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On May 8, Musk responded to a controversy on X regarding a discussion about Bernie Sanders’ 45 years of contributions to politics, with the reply content only being “Memes”. According to GMGN market data, Solana ecosystem meme coin BURNIE surged by more than 100% shortly after Musk’s post, then quickly fell back; as of the time of writing, its market cap was $18.07 million.

SlowMist’s Chief Information Security Officer 23pds disclosed on May 8 that Linux systems have a critical privilege escalation vulnerability called Dirty Frag; full details and exploit code have been published. Any local low-privilege user can, without needing specific system conditions, directly obtain root administrator privileges on the affected systems. The emergency mitigation measures are to disable the three modules esp4, esp6, and rxrpc.

Analyze the Iran-Iraq Hormuz Strait clashes, including the event of the Iran-U.S. Hormuz Strait clashes, examine the effectiveness of the ceasefire under Trump’s “minor punishment” classification, and explore the structural impact on volatility in the crypto market and Bitcoin’s safe-haven logic.

According to an X post by Nikita Bier, product lead of the platform, on May 8, the platform has upgraded its Cashtag feature (now called Smart Cashtags), allowing users to directly embed live price charts in their posts and integrate buy and sell action buttons. According to the same announcement, APIs supporting Smart Cashtags can process in real time any assets issued on blockchain networks.

India-based payments firm Razorpay has scaled back plans to expand its offline payments business as it prepares for an initial public offering, according to The Economic Times. Current Point-of-Sale Operations Razorpay's point-of-sale terminal base comprises approximately 600,000 units handling b

According to The Information on May 8, the U.S. Treasury Department has, via a private letter, asked Binance to comply with the monitoring plan stipulated in the $4.3 billion settlement agreement reached between the two parties in 2023. Previously, there were reports that Binance had processed about $1 billion in transactions involving entities related to Iran and that it allegedly fired employees who disclosed this situation to company executives.

According to Forbes, on May 7, Lori Greiner, a star of Shark Tank, posted on Instagram last weekend to warn that Gmail AI under Google is set by default to scan emails. In response, Google has made updates, emphasizing that Gemini will not use users’ emails to train AI models, and that no data is retained after processing.

According to Reuters on May 7, US internet infrastructure and security company Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) announced layoffs of about 20% of its global workforce, or more than 1,100 people, citing business restructuring around the application of AI tools. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in a statement that the company’s AI usage has increased by over 600% in the past three months.

According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings, two affiliated entities under the crypto-backed political action committee Fairshake spent a total of about $7.2 million this week to purchase media ads for political candidates in Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Nebraska, and Kentucky. Primaries in multiple states are scheduled to be held in May, making crypto legislation a key campaign issue.

Polymarket’s 2026 World Cup champion prediction market has already accumulated more than $900 million in trading volume, with France leading at a 17% probability, followed closely by Spain at 15%. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the popular teams and the logic behind the prediction market.

According to monitoring data published by on-chain analytics firm Onchain Lens on May 8, the U.S. government (Brian Krewson seized-funds address) deposited Uniswap (UNI), Cronos (CRO), and Chainlink (LINK) into Coinbase Prime, totaling about $35k.

On Thursday, on-chain investigator ZachXBT publicly accused the founder of the AI trading terminal project LAB, Vova Sadkov, of allegedly manipulating the market, offering a $10k bounty to collect related internal information. ZachXBT and on-chain analyst Specter claim that before the token price surged in early May, the LAB team coordinated deposits of LAB tokens worth tens of millions of dollars to exchanges, forming a suspected “pump-and-dump” scheme.

Airbnb raised its full-year revenue growth outlook to the low to mid teens from 12% following a strong first quarter, though the company warned that geopolitical tensions are creating headwinds. According to CNBC, the company reported Q1 revenue up 18% year on year with net income of US$160

CCN reported on May 7 that BlackRock, ahead of the public comment period deadline for the GENIUS Act, submitted a 17-page public letter to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), requesting that the OCC remove the proposed 20% cap on the proportion of tokenized reserve assets for stablecoin issuers. In the letter, BlackRock directly stated that the restriction is “not related” to the OCC’s considerations of safety and stability.

Advertising technology company The Trade Desk (TTD) saw its stock price plunge again after it released its first-quarter 2026 earnings report on Wednesday. Shares are down more than 40% since the start of the year, and are down as much as 85% from the peak at the end of 2024. Q1 revenue was $689 million, up 12% year over year. The company forecast Q2 revenue of at least $750 million, below market expectations, implying that the Q2 growth rate could fall further to around 8%.

Listed Bitcoin miner American Bitcoin disclosed in its latest quarterly earnings report that in February, it pledged 314 BTC as collateral and paid Bitmain $49.4 million for 80% of the mining equipment purchase. The deal was valued at $125,900 per BTC, but the actual transaction price at the time was below $70k, meaning ABTC effectively bought the mining equipment at an implied discount of about 44%.

Genius Sports reported first-quarter 2026 results after absorbing three of the largest iGaming and sports betting affiliate properties into its sports-data platform, with Casino.org, Casino Guru, and Covers.com now inside the company’s combined media and advertising operation following the May 1

According to the blockchain security firm BlockSec, in a May report titled “Stablecoin Issuer Freezing Risk and Treasury Security Management White Paper,” its USDT Freeze Tracker on-chain statistics show that as of May 7, over the past 30 days Tether has cumulatively added 384 addresses to the blacklist across the Ethereum and Tron networks, involving frozen funds of about $515 million.

Bitcoin (BTC) gave back its midweek gains, temporarily trading at around $79,731 on May 8. Donald Trump Jr. denied rumors that World Liberty Financial is about to collapse, saying the negative narrative is being manipulated by bot clusters. Tom Lee said BitMine is currently evaluating slowing its pace of Ethereum purchases and shifting to stock buybacks.

According to The Block’s report on May 7, JPMorgan Chase managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou and his team of analysts said in their latest report that since the outbreak of the Iran conflict, the asset classes targeted by investors’ “devaluation trades” have been shifting from gold to Bitcoin. Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows for the third consecutive month in May, while gold ETFs are still struggling to recover from the March outflows.