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Coin World news: MSTR sold Bitcoin for the first time since 2022, at a price of $68,887.58. Despite the deal seeming insignificant compared with its massive $58 billion holdings, market reaction may point to a broader shift in the crypto market. Geoff Kendrick, head of digital asset research at Standard & Poor’s, noted that Ethereum significantly outperformed Bitcoin on the day the sale was announced, despite overall weakness in crypto prices. Since Monday, Ethereum has risen 5% relative to Bitcoin. Kendrick expects that by the end of 2026, Ethereum’s price target will be $4,000, and in 2030 it will be $40,000, and he believes the ratio of Ethereum to Bitcoin will rise to 0.04 by year-end, implying that even if both prices fluctuate, Ethereum will outperform Bitcoin by more than 40%.

CryptoWorld News: U.S. President Donald Trump posted a message to campaign for Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton. Hilton advocates building California into the “Global Cryptocurrency Capital,” proposing to lower the construction barriers for blockchain and crypto companies, attract investment and talent, and introduce legislation to protect consumers and crack down on fraud. He has received funding support from Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen.

CoinWorld reports that a whale has made a dispersed purchase of $6.01 million worth of HYPE spot via four addresses, nearly accounting for half of the TWAP buy orders over the next 24 hours. The plan is to buy more than 10,000 HYPE via TWAP on Hyperliquid, totaling about 146,000 HYPE, or approximately $10.51 million. The current top four buy orders are all from this whale; it has already obtained about $10 million in funds and dispersed them across four addresses. The combined TWAP orders total 83,500 HYPE, approximately $6.01 million.

The Cardano Foundation announced that, due to on-chain governance voting not reaching the two-thirds threshold, the Cardano 2026 Summit originally scheduled to be held in Singapore this year has been canceled. Despite the revised proposal receiving 65.21% DRep staked support and approval from a majority of representatives, it still did not meet the 66.67% threshold required for treasury funding proposals. Founder Charles Hoskinson and the Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard also publicly called for support, but that did not pass either.

Ethereum co-founder Lubin pointed out that artificial intelligence will become a key turning point for the crypto industry. If computing power and infrastructure are controlled by a few tech giants, it could trigger systemic risks. AI agents may autonomously trade, collaborate, and verify on the blockchain, forming a machine economy, with decentralized technology ensuring transparency and accountability. The integration of finance and DeFi is accelerating, driving the global economy toward programmability. Although there are quantum computing risks, developers have already taken corresponding measures.

April 18th, NEAR ecosystem lending platform RHEA Finance was hacked, resulting in the theft of approximately $18.4 million.
The attacker set up fake token pools on Ref Finance and injected liquidity, exploiting slippage vulnerabilities to direct borrowed debt tokens to controlled pools, leading to large-scale liquidations and depletion of reserves.
To conceal their identity, they deleted 55 intermediary accounts.
Currently, $3.36M USDC and 156,400 NEAR have been recovered, and $4.34 million USDT (Tether $1.56M, NEAR Intents $3.29M) have been frozen.
The protocol has been paused, and efforts are underway in cooperation with exchanges and law enforcement.

This article interprets the key points of Segment Yongping's Q1 2026 13F filing submitted through H&H International Investment:
Eight new positions in U.S. stocks, increasing holdings in Tesla, Nvidia, Pinduoduo, and Berkshire Hathaway, with Apple remaining the largest but slightly adjusted.
First disclosure of Circle holding 200k shares, indicating cautious optimism towards stablecoins and digital payment infrastructure.
Simultaneous expansion in AI and consumer technology targets, such as Palantir, Snowflake, Synopsys, CrowdStrike, Innodata, and others.
Hong Kong stocks Bubble Mart has become a core shift, with the Chinese market replaced by Bubble Mart and China Shenhua fully sold off.
Overall emphasizing a long-term investment framework of high concentration + rebalancing, focusing on opportunities in AI and new financial infrastructure.

CoinWorld News reports that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has announced a full-market trading fee discount for US dollar gold futures contracts, as well as liquidity provider and active trader incentive programs. The arrangements will take effect from July 2026 for a period of twelve months and may be revised from time to time by the exchange. The exchange will offer a full-market trading fee waiver for the original $1 trading fee on US dollar gold futures contracts, applicable from July 6, 2026, to June 30, 2027. Applications for the liquidity provider incentive program and the active trader incentive program are now open, with the program period from July 6, 2026, to June 30, 2027. Applicants may only participate in one of the programs and cannot participate in both simultaneously. Applications must be submitted on or before June 16, 2026.

ME News, April 18 (UTC+8): According to Beating Monitoring by Dongcha, Anthropic launched Claude Design under Anthropic Labs on April 17. The product is positioned to generate design drafts, interactive prototypes, slides, and marketing materials through conversations with Claude. It is powered by Claude Opus 4.7 and is available in research preview to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, with phased rollouts on the same day. The entry point is claude.ai/design. Enterprise accounts are disabled by default, and need to be enabled by administrators in the organization settings. Users describe their requirements in natural language; after Claude provides a first draft, users can refine it through conversations, embedded comments, direct editing, and C

The Wall Street Journal admits that its report on the "Freedom Plan" restart was incorrect, and corrects it to "The U.S. Navy is currently quietly assisting ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz." Previously, it was reported that a Greek supertanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil was guided and escorted by the U.S. Navy, marking the restart of the "Freedom Plan." The latest report has removed that statement and quoted a spokesperson from U.S. Central Command, stating that the U.S. has not restarted the "Freedom Plan," and the previous related reports were inaccurate. At the end of the article, the Wall Street Journal admits to the mistake, stating that "the previous version of this article incorrectly indicated that the coordination between the U.S. and commercial ships was a restart of the 'Freedom Plan.'"

According to ME News on May 23 (UTC+8), forecast market data shows that in the prediction that "Iran will close its airspace before May 24," the trading probability of the "Yes" option jumped from 15.5% to 97.0%, an increase of 81.5 percentage points in a single day.