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According to Arkham monitoring, the address starting with 0x158 bought 2000 ETH at a price of $0.31 each during the Ethereum presale, with a total cost of about $620, and transferred it out 5 minutes ago after holding it for over 10 years.At the current price, this ETH is worth about $4.2 million, an increase of about 6800 times.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, SNDK (SanDisk) rose sharply again by 10% during the last trading day, maintaining a high position in the night session. The SNDK contract on the Hyperliquid platform is currently reported at $1540, with a daily trading volume of $101 million. The on-chain long position with the most considerable profit in this round of increase is 0x7b5, which went long on 2050.7 SNDK with 10x leverage, currently realizing a floating profit of $700,000. This address initially invested only $246,000 in April, with an average entry price of $1199, and has now recorded a return of 284% on the principal. Address: 0x7b51c5d9366077e1b3c1cba383389752f486071b.

Aave has officially proposed a principal retention charitable donation layer, allowing users to continuously donate the generated income to charity while retaining control and liquidity of the principal.The proposal is currently undergoing a temp-check vote in the Aave governance forum. Its core aim is to address three major pain points of traditional charitable models: donors must permanently give up the principal, the funding flow of charitable organizations is unstable, and there is a lack of transparency in the use of funds.According to the proposal, users can deposit assets into yield-generating infrastructures like Aave, direct the earned income to donations, and withdraw the principal at any time.

According to Jin Shi reports, the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $30 million settlement agreement with Paypal (PYPL.O).

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, SK Hynix's stock price has been rising recently. On Hyperliquid, whales with positions over one million dollars in SKHYNIX (SK Hynix mapping contracts) are all short positions, currently all at a floating loss.The whale with the deepest floating loss opened its position on February 20, shorting 3,394.6 SKHYNIX (approximately 4.36 million dollars) with 4x leverage, at an entry average price of 816 dollars and a liquidation price of 1,592 dollars. After holding the position for nearly 3 months, the current floating loss has expanded to 1.58 million dollars, with a loss rate of 119%, which is more than double its initial investment. As of the time of writing, the position has not been closed.With SK Hynix having reached an all-time high, the contract on Hyperliquid is currently quoted at 1,299 dollars, and new shorts continue to enter the market, with the latest whale's entry average price at 1,250 dollars; the liquidation line for the nearest short address on-chain is at 1,451 dollars.

According to CoinDesk, executives from PayPal and Google Cloud stated that future AI Agent-driven business activities will operate on a cryptocurrency payment track, as AI Agents cannot use traditional bank accounts like humans.Richard Widmann, Head of Google Cloud Web3 Strategy, mentioned that AI Agents cannot directly open bank accounts on both technical and regulatory levels, while cryptocurrencies provide an "excellent machine-readable payment interface." He revealed that Google has launched the open Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2) and donated it to the FIDO Foundation, with over 120 partners, including PayPal, already on board.May Zabaneh, Senior Vice President of PayPal's crypto business, stated that the company views AI Agents as the next generation of business entry points following offline, online, and mobile payments. She pointed out that PYUSD, as PayPal's stablecoin, provides a natural programmable payment layer for AI-native payments and global transactions.A PayPal survey showed that 95% of merchant websites currently have AI Agent traffic, but only about 20% of merchants have machine-readable product catalogs. Zabaneh believes that merchants need to adapt to the AI Agent era as soon as possible, or they will miss the next opportunity for upgrading their business infrastructure. Additionally, both parties discussed the security and accountability issues surrounding AI Agents.Widmann stated that multi-party custody will become an important solution for managing Agent funds, and AI Agents should not fully control private keys but only hold partial key fragments to reduce financial risks.

According to Jinshi reports, the UK's financial regulatory authority has launched an investigation into Mastercard (MA.N), Visa (V.N), and PayPal (PYPL.O) due to suspicions of anti-competitive behavior regarding the flow and use of funds in the PayPal digital wallet.The UK's Financial Conduct Authority stated on Wednesday that it has not yet concluded whether the relevant companies have violated competition law. PayPal disclosed this investigation in a regulatory filing this week. A representative from PayPal stated that the company is cooperating with the FCA investigation but will not comment further as the case is still ongoing.

Digital payment company PayPal (PYPL) announced its Q1 2026 financial report, with net revenue of $8.35 billion, exceeding market expectations of $8.05 billion; adjusted earnings per share were $1.34, higher than the estimated $1.27.However, the company provided cautious guidance for Q2, expecting adjusted earnings per share to decline by about 9% quarter-over-quarter, with guidance set at $1.34. It also provided full-year guidance for fiscal year 2026, with adjusted earnings per share of $5.32 and revenue of $34.06 billion.Affected by the Q2 guidance falling short of expectations, PayPal's stock price briefly dropped over 10% during trading, but the decline has since narrowed to about 8%.

Payment giant PayPal officially announced the launch of a strategic restructuring, simplifying its business into three core segments: payment checkout and PayPal, consumer financial services and Venmo, and cryptocurrency and payment services. Among them, cryptocurrency and payment services are listed as a separate core business unit, integrating payment processing, platform capabilities, and cryptocurrency operations, including Braintree, payment processing for small and medium-sized merchants, value-added services, and the stablecoin PYUSD. Jeff Pomeroy has been appointed as the interim head of this segment.Analysts believe that the independent inclusion of cryptocurrency business into the core operational structure means that PayPal is further strengthening its stablecoin PYUSD and digital asset payment ecosystem layout.

Payment giant PayPal officially announced the launch of a strategic reorganization, simplifying its business into three core segments: payment checkout and PayPal, consumer financial services and Venmo, and cryptocurrency and payment services. The cryptocurrency and payment services segment is listed as a core business unit, integrating payment processing, platform capabilities, and cryptocurrency business, including Braintree, payment processing for small and medium-sized merchants, value-added services, and stablecoin PYUSD. Jeff Pomeroy has been appointed as the interim head of this segment.PayPal President and CEO Enrique Lores stated that this reorganization aims to accelerate the execution of long-term growth strategies, simplify decision-making processes, and drive innovation. It will promote sustainable growth by being closer to consumer needs, strengthening collaboration among the three business segments, and enhancing operational efficiency. It is reported that PayPal will provide more details about the new operating model during the earnings call on May 5.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, former PayPal president and Lightspark CEO David Marcus announced the launch of a new type of Bitcoin wallet that supports AI agents to purchase BTC and conduct fund transfers.

The savings-type stablecoin project Buck announced that it is gradually ending the operation of the Buck protocol and tokens to make room for future projects. All holders will receive a 100% principal refund. The support for STRC and USDC remains valid and is over-collateralized, and the redemption channel is now open. The team will keep the redemption window open until all holders have completed their redemptions. The team stated that they are fully committed to new projects.

According to a report by The Block, Mizuho Bank research analysts released a report on Thursday stating that the financial feature X Money launched by Elon Musk's X platform has the potential to disrupt the U.S. payment industry, but the cryptocurrency integration plan may face regulatory obstacles.Mizuho analysts Dan Dolev and Andrew Jenkins wrote in a client report that X Money is positioned as the financial infrastructure layer of the X platform, aiming to integrate instant messaging, bank deposits, and commercial transaction functions, similar to the "super app" model of WeChat Pay or Alipay. With 500 to 600 million monthly active users on the X platform and Musk's background as a co-founder of PayPal in the payment industry, X Money has the potential to disrupt the U.S. payment industry.On the regulatory front, the analysts pointed out two major potential obstacles: first, the recent "CRYPTO Act" proposed in New York aims to criminalize unlicensed virtual currency operations in the state, which will raise the compliance threshold for X's future cryptocurrency integration plans; second, the "Clarity Act" may restrict non-bank financial platforms from offering yields to users, potentially hindering X Money's plan to provide users with an annualized yield of 6% on cash balances, with analysts stating that the timing for the launch of this yield product is "particularly sensitive."Mizuho also downgraded PayPal (PYPL) stock rating to "neutral," noting that PayPal and its Venmo app face the most direct substitution risk, as X is targeting the same peer-to-peer transfer and digital wallet entry points.This week, the X platform also launched a new feature called "Cashtags," allowing users to view financial data for stocks and cryptocurrencies directly in their timeline.

Former Goldman Sachs executive, author of "Global Macro Investor," and co-founder and CEO of Real Vision Raoul Pal stated on social media, "The ETH/BTC exchange rate has become very interesting now, consistent with the trends of the business cycle (ISM rising) and increasing liquidity. From a long-term chart perspective, the trend remains very constructive. Since 2017, ETH has largely maintained its value relative to BTC; if this chart continues to develop along the current trend, ETH should outperform BTC over time.This is also intuitively reasonable: as a smart contract platform, ETH's total addressable market (TAM) is fundamentally different from the 'store of value' property of BTC. BTC primarily carries the total savings value, while ETH can carry the value of economic activity itself. Because of this difference, the dominance of smart contracts relative to BTC will continue to rise over time."

According to Bloomberg, the New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs plans to issue municipal bonds backed by Bitcoin, with a total scale of approximately $100 million. This product has received a Ba2 rating from Moody's Investors Service (two notches below investment grade).The principal and interest of the bonds will be repaid using funds generated from the Bitcoin collateral, providing additional returns when Bitcoin prices rise, and there are price-triggered liquidation clauses to ensure repayment; the related debt is not supported by state government credit or taxes.