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ME News message: On June 1 (UTC+8), according to data from CoinFound showing crypto concept stocks, Cango Inc. (NYSE: CANG) is currently trading at $0.39. Its opening price today was $0.44, and its intraday decline has reached 10.73%. (Source: CoinFound)

Belgian digital asset service provider Keyrock plans to acquire the bankrupt cryptocurrency trading and lending platform BlockFills for $3.25 million, pending court approval. According to bankruptcy documents, Keyrock will acquire most of BlockFills' assets, some liabilities, customer lists, as well as proprietary technology and intellectual property. BlockFills filed for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March this year, with reported assets between $50 million and $100 million, and liabilities between $100 million and $500 million. The company had previously suspended customer deposits and withdrawals and was seeking buyers or emergency financing. (CoinDesk)

Vitalik Buterin proposed establishing index-tracking assets in DeFi using options contracts, replacing the existing system centered on debt liquidation to reduce sudden liquidation risks. This approach can smooth out losses caused by price volatility and allows the use of slower price oracles, reducing data error risks, especially suitable for algorithmic stablecoins that rely on oracles. Although still in the theoretical stage, it reflects a rethinking of DeFi infrastructure, aiming to create a more resilient system.

IBKR launches a unified prediction market trading interface, a single platform accessible to Kalshi, CME Group, and ForecastEx, eliminating the need for multiple accounts or fund transfers, allowing users to search, compare prices, and place orders across platforms at the best prices, with the system automatically routing to the optimal exchange. The interface integrates with the existing trading environment, supporting unified management and real-time tracking of prediction positions as well as stocks, options, futures, and crypto assets. Initially focusing on contracts related to elections, climate, and economic indicators, more exchanges will be added in the future.

Alibaba Qwen team open-sourced the drawing evaluation benchmark Qwen-Image-Bench and the unified visual judge Q-Judger, used to assess text-to-image (T2I) capabilities. Covering five dimensions: image quality, aesthetics, image alignment, realism, and creativity, with 23 sub-skills and 56 indicators; including 1,000 bilingual prompts in Chinese and English. Eighty professional reviewers conducted blind reviews, with over 130k pairs of annotations, and the agreement between the judge and human scores reached 92%. Among the first batch of 18 models, GPT Image 2 ranks first, with top models still showing a gap in realism and creativity dimensions. Details such as drawing style, gravity, and lighting effects remain common bottlenecks.

According to PR Newswire, AI financial data infrastructure company Daloopa has completed a $47 million Series C funding round led by Brighton Park Capital, with participation from Squarepoint Capital, Touring Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners, to accelerate platform expansion and grow engineering, product, and marketing teams. Daloopa provides structured, traceable financial data to financial institutions, has extended data access through MCP connectors with OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Rogo, and others, offering APIs, cloud services, and partner APIs to facilitate third parties embedding high-quality data into their products.

Mars Finance News, on May 28, according to Deribit data, $7.5 billion in nominal value crypto options are expiring and settling tomorrow, including:
· BTC options with a nominal value of $6.21 billion, put/call ratio of 0.88, maximum pain point at $75k;
· ETH options with a nominal value of $1.29 billion, put/call ratio of 0.81, maximum pain point at $2,200.

ME News reports, April 18th (UTC+8), U.S. President Trump stated while aboard "Air Force One" on the way back to Washington that if a long-term agreement to end the war is not reached by April 22nd, he may terminate the ceasefire with Iran. "Maybe I won't extend the ceasefire, but the (Iranian port) blockade will continue to exist," Trump said. "So, the blockade is still in place, and unfortunately, we have to start dropping bombs again." Trump also stated on that day, "Iran will not have nuclear weapons." (Source: PANews)

Gate.io News reports that, according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency on the 27th, Mohammad Akbarzadeh, a naval officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that the likelihood of a renewed war with the United States is “low,” but Iran’s armed forces have “loaded their magazines” and are prepared.

ME News Report, May 16 (UTC+8), Lindsay Fraser of the Blockchain Association stated that even though the CLARITY Act has passed the Senate Banking Committee, ethical issues remain the biggest obstacle to cryptocurrency legislation. Senators Gallego and Brooks said that their support in the committee does not mean they will support in subsequent votes, and they need some form of ethical language. (Source: MLion)

ME News Report, May 16 — Prediction market data shows that within 24 hours, multiple addresses concentrated on the event "The United States will launch an attack on Iran before February 22, 2026," and selected the outcome "The United States will launch an attack on Iran before February 22, 2026," with a total bet amount of approximately $2.1M, indicating that this outcome has attracted significant funds in a short period.

ME News, April 18 (UTC+8): According to Bloomberg, Alcoa Corp., the U.S. aluminum company, is close to reaching an agreement with the Bitcoin mining firm New York Digital Investment Group to sell its Massena East shut-down smelting plant assets in New York State, which is expected to be completed by the middle of this year. The deal is part of its plan to dispose of idle industrial assets. As data centers’ demand for power infrastructure rises, such industrial sites are drawing more attention. (Source: MLion)

Bloomberg reports that SoftBank plans to issue subordinate bonds to individual investors again, raising approximately 260 billion yen (about $1.6 billion), with a 35-year maturity and callable after 5 years.
The initial coupon rate range for the first five years is 4.8%–5.6%, and the pricing will be conducted on June 5.