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According to BlockBeats, on May 10th, Trump stated in an interview with France's LCJ channel that Iran indeed hopes to reach an agreement and expects to receive Iran's response to the latest U.S. peace proposal soon, with both sides still interested in completing negotiations. Previously, he told the media at a Virginia golf course that the U.S. would receive a letter from Iran tonight and would observe the developments; when asked if Iran was deliberately delaying, he said he didn't know but would find out soon.

Putin says the Russia-Ukraine conflict is "about to end," and Zelensky is ready to meet; both sides could hold talks in a third country, provided a lasting peace agreement is reached. He thanks the United States for facilitating dialogue, emphasizing that the core issue lies with Russia and Ukraine. He also mentions that former German Chancellor Schröder is a suitable candidate to mediate Russia-Europe negotiations and hopes the Iran conflict will end soon.

BlockBeats News, May 10 — According to CCTV reports, on the evening of May 9 local time, the Israel Defense Forces announced that air raid sirens sounded in several communities in northern Israel. Subsequently, the Israeli Air Force intercepted multiple drones flying from Lebanon. There are no reports of casualties at this time.

BlockBeats News, May 10, according to Fars News Agency, Iran is pushing for licensing, charging, and legal jurisdiction over foreign cable operators. These cables carry a large amount of data traffic between Europe, the Gulf region, and Asia.
Iran also requires all management and maintenance work to be exclusively handled by domestic companies. Previously, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran had warned that attacks could be launched against the relevant submarine cable infrastructure.

Switzerland's initiative aims to include Bitcoin in the Swiss National Bank's official reserves and amend the constitution, surpassing the gold and foreign exchange reserves.
Due to not reaching the 100k signature goal within 18 months, they abandoned the effort after completing about half.
Supporters say Bitcoin is a neutral reserve that can hedge against dollar and euro risks; however, the SNB has previously opposed it, believing that Bitcoin's liquidity and volatility do not meet the standards for central bank reserve assets.

BlockBeats News, May 9 — According to Xinhua News Agency, on May 9, the U.S. Central Command issued a statement on social media saying that the U.S. military continues to enforce a maritime blockade against Iran, having altered the course of 58 commercial ships since April 13 and disabling 4 vessels to prevent these ships from entering or leaving Iranian ports.

BlockBeats reports that Copy Fail is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel affecting multiple distributions, allowing attackers to gain root access with about ten lines of Python. CISA has listed it in KEV; compromised servers may steal private keys, control nodes, or even ransomware, posing operational and financial risks to the crypto ecosystem. AI-assisted vulnerability discovery will accelerate the detection of such underlying security issues, increasing industry reliance on server and OS security.

Reports say Chrome will download several gigabytes of AI models without user knowledge, for functions like anti-fraud and webpage summarization, despite claiming that local operation can enhance privacy, but it raises doubts due to lack of transparency. As browsers become entry points for crypto wallets and on-chain transactions, deep AI integration helps identify phishing but also expands the attack surface. In the future, browsers need to be protected like hardware wallets—isolating configurations, restricting extensions, and storing large assets in hardware wallets.

On the afternoon of May 6th, NVIDIA announced an investment. The amount isn't particularly large, 500 million dollars. But the contract clearly states that it can be increased to 3.2 billion in the future. Corning's stock price rose 14% on that day.

What is more intriguing is the structure of this deal. Among the 18 million shares of equity certificates Corning gave to NVIDIA, 3 million shares have a conversion price of $0.0001. This means that these 3 million shares are almost given to Corning for free. On the same afternoon, Corning raised its revenue growth target for 2030 to $40 billion at its investor conference in New York.

But none of this is the most abnormal part of Corning in recent months. The quarterly report of this "iPhone screen glass supplier" states that in the past few months, two more unnamed companies have signed multi-year contracts worth $6 billion with Corning. The reason for saying "again" is

BlockBeats News, May 9th, according to Xinhua News Agency reports, Iran's Islamic Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Ebrahim Azizi warned on social media on the 9th that governments should not support the Iran-related agreement plan pushed by the United States, otherwise "it will bring serious consequences."
Azizi wrote on social media: "The Strait of Hormuz is a vital lifeline. Do not personally close its (Strait of Hormuz) gate."

US-Iran ceasefire negotiations stall again, despite both sides claiming a ceasefire in January is still in effect, multiple rounds of attacks occurred last week with no breakthrough in talks. The US attacked two oil tankers heading toward Iranian ports, Iran continued to block the Strait of Hormuz. The US proposed lifting port blockades, restoring navigation through the strait, and extending the ceasefire by 30 days, but nuclear restrictions remain the core disagreement. The UK dispatched a destroyer to the Middle East to pre-deploy for escorting the Strait of Hormuz, France also sent a carrier group to promote a multilateral escort mechanism. Satellite images show a large oil spill near Halek Island, with pollution spreading over more than 20 square miles, analysis indicates that US sanctions and pressure are severely threatening Iran’s oil infrastructure.

Cronje states that the annualized yield for USDC on the Sonic network is 5.11%, while USDT and ftUSD on Ethereum yield 5.27%. These returns do not rely on incentives, subsidies, or circular leverage, nor do they require staking lock-up periods, and they support instant redemption and liquidity. He also points out that DeFi has not yet reached its peak, and there is still a lot of space worth exploring on-chain.

TeraWulf announces Q1 2026 financial report: net loss of $427 million, total revenue of $34 million, AI/HPC leasing $21 million accounting for about 60%, up 117% year-over-year; Bitcoin mining revenue $13 million, down 50% year-over-year. Lake Mariner 60MW computing power has been leased to Core42, and is working with Fluidstack and Google to advance AI infrastructure. Cash $3.1 billion, stock price has increased over 105% this year, and has signed a $950 million, 25-year AI data center lease with Fluidstack.

In April, listed companies and corporate reserves increased their holdings by 64,722 BTC, with a net increase of 57,791 BTC, marking the largest buying month since mid-2025. Strategy bought 56,235 BTC in April, funded by ATM financing from STRC and MSTR, with STRC contributing about $330 million in April, accounting for 80% of Strategy's ATM financing, setting a monthly record. The total ETF holdings are about 1.5 million BTC, with Strategy and IBIT in a standoff, holding approximately 818,334 and 818,147 BTC respectively. Corporate altcoin reserves amount to about $22 billion, with ETH making up roughly $16.2 billion.

The Iran war has disrupted Persian Gulf shipping, causing global oil inventories to rapidly decline, squeezing buffer responses, and remaining vulnerable to shocks in the future. As the Strait of Hormuz approaches closure for two months, the government's and industry's capacity to cope with losses exceeding 1 billion barrels is shrinking. From March 1 to April 25, the average daily decline was about 4.8 million barrels per day, with crude oil accounting for approximately 60%, higher than IEA data, highlighting the need to set minimum inventory levels and warning that safety stock thresholds have already been reached before inventories hit bottom.

At Consensus 2026, Felix Fan from Trust Wallet and Arjun Mukherjee from Mesh stated that AI Agents will drive wallet architecture restructuring, enabling AI to hold assets, execute on-chain transactions, and establish identities. Agent Kit has been released, and EIP-8004 is in progress to provide on-chain identity and credit scoring for AI; consumer-side insists on "users holding keys and gradually authorizing," while developers have more autonomy. Mesh's Smart Funding can route funds across chains, reducing the difficulty of Web3 usage; the core challenge is cold start, and wallets will become the foundational financial layer for AI. Both also see future large AI platforms with built-in wallets, such as X Money and Grok, and believe Claude may also run on-chain in the future.