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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that a cryptocurrency company linked to "Russian gangs and intelligence agencies" is funding political opponents and influencing domestic cryptocurrency regulatory legislation.During a parliamentary vote on Friday, Tusk pointed out that some Polish politicians obstructing cryptocurrency regulatory legislation are serving the interests of a company named Zondacrypto, which is accused of providing "financial support" to political figures and has ties to Russia. Tusk further claimed that the company sponsored the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) event held in Poland last year, during which former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem publicly supported President Karol Nawrocki's campaign. Tusk bluntly stated that the company's funding sources involve not only "money related to the Russian mafia (Bratva)" but may also be connected to Russian intelligence agencies.Meanwhile, President Nawrocki won the election in June last year, with support from former U.S. President Donald Trump. The president's office responded that it does not oppose cryptocurrency regulation itself but opposes the "flawed regulatory model" proposed by the government. This controversy arises amid the political tug-of-war in Poland over the cryptocurrency regulatory bill. The bill aims to align with the EU's MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) framework, but the president previously vetoed the related bill and blocked parliament from overturning the veto in December, hindering the regulatory process.

According to market news, Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp and several experts in the field of Bitcoin quantum security have proposed Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-361, which suggests freezing quantum-vulnerable addresses, including Satoshi Nakamoto's reserves, to prevent future quantum computers from stealing approximately 1.7 million Bitcoins.The proposal is to be implemented in three phases: first, prohibiting transfers to legacy addresses; second, invalidating legacy signatures and freezing untransferred assets after five years; and finally, allowing some users to recover frozen funds through a zero-knowledge proof mechanism. This proposal aims to promote the migration of the entire network to quantum-resistant addresses, but it has faced opposition from some community members who believe it contradicts the decentralized ethos of Bitcoin and has a predatory nature.

According to The Block, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that Circle will not freeze USDC wallets unrelated to legal proceedings.At a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Allaire responded to ongoing online criticism regarding whether the company should freeze USDC funds in light of hacking and vulnerability incidents. The controversy became more pronounced earlier this month when the decentralized finance protocol Drift suffered an attack of approximately $280 million, which is believed to be related to a six-month-long attack carried out through complex social engineering techniques, possibly involving a North Korean-affiliated hacking group.Prominent on-chain analysts, including on-chain investigator ZachXBT, publicly criticized Circle for not freezing approximately $230 million in USDC funds. These funds were reportedly transferred from Solana to Ethereum via Circle's cross-chain transfer protocol.

The crypto super political action committee Fellowship PAC announced the appointment of Jesse Spiro, Tether's U.S. executive, as chairman to lead political actions supporting pro-crypto candidates.This appointment comes at a time when the advancement of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act in the Senate is stalled. The current point of contention is whether to allow platforms to provide yields or incentives for stablecoin holdings, which has become a key obstacle to reaching consensus on the bill. Recently, some crypto companies, including Coinbase, have expressed reservations about the latest version of the bill, while stablecoin issuer Circle is also facing market pressure due to policy uncertainty. Analysts point out that as the midterm elections approach, the crypto industry is ramping up political lobbying efforts in an attempt to secure a more favorable policy environment regarding regulation.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun expressed on the X platform regarding the BIP-110 controversy that Bitcoin should not be sanctified and criticized some Bitcoin extremists for hindering technological innovation.He pointed out that some supporters view attempts at scaling or functional improvements as "altcoin attacks," using moral accusations to cover up a lack of innovation, transforming Bitcoin from an economic concept into a system with ideological overtones. Wang Chun stated that in the context of the continuous development of DeFi, privacy, and payment infrastructure, Bitcoin should not become a system that is "too rigid to evolve."

The discussion surrounding Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-110 continues to heat up. Bitcoin pioneer and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back retweeted to remind the community that Bitcoin's upgrade capability may be suppressed. This proposal, although described as a temporary soft fork to clean up "garbage data" on-chain to curb the on-chain data inflation brought by protocols like Ordinals, may hinder Bitcoin's future upgrade capabilities because it disables the OP_SUCCESS opcode in Tapscript, which is seen as an important reserved mechanism for future soft fork upgrades of Bitcoin.Additionally, BIP-110 will limit the Taproot control block size to 257 bytes, which may affect the development of potential Layer 2 technologies like BitVM that rely on extensive script execution. Although BIP-110 is positioned as a "temporary measure," Bitcoin soft fork upgrades typically require years of coordination, and restricting upgrade interfaces during this period may have long-term impacts.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson posted on the X platform expressing his long-standing suspicion that Bitcoin is a "massive Ponzi scheme," and stated that recent cases of investment losses he has heard about have made him more concerned that this judgment may be correct.In response, Michael Saylor, founder and CEO of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, disagreed with this viewpoint. He pointed out that Ponzi schemes typically require a centralized operator to promise returns and pay early investors with the funds from later investors, whereas Bitcoin has no issuer or promoter, and there are no guaranteed returns; it is merely an open decentralized currency network driven by code and market demand.

The discussion surrounding the U.S. "CLARITY Act" has sparked a public debate between the banking industry and White House cryptocurrency policy officials. Christopher Williston VI, president of the Texas Independent Bankers Association, publicly stated on the X platform that compromising on this act would harm local lending and economic productivity, and he asserted that there would be no concessions on liquidity issues that support the local economy.In response, Patrick Witt, executive director of the White House Digital Asset Advisory Committee, stated that refusing to compromise on the "CLARITY Act" means there would be no restrictions on providing stablecoin rewards to intermediaries. According to the banking industry's claims about "deposit outflows," this situation could lead to catastrophic consequences, and this logic "is like watching an arsonist threaten to burn down their own house."

According to market news, the Bitcoin network has seen the first block supporting the BIP-110 proposal, mined by the Ocean pool. This proposal aims to limit arbitrary non-financial data in blockchain transactions through a temporary soft fork over approximately one year. Supporters believe this can curb "junk" data that occupies block space, protect Bitcoin's role as a robust monetary infrastructure, and alleviate the burden on node operators. The proposal has sparked intense controversy within the community.Critics, including Blockstream CEO Adam Back, warn that intervention at the consensus layer could undermine Bitcoin's credibility, lead to discriminatory treatment of transactions, and violate the principle of transaction capacity neutrality. He also questioned the actual support for the proposal, stating it could increase the risk of blockchain splits.The controversy escalated further when a developer embedded a 66KB image in a Bitcoin transaction to oppose the core claim of BIP-110, demonstrating that a large amount of data can be encoded even without relying on OP_RETURN. This debate highlights the long-standing ideological divide within the Bitcoin community: whether to staunchly defend Bitcoin's pure positioning as a currency or to maintain maximum neutrality regarding arbitrary uses at the base layer.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, the governance dispute between the Aave development team and the community has lasted for 3 months, during which Aave's total value locked (TVL) has decreased from $36 billion to $26.5 billion.Data shows that Sun Yuchen has withdrawn approximately $910 million in stablecoins from Aave and deposited them into Sky and its sub-DAO Spark platform. Since the beginning of December, Sun Yuchen's total deposits in Sky and Spark have increased from $570 million to $1.48 billion, with Sky having replaced Aave as his primary deposit platform.

Aave DAO is currently voting on a significant proposal that would allocate up to $42 million to Aave Labs, including $25 million for ongoing product development and a $17.5 million milestone bonus. As of Friday evening, the support votes are leading with a narrow margin of 52%, and the voting will conclude on Saturday.The controversy centers around Aave Labs' original plan to compress the development space for v3 and force users to migrate to the yet-to-be-launched v4 version. This move has sparked strong backlash, with the main contractor Bored Ghosts Developing announcing they would not renew their contract and criticizing the proposal as nearly absurd. This week, Aave Labs made concessions, promising not to enforce migration, and v3 will continue to operate.Critics, represented by Marc Zeller, argue that the requested funds are too high, accounting for 31% of the DAO's reserves, and demand that the proposal be split into multiple independent votes, but Aave Labs insists on pushing for an overall vote. Currently, Aave v3 has deposits exceeding $26.3 billion, accounting for over 97% of the total deposits in the protocol.

The 60,000 Bitcoin money laundering case will have a "legal applicability issue" hearing in July, with the UK High Court confirming that Fieldfisher, which was involved in the case earlier, will serve as the lead law firm for the hearing. However, the proposal of the lead law firm has sparked controversy, with some law firms concerned that Fieldfisher may gain an information advantage, such as a list of large investment victims, and even take the opportunity to "poach clients" by improperly "inducing" victims to switch law firms.The judge believes that this arrangement does not designate Fieldfisher to represent all victims' asset recovery claims, but only to negotiate with the court on behalf of all victims regarding the "legal applicability issue." Other law firms will still handle their clients' claims individually, and the selection of a lead law firm is intended to improve litigation efficiency.

Regarding the issue of accounts being restricted as reported by users, Binance co-founder He Yi stated on the X social platform that the situation may be due to using a VPN to connect to Binance from countries or regions where services cannot be provided. The system will adjust the account to "withdrawal-only mode," and users need to contact customer support for assistance.Previously, some users claimed that they had encountered account restrictions or asset freezes on Binance and other exchanges. Binance emphasized that it is continuously increasing compliance investments and implementing risk control measures in accordance with regulatory requirements.

According to CoinTelegraph, experts warn that the proposed yield restrictions on stablecoins in the U.S. Cryptocurrency Structure Bill (CLARITY Act) may drive demand for offshore and synthetic dollar products, as investors seek to earn yields outside of regulated markets.It is understood that under the already effective GENIUS Act framework, payment stablecoins like USDC must be fully backed by cash or short-term U.S. Treasury securities and cannot pay interest directly, being regarded as "digital cash." Colin Butler, head of the Mega Matrix market, stated that prohibiting compliant stablecoins from offering yields to holders does not protect the U.S. financial system; rather, it marginalizes regulatory agencies and accelerates the migration of capital beyond regulatory boundaries. Currently, the digital yuan has interest-bearing capabilities, and Singapore, Switzerland, and the UAE are advancing frameworks for interest-bearing digital assets. If the U.S. prohibits compliant dollar stablecoin yields, it may weaken global competitiveness.

The prediction market platform Polymarket has faced widespread criticism in the crypto and media circles for posting false information on its official X account. Investor DCinvestor stated that he has unfollowed Polymarket's official account, not due to the product itself, but because of its frequent posting of a large amount of false information presented as "breaking news," which severely misleads users.Media personality Rachel Karten also pointed out that the Polymarket official account "often publishes completely fabricated news," a phenomenon that is "very strange."One of the focal points of the controversy is a tweet labeled "JUST IN," where Polymarket claimed that Jeff Bezos suggested Generation Z entrepreneurs should first work at real-world companies like McDonald's or Palantir before considering entrepreneurship. Subsequently, Jeff Bezos himself directly replied to deny this, stating, "No. I'm not sure why Polymarket would make this up."The incident has raised questions about the credibility of Polymarket's information and its content review mechanisms. In the context of the growing influence of prediction markets, the behavior of the official account posting false information is seen as potentially misleading to user decisions and market sentiment.

The public fundraising event of the Solana ecosystem leverage prediction market platform Space has sparked serious controversy. The project's previously announced fundraising target was $2.5 million, but the actual amount raised reached as high as $20 million. In response to community concerns about the oversubscription, the project team unilaterally redefined the rules, arguing that $2.5 million was merely a "soft cap" rather than a "hard cap," and announced that they would only refund $7.3 million, forcibly retaining the majority of the excess funds.The team further defended this by stating that the originally planned amount could only sustain operations for a few months and was insufficient to support the years of infrastructure development needed for the leverage prediction market. This behavior of arbitrarily changing the fundraising cap after the fundraising was completed, deviating from the initial commitment, has been widely condemned by the community as lacking in contractual spirit and disregarding investors' rights.

According to Eleanor Terrett, the Senate Banking Committee has announced the cancellation of the market structure adjustment meeting originally scheduled for tomorrow, due to a dispute that occurred today with Coinbase. A new meeting date has not yet been determined.

Regarding Solana's mockery of Starknet with "only 8 daily active users and just 10 daily transactions," and Starknet's subsequent response, "Who told this little brother Solana the data?" He Yi responded on social media, stating: "Take a deep breath and relax, we are all friends, and harmony is precious."He Yi also added "peanuts, sunflower seeds, and mineral water," calling for the outside world to view the related discussions with a more relaxed mindset, avoiding excessive controversy due to on-chain data comparisons.