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On May 26, Michael Widmer, head of metals research at Bank of America, confirmed that he is maintaining the bank’s 12-month gold price target of $6,000 per ounce (first set in January 2026). He also noted that gold faces near-term pressure as the Middle East war pushes up energy prices, prompting repricing of inflation risks, and as expectations for Fed rate cuts decline. However, the mid-term bullish logic remains unchanged. 美銀的黃金多頭框架：三個已確認的結構性驅動因素 Widmer 在 2026 年 1 月設定 6,000 美元目標並在 5 月 26 日重申時

German business daily Handelsblatt reported on May 25 that Brussels is preparing to impose a fine of several hundred million euros on Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), because Google allegedly displays its own services improperly in search results; this would be the highest fine issued under the DMA to date. 訴訟現況：接近終結但談判仍在進行 《商報》報道稱，針對 Google 的訴訟程序已接近尾聲。歐盟委員會發言人 Thomas Regnier 表示，監管機構仍在與公司商討可能的解決方案，但同時明確表示：「即使我們正在就未來的解決方案進行談判，我們也會毫不猶豫地盡快採取下一步措施。」預計馮德萊恩將在夏季休會前作出最終決定，日期尚未公告。此次罰款討論發生在歐盟

According to CryptoPolitan on May 26, U.S. President Trump signed an executive order on the 19th titled “Integrating Financial Technology Innovation into the Regulatory Framework,” instructing the Federal Reserve and federal financial regulators to review the current rules that block fintech and crypto companies from accessing Fed master accounts. Ripple National Trust Bank has been conditionally approved to become a potential beneficiary. 聯準會主帳戶對 Ripple 業務的潛在影響：已確認的運營邏輯 聯準會主帳戶賦予機構直接訪問聯儲支付基礎設施的資

Solstice’s SLX token was listed on the Binance Alpha platform on May 25, with a fully diluted valuation of about $230 million; however, due to concentrated sell-offs by airdrop recipients, SLX fell by about 30% from the intraday high within a few minutes of listing, and when CoinGecko issued a warning, the decline had already exceeded 40%. OneSafe research shows that about 64% of airdrop recipients sold the tokens immediately after distribution. TGE Timeline and Price Data: Confirming the Number

OpenAI board member and former U.S. Cyber Command commander and NSA director Paul Nakasone visited Tokyo on May 21, held talks with Japanese government officials on cybersecurity measures across 15 key infrastructure areas, and announced plans to provide access to the GPT-5.5-Cyber model to the Japanese government and Japanese companies. Confirmed technical positioning of GPT-5.5-Cyber and the threat backdrop Sasha Baker, OpenAI’s head of national security policy, said at a Tokyo press briefing

According to Cryptopolitan on May 26, network security analysts found a new fileless remote access trojan (RAT) named RemotePE, associated with North Korea’s Lazarus Group, which is using it to attack banks and cryptocurrency companies. RemotePE runs entirely in memory, without touching the file system, making it extremely difficult for traditional antivirus and forensics tools to detect. RemotePE’s three-stage attack chain: a confirmation mechanism that never touches the file system RemotePE ex

According to Coinfomania on May 25, the latest proposed rule from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would require licensed payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) regulated by the FDIC to establish a comprehensive anti-money laundering/anti-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework based on the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the sanctions compliance standards of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); the public comment deadline is June 9. Confirmed compliance requirements list under th

GEL₮ is a stablecoin launched by Tether in cooperation with the Georgian government, pegged to the Georgian lari. It will be issued on-chain under the national regulatory framework, showcasing a path of private stablecoins plus government cooperation. The framework draws on the GENIUS Act, MiCA, and VARA, aiming for interoperability with U.S. rules. GEL₮ focuses on low transaction fees, near-instant settlement, and programmable payments. It demonstrates Tether’s strategy to expand from a single USDT into a multi-asset stablecoin infrastructure, and uses this model to drive stablecoin applications in emerging markets.

According to CoinTelegraph on May 26, Cathie Wood, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Ark Invest, said in an interview with Fox Business that her base target for Bitcoin over the next five years is $750,000, while her optimistic target is $1.25 million; both targets are set around 2030. Cathie Wood’s three major structural catalysts The three structural catalysts Wood listed include: first, generational wealth transfer—she believes younger investors are more likely to view Bitcoin as a better s

On May 26, Kelp DAO, an Ethereum liquid restaking protocol, confirmed on X that the operational portion of the rsETH recovery plan has been officially completed. The final batch of 20,373.70 rsETH has been sent to the LayerZero smart contract. The minting, redemption, and rewards operations for rsETH have all been confirmed to be running normally, ending the impact of the attack by the North Korea–linked hacker group Lazarus Group. Attack mechanism: how the LayerZero 1/1 DVN single-verifier flaw

The global IPO market in 2026 is undergoing a rare wave of concentrated listings of “super unicorns.” In Polymarket’s prediction market on the question of “which company will have the largest IPO market cap in 2026,” wagers totaling more than $2 million have already been placed. Data shows the probability of SpaceX winning is 79%, Anthropic is 16%, OpenAI is 5%, while options including Kraken, Shein, and Revolut are all below 1%. What this betting mix reflects goes far beyond speculation about t

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes published on X on May 22 his “Holy Trinity” holdings: HYPE (Hyperliquid), NEAR, and ZEC (Zcash). Hayes said that as tech giants, governments, and AI expand surveillance, currency privacy will become necessary—this is why he listed Zcash as his second-largest holding. Zcash (ZEC): Privacy Demand, Quantum Risks, and Grayscale ETF Filing Multicoin Capital disclosed in May 2026 that it has been accumulating ZEC since February; since then, ZEC surged to $642 (a five-mon

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon published a commentary article in The New York Times in May, saying that concerns about AI causing large-scale job displacement are being exaggerated, citing internal Goldman analysis: AI could automate about 25% of existing job hours within the next 10 years, while also confirming that since 2022, U.S. data center construction has already created more than 200,000 construction-industry jobs. Confirmed job impact data: happened vs. expected Confirmed impact data:

Pope Leo XIV (the first U.S.-born pope in Catholic Church history) officially released his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Great Humaneness”), at the Vatican on May 25, claiming that irreversible lethal decisions should be entrusted to AI systems that are “unacceptable,” and calling on AI developers to work for the public interest rather than for profit. Key Claims of the Encyclical: AI Regulation, Transparency, and the “Just War” Theory Leo XIV wrote clearly: “Talking abstractly about

Huawei board director and head of the semiconductor business unit He Tingbo, on May 26, at the IEEE Circuits and Systems International Symposium, unveiled the “Tau (τ) Scaling Law” and the “LogicFolding” chip architecture, claiming that it can achieve a 55% improvement in transistor density and a 41% improvement in power efficiency without relying on EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment; the target is to reach a transistor density equivalent to a 1.4nm process by 2031. Technical logic o

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an analysis on May 26 stating that, although the GENIUS Act has been signed into law and the CLARITY Act is under review in the U.S. Senate, the nature of stablecoins still remains a form of “private money,” which could pose structural risks to the financial system. Chainalysis data shows that stablecoins account for 84% of illicit cryptocurrency activity (mainly involving sanctions evasion and money laundering). WSJ’s core analysis: stablecoins lack the “

According to CoinTelegraph on May 26, Ledger added native support for the $ADI token on the ADI Chain network, allowing users to self-custody via Ledger hardware wallets and ADI’s hardware signing devices. International Holding Company (IHC) has completed a transaction of 110 million dirhams on this chain. Global Non-USD Stablecoin Market Landscape: Confirmed Scale Data Ledger’s support for ADI Chain comes amid an accelerating evolution of the stablecoin market structure worldwide. According to

Pi Network enabled protocol upgrade 24.1 in May, requiring all node operators to complete the migration from v23.0 to v24.1 before the June 2 deadline; nodes that miss the deadline may be disconnected from the Pi mainnet, and will need to fully resync from scratch to rejoin the network. v24.1 Upgrade Operation Guide: Three Confirmed Methods Method 1 (primary method): For Docker users, update the image version in docker-compose.yml to: pinetwork/pi-node-docker:organizationmainnet-v1.0-p24.1.0, th