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According to Sonic Labs' official statement, the company has made significant adjustments in its board, leadership, and operational direction. Michael Kong, Andre Cronje, and David Richardson will resign from their positions on the Sonic Labs board, but all three will retain their investments in Sonic and fully transfer their responsibilities, though they will no longer make business decisions for the organization.Sonic Labs also announced that Matt Visser will serve as CEO, and Kosta Kourkoumelis will serve as COO. The primary task of the new management is not to announce a roadmap, but to enforce operational discipline and regain trust. Matt Visser stated, "I am not here to promise an immediate turnaround. I will make Sonic better by 1% every day and let it compound."Sonic Labs indicated that the current token price and community sentiment are both low, and the next 100 days will be regarded as a new first day, with the goal of achieving small improvements daily and allowing them to compound. Sonic Labs is committed to promoting transparent governance, establishing a dedicated risk and compliance committee, prioritizing the community, and reducing vague announcements while providing clearer progress updates.On the technical side, Sonic Labs stated that the engineering team's progress has not been affected. Since 2026, 400 valid pull requests have been merged into the GitHub main branch, two official releases have been published, and major version 2.2.0 is under development, with six candidate versions released so far, and a private testnet has gone live and is undergoing intensive testing.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the crypto KOL and Instagram influencer Andrew Tate, who has been liquidated 107 times, has returned and opened a long position of 57.36 BTC (3.76 million USD) with 40x leverage, with a liquidation price of 65,215.87 USD.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $65,100 in the event "Roland Garros WTA: Maja Chwalinska vs Mirra Andreeva." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 93%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the Polymarket event "French Open Women's Singles: Maya Hawrylinska vs. Mira Andrejeva," the sub-market "Match Completion" option "Yes" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 85.5% an hour ago to the current 53% (a fluctuation of 32.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movement is predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $103,321.64 in the event "Roland Garros WTA: Maja Chwalinska vs Mirra Andreeva." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 82%.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $194,113.34 in the event "Roland Garros WTA: Maja Chwalinska vs Mirra Andreeva." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 81.99%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Women's Singles: Kostiuk vs. Andreescu" on the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the sub-market "Match Completed" for the "Yes" option has experienced significant fluctuations, dropping from 93% an hour ago to the current 76% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Bloomberg, Andrew Left, the founder of the well-known short-selling firm Citron Research, has been found guilty of manipulating stock prices using dishonest social media posts. After a three-week trial in Los Angeles, the jury ruled that Left was guilty on 13 out of 17 charges, including one count of securities fraud.Prosecutors accused Left of illegally influencing stock prices and profiting quickly from explosive tweets about dozens of companies between 2018 and 2023, earning over $20 million from it. Left stated in court that he would appeal, claiming the verdict is an attack on free speech and innocent trading behavior. He faces over 20 years in prison and will be sentenced on August 31. The case has drawn close attention from the short-selling industry, with a Yale professor stating that this ruling will have a chilling effect on short sellers.

According to the Form 144 document recently disclosed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Strategy Inc. Executive Vice President Andrew Kang acquired 5,597 shares of the company's Class A common stock on May 18 through the vesting of restricted stock. This batch of shares was sold on May 19 at an average price of $165.78 per share, with a total transaction value of approximately $927,866.The document notes that part of the proceeds from this sale will be used to pay tax obligations arising from the settlement of equity awards. The transaction was executed under the 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by Kang on May 2, 2024.According to SEC regulations, company insiders can disclose planned sales in advance through Form 144. Kang currently serves as the Executive Vice President of Strategy Inc.

OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy officially announced his joining of Anthropic, stating, "I believe the next few years will be a particularly critical phase for the cutting-edge development of large language models (LLM). I am very excited to join the team here and return to research and development work.I remain passionate about the field of education and plan to continue advancing related work at the appropriate time in the future."

Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund is investing approximately $624 million in Anduril's latest funding round, making it one of the largest investors in this round.It is reported that Anduril's funding round is approximately $4 billion, with a valuation expected to reach $60 billion, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Thrive Capital. Anduril is a U.S. AI military startup, and its founder Palmer Luckey previously launched a digital bank called Erebor with Peter Thiel, specifically designed for cryptocurrency and tech startups.

Andre Cronje stated in an interview with Cointelegraph that many DeFi protocols today are "no longer truly DeFi" and are more like "profit-driven companies operated by teams," as they generally rely on upgradable contracts, multi-signatures, off-chain infrastructure, and manual operational control.Cronje pointed out that the current industry is still overly focused on smart contract audits while neglecting operational risks that are closer to traditional finance (TradFi). He believes that recent attack incidents are not due to code vulnerabilities but stem from off-chain infrastructure, permission management, and social engineering attacks.The discussion arises from the recent frequent security incidents in DeFi. In April, protocols such as Flying Tulip, Drift Protocol, and Kelp encountered security events, with Drift and Kelp suffering losses of approximately $280 million and $293 million, respectively.In response, Flying Tulip has introduced a "Withdrawal Circuit Breaker," which can delay or queue withdrawal requests when unusually large withdrawals occur, allowing the team about 6 hours to respond. Cronje emphasized that this mechanism does not permanently freeze withdrawals but serves as a layer of protection within the security system.However, Michael Egorov holds a cautious attitude towards this. He stated that the circuit breaker itself could also become a new point of centralized risk. If control permissions fall into the hands of an attacker, the mechanism originally intended to protect the protocol could instead be used to freeze assets or directly transfer funds.Egorov believes that the long-term direction of DeFi should be to minimize human intervention and centralized permissions as much as possible, rather than adding more layers of manual control. "The security of DeFi comes from decentralization, not more human management."

According to Cointelegraph, the decentralized finance platform Flying Tulip, founded by Andre Cronje, has launched a withdrawal circuit breaker mechanism that can delay or queue withdrawals during abnormal capital outflows to limit potential losses and buy time for the team to investigate.The operation of this mechanism varies across different products: in the Perpetual PUT product, withdrawals may be rolled back, and users will need to try again later; in ftUSD, withdrawals will enter a queue and can be claimed after a delay. Flying Tulip stated that this mechanism employs a "fail-open" design, meaning that transactions can continue to be executed even if the safety mechanism fails.

With time still remaining until the U.S. midterm elections, Trump's super PAC raised $35.6 million in March, bringing its campaign fund reserves to $550 million, setting a record for presidential midterm election cycles. It is attempting to maintain the Republican majority in Congress amid a tough election battle.According to Federal Election Commission documents, long-time Republican donor Diane Hendricks—who spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024—contributed the majority of this month's fundraising, donating $25 million. Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $3 million. The California-based tribal organization Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation donated $2 million. A subsidiary of prison operator GEO Group Inc. (a federal contractor whose clients include Immigration and Customs Enforcement) donated $1 million.As a large influx of funds arrives, polls show that Trump's voter coalition for 2024 is fracturing. Historically, the party in power at the White House tends to lose House seats in midterm elections, and Democrats are increasingly seeing a path to reclaim the Senate.

This morning, 60,000 ETH were redeemed from Ethereum staking and transferred to Coinbase. According to analysis by Yu Jin, the owner of this ETH is Andrew Keys, co-founder of DARMA Capital, and this ETH has been staked for nearly 5 years.In recent days, these ETH have been largely redeemed and aggregated, then transferred to Coinbase. During the nearly 5 years of staking, these ETH earned approximately 18% in coin-based returns (16,000 ETH, worth 34.2 million USD).

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, Ethereum OG Andrew Keys (@AK_EtherMachine) sold 618 ETH today, worth approximately $1.27 million.

On-chain analyst Specter posted on the X platform, stating that crypto KOL and Instagram influencer Andrew Tate may be involved in crypto money laundering activities, with his associated wallet depositing $30,000,000 into Railgun over the past two years.Specter obtained Tate's wallet address from a private message screenshot released by Andrew Tate on June 9, 2024, and tracked it to find that the wallet address is linked to a "pig butchering" fraud case in Texas. Although Andrew Tate is not listed as a defendant in the case, the flow of funds in the associated wallet raises many questions, showing common money laundering techniques, including small and large transfers through nested services and high-risk exchanges.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) has opened a BTC long position again today and was liquidated within an hour.Currently, he has been liquidated a total of 84 times on the Hyperliquid platform.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, social media influencer, businessman, and former professional Muay Thai fighter Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) faced liquidation of his BTC long position, resulting in a loss of $112,000. Tate currently has a remaining account balance of only $984.

According to the Associated Press, Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has been elected as the Mayor of New York City, defeating former Mayor Andrew Cuomo, who had promised to promote cryptocurrency innovation.