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According to Jinshi reports, the director of the National Economic Council of the White House, Hassett, stated that if the U.S. and Iran reach a potential agreement, it could lead to a significant drop in energy prices and create room for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. He also pointed out that recent inflationary pressures have been primarily driven by high energy costs.

According to Cointelegraph, an investigative report released by The New York Times on Sunday revealed that several senior officials from the CFTC, who had raised regulatory concerns about Polymarket, Crypto.com, and Gemini affiliates, were subsequently suspended, subjected to internal investigations, and forced to resign. The three companies mentioned have been accused of having business ties to the Trump family.The report stated that then-CFTC acting chair Caroline Pham and her senior advisors intervened to assist the aforementioned companies in obtaining the necessary approvals. By the end of 2025, five officials who questioned or enforced cryptocurrency regulatory laws were placed on administrative leave and internal investigation, without being informed of the specific reasons. After leaving, Pham joined the cryptocurrency company MoonPay, which has a partnership with Polymarket, while her senior advisor Brigitte Weyls became the legal counsel for Gemini Titan—whose application was approved with her involvement.On the enforcement front, the CFTC has withdrawn at least five cryptocurrency investigations, with the number of enforcement actions plummeting from over 80 during the Biden administration to just two during Trump's term. In response, a White House spokesperson denied any conflict of interest, stating that "President Trump only acts in the best interest of the American public."

According to GoPlus analysis, the stablecoin protocol StablR had security issues with its multi-signature contract settings on Ethereum (multi-signature threshold of 1), and the holder's private key was stolen, resulting in StablR $EURR and $USDR stablecoins being depegged by 20%. The attacker has profited approximately $2.8 million.

The crypto analytics platform Santiment stated that the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF has seen a cumulative net outflow of approximately $1.26 billion over the past six trading days, which may instead constitute a "contrarian buy signal" for Bitcoin. Santiment believes that the ETF fund flows reflect retail sentiment more than changes in "smart money" positions.The report pointed out that some retail investors have lost patience due to Bitcoin's failure to hold above $80,000 in May, with the current BTC price around $75,400, down from a high of about $79,000 on May 16. Santiment noted that historically, sustained ETF outflows often correspond to a phase that is "suitable for patient accumulation," rather than market panic. However, this view diverges from the mainstream market opinion. Most analysts believe that continuous outflows from the spot Bitcoin ETF typically indicate weakening market sentiment and that prices may face further pressure.On the other hand, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart mentioned that since the ETF launch, cumulative net inflows have approached $60 billion, essentially recovering the impact of approximately $9 billion in outflows from last October to this February, and he expects that as more ETF products are launched in the future, the scale of inflows is likely to set new historical highs.

Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC announced that its Series B round of financing is about to be completed, with a total financing amount expected to reach approximately 5 billion yen. New investors in this round include Life Design Fund, IHD STRATEGY FUND, a fund under Awa Bank, and Meiji Yasuda Future Co-Creation Fund, among others.JPYC stated that the new financing will mainly be used for system and application development, recruitment of business expansion talent, promotion of stablecoin payment and management business, as well as the construction of M2M (machine-to-machine) payment scenarios for AI Agents. JPYC obtained a license for Japanese money transfer operators in 2025 and began issuing the stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen at a 1:1 ratio, in the same year. The company reported that within about 7 months of issuance, the number of accounts reached 18,000, with a cumulative issuance exceeding 2.5 billion yen and a total transaction volume exceeding 35 billion yen. Currently, JPYC has been deployed on four chains: Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and Kaia, and has integrated with the LINE ecosystem Web3 wallet Unifi, aiming to promote the adoption of stablecoins among ordinary users in Japan.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Governor Waller stated that given the increasing risks of inflation, the Federal Reserve should no longer consider further rate cuts as the default plan. He pointed out that with the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, rising costs of oil and other commodities could trigger broader and more persistent inflation. Therefore, the Federal Reserve should stop signaling rate cuts. Waller believes that stabilizing interest rates in the range of 3.5% to 3.75% is the right approach and indicated that if inflation does not weaken soon, the possibility of future rate hikes cannot be ruled out.

On May 18 and 19, Mentis's web3-alpha-scanner Skill scanned for long opportunities on the Hyperliquid token $HYPE for two consecutive days.On May 18, Mentis captured a strong long signal: two top smart money addresses simultaneously held large HYPE long positions, with a total scale of approximately $9.49 million, realizing a profit of over $830,000. On May 19, Mentis again indicated that $HYPE showed smart money accumulation signals in the $42-$45 range and provided a target range of $54-$60, after which the market quickly realized the gains.

HashKey Capital's fund announced the completion of a $40 million strategic investment in the options trading platform SignalPlus, which includes a $20 million cash contribution from HashKey Group.It is reported that SignalPlus focuses on options trading systems, automated market making, and structured product solutions, and is a leading institutional-grade crypto derivatives platform in Asia, holding a significant share in the mainstream options market. This round of investment is a continued commitment from HashKey Capital since SignalPlus's seed round financing, and both parties will deepen their strategic cooperation to jointly promote product innovation and global institutional business expansion.

The cutting-edge financial infrastructure platform B.AI for the AI era has announced that the recharge function for $HTX and $WBTC is now officially online. After this upgrade, users can conveniently operate through TRON, Ethereum (supporting WBTC and HTX), and BNB Chain (supporting HTX). As of now, the B.AI ecosystem has fully covered 8 major public chains including TRON, BNB Chain, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana, and supports up to 15 core crypto assets. B.AI is committed to breaking down cross-chain asset barriers, allowing users to enjoy a fast, secure, and seamless account and payment experience, regardless of their preferred network or asset.

The brand new version of ChainCatcher's official website is officially launched, with a comprehensive optimization of the homepage information structure. Through clearer content categorization, more reasonable interaction hierarchy, and more intuitive display methods, high-value content can be quickly accessed on the first screen, helping users more efficiently complete information filtering, market judgment, and decision-making.The new official website has simultaneously launched or upgraded several core functions: the homepage has added a panoramic data panel that aggregates macro funds, exchange dynamics, and mainstream Token market trends, helping users quickly establish a macro understanding of the market; in-depth articles are integrated with AI intelligent summarization, significantly reducing the reading cost of long articles; the "Selected Events" calendar has been fully upgraded, supporting large token unlocks and tracking important macro events, assisting users in grasping key nodes in advance.Welcome to experience the new version of ChainCatcher and enjoy a more efficient and clearer information acquisition experience.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Sign (SIGN) will unlock approximately 20.778 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on May 28, worth about 3.63 million USD.

According to informed sources, U.S. President Trump is expected to issue an executive order aimed at strengthening cybersecurity for artificial intelligence as early as Thursday and has invited leaders from the tech industry to attend the signing event. Media reports previously indicated that the order Trump is expected to sign will modify the existing cybersecurity information sharing program to include artificial intelligence companies, but it will not require federal approval for cutting-edge models.Instead, the order will call for voluntary testing of cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems by the government to identify and patch vulnerabilities in federal, state, and local networks as well as critical infrastructure in the U.S., without the need for extensive new regulations. Informed sources stated that invitations have been sent to several tech industry executives to attend the signing ceremony at the White House on Thursday, but it is currently unclear who will attend.

Cointelegraph posted on the X platform that the governor of South Carolina has signed Bill S.163. The bill protects the self-custody rights of Bitcoin, prohibits discriminatory taxes on Bitcoin, and safeguards the rights of proof-of-work mining in the state.

According to BBX data, yesterday the global digital asset compliance process welcomed a historic policy dividend, as the U.S. federal government and the top securities regulatory agency are jointly breaking down the payment and securities boundaries between the crypto ecosystem and traditional finance. The core dynamics are as follows:Trump signs digital asset executive order: U.S. President Trump officially signed an executive order on Tuesday local time, requiring U.S. financial regulatory agencies to review existing rules within the next three months, identify and dismantle regulations that hinder fintech companies from collaborating with federally regulated financial institutions. The order specifically requires the Federal Reserve to take measures to encourage innovation within six months, reassess the eligibility of non-bank financial companies to access Federal Reserve payment accounts and services, and appoint 12 regional Federal Reserve banks to study the feasibility of independent open payment accounts.SEC poised to release "innovation exemption" framework: According to Bloomberg Law, the "Project Crypto" plan led by SEC Chairman Paul Atkins is expected to officially launch the tokenized stock "innovation exemption" framework as early as this week. This framework will allow crypto-native platforms to provide trading and clearing services for tokenized U.S. stocks to the market during the experimental period without undergoing full broker registration.Traditional exchange giants race to tokenize: Regulatory easing has already sparked competition for existing market share on Wall Street. Nasdaq, Inc. (NASDAQ: $NDAQ) has officially received SEC approval to launch trading of DTC-compliant security token versions by March 2026; meanwhile, the NYSE parent company Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: $ICE) has also submitted its independently developed 24/7 tokenized securities platform for final approval, which is currently pending.

According to Slow Fog's Yu Xian monitoring, multiple user wallets of Bankr have been stolen. @bankrbot replied that the incident was a social engineering attack targeting the trust layer between automated agents, specifically involving the interaction between Grok and Bankrbot, which led to unauthorized transaction signatures.

On Tuesday local time, U.S. President Trump signed an executive order requiring the federal government and the Federal Reserve to review the existing regulatory framework to promote deeper integration of digital assets and financial technology into traditional financial services and payment systems. The executive order mandates U.S. financial regulators to review current rules within the next three months and identify any "unreasonable barriers" to cooperation between fintech companies and federally regulated financial institutions. Within six months, regulators must also take measures to encourage financial innovation. Among other things, the order specifically requires the Federal Reserve to reassess the eligibility of uninsured deposit institutions and non-bank financial companies for payment accounts and payment services.The document also requests the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks to study whether they can independently open payment accounts to relevant institutions without relying on the approval of the Federal Reserve Board. Analysts believe this policy may benefit special purpose deposit institutions in Wyoming and similar structures for cryptocurrency companies. Previously, Kraken's Wyoming SPDI had obtained a limited version of "master account" authority from the Kansas Federal Reserve, and other cryptocurrency institutions are also seeking similar qualifications. Reports indicate that the Federal Reserve is currently also studying a more formal "streamlined master account" mechanism and had announced related proposals last December.

On May 14, BNB Chain released the "BSC Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Report," stating that it has completed the migration testing for quantum-resistant cryptography for transaction signatures and the consensus layer, using the NIST standardized post-quantum signature algorithm ML-DSA-44 (Dilithium) and the pqSTARK aggregation scheme.The report shows that BSC has replaced transaction signatures from ECDSA to ML-DSA-44 and switched consensus voting aggregation from BLS12-381 to pqSTARK to address the potential threats posed by future quantum computing to the existing elliptic curve cryptography system. However, post-quantum signatures also significantly increase the on-chain data volume: the size of a single transaction has increased from about 110 bytes to approximately 2.5KB; the block size in a 2000 TPS scenario has increased from about 130KB to around 2MB; and the TPS in the testing environment has decreased by about 40%-50%.BSC stated that the current network bottleneck mainly comes from the larger transaction data propagation, rather than the consensus protocol itself. Meanwhile, the consensus layer aggregation still maintains high efficiency, with pqSTARK achieving a signature compression ratio of about 43:1, and the additional burden on validators remains within a controllable range. The report concludes that existing technology can achieve "quantum-resistant" deployment for blockchain, but future issues related to network bandwidth and data scalability still need to be addressed.

According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin has fallen from $82,000 to $76,800, a decline of about 6%, but market data suggests that this drop may be an unconventional correction. Three signals behind this round of decline indicate market concerns about further price drops. First, ETF fund outflows are accelerating: since May 7, over $1.5 billion has flowed out of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, with a single-day outflow of $648 million on Monday, the highest since January 29.Secondly, aggressive selling has occurred in both the spot and futures markets: Glassnode data shows that the cumulative volume difference in the spot market has dropped from $16,900,000 to -$126,200,000, while the cumulative volume difference in perpetual contracts has fallen to -$368,500,000, indicating that sellers are actively selling in both the spot and futures markets. Additionally, hedging demand is rising: Glassnode analysts state that the 25-Delta skew of options has increased from 10.9% to 14.4%, indicating that options market participants believe the downside risk is increasing.Vikram Subburaj, CEO of the Indian exchange Giottus, stated that the first support level is around $76,000, followed by the $74,000-$75,000 range. If this range is broken, it could trigger a deeper correction.