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According to the Gate.io News bot, monitoring data from Whale Alert shows that Tether Treasury completed a USDT issuance operation of 1 billion USD on the Tron network at 4:52 AM today, with a total value of approximately 1.001 billion USD.
In response, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino confirmed that this issuance belongs to "authorized but unissued" transactions, intended to reserve for future token issuance needs and on-chain exchange operations.
Source: Wu Shuo

According to Gate.io News bot messages and monitoring data from WhaleAlert, an Address holding 1078 Bitcoins worth $102,594,747 was reactivated at 7:07:58 AM Beijing time. The last activity record for this Address was 11.8 years ago, and its Bitcoin Holdings were valued at $93,419 in 2013.
Source: Wu Shuo

According to Gate.io News bot, crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that Caroline D. Pham, acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced at the Network Medici conference that the CFTC will participate as an observer in several industry tokenization pilot projects. By participating in these projects, the CFTC will observe the operation of tokenized assets in real-world scenarios while accumulating relevant regulatory technical experience.
Source: Wu Shuo

According to the Gate.io News bot, the market data from Gate.io shows that the BTC_USDT price has surpassed 95000 USDT, with the current price at 95009.3 USDT. The 24-hour increase is 0.16%.

Gate.io News bot message: According to the latest news, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to delay the evaluation of the Canary Spot Litecoin ETF application. The SEC stated that it needs more time to assess the application. The news comes from Wu Shuo.

According to Gate.io News bot, as reported by Wu, an important part of Solana's multi-client architecture strategy - the Agave validator node client has completed the release of version 2.2. This version has been developed by the Anza team and provides a comprehensive upgrade to the protocol's runtime performance and development experience.
The specific updates include: expanding the block size limit from 50M to 60M CUs, implementing a new account state hash mechanism ALH, and adding multi-version support for SBPF virtual machine. In addition, the new version adds secp256r1 signature verification to enable WebAuthn and account abstraction, removes the mandatory passing limit of caller program accounts in CPI, and enables Loader-v4 deployment mechanism and Greedy Scheduler.

According to the Gate.io News bot, Riot Platforms sold 475 Bitcoins in April 2025, marking the company's first large-scale sale of Bitcoin since January 2024. This sale included 463 BTC mined that month and 12 BTC from reserves, with total transaction proceeds reaching $38.8 million.
Riot Platforms has previously maintained a 100% holding strategy. The company's statement indicates that the purpose of this sale of Bitcoin is to support operations and reduce the need for equity financing, thereby avoiding equity dilution.

Gate.io News bot message, CNBC reported that U.S. President Donald Trump will host two Crypto Assets-themed dinners in May. The first "Crypto Assets and AI Innovators Dinner" is scheduled for May 5, hosted by MAGA Inc., with an entry fee of $1.5 million, featuring special guest David Sacks, who plays a key role in the policymaking of Crypto Assets and artificial intelligence.
The second banquet will be held on May 22 at Trump National in Washington, and eligibility to participate depends on the number of $TRUMP meme tokens held by attendees. The first 220 token holders will have the opportunity to dine with Trump.

According to Gate.io News bot, The Block reports that Republican members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee and the Agriculture Committee have jointly released a new discussion draft on the regulation of the encryption industry. This discussion draft expands on the FIT21 Act and clearly defines the regulatory responsibilities of the SEC and CFTC.
The discussion draft establishes registration procedures for digital commodity exchanges and sets information disclosure requirements. In addition, the discussion draft establishes two regulatory pathways: one is the project financing route under SEC supervision, and the other is the digital commodity trading registration mechanism under CFTC supervision.

According to Gate.io News bot, Wu Shuo reported that on May 5, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on the Myanmar armed group Karen National Army (KNA). OFAC pointed out that the organization is involved in illegal activities such as transnational cyber fraud, human trafficking, and smuggling.
Investigations show that the organization committed fraud by setting up fake cryptocurrency investment platforms, luring victims to invest funds for a long time before fleeing with the money. In 2022 and 2023, American victims suffered total losses of $2 billion and $3.5 billion, respectively.
OFAC further disclosed that KNA cooperated with Cambodian financial institutions such as Huione Group to conduct virtual asset money laundering through new types of cryptocurrency scams like "pig butchering".

According to Gate.io News bot, social engineering defense platform Doppel has announced the completion of a $35 million Series B financing round. This round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with new institutions such as 9Yards Capital and Sozo Ventures participating, while existing investors including a16z, South Park Commons, SCV, Script Capital, and Sabrina Hahn continued to invest.
Doppel was founded three years ago, mainly providing social engineering security services including brand counterfeiting protection, executive protection for enterprises, and defense against multichannel phishing attacks.

Gate.io News bot message, according to on-chain data, in the past 7 days, the total amount of stablecoins ( USDT and USDC ) on the Tron Blockchain increased by 993 million USD, while the total amount of stablecoins ( USDT and USDC ) on the TON Blockchain decreased by 150.21 million USD.
Data source: Lookonchain

According to Gate.io News bot, on-chain data shows that a Large Investor created a new Wallet and withdrew 448.14M HIPPO Tokens (worth $1.05 million) from the exchange in the past two days, becoming the second largest HIPPO holder outside the exchange.
Data further shows that recently, two large investors have cumulatively withdrawn 1.26B HIPPO tokens (worth 2.94 million USD) from the exchange.
According to a report from Lookonchain, a Large Investor has cumulatively purchased 627.73M HIPPO Tokens (worth $1.28 million) from the exchange in the past 5 days, becoming the largest HIPPO holder outside of the exchange.

According to the latest data from the Gate.io News bot, as of May 5, 10 Bitcoin ETFs have a net inflow of 7,887 Bitcoins, worth approximately $742.4 million. Among them, BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin ETF has a net inflow of 6,954 Bitcoins, valued at $654.59 million, with current holdings reaching 614,639 Bitcoins, totaling $57.86 billion.
During the same period, 9 Ethereum ETFs had a net inflow of 10,619 Ethereum, worth $19.2 million. BlackRock iShares Ethereum ETF had a net inflow of 10,898 Ethereum, worth $19.7 million.

Gate.io News bot message, Bloomberg reports that the digital asset trading company Crossover Markets Group Inc is preparing to enter the U.S. market. The company's CEO Brandon Mulvihill revealed that since Trump's election as U.S. president, the company has been laying the groundwork to serve U.S. institutional clients.
The company, headquartered in London, had previously not ventured into the U.S. market. Notably, Crossover Markets secured $12 million in Series A funding led by Illuminate Financial and DRW Venture Capital in June 2024.

According to the Gate.io News bot, DLNEWS reported that Israeli police arrested a hacker named Alexander Gurevich last week, who is suspected of being involved in the Nomad crypto assets theft case. The suspect holds dual nationality of Russia and Israel and was arrested while attempting to travel to Russia using fake identification. It is understood that Nomad lost $190 million in this attack.

Gate.io News bot message, Eric Semler, chairman of the publicly traded company Semler Scientific, announced that the company invested $16.2 million to acquire 167 Bitcoins, bringing the total Bitcoin Holdings of the company to 3,634. Data shows that the company's Bitcoin investment return rate from 2025 to date is 22.2%.
Source: Wu Says

According to Gate.io News bot, as reported by AggrNews, enterprise software company MicroStrategy completed a new round of Bitcoin purchases between April 28 and May 4. This transaction involved the purchase of 1,895 Bitcoins at an average buying price of $95,167, with a total investment amounting to $180.3 million.

Gate.io News bot message, according to QCP analysis, the non-farm payroll data released by the US last Friday showed an increase of 177,000 jobs, higher than the expected 133,000, with the unemployment rate remaining at 4.2%. Economists pointed out that the effects of tariffs have not yet fully manifested.
The S&P 500 index has risen for ten consecutive days, and has basically recovered the decline level after "May Day". The market predicts that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged this week.
Despite setting a quarterly loss record, Strategy has decided to raise its fundraising target to $84 billion to strengthen its long-term positioning in Bitcoin. The spot Bitcoin ETF continues to see net inflows of funds, with institutional investment demand remaining stable.
Source: wublock123