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According to Decrypt, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (a senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee) wrote to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, stating that he may have "deliberately misled" Congress regarding the decline in the number of new enforcement actions by the SEC during a hearing, and pointed out that if there are significant false statements made to Congress, it could involve criminal liability.The report cites enforcement data disclosed by the SEC for 2025, stating that the SEC added a total of 456 new enforcement actions last year, of which about 200 were from the previous administration, and approximately 256 were added during the current administration, significantly lower than the average of about 765 per year over the past decade. Warren believes that the sharp decline in enforcement actions, staff reductions, and sudden leadership changes may weaken the SEC's ability to protect investors and maintain market order, and questions whether there is political favoritism and selective enforcement. The SEC declined to comment on this.

According to RHEA Finance's official disclosure, the NEAR ecosystem lending protocol RHEA Finance (formerly known as Burrow Finance) experienced a margin trading feature hack, resulting in a loss of approximately $18.4 million.The attacker began laying the groundwork several days prior by creating multiple fake token pools on Ref Finance and injecting liquidity, constructing a malicious exchange route that exploited a vulnerability in the protocol's slippage protection mechanism—this mechanism did not account for the scenario where intermediate tokens were reused when calculating the minimum output of multi-step exchanges—leading to the borrowed debt tokens being directed into fake token pools controlled by the attacker, triggering a large-scale forced liquidation that ultimately drained the protocol's reserve pool. During the attack, the attacker deleted a total of 55 intermediate accounts to cover their tracks. Currently, the attacker has returned approximately 3.359 million USDC and 1.564 million NEAR to the RHEA lending contract, while another 4.34 million USDT has been frozen (of which Tether froze 3.291 million and NEAR Intents froze 1.053 million). The protocol contract has been suspended, and the team is collaborating with centralized exchanges for joint tracking and has notified relevant law enforcement agencies.

According to market news, Xiaomi miclaw has officially passed the evaluation by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology's mobile intelligent assistant (Claw), becoming the first mobile intelligent agent in the country to pass this review.This evaluation was conducted based on the "General Framework for Intelligent Assistant Benchmark Testing," strictly assessing three major dimensions: basic capabilities, edge-side applications, and comprehensive capabilities. It is reported that Xiaomi miclaw relies on Xiaomi MiMo's self-developed large model, possessing four major capabilities: full ecological underlying support, deep memory, cross-domain interconnection, and continuous self-evolution, enabling it to connect mobile phones, PCs, cockpits, and AIoT devices to autonomously execute complex commands.

According to Edaily, Kim Sang-hoon, the chairman of the Digital Assets Special Committee of the People Power Party of Korea, expressed concerns about the restrictions on equity in cryptocurrency exchanges at an academic conference. He called for the prioritization of advancing the basic law on digital assets related to stablecoins (Phase Two legislation) to avoid getting caught in equity regulatory disputes and missing the golden legislative opportunity.He pointed out that the reality of the issuance and circulation of the Korean won stablecoin KRWQ has emerged overseas, posing a severe challenge to monetary sovereignty. Kim Sang-hoon emphasized that the law should provide market predictability, offer clear guidance for operators, and establish effective safety mechanisms for users.

Claw Wallet, a Web3 wallet infrastructure designed for AI Agents, announced a strategic partnership with TagAI and TagClaw. By deeply integrating Claw Wallet's secure AI-native infrastructure with TagAI's AI and socially predictive community layer, as well as TagClaw's on-chain social collaborative network, the three parties are jointly defining a new standard for the AI Agent ecosystem.The focus of this collaboration is to introduce TagClaw's Skill into Claw Wallet, empowering AI Agents with stronger intelligent coordination capabilities, making on-chain AI interactions more seamless, secure, and socially oriented. Currently, the three parties are fully committed to building a decentralized AI Agent infrastructure based on the BNB Chain, promoting the leap from independent tools to a collaborative social network for AI Agents.

According to Cointelegraph, stablecoin issuer Circle is facing a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts for failing to freeze the stolen funds from the Drift Protocol during the attack incident.The plaintiffs claim that the attacker transferred approximately $230 million USDC from Solana to Ethereum within hours using Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), and Circle did not intervene. The lawsuit accuses Circle of complicity and incitement to misappropriation and negligence. Crypto analytics firm Elliptic previously suspected that the attack may be related to North Korean-backed hackers, and the related funds were subsequently exchanged for ETH and transferred via Tornado Cash.

According to Globenewswire, the American law firm Bernstein Liebhard has announced that it has filed a securities fraud class action lawsuit on behalf of investors against the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Gemini Space Station, alleging that Gemini made false statements regarding its business operations and prospects in its prospectus and related disclosures, particularly accused of exaggerating the viability of its core cryptocurrency platform business. Investors wishing to serve as lead plaintiffs must submit their applications by May 18, 2026.It is reported that Bernstein Liebhard is a well-known investor relations law firm that has previously filed class action lawsuits against companies such as Ruhnn, Apple, and AsiaInfo-Linkage.

Web3 wallet infrastructure Claw Wallet announced a strategic partnership with GoPlus. Claw Wallet has integrated GoPlus's SafuSkill Launchpad, supporting the assetization and tokenization of AI skills, empowering developers to obtain continuous on-chain revenue through GitHub verification.At the same time, Claw Wallet introduces GoPlus AgentGuard security scanning technology, which conducts real-time monitoring and risk visualization of AI Agent's code, sensitive data, and operating environment through a multi-dimensional scoring system. This collaboration aims to enhance the security of AI Agent wallets and improve their ecological incentive mechanisms.

AI infrastructure service provider DGrid officially launched its core product DClaw ------ a one-click personal AI agent deployment platform specifically designed for the DGrid ecosystem, aimed at significantly lowering the participation threshold for the open agent economy, providing out-of-the-box personal local AI assistants for individuals, developers, teams, and various communities.According to the official introduction, compared to the open-source framework OpenClaw, DClaw has achieved a comprehensive product upgrade. It focuses on true one-click agent deployment capabilities, compressing the technical configuration process that originally took hours into minutes; it natively integrates DGrid's unified model access API, allowing immediate access to top global models such as GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, Kimi K2.5 without the need for additional API key configuration; at the same time, it natively adapts to mainstream office and communication platforms such as WeChat, WeChat Work, DingTalk, and Telegram, enabling a single agent to operate uniformly across different environments.In addition, DClaw features a user-controlled persistent memory system and a hot-swappable modular skill plugin ecosystem, supporting multi-agent collaborative work to meet automation execution needs across various scenarios. Each DClaw instance can serve as an intelligent node in the DGrid network, achieving a deep integration of personal usage value and open ecosystem construction.Currently, DClaw has officially launched, allowing users to quickly build their own personal AI agents and participate in the construction of the DGrid open agent economy ecosystem.

According to official news, the Web3 smart layer project Claw Intelligence has announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, with participants including Castrum Istanbul, Titans Ventures, Super Labs, and Genesis Capital.It is reported that Claw Intelligence is building a unified smart layer that lowers the interaction threshold for users with the Web3 ecosystem and computing resources through crypto-native MCP services and transforming fragmented data endpoints into conversational workflows.

According to Crypto in America, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Chris Giancarlo, known in the industry as "Crypto Dad," announced at the end of April that he officially stepped down as a senior advisor at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, transitioning to focus on digital asset strategic consulting, private investment, and public policy research.Giancarlo has been deeply involved in the firm for six years, leading the development of its cryptocurrency legal practice. Additionally, his new book "CryptoDad's New Adventures: The Path to Financial Freedom in the 21st Century" is expected to be published this October, documenting the evolution of the cryptocurrency industry through the 2024 election and into Trump's second term.

The blockchain interoperability protocol Hyperbridge disclosed details of the previous DOT attack incident, resulting in a loss of approximately $237,000. The root of the vulnerability lies in the HandlerV1 contract's VerifyProof() function, which lacks input validation and does not verify the leaf_index leafCount, allowing attackers to forge Merkle proofs.Using this, the attacker gained administrator privileges for the DOT token bridging contract on Ethereum, subsequently minting 1 billion bridged DOT (which is about 2800 times the legitimate circulation of approximately 356,000) and cashing out on decentralized exchanges. Hyperbridge stated that it is currently working with security partners to trace the funds, and cross-chain functionality will remain suspended until the investigation is completed.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte published a response regarding the over $270 million theft incident involving Drift Protocol. Disparte stated that Circle only freezes USDC when legally mandated to do so, and this is not a unilateral decision, nor is it a backdoor or algorithmic monitoring. This reflects the rule of law in internet-native financial activities.He pointed out that the core issue facing open systems is that the legal framework's response speed lags behind technological development. Protocols, wallets, exchanges, and stablecoin issuers should regard security and accountability as a shared obligation, and DeFi protocols can develop on-chain technical protection measures by referencing the circuit breaker mechanisms of traditional markets.He also called for the legislative processes of the U.S. GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act to incorporate due process, property rights, and financial privacy protection standards into law before the next major security incident occurs.

During the 17th General Assembly of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance, the Security Governance Committee of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance officially released the "Risk Management Guidelines for Deploying OpenClaw-like Intelligent Agents."To systematically address the security challenges posed by OpenClaw-like intelligent agents, the guidelines focus on the pain points of risk prevention and control that enterprises face during the technology implementation process. They propose a comprehensive security deployment framework and self-inspection standards covering the entire process of deployment, usage, and offline phases, aiming to promote the transition of intelligent agents from "deployable" to "safely deployed, regulated use, and continuous governance," providing practical guidance for enterprises to standardize their technology deployment.

The American law firm Gibbs Mura has officially announced a collective lawsuit investigation regarding the Drift Protocol theft incident, involving a fund scale of approximately $280 million to $285 million. It is reported that over $230 million USDC was transferred to Ethereum via Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP).Gibbs Mura believes that although Circle has the technical capability to freeze funds, it did not take freezing action during this attack. The law firm is currently assessing whether investors can file claims against Circle for "failure to intervene in a timely manner," "insufficient monitoring," and "failure to fulfill stablecoin responsibilities," and is calling on affected users to participate in the lawsuit to advance fund recovery.

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Department of Justice jointly filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday evening, seeking to block Arizona from enforcing state gambling laws against the prediction market operator Kalshi. The two departments argue that the contracts offered by Kalshi, which are linked to real-world events such as sports events and elections, essentially fall under financial derivatives (swaps) and should be governed by the Commodity Exchange Act and federal regulatory framework, rather than state gambling regulations.Arizona had previously filed criminal charges against Kalshi, with a court date set for April 13. Currently, there are conflicting rulings from courts across the country—while the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in New Jersey has leaned towards supporting the federal regulatory stance, other regional courts have taken an open attitude towards the state’s claims.

The South Korean court ruled on the administrative lawsuit filed by Upbit operator Dunamu against the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), deciding to revoke the previous three-month partial business suspension. The court stated that, in the absence of clear enforcement guidelines from the regulatory agency, Dunamu had taken measures, including customer commitment letters and internal monitoring, to fulfill its reasonable obligations.Although there is still controversy over whether the relevant measures are sufficient to completely block transactions with unreported operators, they are not enough to support the previous penalty decision.

The ruling Democratic Party of Korea proposed the "Basic Law on Digital Assets" this Wednesday, aiming to establish a comprehensive legal framework for the issuance, trading, custody, and supervision of digital assets.The bill categorizes value-related digital assets, such as stablecoins linked to fiat currency or real assets, as a special category, requiring issuers to obtain authorization and meet strict standards such as capital thresholds, reserve plans, and redemption obligations. In addition, the bill will introduce a licensing, registration, and information disclosure system for digital asset businesses, prohibit improper behaviors such as market manipulation and insider trading, and propose the establishment of a Digital Asset Committee to coordinate policy.