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According to market news, OpenAI has finalized a $10 billion joint venture agreement with a private equity giant.

Bitcoin mining company and energy infrastructure platform Hut 8 announced that its subsidiary has reached a $200 million Bitcoin collateralized credit agreement with FalconX, replacing the previous financing arrangement from Coinbase Credit. The new financing has an annual fixed interest rate of 7.0%, a decrease of 200 basis points from the previous 9.0% financing from Coinbase; during the period from December 2023 to March 2025, the financing cost was as high as 10.5%–11.5%, with a cumulative reduction of up to 450 basis points, demonstrating progress in continuously optimizing debt costs.After this refinancing, Hut 8 has approximately 3,300 BTC converted to an uncollateralized state, valued at about $260 million based on the market value as of May 1, 2026, significantly enhancing its balance sheet flexibility and liquidity. Meanwhile, the credit structure maintains key risk control terms, including a limited recourse structure, a no-rehypothecation clause, and a fixed LTV threshold design, preventing additional margin calls triggered by a decline in Bitcoin prices.Hut 8's management stated that this financing not only reduces financing costs but also releases more uncollateralized Bitcoin assets, helping to enhance capital allocation flexibility across different market cycles; FalconX emphasized that this transaction reflects its ongoing expansion capabilities in institutional-level Bitcoin credit solutions.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the whale "set 10 big targets" tweeted that it opened a short position of 2,448.2 BTC at the price of $79,903.19, worth $195 million, and has now realized a profit of $2.463 million.

According to Jinshi reports, the Italian FTSE MIB index fell by 1% during the day. At the same time, the French CAC 40 index fell below 8,000 points, with a daily decline of 1.42%.

According to The Block, North Korea has denied allegations of its involvement in cryptocurrency theft, calling the claims "absurd defamation" and a "political tool." The statement was released by state media, emphasizing that necessary measures will be taken to safeguard national interests.However, data from blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs shows that hacker groups associated with North Korea have stolen approximately $577 million, accounting for about 76% of global cryptocurrency theft losses during the same period. This includes two major attack incidents on KelpDAO (approximately $292 million) and Drift Protocol (approximately $285 million).TRM pointed out that the related attacks are mainly associated with the Lazarus Group and its sub-organizations. Since 2017, the cumulative scale of cryptocurrency theft linked to North Korea has exceeded $6 billion. U.S. and international agencies generally believe that such funds are used to support military and missile programs. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury has recently imposed sanctions on related individuals and entities, involving approximately $800 million in illegal fund flows for 2024.

According to GMGN monitoring, the market capitalization of the Solana ecosystem meme coin TROLL has significantly surged, breaking through 55 million USD, currently reported at 55.07 million USD, with a 24-hour increase of 94.97% and a 24-hour trading volume of 11.1 million USD.ChainCatcher reminds users that meme coin trading is highly volatile, largely relying on market sentiment and hype, and has no actual value or use case; investors should be aware of the risks.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, as the cryptocurrency market rebounds, the whale "pension-usdt.eth" now has unrealized losses exceeding $16 million on its 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum long positions.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a whale that went long on 80,000 ETH has realized a profit of 5.89 million dollars. Currently, he holds a total of 186 million dollars worth of ETH long positions across two addresses, with an average opening price of 2265 dollars, and has never reduced his position. His trading style is characterized by "large orders + large volatility resistance."

According to official news, Coinbase has announced the official launch of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) support in Australia, providing compliant and secure digital asset investment solutions for Australian trustees to help diversify retirement portfolios.This service is based on the Australian Financial Services License (AFSL) recently obtained by Coinbase and local expertise. According to data from the Australian Taxation Office, there are currently over 653,000 SMSFs in Australia managing assets worth AUD 1.05 trillion, with more than 1.2 million members. SMSFs have become one of the few retirement structures globally that allow individuals to directly manage digital assets, providing this flexibility.Coinbase's SMSF solution offers a streamlined real-time verification process, audit reports compliant with local accounting standards, and institutional-level security, helping Australian investors incorporate cryptocurrency into long-term retirement strategies.

Barry Silbert, the founder of Grayscale's parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG), stated on the X platform that the market has yet to realize the global demand for decentralized digital value storage tools like Bitcoin, which could be as high as $2 trillion. At that time, the industry generally believed that Bitcoin itself was sufficiently private and could serve as a relatively private global value storage and transfer tool. However, as market awareness increases, the demand for privacy is being more clearly identified, and therefore privacy coins like Zcash will benefit from the "first-mover advantage."

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a certain whale's two addresses withdrew 11.68 million DOGE at an average price of $0.415 between November and December 2024. After being dormant for a year and a half, the addresses transferred all DOGE to a new address one hour ago, which currently has an unknown owner, resulting in a loss of $3.59 million in assets during this period.

According to Ai Yi's report, on-chain data and contract information show that two addresses hold approximately 80,000 ETH long positions on the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid, with a total floating profit of about 3.11 million USD. Among them, address 0xa5b...01d41 holds 40,000 ETH long positions with an opening price of about 2265.5 USD, resulting in a floating profit of about 1.526 million USD; address 0x6c8...d84f6 holds 40,000 ETH long positions with an opening price of about 2265.4 USD, resulting in a floating profit of about 1.528 million USD.

The Canadian asset management firm Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) disclosed that it purchased approximately 1.38 million shares of Strategy (MSTR) in the first quarter, with an investment amount of about 172 million USD. Based on the current share price of approximately 175 USD, the market value of this position has risen to about 241 million USD, with an unrealized gain of approximately 69 million USD. AIMCo's average cost basis is about 125 USD per share. AIMCo previously held shares of the company from 2019 to 2020 and liquidated its position shortly after the company shifted to a Bitcoin reserve strategy.

The decentralized AI computing Layer 1 network Kaisar Network announced that it has completed $4 million in financing to date, with $1 million from a strategic Pre-Seed round.Kaisar Network is incubated by Outlier Ventures and Borderless Capital, with investors including Merov Capital, StoneBlock, WM Capital, Arche Fund, Q42, Unicorn Ventures, and others. Kaisar announced the launch of Token AI, allowing users to access decentralized GPU computing, AI credits, and agent services.

According to market news, a suspected Multicoin address received $39,400,000 in funds from Galaxy Digital OTC, then deposited $22,990,000 into Coinbase, and currently still holds $26,900,000 in HYPE, with a profit of about $10,500,000.

Arkham posted on the X platform that Arkham AI discovered a suspected Multicoin address. This address deposited $22.99 million into Coinbase after receiving $394 million transferred from Galaxy Digital OTC. Currently, the address still holds $269 million in HYPE, with an unrealized profit of about $105 million.

According to crypto analyst Darkfost, the 30-day moving average of the Bitcoin short-term holder (STH) SOPR has turned positive for the first time in the past six months, indicating that STHs are on average at breakeven or slightly profitable.Historical data shows that this situation often acts as a resistance level during bear markets, as holders may flee due to a lack of confidence.

Syndicate has released an update regarding the recent security incident, stating that the leakage of private keys led to the malicious upgrade of bridging contracts on two chains, resulting in the theft of approximately 18.5 million SYND (about $330,000) and around $50,000 in customer tokens. Affected users will receive full compensation, and SYND holders will receive additional compensation.The attack involved multi-stage reconnaissance, infrastructure mapping, vulnerability exploitation development, and precise timing, ruling out the possibility of insider involvement. The root cause of the vulnerability was the storage of private keys in a password manager, and the upgrade process did not utilize multi-signature or hardware signing. Syndicate is strengthening security measures, including adding an encryption layer outside the password manager and implementing multi-signature or hardware signing for the upgrade path.

According to Jinshi reports, the annualized quarterly PCE price index for the first quarter in the United States is 4.5%, higher than the market expectation of 3.8% and the previous value of 2.9%.

The Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) announced that it has formally submitted a comment letter regarding the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on prediction markets, advocating for the establishment of a clear compliance path for decentralized prediction markets based on public, permissionless blockchains while improving the regulatory framework for centralized prediction markets.In the comment letter, HPC calls on the CFTC to develop more flexible, function-oriented rules to accommodate decentralized market structures; to establish clear legal channels for U.S. market participants to access decentralized prediction markets; and to promote the U.S. leading position in decentralized financial innovation. HPC stated that prediction markets are a natural extension of the federal derivatives framework, helping participants directly manage their economic risk exposure to real-world events and aggregating dispersed information through continuously updated market prices, whose price discovery capabilities have been widely validated, even outperforming traditional polls and expert forecasts.It pointed out that decentralized prediction markets based on public blockchains have advantages such as transparency, non-custodial nature, and high resilience, not relying on centralized operators to hold user funds, and there is no single point of failure risk; all transactions are recorded in real-time on a public ledger, facilitating regulation and market oversight, while market access standards are more transparent and uniform.HPC emphasized that current rulemaking should not solidify reliance on a single exchange operator, custodial intermediaries, and traditional settlement monitoring mechanisms, as this would hinder U.S. users' legitimate participation in decentralized prediction markets. It stated that it will continue to promote compliance access for U.S. market participants to Hyperliquid and HIP-4 outcome markets and will maintain communication with the CFTC.