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According to an official announcement published on May 8 on X by the XRP Ledger Foundation, the foundation has formally entered a more open collaborative phase within the XRP ecosystem, and introduced a core management team responsible for day-to-day operations, engineering coordination, and community engagement. The announcement includes role and background descriptions for the Executive Director, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Operations Director, and Community Lead. Introduction to Core Mana

U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott confirmed on May 8 that the CLARITY Act—aimed at providing regulatory transparency for the U.S. crypto industry—will be put to a vote by the Senate Banking Committee on May 14. Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said on X that the confirmation of the review date is a major step forward, which is crucial for supporting U.S. innovation. Background of the Review Confirmation and the Bill’s Progress According to Tim Scott’s confirmation as c

According to a May 8 report by BeInCrypto, Telegram founder Pavel Durov confirmed that Telegram has officially replaced the TON Foundation and become the largest validator on The Open Network (TON) blockchain; to secure the largest validator slot, Telegram has staked approximately 2.2 million TON tokens. Telegram Takes Over as TON’s Largest Validator: Background and Technical Significance According to BeInCrypto, Durov said this move is the third phase of his plan to “make TON great again,” aimi

As the situation in the Strait of Hormuz continues to escalate, multiple market institutions and analysts on May 9 pointed out that Wall Street traders are using a “NACHO (Not A Chance Hormuz Opens)” trading logic to replace the previously popular “TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out)” trading model. High oil prices are no longer a one-off short-term shock, but a new market environment. Military escalation in the Strait of Hormuz According to media reports, on May 7, 2026 (Thursday), fighting once a

Cloudflare, in its 2026 Q1 earnings report released on May 7, 2026, said quarterly total revenue was $639.8 million, up 34% year over year, beating analysts’ expectation of $622 million, and setting a company record high for revenue in a single quarter. The same day, Cloudflare announced layoffs of about 1,100 people, roughly 20% of the company’s total workforce, marking the first large-scale layoffs in the company’s 16-year history. Q1 2026 Core Financial Highlights According to Cloudflare’s of

According to on-chain analyst “Ai Yi,” monitored on May 9, F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun withdrew 7,461 ETH from a centralized exchange (CEX), worth approximately $17.27 million, and then deposited it into the decentralized lending protocol Spark. Meanwhile, on May 7, the Stratum v2 working group announced that seven mining organizations, including F2Pool, had officially joined the working group. Wang Chun’s ETH On-Chain Movements (Source: Arkham) Based on on-chain monitoring by “Ai Yi” on May 9,

As of May 9, 2026, popular prediction events on the Polymarket platform regarding the COMEX gold futures price at the end of June have become one of the most closely watched macro trading benchmarks in the crypto prediction markets. The event’s cumulative trading volume has already surpassed $4.7 million, and participants have built a complete probability distribution curve across different price thresholds. Source: Polymarket Using the official settlement price of CME gold futures as the determ

According to WhaleAce Lab’s May 9 report, DeepSeek’s external financing program launched in April failed to reach an agreement in negotiations with Alibaba. The core of the disagreement was that Alibaba’s demand for AI ecosystem integration conflicted with DeepSeek’s position of maintaining technical independence. According to an early May report by The Financial Times, DeepSeek’s final valuation for this round of financing is expected to land at approximately $45 billion. Background of the stal

According to an official announcement by Aave posted on X on May 9, the launch of Phase 2 of the rsETH incident recovery plan has been declared; the court has issued an order authorizing the transfer of the $71 million worth of ETH recovered by the Arbitrum Security Committee to Aave LLC. The compensation inquiry tool is now officially live, and users affected by the rsETH incident can look up their expected compensation amounts. Completed steps: liquidation, governance proposals, and AIP execut

According to Bits.media on May 9, the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), Russia’s largest stock trading platform, announced that it will launch index futures trading for three digital assets—Solana (SOL), Ripple (XRP), and Tron (TRX)—on May 14. The contracts will be settled in Russian rubles and use cash settlement, involving no delivery of digital asset holdings, and will be available only to eligible investors. Three futures contract technical specifications According to an official MOEX announcement, al

The Venezuelan government issued an official statement on May 7, reaffirming a comprehensive ban on all digital mining activities within the country, and stating that it will impose legal sanctions on those who carry out such activities illegally. According to the statement, the peak demand of the national power system on May 7 reached 15,579 megawatts (MW), the highest record since 2017. The government attributed this demand growth to ongoing heatwaves and the continued growth of the national economy.

According to Decrypt’s May 9 report, Bitcoin miner and data center operator TeraWulf (WULF) released its 2026 first-quarter financial results, recording a net loss of approximately $427 million. Total quarterly revenue was $34 million, of which revenue from its AI high-performance computing (HPC) business was $21 million, marking the first time in TeraWulf’s history that its quarterly HPC revenue surpassed Bitcoin mining revenue.

According to Bitcoin.com’s report on May 9, stablecoin issuer Tether has filed a lawsuit with the São Paulo court in Brazil, seeking repayment of a $300 million defaulted loan by Titan Holding, a company under the Master Group. The loan was issued in March 2025, with a scheduled repayment date of March 28, 2026, but Tether has not received any repayment to date.

Google has settled a class action lawsuit filed in 2022 by former employee April Curley and other Black workers alleging the company discriminated in hiring, pay, and promotion, according to The Economic Times. The settlement includes pay equity reviews, pay transparency measures, and limits on

U.Today, citing 13F filings on May 9, said that UBS Group submitted its latest quarterly 13F report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week. UBS added 551,121 shares of Strategy (MSTR), worth about $98 million, bringing its total MSTR holdings to 6.31 million shares, valued at about $1.12 billion at current prices.

Bitcoin (BTC) saw a short-term rebound, trading around $80,250 as of May 9. BlackRock plans to launch two tokenized money market funds for stablecoin holders. Reuters reported that efforts to get the Swiss central bank to hold Bitcoin have failed; the Bitcoin advocacy campaign called on the Swiss central bank to include Bitcoin in reserves alongside the euro, the US dollar, and gold.

Skyroot Aerospace, a Hyderabad-based space launch startup, has raised US$60 million in a funding round co-led by Sherpalo Ventures at a US$1.1 billion valuation, achieving unicorn status. The round included participation from existing investors GIC, Greenko Group founders, and Arkam Ventures, as

According to the U.S. Department of Defense’s official announcement on May 8, the government has officially launched the “PRESIDENTIAL Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Encounter Declassification and Reporting System” (PURSUE) and will release a total of 161 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) documents from Version 01; subsequent versions are planned to be released on a rolling basis every few weeks. According to CoinGecko data, multiple UFO-themed Meme coins on the Solana chain have seen significant price increases.

Revolut, a fintech platform, confirmed on May 8 that there is a technical issue affecting some cryptocurrency functions. According to a statement on X from Revolut’s official support account, engineers are actively investigating the root cause. Previously, the Revolut app charts briefly showed Bitcoin down as low as $0.019916, and some users simultaneously received push notifications saying BTC had hit a 52-week low. After the incident lasted for several seconds, things returned to normal.

On May 9, Bitcoin rebounded to above $80,000. According to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Thursday, the U.S. added 115k nonfarm payroll jobs in April, above the market expectation of 55k; the unemployment rate remained at 4.3%, in line with expectations. On the same day, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that U.S. forces attacked two Iranian oil tankers attempting to break through a maritime blockade, further escalating military tensions in the Strait of Hormuz.