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According to Renaissancecapital, Hong Kong Web3 service provider Web3Labs Global has submitted an IPO application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), planning to issue approximately 6.3 million shares at a price of $4 to $5 per share, raising about $28 million.Based on the median of the issuance range, the company's valuation for this fundraising transaction is approximately $141 million. It is reported that Web3Labs Global plans to list on NASDAQ under the stock code "MDAT," with Eddid Securities and Futures serving as the underwriter for this IPO.

According to CoinDesk, Nasdaq-listed company SUI Group and London hedge fund Karatage jointly led a $15 million financing round for Nof1, an AI research lab focused on financial markets. The two previously also partnered with TwinPath Ventures to invest in Recursive Superintelligence, a self-evolving AI startup valued at over $4 billion.Both investments are based on the same core judgment: autonomous AI agents will become the core infrastructure of the investment field in the future, and companies that establish training environments today may dominate the future financial landscape.

General Tensor announced the completion of its acquisition of Backprop Finance, a subsidiary of Tensorplex Labs, which is one of the largest decentralized trading platforms by trading volume in the Bittensor ecosystem. After the transaction is completed, General Tensor will cover about one-third of the trading volume on the Bittensor network.Previously, General Tensor had raised a total of $5 million through Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, with investors including Digital Currency Group (DCG), Lvna Capital, and Good Morning Holdings, which is led by Lok Lee and supported by Goldman Sachs. Backprop Finance currently mainly serves the trading of Bittensor Dynamic TAO (dTAO) subnet Alpha tokens, providing token exchange and subnet screening.

According to Decrypt, Dapper Labs announced that its digital collectibles platform NFL All Day, in collaboration with the NFL, will stop issuing new NFTs, but existing collectibles can still be bought and sold on the market. Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou stated that the company has signed a new licensing agreement with the NFL and will announce details as the next season approaches. As part of the adjustments, the platform will offer collectors a "Founding Collector" label and launch a 5% Dapper balance rebate, but the purchased items must be held for one year before they can be released.After the announcement, trading volume on the NFL All Day market surged, exceeding $53,000 on Thursday, with the number of sellers jumping from fewer than 100 last week to over 400 on Thursday. Some collectors complained that their bids were still accepted after the announcement, leading to the purchase of NFTs that significantly decreased in value. Dapper Labs stated that it is working to advance the next phase of NFL digital collectibles development.

On-chain detective ZachXBT has released a lengthy article exposing the LAB project and its founder (@vsadkovv), accusing the LAB token's circulation and distribution of being very opaque.ZachXBT stated that Coingecko, RootData, and CMC all reported different circulation figures for LAB, and the official team has not clearly disclosed the token distribution. There is a significant overlap between investors and trading platforms, and most critically: insiders likely control over 95% of the tokens, leaving retail investors completely unaware of the true circulation situation.Additionally, the LAB team unilaterally changed the public sale lock-up period from 3 months to 9 months, while also defaulting on marketing fees, providing special treatment to KOLs and whales, and requiring them to post promotional content. The founder has mixed project funds with personal accounts, with a large amount of funds going directly into trading platform recharge addresses. Insiders can sell off tokens without retail investors being aware at all. ZachXBT calls for trading platforms to conduct a thorough investigation and delist or freeze the related funds.

On-chain detective ZachXBT has released a lengthy article exposing the LAB project and its founder (@vsadkovv). The LAB token has surged to a $6 billion FDV, but the situation is very opaque.The team was founded by Vova Sadkov and Mark, whose previous Eesee project left many investors dissatisfied. Currently, the circulation data for LAB is chaotic, with Coingecko, RootData, and CMC reporting different circulation figures. The official team has not clearly disclosed the token distribution, and there is a significant overlap between investors and trading platforms. Most critically, insiders likely control over 95% of the tokens, leaving retail investors completely unaware of the true circulation situation.Additionally, the LAB team unilaterally changed the public sale lock-up period from 3 months to 9 months, while also defaulting on marketing fees, providing special treatment to KOLs and whales, and requiring them to post promotional content. The founder has mixed project funds with personal accounts, with large amounts of money directly entering the trading platform's recharge address. Insiders can sell off tokens without retail investors being aware.On-chain data shows that insiders recently withdrew over 100 million LAB from trading platforms, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, using tactics similar to those seen in previously manipulated projects. ZachXBT calls for trading platforms to conduct a thorough investigation and delist or freeze related funds. Furthermore, ZachXBT specifically states: this is not a short-selling recommendation. With such high supply control, short-selling instead becomes fuel.

According to the official announcement, Binance will launch Gensyn (AIGENSYN) on May 14, 2026, at 21:00 (UTC+8) and open the following spot trading pairs: AIGENSYN/USDT, AIGENSYN/USDC, AIGENSYN/TRY.

In the early morning of May 14 (UTC+8), in the final of the 2026 Coppa Italia, Inter Milan ultimately defeated Lazio with a score of 2:0, successfully lifting the championship trophy. As the official sleeve sponsor of Inter Milan Football Club, Gate was deeply involved in this peak event. During the final, Gate Europe CEO Giovanni Cunti was invited to attend the sponsor partner luncheon hosted by the club and watched the match from the box, witnessing the team's moment of glory alongside Inter Milan legends Esteban Cambiasso, Fabio Galante, and Francesco Toldo. This victory not only marks another important milestone in the deepening strategic cooperation between Gate and Inter Milan but also injects strong brand momentum into Gate's internationalization process.In addition, with Inter Milan winning the championship again this season, Gate will hold the "Gate x Inter XIII: Champion's Circle" offline reception in Milan on May 21. During the event, guests will visit Inter Milan's headquarters and engage in interactive exchanges with Inter legend Fabio Galante and executives. Leveraging the global attention of top international sporting events, Gate is continuously deepening the integration of Web3 with mainstream culture and strengthening its brand recognition and influence in the European and global markets.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve official Kashkari stated that the impact of Iran has disrupted the current inflation environment, while also noting that the labor market seems to remain stable.

Legendary Labs and Jinlian Capital Foundation today announced the official strategic merger. Both parties will integrate resources and technological advantages to jointly promote the globalization of Legendary Space and the upgraded development of the Web3 prediction ecosystem (PredictFi).It is reported that Legendary Space has currently obtained digital lottery and online gaming operation licenses from 7 countries in Central America, including the blockchain online digital lottery license in El Salvador. The project is currently preparing to launch a decentralized prediction game for the World Cup, relying on the underlying technology of the FAB ecosystem. The officials stated that in the future, both parties will continue to explore fields such as AI integration and multi-chain interoperability.

YZi Labs announced the 25 graduation projects of its flagship incubation project EASY Residency for the third season, focusing on areas such as on-chain financial market structure reconstruction, AI agents, tokenization of real-world assets, prediction markets, and privacy compliance. The 25 projects include:Identity and payment infrastructure for AI agents on the BNB chain Bank of AI, litigation workflow legal evidence indexing tool Brief Tech, AI probability output verifiable reasoning platform Cournot, financialized social network and trading platform Dapital, programmable token issuance infrastructure Flap;On-chain marketplace for collectibles and intellectual property assets GEMINT, on-chain options and structured products platform LayerV, CEX-level on-chain liquidity platform LunarBase, multi-market agent capital acquisition platform L7, DeFi unified margin layer Möbius, permissionless margin trading protocol Nemesis;AI agent-driven automated financial decision execution layer Newsliquid, tokenized private market exposure DeFi platform Openstocks, on-chain poker skill game options market PokerFi, prediction market automation and intelligence infrastructure Polysights, physical collectibles RWA liquidity infrastructure Renaiss;Fixed-rate decentralized lending platform TermMax, compliance-oriented digital asset privacy infrastructure 0xBow, AI agent workflow self-custody authorization layer Functor, interest-free stablecoin new bank for the Muslim market Isaac, on-chain prime brokerage platform for the BNB chain MARGIN X;Frictionless stablecoin exchange N-dimensional AMM Orbswap, compliance-oriented cross-chain privacy exchange protocol SilentSwap, crypto market AI agent trading and automation infrastructure Taco AI, on-chain event-driven derivatives platform Vibe.fun.

According to Decrypt, Kraken's parent company Payward has announced a strategic partnership with asset management giant Franklin Templeton to bring some traditional financial products (including tokenized stocks and yield products) to the blockchain network. The two parties will integrate Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund BENJI into the Kraken platform as collateral and cash management tools for institutional clients.Payward's xStocks framework (which has processed over $30 billion in transaction volume since its launch last year) will collaborate with Franklin Templeton to explore new on-chain actively managed products, making its investment strategies available to institutions and some retail investors in specific jurisdictions. Franklin Templeton has also recently advanced its crypto business division, Franklin Crypto, by acquiring the crypto investment firm 250 Digital.

According to The Defiant, BlackRock has submitted a new tokenized fund filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and has once again chosen Securitize to provide infrastructure support. Previously, the first tokenized fund BUIDL launched in collaboration with Securitize was successfully issued in 2024, and its asset size has now reached approximately $2.3 billion.

Slow Fog issued a security warning stating that Aurellion was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately 455,003 USDC (about $455,000).Analysis pointed out that the root of the vulnerability lies in the lack of effective protection in the initialize(address) function of the SafeOwnable Facet. Since the Diamond contract did not go through the initialize path when setting the owner, the _initialized version slot was not updated correctly, allowing the attacker to reinitialize the contract and override owner permissions.Subsequently, the attacker called diamondCut to inject a malicious Facet and transferred the USDC assets of authorized users through the malicious pullERC20 function, ultimately completing the theft of funds.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, in the past 10 hours, 100 million LAB have been withdrawn from Bitget to 10 trading addresses, with a total value of 514 million dollars. This withdrawal amount accounts for 32% of LAB's circulating supply.The method of this withdrawal and the source of Gas are highly consistent with the previous large-scale withdrawal behavior of RAVE, suggesting that LAB and RAVE are operated by the same team.

According to Decrypt, MoonPay has acquired the AI trading startup Dawn Labs and launched the AI trading assistant Dawn CLI for prediction markets. This product allows users to generate and execute automated cryptocurrency trading strategies through natural language commands, with the first phase integrating with Polymarket.MoonPay stated that Dawn CLI can integrate the "strategy description --- code generation --- trade execution" process into a single interface, lowering the barriers to quantitative and automated trading. Neeraj Prasad, founder of Dawn Labs and Chief Engineer at MoonPay Labs, said that users do not need to have a development or quantitative background; they only need to describe the strategy in natural language, and the system will automatically complete the execution.MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright stated that the AI Agent will be able to autonomously develop and execute complex trading strategies, which is an important part of MoonPay's next phase of AI financial infrastructure layout. Previously, MoonPay had launched the AI Agent stablecoin payment card, an open-source AI wallet standard, and acquired the cryptocurrency key management company Sodot.

According to the official announcement, Gate Live has officially launched the "Live Lottery Carnival Phase 21" event. Users can accumulate heat value by watching live broadcasts, participating in comments and interactions, and sharing the live broadcast. 80 heat values can be exchanged for 1 lottery chance.This phase's prize pool has added rewards such as DJI action cameras, 10 GT, position experience vouchers, transaction fee cashback vouchers, and lucky bags. The event prize pool has been replenished, and users can now go to Gate Live to participate in interactions and unlock lottery qualifications.

Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, posted on the X platform that confidential transactions will be launched on the Sui network this year, enabling large-scale, free, and privacy-protected payments.

According to on-chain analysts, an Amber Group associated address (0xDDb26...E7E3d) withdrew 340,000 LAB from the Binance wallet, worth 1.74 million dollars, and then deposited it into Gate.LAB has risen 611% since May, currently priced at 4.74 dollars, recovering the decline after the Zach bounty investigation.