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According to Globenewswire, Trump Media Technology Group (TMTG) announced ongoing discussions with TAE Technologies and Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp. regarding a potential transaction.Under the proposed plan, after the previously announced merger transaction between Trump Media Technology Group and TAE is completed, some businesses, including Truth Social, may be spun off into a new publicly traded company. After the transaction is completed, TAE's related businesses and some existing businesses and assets of Trump Media Technology Group will remain within the current publicly traded company entity.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, World Liberty Finance deposited 11.4 million WLFI into OKX, worth 1.31 million USD.

According to Yu Jin's report, 11.2 billion PUMP (approximately $21.22 million) was transferred from the pump core treasury associated wallet to the exchange Kraken one hour ago, accounting for about 1.12% of the total supply of PUMP. On-chain records show that this address received 20 billion PUMP from the core treasury wallet when PUMP was listed last July, which accounted for about 2% of the total supply at that time.

A super political action committee in the cryptocurrency industry named Fellowship PAC made a high-profile announcement last September that it would raise $100 million for the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, with reports suggesting a possible connection to Tether. However, as of the latest disclosure documents from the Federal Election Commission, the committee has a reported balance of zero and has not actually raised or spent any funds. A Tether spokesperson stated this week that Tether International has no affiliation or oversight relationship with Fellowship.

According to GlobeNewswire, the social-native prediction market platform Kash announced the completion of a $2 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Spartan Group, Coinbase Ventures, Kosmos Ventures, Halo Capital, MoonRock Capital, Polaris Fund, and Fabric VC.The new funding will support its development of financial tools embedded in social media platforms like X, enabling users to make prediction trades directly from their feeds and create prediction events. A simulated testnet has already been launched on the X platform.

Vitalik Buterin expressed support for the AI company Anthropic in adhering to two ethical principles: "not developing fully autonomous weapons" and "not engaging in large-scale surveillance for the U.S." He praised their determination in the face of government pressure. Vitalik believes that in an ideal world, such high-risk applications should only be accessible at the level of open-source LLMs (i.e., a level where everyone can access it equally); even achieving just 10% progress could reduce the risks of autonomous weapons and privacy violations, promoting safer AI development.Previously, it was reported that the Pentagon recently threatened to cut ties with Anthropic, which could lead to a loss of a $200 million contract, because Anthropic refused to provide AI technology for military use without human intervention.

According to market news, a wallet associated with "Forward Industries" deposited 8,200 Ethereum (approximately $14.91 million) into Coinbase, which had held the funds for 2-3 years and is facing a loss of $10.82 million.The whale initially received 23,491 Ethereum (approximately $76.26 million) from Binance and Coinbase for staking, and then deposited 23,914 Ethereum (approximately $65.44 million) back into the exchange.

According to on-chain analysts, an address (0x5fF...33c37) that had a financial association with 7 siblings six months ago has purchased 2,179.22 ETH on-chain at an average price of $1,852 over the past 8 hours, totaling $4.03 million.7 siblings have accumulated a total of 336,250.9 ETH in their public address, with a total value of $620 million.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain Matrixport-associated whale has been continuously increasing its long position in ETH during the market downturn, currently holding 115,000 ETH, worth $215 million. This whale (0x6C8...84F6, 0xa5B...1D41) is currently facing an unrealized loss of over $15.5 million.

According to Arkham monitoring, about three hours ago, a wallet associated with the World Liberty Fi strategic reserve address transferred 26.6 million WLFI to a new wallet, worth 3.2 million dollars.Based on previous transaction history, these tokens may be transferred to an exchange for sale afterward.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the wallet address associated with Pumpfun "77DsB" has been continuously selling off $PUMP tokens on a large scale, having sold 3.376 billion PUMP for 7.23 million USDC.The wallet currently holds only 373.49 million PUMP, worth approximately 788,000 USD.

According to a report by Hong Kong media Orange News, the President of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professionals Association, Chen Zhi-hua, disclosed that the Hong Kong virtual asset industry is facing a sudden "compliance storm." Practitioners in related businesses have reported encountering bewildering regulatory requirements during the application process for virtual asset-related business qualifications. The existing written policy requires an additional 5 hours of Continuing Professional Training (CPT).However, the latest requirements were not issued through formal written documents or public guidelines, but were communicated "quietly" to license upgrade applicants in the form of verbal notifications or individual emails, stating that all responsible officers (RO) for relevant license upgrades, including those who have already obtained upgrade qualifications, must pass a virtual asset regulation exam conducted by a designated single institution. This nearly "invisible" directive undermines the transparency and fairness that regulatory agencies should uphold.Chen Zhi-hua suggested maintaining the original requirement of an additional 5 hours of Continuing Professional Training (CPT) and urged regulatory agencies to immediately suspend the enforcement of exam requirements through invisible policies.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a wallet suspected to be associated with Bitmine received 17,222 ETH from Kraken, worth over 34.7 million dollars.Currently, the wallet holds a total of 27,722 ETH, valued at approximately 54.57 million dollars.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Pump.fun associated address has sold 2.07 billion PUMP worth 4.55 million USDC today, and still holds 1.676 billion PUMP (approximately 3.38 million USD).

Decentralized SocialFi platform Zora has announced the launch of a new Attention Markets platform on the Solana chain, allowing traders to trade on trending words, topics, tags, and trends. Users on the platform can create "Trends" before a topic goes viral and track their profits and losses in real-time.Zora co-founder Jacob Horne stated that currently, creating a Trend requires 1 SOL to curb spam, and the Trend itself does not provide creator rewards, but Pairs under the Trend can earn creator incentives.Additionally, according to a job posting released by Zora, the company is seeking an "Attention Economist" responsible for tracking cultural trends on platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X to predict the next wave of trends.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a wallet associated with K3 Capital withdrew 20,000 ETH from Binance 6 hours ago, worth approximately $40.08 million.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, an address associated with the Pump.fun custody wallet sold 543.23 million PUMP tokens about 2 hours ago, receiving 1.207 million USDC. The wallet received 3.75 billion PUMP tokens 7 months ago, worth 25.39 million dollars.

According to the network status monitoring website DownDetector, the social media platform "X" is experiencing issues. It is reported that 11,266 users in the United States have reported problems with the social media platform "X," and 6,424 users in the United Kingdom have reported issues with the social media platform "X."

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, 5 hours ago, 5 wallets associated with Sun Yuchen collectively withdrew 2.6 million LIT (4.07 million USD) from Lighter and then transferred it to HTX.

According to Gate's market data, the AI-driven Web3 social payment platform MetYa's token $MY has surged strongly in the past 24 hours, with an increase of 103%, currently priced at approximately $0.14.