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United Texas Bank, headquartered in Dallas, has transitioned from a Texas-chartered bank to a nationally chartered bank approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, positioning itself as an institution connecting global cryptocurrency companies with the U.S. banking system. United Texas Bank states that it currently has the same federal licensing and direct access to the Federal Reserve as major currency center banks, and it has been clearing approximately $10 billion in dollar transactions monthly for global cryptocurrency companies.The bank is launching a 24/7 AI-driven payment network, UTB Atomic, in conjunction with its compliance platform, UTB Prism Sentinel, to restore around-the-clock cryptocurrency liquidity and meet emerging federal regulations related to digital assets and stablecoins.

Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury company BNB Plus announced that it will raise $4.1 million by issuing B-1 series and B-2 series convertible preferred shares, with participation from crypto-native institutional investors such as Comstock Multichain Fund under Silvermine Capital Advisors and Off the Chain LP. The funds raised will be used to increase digital asset reserves, provide operational funding support, and explore opportunities for AI infrastructure development. The company also disclosed that it currently holds over $16.4 million in cash and digital assets.

According to a news release from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Hong Kong police announced that they have joined law enforcement agencies from 9 countries and regions, including Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand, to combat cross-border fraud and money laundering activities. This operation took place from March 10 to May 7, resulting in the arrest of 3,018 individuals, involving over 138,000 fraud cases, with total losses of approximately $752 million (about HKD 5.89 billion).During the operation, law enforcement agencies froze a total of 101,989 bank accounts and successfully intercepted approximately $161 million (about HKD 1.26 billion) in fraudulent funds. Among them, the Hong Kong police arrested 870 individuals and intercepted approximately HKD 539 million in funds. The largest case involved a Singapore company that was defrauded of $36 million (about HKD 280 million), with the related funds subsequently flowing into multiple bank accounts in Hong Kong and other regions. About half of this amount was converted into stablecoins and dispersed into different virtual asset wallets, with the police successfully freezing $20 million of these funds after tracking.Investigations show that money laundering through virtual asset platforms is on the rise, and various regions need to continue enhancing their capabilities to respond to crimes involving virtual assets through intelligence sharing and collaborative mechanisms.

According to monitoring by PeckShield, Verus's Verus-Ethereum Bridge has been hacked, with lost assets including 103.6 tBTC, 1625 ETH, and 147,000 USDC. The hacker subsequently exchanged the stolen assets for approximately 5402.4 ETH. The attacker's address obtained an initial fund of 1 ETH about 14 hours ago through the mixing protocol Tornado Cash.

According to the disclosure on the Strategy official website (Form 8-K, May 15), Strategy announced plans to repurchase $1.5 billion of convertible bonds maturing in 2029.At the same time, the company opened voting on the STRC semi-monthly dividend amendment to STRC and MSTR holders.

According to GlobeNewsWire, Bitcoin mining company IREN Limited announced the completion of a $3 billion convertible senior notes offering, with a coupon rate of 1% and maturing in 2033. This offering includes $2.6 billion in initial issuance and $400 million in overallotment options. The net proceeds are approximately $2.96 billion, of which about $201.3 million will be used to pay for capped call option transaction costs, with the remainder used for general corporate purposes and working capital.

According to GlobeNewswire, IREN announced plans to issue $2 billion of convertible senior notes due in 2033, and grant initial purchasers an additional option to purchase up to $300 million. The notes are unsecured senior debt, expected to mature in December 2033, with proceeds partially used for capped call hedging transactions and the remainder for general corporate purposes and working capital.At the same time, IREN also plans to simultaneously unwind part of the capped call hedging positions related to the convertible bonds maturing in 2029 and 2030. The company stated that hedging institutions may engage in derivative and spot trading around IREN stock, which could affect the stock price and the initial conversion price of the new notes.Previously, IREN has become one of the most aggressive companies in the U.S. stock market in expanding AI data center and Bitcoin mining infrastructure, and this large-scale financing may further enhance its capital expenditure and expansion capabilities.

State Street has partnered with Galaxy to launch the on-chain liquidity fund SWEEP, allowing investors to "one-click transfer" stablecoins into yield-bearing tokenized assets, achieving 24/7 on-chain cash management.The fund will initially be deployed on Solana, with plans to expand to Stellar and Ethereum in the future, and integrate infrastructure such as Chainlink. SWEEP is aimed at qualified investors and is positioned similarly to BlackRock's BUIDL and other products, providing bond-like yields through an on-chain structure, representing the latest exploration of the integration of traditional asset management and blockchain.

HIVE Digital's wholly-owned subsidiary HIVE Bermuda 2026 Ltd. has completed a private placement of $115 million zero-coupon convertible senior bonds (including an overallotment of $15 million), with the bonds maturing in 2031. The initial conversion price is approximately $2.57 per share, representing a premium of 17.5% over the latest trading price; the company has also completed a cash settlement capped subscription transaction, with a cap price of $4.92 per share, representing a premium of 125%.In addition, HIVE Digital plans to transfer its stock from the TSX Venture Exchange to the Toronto Stock Exchange around 2026, subject to meeting listing requirements.

The law firm Burwick Law has filed a federal class action lawsuit in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against the creators of AI16Z and ELIZAOS, including defendant Walters, accusing them of violating consumer protection laws, false advertising, and unjust enrichment. Legal documents show that the defendants are accused of leveraging the brand reputation of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) to package the project and issued the AI16Z token on Solana on October 24, 2024, later renamed ELIZAOS. The complaint alleges that the project claimed to have self-investing AI agents, which were actually operated manually, and did not generate revenue during the lawsuit period.On January 2, 2025, the token price reached a historical high of approximately $2.47, with a market capitalization exceeding $2.6 billion, and subsequently collapsed due to large holders reducing their positions. On-chain data shows that the most profitable traders realized approximately $39 million in profits.

The newly established political action committee in the crypto industry, Fellowship PAC, has raised approximately $11 million, with $10 million coming from Cantor Fitzgerald and $1 million from Anchorage Digital. It has spent about $3 million on political advertising, with this portion of the expenses paid to Nxum Group, which was co-founded by Tether US CEO Bo Hines.The PAC primarily supports Republican candidates and invests funds in congressional and state-level elections. Although the organization has ties to Tether executives, its main funding sources are financial institutions, and it is currently unclear whether Tether can directly participate in related political donations.

Investment company KKR announced that it has reached a final agreement with Samsung SDS, a blockchain and IT financial services provider under Samsung, to acquire newly issued convertible bonds worth 1.22 trillion won (approximately 820 million USD).Samsung SDS launched digital transformation experience services in 2020, including a blockchain platform, and co-developed a certificate service driven by blockchain technology with Shinhan Bank. Additionally, it serves as a technical advisor for the CBDC pilot project led by the Bank of Korea. It is reported that KKR will provide consulting services in mergers and acquisitions, capital allocation, artificial intelligence products, and global expansion, as well as accelerate the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

According to CoinDesk, documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by the Super Political Action Committee (Super PAC) Fellowship, which is associated with Tether, show that its first expenditure of $300,000 went to Nxum Group, a company co-founded by Tether's U.S. CEO, former Trump administration crypto advisor Bo Hines, along with his father Todd Hines and third-party partners.This expenditure was used to purchase campaign advertisements for Georgia Republican House candidate Clay Fuller, coinciding with Fuller winning a special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene as a congressman. Notably, Fellowship did not publicly announce this expenditure nor include Fuller in its public endorsement list.On April 1 of this year, Fellowship appointed Jesse Spiro, Tether's U.S. Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, as the committee chair, officially reactivating its presence in the political arena. When the committee was announced last year, it had received a total funding commitment of $100 million, but its FEC disclosure documents currently show a zero account balance, and related donations have not been made public. Tether International responded that there is no association or regulatory relationship with Fellowship PAC, while Tether U.S. declined to comment.In terms of conflicts of interest, Michael Beckel from the political reform organization Issue One stated that it is not illegal for Super PACs to pay founder-associated companies under U.S. campaign finance rules, provided that services are genuinely rendered and rates are in line with market prices. Fellowship's CFO Mitchell Nobel currently works at Cantor Fitzgerald, which manages Tether's global business assets, and its former chairman is current Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.Currently, Fellowship's expenditure scale is still vastly different from that of the leading crypto industry Super PAC Fairshake. Fairshake has invested millions in several primary elections, while the candidates currently supported by Fellowship are almost all deep-red state Republicans.

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has seen its market value shrink by over 50% this year and has laid off 30% of its staff. Internally, there are discussions about requesting founders Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss to waive the hundreds of millions of dollars in loans they provided to the company or convert the debt into equity. As of the end of December, Gemini's outstanding debt amounted to 4,619 bitcoins, valued at over $330 million at current prices.Securities filing documents show that Gemini lost $585 million last year. Additionally, the company plans to exit the UK, EU, and Australian markets, with several executives having already left. Currently, the Winklevoss brothers hold the majority voting rights and have not yet expressed whether they support this proposal.

According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will convert the pre-market trading of the EDGEUSDT perpetual contract to the standard version of the EDGEUSDT U-margined perpetual contract on March 31, 2026, at 20:30, with a transition period that may last up to 3 hours.During the transition period, trading functions will not be affected, and unfilled orders and positions will not be canceled.

GameStop disclosed that the approximately 4,710 BTC previously transferred to Coinbase Prime was not sold but used as collateral in a covered call strategy to generate option premium income.The company sold short-term call options over-the-counter (OTC), with strike prices ranging from $105,000 to $110,000, generating income while retaining exposure to Bitcoin, but this also limited the upside potential. As a result of this structure, GameStop no longer directly holds Bitcoin assets but records them as "receivable assets," which means the right to recover an equivalent amount of BTC from the counterparty in the future. Since the collateral can be rehypothecated or reused, its position has transformed into a derivative exposure with counterparty risk.The financial report shows that as of the end of the fiscal year, the value of receivable assets related to this strategy was approximately $368.3 million, while an unrealized loss of about $59.7 million was recorded (due to the decline in Bitcoin prices). Additionally, the company confirmed approximately $700,000 in option liabilities and $2.3 million in unrealized gains.

Bitcoin mining company MARA announced on platform X that it will repurchase $1 billion of convertible senior notes, with the repurchase of the 2030 notes and 2031 notes expected to be completed on March 30, 2026, and March 31, 2026, respectively, depending on the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The note repurchase transaction is expected to bring approximately $88.1 million in value to the company through cash savings.MARA also announced that the company sold 15,133 bitcoins between March 4, 2026, and March 25, 2026, for a total transaction price of approximately $1.1 billion, and it is expected that the proceeds from the bitcoin sales will be used for the note repurchase transaction, with the remaining funds used for general corporate purposes.

According to market news, Aave Labs officially disclosed its Reinvestment Module plan in the V4 upgrade.Data shows that among the approximately $20 billion in stablecoin deposits on the Aave platform, about $6 billion (30%) has been idle for a long time. This module will automatically allocate excess reserves to governance-approved low-risk strategies (such as short-term government bonds, money markets, or delta-neutral trading), while keeping the funds available for withdrawal at any time, with no lock-up restrictions.

According to Business Insider, 80-year-old New York investor George Chryssanthou fell victim to a telecom scam, losing approximately $285,000. The scammers gained remote control of his computer by impersonating Microsoft technical support personnel and induced him to wire transfer multiple times to an account named Coinbase Inc during January 2025, with the funds subsequently converted to Bitcoin.The victim has filed a negligence claim against Charles Schwab with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), alleging that the brokerage failed to identify and stop these unusual high-frequency large transfers. The total amount involved in the scam was $284,650, with individual transfer amounts ranging from $18,000 to $90,000.