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Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform, publicly acknowledging that the creator coin previously promoted by the Base chain has not succeeded and that a strategic adjustment was completed earlier this year.Armstrong stated that Base's current core focus areas are trading, payments, and AI agents, which are interconnected—payments require foreign exchange trading, and AI agents will also involve a large number of trading and payment scenarios. Currently, most resources have been concentrated on the trading track.

According to BBX data, yesterday the global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market and the proposed listing of crypto giants faced severe differentiation in capital operations, with the core dynamics as follows:The plan for 30,000 BTC giant to go public has collapsed: Cantor Equity Partners I (NASDAQ: $CEPO) and Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR) jointly announced through BusinessWire yesterday that they will no longer proceed with the transaction according to the original business combination agreement signed in July 2025. The core reason is that the $1.5 billion PIPE financing has completely failed to materialize. Against the backdrop of Bitcoin dropping about 50% from its historical high, investor interest in the new Bitcoin treasury company has significantly cooled. The shareholder meeting originally scheduled for July 10 has been indefinitely postponed. BSTR originally planned to carry 30,021 BTC to list on Nasdaq and become the world's fourth-largest publicly listed company holding Bitcoin, and this collapse means that its listing path needs to be redesigned.American Bitcoin Corp. completes 1-for-15 reverse stock split and increases holdings: American Bitcoin Corp. (NASDAQ: $ABTC) recently completed a 1-for-15 reverse stock split to meet Nasdaq's minimum stock price listing maintenance requirements. While consolidating shares to maintain its listing, the company announced that it purchased 500 BTC in the secondary market against the trend, increasing its total holdings to 8,000 BTC (fair value of approximately $496 million), ranking 16th globally among publicly listed companies in terms of Bitcoin holdings. The company is approximately 44% owned by Hut 8, and Eric Trump, the second son of Trump, serves as Chief Strategy Officer.

According to the Korea Herald, the five major virtual asset trading platforms in South Korea (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, Gopax) have experienced a total of 57 hacking and system failure incidents over the past six years (from 2020 to April 2026), with a total compensation amount of approximately 7 billion Korean won (about 5.1 million USD). By exchange, the number of incidents is as follows: Upbit 26 incidents, Bithumb 14 incidents, Gopax 8 incidents, Coinone 6 incidents, Korbit 3 incidents.Among them, Bithumb compensated approximately 2.5 billion Korean won (about 1.8 million USD) for the BTC misissue incident in February this year, Upbit compensated approximately 790 million Korean won (about 570,000 USD) for a hacking incident in November 2025, and compensated approximately 3.2 billion Korean won (about 2.3 million USD) for a system incident on December 3, 2024. It is worth noting that the standards for compiling incident reports by exchanges and the scale and form of compensation vary. For example, Gopax counts errors that occur when viewing the asset list as system failures, while Bithumb only counts situations where all customers encounter difficulties using core services for more than 10 minutes as system failures.In addition, Bithumb also provided some applicants who suffered losses due to system failures with free fee vouchers instead of cash compensation. The compensation amounts for system failures are as follows: Upbit approximately 3.21 billion Korean won, Bithumb approximately 3.2 billion Korean won, Coinone approximately 49 million Korean won. Korbit and Gopax did not provide any compensation.

According to The Block, regarding the gradual shutdown of the Cardano ecosystem data analysis and infrastructure platform TapTools, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson responded that TapTools is another loss in the ecosystem following JPG Store, and warned of a potential "wave of failures," expecting more projects to shut down, DeFi operations to cease, and industry consolidation in the second half of the year.He stated that some older projects no longer have investment value, resources to support struggling projects are limited, and he lacks direct control over ecosystem funding decisions and treasury allocation.

Coinbase released a retrospective report on the large-scale service interruption event on May 7, 2026.The outage lasted approximately 8 hours, with full recovery taking about 12 hours. During this time, trading, deposits, withdrawals, and most core services were unavailable or severely degraded. Coinbase stated that the outage was caused by multiple cooling units failing simultaneously in the cooling system of a data center in one availability zone (use1-az4) in the AWS us-east-1 region, triggering cabinet thermal protection shutdowns, which led to EC2 instances and EBS volumes going offline, affecting multiple internet services.During the recovery process, the Coinbase trading matching engine lost quorum due to the cluster architecture deployed in a single AWS data center losing most nodes. It required urgent code adjustments and the reconstruction of a new node group to restore operation, gradually restarting market trading during the recovery.Additionally, the AWS-managed Kafka (MSK) service experienced control plane failures, preventing the automatic re-election of partition leaders, further blocking quotes, fees, and some settlement and data flow systems, which expanded the overall impact.After manual partition migration in collaboration with the AWS engineering team, the system gradually returned to normal. Coinbase stated that this incident exposed its shortcomings in cross-availability zone automatic switching capabilities and disaster recovery for managed middleware. The company will upgrade its cross-region hot backup architecture, strengthen regular failure drills, and migrate the Kafka system from dual availability zones to a three availability zone deployment, while also working with AWS to advance root cause fixes and improvements.

According to The Block, the Cardano Foundation stated that the Cardano 2026 summit, originally scheduled for this year, has been officially canceled due to the on-chain governance vote not reaching the required two-thirds support threshold.Previously, the Cardano Foundation submitted a revised proposal requesting the treasury to allocate 7.8 million ADA (approximately 2 million USD) for the summit to be held in October in Singapore. Although the proposal received a 65.21% DRep staking support rate and a majority of representatives in favor, it did not meet the 66.67% approval threshold required for treasury funding proposals.Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard publicly called for support for the proposal before the voting deadline, but it ultimately did not pass.

According to FinanceFeeds, digital asset investment firm NYDIG has warned that if the U.S. Market Structure Bill does not make substantial progress in Congress before the August recess, the likelihood of its passage may significantly decrease.NYDIG stated that the current bipartisan political consensus around the cryptocurrency regulatory framework may only be a "brief window." If the bill fails to advance in the coming months, after Congress reconvenes, lawmakers' attention may shift to the midterm elections, fiscal budgets, and partisan political issues, causing the priority of cryptocurrency legislation to decline significantly.The report noted that the bill is seen as one of the most important attempts at cryptocurrency regulation in the U.S. to date, with core content including clarifying the classification of digital assets, delineating the regulatory boundaries between the SEC and CFTC, and establishing unified operational standards for exchanges and cryptocurrency businesses. However, key issues such as stablecoin regulation, DeFi regulation, consumer protection, and conflicts of political interest still have significant disagreements, leading to slow negotiation progress.NYDIG pointed out that long-term regulatory uncertainty is driving capital, talent, and innovation toward regions with clearer regulations, such as the UAE, Singapore, and the EU. The cryptocurrency industry is concerned that if this legislative window is missed again, the U.S. may repeat the regulatory stalemate of the past few years.

The OpenAI official status page shows that OpenAI is investigating multiple service outages, with the Codex 5.5 engine experiencing a high error rate, particularly affecting free users. All Codex users have also seen an increase in latency for gpt 5.5.In addition, the Realtime API's SIP/WebRTC process has experienced interruptions, which has been officially marked as "under investigation," and the related issues have persisted for several hours. The official website notes that the impact of the outage varies depending on subscription level and the models and features used.

According to CoinDesk, some Revolut users saw the price of Bitcoin (BTC) briefly drop significantly below global market levels in the app on Friday. The candlestick chart showed that the price plummeted suddenly before quickly returning to normal ranges, with the lowest quote even being captured in a screenshot at around $0.02.Currently, mainstream exchanges tracked by CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap have not shown similar anomalies, with BTC trading around $79,000 during the same period. Revolut has not yet responded to whether there were actual trades executed at the abnormal price. If there were indeed trades, the platform may need to determine whether it was due to real liquidity matching, quote routing issues, or errors in front-end price display. Industry insiders say that insufficient liquidity depth, temporary withdrawal of market makers, or disruptions in quote sources could all lead to extreme "flash crash" scenarios on a single platform.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated that the next two weeks will be a critical window for advancing cryptocurrency legislation in the United States.He pointed out that if the Senate Banking Committee fails to complete the bill review in the near term, the probability of the bill passing will "significantly decrease," especially with the midterm elections approaching, as related issues may become further politicized. Currently, the U.S. is pushing for the first federal-level cryptocurrency regulatory framework, involving the regulatory division of responsibilities between the SEC and the CFTC. Although the House version has passed, progress in the Senate has been relatively slow, but recent compromises around stablecoin yield issues may bring a turning point for advancement this month.

According to CoinDesk, Coinbase has revealed that it has integrated the trading protocol DFlow as the main trading router for its Solana ecosystem, supporting users in achieving native value exchange for spot and prediction markets on Solana.Coinbase stated that after introducing DFlow, the trading failure rate for its Solana products dropped from about 1/30 to approximately 1/250, an 8-fold decrease. At the same time, this solution has expanded the liquidity coverage, enabling small and mid-cap tokens that were previously unable to trade due to "lack of liquidity" to become tradable, and optimizing user transaction prices.

Curve founder Michael Egorov stated that the recent large number of avoidable security incidents in DeFi stem from centralized single points of failure, which are harming the entire industry. He cited the Aave and rsETH incidents as examples, indicating that related issues should be prevented before accidents occur, rather than remedied afterward.He called for the industry to collaboratively establish DeFi security standards to reduce single points of failure and to share best practices among project teams, auditing agencies, and risk assessment teams; he also suggested that the Ethereum Foundation and Solana Foundation could coordinate ecological participants to develop security principles and rules.

Well-known developer and Yuga Labs Vice President 0xQuit posted on X that the situation with Aave is dire and worsening, with multiple liquidity pools reaching 100% utilization, causing depositors to be "stuck," and the protocol facing further bad debt risks... If the price of ETH drops and Aave cannot effectively liquidate (which is indeed the case currently), it will ultimately lead to inefficient liquidations, resulting in more bad debt. If the problem cannot be resolved quickly, this situation may snowball.

According to Jinshi reports, the failure of peace negotiations between the United States and Iran has led the bond market to focus on inflation issues and strengthened expectations that interest rates will remain high. Investors in the U.S. Treasury market face the risk that rising energy costs may exacerbate price pressures, delaying the Federal Reserve's rate cut actions.Last Friday, the monthly increase in the U.S. March CPI reached its highest level since 2022, prompting the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield to exceed 4.3%, with yields further rising by 3 basis points on Monday to reach 4.35%.

According to a report by Jinshi citing Xinhua News Agency, Iran's First Vice President Arif posted on social media on the 11th that if Iran negotiates with U.S. representatives in Islamabad, Pakistan, under the "America First" policy, it is very likely to reach an agreement that is beneficial for both parties and even the world.However, if faced with U.S. representatives under the "Israel First" policy, then no agreement will be reached, and "we will inevitably continue to defend ourselves more resolutely than ever, and the world will pay a greater price."

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Bitcoin futures market continues to weaken. Data shows that the average daily open interest (OI) in March 2026 has fallen below $8 billion, further dropping to about $7.2 billion in early April, marking a new low since February 2024, and it has declined for the fifth consecutive month. Meanwhile, the monthly trading volume in March fell to $163 billion, nearly halving from the peak of January 2025.Market analysis indicates that this round of decline is primarily due to large-scale liquidations of "basis trades." Previously, institutions profited from price differences by buying spot ETFs and shorting CME futures, which was the core driving force behind the growth of CME positions. However, as Bitcoin prices have retreated from a high of $120,000 to below $70,000, the annualized basis yield has significantly compressed. Currently, the basis yield of about 5% is close to the risk-free interest rate level of about 4.5%. When factoring in funding costs and counterparty risks, the arbitrage space has essentially disappeared, prompting leveraged funds to withdraw.

Claude Code Product Manager Noah Zweben posted, "/autofix-pr can now be launched directly from the command line for automatic fixes. After completing a PR, just run this command. It will upload your session to the cloud, allowing the PR auto-fix tool to have the complete context to handle CI failures and comments."