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ME News report: On May 15 (UTC+8), Bradley Duke, Head of Bitwise Europe, disclosed that Canaccord Wealth UK, a UK wealth management firm managing assets of approximately $70 billion, has reached an exclusive cooperation with Bitwise to provide some clients with Bitcoin and Ethereum ETP products, with an investment allocation of up to the maximum in the portfolio.

ME News Report, April 18 (UTC+8), World announced an upgrade to the World ID protocol, introducing mechanisms such as multi-key support, key rotation, and session management, along with launching standalone applications and open-source SDKs to enhance "human identity verification" capabilities. The new version has integrated with platforms like Tinder and Zoom, used respectively for user authenticity verification and deepfake prevention, while expanding into ticketing, social, and gaming scenarios. A fee model for application providers has been introduced, with users continuing to use the service for free. (Source: MLion)

According to FOX Business, a threat detection data company estimates that the Iranian government controls approximately $7.7 billion in digital assets. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has frozen about $500 million in crypto assets related to Iran, and last month froze an additional $344 million. industry executives say that cryptocurrencies are not only tools for evading sanctions but are actually more conducive to law enforcement tracking. The report states that the U.S. may increase pressure on Iran by preventing exchanges from accessing the banking system.

Mars Finance News: Zhizhong ZERONE has completed Series A funding, led by Xingxiang Capital, with CaiXin Zhongjin and Puhong Capital participating. The funds will be used for AI application development, data product upgrades, and market ecosystem expansion. The platform covers private equity, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources, mergers and acquisitions, syndicate loans, and more. By combining proprietary algorithms with AI large models, it transforms non-standard data into high-quality, gold-standard copy data, providing SaaS, data, and AI services to support decision-making.

The New York Times reports that Powell will step down and Waller will succeed him, with monetary policy entering a re-pricing phase. Waller proposed reforms for the Federal Reserve: re-evaluate inflation models, reduce asset holdings, lower the frequency of forward guidance, strengthen coordination with the Treasury Department, and criticized excessive expansion of functions and market interventions. During Powell's tenure, he experienced pandemic easing, high inflation, 11 rate hikes, ultimately lowering inflation without causing a recession. The market showed significant disagreement at the first meeting under the new leadership, with most officials unwilling to cut rates and even discussing further rate hikes, indicating that future interest rate paths and global pricing will be affected.

FBI IC3 releases 2025 data on cryptocurrency self-service terminal scams: over 13.4k complaints, with losses exceeding $388 million, up 23% and 58% respectively from 2024. Victims aged 50 and above account for more than half, with losses over $302 million. Criminals often provide guidance to victims (withdrawing, locating, and using self-service terminals), and the statistics do not solely attribute losses to self-service terminals.

ME News Report, May 23 (UTC+8), according to CoinMarketCap market data, ETH drops below $2100, currently priced at $2093.33, a 24-hour decrease of 1.2%. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

Crypto news: a whale increased its short position in ZEC on the HyperLiquid platform by 1,132.78 coins, worth about $753,545.72. Its position size has reached $4,159,242.44. The average entry price was adjusted from $673.78 to $672.98. Current profit and loss is +$25,911.86 (+6.23%). The current coin price is $668.81, and the liquidation price is $1,907.45. This whale has long relied on the market’s volatile downward moves—going long BTC while also shorting HYPE. It is now going long BTC with a total position size of $50 million, with profit over the full cycle exceeding $37 million.

Bullish reported a net loss of $604.9 million in the first quarter, mainly due to non-cash items such as changes in the fair value of digital assets; however, adjusted revenue was $92.8 million, adjusted net profit was $20.3 million, and adjusted EBITDA was $35.1 million, all up from the previous year. After the earnings report, the stock price fell by 11% before rebounding. During the quarter, the trading value of Bitcoin options was $11.6 billion, representing about 14% of open contracts; adjusted trading revenue fell to $38 million, and digital asset sales dropped from $80.2 billion to $51.8 billion.

According to a report from the Coin World network, the Pentagon is testing multiple artificial intelligence models to determine which models its 25 “super users” prefer, while accelerating the search for a replacement for Anthropic’s Claude. Testing began in early March—just three days after Defense Secretary Hegseth announced Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. After parting ways with Anthropic, the Pentagon gave itself six months to gradually phase out the company’s products. Earlier this month, the Pentagon announced new agreements with several other companies to use their AI tools on classified networks, seeking to develop multiple new vendor models.

CryptoWorld News reports that the local governor stated that a Ukrainian drone attack on a transportation facility in Russia's Bryansk region resulted in two deaths.

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ME News Report, April 17 (UTC+8), recently, Xiaomi miclaw officially passed the evaluation by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology's mobile intelligent assistant (Claw) assessment, becoming the first domestic mobile intelligent agent to pass this review. The evaluation was conducted based on the "General Framework for Intelligent Assistant Benchmark Testing," rigorously assessing from three major dimensions: basic capabilities, on-device applications, and comprehensive abilities. According to reports, Xiaomi miclaw relies on Xiaomi MiMo's self-developed large model, possessing four core capabilities: full-ecosystem underlying support, deep memory, cross-domain connectivity, and continuous self-evolution, enabling integration across mobile phones, PCs, cockpits, and AIoT.

CryptoWorld News: Hezbollah: We used drones and missiles to attack Israeli military positions in the towns of Dabel and Rashaf in southern Lebanon, as well as around Hadassah.

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David Hoffman tweeted in the early hours of May 21, 2026.
Just one sentence: "Has the atmosphere on crypto Twitter really changed over the past two weeks, or did I just sell my last bit of ETH?"
David Hoffman is the co-founder of Bankless and one of the biggest public evangelists for Ethereum over the past six years. He once wrote on his personal page, "99% of wealth is not in banks, but on Ethereum." This person authored "Ether: The Triple Point Asset," and is one of the core evangelists defining ETH as a "ultrasound money" narrative.
Now he's liquidated his holdings.
If last year some still regarded ETH as "debt for the future world,"

According to Jiebjie.com news, S&P Global data shows that France’s private-sector economic activity shrank at the fastest pace in more than five and a half years in May, reflecting an acceleration in the slowdown in services activity and another decline in manufacturing output. France’s May services PMI preliminary reading came in at 42.9, while the composite PMI preliminary reading was 43.5—both at their lowest levels in 66 months. The manufacturing PMI preliminary reading, meanwhile, fell from 52.8 in April to 48.9. Joe Hayes, Chief Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said the preliminary PMI survey data for France in May provides a series of alarming figures: the inflationary impact of oil price shocks continues to spread, and the price indices in both manufacturing and services have risen again. He added that what is particularly worrying is that new private-sector orders in May fell sharply, clearly indicating that this shock has substantially increased recession risk for the eurozone’s second-largest economy.