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According to CoinDesk, security engineer Taylor Hornby, who discovered a serious vulnerability in Zcash using the Anthropic Opus 4.8 AI model, stated that Monero (XMR) has been added to the audit queue, and more privacy coin projects will undergo security reviews in the future.Hornby previously discovered a critical vulnerability in the Zcash Orchard privacy pool on May 29, which had gone unnoticed since May 2022 and could theoretically allow attackers to create unlimited undetectable fake ZEC. The development team at Shielded Labs completed an emergency fix before June 1 and subsequently disclosed the details of the vulnerability. As a result of the incident, ZEC dropped by as much as 38% within 24 hours after the news broke, with the market concerned that attackers may have exploited the vulnerability to steal funds from the privacy pool without leaving on-chain traces.Hornby stated that he was commissioned by the nonprofit organization Shielded Labs in April of this year to identify protocol vulnerabilities before attackers could exploit them. Although he had the means to profit from the vulnerability, he chose to report the issue to the development team, stating that "such betrayal is unacceptable." Additionally, Hornby plans to apply for funding from the Zcash community to support subsequent security research efforts.

According to Jinshi reports, the market is currently pricing in a Federal Reserve interest rate hike in January next year, with the expected timing before the non-farm data release being March next year.

According to Jinshi, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the non-farm payroll employment for March was revised from 201,000 to 214,000; the non-farm payroll employment for April was revised from 115,000 to 179,000.After the revisions, the total number of new jobs for March and April is 93,000 higher than before the revisions.

Slow Fog's Yuxian stated on platform X that incidents of search engine poisoning involving fake Codex, Claude Code, and others have recently surged. It mentioned that it has previously warned multiple times about Google search results and its own services like Google Sites being exploited by black and gray market poisoning, but Google has not taken action against such obvious poisoning methods.

According to The Block, Geoffrey Kendrick, the head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that "the bottom has almost appeared" for Bitcoin after a recent sharp decline, with the current range of about $63,000 being a "buying range." He pointed out that since February, the overall holdings of the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF have remained stable, with no concentrated redemptions that would raise concerns, indicating that funds are more "structurally stable."Kendrick expects that after the recent selling pressure triggered by Strategy's sale of 32 BTC, there may be a buyback at a scale of 10 times or even 100 times, following historical practices, which could signal the confirmation of a temporary low. He also cautioned that there is still a downside risk of Bitcoin falling below $60,000, but believes that buying in batches is preferable to trying to time the bottom precisely. The bank maintains its year-end targets of $100,000 for Bitcoin and $4,000 for Ethereum.

Unitas Labs announced a strategic research cooperation intention with the Hong Kong listed company New City Development Group (HKEX: 0456). Both parties will conduct research on RWA asset allocation and blockchain financial management, exploring feasible paths for listed companies to participate in digital asset strategies in a compliant and prudent manner. This cooperation does not constitute any financial product issuance or investment advice.

Aleo released the privacy stablecoin white paper "Stablecoin Privacy," stating that the privacy layer is the key infrastructure missing for blockchain payment rails to be adopted by mainstream institutions. Aleo indicated that as the GENIUS Act provides opportunities for the widespread adoption of stablecoins, the issue of permanently public transaction information on public blockchains may still hinder institutions from using stablecoins in scenarios such as payroll, fund management, and vendor payments.Aleo claims that existing solutions do not adequately meet the needs of institutions in terms of privacy protection and risk management. The white paper proposes a permissionless private stablecoin architecture based on Aleo, which introduces programmable risk mitigation mechanisms while protecting transaction privacy through zero-knowledge technology and programmable smart contracts, allowing institutions to conduct private transactions without sacrificing compliance and risk control.It is reported that the team members behind this white paper have long been dedicated to research at the intersection of cryptography, policy, and financial systems. Aleo's Global Policy Director Yaya J. Fanusie, member of the Crypto Innovation Council and former Global Financial Crimes Compliance Officer at Coinbase Valerie-Leila Jaber, and cryptographer and Johns Hopkins University Computer Science Professor Matthew Green possess rare practical experience in private payments, financial regulation, and zero-knowledge cryptography.

Goldman Sachs announced a collaboration with fund service provider Apex Group, digital asset trading platform Archax, infrastructure provider Ownera, and real estate investment management company LRC Group to launch a blockchain-native real estate fund, further promoting the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).The fund combines a traditional fund structure with a blockchain-native issuance model, with fund shares tokenized through Goldman Sachs' blockchain platform GS DAP. LRC Group serves as the fund manager, Archax is responsible for regulated digital securities custody and acts as the first distribution partner, while Ownera connects all participants and distribution channels.Mathew McDermott, Global Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, stated that issuing blockchain-native fund shares through GS DAP allows for more precise investments in real estate assets and creates conditions for easier share transfers in the future.The market believes that as traditional financial institutions accelerate their layout, the tokenization of real-world assets such as real estate is gradually moving from conceptual exploration to practical application.

According to The Defiant, Ethereum researchers Thomas Coratger, Justin Drake, and others released a proposal on June 1 at the Ethereum research forum, planning to establish a dedicated XMSS public key registry as the first concrete protocol upgrade for Ethereum's migration to post-quantum cryptography.This registry allows approximately 1 million validators to pre-register quantum-safe XMSS keys before the full switch to the BLS signature system, serving as an important "preheating phase" to reduce the impact of the subsequent switch on network stability. This proposal has been included in the Ethereum Foundation's protocol team's Strawmap roadmap, marking the first protocol fork on that roadmap.

According to Jinshi, Ned Davis Research has raised its target for the S&P 500 Index to 7,950 points by the end of 2026.

Binance Research stated that the recent weakening of the cryptocurrency market may not be due to the cryptocurrency assets themselves, but rather due to the high concentration of funds in the U.S. stock market. It pointed out that the CBOE Discrete Index rose to 42, the third highest in history, reflecting the concentration of funds within the S&P 500 index towards a few popular themes, which has marginalized Bitcoin.

According to Bloomberg, Andrew Left, the founder of the well-known short-selling firm Citron Research, has been found guilty of manipulating stock prices using dishonest social media posts. After a three-week trial in Los Angeles, the jury ruled that Left was guilty on 13 out of 17 charges, including one count of securities fraud.Prosecutors accused Left of illegally influencing stock prices and profiting quickly from explosive tweets about dozens of companies between 2018 and 2023, earning over $20 million from it. Left stated in court that he would appeal, claiming the verdict is an attack on free speech and innocent trading behavior. He faces over 20 years in prison and will be sentenced on August 31. The case has drawn close attention from the short-selling industry, with a Yale professor stating that this ruling will have a chilling effect on short sellers.

Coinbase released a retrospective report on the large-scale service interruption event on May 7, 2026.The outage lasted approximately 8 hours, with full recovery taking about 12 hours. During this time, trading, deposits, withdrawals, and most core services were unavailable or severely degraded. Coinbase stated that the outage was caused by multiple cooling units failing simultaneously in the cooling system of a data center in one availability zone (use1-az4) in the AWS us-east-1 region, triggering cabinet thermal protection shutdowns, which led to EC2 instances and EBS volumes going offline, affecting multiple internet services.During the recovery process, the Coinbase trading matching engine lost quorum due to the cluster architecture deployed in a single AWS data center losing most nodes. It required urgent code adjustments and the reconstruction of a new node group to restore operation, gradually restarting market trading during the recovery.Additionally, the AWS-managed Kafka (MSK) service experienced control plane failures, preventing the automatic re-election of partition leaders, further blocking quotes, fees, and some settlement and data flow systems, which expanded the overall impact.After manual partition migration in collaboration with the AWS engineering team, the system gradually returned to normal. Coinbase stated that this incident exposed its shortcomings in cross-availability zone automatic switching capabilities and disaster recovery for managed middleware. The company will upgrade its cross-region hot backup architecture, strengthen regular failure drills, and migrate the Kafka system from dual availability zones to a three availability zone deployment, while also working with AWS to advance root cause fixes and improvements.

According to Fortune, U.S. prosecutors this week charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo (36 years old, Italian, currently residing in Switzerland) with insider trading.Prosecutors stated that under the username "AlphaRaccoon," he placed bets on the prediction market platform Polymarket using internal search trend data before the public release of Google's "2025 Search Annual" data, accumulating profits of over $1.2 million.The FBI identified him by tracking cryptocurrency payments. Google has suspended him and stated that using confidential information to place bets severely violates company policy.Spagnuolo is charged with violating the Commodity Exchange Act, telecommunications fraud, and money laundering, and could face years in prison.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), the secondary investment institution Trend Research (@Trend_Research_) under Jackyi has transferred a total of 7.57 million UNI (approximately 24.55 million USD) and 228,700 COMP (approximately 4.44 million USD) to Binance for liquidation within 4 days, resulting in a total loss of approximately 46.98 million USD.