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Tin tức từ ChainCatcher, theo báo cáo của GeekWire, công ty khởi nghiệp AI Prometheus do Jeff Bezos đồng sáng lập đã hoàn thành vòng gọi vốn B trị giá 12 tỷ USD, với định giá khoảng 41 tỷ USD, các nhà đầu tư bao gồm JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global và Arch Venture Partners.Prometheus đã bỏ từ "Project" trong tên gọi ban đầu, cam kết xây dựng "kỹ sư trí tuệ nhân tạo tổng quát" mà Bezos đã đề cập, sử dụng công cụ AI để tăng tốc quy trình phát triển sản phẩm vật lý từ thiết kế đến sản xuất. Vik Bajaj, CEO đồng sáng lập của Prometheus, cho biết trong vài năm qua đã có thể chuyển đổi các vấn đề phức tạp từ thiết kế đến sản xuất thành các vấn đề AI đầu cuối. Bezos tiết lộ rằng công ty có thể mua lại một số doanh nghiệp sản xuất có thể hưởng lợi từ công nghệ của mình và giúp cải thiện quy trình sản xuất của họ.Đây là lần đầu tiên Bezos đảm nhận vai trò CEO kể từ khi rời khỏi vị trí CEO của Amazon vào năm 2021, công ty hiện có khoảng 150 nhân viên, có trụ sở tại San Francisco, và có đội ngũ tại London và Zurich. Bezos cho biết thời gian ra mắt sản phẩm vẫn chưa được xác định, nhưng phiên bản đầu tiên sắp được phát hành.

Digital asset market infrastructure provider Prometheum recently launched Digital Brokerage Solutions, offering agency clearing, custody, and trading services for broker-dealers and registered investment advisors (RIA), enabling them to provide cryptocurrency assets and tokenized securities directly to clients through traditional brokerage accounts.Co-founder and co-CEO Aaron Kaplan stated that hundreds of billions of dollars in tokenized securities have been issued on-chain, but there is a lack of distribution channels to reach mainstream investors. He believes that the crypto industry has solved the tokenization issue but has not yet addressed the distribution problem, and that broker-dealer and RIA channels are key to achieving scalable reach to investors.

According to Caixin, the "Global Payments Report 2026" released by global payment technology and software company Global Payments indicates that digital wallets account for more than half of global online transaction volume and one-third of offline transactions. Digital wallets can flexibly integrate different payment methods, including cryptocurrencies. The report predicts that direct cryptocurrency payments will become the fastest-growing online payment method, with a compound annual growth rate of 16% from 2025 to 2030. This means that by 2030, the volume of e-commerce transactions using direct cryptocurrency payments could account for 0.28% of global e-commerce transaction volume, nearly $31 billion.However, despite the global total market value of cryptocurrencies nearing $3.2 trillion by the end of 2025, it remains a relatively marginalized payment method for consumers to merchants. Reports from MRC and Visa show that only 10% of merchants globally accept cryptocurrency payments directly. In 2025, cryptocurrencies will account for only 0.19% of global e-commerce transaction volume, approximately $15 billion.

According to the official announcement, digital asset market data and analytics provider Kaiko has announced the acquisition of the European decentralized finance infrastructure provider Cometh, which holds a MiCA / CASP license, to integrate data, analytics, indices, and on-chain infrastructure capabilities, along with Cometh's expertise in smart contract engineering.Kaiko stated that after the transaction is completed, the company will form an integrated infrastructure covering BMR authorized indices, MiCA compliant products, oracle services, and on-chain execution capabilities. Cometh has previously been granted a MiCA / CASP license by the French AMF and holds ISO 27001:2022 certification.

According to Decrypt, digital asset market infrastructure provider Prometheum has officially completed its first batch of cryptocurrency transactions after nearly a decade of establishment and raising approximately $100 million, currently only supporting Ethereum transactions.Prometheum has been controversial in the industry for supporting the compliance path and regulatory stance of the U.S. SEC during Gary Gensler's tenure, and in 2023 became the first company to obtain a Special Purpose Broker-Dealer (SPBD) license from the U.S. SEC and FINRA, allowing it to custody digital asset securities under a federal regulatory framework. However, with Gary Gensler's departure, the U.S. SEC's withdrawal of lawsuits against companies like Coinbase, and the regulatory framework shifting to a more lenient model, the compliance and custody license advantages that Prometheum has built over the long term are being weakened.

According to CoinPost, the Financial Services Agency of Japan announced a cabinet order amendment, officially recognizing foreign trust beneficiary rights that are "equivalent" to Japan's electronic settlement system as electronic settlement methods under the Fund Settlement Act. The amendment will take effect on June 1.This revision clarifies: first, it establishes a legal basis for qualified foreign trust-based stablecoins to provide services within Japan; second, it stipulates that electronic settlement method operators should use equivalence with the Japanese system as the eligibility criterion when handling foreign electronic settlement methods. At the same time, relevant foreign trust beneficiary rights will be excluded from the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act's securities and will only be regulated as electronic settlement methods.The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan has officially approved the "AI + Blockchain Finance" proposal, supporting yen stablecoins and tokenized deposits.

On May 19, the Financial Services Agency of Japan announced the revised Cabinet Office Ordinance related to electronic payment methods and transaction operators, clearly including trust beneficiary rights established under foreign laws that are equivalent to the Japanese system within the scope of electronic payment methods under Japan's Fund Settlement Act, providing a legal basis for the compliant circulation of trust-type stablecoins issued by specific foreign entities within Japan. The new regulations will take effect on June 1, 2026, and also clarify that the relevant foreign trust beneficiary rights are not considered securities under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a suspected whale "dimethyltryptamine.eth" associated with the Solana chain wallet "fent.sol" purchased 5.66 million SPIKE, and this whale previously achieved a return of 52,600 times from investing in PEPE.

Ledger's Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet stated that the attack method used in the Drift Protocol exploit is similar to the 2025 Bybit hacking incident, which is widely believed to be linked to North Korean hackers.Guillemet pointed out that this attack did not target any smart contracts; instead, the attackers infiltrated the devices of multi-signature signers over a long period, tricking them into approving malicious transactions. The signers may have always thought they were authorizing legitimate operations. He emphasized that the root of the problem lies in the lack of security at the personnel and operational levels, rather than in the code itself.

Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero (who previously joined Tempo) published a post clarifying five misconceptions about MPP. Dan stated that MPP is not only applicable to Tempo, and that the protocol is independent of payment methods, supporting both cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies as well as any blockchain. It has currently expanded to the Bitcoin Lightning Network and there is already a draft for Solana expansion.In terms of usage costs, MPP itself has no inherent fees, and the specific costs depend on the blockchain or fiat channel used; regarding openness, MPP is designed to be simple and scalable, and has been submitted as a Web standard to the IETF.Additionally, MPP supports both Pay-per-request and session-based modes, the latter being suitable for continuous small payments that require API speed; Dan also emphasized that MPP achieves a separation of secure HTTP communication and payment rails, without relying on specific smart wallet implementations or stablecoins.

Venus Protocol releases updates on the abnormal activity in the THE liquidity pool. In addition to previously suspending THE borrowing and withdrawals, the collateral factors (CF) for 7 markets have now been reduced to 0 as a precautionary measure against markets where a single user holds an excessively high proportion of collateral. The 7 markets are BCH, LTC, UNI, AAVE, FIL, TWT, and lisUSD, while all other markets remain unaffected and continue to operate normally.The preliminary assessment of the attack method indicates that the attacker began accumulating THE tokens slowly through normal deposit processes starting in June 2025, ultimately holding 84% of the cap (approximately 12.2 million THE). Yesterday, the hacker directly transferred THE tokens into the protocol contract, instantly increasing the supply and creating a massive amount of collateral. They then engaged in recursive price manipulation, taking advantage of the extremely low on-chain liquidity of THE combined with the TWAP oracle delay. The hacker initiated a loop: depositing THE, borrowing other assets, using the borrowed assets to buy more THE on-chain, and waiting for the TWAP oracle to update and drive up the price. Venus stated that it is committed to transparency and will release a complete report after the investigation concludes.

According to an interview with BeInCrypto, Dr. Han, the founder and CEO of Gate, stated that artificial intelligence will bring substantial changes to trading methods within two years when discussing "Intelligent Web3." He believes that the increasingly complex structure of crypto products and the rising operational thresholds have become significant obstacles to further adoption in the industry.In this context, Gate has launched AI-assisted features to help users understand token information, platform functions, and trading strategies; the next phase plans to replace traditional interfaces with natural language interactions, enabling automated execution of trades and profit management. He also mentioned that AI will not only optimize user experience but may also enhance capital flow and allocation efficiency through round-the-clock operation and scalable information processing capabilities.Since its establishment in 2013, Gate has developed into a global trading platform covering over 49 million users, operating under licenses in multiple jurisdictions, and continuously promoting compliance market expansion. At the same time, Gate is accelerating the integration of tokenized stocks, gold, silver, and indices, achieving 24/7 trading of crypto assets and traditional assets within a unified account system. From the current layout, Gate is advancing its next phase strategic deployment through AI and multi-asset integration on two fronts.

According to FinanceFeeds, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao stated at the 2026 World Economic Forum that the lack of trading privacy is the last major obstacle for cryptocurrencies to become mainstream payment methods.Although issues of high fees and slow speeds have been significantly improved over the past decade through technologies like Layer 2, the completely transparent and permanently traceable nature of transactions on public chains makes it difficult for ordinary consumers and businesses to accept them for everyday payments.If a company pays its employees' salaries using cryptocurrency on-chain, it is easy to see everyone's salary level with just a click on the sending address. When businesses make payments to suppliers, they inadvertently expose their entire balance, lists of other suppliers, and cash flow details to competitors, which is commercially unacceptable.Changpeng Zhao proposed a solution concept called "invisible rails," utilizing blockchain as backend infrastructure to provide faster and cheaper settlements for existing payment providers, allowing users to avoid direct contact with wallet addresses or private keys. Developing privacy protection technologies to hide sensitive data while maintaining compliance and verifiability.

According to a report by Businesswire, U.S. digital asset market infrastructure provider Prometheum announced that it has secured an additional $23 million in funding since early 2025, with investments from a group of high-net-worth individuals and institutions.The funds will be used to support its commercial expansion in the U.S. digital market. Specific directions include: providing digital asset corresponding clearing services for U.S. broker-dealers, enabling their clients to trade digital assets through existing brokerage accounts; and accelerating the issuance of blockchain-based digital native and tokenized securities products, which will be distributed through its broker network.

Step Finance released an update on the hacking incident on platform X, disclosing that several of its funding wallets were breached by an attacker last night. The initial assessment indicates that the attack was carried out through a certain attack vector. Remedial measures have been taken, and the company is closely collaborating with security experts. Relevant authorities have also been notified, and further updates on the incident will be provided.According to previous reports, the treasury and fee wallets of Step Finance were compromised. On-chain data shows that approximately 261,854 SOL tokens were unstaked and transferred during the attack, amounting to about 30 million dollars.

According to Cryptopolitan, Strive board member Pierre Rochard pointed out this week that despite the continuous improvement of scaling technologies (i.e., tools that accelerate transactions and reduce costs), the way Bitcoin is taxed is the fundamental reason it cannot function like a regular currency in everyday transactions.Pierre Rochard stated that Bitcoin payments grow faster in low-tax regions. Under current U.S. tax law, Bitcoin is considered property rather than currency. This means that every time someone uses Bitcoin for consumption, whether purchasing coffee, services, or goods, it triggers a tax reporting obligation, and if the value of Bitcoin has increased since the buyer acquired it, capital gains tax may also be due.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale is engaging in circular lending and has purchased 9,439 XAUT at a price of $4,463 using 42.13 million USDe over the past 25 days. The current floating profit is $3.45 million.

Stellar Announces Upgrade to Community FundStellar has announced the upgrade of its community fund with the launch of Stellar Community Fund v7.0, aimed at accelerating ecosystem growth and helping developers scale faster. It is reported that the fund has been operational for six and a half years, and this upgrade comes after successfully conducting the SCF Pilot vote through Soroban Governor, to adapt to network maturity and developer needs.SCF v7.0 will adjust and optimize the funding disbursement method to encourage execution, speed, and delivery. Specifically, the funding grants will be disbursed as follows: 10% will be paid upon granting, 20% will be paid at the mid-development milestone stage, 30% will be paid at the advanced product readiness stage (testnet), and 40% will be paid at the mainnet launch verification and user experience readiness stage.

According to Finbold, Everstake has partnered with Cometh to integrate Everstake's institutional-grade staking infrastructure into Cometh's custody ecosystem. This will allow customers to deposit fiat directly from their bank accounts and convert it into eligible crypto assets for staking, earning rewards that can be settled back into fiat.The report states that this collaboration comes at a time when institutional interest in staking has reached an all-time high. Data shows that the proportion of institutions participating in staking has surged from 31% in 2024 to 44% in 2025, with the total locked value on EU cryptocurrency platforms growing by 28% in just the first quarter. Currently, over 150 cryptocurrency companies hold MiCA licenses.

Bybit's on-chain earning program officially launches the mETH yield expansion event, which will run until February 15, 2026 (UTC). Users can enjoy standard staking rewards and an additional 3% annualized reward on newly minted mETH on the platform.This event coincides with a comprehensive upgrade of the mETH buffer pool mechanism, significantly shortening the redemption time to about 24 hours, better than the industry average of 4-20 days, achieving a leap from traditional staking assets to high-efficiency, institutional-grade treasury tools.How to participate: Users only need to stake ETH on Bybit with one click to mint mETH, without the need for external wallets or cross-chain operations.mETH is a value accumulation token obtained by staking ETH through the Mantle LSP protocol. The upgraded buffer pool mechanism achieves institutional-level liquidity efficiency through deep integration with Aave, transforming traditional staking assets into high-efficiency treasury tools.