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Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Bitcoin Strategy, published an article on the X platform, stating that the Bitcoin ecosystem is gradually differentiating into four core ideologies: Bitcoin Maximalists, Bitcoin Capitalists, Bitcoin Technologists, and Bitcoin Fundamentalists.Among them, Maximalists emphasize Bitcoin as the globally dominant digital currency network; Capitalists advocate for Bitcoin's deep integration into banks, enterprises, and capital markets; Technologists support cautiously advancing protocol upgrades to enhance scalability, security, and functionality; and Fundamentalists focus on self-custody, node operation, decentralization, and protocol immutability.Saylor believes that the four ideologies correspond to the four forces of "belief, adoption, innovation, and guardianship." The future of Bitcoin should not choose between purity and adoption rate, or innovation and stability, but should achieve balance through "disciplined expansion": maintaining the stability and decentralization of the underlying protocol while placing most innovations on top of layer two networks, custody, credit, and capital market infrastructure.

According to Bitcoin.com, in May, the total revenue of Bitcoin miners reached $1.086 billion, breaking the $1 billion mark for the first time since January, with block subsidies accounting for $1.079 billion and transaction fees contributing minimally. However, with the decline in Bitcoin prices, miners are facing profitability pressure.Hashrate has dropped from the 1000 EH/s range to below 975 EH/s, and daily revenue per PH/s (mining price) has decreased from $37.44 a month ago to about $30.77, a decline of 17.82%. The block output interval has extended to 10 minutes and 49 seconds, and it is expected that the network difficulty may decrease by 7.5% around June 13. The proportion of transaction fees in the block reward has rebounded from less than 0.6% to about 1.16% in the past 24 hours, providing a slight buffer for miners.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it has added Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex, as well as three Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex, to its sanctions list, and imposed sanctions on Nobitex's chairman and co-founder Amir Hossein Rad, current CEO Seyed Ali Khoee, and several co-founders and executives.The U.S. Treasury accused Nobitex of processing over 50% of Iran's cryptocurrency inflows in 2025 and providing support for transactions related to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), ransomware organizations, and sanction evasion activities. It also assisted the Central Bank of Iran in obtaining hundreds of millions of dollars in stablecoin funding. U.S. officials stated that after U.S. military actions against Iran, Nobitex helped transfer and protect the assets of the Iranian regime.In addition, the Treasury stated that Iran's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange Wallex, as well as Bitpin and Ramzinex, were also found to have links to transactions related to the IRGC. Among them, Wallex received about 12% of Iran's cryptocurrency inflows in 2025, Bitpin accounted for about 10%, while Ramzinex, established in 2018, has processed over $2.45 billion in transactions.This action is part of the Trump administration's "Economic Fury" strategy to exert maximum pressure on Iran. The U.S. Treasury stated that it will continue to combat Iran's use of digital assets for terrorist financing and sanction evasion and reserves the right to impose secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions and companies that assist Iran's illegal trade.

According to Gate market data, the US iShares Technology Software Industry ETF rose by 2.4%, reaching a new high in four months.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 Software and Services Index has reached a four-month high, currently up 2.7%.

According to CoinDesk, digital asset management company Grayscale has suspended its preparations for a public listing in the United States due to the current unfavorable market environment, with the earliest expected restart of the related process being in the fourth quarter of this year. Grayscale is a subsidiary of DCG and is the issuer of several crypto investment products, including the Bitcoin spot ETF GBTC.2026 was originally seen as a peak year for crypto company IPOs, but as trading volumes weaken and the performance of new listings like BitGo falls short of expectations, companies such as Kraken's parent company Payward, ConsenSys, and Ledger have also chosen to delay their listing plans. Meanwhile, Blockchain.com is still advancing its IPO application in the United States.

According to official news from Optimism, the OP mainnet has adjusted its transaction sorting rules for the first time starting today. For many years, the sorter only used the "highest priority Gas fee first" mechanism, and now a new priority sorting option based on staking has been added.This experiment will last for four weeks (until June 23) and was approved by the Optimism governance body earlier this month, allowing users to participate voluntarily. The participation condition is to stake no less than 100,000 OP to the PolicyEngine Staking contract.The experiment will be conducted in two phases: the first phase (Week 1) will use FIFO (first in, first out) sorting, and exceeding the minimum staking amount will not affect priority; the second phase (Weeks 2-4) will change to a priority Gas multiplier mechanism weighted by staking duration, where the longer the staking time, the higher the priority.The transaction sorting rules for users who do not participate in the experiment will remain unchanged, and the PGA mechanism will continue to operate as usual.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the "1011 insider whale" agent Garrett Jin (@GarrettBullish) has accumulated a purchase of 145,050 HYPE over the past 4 days, worth approximately $9.05 million, and has set a TWAP order to continue buying 39,940 HYPE, worth about $2.44 million.In addition, he currently holds 504.4 BTC long positions, valued at approximately $38.9 million; at the same time, he holds 57,460 ZEC short positions, valued at about $38 million, with an overall current floating loss of approximately $2.11 million.

RootData has completed a comprehensive upgrade of its API, which includes: new synchronization update interfaces for people and financing based on the original project types; a new RD Growth Index Top 300 project interface; a new X关注关系 interface, including information on Top followers; a new calendar event interface, including types such as token unlocks, latest token issuance, product dynamics, etc.; the original project interface has added fields for the country of origin, token distribution, RD Growth Index, and the original people interface has added a field for educational background.Currently, the total number of interfaces for the RootData API has reached 21, with over 200 total fields. Major clients include Ethereum Foundation, Binance, OKX, CertiK, Gate, Blockworks, Amber Group, CMT Digital, BlockBeats, Mask Network, Token Pocket, and others.

Binance Research released a chart analysis this week indicating that four on-chain signals point to the same conclusion: supply is tightening, and selling pressure has been exhausted.Long-term dormancy: Nearly 60% of BTC supply has not moved for over a year, significantly higher than 27% in 2012. The dormancy rate peaked at 69.5% when the spot Bitcoin ETF was approved in January 2024 and has since remained close to historical highs.SLRV indicator: The short-term to long-term holder value ratio is deeply entrenched in historical bottom territory, indicating a lack of market sentiment. Long-term holders dominate the supply, while short-term speculators have largely exited. Historically, every cycle bottom has been accompanied by this ratio entering the current region.Exchange balances: Since peaking at 17.6% during the pandemic, exchange balances have dropped to 15%, with approximately 500,000 BTC permanently leaving exchanges, and seller supply has fallen to a six-year low.STH MVRV indicator: Since November 2024, the BTC short-term holder MVRV has mostly remained below 1, gradually exhausting selling pressure. Currently, this ratio has rebounded to 1, and short-term holders are beginning to reaccumulate unrealized gains. As profit accumulation is still in its early stages, a new wave of selling pressure is unlikely to emerge immediately; historically, this pattern often appears before a sustained recovery.

Coinbase announced that it will launch perpetual contracts for four AI infrastructure stocks on May 18, including Cerebras Systems (CBRS), TSMC, Nebius Group (NBIS), and Bloom Energy (BE).The official statement indicated that the relevant contracts support long and short positions, leverage, and 24/7 trading, and will be open to retail and institutional traders in regions that meet liquidity conditions.

The Speaker of the Polish Sejm, Włodzimierz Czarzasty, announced that the parliament has officially begun reviewing four competing regulatory bills for crypto assets, following President Karol Nawrocki's veto of related legislation twice. This review involves multiple legislative proposals from the government, the presidential office, the Poland 2050 party, and the Confederation party, with a second reading vote expected to take place on Thursday. The core disagreement centers on the scope of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) regarding account freezing powers and the maximum penalties for violations. The presidential draft sets the maximum fine at approximately 20 million zlotys (about 5.5 million USD), while the Ministry of Finance's version raises it to 25 million zlotys (about 6.9 million USD).Meanwhile, the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS), after withdrawing support for earlier regulatory proposals, submitted a separate bill on Monday advocating for a complete ban on crypto asset-related activities in Poland, further complicating the regulatory discussion. Speaker Czarzasty stated that the PiS ban draft will enter the review process only after the four main regulatory bills are completed and questioned the connection between crypto industry funding and political activities, specifically inquiring about potential political financing issues, including those involving zondacrypto.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, four wallets possibly associated with Paradigm Capital deposited 11,615 ETH (27.29 million USD) into FalconX three hours ago.

According to a report by The Information, Starlink's global user count has increased to approximately 7.8 million in 2025, marking significant growth compared to 2021. However, its average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) has decreased by about 18% during the same period, reflecting the company's strategy to capture the global market through lower prices and large-scale expansion.The report states that Starlink's current growth mainly comes from emerging markets and the expansion of low-cost packages, including parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Meanwhile, although high-profit businesses such as enterprise, aviation, and maritime are still growing, they account for a limited proportion of overall revenue.Analysts believe that Starlink is gradually shifting from "high-end satellite internet services" to a more mainstream global broadband network, diluting launch and satellite deployment costs through scale expansion, and further strengthening Elon Musk's influence in the global communications infrastructure sector.

The latest report from blockchain intelligence agency TRM Labs shows that approximately 76% of global cryptocurrency hacking losses are related to organizations associated with North Korea, with a total stolen amount of about $577 million.North Korea's share of global crypto theft continues to rise: 22% in 2022, 37% in 2023, 39% in 2024, rising to 64% in 2025, and further increasing to 76% in 2026. Since 2017, the total illegal profits have exceeded $6 billion. The report points out that these losses mainly stem from two major incidents in April: a $292 million attack on KelpDAO and a $285 million theft from Drift Protocol, with the two attacks accounting for about 3% of all hacking incidents during the same period.

According to Jinshi reports, the CICC research report states that the Federal Reserve maintained interest rates at the April meeting, which aligns with market expectations, but four officials voted against it, indicating a more cautious stance on monetary policy. The high oil prices triggered by the US-Iran conflict, combined with the effects of previous tariffs, have made the inflation environment more complex. CICC believes that the likelihood of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates this year is low, and the path to rate cuts will be longer, with the next rate cut possibly delayed until the fourth quarter.