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According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the government of the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred 738 BTC to a newly created wallet, worth approximately 45 million USD.

According to Reuters, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned football clubs, including Premier League clubs, that entering into sponsorship agreements with unauthorized cryptocurrency companies and trading platforms may expose clubs to legal liabilities, money laundering risks, and reputational damage.The FCA stated that some unlicensed cryptocurrency businesses operating in the UK are reaching large fan bases through football sponsorships, potentially violating UK financial promotion rules. The regulatory body has contacted some clubs regarding these partnerships and urged them to strengthen due diligence on their partners.Lucy Castledine, the FCA's Director of Consumer Investments, stated that millions of fans trust club brands, and clubs should not allow unauthorized financial institutions to exploit this trust to promote potentially risky products to fans. UK Sports Minister Stephanie Peacock also stated that while sponsorship revenue is crucial for the football industry, fans have the right to know whether the companies partnering with clubs are safe, responsible, and compliant.

Coinbase released a retrospective report on the large-scale service interruption event on May 7, 2026.The outage lasted approximately 8 hours, with full recovery taking about 12 hours. During this time, trading, deposits, withdrawals, and most core services were unavailable or severely degraded. Coinbase stated that the outage was caused by multiple cooling units failing simultaneously in the cooling system of a data center in one availability zone (use1-az4) in the AWS us-east-1 region, triggering cabinet thermal protection shutdowns, which led to EC2 instances and EBS volumes going offline, affecting multiple internet services.During the recovery process, the Coinbase trading matching engine lost quorum due to the cluster architecture deployed in a single AWS data center losing most nodes. It required urgent code adjustments and the reconstruction of a new node group to restore operation, gradually restarting market trading during the recovery.Additionally, the AWS-managed Kafka (MSK) service experienced control plane failures, preventing the automatic re-election of partition leaders, further blocking quotes, fees, and some settlement and data flow systems, which expanded the overall impact.After manual partition migration in collaboration with the AWS engineering team, the system gradually returned to normal. Coinbase stated that this incident exposed its shortcomings in cross-availability zone automatic switching capabilities and disaster recovery for managed middleware. The company will upgrade its cross-region hot backup architecture, strengthen regular failure drills, and migrate the Kafka system from dual availability zones to a three availability zone deployment, while also working with AWS to advance root cause fixes and improvements.

According to the official announcement from Sui Network, the Sui mainnet has resumed normal operation, and transaction processing and network activity have both returned to normal. The official disclosure states that the two network outages that occurred yesterday and the day before were related to an interaction issue between the "Address Balances" feature introduced in version 1.72 and the Gas billing logic. The Sui core team indicated that the fix deployed yesterday was only a temporary measure aimed at quickly restoring network operation, but this solution carried a known and low-probability risk of outage. Today, the network triggered a variant of the known issue, causing the mainnet to pause again. Currently, the validators have completed the deployment of a long-term fix, and the official claims that the known issues caused by the original vulnerability have been thoroughly resolved, with the network now operating normally. The Sui team stated that they will release a more detailed incident review report in the future, explaining the cause of the failure and the repair process.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, over the past 11 months, the Kingdom of Bhutan has sold 9,180 BTC (worth $900 million) at an average price of $98,067.The Bitcoin mining operations of the Kingdom of Bhutan ceased in early 2025, at which point their holdings peaked at 12,200 BTC.They currently still hold 3,021 BTC (worth $234 million).

According to Arkham monitoring, Bhutan recently transferred 90 BTC (worth 7 million USD) to a Segwit address, which may indicate its transfer of assets to an independent entity or sale.Since the beginning of the year, Bhutan has cumulatively transferred BTC worth 237 million USD from its wallet to Segwit addresses and currently still holds BTC worth 233 million USD.

According to Arkham monitoring, Bhutan recently transferred 90 BTC (worth 7 million USD) to a Segwit address, which may indicate its transfer of assets to an independent entity or a sale.Since the beginning of the year, Bhutan has cumulatively transferred BTC worth 237 million USD from its wallet to Segwit addresses and currently still holds BTC worth 233 million USD.

According to CoinDesk, blockchain data analysis company Arkham Intelligence has monitored that the wallet holdings of Bhutan's sovereign wealth fund Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) have significantly decreased from about 13,000 BTC in October 2024 to approximately 3,100 BTC currently. Since mid-2025, over $1 billion worth of Bitcoin has flowed out, with funds directed to multiple exchanges and trading companies, including wallets interacting with Galaxy Digital and OKX.In response, DHI CEO Ujjwal Deep Dahal stated, "I don't remember when the last time we sold Bitcoin was." The official denied any selling activity but did not provide details on the specific wallet movements and did not confirm the current holdings.

According to CoinDesk, on-chain analysis firm Arkham Data shows that over the past year, wallets associated with Bhutan have seen outflows of approximately $1 billion in Bitcoin, with funds flowing to multiple trading platforms and trading institutions, reducing their holdings from about 13,000 BTC to around 3,100 BTC.Arkham speculates that there may be ongoing selling behavior, and if the trend continues, the relevant addresses may be cleared of holdings before October 2026. However, Bhutan's sovereign fund Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) stated that "they do not recall any recent Bitcoin sales," did not respond to specific changes in on-chain addresses, and did not confirm the current holding size, only emphasizing that there are no additional comments.The report points out that some of the fund inflow paths are related to institutions such as Galaxy Digital and OKX, leading the market to interpret this as selling or over-the-counter trading behavior, but there are also possibilities of transfers into custody, collateralization, or structured trading that do not involve selling. Additionally, some trading institution personnel stated that there has been no clear selling recently.Furthermore, Bhutan's previous commitment to a reserve of 10,000 BTC for the "Gelephu Mindfulness City" project has also been questioned due to potential sell-offs. Currently, there is still significant disagreement regarding its actual holdings and mining operations.

According to Arkham monitoring, Bhutan is selling Bitcoin and has just transferred 100 BTC ($8.1 million) from its holding wallet. At the current selling rate, its BTC will be depleted by the end of September.Since the beginning of the year, Bhutan has sold a total of $230.39 million in BTC, with remaining BTC valued at $252 million, selling about $50 million per month. If all remaining BTC is sold at the current price, its on-chain profit will reach $767 million.

Coinbase stated that the system detected a high error rate in multiple services, subsequently pinpointing the failure to the AWS US-EAST-1 availability zone use1-az4. The Coinbase system originally had single availability zone fault tolerance, but this failure affected multiple availability zones, resulting in a prolonged interruption of core trading services.The main issues have now been fully resolved, and the team will conduct a comprehensive analysis of this incident and provide further updates after AWS releases the official review report.

According to Arkham monitoring, the Bitcoin holding address of the Kingdom of Bhutan has transferred BTC again, moving 102 BTC to a certain address about three hours ago, worth approximately 7.89 million USD. Currently, that address holds a total of 184 BTC transferred from the Kingdom of Bhutan.

DefiLlama founder 0xngmi has outlined three possible courses of action that KelpDAO may take following the rsETH hacking incident. Each of the three paths has significant flaws, and the final decision will test KelpDAO's credibility and Aave's risk tolerance.Path One: All users share the losses. KelpDAO will uniformly deduct 18.5% of the losses from all rsETH holders proportionally. Currently, there are about 666,000 rsETH collateralized across the Aave network, primarily highly leveraged on the mainnet and L2 (assuming all are at a 95% liquidation LTV). Once socialized losses occur, the equity of all positions on the mainnet will be completely wiped out, resulting in approximately $216 million in bad debt. The Umbrella protocol can cover $55 million in bad debt, and the Aave treasury will additionally bear $85 million, leaving a gap of about $76 million. KelpDAO may fill this gap by borrowing or selling Aave tokens (currently valued at about $51 million), but this would still put significant pressure on Aave, and all users would need to share the losses.Path Two: Directly rug the rsETH holders on L2. KelpDAO will only guarantee the mainnet rsETH and consider the rsETH on L2 as worthless. Currently, Aave L2 has about $359 million in rsETH collateral (calculated at current oracle prices), and if all are calculated at maximum leverage, it would result in approximately $341 million in bad debt, which cannot be covered by the Umbrella protocol at all. Aave can only use the treasury or borrowing to save part of the market, most likely abandoning chains like Arbitrum, Mantle, and Base, which have the largest losses, leading to a collapse of these L2 markets. This option has a minor impact on the Aave mainnet but would severely damage the credibility of the L2 ecosystem and could trigger a chain reaction.Path Three: Attempt to refund only the holders based on a snapshot taken before the hack, which is extremely difficult to execute. KelpDAO tries to fully refund only the rsETH holders based on the snapshot taken before the hack, while subsequent buyers or transfer holders would bear the losses themselves. However, since funds have significantly flowed after the attack, and the nature of DeFi protocols is liquidity pools, it is impossible to truly distinguish between different batches of depositors, making technical execution very challenging. The hacker borrowed $124 million on the Aave mainnet and $18 million on Arbitrum, and after deducting the coverage from the Umbrella protocol, there remains about $91 million in losses. Although this plan theoretically minimizes the spread of impact, its practical implementation is nearly impossible and could easily lead to legal and community disputes.

At the "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" themed forum held in Hong Kong, guests including KiteAI's Asia Pacific head Laughing, Sentient's Asia Pacific head Anita, Brevis content director Nic Tang, Mentis product head Jerry, and Predict.fun's Asia Pacific BD head Ah Huang Ricardo engaged in a roundtable discussion on the theme "AI × Crypto --- The Foundation of the Next Generation Digital Economy."Regarding whether the outbreak of open-source AI Agents (such as "raising lobsters") is a short-term sentiment or a long-term trend, Laughing believes this marks a paradigm shift of AI from "conversational" to "executive," signaling the beginning of a long-term trend. However, Agents lack a physical identity, making it difficult for merchants to trust their trading behavior, and issues of data leakage and uncontrollability remain obstacles that must be overcome for scaling. Jerry pointed out, based on his own usage experience, that current Agents face security risks such as memory fuzziness, token consumption in dead loops, and accidental file deletion. Although newly emerged Agents have improvements, they still have shortcomings. Ah Huang Ricardo stated that behind the short-term sentiment is real user demand, but truly reproducible profitable trading Agents are still very rare, and there is a long way to go.Addressing core bottlenecks such as trust, security, and verifiability, Nic Tang emphasized that the current execution process of Agents is like a black box, where users cannot verify whether their decisions are executed as promised. Zero-knowledge proof technology can mathematically prove the source of an Agent's output and compliance with behavior, while not exposing privacy. Anita added that Sentient is committed to building an open and collaborative AI agent network, promoting the deep integration of AI and blockchain in identity, data, and incentive layers, providing foundational support for the next generation digital economy.Regarding the application scenarios that are likely to scale first, the guests generally believe that the programming field is relatively mature, and Agents in prediction markets perform better than humans in specific tracks due to their rationality and lack of emotions. In the short term, they are optimistic about API Marketplace and cross-platform consumer shopping Agents, while in the medium term, they are optimistic about content creation AI (such as AI influencers). Agent-to-Agent interaction and the Agent/Skill Marketplace are seen as important future trends.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the government of the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred 250 BTC for sale, worth 18.46 million USD.

According to CoinDesk, after selling 70% of its Bitcoin holdings, there are reports that the Kingdom of Bhutan may have stopped or slowed down its Bitcoin mining activities, in stark contrast to the actions of other major institutions and sovereign nations that are increasing their holdings in cryptocurrencies and gold (El Salvador's current Bitcoin holdings have exceeded 7,618 coins).It is reported that due to economic pressure, its hydropower is currently used more for selling electricity to neighboring India rather than for Bitcoin mining. Additionally, the decline in Bitcoin prices, the increase in network difficulty, and halving pressure are all squeezing the profit margins for mining.As of now, the national sovereign wealth fund managing Bhutan's Bitcoin assets, Druk Holding and Investments, has not publicly commented on the status of fund transfers or its mining operations.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the government of the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred 250 BTC to a newly created wallet, worth 18.05 million dollars.

According to The Block, based on monitoring by Onchain Lens, the Royal Government of Bhutan transferred approximately 319.7 BTC (about 22.68 million USD) to two addresses three hours ago. About 250 BTC were transferred to a wallet that was previously used to sell funds through Galaxy Digital and OKX, while another 69.7 BTC were sent to a new unmarked address.According to Arkham data, the Bhutanese government has transferred out Bitcoin worth 215.7 million USD from its holding addresses this year, of which 162.6 million USD was sent to unmarked wallets. After this transfer, Bhutan currently holds 3,954 BTC, valued at approximately 280.6 million USD.The country held about 13,000 BTC at its peak in October 2024, with its Bitcoin assets managed by the national sovereign wealth fund Druk Holding and Investments Ltd. Bhutan previously accumulated its Bitcoin holdings through a hydropower-supported mining operation, but according to Arkham data, its last recorded Bitcoin inflow exceeding 100,000 USD was a year ago.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), the Royal Government of Bhutan transferred 319.7 BTC (worth approximately $22.67 million) to two wallets: one is a new wallet, suspected to be an exchange wallet; the other is an old wallet, which had previously conducted fund transfer sales through OKX or Galaxy Digital.