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The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI today released its latest research paper "PoQ-Judge," proposing a multi-architecture quality assessment framework that does not require reference answers. This means that in real deployment environments, there are often no standard answers for comparison, yet the protocol can still reliably score the quality of model responses and allocate incentives accordingly. This is a key piece that has long been missing in DGrid's decentralized LLM inference quality assessment system.PoQ (Proof of Quality) is a consensus mechanism independently developed by DGrid, designed to prevent model providers from deploying low-quality models, fabricating data, or hiding computational costs at the protocol level, thereby ensuring service quality and pricing transparency. The DGrid team has been continuously working on PoQ and has published four research papers to date. The newly released PoQ-Judge has trained three assessment models covering different quality and cost scenarios, achieving a correlation of up to 0.747 with human scoring on the retention test set, significantly outperforming all previous reference answer-based evaluators, while reducing assessment costs by over 72% through cascading evaluation and online weight calibration.With the implementation of PoQ-Judge, the entire process from quality assessment → scoring → incentive allocation has completely eliminated reliance on reference answers, thus establishing a closed loop for the quality of decentralized LLM inference.DGrid AI is a decentralized AI intelligent network dedicated to building an open, transparent, and community-driven AI infrastructure. Focusing on model invocation and application experience, DGrid has launched several core products: the AI Gateway that aggregates mainstream large models globally, the one-click deployment platform for AI agents DClaw, the anonymous model competition platform AI Arena, and the intelligent model recommendation assistant Dori, providing one-stop services for developers and users. It is reported that DGrid AI's revenue has surpassed 20 million dollars in six months.

According to The Block, New York Supreme Court Judge Kathy J. King signed an order to suspend the litigation seeking to claim ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets, with a hearing scheduled for July 14 on a key amicus brief.The plaintiffs in the case are known as "Noah Doe" and two shell companies, seeking to claim these wallets under New York State's lost property law. Attorney Ian R. Cohen submitted an amicus brief opposing the plaintiffs' claims. He argues that the lost property law pertains to tangible items, while blockchain addresses are always visible to the world; if the original owner cannot access their assets due to a security breach, it constitutes a passive loss of access rather than a voluntary relinquishment.Cohen emphasized that the plaintiffs do not have the private keys, and the blockchain network "structurally disregards" judicial rulings; the court's declaration cannot truly transfer ownership of the assets and may instead be used by the plaintiffs to mislead exchanges and custodians.Previously, on May 26, it was reported that a U.S. man and two companies filed a lawsuit seeking ownership of over 39,000 dormant Bitcoin addresses.

U.S. Judge Margaret M. Garnett in New York postponed the ruling on Aave's emergency application on Wednesday, which aims to unfreeze $71 million in ETH related to the Kelp DAO hacking incident, and requested both parties to submit supplemental briefs before the hearing on June 5. Aave is attempting to reclaim the $71 million in ETH frozen on Arbitrum to assist in the asset recovery efforts from this hacking incident—Kelp DAO suffered losses of up to $293 million from the hack, making it one of the most severe security incidents in the DeFi space this year.However, the U.S. law firm Gerstein Harrow LLP submitted a restraining order to the court in early May, claiming that its client has rights to the aforementioned funds. Aave then filed an emergency motion to lift the freeze, warning that if the funds are not released in a timely manner, it could lead to user liquidations and potentially impact the entire DeFi market. Judge Garnett noted in her ruling that Aave failed to adequately explain how user funds would incur "compound losses" if the restraining order remained in place. She also acknowledged the complexity of the case, the risks faced by the victims, and requested both parties to provide supplemental statements on six key issues, including: whether the hacking transaction is subject to New York state sanctuary principles, the legal distinctions between fraud and theft and what rights the hacker has over the stolen assets, which laws apply to determine the priority of claims for frozen assets, whether constructive trusts are an appropriate remedy, and whether Aave or Arbitrum can identify individual victims and proportionally return assets. Both parties must submit supplemental briefs by May 22.Meanwhile, the overall compensation work for Kelp DAO is progressing. Kelp and Aave announced on Tuesday that the rsETH held by the hacker has been destroyed on Arbitrum, and approximately $278 million in loss tokens will be restored within the next two weeks through the funds of the Aave Recovery Guardian multi-signature wallet. Once the relevant smart contracts are reactivated, all functions of rsETH will return to normal.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied former FTX CEO SBF's request for a rehearing and harshly criticized the so-called new evidence he presented as baseless and "conspiracy-laden." In a court order issued on Tuesday, the judge pointed out that SBF's claims that FTX was actually solvent, that the Department of Justice was concealing information, and that witnesses were afraid to testify due to government threats were completely contradictory to the record.SBF originally accused former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame and former data science chief Daniel Chapsky of not appearing in court out of fear, but the judge emphasized that SBF could have summoned or compelled them to testify but took no action. In November 2023, SBF was found guilty on all seven counts of fraud by a New York jury and was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison. Last week, he voluntarily withdrew his motion for a new trial, stating that he could not obtain a "fair hearing" from Judge Kaplan, but the appeal is still ongoing.The judge also criticized SBF for creating public opinion through interviews, stating that the so-called new facts had already been raised multiple times. SBF had sought a pardon from Trump, but Trump has also made it clear that there are no such plans.

SBF wrote to New York Judge Lewis Kaplan, announcing the temporary withdrawal of the Rule 33 motion for a retrial. SBF stated that he needed to focus on answering the judge's question about whether his lawyers were involved in drafting the motion, and he believed he could not receive a fair hearing before that judge, so he decided to withdraw the motion. He plans to reserve the right to resubmit the motion after a ruling on the direct appeal and the related request for reassignment of the judge.Previously, SBF was sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding clients and investors. In his letter, he confirmed that the motion was primarily completed through his independent legal research and drafting while in Brooklyn prison, with his parents only providing editorial suggestions and assistance with printing.

According to reports from The Paper, the People's Court of Xingqing District in Yinchuan City recently concluded a civil and commercial dispute arising from entrusted investment in virtual currency. In the case, the plaintiff entrusted funds to the defendant for virtual currency investment, and after failing to recover the investment amount, filed a lawsuit in court on the grounds of "unjust enrichment."After reviewing the case, the presiding judge determined that it was indeed a contractual relationship of entrustment and clarified the litigation risks and legal pros and cons to both parties, ultimately facilitating the plaintiff's withdrawal of the lawsuit against some defendants, with another defendant returning the principal investment. The case was successfully resolved through mediation.The judge also reminded that according to the judicial viewpoint of the Supreme People's Court, entrusted investment contracts signed after the central bank and seven other departments issued a risk announcement on virtual currency on September 4, 2017, will be deemed invalid due to illegal agency matters, and investors should carefully assess the relevant legal risks.

According to Cointelegraph, a court in Texas, USA, dismissed a lawsuit filed by crypto developer Michael Lewellen. Lewellen sought a declaratory judgment from the court, stating that his developed software Pharos (used for donating to charitable crowdfunding activities) would not be prosecuted for violating money transmission laws. U.S. Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor dismissed the case on Wednesday, stating that Lewellen failed to demonstrate a credible and imminent threat of prosecution.Lewellen expressed his disappointment on the X platform, saying, "I am disappointed that the court dismissed my lawsuit today." The court's dismissal opinion also referenced a memorandum from the U.S. Department of Justice, which stated that the department would no longer prosecute virtual currency exchanges, mixing services, or offline wallets for actions or inadvertent violations by their end users. Lewellen added, "The non-binding memorandum from the Department of Justice cannot replace true legal certainty."

According to Jinshi News, Michael Pearce, the Chief Economist for the U.S. at Oxford Economics, stated that the market is gradually ruling out the possibility of interest rate cuts in the short term, but this may be a misjudgment. He pointed out that although economic growth is stronger, it has not significantly tightened labor market conditions, which explains why most officials still believe there is a path for interest rate cuts this year. Pearce also mentioned that the market believes this situation leans more towards mild disinflation rather than exacerbating inflation in terms of long-term inflation impact.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that rising energy prices will drive up inflation, and it is still too early to judge the extent.

According to The Block, a federal judge in Alabama has dismissed the lawsuit accusing Binance entities and Binance.US operator BAM Trading Services of funding terrorism, ruling that the plaintiff's complaint does not meet the basic standards for a federal complaint.The district judge noted in the order that the plaintiff's amended complaint is flawed both legally and factually, characterizing it as a typical "shotgun complaint"—mixing multiple defendants and plaintiffs without clearly associating specific allegations with particular parties.The lawsuit was filed by victims and families of the attacks by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, seeking damages under the Anti-Terrorism Act and other laws. The complaint exceeds 100 pages and contains hundreds of allegations but repeatedly groups the defendants together without specifying the particular actions each entity is alleged to have taken. The judge has given the plaintiffs until April 10 to submit a revised complaint and warned that failure to correct the deficiencies would result in the case being dismissed.

The Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Sarah D. Morrison, ruled that there is no historical evidence indicating that Congress intended for federal law to take precedence over state regulation of sports gambling, and thus denied the preliminary injunction request filed by the prediction market platform Kalshi.Kalshi had previously sued the Ohio Casino Control Commission in an attempt to prevent it from taking enforcement action against the platform's event contracts under state gambling laws. Last year, the regulatory agency accused Kalshi of operating illegal sports gambling in Ohio.Kalshi argued that the event contracts it offers are derivatives regulated under the Commodity Exchange Act and should fall under the jurisdiction of the CFTC, thereby asserting that federal regulation should take precedence over state gambling laws.However, the judge stated that there is no evidence from historical and legislative context to suggest that Congress intended for the law to supersede state sports gambling regulations, noting that when the Dodd-Frank Act amended relevant laws in 2010, sports gambling was still widely restricted in the U.S.Kalshi announced that it would appeal the ruling. The case is seen as an important test of the legal status of prediction markets, and its outcome could affect the future compliance prospects of other prediction platforms in the U.S., including Polymarket.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett posted on the X platform, stating that a review of the trial case of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm revealed that Judge Failla used a self-driving car analogy in the lawsuit against Uniswap by user Nessa Risle, and seemed to show more sympathy towards the developers behind Uniswap, while being stricter with the developers of Tornado Cash.According to related materials shared by Eleanor Terrett, the judge's viewpoint was that holding software developers responsible for the misuse of neutral infrastructure by strangers would be illogical, considering Uniswap as "neutral infrastructure," while Tornado Cash was deemed to have "engaged in illegal financial activities" (continuing operations despite knowing it was being used for money laundering). This statement indicates that U.S. courts may reference whether developers are merely providing neutral tools rather than participating in illegal activities when determining liability related to decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure in the future.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan previously dismissed a civil lawsuit that sought to hold Binance and its founder CZ accountable, alleging that their trading activities aided terrorist organizations in carrying out global attacks. However, according to the ruling, the judge allowed the plaintiffs to submit an amended complaint within 60 days, supplementing more specific evidence of on-chain transactions and account associations.The plaintiffs had previously failed to demonstrate a direct connection between Binance's trading activities and specific attacks, such as key evidence regarding the flow of funds, wallet ownership, or transaction timing. The judge also criticized the plaintiffs' 891-page complaint as "clearly overly lengthy," thus failing to meet the relevant liability standards under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

According to documents from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, a federal judge in New York has approved the plaintiffs' motion for class certification in the market manipulation lawsuit against Tether and Bitfinex, and has divided the case into two groups of plaintiffs: spot investors and futures traders. It is reported that the case accuses Tether and Bitfinex of manipulating cryptocurrency market prices by issuing USDT from 2017 to 2019, resulting in losses of up to hundreds of billions of dollars for investors who purchased BTC and ETH.

A U.S. federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFills, temporarily freezing its disputed assets. Dominion Capital filed a lawsuit on February 27, accusing BlockFills of misappropriating and unlawfully retaining customer crypto assets worth millions of dollars, commingling customer assets, concealing significant losses, and refusing to return funds after suspending withdrawals on the BlockFills platform in February. The frozen amount is 70.6 BTC, and it has prevented BlockFills from transferring assets overseas.The cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFills has been struggling, reporting a loss of $75 million, and suspended user deposits and withdrawals on February 11. The company, headquartered in Chicago, serves approximately 2,000 institutional clients, with a trading volume reaching $60 billion by 2025, and is currently seeking a buyer.

According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter in Manhattan dismissed Binance's request, rejecting the demand to resolve claims from customers who accused the trading platform of illegally selling unregistered tokens and causing significant losses through arbitration.Judge Andrew Carter of the Manhattan U.S. District Court stated that customers could file lawsuits in court for claims arising up to February 20, 2019, because Binance failed to adequately notify users that it had modified its terms of use, requiring disputes to be resolved through arbitration and waiving the right to sue collectively.A Binance spokesperson, in response to Judge Carter's ruling, stated, "Binance will vigorously defend the remaining limited claims in this case, which are baseless." Customers who suffered losses due to the seven tokens ELF, EOS, FUN, ICX, OMG, QSP, and TRX accused Binance of failing to warn about the "significant risks" associated with purchases as required by federal and state securities laws, and are seeking to recover the amounts paid.

According to DL News, the founding team of Uniswap Labs won a patent infringement lawsuit this week. The case against its decentralized exchange (DEX) was brought by the founders of Bancor, but New York District Judge John Koeltl ruled on Tuesday to dismiss the lawsuit, stating that the plaintiff failed to present a reasonable request for relief. The case involves the code used in Uniswap's original protocol from 2018.Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin Ltd. accused the code of belonging to Bancor's patented infrastructure, claiming that Uniswap Labs "profited significantly" without permission. Uniswap's Assistant General Counsel Jolie Yang stated, "This victory is significant for the DeFi community, protecting developers to innovate and improve existing concepts without the worry of patent trolls." The ruling noted that Bancor's patent claims abstract concepts like currency exchange, which are not protected under U.S. patent law. The mechanism (CPAMM) was initially proposed by Bancor in 2017, promoted by Uniswap in 2018, and became a mainstream design for early DEXs; Bancor had previously open-sourced the CPAMM code.

French police have arrested six suspects in connection with the kidnapping of a judge and her mother. According to Agence France-Presse, the 35-year-old judge and her 67-year-old mother were kidnapped overnight from Wednesday to Thursday last week and were later found injured and trapped in a garage in the Drôme region.Prosecutor Thierry Dran stated that the kidnappers sent photos and messages to the judge's partner, threatening to maim the victims if the ransom in cryptocurrency was not paid. The victims ultimately escaped with the intervention of a neighbor, without any ransom being paid. CertiK reported that such cryptocurrency ransomware attacks are evolving into organized crime, with 72 cases globally in 2025, resulting in total losses of $41 million. Currently, six suspects have been detained, including a minor, and the case is still under further investigation.

According to Bloomberg, a judge in Delaware has ruled that a shareholder lawsuit against several directors of Coinbase Global Inc., including venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, can proceed, despite an internal investigation that cleared the defendants of wrongdoing.A shareholder of the cryptocurrency platform filed the lawsuit in 2023, claiming that the directors, including CEO Brian Armstrong, used confidential information to sell more than $2.9 billion in stock during the company's 2021 IPO, thereby avoiding losses of over $1 billion. According to the shareholder's complaint, Brian Armstrong, who has served as CEO since Coinbase's founding in 2012, sold $291.8 million worth of stock.