly to World Liberty itself.
According to the SEC’s official website, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul S. Atkins delivered a speech on May 8 at the Special Competitive Study Project’s AI+ Expo, outlining the SEC’s regulatory approach toward AI and on-chain financial markets. Atkins stated that the SEC will advance several regulatory initiatives targeting on-chain markets, including: establishing rules defining “exchanges” for on-chain trading systems; clarifying the applicability of definitions for “brokers” and “dealers” to on-chain activities; delineating the scope of the “clearing agency” definition as it applies to on-chain clearing and settlement activities; and issuing regulatory guidance for activities related to “crypto vaults.” Regarding AI regulation, Atkins emphasized that the SEC will not mandate specific AI models for firms but will uphold its core mission of protecting investors, maintaining fair and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation—while requiring firms to take responsibility for the outputs of their deployed AI tools. Atkins also urged Congress to promptly send the CLARITY Act to the President for signature, thereby providing long-term regulatory certainty for digital asset markets through legislation. He warned that driving innovation offshore would repeat the FTX debacle and harm U.S. investors.