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Robinhood announces that it has officially completed the acquisition of Toronto-based digital asset services company WonderFi, valued at $18 billion. WonderFi operates two regulated Canadian crypto platforms, Bitbuy and Coinsquare. After the acquisition, the operations of both platforms will be integrated into Robinhood, and their users will be invited to migrate to the Robinhood App. The acquisition was first announced in May 2025, but the deadline was extended by both parties to give Robinhood time to deploy its proprietary technology in Canada and complete regulatory approvals, and the deal was finalized today. (TheBlock)

Murata Manufacturing's stock price surged driven by a flat earnings report but optimistic expectations for future AI profits.
AI/data center revenue is expected to increase from approximately 170 billion yen to 325 billion yen, with AI's share rising from 9% to 17%, and future profit growth could reach 34.8%, achieved through cutting-edge MLCCs with smaller sizes and higher capacitance to gain pricing power.

Swedish prosecutors said that an anonymous X account (with 200k followers) disclosed in advance that Sivers Semiconductors would go public in the U.S. About 48 hours later, the company issued a statement confirming the information, and the stock price surged briefly. They urged Nasdaq to investigate and claimed that information was leaked and the market was abused. The new-share wizard Serenity has repeatedly expressed a bullish view on SIVE, saying it is attractive; it announced that it would not sell and predicted its market value could jump from $2.1 billion to more than $80 billion, making it the next LITE.

CryptoWorld News: Three crude oil tankers, which were sanctioned due to their affiliation with Russia's "Shadow Fleet," were attacked by drones last night off the coast of the Black Sea in Turkey.
Port agents reported that the Turkish-managed oil tankers "Altura" and "Velora" were attacked while conducting ship-to-ship cargo transfer operations.
These two ships arrived in the area on May 24.
Local media previously reported in March that the "Altura," which was carrying approximately 1 million barrels of Russian Ural crude oil, had been attacked.

Mars Finance News: On May 26, Shengshi Technology announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Shenzhen Shengshi Technology Co., Ltd., recently signed a “Computing Power Industry Cooperation Agreement” with a certain company. The two sides will carry out in-depth strategic cooperation across four core areas: coordinated development of computing power and electricity, operation of the AIDC intelligent computing power center, integration of computing power industry resources, and procurement and delivery of computing power services. The overall business volume corresponding to this cooperation is converted to approximately RMB 60 billion, and the agreement will remain valid for five years. (Company Announcement)

ME News message, May 25 (UTC+8), L2 network Facet co-founder Tom Lehman proposed incorporating EIP-8182 into the Ethereum Hegota upgrade to enable native private ETH and ERC-20 transfers. The proposal plans to deploy privacy pools as system contracts, using a UTXO-based design, with no administrator keys, proxies, or pause mechanisms, and spend verification via fork-managed Groth16 BN254 proofs. Lehman pointed out that existing privacy solutions have structural flaws: new privacy pools cannot provide effective anonymity without sufficient user scale, and competition among multiple pools leads to fragmentation of the anonymity set. EIP-8182 will provide a unified shared privacy pool for all wallets and applications on Ethereum, supporting transfers to any Ethereum address or…

ME News Report, May 22 (UTC+8), according to CoinMarketCap market data, BTC dropped below $77,000, currently quoted at $76,958, a 24-hour decline of 0.4%. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

CoinWorld News reports that on the 23rd local time, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bagheri stated that the core purpose of Pakistani Army Chief Munir's visit to Iran is to transmit and exchange specific information between Iran and the United States. He pointed out that at this stage, all of Iran's core focus is on ending this "imposed war." Bagheri said that both sides have conducted several rounds of intensive exchange of opinions on different clauses in the proposal and have had in-depth discussions on issues where they have serious disagreements. Given the US's consistently contradictory stance, Iran currently cannot assert that this negotiation process will undergo a fundamental change. He added that their viewpoints have indeed come closer, but this does not mean an agreement has been reached, only that both sides are exploring a possible solution.

Morgan Stanley's Global Technology M&A Head Wally Cheng stated that AI mergers and acquisitions are crossing industries, covering both private and publicly listed companies, with deals not only focusing on chips themselves but also expanding into infrastructure sectors such as networks, storage, and power usage. AI valuation remains very challenging because it requires balancing ideal prospects with execution risks. Evercore's Tammy Kiely added that buyers must assess the value they can create against the cost of missed opportunities.

Mars Finance News: According to Jintiao, the USD/CHF (U.S. dollar to Swiss franc) broke through 0.79, with an intraday gain of 0.36%.

ME News Update, April 17 (UTC+8), according to CoinMarketCap market data, BTC is currently priced at $76,959, with a 24-hour increase of 3.0%. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

ME News Report, May 22 (UTC+8), prediction market data shows that "DOTA 2: Falcon Team vs PARIVISION (BO3) - Dream League Playoffs" had a trading volume of $1.6M in the past 24 hours, with market participation significantly increasing.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bagheri said that Iran will advance negotiations on the premise of strong and reasonable distrust of the United States, in order to safeguard national interests. The core demands for information exchange between the U.S. and the U.S.-side via Pakistan intermediaries include ending regional conflicts, unfreezing overseas assets, and stopping sea-based piracy of Iranian shipping. Despite the negative record left by U.S. actions over the past 1.5 years, Iran is still pushing the diplomatic process in a serious and good-faith manner.