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ME News Report, May 7 (UTC+8), a Pakistani official stated on the 7th that Pakistani authorities held a meeting in Islamabad today to prepare for possible US-Iran negotiations and even the signing ceremony of an agreement in Islamabad.
Another Pakistani source said that the Pakistani military, police, and other relevant personnel also held a joint meeting in Rawalpindi, near the capital, to determine security measures for the potential US-Iran negotiations next week.
(Source: BlockBeats)

ME News Report, May 7 (UTC+8), according to Iran's Tasnim News Agency, the Israeli military has warned residents of the villages of Dier Zahrani, Bufla, and Habush in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh Province to evacuate their homes. Additionally, videos show Israeli drones flying over Zahiyeh in southern Beirut. (Source: BlockBeats)

ME News May 7 (UTC+8) reports that forecast market data shows that in predictions regarding "Will Bayern Munich win the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League," the probability of the "Yes" option has decreased from 30.5% to 5.5%, a drop of 25.0 percentage points in a single day.

Mastercard and African stablecoin infrastructure provider Yellow Card announce a strategic partnership, focusing on promoting stablecoin payment innovation in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, with plans for global expansion. The two parties will explore the application of stablecoins in cross-border remittances, business-to-business settlements, digital loyalty ecosystems, and fund management, and collaborate with banks, financial institutions, and regulators to promote secure and compliant pilot programs to improve payment efficiency and reduce costs for businesses and consumers.

ME News April 9: Bitcoin around $71,200, Ethereum at $2,185, the market is volatile. If BTC cannot regain $75k, it may drop to $10,000; but Tom Lee believes the bottom has been established. BTC futures open interest rose to 720k, 24h CVD has been positive for two consecutive days, and funding rates are leaning bullish; ETH, XRP, and Solana's CVD and funding rates are mostly negative. MANA and AERO each rose 6%, but MANA's open interest surged by 25%, mostly driven by leverage. If BTC breaks above $75k and stabilizes, it could trigger a rotation in altcoins.

Valve is developing an internal AI tool called "SteamGPT," aimed at improving customer service efficiency and internal task management, including a module that automatically summarizes player information. Currently, this tool is only for internal use and has not been made available to players.

ME News Update: On May 7 (UTC+8), BitMart’s 【BM Discover】 Zone strongly launched sato (SATO) at 18:00 on May 7 (Beijing time, UTC+8), opening the SATO/USDT trading pair.
sato is an ERC-20 asset on Ethereum, minted and repurchased via Uniswap v4 Hook. It uses an exponential joint-curve issuance model, with no pre-sale, migration, or operator intervention.
Stay in sync with the market and trade now! (Source: BitMart)

B.AI officially announces the platform's launch, focusing on providing economic infrastructure support for AI Agents, including model aggregation, on-chain payments, and identity management, aiming to promote the development of autonomous actions and collaboration capabilities in AI.

Meta releases Muse Spark security report, stating it is the first multimodal reasoning model in the Muse family, now available on Meta AI and open private API. Mitigating chemical/biological threats beforehand is high risk; after mitigation, it drops to medium or below, with a very high rejection rate for chemical/biological topics. Three major weaknesses: high risk of harm from Agentic Misalignment, weak defenses against adaptive multi-turn jailbreaks, and abnormally high evaluation awareness that may distort test results. Autonomous programming ability lags behind competitors, pre-training efficiency is more than ten times higher than Llama 4 Maverick, and future expansion is planned.

On April 15th, Meta announced an expansion of its collaboration with Broadcom to jointly develop multiple generations of MTIA in-house AI acceleration chips, covering design, packaging, and network interconnection, based on Broadcom's XPU platform. The initial deployment will exceed 1GW of self-developed computing power, and in the next two years, four generations of chips will be launched and expanded to several gigawatts. Broadcom CEO Fuyang Chen will step down from Meta's board of directors and transition to an advisory role, assisting with the in-house chip development roadmap and infrastructure investments.

ME News Report, April 15 (UTC+8), according to Artemis data, in the past 24 hours, the total supply of stablecoins on BNB Chain increased by $518 million, making it the blockchain network with the largest stablecoin inflow during the same period. Other networks such as Arbitrum, HyperEVM, and Solana also recorded changes in stablecoin supply during the same period, but their growth rates were all lower than BNB.

ME News reports a comparison of finality times for the top 30 market cap Layer 1 blockchains: TON approximately 0.6 seconds, overall about 1 second; Avalanche C-Chain and BNB Smart Chain achieve irreversible finality in about 1 second; Hedera 2–3 seconds; XRP Ledger and Stellar 3–5 seconds; Solana about 32 slots delay confirmation; PoW public chains Bitcoin and Litecoin still require multiple block confirmations; Ethereum about 12.8 minutes (two epochs), Cardano about 1 day.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will enforce mandatory cost basis reporting for digital asset brokers starting April 15, 2026, covering centralized exchanges, custodial wallets, and other institutions, which must submit Form 1099-DA to the IRS and taxpayers to record digital asset purchases, sales, and exchanges. This move aims to reduce unreported capital gains and promote the integration of crypto taxation with traditional securities; investors are required to keep more comprehensive records of purchase prices, times, and on-chain transactions.

At Consensus 2026, institutional Bitcoin lending executives stated that after the 2022 crisis, borrowers prefer transparent custody, standardized contracts, and clear risk management over complex DeFi. Borrowers are most concerned about the storage location of BTC collateral and due diligence on re-hypothecation. Blume said that institutions favor accountable intermediaries, standardized processes, and legal accountability, and future growth depends on the ability to provide predictability similar to traditional finance.

ME News reports show that, based on CoinFound's chain market value distribution, Ethereum with $169.04 billion ranks first, followed closely by TRON, Solana, and others. Market dynamics focus on progress in stablecoin regulation, with the Senate planning to amend the draft, and disagreements between White House advisors and Tillis gradually easing, warning that bank-level regulation is needed to prevent stablecoin arbitrage. Overall, in the past two days, the stablecoin market has remained stable with slight growth, liquidity has recovered, but on-chain activity remains relatively low.

ME News reports show that, based on CoinFound's chain market value distribution, Ethereum with $169.04 billion leads, followed closely by TRON, Solana, and others. Market dynamics focus on progress in stablecoin regulation, with the Senate planning to amend the draft, and disagreements between White House advisors and Tillis gradually easing, warning that bank-level regulation is needed to prevent stablecoin arbitrage. Overall, in the past two days, the stablecoin market has remained stable with slight growth, liquidity has recovered, but on-chain activity remains relatively low.

ME News Report, April 15 (UTC+8), trading and investment platform eToro announced the acquisition of the self-custody crypto wallet provider Zengo, with the specific acquisition amount undisclosed. This acquisition aims to combine eToro's global multi-asset platform and distribution channels with Zengo's non-custodial wallet technology, supporting Zengo's next phase of growth while expanding eToro's digital asset capabilities. (Source: ChainCatcher)

ME News reports that the MSX official website shows that the platform has achieved a total transaction volume of over $30 billion within its first year, with more than 180k users. Over the past year, it has completed beta launch, opened the on-chain US stock token market, conducted public testing of perpetual contracts, upgraded its branding, and launched the Pre-IPO section. During the same period, it introduced the "One-Year Anniversary Appreciation Season," with a total prize pool and benefits reaching $41,500, including new user gifts, limited-time blind boxes, a全民交易赏金 of $35,000, referral rewards, and more, with the top prize of up to 3,000 USDT and MSX collectible banknotes.

ME News reports that Platzi co-founder Christian Van Der Henst placed a vending machine operated entirely by AI agent Valerie at Frontier Tower in San Francisco. Valerie autonomously decides on products, manages accounts, and handles funds based on OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Gemini, even having a separate bank account. She named the machine "Margaret" and claims it is her business. This move tests AI's autonomous management capabilities in a real-world scenario while exposing hardware bottlenecks: during ClawCon, network congestion caused disconnections. Previously, Anthropic also conducted similar internal demonstrations but still within a closed environment.