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According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Governor Cook stated that the labor market is "basically stable," but downside risks are increasing.

According to CoinDesk, Solana's decentralized exchange Orca has launched a "permissioned pool" infrastructure aimed at tokenized trading of physical assets with high compliance requirements. The first participant is the commodity tokenization company Streamex, whose gold-linked security GLDY will become the first compliant token traded in this system.Orca stated that this mechanism is primarily aimed at the U.S. market, allowing only qualified investors who have passed KYC verification to buy, sell, and hold the relevant tokens. Issuers can customize access rules, which will be automatically enforced by the on-chain system. The permissioned pool operates on top of Orca's existing liquidity infrastructure, and the interface will indicate whether assets are restricted and whether users are eligible to trade.

According to Bits Media, the Russian government has expanded the scope of information that miners and mining infrastructure operators must submit to the tax authorities. Under the new regulations, the national registry of miners and operators must include network address data for equipment used in cryptocurrency mining (ASIC miners). The Russian Ministry of Finance stated that this move aims to simplify the regulation of digital asset transactions and the investigation of violations. Additionally, grid operators will be able to more accurately monitor the infrastructure load in areas with a high concentration of mining capacity.According to the law, government agencies, courts, the Bank of Russia, and grid operators can access the information in the miners' registry. The Federal Tax Service is responsible for maintaining the registry of miners and mining infrastructure operators. Under current law, miners and infrastructure operators (such as mining pools) must submit and regularly update the following information: for mining equipment, details such as manufacturer, model, serial number, algorithm, hash rate, power consumption, and operating mode. Regarding mining: the amount and type of cryptocurrency mined, mining pools, and links to online statistics.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve official Barkin stated that before the increase in tariffs and oil prices, the Federal Reserve is "basically on track" to achieve its inflation target.

Revolut has announced the launch of its first physical crypto card, featuring a Dogecoin-themed design and equipped with an LED display that lights up during payment. The card can be used at merchants that support Visa and Mastercard, and it is initially available to users in the UK and the European Economic Area (excluding Hungary, Switzerland, and Portugal).Revolut stated that it does not charge additional exchange fees, but crypto asset payments will be settled at the exchange rate at the time of the transaction, and there may be tax obligations arising from the disposal of crypto assets.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that Coinbase is proud to collaborate with law enforcement to combat crime. Its investigation team identified an ongoing criminal activity and used blockchain forensics to track down the criminals, ultimately leading to 5 convictions.

According to the official announcement from Huobi HTX, the platform has officially launched the "Crypto Pizza Festival" series of activities, covering multiple gameplay options such as task challenges, holiday red envelopes, and lucky draws, with a total prize pool exceeding 200,000 USDT, including physical grand prizes like the iPhone 17 Pro Max, 10 grams of gold, and pizza vouchers.The task challenge competition runs from May 14 to May 25. After signing up, users can complete any one of the five tasks: earning coins, spot trading, contract trading, learning to earn coins, or holding $HTX to light up "Fire Treasures" and receive tiered rewards such as USDT earning interest vouchers, contract experience gold, and spot trading fee cashback vouchers. Collecting all Fire Treasures allows participation in a lucky draw to share a prize pool of 100,000 USDT, thousands of pizza vouchers, and USDT 10% earning interest vouchers.From May 18 to June 19, the pizza carnival red envelope activity will also be launched, with a total prize pool of 100,000 USDT. On the birthday of Fire Treasures (May 18) and Bitcoin Pizza Day (May 22), users can visit the event post to receive no-threshold red envelopes. Completing daily interactions or referral tasks can unlock subsequent red envelope qualifications, and checking in for 7 consecutive days can unlock large red envelopes.The lucky draw activity will start on May 18. During the event, accumulating a spot trading volume of ≥100 USDT or a single contract trading volume of ≥2,000 USDT will grant a chance to enter the draw. The prize pool includes an iPhone 17 Pro Max in Starry Orange (1TB), Keron 4 GT, 10 grams of gold, BTT/NFT/WIN/SUN tokens, and contract experience gold, among others.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Goolsbee stated that the job market is basically stable and inflation is rising.

Yunfeng Financial (00376.HK) officially launched the "Physical Gold Token" product on its "Yunfeng Youyu" platform, open to users who have completed the Professional Investor (PI) certification. This product is supported by AlphaToken's blockchain and RWA tokenization infrastructure, aimed at providing compliant digital asset allocation services in gold for professional investors.According to the introduction, the gold token is anchored to physical gold that is LBMA certified and has a purity of 99.99%, with each token corresponding to 1 gram of gold. The related assets are held in custody by internationally certified vaults and ensure transparency and security through independent audits and full isolation custody mechanisms.AlphaToken stated that its self-built AlphaChain network and RWA Tokenization technology system have embedded compliance processes such as KYC, AML, asset issuance, auditing, and risk control into the underlying infrastructure, providing licensed financial institutions with on-chain issuance and management capabilities.Yunfeng Financial claims that the launch of this product is an important layout in the field of Real World Assets (RWA), and in the future, it will further launch on-chain wealth management products for institutions and professional investors, integrating AI and Web3 technologies.

The Ethereum Foundation published a summary of the Soldøgn Interop work, which has now basically completed the key goals of the Glamsterdam upgrade, including reaching consensus on the post-upgrade 200 million Gas Limit lower bound, achieving stable operation of the ePBS external Builder process, and finalizing the EIP-8037 Gas repricing parameters.The focus of the Glamsterdam upgrade is to enhance security by increasing the Gas Limit to expand Ethereum's throughput, while EIP-8037 will prevent state bloat caused by a high Gas Limit by raising the cost of state creation. The Ethereum Foundation also stated that most clients have completed stable operation on glamsterdam-devnet-2 and successfully tested the entire external Builder process. Additionally, substantial progress has been made on FOCIL, native account abstraction, and Hegotá upgrade-related features. In the coming weeks, core developers will continue to advance client hardening, testing improvements, and code merging, with final parameters to be publicly confirmed in the AllCoreDevs meeting.

The Ethereum Foundation published a summary of the Soldøgn Interop work, which has now basically completed the key goals of the Glamsterdam upgrade, including reaching consensus on the post-upgrade 200 million Gas Limit lower bound, achieving stable operation of the ePBS external Builder process, and finalizing the EIP-8037 Gas repricing parameters.The focus of the Glamsterdam upgrade is to enhance security by increasing the Gas Limit to expand Ethereum's throughput, while EIP-8037 will prevent state bloat caused by high Gas Limits by increasing the cost of state creation.The Ethereum Foundation also stated that most clients have completed stable operation on glamsterdam-devnet-2 and successfully tested the entire process of external Builders. In addition, substantial progress has been made on FOCIL, native account abstraction, and Hegotá upgrade-related features. In the coming weeks, core developers will continue to advance client hardening, testing improvements, and code merging, with final parameters to be publicly confirmed at the AllCoreDevs meeting.

According to Kalshi's official statement, the music streaming weekly play volume prediction market allows users to trade on the rise and fall of weekly Spotify play volumes for artists such as Drake, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Bad Bunny.

DogPay announced a strategic partnership with DeCard to jointly launch the DogPay physical payment card, aimed at further bridging stablecoin assets with the global traditional payment network.It is reported that this payment card combines DeCard's regulated card issuance and settlement infrastructure with DogPay's modular digital financial platform. Eligible users can transact at over 150 million Visa-supported merchants worldwide, supporting real-world application scenarios such as offline POS machine consumption, retail shopping, and ATM withdrawals, thereby directly converting stablecoin balances into everyday purchasing power.DogPay officials stated that the launch of the physical payment card aims to meet the growing market demand for compliant and globally accepted digital asset payment tools, further promoting the deep integration of digital assets with regulated financial infrastructure.

Grayscale analyst Zach Pandl disclosed data showing that Bitcoin has rebounded over 20% from its low of about $63,000 in early February, with the current price around $76,000, slightly above the average cost (realized price) of about $74,000 for buyers in the past 1 to 3 months, indicating that most short-term investors have returned to the breakeven zone.Analysis suggests that if the price continues to rise, more recent buyers will enter a profitable state, which is often seen as one of the important signals at the beginning of a bull market. However, Bitcoin is still below the peak from last October. Market views indicate that this round of recovery may have formed a relatively solid phase bottom in the range of $65,000 to $70,000.

According to TheAsianBanker, OCBC Bank in Singapore and its asset management division Lion Global Investors have disclosed plans to issue a physical gold fund token, GOLDX Token, on the Ethereum and Solana chains. OCBC Bank will support the token issuance architecture design, while Lion Global Investors will provide the investment framework and governance structure for the underlying fund.

American musician Garrett Dutton (stage name G. Love) lost 5.9 BTC, amounting to approximately $420,000, after downloading and using a fake Ledger wallet app from the App Store and entering his recovery phrase.On-chain analyst ZachXBT discovered that the attacker had laundered the stolen Bitcoin through the KuCoin platform. This incident once again exposes the security risks of counterfeit wallet applications and reminds users to be vigilant when downloading and using cryptocurrency-related apps, avoiding entering sensitive information through unofficial channels.

American Philadelphia musician G.Love posted on the X platform that during the process of changing computers and reconfiguring Ledger, he mistakenly downloaded a malicious counterfeit application from the Apple App Store, resulting in the theft of his retirement funds, with approximately 5.92 bitcoins transferred all at once.On-chain detective ZachXBT subsequently stated that he had traced the flow of the stolen funds and pointed out that the relevant assets had been laundered through the recharge addresses of a centralized exchange (CEX). ZachXBT also questioned the review mechanism of the Apple App Store, claiming that there is an issue that allows counterfeit applications to be listed on the Apple platform, further amplifying the security risks to user assets. The incident has once again sparked market concerns about wallet security and the application ecosystem review mechanism.