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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 The Block, the Web3 asset management platform XEFFY announced the completion of a $20 million financing round, which includes $5 million in angel funding and $15 million in a private round supported by early strategic investors.The funds will be used to develop its Vault management platform, expand the on-chain real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure, and support early RWA projects through the XEFFY fund to expand the global ecosystem. The platform combines market-neutral Vault strategies with dedicated on-chain RWA infrastructure built for retail and institutional users.Currently, the tokenized RWA market is expected to exceed $30 billion by 2025, with institutions like BlackRock and Fidelity already deploying related products. The XEFFY platform has approximately 200,000 community members on X, Telegram, and Discord, and its Asia-Pacific ambassador program has about 200 contributors.

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen recently elaborated on Bitget's strategic layout in the field of tokenized assets during an online AMA titled "The Future of RWA" hosted by Reality. She revealed that since proposing the Universal Exchange (UEX) strategy in early 2025, Bitget has been accelerating its evolution from a traditional crypto exchange to a platform covering all categories of assets. During a meeting with the COO of BlackRock, she introduced the "10% Vision": it is expected that by 2030, approximately 10% of global financial assets will exist in tokenized form. Currently, the penetration rate of tokenized stocks is only 0.01%, indicating a significant incremental space in traditional financial markets, which is precisely the trend that Reality is built upon.Gracy summarized "why now" as the convergence of five major trends: stablecoins have become a global settlement channel, especially in regions where fiat currencies are weak, creating demand for dollar-denominated investment products; there is a surge in user willingness for diversified asset allocation; blockchain performance, custody, compliance, and market maker systems are maturing; regulatory frameworks in the US, Europe, and Hong Kong are moving from ambiguity to structured clarity; and the market's demand for capital efficiency is driving the release of new liquidity in tokenized assets.When discussing the pain points of the tokenized stock market, Gracy stated that some existing issuers often cause a deviation between the token price and the underlying asset price when handling corporate actions such as dividends and stock splits. The Reality platform is focused on addressing this issue by strictly aligning the Net Asset Value (NAV), supporting the mapping of dividends and corporate actions, and enhancing the consistency between tokenized assets and the real underlying assets. She also revealed that Bitget will continue to expand asset categories and further improve the UEX Universal Exchange ecosystem.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI announced an official partnership with MiniMax. Both parties will provide low-cost, high-availability access to MiniMax models for global developers and agents through the DGrid decentralized AI Gateway, jointly promoting its adoption in a broader ecosystem.DGrid is a decentralized AI infrastructure that aggregates mainstream AI models from around the world. It currently connects over 200 models, including Claude, GPT, and Gemini, enabling one-stop access through a unified API. The platform is aimed at developers and AI agent builders, offering high-availability, low-latency model access services, and is committed to lowering the entry barriers and usage costs for AI applications.MiniMax is a global leader in general artificial intelligence across all modalities and is one of the few AI companies capable of self-developing models for text, voice, video, music, and other modalities. This official collaboration with MiniMax represents another significant expansion for DGrid on the model supply side, marking a new step in connecting mainstream model vendors and building a decentralized AI ecosystem. With the integration of more high-quality models, DGrid is becoming a unified entry point for AI developers to access diverse model capabilities, providing more flexible and open infrastructure support for the next generation of intelligent applications.As part of the initial collaboration, MiniMax's flagship model M3 has been launched on DGrid, and DGrid Premium users can enjoy a 55% discount directly.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), ETH has been continuously declining recently, and the largest long position on Hyperliquid, which opened 120,000 ETH (approximately $271 million) at an average price of $2,261, has seen its unrealized loss expand to $73.66 million.To mitigate liquidation risk, this address recently added $26 million in margin, lowering the liquidation price range from the previous $1,617 to $1,355 down to $1,300 to $1,400. However, the current ETH price has dropped to $1,870, which is only about $470 away from the recent liquidation line, and the pressure from stop-loss and position reduction continues to intensify.

According to Coinglass data, since May 19, the negative premium trend of Bitcoin on Coinbase has expanded, currently reported at -0.1931%, and it has been in negative premium for 17 consecutive days, indicating that the demand for BTC in the U.S. market has not yet significantly recovered, and investor risk appetite has declined.During the same period, Bitcoin has fallen from $77,000 to the current $62,000, with this round of correction possibly led by U.S. investors. The Coinbase Bitcoin premium index is used to measure the difference between the Bitcoin price on Coinbase and the global market average price; a negative premium typically reflects significant selling pressure in the U.S. market, a decline in investor risk appetite, increased market risk aversion, or capital outflows.

According to Ember Monitoring, as ETH fell below $1800, the largest ETH long position holder on Hyperliquid, who established a long position of 120,000 ETH at an average price of $2261, has seen their unrealized losses expand to approximately $58 million. To avoid liquidation, they have supplemented their margin with 11 million USDC over the past day, reducing the liquidation price from $1617 to $1506.

Famous trader and chart analyst Peter Brandt, who successfully predicted the Bitcoin crash in 2018, stated yesterday that Bitcoin is currently forming an expanding triangle pattern, which is relatively common and usually reliable in Bitcoin's history, with a target based on projecting the height of the pattern from the breakout point.According to the measurement rules for the expanding triangle: Target = height of the pattern projected downward from the breakout point. The attached diagram shows a widening triangle (with the upper and lower bounds gradually diverging). The breakout point is roughly around $74,000 (marked as 74,395 in the diagram), and after projecting the height of the pattern (from the highest point to the lowest point of the widest part of the triangle), the arrow points to the area around $56,000.

According to CoinDesk, Mastercard is expanding its settlement network to support regulated stablecoins, planning to offer stablecoin settlement, intraday settlement, weekend and holiday settlement services to meet the demand for real-time fund flow.The new framework will run in parallel with existing fiat settlement processes, aiming to provide financial institutions with more flexible liquidity management. Mastercard will initially support Circle's USDC, Paxos-issued PYUSD, USDG and USDP, Ripple's RLUSD, and SoFiUSD, covering blockchain networks such as Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, and XRPL. Financial institutions such as Cross River, Lead Bank, CBW Bank, ARQ, and Nuvei will be among the first participants.

According to Coinglass data, the Coinbase Bitcoin negative premium index ended the mild easing trend from February to May and has weakened again since May 8, recently rapidly expanding to a temporary report of -0.1323%. The purchasing power in the U.S. market has once again fallen into prolonged sluggishness.The Coinbase Bitcoin premium index is used to measure the difference between the Bitcoin price on Coinbase and the global market average price. A negative premium typically reflects significant selling pressure in the U.S. market, a decline in investor risk appetite, an increase in market risk aversion, or capital outflows.

According to Businesswire, Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury company Datavault AI announced that it has signed a non-binding financing agreement to complete a total of $2 billion in structured financing through four phases. The counterparties will subscribe to newly issued shares of Datavault AI at a price of $1.55 to $2 per share, supported by collateral financing from its digital asset exchange and RWA tokenization business. It is reported that the new funds will be used for expanding its SanQtum GPU edge computing network, platform construction, and repaying existing debts.

According to Cointelegraph, Ripple announced the official introduction of its USD-backed stablecoin RLUSD into the Turkish market through partnerships with three local institutions: BiLira, Bitexen, and Bitlo. Turkish institutional users will thus gain access to enterprise-level USD liquidity support.

According to Cryptopolitan, Strive plans to expand its ATM stock issuance program for common stock and SATA preferred stock by $2.1 billion each, totaling $4.2 billion. If completed, the common stock ATM program will increase to $2.55 billion, and the SATA preferred stock program will increase to $2.6 billion. CEO Matt Cole stated that this move is due to the continued increase in liquidity and investor demand.It is estimated that last week Strive increased its holdings by approximately 2,649 bitcoins over four trading days, worth about $193 million, including a single-day purchase of 1,179 bitcoins on Friday. Strive currently holds about 16,500 bitcoins, ranking seventh among publicly listed companies holding bitcoins. The SATA preferred stock has an annualized dividend yield of 13% and will begin daily distributions on June 16.

According to Cointelegraph, Wintermute stated that it is expanding its institutional trading business into prediction markets. Wintermute will provide two-way market liquidity for event contracts at major venues to reduce spreads, support larger trades, and improve the reliability of market implied probabilities.Jake Ostrovskis, Head of OTC Trading at Wintermute, stated that prediction markets possess data characteristics of major asset classes, but liquidity is still in the early stages. Continuous two-way liquidity can not only narrow spreads but also support larger trading volumes, thereby improving the signals contained in market prices.

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%.

According to The Block, quantitative market maker Wintermute has announced its entry into the prediction market sector, providing two-way quote liquidity services for several mainstream event contract platforms, marking the official expansion of its trading infrastructure into the emerging market at the intersection of crypto and traditional assets.The company stated that it has been continuously providing buy and sell bilateral quotes on multiple "leading platforms," with the total monthly trading volume of these prediction markets exceeding $20 billion this year, indicating that this sector is growing rapidly but still in the early stages of liquidity. Wintermute's annual trading volume exceeds $3.5 trillion, and this expansion further strengthens its cross-asset market-making capabilities.Jake Ostrovskis, head of OTC trading at the company, stated that prediction markets have a demand structure similar to traditional major asset classes, but liquidity is still insufficient, requiring continuous bilateral quotes to enhance price discovery efficiency and trading depth. He pointed out that tighter spreads and greater trading capacity will improve the quality of market probability signals.In the industry, institutions such as Jump Trading and Galaxy Digital have also entered this field, with some platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi having a cumulative trading volume exceeding $150 billion. Analysts believe that Wintermute's entry further promotes the integration of prediction markets and crypto infrastructure, especially in terms of stablecoin settlement, on-chain clearing, and risk management systems, as these markets gradually approach a derivatives-level institutional development structure.

Recently, the technology sector of the US stock market has continued its structural strength, with AI and leading consumer electronics companies remaining the focus of capital attention. According to Gate market data, NVIDIA (NVDA) is currently priced at about $210.67, with a slight intraday pullback, but the demand for AI computing power and expectations for data center expansion remain core drivers in the medium to long term. In the derivatives market, according to CoinGlass data, NVDAX on the Gate platform reached a trading volume of $4.6 million in 24 hours, with open contracts totaling $3.42 million, both ranking first globally.As global user demand for traditional asset allocation such as US stocks continues to grow, Gate is continuously bridging the gap between cryptocurrency and traditional financial trading scenarios through a unified account system. Users can conveniently participate in trading mainstream global assets such as stocks, metals, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities through a single USDT account, further enhancing cross-market trading efficiency and capital usage flexibility. Gate has launched over 130 perpetual contract targets related to US stocks, as well as over 430 CFD contract targets, and continues to expand its diverse product lines including spot tokens, perpetual contracts, and on-chain assets, supporting 24/7 trading to provide users with a more flexible and efficient one-stop global asset trading experience.