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ME News May 25 - BitMart BM Discovery Zone has launched Ratspeak (RATSPEAK), opening the RATSPEAK/USDT trading pair at 11:30 (UTC+8). Ratspeak is a community-driven meme token on the Base chain, issued via Uniswap V4, adopting a community takeover model. Its core philosophy is to rebuild the internet by combining meme culture with decentralized governance.

Ahead of the coming week, signals of negotiation progress released by all parties involved in the recent three-month conflict may, if implemented, bring capital markets back to risk appetite, and US stocks and cryptocurrencies could rebound. On the macro front, multiple officials’ speeches and the release of key data will be held intensively next week, including remarks by senior officials from the US and Japan central banks, ADP employment, indicators such as PCE and GDP, as well as speeches by several FOMC officials; the US stock market will be closed on May 25, and related futures trading will be suspended.

CoinWorld News, the CL short position has recently increased by 6,155.70 ZEC, approximately $624,256.94, with the total holdings reaching $6,633,275.38. The average price has decreased from $102.79 to $102.68. Currently, this short position has a profit and loss of +$51,251.51 (+1.12%), with the current price at $101.89 and a liquidation price of $168.17. This address shorted ZEC starting at $184, once experiencing a loss of $21 million, then turning profitable, and recently becoming the largest long position in the S&P 500, with a scale exceeding $70 million.

BlockBeats reports that Samsung has reached a preliminary agreement with the union to ease the strike threat, causing South Korea's stock market to surge, with KOSPI rising as much as 6.4%, Samsung up about 7%, and SK Hynix up approximately 8.4%. After futures soared, the exchange suspended algorithmic trading. Nvidia's better-than-expected earnings boosted chip stocks, and AI-driven high-bandwidth memory demand remains strong.

Stanford NLP demonstrated at ICML 2026 that by automating executors, pre-training and post-training of LLMs can be transformed into execution environments, using execution feedback to improve research efficiency. Two methods: evolutionary search outperforms GRPO (69.4% vs. 48.0%) in post-training tasks, and recipes found in pre-training tasks are faster than nanoGPT (19.7 minutes vs. 35.9 minutes), both completed within ten search rounds; reinforcement learning based on execution rewards is prone to mode collapse, which, while increasing average rewards, does not improve the upper limit. This work points the way for execution-oriented automated AI research.

According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI is collaborating with investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, preparing to secretly submit IPO application documents within the next few days or weeks, with the earliest possible submission on this Friday. The report states that OpenAI hopes to go public as early as September this year, but the plan may still be adjusted. Previously, OpenAI won a legal dispute this week with co-founder Elon Musk, which was previously thought to potentially impact its IPO process.

> Original Title: The Trump paradox: What’s good for him is weighing down his party
> Original Author: The Washington Post
> Translation: Peggy


Editor's Note: Trump's political paradox is becoming increasingly clear: his support among the national electorate continues to decline, but he is gaining more dominance within the Republican Party.


The core of this discussion is not whether Trump can still influence the Republican Party, but how this influence is reshaping the party’s electoral prospects. On one hand, through endorsements, primary challenges, and political purges, he forces candidates within the party to pledge loyalty to him; on the other hand, this political screening centered on personal loyalty may also weaken the Republican Party.

Singapore MAS revokes BSquared Technology's primary payment institution license, effective from May 14, 2026, just 16 months after authorization, indicating rapid enforcement. MAS states that a 2025 on-site inspection found significant deficiencies in its risk management and conflict of interest policies, and that it provided false information in multiple instances. Outsourcing arrangements also violated third-party management guidelines. The regulatory authority is assessing the personal responsibility of senior management. Under the Payment Services Act, the company must submit an independent audit certification to ensure proper handling of customer funds.

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In this episode of the podcast, Circle’s Chief Economist Gordon Liao for the first time lays out in a systematic way the market-structure logic behind USDH being replaced by USDC. USDC’s balance on the Hyperliquid platform has doubled over the past year, and 90% of reserve earnings flow back to Hyperliquid to conduct HYPE buybacks. Coinbase serves as the treasury deployment partner, while Circle serves as the technical deployment partner and stakes 500,000 HYPE tokens.
Gordon also breaks down the interest rates on long-dated U.S. Treasuries. The current 30-year yield breaking above 5% is mainly driven by term premium, while stablecoins are quietly becoming the marginal buyers of U.S. Treasuries—only USDC’s on-chain settlement in 2026 Q1 ends here.

ME News reports that Telegram founder Durov questioned the design conspiracy of the EU's newly launched "Age Verification App" on his personal channel, claiming it was cracked within 2 minutes of release, implying that bureaucrats deliberately created vulnerabilities first and then removed privacy protections under the guise of "enhancing security," thereby turning it into a surveillance tool for social media users across Europe. Durov warned users to stay vigilant, expressing concern that this move could serve as an excuse for comprehensive surveillance.

Firecrawl officially open-source web proxy framework Web Agent, performing the "search-crawl-interact" closed-loop tasks through the Plan-Act cycle and parallel sub-agents within independent browser sessions, compatible with self-hosted large models like Anthropic, OpenAI, and others. Developers can quickly generate templates using firecrawl create agent, and encapsulate complex processes as Skills through SKILL.md. The new version defaults to Claude Opus 4.7, includes a financial skills package, is licensed under MIT, and encourages community Forks for secondary development.

CryptoWorld News reports that Federal Reserve official Barkin has recently made the following statements consecutively: First, it is difficult to draw conclusions about the short-term and long-term impacts of artificial intelligence. Second, bond yields remain within a reasonable range.

NUS team releases the GameWorld benchmark, including 34 browser games and 170 tasks, with verifiable metrics for objective evaluation. Tests two types of proxy interfaces: computer-use, which involves direct keyboard and mouse commands, and general multimodal agents operating in semantic space. Empirical results on 18 model-interface combinations show that even the best performers are far below human levels, with challenges remaining in real-time latency, context memory sensitivity, and action effectiveness. The related paper and code are publicly available on HuggingFace and GitHub.

CryptoWorld News: Renowned trader Loracle increased his short position on HYPE by 13,360.36 tokens on the HyperLiquid platform, approximately $3,566,798.56. The current position size is $112,232,180.12, with an average price adjusted from $45.15 to $45.26. The current profit and loss is -$29,230,380.91 (-130.22%), with the current token price at $61.19 and the liquidation price at $68.71.

Mars Finance News, according to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it will provide a total of $2 billion in government grants to nine quantum computing companies, including IBM, and acquire equity in related transactions. This move aims to accelerate the development of the emerging quantum computing industry and promote the construction of more stable, scalable quantum computing systems. The report states that this round of funding is part of the Trump administration's effort to maintain the United States' competitive edge in cutting-edge computing fields and to initiate a "new era of technological innovation."