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The Hong Kong Legislative Council's Finance Committee announced that Member Li Weihong has been elected as the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Hong Kong Legislative Council.Li Weihong had previously called for the promotion of the development of virtual assets and futures markets, expedited approval for license upgrades, suggested that the futures exchange achieve 23-hour trading as soon as possible, increase the variety of futures traded during holidays, and open more derivatives for virtual asset options and futures. In addition, Li Weihong also urged the Hong Kong government to accelerate the establishment of an international gold trading center and strive to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) as soon as possible, allowing the industry to export gold and other precious metals from Hong Kong to RCEP members at zero tariffs.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a suspected large account on Binance has been hacked. Due to risk control mechanisms, the hacker cannot withdraw funds directly and is attempting to transfer money through "wash trading." The hacker chose the low liquidity, small market cap meme coin BROCCOLI714 as the target, placing large buy orders to violently drive up the spot price. Trader Vida noticed the price anomaly through alerts and quickly determined that this was unusual (abnormal market maker behavior). After the contract circuit breaker ended, they accurately opened a long position and closed it, repeatedly intercepting the hacker's operations and profiting about 1 million dollars. Subsequently, it is suspected that Binance's risk control intervened, preventing the hacker from continuing to place orders, leading them to attempt to operate SOL but fail, ultimately canceling the orders and giving up.

According to official X news, Sahara announced a partnership with the emotional intelligence AI project Neura to jointly advance the development of AI models with emotional perception capabilities.It is reported that Neura focuses on mental health, emotion recognition, and personalized interaction experiences, aiming to build the next generation of AI systems with long-term emotional memory and cultural adaptability. Sahara will provide data management and collaborative infrastructure support for Neura, helping emotional intelligence to be implemented in real-world scenarios.

ChainCatcher news, an Israeli official stated that the United States was aware of the planned operation at least a week ago.The official said that Israel and the United States are "continuously engaged" in this matter. The U.S. is working to rebuild regional alliances that previously helped Israel respond to Iran's earlier attacks. The official mentioned that Israel still expects some of Iran's missiles to breach defenses.

ChainCatcher news, the Hong Kong Police Force, in collaboration with anti-fraud centers from multiple countries or regions, has established a cross-border anti-fraud cooperation platform "FRONTIER+" and from April 28 to May 28 this year, conducted its first joint operation with anti-fraud centers from six countries or regions including Macau, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand, successfully arresting 1,858 individuals, freezing over 32,600 bank accounts, and intercepting HK$157 million in fraudulent funds.The Chief Superintendent of the Commercial Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force, Wong Chan-yu, stated that Hong Kong recorded over 13,115 fraud cases in the first four months of this year, a 9% year-on-year increase, with the amount involved decreasing by about 30%. A money laundering group that has been active in Hong Kong and the mainland since last July used over 580 bank accounts and virtual assets to launder approximately HK$118 million. The police launched an operation on the 15th of last month and successfully arrested 12 individuals.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, a white hat hacker successfully intercepted approximately $2.6 million in stolen crypto assets from the Morpho Labs decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol.Blockchain security company PeckShield stated that after Morpho Labs performed a front-end update on its Morpho Blue application on April 10, an address was attacked due to a vulnerability triggered by the update. The well-known white hat MEV operator "c0ffeebabe.eth" successfully intercepted the stolen funds through a front-running transaction. The funds have now been transferred to another wallet address.The Morpho Labs team has confirmed that they have rolled back the front-end update, all funds within the protocol are safe and unaffected, and they will release a detailed incident report next week.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitrace monitoring, as of today, Tether and Circle have frozen at least 5 Ethereum and Tron addresses related to the Bybit hacker, successfully intercepting over 760,000 USDT and USDC.

ChainCatcher message, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou stated on platform X: "At this moment, it is actually not about Bybit or any entity, but rather our general attitude as an industry towards hackers. We sincerely hope that eXch can reconsider and help us stop the funds from flowing out of their platform. We have also received assistance from Interpool and international regulatory agencies to help stop these funds, which is not just about helping Bybit."Previously, eXch had rejected Bybit's request to intercept funds, and a significant amount of ETH has already been washed through eXch, exchanged for BTC, XMR, and others.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik responded to the question "Have there been moments of frustration and disappointment with the EF, the community, or the industry in the past year?" during a text AMA held on the Tako platform, stating: "Of course. Perhaps the most disappointing moment for me recently was when someone said that Ethereum is bad and intolerant because we don't respect the 'casinos' on the blockchain, while other chains are willing to accept any application, so they are better.If the blockchain community has this kind of 'inverse moral issue', I have no interest in participating in blockchain. However, I found an interesting point: many people say those things on the internet, but when I chat with the community in person, everyone's values are still the same as before. So I feel a responsibility to this community; I cannot abandon them. Ethereum needs to work together to create the world we want to see.This will require some changes, such as the foundation may not be able to be too neutral at the application layer and needs to specifically support certain things, but this project must be worth us doing so."

ChainCatcher news, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated on his social platform that observing @potus (the official account of President Trump on X platform) more closely has indeed changed his view on Trump (I wish I could think more deeply and absolutely avoid falling into the NPC trap). "I won't agree with him on everything, but I believe he will make a tremendous contribution to this country in many ways."

ChainCatcher news, according to The Washington Post, in the early hours of Tuesday local time, U.S. Secret Service agents fired a shot at a carjacker attempting to break into the vicinity of Treasury Secretary Yellen's home. No one was hit, and the suspect has not been arrested yet. (Jin Ten)

ChainCatcher news, the Tongcheng City Anti-Fraud Center received a tip-off indicating that there was a large suspicious fund transaction related to fraud in the area. It is reported that the victim, Ms. Hu, met a "rich and handsome" boyfriend named Zhang online, who claimed to be working in virtual currency investment abroad, and asked her to prepare cash to hand over to a "client manager." Fortunately, the police of Tongcheng City discovered and successfully intercepted the situation in time. Upon investigation, the so-called "client manager" was actually a "cash handler" recruited by an overseas fraud group. Currently, the suspect has been criminally detained in accordance with the law for suspected fraud, and the 730,000 yuan defrauded funds have all been returned to the victim. The case is under further investigation. (Anqing Voice WeChat Official Account)

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, to further enhance the security of Web3 wallets, the OKX Web3 wallet has now upgraded its interception strategy for risky transactions. The currently interceptable risky transactions are as follows:Malicious authorization to EOA accounts. Generally, DApp authorization is given to contract accounts, not EOA.Maliciously changing your account owner. Once signed, you will lose control over the account. This usually occurs on public chains like TRON and Solana, where there is an account owner design.Maliciously changing your transfer address. A small number of DApp contracts are poorly designed, but the OKX wallet can identify the risks.Intercepting transfers to similar addresses. This attack method involves: the attacker generating an address that is very similar to one you have recently used (the characters at the beginning and end are the same), transferring a large amount of fake USDT to you, increasing the probability of being copied as a hacker address in the transaction history page.According to the OKX Web3 wallet prompt, if users see related risk interceptions while conducting on-chain transactions, please proceed with caution. Currently, users need to upgrade the OKX APP to version 6.74.0 or above, or upgrade the OKX Web3 plugin wallet to version 3.1.0 or above to immediately experience this feature.

ChainCatcher message, the cross-chain interoperability protocol Celer Network stated on social media: "Thanks to our round-the-clock domain security monitoring, an attempt to take over the Celer domain was successfully intercepted. All DNS records have been restored. Our ongoing investigation indicates that the attack vector may involve third parties beyond our control. The Celer team will continue to closely monitor the situation and provide updates as more information becomes available."

ChainCatcher message, a16z Crypto CTO Eddy Lazarrin posted on the X platform stating, "Memecoins have changed the perception of the public, regulators, and entrepreneurs towards cryptocurrency. At best, it looks like a risky casino. Or a series of false promises that cover up the casino. This deeply affects adoption, regulation/law, and the behavior of builders. I see these damages every day. You should see them too."

ChainCatcher news, two Binance executives were intercepted by Nigerian officials upon entering Nigeria. The Financial Times reported, citing relevant sources, that the two were detained by the Nigerian National Security Advisor's office, and their passports were confiscated. Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the two were invited by Nigeria to meet with officials and were intercepted upon landing, on the grounds that Binance was operating illegally in the country.Bloomberg reported that the two executives have not yet been charged but may face allegations of currency manipulation, tax evasion, and illegal operations. National Security Advisor spokesperson Zakari Mijinyawa stated, "This is not necessarily an arrest." Meetings and discussions are ongoing. "This is a national security issue, and inter-agency processes are underway."

ChainCatcher news, Slow Mist's Chief Information Security Officer 23pds tweeted: "Regarding the situation of a large number of users of the Bit Browser being stolen, we have successfully intercepted some of the laundered funds in collaboration with our partners. The Bit Browser is filing a case, and once the case is successfully filed, Slow Mist will officially intervene."Previous news, the Bit Browser stated that its server cache data was hacked, posing a risk of user wallet theft.