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ChainCatcher news, according to News1, South Korea's National Tax Service will entrust seized virtual assets to private crypto custodians for custody and management for the first time, and plans to run it on a trial basis until the end of this year. Major Korean custodians such as KODA, KDAC, Hecto WalletOne, BDACS, and InfiniteBlock are all ready to participate. While the pilot project had a budget of only about $5,800, the industry considered it symbolic to receive the reference case for the "Korea National Tax Service Project."

Odaily Planet Daily News After South Korea began to separately list the proceeds from the sale of virtual assets in its housing financing plan this year, the inflow of cryptocurrency proceeds into the real estate market has been partially reflected. According to data from South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, from February 10 to March 31, a total of 324 home buyers declared the use of crypto assets to sell funds in their home purchase financing plans. Among them, 229 home buyers aged 30 to 39, accounting for about 70.7%. In terms of amount, the sale of crypto assets declared for home purchase in this age group was approximately 10.31 billion won (approximately US$7.4 million), the highest among all age groups. However, the relevant funds currently account for only about 0.1% of the overall home purchase funds, and the overall scale is still relatively limited.

ChainCatcher news, Santiment said on the X platform that Tether (based on Ethereum) experienced the largest outflow of funds from exchanges in nearly three months, with a net outflow of $1.29 billion (USDT) on Friday. Such large-scale USDT outflows often reflect institutional or whale-level participants moving funds to self-custody wallets, DeFi protocols, or OTC trading platforms in preparation for larger-scale planned operations. This is just a reallocation of funds, not a complete exit from the ecosystem. Santiment advises keeping an eye on what usually happens after these outflow peaks. Previously, on February 9, when outflows reached $3.72 billion, Bitcoin experienced a slight correction over the next two weeks (before an ideal buying opportunity appeared on February 24). Whether current funds will reflow into exchanges in the form of buying orders in the short term is a key variable that needs to be closely monitored. If USDT starts flowing back into exchanges in the coming days, it will indicate that a wave of investing in crypto assets is on the horizon.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, this week, the US-Iran conflict and the Russia-Ukraine conflict both showed a major dawn of peace, and geopolitical risks were greatly alleviated. Next week, it is worth paying attention to whether the two geopolitical conflicts can further cool down. In addition, next week's macro events will focus on the US CPI data for April, which is as follows: At 15:15 on Tuesday, FOMC permanent voting committee member and New York Fed President Williams participated in a panel discussion on monetary policy; At 20:15 on Tuesday, the weekly change in ADP employment in the United States for the week to April 25; Tuesday at 20:30, US CPI data for April; Wednesday 04:30, US API crude oil inventories for the week ending May 8; Wednesday 20:30, US April PPI annual rate, monthly rate; Friday at 05:30, Fed Governor Barr speaks; Friday 21:15, US industrial output MoM for April. Finally, the Fed will usher in major personnel changes next week. Chairman-designate Kevin Walsh is expected to be confirmed by the Senate on Monday and officially take over the seal from Powell on May 15. In terms of U.S. stocks, as of Friday, a new round of surge has pushed the S&P 500 index up 8% in 2026 and continues to climb on the basis of double-digit returns over the past three consecutive years. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index rose nearly 13% during the year, with both indexes hitting record highs. While the Q1 earnings season is coming to an end, corporate reports will remain a key driver of stock prices in the coming days. AI

Odaily Planet Daily News Polymarket announced the latest progress of feature updates, including the launch of latency spam mitigation measures to ensure order placement and cancellation operations, fix the "insufficient balance/authorization" error issue, and another core issue affecting limit buy orders is expected to be fixed in the next few days. In addition, Polymarket said that it has identified and banned multiple clusters of "ghost-fill" accounts, all of which were created before the deposit wallet system was launched, and accounts that exhibit "ghost-fill" behavior will be identified and blocked, and the deposit wallet system will also prevent offending accounts from continuing to create new accounts in batches, and will continue to release more updates in the coming week to address previous issues.

According to ChainCatcher news, the Estonian Financial Supervision and Disposal Authority (EFSA) issued an investor warning to BB Trade Estonia OÜ, the operator of the Zondacrypto exchange, for failing to issue a white paper for the "TeamPL" token launched on the platform as required by the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA), violating Article 9, Paragraph 1 of MiCA on transparency and investor disclosure obligations. This warning, combined with previously exposed withdrawal difficulties and cross-border investigation problems, has continued to increase the compliance pressure on the exchange.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to the token unlock data of Web3 asset data platform RootData, zkSync (ZK) will unlock approximately 173.14 million tokens, worth approximately $3.23 million, at 0:00 on May 17, Beijing time.

According to ChainCatcher news, US SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said in her speech that she does not recognize some speculative phenomena in the current market, and that some financial products that inspire short-term riches, such as lotteries, may fade as investors lose interest. Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, retweeted that Peirce expects the underlying legal, technical and market infrastructure of these products to be repurposed for more durable investment and risk management products in the future. At the same time, Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, commented that the SEC's balance between regulation and innovation is gratifying, speculating that the compliance controversial product described by Peirce is actually a "prediction market ETF" and expecting such ETFs to be approved for listing soon.

According to the monitoring of the Odaily Seer Prophet Channel, in the Polymarket "UFC 328 Flyweight Championship Fight Tatsuro Taira VS Joshua Van" prediction event, an account with a loss of more than ¢1.96 million will win with an opening price of 60¢. Tatsuro Taira has a professional record of 18-1 and previously qualified for the challenge after knocking out Brandon Moreno in the second round in December 2025; The current champion, Joshua Van, has a 16-2 professional record and is known for his high-frequency strikes and fall resistance. The fight was scheduled for UFC 327 but was postponed for a month due to Van's injury. The Odaily Seer Channel continues to follow the prediction market and see changes before pricing.

ChainCatcher news, according to analyst Tom Wan's monitoring, although LayerZero has issued an apology, multiple protocols with a total TVL of about $2 billion have announced their migration to Chainlink CCIP, including KelpDAO ($1.5 billion), SolvProtocol ($600 million), and re ($200 million). At the same time, the top assets that are still using the LayerZero OFT standard include: USDe/sUSDe (Ethena), weETH (Etherfi), USDT0 (Tether), thBILL (Theo), and WBTC (Bitgo). Previously, LayerZero officially apologized for the poor communication in response to security incidents in the past three weeks. The official acknowledged that its internal RPC was attacked by Lazarus Group and admitted that it had mistakenly allowed LayerZero Labs DVN to serve as a 1/1 validator for high-value transactions, resulting in a single point of risk.

ChainCatcher news, according to GMGN data, the ETH chain ecological token sato continues to rise and hit a record high, now trading at $1.71, up more than 77% during the day. ChainCatcher reminds users that the token's price is volatile, and investors are aware of the risks.

ChainCatcher reported that CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin volatility futures on June 1 and is currently awaiting regulatory approval, which will expand the cryptocurrency products of the US derivatives exchange. It is reported that these contracts will track the CME CF Bitcoin Volatility Index, not Bitcoin price, and are designed to reflect the expected market volatility over the next four weeks.

Odaily CZ said in the latest episode of the Crypto Banter podcast that in the process of requesting a pardon, it was strongly opposed and lobbied by some competitors of US cryptocurrency centralized exchanges. CZ said, "Other crypto CEXs in the United States do not want me to be pardoned," and said that these competitors had lobbied and pressured in the relevant processes in the United States.

According to ChainCatcher news, RWA protocol LienFi announced that it has minted the first tokenized U.S. real estate tax lien (Tax Liens) on the Base network.

According to ChainCatcher news, the seven major Bitcoin mining pools Antpool, F2Pool, Foundry, Spiderpool, Block, MARA Foundation, and DMND have officially joined the Stratum V2 working group, marking that Bitcoin mining is accelerating its shift to a new generation of open source protocols. It is reported that compared to the current V1 version, which is packaged by mining pool-controlled transactions, Stratum V2 introduces end-to-end encryption, which not only reduces bandwidth usage (60% on the pool side and 70% on the miner side) and the risk of hashrate hijacking, but also allows miners to build their own block templates. Tests have shown that the V2 protocol can increase miner earnings by up to 7.4% with lower latency and better fee options.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to FOX reporter Charles Gasparino, the U.S. CFTC and the SEC are currently in sync on the regulatory boundary of the prediction market and the recent abnormal transactions related to the Iran conflict. Gasparino noted that while the field is believed to be governed solely by the CFTC, the SEC will be deeply involved when predicting that contracts can legally be defined as "securities." He also revealed that in addition to previously announced cases, the regulator may launch more enforcement actions against prediction markets in the future.

According to ChainCatcher news, Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, said on the X platform that US SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce mentioned in his speech trying to balance regulation and innovation. Nate Geraci emphasized that it seems to refer to prediction market ETFs, which may be launched soon.

ChainCatcher news, CryptoQuant data shows that the Bitcoin premium in the South Korean market has recently risen to about 2%, hitting a new high since the outbreak of the US-Iran conflict. The "kimchi premium" in the Korean market is mainly driven by local demand, and the Korean crypto market has long been relatively independent of the global market due to capital controls and KYC requirements based on residency status. Data shows that the price of Bitcoin in South Korea will be higher than the global volume-weighted average price (VWAP) for most of 2025, with the South Korean premium rising to 8.27% after BTC exceeded an all-time high of $126,000 in October 2024. After the outbreak of the Middle East conflict in 2026, the volatility of the South Korean market has intensified significantly, with a discount of about 2.27% in early March, and then the market continues to fluctuate.

Odaily Planet Daily News A number of Iranian officials said that Iran has resolutely responded to a series of "provocative acts" by the United States in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days. Iran will continue to exercise its right to self-defense and be wary of any hostile actions against Iran by the US military again. (CCTV)