This Week's News Preview | Binance Alpha Launches Huma Finance (HUMA) Airdrop; 2025 Bitcoin Conference to be Held in Las Vegas
Highlights of the week from May 26 to June 1.整理：Jerry，ChainCatcher
Key News:
- Binance Alpha will launch Huma Finance (HUMA) airdrop on May 26
- The 2025 Bitcoin Conference will be held in Las Vegas from May 27 to 29
- Sophon announces SOPH TGE on May 28 and reveals tokenomics, with 57% allocated to the community
- Trump: Proposes to impose a 50% tariff on the EU starting June 1
May 26 (Monday)
Binance Alpha will launch Huma Finance (HUMA) airdrop on May 26
According to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will be the first platform to launch Huma Finance (HUMA). The trading open date is May 26, with specific timing to be announced later.
Eligible users need to use Binance Alpha points to claim the airdrop on the Alpha event page, which will go live on May 26.
U.S. SEC opens public comment period on Canary Funds Litecoin ETF, comments due by May 26
According to former Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed its decision on the spot ETF application for Litecoin (LTC) submitted by Canary Capital and has initiated a public comment period to assess whether the ETF meets regulatory requirements to prevent fraud and manipulation. Comments are due by May 26 (Beijing time May 27), with rebuttals due by June 9 (Beijing time June 10).
This delay aligns with Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart's prediction yesterday that "it is highly likely they will choose to delay making a final decision rather than directly approving or rejecting it."
212th Ethereum ACDE meeting: Fusaka Devnet-0 will launch on May 26
According to Tim Beiko's summary of the 212th Ethereum Core Developer Meeting (ACDE), the meeting primarily discussed: Fusaka Devnet-0 will launch on May 26, discussions on Fusaka EIP scope (EIP-7825 will limit transaction gas to 30 M; EIP-7918 will anchor blob fee rates to base fee to mitigate fee volatility; both will be included in Devnet-1).
Other candidate EIPs are expected to be part of the Devnet-2 testnet strategy (first fork Sepolia, retain Hoodi for application testing; encourage community long-term maintenance testnet), future plans (next week's CL Call will decide on EIP-7917; two weeks later ACDE will finalize Devnet-2 and start Glamsterdam discussions), etc.
May 27 (Tuesday)
The 2025 Bitcoin Conference will be held in Las Vegas from May 27 to 29
Bitcoin Magazine announced on X that the 2025 Bitcoin Conference will be held in Las Vegas from May 27 to 29, with early bird ticket sales ending on August 2.
May 28 (Wednesday)
Sophon announces SOPH TGE on May 28 and reveals tokenomics, with 57% allocated to the community
Sophon announced that SOPH will have its TGE on May 28 and will reveal its tokenomics, with 57% allocated to the community (including 20% for node rewards, 26% for ecological reserves, 9% for airdrops, and 2% for L2 liquidity mining), 25% allocated to core contributors (released over 4 years), and 18% allocated to seed round investors (released over 3 years).
The airdrop plan allocates 6% to L1 Farmer users, with an additional 3% airdrop for early supporters (Sophon users, ZKsync active users, Sophon-related NFT holders, community contributors, etc.). Users can check their eligibility at claim.sophon.xyz. OKX users can pre-register and receive an additional 5% SOPH reward on TGE day.
Binance will support EOS token swap and launch A token trading pairs on May 28
According to the official announcement, Binance will support the EOS (EOS) token swap and brand upgrade to Vaulta (A).
Binance will stop trading and remove all existing EOS spot trading pairs (EOS/BTC, EOS/ETH, EOS/FDUSD, EOS/TRY, EOS/USDC, and EOS/USDT) at 11:00 on May 26, 2025 (UTC+8), and all open orders will be automatically canceled. Trading for A/BTC, A/ETH, A/FDUSD, A/TRY, A/USDC, and A/USDT spot pairs will open at 16:00 on May 28, 2025 (UTC+8).
May 30 (Friday)
Treasure Chain will close on May 30, users need to withdraw their assets in advance
According to the official announcement, Treasure Chain will close on May 30, 2025. Asset holders must redeem all ETH, MAGIC, SMOL, and NFT holdings before the end of May.
According to the official announcement, OKX Wallet is upgrading Fractal BRC-20 protocol services. During the upgrade, related services for Fractal BRC-20 will be temporarily unavailable, and affected services are expected to resume normal on May 30, 2025. After the service upgrade is completed, users can normally view and manage assets related to the Fractal BRC-20 protocol in their wallets.
June 1 (Sunday)
Trump: Proposes to impose a 50% tariff on the EU starting June 1
According to Jinshi reports, U.S. President Trump stated on social media that the main purpose of the EU's establishment is to take advantage of the U.S. in trade, but the EU is difficult to deal with. Their strong trade barriers, value-added tax, absurd corporate penalties, non-monetary trade barriers, currency manipulation, and unfair and unreasonable lawsuits against U.S. companies have led to an annual trade deficit of over $2.5 billion, which is completely unacceptable. Our discussions with them have made no progress. Therefore, I propose to impose a 50% tariff on the EU starting June 1, 2025. No tariffs will be imposed on products manufactured or produced in the U.S.
As a result of Trump's remarks, European stocks fell further, with Germany's DAX index, France's CAC40 index, and Spain's IBEX35 index all dropping over 1%, and Italy's FTSE MIB index experiencing a daily decline of up to 2.00%.
Crypto market maker Wintermute will establish its U.S. headquarters in New York on June 1
According to The Block, crypto market maker Wintermute announced it will open its first U.S. headquarters in downtown Manhattan, New York, on June 1. The company also appointed policy veteran Ron Hammond as its head of policy and communications. Hammond previously served as the senior director of government relations at the Blockchain Association and was involved in the formulation of several regulatory bills for the crypto industry.
Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy stated, "As the U.S. becomes more friendly towards digital assets and blockchain innovation, we decided to act quickly to establish a foothold in New York City, the world's financial capital." This move comes as the Trump administration adopts a supportive stance towards the crypto industry, including appointing heads of regulatory agencies who are friendly to crypto.
FTX creditors must submit KYC verification by new deadline of June 1, 2025
Cointelegraph reported that FTX creditors must now submit their KYC verification by the new deadline of June 1, 2025, or their claims may be rejected.
Neo will close its testnet on June 1
Neo announced it will close the Neo Legacy network, which has served the Neo ecosystem for over 8 years since its launch in 2016. With the launch of the next-generation blockchain Neo N3 in 2021, Neo has decided to close the Neo Legacy network in 2025.
The Neo Legacy testnet will close on June 1, and the mainnet will close on October 31. Users must migrate their assets and smart contracts to Neo N3 before the closure, or they will be permanently lost.
