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An unknown trader sold approximately $1.3 billion worth of BlackRock's Bitcoin spot ETF IBIT in the dark pool market on Tuesday, attracting market attention. Data shows that the trader sold 29,200,000 shares of IBIT around 14:30 UTC at a price of $43.16. As a result, the price of Bitcoin dropped from $77,875 to $76,720 within 10 minutes, a decline of about 1.5%, and then further fell to around $75,600.Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, stated that this was the largest IBIT dark pool trade he had ever seen. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas noted that this trade was more than 22 times larger than the second-largest IBIT sell order of the day. Additionally, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs have seen net outflows for eight consecutive trading days. On Tuesday alone, the net outflow was approximately $333.6 million, with IBIT accounting for about $192.4 million. Since May 14, the cumulative net outflow from Bitcoin ETFs has exceeded $2 billion. Reports indicate that Jane Street reduced its Bitcoin ETF holdings by about 70% in the first quarter of this year, while Goldman Sachs also cut its related positions by about 10%.

On the occasion of Bitcoin Pizza Day in 2026, Bitget launched a global branding campaign titled "Flip the Slice," centered around a music short film called "The Infinite Flip." The short film humorously transforms the voices of skeptics into a part of community culture expression, continuing the spirit and narrative tension of Bitcoin Pizza Day.The film portrays the development of the crypto industry through various cartoon characters. Each time the outside world shouts "crypto is dead," the characters reappear with a "resurrection dance," symbolizing the crypto industry's rebirth from doubt and lows. Through this dark humor and the repeatedly "flipping" narrative style, the short film aims to convey the spirit of "crypto is not dead, it flips and is reborn" to the crypto community.Bitget's Chief Marketing Officer Ignacio Aguirre Franco stated that Bitcoin has been declared "dead" hundreds of times, but in this short film, the critics' arguments become plot points rather than conclusions. By flipping these narratives with humor and fun, each "death" serves as a prologue to the resurgence of the crypto world.As part of the overall Pizza Festival activities, Bitget's "Pizza Box Resume Project" will print selected Web3 youth resumes on pizza boxes and deliver them to industry partners in various regions, transforming classic crypto culture memes into career pathways for young people. This initiative also continues the core direction of Blockchain4Youth, which is to help young people establish a connection path from knowledge acquisition and skill demonstration to integration into the industry ecosystem.

The slow fog余弦 social media stated that the high-risk iOS attack framework DarkSword has been publicly leaked on channels such as GitHub and is being used for large-scale espionage attacks targeting cryptocurrency wallet holders.This attack program targets devices running iOS versions 18.4 to 18.7, utilizing vulnerabilities in the Safari browser through malicious web pages to achieve remote code execution, thereby stealing users' sensitive data. Attackers launch attacks using bait web pages that impersonate pornographic live streams, Tron energy stations, refund processes, and more.iPhone users running older versions of iOS, once they access such web pages using the Safari browser (even if they do not close the page), may have sensitive information such as plaintext private keys and mnemonic phrases stolen by malicious JavaScript code when unlocking the wallet app, which is then transmitted in real-time through channels like Telegram bots.

According to Crypto.news, the New South Wales police in Australia seized 52.3 bitcoins, worth approximately 5.7 million Australian dollars (4.1 million US dollars), in a law enforcement operation targeting the dark web market, making it one of the largest dark web cryptocurrency seizures in the country.This operation is part of the Strike Force Andalusia investigation that began in September 2024 and lasted 15 months. The police tracked a large bitcoin wallet holding proceeds from the dark web market, ultimately identifying two male suspects, aged 39 and 41, who are accused of supplying prohibited drugs and transferring over 100,000 Australian dollars in dark web-related cryptocurrency.

The New South Wales police in Australia seized 52.3 bitcoins, worth approximately 5.7 million AUD (about 4.1 million USD), during a 15-month investigation and arrested two suspects allegedly operating a dark web market in Ingleburn, Sydney.The police stated that the seized bitcoins are suspected to be related to illegal activities on the dark web associated with drug and weapon trafficking. This operation was carried out by the state crime command's cyber crime unit, Strike Force Andalusia, and is considered one of the largest cryptocurrency seizures related to the dark web in Australia. Meanwhile, AUSTRAC has recently strengthened its anti-money laundering regulations for domestic virtual asset service providers and cryptocurrency trading platforms.

According to LatePost, Kimi (Dark Side of the Moon) is about to complete a new round of $2 billion financing, with a post-investment valuation exceeding $20 billion. This round of financing is led by Meituan Longzhu, with participation from China Mobile, CPE (CITIC Industrial Fund), and others, with Longzhu alone contributing over $200 million. In January and February of this year, Kimi had just completed three rounds of financing, raising $500 million, $700 million, and $700 million, respectively. Including this latest financing, Kimi has raised over $3.9 billion in less than six months, with the latest valuation more than quadrupling from about $4.3 billion in November of last year.So far, Kimi's total financing has exceeded 37.6 billion RMB, making it the company with the highest cumulative financing among large model startups. Including IPO fundraising, MiniMax has raised about 15 billion RMB, and Zhipu has raised about 13 billion RMB. As of today’s midday market close, MiniMax's market capitalization is approximately 210 billion RMB, while Zhipu's is about 347 billion RMB.

Chen Boliang, a former senior manager of Huobi Group, is suspected of registering a personal account on the company's platform under the name "Chen Feng," bypassing the dark pool trading permissions that are limited to corporate clients, conducting over-the-counter bulk transactions without restrictions on price and quantity, and transferring approximately 4.999 million USDT (equivalent to about 39.18 million HKD) in 5 transactions to his personal accounts at OKX and Binance.Chen Boliang was charged with 6 counts of unauthorized computer access and 1 count of money laundering. On April 24, 2026, the jury of the Hong Kong High Court found all charges not established, and the court also approved the defendant's application for legal costs.

According to the official website of SOL Strategies, SOL Strategies Inc. has signed a final agreement to acquire the assets of Darklake Labs, a native zero-knowledge technology company on Solana, for $1.2 million. The transaction price consists of $200,000 in cash and $1 million in equivalent common stock.Darklake's core product, Zyga, is a dynamic zero-knowledge proof system native to Solana that provides privacy protection at the transaction execution level and eliminates front-running and sandwich attacks.After the completion of the transaction, the core team of Darklake will join SOL Strategies, including CEO Vitor Py Braga (formerly with Meta and IBM), COO Amber Hales (formerly with Coinbase, with nearly a decade of compliance experience), and zero-knowledge research lead Tiago Alves.

SOL Strategies Inc. has signed a final agreement to acquire the assets of Solana native zero-knowledge technology company Darklake Labs for $1.2 million, with the transaction price consisting of $200,000 in cash and $1 million in equivalent common stock of the company.Darklake's core product Zyga is a dynamic zero-knowledge proof system native to Solana, which can achieve privacy protection at the transaction execution level and eliminate front-running and sandwich attacks. After the closing, Darklake's core team will join SOL Strategies, including CEO Vitor Py Braga (formerly of Meta and IBM), COO Amber Hales (formerly of Coinbase, with nearly a decade of compliance experience), and zero-knowledge research lead Tiago Alves.

According to a report by Bloomberg, Kimi's parent company, Moon's Dark Side, is in the preliminary stages of considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong and has begun discussions with China International Capital Corporation and Goldman Sachs regarding the listing cooperation. The specific timing has not yet been determined, and the planning is still underway, with the possibility that it may not proceed. Both Moon's Dark Side and Goldman Sachs declined to comment, and China International Capital Corporation did not respond.After completing over $700 million in financing earlier this year, Moon's Dark Side is negotiating a new round of financing, with a scale of up to $1 billion, which would bring its valuation to approximately $18 billion after this round of funding. Its C round valuation was about $4.3 billion at the end of last year, and the valuation has since risen rapidly. Founder Yang Zhilin stated in an internal letter at the end of last year that the company has 10 billion RMB in cash and is "not in a hurry to go public in the short term." There were also rumors of a "backdoor listing" last December, which the company denied.Competitors in the same sector, Zhiyu and MiniMax (Xiyu Technology), have already gone public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and taking advantage of the investor enthusiasm generated by peers going public, Moon's Dark Side has been accelerating its financing in the private equity market.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog Technology, 23pds, posted on platform X reminding all users to update their iOS systems in a timely manner. The DarkSword attack program has been leaked, and its core capability is: to extract forensic-level data from iOS devices via HTTP interfaces.In actual attacks, attackers can use social engineering or watering hole attacks to lure users into falling victim, thereby stealing data from iPhones/iPads and uploading it to servers controlled by the attackers.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI is seeking a new round of financing, with a target amount of up to $1 billion. After the financing is completed, the company's valuation will reach approximately $18 billion.Currently, the investors participating in this round of financing have not been determined. Moonshot AI's product is the Kimi chatbot. In terms of valuation, the company was valued at $4.3 billion after completing a $500 million financing at the end of last year; in February this year, it completed another $700 million financing, raising its valuation to $10 billion, with Alibaba and Tencent both participating.

According to reports, in a round of financing expansion that Alibaba (09988.HK) and Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) have participated in, the artificial intelligence startup Dark Side of the Moon is seeking to raise its valuation to $10 billion, hoping to capitalize on investors' strong interest in Chinese AI model startups.According to informed sources, the company that developed the Kimi chatbot initiated discussions for additional financing in late January to meet investor demand. Just about a month ago, the company completed a $500 million financing round at a valuation of $4.3 billion. Sources said that existing investors, including Alibaba, Tencent, and Five Sources Capital, have already committed over $700 million in the first phase of the latest financing round.

On-chain detective ZachXBT posted about the user @sexinfochina, stating, "This user deliberately concealed the fact that they are an online criminal operating the Chinese dark web market 'FreeCity'. They publicly promote certain illegal services on Telegram and knowingly facilitated five money laundering transactions for North Korean hackers. Two years ago, this user asked me to investigate the reason a CEX account was frozen, and I found that it traced back on-chain to a theft case involving over a hundred million dollars by North Korean hackers."In addition, ZachXBT responded, "Although most users of this dark web platform are Chinese, many illegal transactions occur in Southeast Asia and other places."

According to CoinDesk, a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York revealed that Rui-Siang Lin, the alleged operator of the dark web drug marketplace Incognito Market, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday. This marks the conclusion of one of the largest cases involving an online drug market since the Silk Road case.U.S. prosecutors stated that the operators of the dark web market Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymous tools to conceal their identities, but investigators ultimately linked them to the platform through domain records and digital footprints. Rui-Siang Lin operated under the online alias "Pharaoh." He pleaded guilty in December 2024 to multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit drug offenses, money laundering, and conspiracy to sell adulterated and falsely labeled drugs. Prosecutors indicated that the platform facilitated over $105 million in illegal drug transactions between October 2020 and March 2024, completing more than 640,000 transactions and serving hundreds of thousands of buyers worldwide.

According to market news, Dark Side of the Moon (Kimi) is finalizing a new round of financing, with a pre-investment valuation reaching $4.8 billion, up from $4.3 billion a few weeks ago. It is reported that this round of financing will be completed soon, and Dark Side of the Moon has not yet commented on this financing.Previously, Dark Side of the Moon (Kimi) disclosed that it recently completed a $500 million Series C financing, with IDG leading the investment of $150 million, and existing shareholders such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Wang Huiwen oversubscribing, resulting in a post-investment valuation of $4.3 billion. The founder and CEO of Dark Side of the Moon, Yang Zhilin, issued an internal letter stating that the company has over 10 billion RMB in cash reserves. This scale is already comparable to the post-IPO cash reserves of Zhizhu and MiniMax. As of June 2025, Zhizhu has 2.55 billion RMB in cash, with an IPO expected to raise about 3.8 billion RMB. As of September 2025, MiniMax has 7.35 billion RMB in cash, with an IPO expected to raise between 3.4 billion and 3.8 billion RMB. Sources say this means Dark Side of the Moon "can afford to wait for an IPO."

According to GMGN data, the market cap of BSC Meme coin "Dark Horse" briefly surpassed 8 million USD, currently reported at 7.14 million USD, with a 1H increase of 433.1%.ChainCatcher reminds users that the prices of Meme coins are highly volatile, and investors should participate with caution.