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ME News Report, April 19 (UTC+8), Iranian media Fars News disclosed that Iran stated if it re-enters the war, it will do its best. Iran's First Vice President said that Iran is responsible for managing the Strait of Hormuz. Either they (the United States) give us rights at the negotiating table, or we will go to the battlefield. Trump's remarks stem from his delusions and lies, and there is no need to respond to them. Iran will defend its rights in the Strait of Hormuz through negotiations or actual actions. (Source: PANews)

Crypto World News reports that, according to an investigation by Le Monde, a kidnapping case related to cryptocurrency in France has uncovered a money laundering link involving Venezuelan crypto wallets.
The indictment shows that in August 2023, the father of the crypto billionaire teufeurs was kidnapped in France, and teufeurs ultimately transferred approximately $1.98 million in ransom to two wallets designated by the kidnappers.
French gendarmes then tracked that $131,002 flowed into a new wallet, whose owner was identified as Venezuelan woman Isabel V.
The investigation states that this wallet received a total of about $5.2 million in cryptocurrency from 2021 to 2023, and French authorities later seized nearly $900k remaining in it.
Isabel V. has been charged with organized money laundering, but the related cross-border fund chain has not yet been fully clarified.

[ME AI]() message: According to Dongcha Beating monitoring, at BYD’s “Dare to Lead” intelligentization strategy launch event today, it released the super-intelligent agent “Didi Shrimp,” achieving end-to-end memory, cross-domain interaction, edge-cloud collaboration, and fast-slow thinking. Click the original link below to join the Dongcha Beating · Feishu AI News Channel and get 7×24 non-stop monitoring of global AI hotspots and news. (Source: BlockBeats)

The Spanish Consumer Affairs Department has initiated disciplinary proceedings against prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, and has demanded that internet service providers block user access, due to both offering products related to future uncertain events without holding Spanish licenses. The related blocks will remain in place during the review process, which is expected to last three to four months. The regulatory agency is unable to contact the companies through overseas addresses, so it has issued an official announcement directly and enforced the blocks.

According to Bloomberg, Quantinuum is seeking to raise approximately $1.05 billion through an IPO in the United States, planning to issue about 21 million shares at $45 to $50 per share. At the upper limit, the valuation is approximately $12.7 billion. Quantinuum, supported by Honeywell, is one of the most closely watched companies in the current quantum computing field.

ME News Report, April 18 (UTC+8), Tokyo announced the launch of a corporate support program aimed at the practical deployment of "Yen-denominated stablecoins," providing subsidies for related expenses such as development of use cases. The subsidy ratio is 2/3, with a maximum of 40 million yen per project, applications open until June 30. The official stated that they will conduct a comprehensive evaluation from the perspectives of social significance, innovation, feasibility, future adoption, and security and risk management, with a focus on anti-money laundering mechanisms, user protection, and response strategies in case of incidents or fraud. (Source: MLion)

Crypto World News reports that HTX officials stated that some overseas security agencies have applied a "blanket" risk label to platform-related addresses, affecting the normal fund flow experience of some users and causing market panic and various speculations, with significant misjudgments and information bias. Currently, HTX's compliance, security, and legal teams are actively communicating with the relevant agencies. Previously, multiple centralized exchanges stated that fund transfers or related transactions with HTX might face additional compliance reviews or restrictions.

ME News message: On May 16 (UTC+8), according to CoinFound’s data on crypto concept stocks, the share price of Next Technology Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTT) is currently $1.56. The stock opened today at $1.41, with an intraday gain of 10.64%. (Source: CoinFound)

AIMPACT News, May 15 (UTC+8), Y Combinator announced on May 15, 2026, that the startup companies they invested in received $2.7 million in seed funding, with investors including BWCVC, Y Combinator, TinyVC, and VentureTogether. The funds will be used to build an autonomous tax company. The tweet also mentioned several similar companies such as Hadrian, OpenFX, but did not provide specific technical details or business models. (Source: InFoQ)

CryptoWorld News reports that the Russian Ministry of Finance has announced the issuance of bonds on the Moscow Exchange.

The Russian government expands the scope of information that miners and mining infrastructure operators must submit to tax authorities.
According to the new decree, the national registration information for miners and operators will include network addresses used for mining equipment (ASIC miners).
The Russian Ministry of Finance states that this measure will help simplify the regulation of digital asset transactions and investigations into violations, as well as facilitate grid operators in monitoring infrastructure loads in areas with dense mining activity.
Under current regulations, Russian miners are already required to regularly update information such as the manufacturer, model, serial number, algorithm, hash rate, energy consumption, operating mode, mined currency, output volume, mining pool, and online statistics links of their mining machines.
(Bits Media)

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BlockBeats News, May 21 — According to The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration has provided $2 billion in funding to nine quantum computing companies through the Department of Commerce in exchange for equity, specifically including:

$1 billion will be granted to IBM, chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries will receive $375 million, publicly traded companies including D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Infleqtion will each receive $100 million, and startup Diraq is expected to receive $38 million.

CryptoWorld News reports, according to Saudi media Hadath (alhadath), that Iran has proposed keeping uranium enrichment levels below 3.6% for 10 years and reducing more than 20% of enriched uranium domestically. Iran has confirmed that it will commit in the memorandum of understanding not to develop nuclear weapons and has requested that any agreement preserves limited uranium enrichment rights.