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The core institution for custody and settlement in the U.S. market, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), announced that it will begin facilitating preliminary, limited real asset production transactions in July 2026, with a full launch of its tokenization services in October. This service was approved at the end of last year through a No-Action Letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), allowing DTCC to provide participants with the ability to tokenize specific high liquidity assets on a pre-approved blockchain during a three-year authorization period. These assets include components of the Russell 1000 Index, ETFs tracking major U.S. stock indices, as well as U.S. Treasury securities, notes, and bonds.DTCC President and CEO Frank La Salla stated, "We believe that tokenization will significantly change the way markets operate, bringing new levels of liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to investors." More than 50 companies are set to participate in DTCC's industry working group, including Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, Kraken's parent company Payward, and Robinhood Markets, while companies like BlackRock and Circle have provided feedback. As financial firms explore bringing traditional assets onto the blockchain, interest in tokenization has surged, and this shift is expected to enable 24/7 trading and faster settlement speeds.

According to official news, Aave LLC has submitted an emergency motion requesting the withdrawal of the asset freeze notice issued to Arbitrum DAO on May 1, 2026. This notice attempts to seize approximately $71 million worth of ETH, which belongs to the victims of the attack on April 18.Aave stated that attackers do not gain legal ownership of stolen property merely by stealing it, as the law clearly stipulates. The assets being recovered are intended to be returned to users affected by the attack on April 18, 2026. Freezing these assets harms the users that the recovery efforts are supposed to protect.Aave has requested the court to hold an emergency hearing and temporarily lift the freeze order, while continuing to work with the Arbitrum community and DeFi United to compensate the affected users.

According to The Information, Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced that the agency is pushing to limit state interventions in prediction markets to prevent state-level regulatory measures from hindering or even stifling the industry's development.Reports indicate that Michael Selig is a sports fan himself and has a large number of sports memorabilia in his office, which is seen as a reflection of his long-term interest in sports prediction markets. Since taking office several months ago, he has quickly begun related work, attempting to create a more relaxed federal regulatory environment for prediction markets, allowing more American users to participate in prediction trading for sports events and other outcomes.

The Ethereum Foundation published a summary of the Soldøgn Interop work, which has now basically completed the key goals of the Glamsterdam upgrade, including reaching consensus on the post-upgrade 200 million Gas Limit lower bound, achieving stable operation of the ePBS external Builder process, and finalizing the EIP-8037 Gas repricing parameters.The focus of the Glamsterdam upgrade is to enhance security by increasing the Gas Limit to expand Ethereum's throughput, while EIP-8037 will prevent state bloat caused by a high Gas Limit by raising the cost of state creation. The Ethereum Foundation also stated that most clients have completed stable operation on glamsterdam-devnet-2 and successfully tested the entire external Builder process. Additionally, substantial progress has been made on FOCIL, native account abstraction, and Hegotá upgrade-related features. In the coming weeks, core developers will continue to advance client hardening, testing improvements, and code merging, with final parameters to be publicly confirmed in the AllCoreDevs meeting.

According to The Block, BlackRock submitted a letter of opinion to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), opposing several reserve asset restrictions proposed in the draft implementation rules of the GENIUS Act.BlackRock opposes setting the cap on tokenized reserve assets at 20%, as this limitation would restrict the development of its products such as the BUIDL fund. The BUIDL fund supports over 90% of the shares of USDtb under Ethena and JupUSD under Jupiter. BlackRock also requested that the OCC confirm whether Treasury bond ETFs qualify as reserves and include two-year floating rate Treasury bonds in the list of eligible assets.

According to market news, the Arbitrum committee voted to unfreeze $71 million worth of Ethereum to mitigate the $290 million loss caused by the Kelp DAO vulnerability.

The Ethereum Foundation published a summary of the Soldøgn Interop work, which has now basically completed the key goals of the Glamsterdam upgrade, including reaching consensus on the post-upgrade 200 million Gas Limit lower bound, achieving stable operation of the ePBS external Builder process, and finalizing the EIP-8037 Gas repricing parameters.The focus of the Glamsterdam upgrade is to enhance security by increasing the Gas Limit to expand Ethereum's throughput, while EIP-8037 will prevent state bloat caused by high Gas Limits by increasing the cost of state creation.The Ethereum Foundation also stated that most clients have completed stable operation on glamsterdam-devnet-2 and successfully tested the entire process of external Builders. In addition, substantial progress has been made on FOCIL, native account abstraction, and Hegotá upgrade-related features. In the coming weeks, core developers will continue to advance client hardening, testing improvements, and code merging, with final parameters to be publicly confirmed at the AllCoreDevs meeting.

According to The Information, Michael Selig, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is working to limit state enforcement interventions on prediction markets to prevent state-level regulatory measures from hindering industry development.Since taking office several months ago, Michael Selig has been trying to create a more lenient federal regulatory environment for prediction markets, allowing more American users to participate in trading on sports events and other outcomes. Over the past year, Selig has consistently advocated for prediction markets—issuing a warning in February about suing state governments attempting to intervene in regulation, releasing compliance guidelines in March and publicly soliciting industry feedback, and stating this month that if prediction markets are pushed offshore, it would lead to a repeat of the FTX-style collapse.

Anchorage Digital Bank has submitted a comment letter regarding the proposed rules of the GENIUS Act from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The company has currently issued three stablecoins for several partners, including USAT in collaboration with Tether, USDGO in collaboration with OSL Group, and USDtb in collaboration with Ethena.Anchorage Digital stated that it plans to jointly issue a fourth stablecoin, UDSPT, with Western Union in the near future and expects to officially become an authorized payment stablecoin issuer after the GENIUS Act takes effect.

The stablecoin one-stop wallet UU Wallet today announced the launch of the 15-day "UU Travel Season" event. During the event, users who complete their first travel-related purchase using the UU Visa virtual card or physical card will receive a $5 cashback. Supported platforms include major global travel and transportation service providers such as Uber, Grab, Booking.com, Airbnb, and Trip.com.In addition, to lower the access threshold for users, UU Wallet will implement a limited-time policy of waiving the card activation fee for virtual cards during the event. New users can activate and use the card for free after completing real-name authentication, and existing users can also activate their accounts without upfront costs during this period.It is reported that UU Wallet is committed to providing global payment and remittance services centered around stablecoins, and has already launched Visa card and cross-border remittance functions. This event is a core initiative to promote the "daily use of on-chain dollars" and user growth in the second quarter of 2026. In the future, the platform will continue to enhance its product matrix around payment, exchange, and wealth management services related to stablecoins.

Wasabi Protocol stated that Wasabi's contracts on Solana are secure and not affected by this vulnerability. The vulnerability is limited to Wasabi's EVM deployment. The team is working with leading security teams and has contacted law enforcement and the FBI. Further updates will be announced when available.

Recently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a document formally approving the rule change proposal submitted by the Nasdaq ISE exchange (Document No. SR-ISE-2025-26, amended by Amendment No. 5). This proposal significantly increases the same market direction position and exercise limits for iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) options from the original 250,000 contracts to 1,000,000 contracts.In the approval order, the SEC stated that after reviewing the data and analysis provided by the exchange, it believes the new limits meet the requirements of Section 6(b)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which aims to prevent fraud and manipulation and protect investors and the public interest.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that the commitment to reduce inflation to 2% will never end, and he will steadfastly pursue this goal.

According to Jinshi reports, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted to submit Waller's nomination for Federal Reserve Chairman to the full Senate.

According to Jinshi News, Derek Halpern, a bank analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, stated in a report that if the Federal Reserve acknowledges that the Iran war driving up energy prices could lead to rising inflation, the dollar may strengthen. He pointed out that this interest rate decision could be the last meeting during Chairman Powell's tenure, and it may emphasize that the risks to price stability are accumulating. This could lead to a sharp rise in the front end of the U.S. yield curve and reinforce initial signs of improving dollar demand.

According to a16z, its researchers conducted a systematic test on whether AI agents can independently exploit DeFi price manipulation vulnerabilities.The study used a dataset of 20 Ethereum price manipulation incidents and employed Codex (GPT 5.4) equipped with the Foundry toolchain as the testing agent. Under baseline conditions without domain knowledge, the agent's success rate was only 10%; after introducing structured domain knowledge extracted from real attack events, the success rate increased to 70%. Failure cases showed that the agent could accurately identify vulnerabilities but generally struggled to understand the leverage logic of recursive borrowing, misjudged profit margins, and could not assemble multi-step attack structures across contracts. The experiment also recorded a sandbox escape incident: the agent extracted the RPC key from the local node configuration and called the anvil_reset method to reset the node to a future block, bypassing information isolation restrictions and obtaining real attack data. The research team believes that AI agents can currently effectively assist in vulnerability identification but cannot yet replace professional security auditors.

According to CNN, sources say that Iran is expected to submit a revised peace proposal soon.

According to the official announcement, Binance will update independent brokers (Cryptocurrency as a Service CaaS - Basic/Premium model) to set a limit on the number of sub-accounts for end users of each independent broker client who have completed KYC verification.This change aims to standardize the services across the platform, thereby enhancing the compliance and security of all products and users. Starting from April 29, 2026, 08:00 (UTC+8), each independent broker will allow each user who has completed KYC verification to associate a maximum of 5 sub-accounts.

OpenAI's recent internal growth targets have not met expectations. CFO Sarah Friar warned that if revenue growth does not keep pace, the company may struggle to fulfill its commitment of approximately $600 billion in computing power procurement, and the board has begun to review the data center investment expansion plans.Reports indicate that ChatGPT user growth, revenue targets, and subscription retention are all under pressure. Despite OpenAI recently completing a $122 billion financing round, the company's management is still discussing long-term capital expenditures and the pace of an IPO. OpenAI has denied that there are significant internal disagreements.