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According to the official announcement, Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft Form S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to advance its initial public offering (IPO) of common stock. The company stated that this move means it can choose to go public after the SEC completes its review, but the specific issuance timing still depends on market conditions and other factors. Currently, the number of shares to be issued and the issuance price have not yet been determined. Anthropic also emphasized that this announcement is made pursuant to Section 135 of the Securities Act of 1933 and does not constitute an offer to sell securities or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities.

Bitget's compliant RWA issuance platform Reality announced a partnership with the U.S. registered brokerage and self-clearing agency Alpaca. According to the cooperation details, Alpaca will provide brokerage infrastructure support for Reality, assisting it in accessing U.S. stocks and ETF tokenized products within a regulated market framework, covering key aspects such as clearing, custody, and trade execution.Founded in 2015, Alpaca is a developer-first brokerage infrastructure company, with Alpaca Clearing being a FINRA registered broker-dealer and SIPC member, focusing on the custody and clearing of underlying assets. Through this partnership, Reality will further enhance its underlying infrastructure capabilities for tokenized U.S. stocks and ETF products, providing a more standardized and transparent access method for eligible global users.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that Reality is a key part of Bitget UEX's panoramic exchange strategy, aiming to connect traditional financial assets with on-chain infrastructure in a more pragmatic way. Alpaca co-founder and CEO Yoshi Yokokawa expressed his pleasure in partnering with Reality to jointly promote the development of tokenized stock infrastructure, further enhancing the accessibility of global financial services.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange Listing Review Committee held its 31st listing review meeting of 2026. The review results indicate that Yushu Technology Co., Ltd.'s initial public offering meets the issuance conditions, listing conditions, and information disclosure requirements.

The new crypto bank and non-custodial financial application Tria recently announced its latest ecosystem data. As of now, the total card spending on the platform has exceeded $100 million, with transaction volume through BestPath routing surpassing $200 million, and the total futures trading volume reaching approximately $1 billion. In addition, its assets under management (AUM) have now exceeded $40 million, and it has distributed over $5 million in rewards to users and more than 14,000 platform ambassadors.In terms of product ecosystem planning, Tria revealed that it will launch a travel-related section within two weeks and plans to gradually roll out new features such as virtual accounts, QR code payments, and fiat withdrawal and recharge channels in the near future to further expand the usage and circulation scenarios of crypto assets.

According to the Financial Times, Intel (INTC.O) plans to launch an artificial intelligence chip by the end of the year, which will use cheaper memory and cooling technologies than competitors from Nvidia and AMD.

Polymarket announced on Thursday that it has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with the Berlin digital football platform OneFootball, which will connect the prediction market to OneFootball's 200 million monthly active users and 645 million fan ecosystem about two weeks before the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Polymarket will be the only prediction market partner within the OneFootball app, and competitors like Kalshi will not be allowed to enter this product.This is Polymarket's seventh major football partnership this year and the first collaboration aimed at media application distribution channels, having previously signed agreements with MLS, LaLiga, Serie A, Lazio, and DAZN.According to analysis by the Pew Research Center, since July 2024, sports have accounted for 39% of Polymarket's total trading volume. The 2026 World Cup champion market has seen a cumulative trading volume of over $1.2 billion since its launch last July, while the broader World Cup category market totals approximately $1.3 billion.OneFootball has previously launched the OFC token based on Base and Ethereum, as well as the points system BALLS. The integration with Polymarket will convert user engagement into actual transactions. OneFootball has raised over $300 million in funding, with investors including Liberty City Ventures, Animoca Brands, and Adidas.

The Binance contract platform will launch the LLYUSDT perpetual contract on June 1 at 21:30, the NVOUSDT perpetual contract at 21:35, the BBXUSDT perpetual contract at 21:40, the NOKUSDT perpetual contract at 21:45, the EWTUSDT perpetual contract at 21:50, and the ASTSUSDT perpetual contract at 21:55, with a maximum leverage of 20 times.

a16z Crypto published an article analyzing the unique value and challenges faced by prediction markets. Prediction markets allow participants to trade on the outcomes of events, aggregating dispersed information through price signals to provide real-time estimates of the probabilities of future events. Unlike traditional polls, prediction markets have the ability to update in real-time and incentivize participants to bet their capital on their information, thereby improving prediction accuracy.The article points out that prediction markets are used not only by companies for product launches and research experiment forecasts but also by the media as a source of "crowd wisdom," covering a wide range of events from geopolitical issues to AI model performance. Its core advantage lies in providing independent probability estimates for specific events, rather than relying on indirect signals from overall asset price movements. However, prediction markets still face challenges related to infrastructure and market design, including event verification, contract settlement, participant information adequacy, and potential manipulation risks.a16z believes that if these issues are resolved, prediction markets are expected to become important tools for decision-making and information aggregation, expanding financial and societal insights into future events.

According to Jinshi reports, sources say that OpenAI has discussed its upcoming IPO with Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and others. The sources indicate that Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase may join Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in preparing for the listing.The sources state that discussions with Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase do not guarantee that they will ultimately participate in this IPO. Other investment banks may also eventually get involved.

According to CoinDesk, Ripple is leading a financing plan of at least $1 billion, intending to establish a publicly traded treasury company focused on holding XRP through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).The report states that this entity will use the raised funds to continuously increase its holdings of XRP, and Ripple is also expected to inject some of its own XRP holdings into the treasury. The terms of the related transaction are still under discussion, and the final plan may be adjusted.If successfully implemented, this will become the largest known XRP treasury plan to date. Market analysts believe that this move will test institutional investors' acceptance of the XRP treasury model and whether the digital asset treasury company model can expand from Bitcoin to other mainstream crypto assets.Currently, the market capitalization of XRP is approximately $138 billion, making it one of the top-ranking crypto assets globally. Since the beginning of this year, XRP has seen a cumulative increase of about 13%.It is worth noting that as the crypto market has recently experienced increased volatility, the stock prices of some digital asset treasury companies have come under pressure, and the market has begun to pay attention to whether similar models are facing demand saturation. However, if this plan is ultimately implemented, it may bring a new source of institutional buying for XRP and further strengthen its narrative in the capital markets.

Zama's official response to Circle's freezing of the cUSDC contract event states that Circle's compliance system flagged a wallet belonging to an external depositor. Since this wallet holds funds in the cUSDC contract, the entire contract was automatically swept into a standard holding freeze. This is merely incidental damage and not a sanction against the Zama Protocol. The Zama legal team has intervened and is isolating the flagged address, and will restore access for all unaffected participants as soon as possible.

Jason Smith, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' fundraising committee, stated that digital asset tax legislation must receive bipartisan support; otherwise, the related bill process will not advance. Subsequently, U.S. Representatives Steven Horsford, Max Miller, Suzan DelBene, and Mike Carey jointly proposed the "Digital Asset Protection, Accountability, Regulation, Innovation, Taxation, and Revenue Act" (PARITY Act). The bill aims to update digital asset tax rules, provide a clearer regulatory framework for the market, while enhancing investor protection and preventing market manipulation.Representative Steven Horsford stated that the bill will help ordinary investors participate more safely in the digital asset market and promote wealth accumulation opportunities. Max Miller believes that the current U.S. tax laws are unable to adapt to the rapid development of digital assets and modern financial technology. Currently, the PARITY Act and the advancing CLARITY Act are seen as important components of establishing a comprehensive regulatory system for crypto assets in the United States.The U.S. Congress released a tax policy discussion draft in March this year and held a bipartisan roundtable in May to discuss the tax framework for crypto assets. The market is closely watching whether the CLARITY Act can be passed by 2026. Analysts believe that if both the CLARITY Act and the PARITY Act are ultimately legislated and combined with the subsequent rule-making of the GENIUS Act, the U.S. crypto industry will welcome a clearer regulatory environment, further promoting Web3 and DeFi into the mainstream financial system.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the indictment of Texas resident Nathan Fuller, accusing him of committing fraud through a cryptocurrency trading scheme, raising approximately $12.3 million from about 150 investors. The SEC pointed out that Fuller sold related investment products to investors through entities such as Privvy Investments from October 2022 to mid-2024, claiming to use a self-developed AI trading robot for high-frequency arbitrage trading in cryptocurrency assets.According to the indictment, Fuller promised investors returns of over 40%-50% within 30 to 45 days and claimed that guaranteed returns of over 100% could be achieved in as little as 21 days. The SEC stated that the AI trading robot did not operate as advertised, Fuller misappropriated at least $6.2 million of investor funds for personal expenses, and used approximately $5.5 million for payouts similar to a Ponzi scheme, while misleading investors through forged account statements and false documents.

According to Reuters, private equity giant Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group are bringing in more investors for a debt financing deal worth approximately $36 billion to help Anthropic build its artificial intelligence infrastructure.Insiders revealed that this debt financing will be used to purchase Google-customized TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) chips, which will then be leased by Anthropic. Broadcom, which assisted Google in developing the chips, will provide guarantees for the majority of the funds in this transaction.This move is expected to become one of the largest private credit transactions in history and may also be the largest chip financing debt transaction to date. The plan aims to provide computational power support for Anthropic by leveraging Broadcom's creditworthiness.

The Zcash Foundation has released the node client Zebra version 4.5.0 update, which includes multiple security fixes, including a critical consensus vulnerability and several high-risk denial of service (DoS) issues. All node operators are strongly advised to upgrade immediately.It is reported that this core fix includes a sigop counting error caused by P2SH script parsing (which may lead to a consensus fork with zcashd), a defect in the NU5 block validation cache logic, a risk of transparent address balance overflow crashes, as well as multiple crashes and resource exhaustion vulnerabilities in RPC interfaces and memory pool handling. Additionally, some vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious nodes, leading to node freezes, reboot loops, or even permanent shutdowns.

Elon Musk posted on the X platform denying reports that SpaceX has lowered its IPO valuation target to at least $1.8 trillion.