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According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, a whale using the Scalping strategy on Hyperliquid opened a 40x leveraged BTC short position for a short time, with a position size of $15.3 million, an average entry price of $80,600, a take-profit set at $80,100, and a stop-loss set at $80,700. This is the whale's third time this week attempting to profit from narrow price differences with a large position. Despite the position size often reaching tens of millions of dollars, the total net profit from multiple operations is only about $8,000, resulting in an overall account return rate of less than 2%. Address: 0x6572bc26edf54a74bef243eff10d3fbe6d461eb7.

According to BBX data, this week the outflow channels of cryptocurrency infrastructure and the forward-looking financial reports of mining companies are advancing on two fronts, with the core dynamics as follows:Kraken (parent company Payward, Inc.) and the global payment network MoneyGram announced the establishment of a global strategic partnership through PR Newswire on May 5. Kraken users can withdraw cash exchanged for cryptocurrency in hundreds of fiat currencies at nearly 500,000 MoneyGram physical locations covering over 100 countries; initially focusing on cryptocurrency outflows, with plans to expand to local bank deposits and cross-border remittance flows; Kraken is responsible for customer identity verification, while MoneyGram provides licensed remittance services and compliance frameworks. Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed in an interview with Fortune that the company's IPO progress is "close to 80%," having previously submitted its confidential S-1 filing to the SEC. Bloomberg estimates the current valuation at approximately $13.3 billion based on a $200 million equity investment from Deutsche Börse.MARA Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: $MARA) officially announced on ir.mara.com on May 4 that its Q1 2026 financial report will be released after the market closes on May 11, with a conference call scheduled for 5:00 PM (ET); analyst consensus expects an EPS of approximately -$2.34 and revenue of about $184.2 million. As of the end of 2025, the company holds 53,822 BTC, with full-year revenue for 2025 at $907 million (up 38% year-on-year) and a hash rate of 66.4 EH/s; during Q1 2026, the price of BTC fell from about $87,000 to around $68,000, putting pressure on the mining company's total costs. The market will focus on the progress of its AI/HPC data center transformation and the rollout pace of the Starwood JV, which exceeds 1 gigawatt capacity.The U.S. Department of Labor released the April non-farm employment data on May 8, showing an increase of 115,000 jobs, nearly double the market expectation; Bitcoin maintained a range of $79,000---$80,000 after the data was released, with the market interpreting this "soft landing" signal as favorable for risk assets—an unheated job market means an increased probability of the Federal Reserve maintaining current interest rates, keeping the mid-term liquidity environment for cryptocurrency stable. The monthly net inflow for Bitcoin spot ETFs in April was approximately $2.44 billion, the strongest single month data of the year; April's monthly close rose by 16%, and if May's closing price remains above $76,000, it will confirm three consecutive months of positive monthly closes for Bitcoin, which Fundstrat founder Tom Lee defines as a "bear market ending signal."

According to Decrypt, Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf announced its first-quarter financial report, with a net loss of $427 million, compared to a loss of $61.4 million in the same period last year. The company's revenue was $34 million, of which 60% (approximately $21 million) came from AI computing business, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 117%; revenue from Bitcoin mining, on the other hand, decreased by 50% quarter-over-quarter to approximately $13 million.The CEO stated that the first quarter is a year of execution, and the company has established a complete platform, transforming its foundation into operational performance and recurring revenue. TeraWulf CFO Patrick Fleury mentioned that the company is shifting towards a more stable contracted revenue model, reducing its reliance on the volatility of Bitcoin mining. The company will continue to repurpose some of its Bitcoin mining operations to support higher-value high-performance computing workloads.

According to Cointelegraph, cryptocurrency analyst Matthew Hyland stated that Bitcoin may have bottomed out around $60,000 in early February, and it is unlikely to see lower prices later this year.He pointed out that dozens of bottom signals appeared simultaneously when Bitcoin reached $60,000 in the first quarter of 2026, while these signals do not appear in the middle of a bull market. Hyland believes that the current market is not in the middle of a bear market, and this judgment has obvious flaws because bottom signals only flash at true bottoms.Previously, veteran trader Peter Brandt believed that $60,000 might not be the lowest point in 2026, while Willy Woo stated that Bitcoin has only completed about one-third of its bear market journey.

Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf announced its Q1 financial report, showing that its high-performance computing (HPC) business has for the first time surpassed Bitcoin mining revenue, marking a critical stage in the company's transformation towards AI and cloud computing infrastructure.The company's total revenue for Q1 was $34 million, roughly flat compared to the same period last year. Among this, HPC leasing revenue reached $21 million, surpassing the less than $13 million from digital asset mining for the first time, becoming the main source of income. The financial report also indicated that the company's net loss widened to $427.6 million, mainly due to the impact of non-cash warrant revaluation. However, CFO Patrick Fleury emphasized that the company is transitioning from "volatile mining revenue" to "stable long-term computing power contract revenue." Currently, TeraWulf has 60 MW of HPC capacity generating revenue at its Lake Mariner data center in New York and plans to continue expanding within the year. At the same time, the company is transforming part of its mining infrastructure into AI/HPC computing resources to support massive computing power demands. This trend is spreading throughout the industry, with Bitcoin mining companies like Riot Platforms also expanding their revenue structure through data centers and AI contracts, gradually transforming into "computing power infrastructure companies."

According to Slow Fog CISO @im23pds's post on the X platform: attackers used 13 accounts to implant 575 malicious Skills into Hugging Face and ClawHub.

Coinbase stated that the system detected a high error rate in multiple services, subsequently pinpointing the failure to the AWS US-EAST-1 availability zone use1-az4. The Coinbase system originally had single availability zone fault tolerance, but this failure affected multiple availability zones, resulting in a prolonged interruption of core trading services.The main issues have now been fully resolved, and the team will conduct a comprehensive analysis of this incident and provide further updates after AWS releases the official review report.

Coinbase experienced service interruptions due to rising temperatures at the AWS US-EAST-1 data center. Trading will first resume in "cancel only" mode, with full trading recovery coming soon.

According to Ambcrypto, Coinbase has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to jointly launch a new payment layer that allows AI Agents to autonomously make micro-payments using USDC.The solution integrates Coinbase's wallet infrastructure and the x402 payment protocol into Amazon Bedrock's AgentCore Payments system. Developers can build AI agents that autonomously discover services, pay on demand, and complete tasks without human intervention.Reports indicate that the x402 protocol is based on the HTTP 402 "Payment Required" standard, with transactions completed in about 200 milliseconds at a cost of just a fraction of a cent, supporting high-frequency low-value machine-native payments. The system also includes enterprise-level budget control and compliance tools.

According to The Block, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Coinbase and Stripe to launch Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, enabling AI agents to complete transactions using stablecoins.Coinbase stated that developers can build "agent-based payment" solutions based on the x402 protocol, allowing AI agents to make small payments using USDC. This feature enables AI agents to make instant payments for web content, APIs, MCP servers, and other agents. AWS noted that developers can choose between Coinbase or Stripe wallets and recharge their wallets using stablecoins or fiat currency.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, during the continued pullback of BTC from its peak last night, the whale on Hyperliquid with address 0xc6c chose to go against the trend, going long on 109.7 BTC with 35x leverage, amounting to 8.8 million USD, at an average price of 82,000 USD, with a liquidation line at 80,650 USD.This morning, the downward trend of BTC continued, and the price briefly hovered near the liquidation line, with a price difference of less than 50 USD (about 0.06%). The whale may have given up on closing the position for the first time as most of the funds were already lost on paper. Later in the afternoon, BTC rebounded to around 81,680 USD, significantly recovering on paper, and the unrealized loss narrowed. However, the whale chose to remain inactive again. Ultimately, in the past 10 minutes, BTC faced a large-scale liquidation during a second drop, and then manually stopped out before the next round of liquidation, with the account balance dropping below 100,000 USD.

The next-generation financial operating system PhotonPay has won three awards at the Mastercard Annual Partner Awards Gala, namely: New Product Launch Award (Physical Card), New Service Launch Award (MDES Digital Empowerment), and New Service Launch Award (Consulting Services). This marks PhotonPay's role as a next-generation financial operating system that is comprehensively reshaping the financial infrastructure landscape for global enterprises.The PhotonPay physical card is issued on the Mastercard network, supporting real-time consumption tracking globally, multi-level limit control, 3D Secure authentication, and significantly reducing cross-border transaction fees. The flexible open API meets the personalized customization needs of enterprises.MDES Digital Empowerment reflects the deep integration of PhotonPay with Mastercard's digital empowerment services, allowing virtual and physical cards to be linked to Apple Pay and Google Pay in seconds, with transaction security ensured throughout by tokenization technology.The Consulting Services Award recognizes the effective collaboration between PhotonPay and the Mastercard expert team, helping PhotonPay create more compliant and competitive card product solutions for global clients.Lewison, founder and CEO of PhotonPay, stated that these honors reflect Mastercard's trust in PhotonPay and PhotonPay's adherence to its own standards. The company remains focused on building financial infrastructure that provides global enterprises with the tools for borderless operation, expansion, and competition.

Michael Selig, the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated at the Consensus 2026 conference that the CFTC has filed lawsuits against regulatory agencies in about five to six states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York, with the core dispute being the jurisdiction over prediction markets.He mentioned that if different circuit courts issue conflicting rulings, the related cases may ultimately be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Michael Selig stated that the Commodity Exchange Act clearly grants the CFTC exclusive regulatory authority over commodity derivatives, and that prediction market event contracts are financial derivatives traded on federally regulated exchanges, which are fundamentally different from traditional gaming venue models.He believes that some state-level regulatory agencies are attempting to challenge the validity of federal law through local regulations, and the CFTC will continue to file lawsuits against such actions.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, a high-leverage BTC long whale on Hyperliquid is approaching liquidation. This position was opened with 35x leverage yesterday evening, with the liquidation line at $80,650, less than $200 away from the current price, triggering a distance of only about 0.25%. If the price falls to touch this liquidation range, it is expected that approximately $8.8 million in liquidations will occur on-chain, coinciding with the concentrated release of sell orders of the same scale. Currently, this position has an unrealized loss of 50%. Address: 0xc6cfc26b057f9f70a4cfdd896f075d86315d9d23.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet has withdrawn 349,999 HYPE (approximately $15.21 million) from Coinbase in the past 24 hours and has staked it.

According to FinanceFeeds, the victim's lawyer from North Korea attempted to redefine the rsETH attack incident that occurred on Aave as "fraud" rather than "theft" before a hearing at the Manhattan federal court, in order to maintain a freeze order on assets worth $71 million in ETH.The lawyer argued that the attacker borrowed assets using worthless collateral and did not repay, which constitutes a fraudulent loan transaction, aiming to use these frozen assets to pay for terrorism judgment compensation under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.Previously, hackers associated with the Lazarus Group minted unsecured rsETH through a cross-chain bridge vulnerability and borrowed approximately $230 million in assets from Aave, of which $71 million was intercepted by Arbitrum developers. The victim's lawyer also questioned Aave's standing, pointing out that its terms of service state it does not have control over user assets. Additionally, DeFi United has raised $327 million, exceeding the amount in dispute.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the whale "0x0a8" further withdrew 9,288 ETH ($21.94 million) from Bybit. This whale currently holds 27,098 ETH ($64 million).