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According to an announcement from Pi Network’s official X account, Pi Network co-founder Chengdiao Fan delivered a speech at Consensus 2026 in Miami, USA on May 6 on “Practical Integration of Web3, AI, and Blockchain,” while Kokalys participated on May 7 in a discussion titled “How to Prove You’re Human in an AI World.”

According to Aave’s May 7 announcement, the Arbitrum DAO voting to unlock ETH related to the April 18 rsETH incident has reached the quorum, with over 1,600 addresses, receiving unanimous support from the community. On the same day, Aave, following its established governance procedures, completed the liquidation of the remaining rsETH positions in the Aave protocol held by the attacker of Kelp DAO.

According to a BBC report on May 6, Apple submitted a proposed settlement agreement in a federal court in California on May 5, agreeing to pay $250 million (about £184 million) to settle a class action accusing it of false advertising about Apple Intelligence and Siri AI features; Apple denies any wrongdoing in the agreement, which still requires a judge’s approval.

According to an official statement released by Ondo Finance on May 6 (Wednesday), JPMorgan and Mastercard have completed the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasury funds, using Ripple’s XRP ledger and the interbank settlement system.

HawkEye 360, a Herndon, Virginia-based space analytics company, raised US$416 million in its initial public offering on May 6, valuing the company at approximately US$2.42 billion, according to Reuters. The company's shares are set to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker

According to Bitcoin News on May 7, Germany’s Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil confirmed that Germany’s government is planning to adopt “different” tax policies for Bitcoin and crypto assets, with the direction possibly being to scrap the current mechanism that exempts holdings held for more than one year from tax and align the tax treatment of Bitcoin with stock assets.

Alex Pruden, CEO of Project Eleven, stated that Bitcoin's post-quantum migration will be more difficult than the Taproot upgrade and should begin immediately. According to Pruden, the asymmetry between acting on a post-quantum signature scheme today and waiting for certainty about

Q1 Earnings Results DoorDash reported mixed first-quarter results on May 1, 2024, as spending on technology and expansion reduced profit despite higher order volumes, according to CNBC. Total orders rose 27% to 933 million but missed analyst expectations of 954 million. Net income fell to US$184 m

UK-based chip design firm Arm Holdings forecast first-quarter revenue of US$1.26 billion and adjusted earnings of 40 cents a share on May 6, above Wall Street estimates, according to Reuters. The company benefited from rising demand for its chip designs in AI data centers. ## Q1 Forecast and Recent

CoinDesk reported on May 6 that Frank La Salla, president and CEO of Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), said on Wednesday at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami that DTCC is working with multiple Layer-1 (L1) blockchain networks and announced that the company plans to begin testing a tokenized securities platform starting in July 2026.

Bitcoin (BTC) gave back the overnight gains, trading at around $81,000 as of May 7. White House adviser Patrick Witt said the latest update on the U.S. Bitcoin reserve will be released “within the next few weeks.” Samourai Wallet co-founder called for donations of Bitcoin from the federal prison, and President Trump’s hopes for a pardon are slim.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first funding round at a reported US$45 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch. The valuation marks a significant increase from an estimated US$20 billion valuation just weeks earlier, following attention drawn to the company's AI models for

According to reports by Bloomberg and Reuters on May 7, American Bitcoin Corp. (ABTC), a Bitcoin mining company supported by the Trump family, released its first-quarter 2026 financial results, posting a net loss of $82 million, widening from a $59 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2025; its mining output for the quarter was 817 BTC, and as of March 31 total Bitcoin holdings rose to 7,021 BTC.

In the post-quantum security space, the startup Project Eleven published a report on May 6, warning that the earliest possible arrival of the quantum computers surpassing the critical point of modern cryptography (Q-Day) may be as early as 2030, with a probability exceeding 50% for occurrence by 2033. The report also estimates that, under certain conditions, around 6.9 million bitcoins face potential quantum attack risk, and it calls on the cryptocurrency ecosystem to accelerate the anti-quantum migration process.

According to public statements issued on May 7, 2026 by multiple Federal Reserve officials, several Fed officials warned that US inflation risks are heating up again; interest rates may remain at high levels for a longer period, and the possibility of further rate hikes is not ruled out. After Bitcoin (BTC) briefly broke through $82,000 on Wednesday to hit a three-month high, it fell again on Thursday to around $81,000.

Apple spent 10.3% of revenue on research and development in its March quarter, marking its highest R&D share in at least 30 years as the company intensifies AI development, according to CNBC. R&D spending rose nearly 34% year-over-year while revenue increased 17%, according to the company. The compa

Uber reported first-quarter gross bookings of US$53.7 billion, beating expectations, and raised its June-quarter guidance to US$56.25 billion to US$57.75 billion, above estimates, as demand for rides and deliveries remained strong despite headwinds from the Middle East conflict, according to

On May 6, Elon Musk announced that xAI will dissolve and merge entirely into SpaceX as a new AI product called SpaceXAI, according to Musk's statement. Simultaneously, SpaceXAI announced an exclusive global compute partnership with Anthropic, in which the entire Colossus 1 supercluster will be lease

CITIC Securities research indicates that artificial intelligence compute power is driving a fundamental restructuring of US electricity supply, with the country's major AI companies now entering a new era of self-directed power generation. In March 2026, seven major US AI companies signed the