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According to Cointelegraph, a study based on 857,000 active users of Polymarket shows that about 60% of users who placed their first bets during the World Cup had never interacted with blockchain protocols before.Alvin Kan, Chief Operating Officer of Bitget Wallet, stated that prediction markets have changed the traditional logic for crypto users to get involved—users no longer need to understand blockchain technology first, but can participate directly because they have opinions on real-world events. This has made prediction markets a new entry point for some users into the crypto space.Data shows that the trading volume of Polymarket's World Cup champion contracts has exceeded $3.1 billion, with sports contracts contributing over $4.9 billion in trading volume to Polymarket in the past 30 days, and reaching $8.5 billion on Kalshi, becoming the main trading category on both platforms.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog, 23pds, stated that researchers have exposed a high-risk vulnerability in CI/CD called Cordyceps, affecting the open-source repositories of major companies such as Microsoft, Google, Apache, and Cloudflare. Attackers do not need corporate accounts or any system permissions; they can simply register a free GitHub account, submit a malicious PR, and leave a comment to forge approvals, steal server keys, and push malicious code, completely taking control of the corporate code repository.

According to CoinPost, Japan's national corporate pension fund plans to start investing in cryptocurrencies in the fiscal year 2026, with an allocation ratio of about 1% of its total operating assets (approximately 21.3 billion yen).The report states that the asset allocation ratio for the fiscal year 2025 is: 80% in yen, 15% in US dollars, and 5% in other currencies. However, in the fiscal year 2026, the yen allocation ratio will decrease to 70%, and a new 10% allocation will be made for currencies from developed countries. The remaining 5% will consist of emerging market currencies, gold, and cryptocurrencies.The main purpose is to diversify currency risk. The fund's executive director, Ai Yuki, stated that due to the potential weakening of the US dollar as a benchmark currency, they decided not to increase their holdings in US dollars and instead use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin as a hedge against currency depreciation, as Bitcoin has a lower correlation with the US dollar index.After approximately six years of investigation, the fund has determined that the cryptocurrency market has matured as the investor base has expanded. In the future, the fund will continue to explore the possibility of expanding cryptocurrency investments, including funds for arbitrage trading of various cryptocurrencies.

According to an analysis of the latest leaked data by WIRED, the secretive society Dialog, co-founded by Peter Thiel, has an extremely ruthless and biased "grading and elimination" mechanism.Dialog implements a secret rule of "rating upon entry." Although the club has thousands of members, only 192 personal profiles (including 130 formal members and some candidates) were leaked and reviewed by WIRED. They reveal the club's counterintuitive hierarchy of disdain: C-level is the highest VIP, B-level is the overwhelming majority of ordinary members, while the A-level, usually regarded as the best, is actually the least known bottom tier.This rating is directly tied to members' wallets. Only about 25% of VIP "C" level big shots are required to pay the full attendance fee, while among the bottom "A" level members, the proportion paying the full attendance fee of tens of thousands of dollars is as high as 70%.Ironically, the AI screening mechanism introduced by Dialog is extremely superstitious about so-called "national recognition." For example, actor Josh Brolin, who played "Thanos," has never attended but wins VIP "C" level status due to box office success and millions of fans; meanwhile, academic giant Tyler Cowen was deemed "not famous enough among ordinary people" by the AI and nearly classified into the ordinary tier, only barely promoted to C-level through human intervention.The "value-added points" serve as a scythe for eliminating "useless people," specifically measuring members' resource connections and intellectual contributions to other club giants. After each gathering, staff review members' performances like "code review," and those with too low value-added points, cultural mismatches, or declining visibility will be ruthlessly removed from the invitation list.Additionally, the leaked database also exposed its built-in social and dating matching system (10% of members join the singles pool), which has a "no-match list" while recommending pairings.This so-called objective assessment system is also filled with biases: women make up one-third of the members but only receive 18% of VIP seats; politically, it is even harder to escape differential treatment. Although more than half of the members identify as "left-leaning," the probability of "right-leaning" members obtaining VIP status is more than twice that of left-leaning members, and even the "left-leaning" label of an environmental leader was forcibly rewritten to "right-leaning" by staff in the background.

As India's tax enforcement intensifies, cryptocurrency investors face stricter reporting and compliance requirements in the 2026 tax season, with incorrect declarations potentially triggering fines and audits. Reports indicate that under current rules, cryptocurrency gains are still subject to a 30% uniform capital gains tax, and a 1% Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) is levied on transactions exceeding a certain amount, while losses cannot be offset across assets. The new Income Tax Act (2025) came into effect on April 1, 2026, but the core tax framework remains largely unchanged.In terms of reporting, investors must fill out a dedicated Schedule VDA section in the ITR-2 or ITR-3 forms and are required to record each transaction individually, including all operations such as trading, exchanging, transferring, and clearing, rather than just summarizing gains. The report emphasizes that regulatory focus has clearly escalated. The Indian tax authorities will directly obtain user-level transaction data through trading platforms, custodians, and wallet service providers, and will automatically cross-check this with reported information; discrepancies will trigger system flags and audits.Data shows that the Indian tax authorities have issued over 44,000 notices and discovered approximately 88.8 billion rupees (about 930 million USD) in unreported virtual asset income. Meanwhile, the tax department is enhancing its tracking capabilities by combining on-chain analysis tools with international data-sharing mechanisms. Additionally, starting in 2027, India will align with the OECD cryptocurrency reporting framework to achieve automatic exchange of cross-border transaction data, and overseas exchange holdings will gradually come under regulatory scrutiny.Analysis points out that common errors include misuse of reporting forms, omission of airdrop and staking income, and failure to correctly match 1% TDS records, among others. The report emphasizes that cryptocurrency tax compliance is shifting from "post-reporting" to "real-time traceability," and investors need to strengthen year-round record management.

Glassnode data shows that the 30-day moving average of BTC treasury company's total trading volume has decreased from $34.2 billion/day in December 2025 to the current $17.4 billion/day, a 49% drop in six months.Glassnode points out that the speculative interest in DAT stocks is highly correlated with BTC prices. As spot prices pull back, interest in gaining leveraged Bitcoin exposure through listed treasury tools has also weakened, and trading activity has halved from its peak.

According to The New York Times, Canadian man Trenton Johnston pleaded guilty in a federal court in Florida, admitting to participating in a money laundering conspiracy involving approximately $13 million, with funds sourced from cryptocurrency fraud. Prosecutor documents show that Johnston, over a two-year period, impersonated representatives of Google and cryptocurrency companies to lure victims into giving up their account access, and conspired with accomplices to transfer and hide illegal proceeds for luxury spending, including luxury cars, jewelry, nightclub expenses, and private jet travel.In March 2024, he was pulled over by police for speeding in a Rolls Royce in Miami, where there was a suspected smell of marijuana and illegal drugs in the vehicle, leading to a subsequent investigation that uncovered his long-term involvement in cryptocurrency fraud. The case also revealed that he had scammed a California resident out of approximately 185 bitcoins (worth about $13 million) using social engineering tactics. Data from the FBI indicates that losses related to cryptocurrency theft exceeded $11 billion in 2025, an increase of about 20% year-on-year. Currently, Johnston, as a first-time offender, has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors and is expected to face a prison sentence of 4 to 5 years, after which he will be deported to Canada.

GoPlus posted on platform X that the Meta account recovery feature has been exposed to a high-risk design flaw, which could directly leak users' phone numbers, email addresses, and PII (Personally Identifiable Information). Attackers only need to input the META username without any login or verification to directly obtain the complete PII linked to the user, such as email addresses and phone numbers. This could pose significant risks to users, including: large-scale phishing attacks, SIM card swapping attacks, account takeover and identity theft, and targeted social engineering attacks.Recommendations: Remove or change the leaked email/phone number as a recovery method; modify related account passwords and enable 2FA; do not click on any emails or messages related to "account anomalies," "verification," or "password reset"; set up multi-channel verification, which can be verified through official documents or other official social media channels.

According to Cointelegraph, CoinShares analyzed quarterly 13F filings and found that professional investors reduced their Bitcoin ETF exposure from 313,000 BTC to 261,000 BTC in the first quarter, a decrease of 52,000 BTC, or 17%. The total value of these holdings fell by 35% to $17.8 billion, while the share of U.S. Bitcoin ETF assets held by 13F filers dropped from 24.7% to 20.8%.The sell-off was mainly concentrated among hedge funds and brokerages, which accounted for about 96% of the total reduction. Hedge funds reduced their holdings by 31,400 BTC (a decrease of 39%), while brokerages cut their holdings by 18,800 BTC (a decrease of 53%). In contrast, the largest category of professional investors—investment advisors (holding 150,300 BTC)—only reduced their holdings by 5.9%. Banks, on the other hand, more than doubled their Bitcoin ETF holdings, increasing by 7,800 BTC during the quarter.CoinShares digital asset analyst Matt Kimmell stated, "This dataset is consistent with the historical performance of the Bitcoin market during downturns, with leverage and strategic positions being cleared."

Coinbase released a retrospective report on the large-scale service interruption event on May 7, 2026.The outage lasted approximately 8 hours, with full recovery taking about 12 hours. During this time, trading, deposits, withdrawals, and most core services were unavailable or severely degraded. Coinbase stated that the outage was caused by multiple cooling units failing simultaneously in the cooling system of a data center in one availability zone (use1-az4) in the AWS us-east-1 region, triggering cabinet thermal protection shutdowns, which led to EC2 instances and EBS volumes going offline, affecting multiple internet services.During the recovery process, the Coinbase trading matching engine lost quorum due to the cluster architecture deployed in a single AWS data center losing most nodes. It required urgent code adjustments and the reconstruction of a new node group to restore operation, gradually restarting market trading during the recovery.Additionally, the AWS-managed Kafka (MSK) service experienced control plane failures, preventing the automatic re-election of partition leaders, further blocking quotes, fees, and some settlement and data flow systems, which expanded the overall impact.After manual partition migration in collaboration with the AWS engineering team, the system gradually returned to normal. Coinbase stated that this incident exposed its shortcomings in cross-availability zone automatic switching capabilities and disaster recovery for managed middleware. The company will upgrade its cross-region hot backup architecture, strengthen regular failure drills, and migrate the Kafka system from dual availability zones to a three availability zone deployment, while also working with AWS to advance root cause fixes and improvements.

The Huobi HTX VIP private class "AI + Trading from Theory to Practice" was held in Shanghai, where early Bitcoin miner and pyra.io CTO Tian Jia shared the development of quantum computing and the impact of AI on trading.He believes that the average time it takes to threaten "Bitcoin addresses with exposed public keys" is 7 to 8 years, with a range of 5 to 15 years. The required number of logical qubits is between 1200 and 2400, while the number of physical qubits is less than 500,000. Additionally, Bitcoin also has defensive measures; it can migrate to PQC, or post-quantum cryptography, although there are significant challenges, such as the locking issue of Satoshi's coin.

According to Cointelegraph, the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF has seen a net outflow of funds for 9 consecutive trading days, totaling approximately $2.84 billion, setting the longest consecutive decline record since the product's launch in 2024, and surpassing the consecutive outflow record from February 8, 2025. Among them, BlackRock's IBIT has become a major source of outflows.Analysis indicates that this round of capital outflow reflects a significant cooling of institutional demand for Bitcoin ETF exposure, while the market shows a trend of differentiation: ETFs related to Hyperliquid and some XRP spot ETFs still recorded inflows, while Ethereum spot ETFs have faced outflows for 13 consecutive days, with a total outflow of approximately $694 million, indicating that capital in crypto asset ETFs is being reallocated.

According to The Block, Sharplink and Forward Industries, which adopt a cryptocurrency asset reserve strategy, will be included in the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indices after the FTSE Russell annual adjustment, effective at the opening of the U.S. stock market on June 29. This means that index investors will be able to gain indirect exposure to ETH and SOL through the two companies.Reports indicate that Sharplink currently holds 868,699 ETH, valued at nearly $1.8 billion; Forward Industries holds approximately $585 million in SOL. Previous data from FTSE Russell showed that about $12.2 trillion in assets are benchmarked to the Russell U.S. indices.

Michael Saylor stated that currently about 100 million people have exposure to BTC through MSTR common stock, and he indicated that the Strategy has become the largest stock issuer in the United States.

According to TechCrunch, Trump Mobile has been reported to have a user data breach involving personal information such as customer email addresses and mailing addresses, which is still accessible online.YouTube creators Coffeezilla and penguinz0 stated that after ordering the Trump Gold T1 phone, they received alerts from security researchers indicating that their personal information had appeared in the leaked data set. Coffeezilla mentioned that the leaked content almost covered all basic identity information, with the exception of credit card numbers, and warned users not to place orders on the platform. The two indicated that the leaked data likely originated from publicly accessible systems, and they have not yet received an official response or fix from Trump Mobile, leaving the issues unresolved.Based on the order numbers in the leaked data, the actual number of reservations is estimated to be around 30,000 units, far below the previously expected pre-sale scale of about 590,000. Analysts believe that this incident further raises doubts about Trump Mobile's product delivery and basic security capabilities.

According to Cointelegraph, Italy's largest bank, UniCredit, has just disclosed that it increased its cryptocurrency exposure to $231 million in the first quarter.

Italy's largest bank Intesa Sanpaolo increased its crypto exposure to approximately $235 million in the first quarter.