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ChainCatcher news, according to market news, Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini submitted amendments to the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, requesting the removal of a clause in the Digital Assets Act that requires trading platforms to only list "not readily susceptible to manipulation" tokens. The three companies believe that the provision will increase the difficulty of listing small-cap, low-liquidity tokens and may be tightened by the future CFTC chairman as an enforcement tool. The current draft intends to give the CFTC broader authority over the spot market for "digital commodities" such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and the Senate Agriculture Committee has voted on the relevant parts by party affiliation, and will still be significantly revised to win the support of Democrats.

Odaily Planet Daily News A senior Iranian lawmaker said that from now on, the US naval blockade will be met with a military response from Iran. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to British police, former World Athletics Championships 4×100m relay gold medalist and British sprinter CJ Ujah and nine others have been charged with "conspiracy to commit fraud" in a cryptocurrency fraud case. Police said the criminal gang impersonated police and cryptocurrency company personnel to commit phone fraud against multiple victims, inducing them to leak key wallet security information, including seed phrases, and then transferred the victims' crypto assets, with one victim losing more than £300,000. The case was solved by a joint investigation by the Special Operations Unit for the Eastern Region of the United Kingdom (ERSOU) across Kent, Essex and London. Ten suspects have appeared in court, with Ujah being granted bail until May 28 for further hearings. Ujah, 32, won the World Championships 4×100m relay gold medal for Great Britain in 2017 and won the Diamond League title in the same year. He was suspended for 22 months for doping in 2022 after being found to have caused a false test due to supplement contamination. In addition to Ujah, another British sprinter, Brandon Mingeli, is also on the arrest list and is currently in custody pending trial.

According to ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf announced its Q1 financial report, showing that its high-performance computing (HPC) business surpassed Bitcoin mining revenue for the first time, marking a critical stage in the company's transformation to AI and cloud computing power infrastructure. The company's Q1 total revenue was $34 million, basically unchanged from the same period last year. Among them, HPC leasing revenue reached US$21 million, surpassing the digital asset mining revenue of less than US$13 million for the first time, becoming the main source of revenue. The financial report also showed that the company's net loss widened to $427.6 million, mainly affected by the revaluation of non-cash warrants. However, CFO Patrick Fleury emphasized that the company is shifting from "volatility mining revenue" to "stable long-term hashrate contract revenue." TeraWulf currently has 60 MW of HPC capacity at its Lake Mariner data center in New York City, with plans to continue expanding during the year. At the same time, the company is transforming some of its mining machine infrastructure into AI/HPC computing resources to support ultra-large-scale computing power needs. This trend continues to spread in the industry, and Bitcoin miners such as Riot Platforms are also expanding their revenue structures through data centers and AI contracts, gradually transforming into "computing infrastructure companies".

Odaily Planet Daily News Fed Goolsbee said that the Fed should always consider all options, the Fed must pay attention to the inflation situation, do not believe that inflationary pressure only comes from energy, the most worrying is service inflation, inflation is not performing well, and the trend is unfavorable. There is not much evidence that the job market is deteriorating, the employment report looks "fairly stable", and there is not much evidence of a job market collapse. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to Jin Shi, the Federal Reserve's Goolsbee said that the most worrying thing at present is service industry inflation.

ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, the Federal Reserve's Goolsbee said that inflation is not performing well and the trend is unfavorable. There is no substantial evidence that the job market is deteriorating.

According to Cointelegraph, Tether has frozen more than $514 million USDT in the past 30 days, involving 370 addresses. Among them, the Tron chain froze about $506 million and the Ethereum chain froze about $8.73 million. BlockSec's analysis of 2025 data reveals that Tether has cumulatively blacklisted 4,163 unique addresses on the Ethereum and Tron chains, freezing a total of $1.26 billion in USDT.

According to a Goldman Sachs survey, investors expect poor shipping in the Strait of Hormuz to continue into the second half of the year, after Iran and US ships continued to clash near Hormuz, and sporadic clashes lasted for an hour. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, Fidelity deposited 23,919 ETH to Coinbase in the past 1 hour, worth $54.44 million.

Odaily Planet Daily News Barclays maintains its forecast of an average Brent crude oil price of $100 per barrel in 2026, and the risk tends to be upward. (Jin Shi)

According to ChainCatcher news, the MegaETH Foundation announced the official launch of the MEGA token repurchase program and has completed the first MEGA repurchase, using all the net income generated by the USDm issuer as of the end of April. Officials emphasize that USDm is not issued and operated by the MegaETH Foundation or MegaLabs. The current supply of USDm is approximately US$480 million, and future MEGA buybacks will be implemented as programmatic as possible, automatically operated by preset rules, rather than by the foundation's own timing.

Odaily Planet Daily News The MegaETH Foundation announced the official launch of the MEGA token repurchase program and completed the first MEGA repurchase on May 7, using all the net income generated by the USDm issuer as of the end of April. Officials emphasize that USDm is not issued and operated by the MegaETH Foundation or MegaLabs. The current supply of USDm is approximately US$480 million, and future MEGA buybacks will be executed through a programmatic mechanism as much as possible, automatically operated by preset rules.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, the preliminary value of the US one-year inflation rate in May was 4.5%, lower than the market expectation of 4.8% and the previous value of 4.7%.

ChainCatcher news, Glassnode analysis pointed out that Bitcoin broke through key resistance and rose to $82,000-83,000, ending a narrow range for several weeks, and market volatility returned. Options data shows that short-term 1-week implied volatility rebounded by about 6 points, long-term volatility is moderate, and short-term trading demand is recovering rapidly. In terms of sentiment and positioning, the 25 delta tilt converges towards neutrality, and the demand for downside hedging weakens; Short-term bearish, long-term turning bullish, upside expectations repricing. In terms of structure, the implied volatility exceeded the realized volatility, and the VRP turned positive; There is a concentration area of about $2 billion in "short gamma" near $82,000, which may amplify fluctuations. In the past 24 hours, call options have sold 81%, and the market tends to fluctuate and consolidate.

World Health Organization spokesman Christian Lindmeier said on the 8th that the hantavirus epidemic has been launched in accordance with the International Health Regulations, and WHO is working closely with relevant departments in Cape Verde, Spain, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Argentina, as well as the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Lindemeier said contact tracing of potentially infected people continues. "We're tracking everyone, we're looking at the seating charts of planes and ships, and maybe even tracking someone's whereabouts further to see where they've been or who might have been in close contact with someone." (CCTV) The "Will there be a hantavirus pandemic in 2026" prediction event on Predict.fun currently has a probability of 11%. The settlement standard of the event is the official notification of the World Health Organization, if the World Health Organization clearly characterizes hantavirus, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), renal syndrome hemorrhagic fever (HFRS) or hantavirus-related outbreaks as "pandemics" in its official public statement before 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31, 2026, the market will judge as "yes", otherwise the market will judge as "no".

Odaily Planet Daily News The Aptos Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with NETSTARS, a Japanese QR code payment service provider, to jointly explore multi-chain payment solutions. The two parties plan to integrate Aptos' high-performance public chain into NETSTARS' existing cashless payment system, introducing stablecoin payments to their merchant network, focusing on instant settlement, low-cost, and compliant embedded transaction experiences.

Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, said that I think this employment report is positive because it confirms that the labor market is still stable, which can bring some confidence to consumers and enable them to maintain resilient consumption patterns. At the same time, the unemployment rate of 4.3% will not force the Fed to reconsider its statement that it is "not ready to tighten interest rates." Therefore, this is a good data to confirm that the economy as a whole and consumers are still healthy. The longer oil prices remain high, the greater the risk of damaging consumer confidence and spending. At the moment, it does not appear to have a negative impact on economic growth or consumer confidence, but the longer this situation continues, the greater the risk. (Jin Shi)

At the Consensus Miami 2026 conference, executives from MoonPay, Ripple, and Paxos said that regulatory clarity is driving stablecoins to accelerate institutional adoption, but infrastructure, privacy protection, and real-world scenario implementation are still core challenges facing the industry. According to Richard Harrison, vice president of banking and payments partnerships at MoonPay, the GENIUS Act provides "license" for businesses to enter the stablecoin space, making it easier for traditional financial institutions to participate in the stablecoin market. He pointed out that stablecoins can significantly improve the efficiency of cross-border payments, but the current proportion of global remittances is still low, and it is expected to rise to about 10% in the next five years. Jack McDonald, senior vice president of stablecoins at Ripple, said that institutional clients are more concerned about regulatory compliance, custody security and trusted counterparties rather than simply the market capitalization of stablecoins. He said that Ripple pays more attention to the practical utility of stablecoins in scenarios such as payments, corporate capital flows, and capital market collateral. Brent Perrault, senior software engineer at Paxos, pointed out that on-chain privacy issues have not been effectively addressed, and disclosing the blockchain will expose transaction amounts and fund flows. He believes that the key to future stablecoin competition will be trust, distribution capacity and user incentives. Harrison also compared stablecoins to electric vehicles, saying that "the product itself is already viable, but true mass adoption still relies on supporting infrastructure," including real-world consumption scenarios such as how to use stablecoins to pay rent or buy coffee. （CoinDesk）