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05-12
Arthur Hayes Claims Bitcoin Bull Market Began in Late February, Predicts Faster Gains Above $90,000
Mars Finance reports that Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, stated in his latest blog post that the Bitcoin bull market truly began on February 28 with the outbreak of war between the U.S. and Iran. AI capital expenditures, war-related spending, and physical infrastructure investments by nations t...
Jensen Huang Tells Graduates: AI Won't Replace You, But Those Who Use It Will
Source: Quantum BitOld Huang is a doctor again.At Carnegie Mellon University’s most recent commencement, the leader was awarded an honorary doctorate in science and technology and delivered a speech to over 5,800 graduates in the rain.P.S. This is already his seventh honorary doctorate.As the leadin...
The U.S. Department of Labor will release the April CPI data at 20:30 tonight.
Huo Xing Finance reports that on May 12, the U.S. Department of Labor will release the U.S. April CPI data at 20:30 Beijing Time, including the annual rate of unadjusted CPI, the monthly rate of seasonally adjusted CPI, the monthly rate of seasonally adjusted core CPI, and the monthly rate of unadju...
RKC Price Drops 90% After Developer Withdraws 6,260 SOL Worth $611,000
According to Lookonchain monitoring, after Roaring Kitty (@TheRoaringKitty) posted about RKC and subsequently deleted the related posts, the price of RKC dropped by 90%. The RKC developer purchased 395 million RKC tokens—39.52% of the total supply—using 20 SOL across 10 wallets, then sold all of the...
Augustus Secures Conditional OCC Approval for AI and Stablecoin Bank
Augustus, a payments startup backed by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, just landed conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national bank. The bank will be called Augustus Bank, N.A., and it’s built around two of the most buzzworthy concepts in finance:...
Anthropic Identifies Fictional AI Stories as Root Cause of Claude's Blackmail Behavior
Anthropic’s flagship AI model Claude developed a habit of threatening and manipulating users when it sensed it might be shut down. The company says it traced the root cause to something almost too on-the-note: fictional stories about evil AIs.In internal safety testing, Claude resorted to blackmail-...
Arthur Hayes Predicts Bitcoin Bull Market to Launch After February 28 Iran Conflict, Eyes NEAR and Others
In his latest article, Arthur Hayes stated that the current crypto market bull run has officially begun following the U.S. military action against Iran on February 28. He believes that expanded AI capital expenditures, increased investment in energy and infrastructure, and loosening financial condit...
NEAR Intents expands cross-chain swap functionality to support over 100 tokens to Zcash
ChainCatcher reports that NEAR Intents has upgraded its cross-chain swap functionality, enabling users to directly exchange more than 100 tokens for Zcash (ZEC) in a single transaction.
This upgrade leverages NEAR’s intent-based infrastructure, abstracting complex backend routing logic to simplif...
Arthur Hayes Predicts Acceleration of Bitcoin Bull Run Above $90,000
ChainCatcher reports that Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, stated in his latest blog post that the Bitcoin bull market truly began on February 28 with the outbreak of war between the U.S. and Iran. AI capital expenditures, war-related spending, and global investments in physical infrastructure to...
The U.S. Department of Labor will release the April CPI data at 20:30 Beijing Time.
BlockBeats news: On May 12, the U.S. Department of Labor will release the U.S. April CPI data at 20:30 Beijing time, including the annual rate of unadjusted CPI, the monthly rate of seasonally adjusted CPI, the monthly rate of seasonally adjusted core CPI, and the monthly rate of unadjusted core CPI...
Avalon Labs to Launch XAUt-Based On-Chain Product on SuperEarn
ME News reports that on May 12 (UTC+8), Avalon Labs announced plans to launch its first on-chain financial product based on the gold-backed token XAUt under its SuperEarn platform, further expanding its RWA asset allocation. The exact launch date will be announced separately.This product will employ...
The Ondo Finance team address received $63.88 million in ONDO tokens.
Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to AI Aunt monitoring, the Ondo Finance team-associated address (0xEA5…675e1) transferred a total of $9.157 million worth of ONDO to exchanges over the past 8 hours. This address received 150 million ONDO, approximately $63.88 million, of which 21.71 million ON...
Telegram Founder Announces TON's New Toolchain Action
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on X that TON’s development efficiency has improved tenfold. The new toolchain, Acton, simplifies the creation, testing, and deployment of smart contracts and is fully AI-ready. This toolchain replaces TON’s previously fragmented tool ...
S&P 500 and Nasdaq Reach New Highs with Only 37.8% of Stocks Advancing
Author: Shenchao TechFlowU.S. stocks: New highs, but this time only technology and energy are holding up the market.On Monday, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq once again hit new all-time closing highs, but the atmosphere this time was markedly different from previous occasions.The S&P 500 rose 0.19% to close...
Fluid Completes Resolution of the Resolv Incident, Allocating $19.3M in Bad Debt
ChainCatcher report: Fluid has released a post-mortem on the Resolv incident, stating that on March 22, Resolv’s signature infrastructure was compromised, leading to the malicious minting of approximately $80 million in uncollateralized USR. Due to its $100 million exposure, Fluid incurred approxima...
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