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TRONSCAN's latest data shows that the total number of transactions on the TRON network has reached 14,001,026,800, officially surpassing the 14 billion mark. It is reported that the total number of transactions refers to the cumulative number of all transactions on the TRON network.As a major global payment network and blockchain infrastructure, TRON has a large user base, with on-chain transaction activity continuously rising and user demand steadily increasing. Currently, the total number of TRON accounts has reached 381 million, and the total value locked (TVL) exceeds 28.9 billion USD. In addition, the issuance of TRC20-USDT has recently hit new highs, increasing to 89.3 billion coins, with a cumulative increase of 8 billion coins this year.

Strategy's preferred stock STRC recorded a record trading volume on Thursday, with a transaction amount reaching $1.53 billion, more than quadrupling the average over the past 30 days. Reports indicate that this peak in trading mainly occurred on the eve of the ex-dividend date, with a large number of trades priced at or above the $100 par value level. STRC currently offers an annualized cash dividend of approximately 11.5%, paid monthly.The high trading volume propelled Strategy to complete a new round of Bitcoin accumulation through its ATM (at-the-market) financing mechanism, purchasing approximately 11,707 BTC, allowing the company to continue expanding its position as the largest publicly traded Bitcoin holder in the world. Market data shows that STRC slightly retreated by about 1% in pre-market trading after entering ex-dividend trading, approaching the trading range just below $100, consistent with the usual price adjustment pattern for dividend-paying assets after the ex-dividend date. During the same period, the price of Bitcoin slightly weakened to around $80,500, and Strategy's common stock also fell by about 2%, reflecting the continued significant correlation between cryptocurrency assets and the company's stock price.

The TAC team announced that its cross-chain layer's TON side was exploited by external attackers, resulting in a loss of approximately $2.8 million, involving USDT, BLUM, and tsTON. TAC, TON, and all ERC-20 tokens bridged from Ethereum are unaffected. The bridging service remains suspended, and forensic analysis and repair work are ongoing. A complete report with more details will be released within the next 48 hours.The team is actively collaborating with law enforcement, SEAL 911, and security partners to track and freeze the stolen funds. The team stated that its core focus is to sell the foundation's TAC token reserves in a legally structured manner to compensate for user losses and fully restore bridging liquidity. Official channels will continue to update progress.

According to a notice from Transit Finance, a security incident recently occurred in the project due to historical vulnerabilities in an old version of the smart contract deployed on TRON, which was deprecated in 2022, affecting a small number of users after being exploited.The team stated that after discovering the issue, they urgently completed investigation, isolation, and repair, and on May 12, further auditing and rectification were carried out. The currently used contract version has not been affected, has been running safely for over four years, and continues to undergo security audits and monitoring.Transit stated that affected users will receive full compensation, and specific plans will be announced through official channels. They also reminded users to be wary of counterfeit official messages and not to disclose private keys or mnemonic phrases.

According to SolanaFloor, the P-Token upgrade for Solana has now been launched on the mainnet, which can increase transaction efficiency by up to 20 times.After the upgrade, the computational cost of token instructions is reduced by about 96%, and it releases an additional 12% to 13% of block space without changing the block limit.

International oil prices continue to fluctuate at high levels, and market trading enthusiasm continues to rise. According to data from the Gate platform, WTI crude oil (XTIUSDT) reached a maximum of $99.69 in 24 hours, currently reported at $98.33, with a 24-hour increase of about 1.64%; Brent crude oil (XBRUSDT) reached a maximum of $105.58 in 24 hours, currently reported at $103.89, with a 24-hour increase of about 1.18%. Against the backdrop of high oil price fluctuations, the trading demand in the crude oil derivatives market has further been released.According to CoinGlass data, the 24-hour contract transaction volume of WTI crude oil (XTI) on the Gate platform reached $4.1903 million; the 24-hour contract transaction volume of Brent crude oil (XBR) reached $11.1608 million, both firmly ranking first in the industry. With continuous capital inflow, Gate's liquidity advantage and market influence in the commodity contract sector have further increased.Gate contracts pioneered the commodity contract sector, covering XBRUSDT (Brent crude oil), XTIUSDT (WTI crude oil), BZ (Brent crude oil), CL (WTI crude oil), and NG (natural gas) perpetual contract trading, providing 24/7 trading, USDT settlement, and up to 100 times leverage, assisting users in cross-market asset allocation and strategy layout in volatile markets.

The Ethereum Foundation officially launched the Clear Signing open standard on Tuesday, aimed at replacing the unreadable hexadecimal strings displayed when wallet users sign transactions with human-readable transaction content.This standard is centered around ERC-7730. When a wallet supports this standard, it will read the descriptor file of the contract and reconstruct the raw transaction data into understandable content, such as displaying a Uniswap V3 swap as sending 1,000 USDC and receiving at least 0.42 WETH. ERC-8176 adds an integrity certification layer on top of this, allowing auditors to publish signature certification confirming the accuracy of the descriptors. Participants include hardware wallets (Ledger, Trezor), software wallets (MetaMask, WalletConnect), security companies (Cyfrin), and infrastructure (Fireblocks), among others.Blind signing has been a significant cause of losses in crypto assets. The $1.5 billion vulnerability at Bybit in February 2025 and the approximately $235 million WazirX incident both involved signers approving transactions that did not reflect the true intent. Ledger initiated this project in 2021, formalized it as ERC-7730 in 2024, and transferred governance to the foundation earlier this year to ensure the neutrality of the standard. The ERC-7730 V2, released in April 2026, has expanded its coverage to cross-chain use cases, software wallets, and confidential token primitives.

According to Times Brasil, the decision-making committee of the administrative sanctions procedure under the Central Bank of Brazil imposed a fine of approximately $3.15 million on Banco Topázio and prohibited it from conducting over-the-counter foreign exchange business for virtual asset trading for the next two years.Regulators stated that Banco Topázio had deficiencies in customer qualification review, customer registration, and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing controls while handling approximately $1.7 billion in related business from October 2020 to September 2021, and failed to report unusual transactions to Coaf. Officials from the Central Bank of Brazil indicated that similar restrictions may also apply to other institutions involved in cryptocurrency business in the future.

The working group led by the Ethereum Foundation has released a new open standard called "Clear Signing," aimed at addressing the long-standing issue of "blind signing." This new standard is built on the ERC-7730 specification and aims to promote the "WYSIWYS (What You See Is What You Sign)" concept, allowing users to understand the actual execution content of transactions in a unified, readable, and structured manner before signing. This replaces the current common practice of displaying machine-readable but difficult-to-understand low-level transaction information. By using a unified description format, a registry system, and independent verification and auditing mechanisms, the intent of transactions can be clearly expressed and standardized for presentation on wallets.Clear Signing will not change the on-chain transaction structure but will enhance interpretability through off-chain standardized descriptions, thereby improving security without affecting the compatibility of existing protocols.

According to CoinDesk, billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio stated that Bitcoin's lack of privacy protection, with transactions being monitorable and potentially controllable, is a primary reason why central banks are reluctant to hold Bitcoin. Dalio mentioned that about 1% of his portfolio is allocated to Bitcoin, but he believes that the transparent ledger characteristic of Bitcoin makes it difficult to serve as a reserve asset.Dalio also pointed out that Bitcoin has a 90-day correlation coefficient of 0.89 with the Nasdaq index, and about 79% of its price fluctuations can be explained by the performance of tech stocks, which undermines its function as an independent store of value. Furthermore, the market size of Bitcoin is still relatively small compared to gold and is more susceptible to influence; Dalio believes that gold still plays a more central role in the global system.

CoW DAO announced that its domain registrar was subjected to a social engineering attack on April 14, during which the attacker briefly controlled the official domain for about 4.5 hours and directed users to a phishing website, thereby inducing them to sign malicious transactions. The project team emphasized that the CoW Protocol itself was not compromised, but some user assets were affected during that time window.In response to this incident, the CoW DAO community governance proposal CIP-86 has been approved, establishing a discretionary compensation fund to reimburse affected users for their losses. The official reminder states that eligible users must submit their claims by May 14, including affected wallet addresses, asset information, transaction hashes, and names, and apply via email at help@cow.fi, with the email subject clearly stating "Discretionary Grant Claim for".

According to GlobeNewswire, IREN announced plans to issue $2 billion of convertible senior notes due in 2033, and grant initial purchasers an additional option to purchase up to $300 million. The notes are unsecured senior debt, expected to mature in December 2033, with proceeds partially used for capped call hedging transactions and the remainder for general corporate purposes and working capital.At the same time, IREN also plans to simultaneously unwind part of the capped call hedging positions related to the convertible bonds maturing in 2029 and 2030. The company stated that hedging institutions may engage in derivative and spot trading around IREN stock, which could affect the stock price and the initial conversion price of the new notes.Previously, IREN has become one of the most aggressive companies in the U.S. stock market in expanding AI data center and Bitcoin mining infrastructure, and this large-scale financing may further enhance its capital expenditure and expansion capabilities.

The AI infrastructure platform B.AI has released a history of Credits consumption record optimization and compensation explanation. With the continuous upgrade of the Credits billing system and display dimensions, the platform has recently conducted a comprehensive review of historical consumption records. During this process, it was found that for certain requests made between May 1, 2026, 00:00 and May 3, 2026, 03:00 (SGT), the consumption details displayed on the front end did not fully present all cost components. This was mainly due to the underlying cache-related fees not being displayed on the page, causing users to typically only see input/output token consumption, leading to a misunderstanding of the overall Credits consumption.To address the above issues, the platform has now completed data corrections and realigned with historical records. Additionally, based on more cautious and user-friendly rules, Credits compensation will be automatically issued to affected accounts (valid for 30 days from the date of receipt) without any action required from users. Please pay attention to account balance updates. In the future, B.AI will continue to upgrade the Credits display system to further enhance long-term transparency and user experience.

On May 10, Vitalik Buterin published a research article advocating that cryptocurrency payments need to shift from pseudonymity to default privacy, proposing the use of zero-knowledge proof (ZK) transactions to replace standard transfers, allowing users to prove payment validity without exposing their full balance or transaction history.Vitalik specifically pointed out that in the era of agents, autonomous AI agents need to pay service fees (such as LLM API fees) without leaving traceable footprints. By using recursive SNARKs and ZK APIs for points, Ethereum Layer 2 can handle privacy payments at the same speed and cost as transparent transactions. The proposal also includes selective disclosure and proof of innocence mechanisms, allowing users to provide specific proofs to compliance agencies or tax authorities without disclosing data to the public, in response to anti-money laundering regulatory requirements.Vitalik believes that the public transparency of blockchain is the main obstacle preventing cryptocurrency payments from replacing traditional payments, and the ZK payment standard aims to make privacy a default feature.

According to market news, the Korean National Tax Service is building an AI system costing about $2.2 million to track cryptocurrency transactions and crack down on tax evaders, expected to be completed by the end of 2026.The system will integrate exchange trading records with blockchain data to identify suspicious transactions such as money laundering, unreported gifts, and offshore tax evasion, and will expand its tracking scope to non-custodial wallets. The National Tax Service is coordinating implementation details with five major exchanges, including Upbit and Bithumb, with the final tax guidelines expected to be released by the end of 2026.A survey by the Financial Services Commission of South Korea shows that the country has verified over 11 million cryptocurrency investors, but the growth rate has significantly slowed, with the growth rate of tradable accounts dropping from 25% in the first half of 2024 to 3% in the second half. The South Korean government has confirmed that it will impose a 22% tax on cryptocurrency asset gains starting January 1, 2027, with taxes due on the portion of annual gains exceeding approximately $1,800. This tax has been postponed twice from its original schedule in 2025.

Syndicate stated on platform X that regarding the latest developments of the Syndicate bridge security incident, all affected SYND holders on the Commons Chain have received full compensation, along with an additional 15% of the total losses as compensation.The relevant amounts have been directly sent to the affected users' Base chain wallets, with the Gas fees covered by Syndicate Labs. The total compensation amounts to 12.901 million SYND, and no action is required through any claim page.

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.

Polymarket announced the latest progress on feature updates, including the launch of measures to mitigate latency spam to ensure order placement and cancellation operations, fixing the "insufficient balance/authorization" error, and another core issue affecting limit buy orders is expected to be resolved in the coming days.In addition, Polymarket stated that it has identified and banned multiple clusters of ghost-fill accounts, all of which were created before the deposit wallet system went live. Any account exhibiting ghost-fill behavior will be identified and banned, and the deposit wallet system will also prevent non-compliant accounts from continuing to create new accounts in bulk. More updates will be released in the coming week to address previously outstanding issues.

Base's official tweet stated that in the first quarter of this year, the total payment amount of the x402 protocol has exceeded 100 million dollars. Among them, over 90% of the total transactions using stablecoins by on-chain AI agents occurred on the Base network.

Wasabi Protocol released a security incident update, stating that attackers exploited a configuration vulnerability in the Spring Boot Actuator within its AWS infrastructure to steal the private keys controlling EVM smart contracts, resulting in the theft of approximately $4.8 million in user funds and $900,000 in protocol treasury funds, with total losses amounting to about $5.7 million.The attack chain began with a public server used for analysis, whose Actuator heap dump was not properly password protected, allowing attackers to obtain credentials for another server and ultimately gain control of the smart contract private keys. This incident only affected EVM deployments, including certain treasuries on Ethereum, Base, Blast, and Berachain, while Solana deployments and Prop AMM were not affected.There has not yet been a final update on the user compensation plan, but "ensuring all affected users are compensated" remains the team's top priority, and updates on the investigation progress will be released in the Discord community in the future.