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According to Gate market data, the three major U.S. stock indices fell, with the S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average widening their declines to nearly 0.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite index falling by 0.8%.

According to Jinshi reports, the USD/JPY has fallen nearly 30 points in the short term, currently reported at 159.45.Previously, it was reported that Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda stated that the basic stance is to continue raising the policy interest rate.

According to CoinDesk, the Bitcoin Fear Index BVIV surged nearly 20% on Tuesday, marking the largest single-day increase since February 5. BVIV measures the 30-day implied volatility of Bitcoin, and this surge to 46.45% indicates that panic has re-emerged in the market after two months of calm.For the past two months, the sentiment in the Bitcoin market has remained calm, even as it fell from a May high of $82,000 to $75,000 last week, with BVIV hovering around 40%, the lowest point of the year, indicating that the decline at that time was orderly selling rather than panic. However, on Tuesday, the spot price of Bitcoin dropped over 6% to $66,000, causing BVIV to spike sharply. The index's trend increasingly resembles Wall Street's VIX Fear Index, showing an inverse correlation with the spot price of Bitcoin. Whether Tuesday's significant surge is just a one-day fluctuation or the beginning of a sustained volatility cycle remains to be seen.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), institutions and whales continue to increase their holdings of HYPE: Galaxy Digital withdrew 179,000 HYPE (approximately $12.62 million) from Coinbase in the past 7 hours; meanwhile, the new wallet address 0x6436 withdrew 135,824 HYPE (approximately $9.73 million) again 8 hours ago, bringing the total withdrawal amount over the past two days to 399,730 HYPE (approximately $28.92 million).

The global stablecoin payment infrastructure platform WasabiCard today announced the completion of its Pre-A round of financing. Including previous funding, the total amount raised by the company has approached 10 million USD, with participation from four well-known institutions: Vernal Capital, Avenir Group, Vision Plus Capital, and 01VC.This round of financing will be used to build and improve the global payment infrastructure, compliance system, and key market business layout, enhancing cross-border payment service capabilities and global operational capabilities, further promoting the company's construction of a compliant, efficient, next-generation financial infrastructure aimed at the internet era.As stablecoins gradually move from trading scenarios to real commercial applications, the demand from enterprises for global payment, global card issuance, fund management, and cross-border settlement infrastructure continues to grow. WasabiCard currently serves over 500 enterprise clients globally, with a cumulative card issuance exceeding 500,000 cards and a total transaction scale surpassing 1 billion USD.In the future, WasabiCard will continue to expand its global payment network and multi-chain payment ecosystem, promoting the further implementation of stablecoin payments in global commercial scenarios.

Galaxy Research monitored that a physical Casascius Bitcoin minted between 2011 and 2013 (denomination of 25 BTC, approximately 1.78 million USD) had its private key extracted and completed an on-chain withdrawal.It is reported that Casascius Coin is an early physical collectible of Bitcoin, which contains real BTC private keys sealed inside. Holders can extract the assets after peeling off the anti-counterfeiting hologram sticker. This series was discontinued in 2013, and there are still tens of thousands of BTC sealed in unopened Casascius physical coins.

According to Jinshi, the number of JOLTs job openings in the U.S. significantly increased in April, rising from 6,890,000 in March to 7,620,000, reaching the highest level in nearly two years. At the same time, the number of layoffs decreased to 1,690,000, indicating a strong labor market. Although the number of job openings is still below the levels seen during the pandemic reopening, this stability may weaken the rationale for interest rate cuts, and Federal Reserve officials are beginning to discuss the possibility of interest rate hikes.

According to Bits.media, a large illegal cryptocurrency mining operation was discovered in the city of Nizhny Tagil in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, and the nearby city of Kushva. The mining operation was hidden in an abandoned industrial park and deployed about 10,000 mining machines, which were dismantled by a joint operation of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the police, and the power company.Local power companies estimate that the losses caused by the long-term illegal electricity usage of this mining operation amount to nearly 1 billion rubles (approximately 12.7 million USD). Investigators stated that its electricity consumption was sufficient to meet the lighting needs of a small city. Law enforcement has arrested three suspects, who are currently under house arrest and are being investigated for "causing property damage through deception or abuse of trust." Under Russian law, those involved could face up to 5 years in prison.Investigations revealed that the operators of the mining site accessed the power grid through intermediaries and allegedly tampered with electricity meter data to cover up the actual electricity usage. Law enforcement agencies stated that the actual electricity consumption of the mining operation was about twice the approved quota. The local energy department initially launched an investigation due to frequent voltage fluctuations, power outages, and equipment failures in the abandoned factory area, ultimately pinpointing the location of the mining operation. A local television station also produced a documentary titled "Mining" to document this operation.

According to The Defiant, approximately $220 million of unfrozen funds from the Kelp DAO cross-chain bridge attack has been almost entirely laundered by hackers. On-chain analyst Arkham Intelligence tracking shows that only about $1.7 million remains in the original attacker's wallet. This hacker is linked to North Korea and previously launched a $292 million cross-chain bridge attack on LayerZero in April.Funds were transferred using privacy tools such as THORChain, Wasabi, Tornado Cash, and Umbra. The approximately $71 million in Ethereum frozen by the Arbitrum security council on April 20 is currently the only recoverable portion. A report released by LayerZero on May 18 attributed the attack to the North Korean group TraderTraitor. Kelp has recovered approximately 116,000 rsETH by migrating to Chainlink CCIP and the DeFi United program, while the Aave security module absorbed about $190 million in bad debt.

According to Bloomberg, the White House is reviewing early proposals from the U.S. SEC and CFTC regarding the re-examination of swaps and security swap reporting requirements, which are currently in the pre-rule stage. The two regulatory agencies plan to solicit public opinions before formally drafting regulatory details. The current reporting rules for swaps and security swaps in the U.S. are not unified, and some existing compliance exemption policies will expire in 2029.The International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association jointly sent a letter last month urging regulators to unify the data reporting standards for the two types of products, while ICE Trade Vault LLC made a similar request. The CFTC stated that this work is being carried out jointly by the two agencies, and the SEC chairman has arranged for personnel to establish a unified reporting system during the industry conference in March. The new regulations will require two rounds of agency voting and public consultation before implementation.

Blockchain security company CertiK's latest data shows that in May 2026, losses in the crypto industry due to hacking, exploitation of vulnerabilities, and fraud amounted to approximately $68.3 million, a decrease of nearly 90% compared to over $650 million in losses in April, making it the third month this year with losses below $100 million.CertiK stated that approximately $2.6 million in losses during May came from phishing attacks. In contrast, in April, significant attacks on Drift Protocol and KelpDAO's infrastructure resulted in losses of approximately $285 million and $292 million, respectively, with these two incidents accounting for about 95% of the total losses for that month, making April one of the worst months for losses since March 2022.Despite the reduction in large-scale attacks at the protocol level, CertiK warns that risks such as phishing attacks, social engineering scams, deepfakes, and credential leaks continue to grow. Researchers point out that an increasing number of attackers are targeting employees, operational systems

According to Yu Jin monitoring, after Binance Life rose 40% today, a certain address transferred 3.5 million Binance Life to Binance 30 minutes ago, worth 2.38 million USD.This address purchased 18.5 million Binance Life for 2.14 BNB within half an hour after Binance Life was deployed and launched last October, worth 2,480 USD, with an average price of 0.00013 USD. Currently, this address still holds 15 million Binance Life on-chain, worth 10 million USD.

According to monitoring by GMGN, the meme coin "Binance Life" briefly surpassed a market capitalization of 700 million USD, setting a new historical high before slightly retreating. Since its launch on the evening of May 30, the token has recorded a cumulative increase of 53.8%. As of the time of writing, the market capitalization is reported to be approximately 650 million USD, with a 24-hour increase still holding at 26%. During the same period, the on-chain trading volume reached 18.4 million USD.It is reported that the brief surge in market capitalization to 700 million USD was mainly driven by a large concentrated purchase by a trader (0x82). This address purchased a total of approximately 8.1 million tokens, valued at about 4.98 million USD, making it the largest single purchase of the day; currently, its on-chain holdings have reached 5.27 million tokens.

A white hat hacker using the alias "0xflorent" stated on X on Sunday that he has helped recover approximately 1,003 ETH (worth about $2 million) from a faulty smart contract of the Hong Coin (HONG) token sale in 2016, involving 48 investors.Hong Coin was originally designed as a community-operated decentralized venture capital fund, with the token sale starting on August 29, 2016, and ending on October 28 of the same year, but it failed to launch due to not reaching its funding goal. The contract was supposed to automatically refund investors, but a vulnerability in the refund function caused the funds to be locked for nearly a decade.0xflorent collaborated with the HONG creator to exploit an administrator function with an integer overflow vulnerability, resetting the token holders' balances and triggering the refund mechanism through specific inputs, successfully extracting the locked funds. According to Etherscan data, one investor has already received a refund of 96 ETH (approximately $192,500). Previously, on May 24, 0xflorent also recovered 19.33 ETH from another failed token sale project from 2018.

According to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market sectors are mixed, with the DeFi sector performing well, rising 2.43% in 24 hours. Among them, Hyperliquid (HYPE) increased by 4.14%, briefly breaking through $73 during the day, continuing to set historical highs, while LAB (LAB) rose by 21.78%.Other standout sectors include: the SocialFi sector, which rose 3.61% in 24 hours, with Toncoin (TON) increasing by 4.18%; the AI sector rose by 0.92%, with Worldcoin (WLD) increasing by 7.96%; the Meme sector rose by 0.25%, with Binance Life (币安人生) increasing by 21.61%.In other sectors, the PayFi sector fell by 0.04% in 24 hours, but Stellar (XLM) rose by 15.03%; the Layer1 sector fell by 0.35%, with Zcash (ZEC) relatively strong, rising by 5.07%; the Layer2 sector fell by 0.57%, with Linea (LINEA) rising against the trend by 2.66%; the CeFi sector fell by 2.72%, with Bitget Token (BGB) dropping by 6.00%.The cryptocurrency sector index reflecting historical market trends shows that the ssiSocialFi, ssiDeFi, and ssiGameFi indices rose by 5.41%, 1.43%, and 0.47%, respectively.

According to Gate market data, the South Korean KOSPI index's early gains expanded to 1%, and the Nikkei 225 index is currently up 0.65%, both reaching historical highs. SoftBank Group's stock price rose by 6%.

In a recent speech, the Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Huang Tianyou, revealed that the trading volume of 12 licensed virtual asset trading platforms in Hong Kong has exceeded HKD 640 billion for 2025, with the trading volume in the first quarter of this year increasing nearly threefold year-on-year.In addition, brokers engaged in virtual asset-related businesses saw their commission income related to this sector grow by over 80% year-on-year last year.

According to Infobae, 10 judicial departments in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina coordinated a large-scale operation with security forces from various locations, which included 90 simultaneous raids. The operation resulted in the arrest of 24 individuals and the seizure of over 8 million USDT and nearly 60 million dollars in cash. Additionally, 80 mobile phones, computers, tablets, and processors were confiscated.The case investigates alleged investment fraud, which is believed to have caused losses of nearly 3 billion dollars. The coordination of this operation was handled by the Crypto Assets Assistance and Coordination Group of the Buenos Aires Attorney General's Office. According to the group's report, the seized amount exceeded the previous record held by this specialized group: during the RainbowEx operation in 2024, over 2 million dollars were seized.

On-chain monitoring shows that a batch of funds suspected to be related to hacking or phishing activities has recently continued to buy Monero (XMR), with a total purchase scale of approximately 23 million dollars, significantly impacting market prices.

On-chain data shows that a whale address believed to be associated with a16z has increased its holdings of HYPE again. Since mid-April, its total purchase scale has approached 200 million dollars.