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ChainCatcher news, according to market news, since December 2025, more than 12 crypto and fintech companies have applied for or obtained national trust banking licenses from the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, including Coinbase, Ripple, Circle, BitGo, and Morgan Stanley and Fidelity digital assets. Payward, Kraken's parent company, has also submitted an application to establish Payward National Trust Company to provide bank-grade crypto custody and trust services to institutional and individual clients. New entry into the federal banking sector is good for consumers, banking, and the economy, and the OCC will continue to provide pathways for both traditional and innovative financial services, according to the OCC Comptroller. A national trust bank license enables companies to manage assets under a single federal regulation, reducing reliance on external banking partners. But most of the companies are still in the conditional approval stage, with only Anchorage Digital Bank being the only fully operational national trust bank. Another major unresolved issue is access to the Fed's payment infrastructure, with Fed governors saying they are exploring simplifying account structures but have not yet introduced a formal framework.

Odaily Planet Daily News Baidu officially released a new generation of basic large model Wenxin Model 5.1. The model adopts the "multi-dimensional elastic pre-training" technology, which only costs about 6% of the pre-training cost of the same model in the industry, achieving the leading level of basic effect. (Securities Times)

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, ZEC rose again this morning, with the price on Hyperliquid temporarily trading at $618, an increase of 8% in 24 hours. The biggest beneficiary of this round of market is on-chain trader Loracle, whose long order floating profit continues to expand with the market, reaching $7.7 million as of press time. It is reported that the position was opened with 10x leverage on April 24, when the price of ZEC was only around $340, and since then it has continued to increase its position, and the size of long orders has gradually pushed up to $20.7 million, with an average price of $387, which is now the largest long position of ZEC on the chain, and has not yet taken profit.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to market news, MSBT, a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund owned by Morgan Stanley, has bought another 91.739 BTC, worth $7.34 million, and its total Bitcoin holdings have reached 2,922 BTC, worth $235 million, so far.

Odaily Planet Daily News American pharmaceutical giant Moderna issued a statement saying that the company has begun to develop a hantavirus vaccine, and related work is in the early stages. The statement said that Moderna has cooperated with the U.S. Army Institute of Infectious Diseases to conduct early research on the hantavirus vaccine. In addition, Moderna is also working with the Vaccine Innovation Center of Korea University School of Medicine in South Korea to develop a potential immunization regimen, which was initiated before the outbreak of the "Hondius" epidemic. Moderna said: "These efforts are still in their early stages and are ongoing. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital) founder Yi Lihua posted that as expected, the United States and Iran have no reason to fight again after the war, and the market has rebounded to above $80,000 as scheduled, and will gradually adopt a closing strategy. As expected, 60,000 may not be the bottom of this round, but US stocks and even A-shares continue to hit new highs under the leadership of AI, and Hynix and Samsung have profits of more than one trillion yuan. In the long run, there is no bubble in AI, and in the short term, it is uncertain whether there is a black swan, and Buffett is crazy about reserving cash because of what he sees, if there is really a chance to buy the bottom of $50,000, then there will be a 4x chance in the next round of crypto bull market. As for AI, which is full of opportunities, some miners in the cryptocurrency circle have transformed into AI computing power, and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs have transformed into AI founders, and even trading platforms have started AI Trading, and investors should also allocate AI equity and stocks well.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader is shorting the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 with high leverage, with an unrealized loss of more than $1.9 million. 9 hours ago, the trader deposited another 1 million USDC to avoid liquidation.

According to the latest statistics from the China Gold Association, in the first quarter of 2026, domestic raw material gold production was 81.065 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 6.178 tons or 7.08% year-on-year; imported raw materials produced 55.165 tons of gold, an increase of 1.578 tons year-on-year, a year-on-year increase of 2.94%. Domestic raw materials and imported raw materials produced a total of 136.230 tons of gold, a year-on-year decrease of 4.600 tons or a year-on-year decrease of 3.27%. In the first quarter of 2026, China's gold consumption was 303.292 tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.41%. Among them: gold jewelry was 84.620 tons, down 37.10% year-on-year; gold bars and coins were 202.062 tons, a year-on-year increase of 46.40%; industrial and other gold was 16.610 tons, down 7.43% year-on-year. (China Gold Association)

According to ChainCatcher news, according to the monitoring of on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun raised 7,461 ETH from Binance 5 hours ago, worth $17.27 million, and has since deposited it into Spark.

ChainCatcher news, according to data released by Sentora on the X platform, 43.7% of Solana's active real-world asset (RWA) market value is deployed in DeFi lending, compared to only 6.1% on Ethereum. Sentora said that assets on Ethereum are idle, while assets on Solana operate as collateral in an active credit market.

ChainCatcher news, according to BBX data, this week's encryption infrastructure withdrawal channel and mining company earnings report outlook are promoted in two lines, and the core dynamics are as follows: Kraken (parent company Payward, Inc.) and global payment network MoneyGram issued an official announcement through PR Newswire on May 5, announcing the establishment of a global strategic cooperation: Kraken users can withdraw cash exchanged for crypto assets in hundreds of fiat currencies at nearly 500,000 MoneyGram physical outlets covering more than 100 countries; Initially, the focus will be on crypto withdrawals, and subsequent plans will be expanded to local bank deposits and cross-border remittance flows. Kraken handles customer identity verification, and MoneyGram provides licensed money transfer services with a compliance framework. Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed in an exclusive interview with Fortune that the company's IPO progress is "close to 80%" after its confidential S-1 filings were filed with the SEC, and Bloomberg estimated the current valuation to be about $13.3 billion ($13.3B) based on Deutsche Börse's $200 million ($200M) equity investment. MARA Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: $MARA) official ir.mara.com announced on May 4 that the Q1 2026 earnings report will be released after the market on May 11, and the earnings conference call is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. ET; Analyst consensus expects EPS of about -$2.34 and revenue of about $184.2 million. As of the end of 2025, the company held 53,822 BTC, with annual revenue of $907 million (+38% year-on-year) and a computing power of 66.4 EH/s in 2025; During Q1 2026, the price of BTC fell from about $87,000 to about $68,000, and the market will focus on the progress of its AI/HPC data center transformation and the pace of the implementation of Starwood JV's capacity of more than 1 GW. The U.S. Department of Labor released April non-farm payrolls data on May 8, adding 115,000 jobs, nearly double market expectations; Bitcoin maintained a range of $79,000-$80,000 after the data was released, and the market interpreted this "soft landing" signal as favorable for risk assets - the job market is not overheated, which means that the probability of the Fed maintaining the current interest rate is rising, and the medium-term liquidity environment for crypto assets remains stable. In April, the monthly net inflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs was about $2.44 billion, the strongest monthly data of the year; The monthly line closed up 16% in April, and a close above $76,000 in May would confirm Bitcoin's positive monthly close for the third consecutive month, which Fundstrat founder Tom Lee defined as a "bear market end signal."

Odaily Planet Daily News Aave posted on the X platform that the second phase of the rsETH event recovery technical solution has made progress. On May 6, the hacker's eight positions on Aave V3 were liquidated, and the recovered rsETH collateral was handed over to the Recovery Guardian. Arbitrum DAO has passed a proposal to return $71 million in ETH previously recovered. In response to the plaintiff's fund seizure application, the judge has approved Aave LLC's proposal to allow the transfer of the $71 million ETH to Aave LLC through an on-chain vote on the Arbitrum DAO. Subsequent plans include burning rsETH on Arbitrum and restoring rsETH reserves. Withdrawals will be reopened once the reserve is restored, and WETH LTV on the Aave V3 Ethereum core network will be restored.

Odaily Planet Daily News A source close to DeepSeek revealed that Alibaba and DeepSeek failed to agree on specific terms of financing. On the one hand, Alibaba's own ecosystem is not highly adaptable to DeepSeek, and DeepSeek does not lack candidate shareholders for external capital injection, hoping to minimize the constraints of terms and conditions. In addition, DeepSeek and potential shareholders are playing a game at the negotiating table. Bloomberg reported that Tencent offered to subscribe for up to 20% of DeepSeek's shares in this funding round, but DeepSeek did not want to give up a large percentage of control. According to previous reports, DeepSeek is valued at up to 300 billion yuan and is preparing to raise 50 billion yuan, of which 20 billion is internal capital increase and 30 billion is external fundraising. This valuation was confirmed by DeepSeek's internal employees. (Beluga Lab)

ChainCatcher news, according to official data, Coinbase increased its holdings by 1,103 bitcoins in the first quarter of 2026, bringing its total holdings to 16,492 bitcoins.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bits.media, the Moscow Exchange announced that it will launch new settlement futures trading for three digital asset indices, Solana, Ripple, and Tron, on May 14, with only qualified investors participating. These instruments are settled in Russian rubles and do not involve physical delivery of digital assets. Solana index futures are quoted in USD, with a minimum price change and a change value of $0.01; The minimum change in Ripple and Tron index futures is $0.0001, with a change value of $0.01. The contract term is one month, and the last trading day is the last Friday of each month. Contracts expiring in June, July, and August will be available from May 14. In addition, the Moscow Exchange will begin calculating and publishing indices for four cryptocurrencies on May 13: Solana, Ripple, Tron and BNB.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bits.media, the State Duma of Russia has recommended the first reading of the bill on criminal liability for illegal cryptocurrency mining submitted by the government. The bill will add Article 171.6 to the Penal Code, "Illegal mining of digital assets and mining infrastructure operator activities", which applies to mining activities not included in the national register and the provision of mining infrastructure services without a license. The severity of the penalty depends on the severity of the crime: a maximum fine of 1.5 million rubles or two years of income for income or forced labor for two years for those who earn more than 3.5 million rubles; Committed by an organized group or with an income of more than 13 million rubles, a fine of up to 2.5 million rubles or three years of income, forced labor or imprisonment for up to five years, and possible additional fines of up to 400,000 rubles or half a year's income. All cases provide for the confiscation of mined cryptocurrency. The government says that currently about 50,000 entities in Russia are engaged in mining, but only 1,489 (609 legal entities, 880 self-employed) are included in the state register.

ChainCatcher news, according to market sources, the actual controller of the recently collapsed European crypto exchange Zondacrypto is allegedly hiding in Dubai, and the exchange's customer losses may exceed $100 million. Polish media Onet Wiadomości revealed that the official head of Zondacrypto was in Dubai with a man nicknamed "Maniek", who is the real controller of the crypto business, and CEO Przemysław Kral is only a "front office figure". Kral has disappeared since the company's reserves were revealed to have fallen by more than 99%, and was previously thought to have fled to Israel, but is now confirmed in the UAE. Formerly known as BitBay, founded in 2014, the exchange was taken over by Kral in 2021 and rebranded as Zondacrypto, moving to Estonia to operate. Polish media said the exchange may be controlled by Russia's Tambov gang, and about 30,000 Poles may become victims, with a preliminary estimate of losses of at least PLN 350 million (about US$97 million), but it may actually be higher. Additionally, founder Sylwester Suszek, who disappeared in 2022, allegedly held a wallet key containing 4,500 Bitcoins never handed over.

ChainCatcher news, Arthur Hayes said at the Consensus Miami 2026 event that 99% of altcoins may drop to 0, which is a normal market cleanse. About 98% of companies in the S&P 500 have zeroed in since 1929, and most stocks are also altcoins in the long run. Cryptocurrencies crash faster because of their round-the-clock trading and lack of restrictions. It is recommended to treat tokens as software, and it is the norm for most software projects to fail because they cannot gain users. The price and future value of Bitcoin depend on the total amount of fiat currency and the speed at which fiat currency is created, regardless of politics or regulation. Currently trading at around $82,000, Bitcoin's utility lies in allowing users to transfer value beyond the traditional financial system. Centralized crypto companies seek regulation to protect their business, but this will not have an impact on the validity of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies.

According to ChainCatcher news, a16z Crypto posted on the X platform that the scale of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) has increased 10 times in two years and now exceeds $30 billion, nearly half of which are U.S. Treasury bonds. This growth reflects the rising demand for institutions to on-chain traditional financial instruments such as government bonds, commodities, stocks, and private credit. While U.S. Treasuries currently dominate, the asset class is expanding, with more categories gaining significant shares in recent quarters.