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According to Cointelegraph, there is a clear divergence in the industry's views on the current trends in the cryptocurrency market. Economist Timothy Peterson stated that Bitcoin may slowly rise in the summer, expecting to reach a temporary peak by the end of July and perform relatively flat.

After Binance announced the release of a new product on June 1, Zhao Changpeng shared the relevant news and humorously commented, "I hope it's true."Stimulated by the news, the market began to speculate on the new business direction, with some opinions suggesting it may be related to investment channels in the U.S. stock market.

According to Forbes, the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid has launched the pre-IPO perpetual contract for SpaceX (SPCX-USDC) on Trade.xyz, sparking a global regulatory gray area controversy. This contract allows leveraged trading without holding any shares of SpaceX and has not been authorized by the company, with an initial reference price of $150, corresponding to an implied valuation of approximately $1.78 trillion, which quickly surged to $216.It is reported that this contract is settled in USDC, with prices derived from market oracles, and is not linked to SpaceX's actual financials or equity structure. SpaceX itself has neither authorized nor participated in this market, yet its valuation is being priced and traded in real-time on-chain, leading to the controversy of "private company price discovery being taken over by decentralized derivatives." This market originates from Hyperliquid's HIP-3 mechanism, which supports the notion that the valuations of private companies may be being repriced by on-chain derivatives, while the regulatory framework has yet to be established.

According to Fortune magazine, Elon Musk's close friend and founder of Valor Equity Partners, Antonio Gracias, may gain over $100 billion in wealth due to the SpaceX IPO.It is reported that Valor holds more than 500 million shares of SpaceX Class A stock. If SpaceX goes public with a rumored valuation of $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion, the value of its holdings could reach between $90 billion and $140 billion.At the same time, the approximately $20 billion related party transactions between SpaceX and Valor have also sparked corporate governance controversies. Documents show that subsidiaries related to xAI under SpaceX had signed three GPU infrastructure leasing agreements with Valor, all of which were guaranteed for payment by SpaceX. The auditing firm PwC believes that the nature of the transaction is closer to a loan rather than a normal sale-leaseback, and therefore requires that approximately $9 billion of related debt be included in SpaceX's balance sheet.

Documents from the U.S. Department of Justice show that Trump has reached an unusual settlement agreement with the federal government, terminating a $10 billion lawsuit filed by him and his businesses against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and further expanding the relevant terms.The agreement states that the IRS will be "permanently prohibited" from investigating or continuing existing audits related to tax returns previously submitted by Trump, his businesses, and family members. The Department of Justice stated that this restriction only applies to the scope of existing audits.Meanwhile, the U.S. government has agreed to establish a "Deweaponization Fund" of up to $1.8 billion to compensate individuals or groups claiming to have been improperly treated during government investigations. This arrangement has been criticized by some Democratic lawmakers as a "disguised transfer of benefits," and has also raised questions within the Republican Party.Former IRS Commissioner pointed out that there has never been a precedent showing that the tax agency would permanently waive its right to review the historical filings of specific individuals or businesses, emphasizing that tax enforcement principles should remain consistent for all taxpayers. The Senate indicated that there are still many unresolved issues with this agreement, which is expected to continue to spark political controversy and regulatory discussions.

According to on-chain analyst @ai 9684xtpa, Sun Yuchen has once again withdrawn 41.99 million SPK financial rewards from Spark after a two-week interval, worth approximately 1.23 million USD, and has since fully deposited it into HTX, suspected to be sold.Since September 2025, Sun Yuchen has transferred approximately 610 million SPK to exchanges, with a total value of about 19.08 million USD.

CleanSpark released its Q1 fiscal year 2026 earnings report: the revenue for the quarter was $136.4 million, a year-over-year decrease of 24.9%; the net loss was $378.3 million, compared to a net loss of $138.8 million in the same period last year; adjusted EBITDA was negative $241.2 million.At the same time, the company stated that contracted power capacity doubled year-over-year, including 585 MW of capacity approved by ERCOT; Bitcoin holdings increased by 14% year-over-year, and average monthly hash rate increased by 18% year-over-year. As of March 31, 2026, CleanSpark held $260.3 million in cash, $925.2 million in Bitcoin assets, and total assets of $2.9 billion.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun withdrew 7,461 ETH from Binance 5 hours ago, worth 17.27 million USD, and has since deposited it into Spark.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the whale nemorino.eth has started a new round of trading.12 hours ago, during the market decline, he bought 2,091.43 ETH on-chain at an average price of $2,386.78, worth $5 million. Currently, the ETH has been deposited in Spark to earn interest.

Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark released its unaudited operational data for April, reporting a mining output of 640 bitcoins for the month, but a total of 748 bitcoins were sold, bringing the total bitcoin holdings down to 13,453 by the end of April.CleanSpark stated that its bitcoin mining business will continue to serve as a source of funding, supporting the expansion for future AI data centers and hyperscale computing customers, but it will advance the transition path towards an AI infrastructure platform.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a suspected address of Sun Yuchen has withdrawn 3.2 million USDT from Spark again, totaling 96.62 million US dollars in stablecoins withdrawn.The financial address 0x939...6A1D1 currently has 1.15 billion dollars in funds on Spark, of which 1.02 billion is USDS and 131 million is USDC. After previously suspected to have sold 5.51 million dollars worth of USDS farming rewards, new rewards have accumulated to nearly 600,000 dollars.

The Spark protocol released its financial report for the first quarter of 2026 on April 27.The report shows that the gross protocol return for the quarter was $31.5 million (a 31% decrease quarter-over-quarter), the net protocol return was $6.91 million (a 30% decrease quarter-over-quarter), and the net protocol surplus was $3.46 million (a 47% decrease quarter-over-quarter). The protocol treasury reached a size of $46.1 million at the end of the quarter (a 5.7% increase quarter-over-quarter). Additionally, Spark launched a SPK token buyback program, investing $986,000 to repurchase tokens from the open market.The revenue structure for this quarter has shifted, with distribution rewards becoming the largest net return contributor to the protocol ($3.31 million), surpassing the net income from Spark Liquidity Layer (SLL) for the first time. The average deployed capital for SLL was $1.93 billion, with an average annualized yield of 5.8%. SparkLend continues to support institutional-level lending operations, with its USDT savings treasury continuing to grow. The Spark institutional lending product deployed $150 million at the end of the quarter, with governance approving its $1 billion cap.The report noted that the current unfavorable conditions in the DeFi lending market have led to a narrowing of the SLL interest margin, but the protocol's distribution business has seen significant growth. USDS, as a scalable savings-based return mechanism in a poor market environment, is continuously expanding its distribution channels to multi-chain and various stablecoins.

According to CoinDesk, Paul Sztorc, a developer who has long focused on Bitcoin scaling solutions, proposed a Bitcoin hard fork named eCash to be initiated in August 2026 at block height 964,000, distributing eCash to users holding BTC at a 1:1 ratio at the time of the fork, and introducing a Drivechains sidechain architecture in the new chain.The controversy mainly revolves around the plan to pre-allocate a portion of eCash corresponding to Satoshi Nakamoto's address on the new chain to early investors, a move that has drawn criticism from the community, with some individuals claiming it involves "stealing" tokens. Paul Sztorc stated that this move aims to provide incentives for development and collaboration before the project's launch.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Sun Yuchen has deposited a total of $1.3 billion in assets to Spark, with USDS Farming rewards reaching as high as $5.38 million.Sun Yuchen's address 0x939...6a1d1 withdrew 300 million USDS from Sky in the past 3 hours and then deposited it into Spark. The current deposits on the platform are as follows:USDS: $436 million, accounting for 18.72% of the deposit pool;USDC: $135 million, accounting for 28.17% of the deposit pool;USDT: $93.39 million, accounting for 9.89% of the deposit pool.

Spark posted on platform X that the total staked amount of the native token SPK has exceeded 500 million, with current data showing it has reached 509,969,466. At the same time, users can participate in the Spark Points Program for the fourth quarter by staking SPK and receive point rewards.Previously, due to the rsETH security incident, Aave experienced continuous outflows of funds, while Spark attracted some of the large whales/institutions that withdrew funds from Aave.