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Coinbase has submitted a formal response to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), calling on regulators to maintain existing rules for prediction markets. In a letter filed on April 30, the company noted that prediction markets have complied with current statutory authority and do not believe that new legislative mandates are needed to regulate these products. In the letter, Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad emphasized that prediction markets are one of the most dynamic sectors in the derivatives market and called on regulators to maintain a principles-based approach that prioritizes market integrity. Coinbase also asked the CFTC to clarify how it exercises its power to block contracts deemed not in the public interest. The filing comes amid ongoing disputes over event contracts across states, including a lawsuit in Wisconsin, adding a sense of urgency to the regulatory debate. Coinbase's stance makes it one of the companies seeking federal clarity, with jurisdiction still at odds between state and federal regulators.

According to Coinworld.com, MicroStrategy has suspended Bitcoin purchases this week due to the upcoming first-quarter earnings report and attention to its preferred stock dividend. According to Michael Saylor's social media posts, the company said it was "not making purchases this week," breaking its pattern of regular accumulation. The SEC's Form 8-K shows that Strategy acquired 3,273 Bitcoins between April 20 and 26 for approximately $255 million, funded by the sale of 1,451,601 MSTR Class A shares. Yahoo Finance reported that the purchase price averaged $77,906 per coin. The total number of Bitcoins held by the company has reached 818,334, with an acquisition cost of approximately $61.81 billion, a current value of approximately $63.7 billion, and unrealized gains of approximately $1.9 billion. Despite concerns about STRC's dividend, TipRanks data shows that Strategy's Nasdaq-listed stock still has a "strong buy" rating, and Strategy still has $26.47 billion of MSTR shares available to continue funding Bitcoin purchases.

According to Coin.com, Bybit Chief Marketing Officer Claudia Wang said that the Latin American remittance market opportunity is $174 billion, and although the U.S.-Mexico remittance corridor is still the largest, it will shrink by 4.5% in 2025. She pointed out that fintech and stablecoin companies should focus on the faster-growing Central American corridor and intra-Latin American remittances, not just the U.S.-Mexico corridor. Wang also mentioned that companies like Western Union and MoneyGram plan to launch stablecoin infrastructure to adapt to market changes.

According to Coinworld.com, BTC short orders reduced their holdings by 25.30 coins, equivalent to approximately $2,040,864.99. The current position size is $8,120,951.46, the average price is $79,058.30, the current P&L is -$118,790.01 (-58.51%), the current price is $80,231.90, and the liquidation price is $80,769.65. During December last year, the address continuously increased its holdings of mainstream currencies such as BTC and ETH, and once became the largest short whale on BTC on Hyperliquid with a position size of $120 million.

According to Coinworld.com, whales reduced their holdings of 6,280 CL short positions in the traditional asset market, equivalent to about $967,317.64, with a current position size of $5,440,262.55, an average price of $93.83, and a current profit and loss of -$410,555.13 (-31.44%). The whale was long on the Nasdaq and BTC at the high, and blank silver at the same time, and after losing all three lines, he went long on the Nasdaq and BTC again, short crude oil, and was killed by both long and short. At present, the whale is involved in crypto, US stocks and block trading at the same time with a scale of more than 50 million.

According to Coin.com, Loracle, an early contributor to Hyperliquid, increased its holdings by 20.89 BTC long orders, or about $2 million. The current position size is $25.5557 million, the average price has been adjusted from $78,355.10 to $78,408.10, and the current profit and loss is +565,065.21, an increase of +44.22%. The current BTC price is $80,180.91 and the liquidation price is $44,463.98.

According to Coin.com, Loracle, an early contributor to Hyperliquid, recently increased its holdings of ZEC long orders by 3,366.61, or about $1,488,328.38. The current position size is US$8,427,463.16, the average price has risen from US$359.06 to US$368.56, the current P&L is US$989,025.33 (+117.36%), the current price is US$417.56, and the liquidation price is US$0.

According to Coin.com, Goldman Sachs estimated that Japan spent about 5 trillion yen on foreign exchange market intervention last week, and said that policymakers could theoretically carry out 30 more interventions of a similar scale. Goldman Sachs pointed out that Japan's intervention when the yen exchange rate is above 160 against the dollar, albeit with relatively low volatility, indicates that the authorities are drawing its "line of defense". Goldman Sachs believes that Japan's Ministry of Finance is unlikely to use most of its foreign exchange reserves for intervention, but will carefully choose the most effective timing, such as when the yen depreciates rapidly. While the Japanese government has not yet issued an official comment on whether to intervene last week, Goldman Sachs' estimates show its focus on the market.

According to Coin World News, Yoshitaka Kitao, chairman and president of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings, said when talking about the competition for yen stablecoins that the yen stablecoins existing in the market are "small in scale and have no influence", and said that if the JPYS launched by SBI is officially operational, related competing projects "may be difficult to continue". He also revealed that he had considered acquiring the other company, but eventually gave up because the offer was too high. Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich replied that JPYC, JPYS launched by SBI, and the pilot program of the three major Japanese banks are promoting the yen on the chain in different ways. The US dollar stablecoin market has more than ten issuers and the overall scale continues to grow, and the yen stablecoin can also expand through multi-party competition.

According to Coin World Network, Maji Huang Licheng increased his BTC long position by 66.00 on the Hyperliquid platform, equivalent to about $5,704,782.00. The current position size is US$33963702.00, the average price has been adjusted from US$77,141.80 to US$77,800.80, the current profit and loss is US$820,549.63 (+96.64%), the current currency price is US$79,726.97, and the liquidation price is US$74,858.23. The trader had made a profit from blue-chip NFTs, but since October last year, he has experienced a huge drawdown, shrinking his funds from more than 100 million to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

According to CoinWorld.com, Anthropic is finalizing an agreement to form a new joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and several other Wall Street companies to sell artificial intelligence tools to private equity-backed companies. People familiar with the matter said that the announcement could be made as early as Monday. Core participants in the deal include Anthropic, Blackstone and Friedman Company, each expected to invest about $300 million, and Goldman Sachs, as the founding investor, will invest about $150 million. Transatlantic Investment Group and other companies are also involved in the transaction, with an estimated total committed investment of approximately $1.5 billion.

According to Coinworld.com, the floating profit of ETH long orders on Matrixport's related address (sub-address 1) has expanded to US$3,550,235.03, an increase of 75.40%. The average price of this address is $2,265.44, the current coin price is $2,354.20, the liquidation price is $1,345.14, and the open position size is $94,168,000.00. The address has received funds from Matrixport (now renamed Bit) many times, and is now the largest long ETH on the chain, with two associated addresses jointly opening positions.

According to Coinnet.com, Hermes Agent has added a kanban multi-agent collaboration system in v0.12.0. The core idea of the system is to put tasks on the shared Kanban board, and each agent claims and executes them in parallel as an independent operating system process, replacing the scheduling method of sub-agent groups within the process. The whole system runs around the local sqlite database, and each claim is an atomic transaction, and only one can get it when multiple agents compete for the same task. If the agent crashes or times out, the scheduler automatically recycles the task through process survival detection and reassigns it three times in a row to trigger a circuit breaker, and the task is automatically locked and waiting for manual intervention to prevent the Kanban board from idling. The framework has two built-in skills: Orchestrator and Worker, the former is responsible for disassembling the target and assigning it to the expert role, and the latter is responsible for execution. Parent-child dependencies can be established between tasks, and the summary and metadata after the upstream is completed are automatically passed to the downstream agent. The system supports multiple collaboration modes and pushes events in real-time through the web dashboard.

According to Coinworld.com, the decentralized Bitcoin trading platform Bisq issued an article disclosing that the final compensation model for the previous vulnerability will be submitted to the DAO for voting. The initial plan is to allow affected users to choose to receive compensation in BTC or BSQ. Bisq stated that the vulnerability stemmed from the system's lack of verification of negative input values for takers, and the attacker provided negative gas fees, reducing the multi-signature output amount to 0.001 BTC, and the remaining funds were transferred to the taker's change output. Bisq said it could not confirm whether the attack was AI-assisted, but during the investigation, the AI-assisted analysis team located and reproduced the vulnerability faster than manual inspection, and the attacker may have used a similar method.

According to Crowdfund Insider, Squads announced the completion of a $18 million strategic financing, led by Solana Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, L1D, Electric Capital, Placeholder, Jump Crypto, Robot Ventures, etc. The cumulative financing amount reached US$42.9 million. The round will be used to accelerate its stablecoin infrastructure-based financial operating system, Altitude. Since its public launch in December 2025, Altitude has processed more than $200 million in payments for exporters, global agencies, crypto-native companies, and cross-border remote teams.

According to ChainCatcher news, blockchain trading platform Ekiden announced the completion of a $2 million seed round of financing, with the company's valuation reaching $20 million. The round was led by Unicorn Factory Ventures and P2 Ventures, while attracting angel investors who have invested in projects such as GSR, Pyth, Aptos, LayerZero, and Cube Exchange. It is reported that Ekiden is committed to bringing institutional-grade transactions on-chain, providing efficient and secure transaction solutions through blockchain technology.

According to Gate data, the U.S. and Brent oils fluctuated higher, and WTI crude oil rose more than 2.00% during the day and is now trading at $104.22 per barrel. Brent crude oil stood at $108 per barrel, up 0.43% on the day, after falling more than 2% at one point. According to the news, Israeli media said that the US operation in Hormuz will begin within a few hours.

Odaily Planet Daily News, Arkham published an article disclosing that BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes' net worth estimate in 2026 may be between $200 million and $350 million, of which about $42 million in verifiable on-chain assets, and his wealth mainly comes from BitMEX equity, family office Maelstrom fund and potential undisclosed token investments. Despite a significant decline from its peak in 2019, when annual trading volume exceeded $1 trillion and a valuation of approximately $3.6 billion, BitMEX is currently valued at around $500 million, it still constitutes its core source of assets. Arthur Hayes was sentenced in 2022 for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and was pardoned by Donald Trump in 2025. Despite the regulatory turmoil, it remains influential in the crypto industry, especially in perpetual swap innovation and market perspective output. Overall, Arthur Hayes is still regarded as an important opinion leader in the crypto market, and his asset structure is highly correlated with market cycles.

According to ChainCatcher news, the decentralized trading platform Hyperliquid has officially launched the HIP-4 event contract. On the first trading day of its launch, the notional trading volume of the product reached 6.05 million contracts, accounting for about 0.7% of the total forecast market volume on that day. In contrast, mainstream prediction market platforms still led significantly in terms of trading volume on the same day: Kalshi had about 546 million contracts, Polymarket had about 190 million contracts, Limitless had about 68.26 million contracts, Crypto.com had about 28.2 million contracts, Opinion had about 25.72 million contracts, and Predict.fun about 11.8 million contracts. According to the data, although Hyperliquid entered the event contract track with a small initial scale, it has achieved cold start trading volume, marking its official entry into the prediction market competition landscape. In the short term, the head platform still occupies an absolute liquidity advantage, and subsequent growth depends on product design and user migration capabilities.