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The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South Korea announced on Monday that, in response to the internal control vulnerabilities exposed by the recent Bithumb payment incident, it has required all domestic cryptocurrency exchanges to conduct reconciliations of their ledgers and actual assets every five minutes.Emergency inspections revealed that three of the five major exchanges in the country only reconcile once a day, making it difficult to timely identify and address discrepancies; some systems are unable to automatically suspend trading when significant mismatches occur, raising regulatory concerns. According to the new regulations:Exchanges must establish an automated ledger-wallet reconciliation system with a cycle of five minutes.Standards for triggering automatic trading suspension due to significant discrepancies must be set.High-risk processes (such as promotional payments) must undergo enhanced scrutiny, including third-party reviews and multi-level approvals.High-risk accounts must be managed independently, and payments must use automated verification tools.The frequency of external audits will change from quarterly to monthly, with the disclosure scope expanded to include detailed asset balances by wallet and ledger. The FSC stated that it will complete the relevant rule revisions by April 2026. Previously, Bithumb announced that its IPO plan would be postponed until after 2028 to strengthen internal controls and accounting policies by 2027; at the same time, the equity swap between Naver Financial and Dunamu will also be completed by the end of September.

Nasdaq-listed company Eightco Holdings released an update on its holdings, disclosing a total asset value of $321 million, including: 277,222,975 Worldcoin (WLD), 11,068 ETH, a $90 million investment in OpenAI, a $25 million investment in Beast Industries, and $110 million in cash and stablecoins.Eightco Holdings stated that it currently holds nearly 9% of the circulating WLD supply, making it one of the largest public market participants in the Worldcoin ecosystem. The investment in OpenAI accounts for about 30% of the company's total assets, also providing retail investors with a way to indirectly hold OpenAI through the public market. The company's CEO Kevin O'Donnell stated, "Holding Eightco is like owning a part of OpenAI."

According to CoinGlass data, in terms of net inflow of exchange reserve assets over the past 7 days, Binance ranked first with $327 million, while Gate ranked second globally with a net inflow of over $103 million, showing robust performance in platform capital inflow.

According to Solid Intel, the central banks of France and South Korea are collaborating on a framework for tokenized cross-border payments and digital assets.

According to the data panel on the ChainCatcher official website, regarding BTC wallet balances, in the past 7 days, among the top 10 exchanges by balance, Bithumb had the largest decrease at 5.03%, while Gate had the largest increase at 2.54%.In terms of reserve assets, in the past 7 days, the top three net outflows were OKX (-$143 million), Deribit (-$79.545 million), and KuCoin (-$27.152 million); in terms of net inflows, Binance had the highest inflow at $327 million, followed by Gate with a net inflow of over $103 million.

The decentralized exchange Aster announced that USD1 will become the exclusive settlement asset for all TradFi perpetual contracts on its platform. The official statement clarified that these contracts will only be settled using USD1, and will no longer coexist with USDT.It is reported that the first batch of USD1 priced RWA trading markets includes $CLUSD1, $XAUUSD1, $XAGUSD1, and $BZUSD1. In terms of fee structure, the initial fee for USD1 trading pairs on Aster is set as follows: Taker 1 bps, Maker -0.5 bps.In addition, Aster stated that it is currently collaborating with World Liberty Financial (WLFI), and both parties are exploring deep integration at the token level to support closer ecosystem development and promote large-scale on-chain applications in the RWA market.

Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, stated on the X platform that he is willing to bet on the viewpoint proposed by KOL ampera that "Bittensor (TAO) will enter the top 10 of crypto assets before 2028," and he is willing to accept a maximum bet amount of $1 million.

Contract whale "Set 10 Big Goals First" (@Jason60704294) posted a long limit order on X at 1 AM this morning. The screenshot shows a limit price of $69,574.7, adding 270.37 Bitcoin long positions. Bitcoin fell below this purchase price this morning, so it is expected that this order has been executed.Yesterday afternoon, Bitcoin briefly broke through the $70,000 mark, and the BTC long position of whale "Set 10 Big Goals First" once had an unrealized profit of $5.52 million.

According to Jinshi reports, White House economic advisor Hassett stated that the Federal Reserve should have the ability to cut interest rates.

Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee stated that since the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, Ethereum has become the second-best performing asset, with Bitcoin ranking third, and both have significantly outperformed the stock market.He pointed out that current war spending is about $30 billion per month and could rise to a scale of $100 billion in the future; in contrast, the impact of rising energy prices on consumers is relatively limited—each $10 increase in oil prices corresponds to about $4 billion to $5 billion per month in consumer pressure.Tom Lee believes that against the backdrop of high fiscal spending and energy volatility, the allocation value of crypto assets as "liquidity and risk assets" is rising.

According to The Block, based on the 8-K document submitted by Strategy to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company reported an unrealized loss of approximately $14.46 billion in Bitcoin for the first quarter of 2026. However, the related tax implications resulted in approximately $2.42 billion in deferred tax assets, partially offsetting the book losses.Despite the holdings being in a state of unrealized loss, Strategy chose to continue increasing its Bitcoin holdings in early April. The related funds mainly came from its ATM (at-the-money) equity financing plan, which is also part of its "42/42" financing strategy, aiming to raise $84 billion by 2027 for continued Bitcoin accumulation.

According to Globenewswire, the Nasdaq-listed digital asset infrastructure company OFA Group announced a RWA tokenization service agreement with MD Queens Development, which will provide blockchain infrastructure support for a comprehensive development project in Long Island, New York, through its physical asset tokenization platform Hearth and will tokenize in the early stages of development.The related digital assets will represent the project SPV interests, rather than directly corresponding to the underlying real estate ownership. According to the agreement, OFA will receive a total of $15 million in funding, which will be paid in phases based on milestones.

According to on-chain analysts, the whale "first set 10 big targets" currently has 2,250.15 BTC long positions, worth 156 million dollars, with an average opening price of 67,193.72 dollars, a liquidation price of 55,423 dollars, and has an unrealized profit of 5.52 million dollars.

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South Korea requires local crypto CEXs to establish a system that checks the internal ledger against actual crypto asset holdings every 5 minutes by the end of May, and to disclose asset matching balances daily, with monthly external audits by accounting firms.This move is seen as a tightening of regulations following the incident in February this year where Bithumb mistakenly issued 620,000 BTC to users.

Data shows that Circle minted approximately 3.25 billion USDC on Solana in the past 7 days, marking the largest weekly minting volume of stablecoins in 2026.

Economist and cryptocurrency critic Peter Schiff called for selling Bitcoin, while Strategy founder Michael Saylor refuted this.Peter Schiff stated earlier that over the past five years, the price of Bitcoin has only increased by 12%. During the same period, the Nasdaq rose by 57.4%, the S&P 500 rose by 59.4%, gold rose by 163%, and silver rose by 181%. If Bitcoin's appeal lies in its superior long-term performance, why do people still hold onto it?Michael Saylor replied that the time frame is crucial. Since August 2020, Bitcoin has been the best-performing mainstream asset, and the advantage is very clear. If the time span is extended, this gap will only widen.

The "contract whale" "set 10 big goals first" (@Jason60704294) posted on X showing a long position with a limit price of $67023.8, going long on Bitcoin.