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Bitget held a special AMA on US stock operations today. Xie Jiayin, the head of the Greater China region, responded to recent user concerns about the number of US stock tokens during the live broadcast.He stated that one of the most common suggestions the team received in the past week was to further enrich the number of tradable US stock tokens.Xie Jiayin announced during the live broadcast that Bitget will launch 500 popular US stock spot tokens within 7 days. He pointed out that this goal is not merely about pursuing quantity, but is based on the judgment of the platform's trading data. If the selection of targets is precise enough, 500 popular targets can cover about 98% of trading volume demand.

Bitget Chief Legal Officer Hon Ng today released an open letter, announcing that Bitget has officially launched the 2026 Global Anti-Fraud Month campaign, themed "More Assets, Stronger Protection."In the letter, Hon Ng pointed out that as the platform expands from crypto assets to a multi-asset ecosystem, users face increasingly complex cybersecurity threats while enjoying broader market access. He emphasized that the multi-asset era means greater responsibility. User protection is not a one-time project but a continuous result of risk monitoring, rapid response, security education, and industry collaboration.The open letter also disclosed Bitget's security and anti-fraud achievements for 2025. Data shows that Bitget intercepted over 150 million malicious attack requests throughout the year, identified over 13,000 high-risk malicious IPs, handled 18,135 user protection cases, and assisted users in recovering approximately $32.3 million related to security incidents and fraudulent activities.In addition, Bitget's security system achieved over 2.8 billion risk interceptions through customized protection rules, defended against over 1.5 billion DDoS attack attempts, and introduced machine learning-based behavioral analysis capabilities to further identify suspicious activities and potential risks.

On June 5, local time, the High Court of England held a procedural hearing regarding the asset disposal related to the Qian Zhiming case. Regarding approximately 60,000 bitcoins and other assets involved in the case, about 16,000 Chinese victims have registered through multiple UK law firms to participate in the civil recovery process under the UK Proceeds of Crime Act. The registration window closed on May 22.An important topic of this hearing was how multiple law firms would share the common litigation costs. The judge ultimately decided that each law firm would pay their corresponding share of £190,000 into the court account based on the number of victims they represent, with a deadline of June 26 at 4 PM. A special hearing to determine the "legal applicability issue" of whether Chinese victims can claim ownership of the assets involved will be held in July.

GoPlus posted on platform X that the Meta account recovery feature has been exposed to a high-risk design flaw, which could directly leak users' phone numbers, email addresses, and PII (Personally Identifiable Information). Attackers only need to input the META username without any login or verification to directly obtain the complete PII linked to the user, such as email addresses and phone numbers. This could pose significant risks to users, including: large-scale phishing attacks, SIM card swapping attacks, account takeover and identity theft, and targeted social engineering attacks.Recommendations: Remove or change the leaked email/phone number as a recovery method; modify related account passwords and enable 2FA; do not click on any emails or messages related to "account anomalies," "verification," or "password reset"; set up multi-channel verification, which can be verified through official documents or other official social media channels.

Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl stated that after Strategy disclosed the sale of 32 BTC on June 1, it triggered a new round of volatility in the BTC market. He pointed out that the scale of the sale itself is not important, as Strategy still holds approximately 840,000 BTC on its balance sheet, valued at about $5.5 billion. However, as one of the largest digital asset treasury managers in the world, its strategic shift puts pressure on market sentiment.Pandl believes that more importantly, the recent volatility affects the price of Strategy's variable rate preferred stock tool STRC. STRC is designed to maintain a price of about $100 per share, with a current dividend yield of 11.5%. If the stock price falls below $100, it means investors are demanding a higher return. Strategy can increase dividends, but this will increase future cash flow obligations and may lead to more BTC sales, further suppressing BTC prices. Strategy's leveraged business model is under pressure, increasing volatility across the entire BTC market.At the current levels of STRC and MSTR stock prices, Grayscale believes that Strategy's ability to continue accumulating more BTC is limited. However, Grayscale believes that in the long term, reducing the BTC on the leveraged digital asset treasury balance sheet and allowing more BTC to be distributed across diversified corporate balance sheets will benefit the health of the Bitcoin ecosystem. But before a sustainable bottom for BTC prices is formed, other buyers need to enter the market. Grayscale expects BTC prices to recover in the coming months, but in the short term, BTC's performance may lag behind other segments of the crypto market that directly benefit from regulatory clarity.

Binance Research stated that the recent weakening of the cryptocurrency market may not be due to the cryptocurrency assets themselves, but rather due to the high concentration of funds in the U.S. stock market. It pointed out that the CBOE Discrete Index rose to 42, the third highest in history, reflecting the concentration of funds within the S&P 500 index towards a few popular themes, which has marginalized Bitcoin.

According to Decrypt, after the CFTC in the United States approved Bitcoin perpetual contracts last Friday, the prediction market Kalshi quickly submitted self-certification applications for 12 mainstream altcoin perpetual contracts, including Ethereum, XRP, Solana, Dogecoin, Stellar, Chainlink, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Sui, Shiba Inu, Polkadot, and Hedera.When approving the Bitcoin perpetual contracts, the CFTC stated that perpetual contracts for other assets would be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, so Kalshi's batch of applications has not yet been approved.

According to The Block, Gnosis co-founder and CEO Martin Koppelmann confirmed that the Zodiac delay module related to Gnosis Pay is currently under exploitation. Attackers can initiate transactions from Safe wallets that integrate this module, and Gnosis has requested cross-chain bridge validators to pause to control the risk.Koppelmann stated that Gnosis will cover all user losses and will remove the previous announcement urging users to urgently withdraw EURe and GNO, noting that most users are unable to withdraw their tokens independently. The team is working to control most of the losses and ensure that all users receive full compensation. Gnosis emphasized that the vulnerability is within the Gnosis Pay system, and the core contracts of Safe are unaffected.

A white hat hacker using the alias "0xflorent" stated on X on Sunday that he has helped recover approximately 1,003 ETH (worth about $2 million) from a faulty smart contract of the Hong Coin (HONG) token sale in 2016, involving 48 investors.Hong Coin was originally designed as a community-operated decentralized venture capital fund, with the token sale starting on August 29, 2016, and ending on October 28 of the same year, but it failed to launch due to not reaching its funding goal. The contract was supposed to automatically refund investors, but a vulnerability in the refund function caused the funds to be locked for nearly a decade.0xflorent collaborated with the HONG creator to exploit an administrator function with an integer overflow vulnerability, resetting the token holders' balances and triggering the refund mechanism through specific inputs, successfully extracting the locked funds. According to Etherscan data, one investor has already received a refund of 96 ETH (approximately $192,500). Previously, on May 24, 0xflorent also recovered 19.33 ETH from another failed token sale project from 2018.

The French newspaper "Le Monde" revealed that there has been new progress in the investigation of a cryptocurrency-related kidnapping case that occurred in 2023. French law enforcement discovered a transnational money laundering network involving multiple countries and cryptocurrency wallets while tracing the flow of a €1.7 million cryptocurrency ransom. The victim was the father of the well-known crypto influencer "TeufeurS." The kidnappers threatened the victim's family via text messages and demanded ransom payment in cryptocurrency. Ultimately, TeufeurS transferred a total of €1.7 million to the kidnappers' designated wallet in two installments, after which his father was released.The investigation showed that part of the ransom flowed into wallet accounts controlled by foreign nationals after multiple transfers. One transfer of $131,000 was successfully traced by the French gendarmerie, with leads ultimately pointing to a cryptocurrency wallet controlled by Venezuelan nationals. The case further revealed the complex chain of money laundering utilized by criminal organizations through cross-border cryptocurrency transfers, anonymous wallets, and overseas platforms. The report stated that this case is considered one of the significant examples of kidnapping and extortion cases in the European cryptocurrency industry and may serve as an early template for multiple kidnapping cases targeting cryptocurrency practitioners in France and Europe in 2025.

According to CoinDesk, Strategy perpetual preferred stock STRC (Stretch) fell to a low of $97.11 on Thursday, then rebounded to $98.57, failing to maintain the par value of $100. The pressure on STRC mainly comes from Bitcoin's drop to around $73,000, compounded by the effects of the ex-dividend date.Recently, Strategy spent $1.5 billion to repurchase zero-coupon convertible bonds maturing in 2029, causing cash reserves to plummet from about $2.25 billion to $871 million. Based on an annual preferred stock dividend obligation of about $1.7 billion, the current cash can only cover about 6 months, far below the previously set target of 24 months. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor stated that the company will raise funds by selling Bitcoin, issuing additional shares when MSTR's stock price exceeds 1.22 times NAV, or continuing to issue STRC.Meanwhile, competitor Strive Asset Management's perpetual preferred stock SATA continues to anchor at a par value of $100, offering about a 13% dividend yield, and plans to launch a daily dividend mechanism, having completely eliminated debt. Over the past three months, Strive's stock price has increased by about 110%, significantly outperforming MSTR's 12% increase and Bitcoin's 8% increase.

According to official news, the application channel for Gate Card is currently open, and global user participation continues to rise. Currently, Gate Card supports over 100 countries and regions worldwide, covering approximately 130 million merchants that accept Visa, and is compatible with Apple Pay and Google Pay, usable for various consumption scenarios such as online shopping, offline retail, and dining travel.At the same time, Gate Card has launched a brand video that showcases scenarios around global consumption, mobile payments, and the everyday application of crypto assets, further conveying the product concept of "integrating crypto payments into real life."It is reported that Gate Card offers up to 5% cashback on spending, supports cashback in multiple currencies including BTC, ETH, USDT, GT, and provides benefits such as free card application, no annual fee, and no monthly fee. Industry insiders believe that as the mobile payment ecosystem and crypto assets become further integrated, crypto payment products are gradually extending from transaction scenarios to high-frequency consumption scenarios. In addition, Gate Card has recently launched a limited-time referral reward activity. Users who invite friends to complete card opening and spending can both receive up to 165 USDT in rewards.

Recently, the technology sector of the US stock market has continued its structural strength, with AI and leading consumer electronics companies remaining the focus of capital attention. According to Gate market data, NVIDIA (NVDA) is currently priced at about $210.67, with a slight intraday pullback, but the demand for AI computing power and expectations for data center expansion remain core drivers in the medium to long term. In the derivatives market, according to CoinGlass data, NVDAX on the Gate platform reached a trading volume of $4.6 million in 24 hours, with open contracts totaling $3.42 million, both ranking first globally.As global user demand for traditional asset allocation such as US stocks continues to grow, Gate is continuously bridging the gap between cryptocurrency and traditional financial trading scenarios through a unified account system. Users can conveniently participate in trading mainstream global assets such as stocks, metals, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities through a single USDT account, further enhancing cross-market trading efficiency and capital usage flexibility. Gate has launched over 130 perpetual contract targets related to US stocks, as well as over 430 CFD contract targets, and continues to expand its diverse product lines including spot tokens, perpetual contracts, and on-chain assets, supporting 24/7 trading to provide users with a more flexible and efficient one-stop global asset trading experience.

Kelp DAO announced on Monday that after losing $293 million due to an attack by North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18, rsETH has been fully restored after five weeks of repairs. Kelp DAO stated that the final batch of 20,373.7 rsETH has been sent to the LayerZero smart contract responsible for cross-chain transfers, officially concluding the operational phase of the rsETH recovery plan.Multiple crypto protocols contributed funds through the DeFi United initiative to assist in restoring the support for rsETH. The first batch of 25,000 rsETH was transferred on May 13, and withdrawals were reopened the next day. Currently, minting, redemption, and reward operations are all functioning normally. This attack caused a chain reaction in the DeFi lending market, with the attacker borrowing WETH using a large amount of stolen rsETH as collateral on Aave, resulting in Aave incurring $190 million in bad debt. The TVL dropped from $26.4 billion to below $14 billion and has since remained in the range of $13.9 billion to $15.1 billion without showing signs of recovery. In April, there were 25 crypto hacking incidents, resulting in total losses of $630 million.

According to official news, KelpDAO stated that the last batch of 20,373.72 rsETH has been transferred to the rsETH OFT adapter earlier, thus completing the operational part of the rsETH recovery plan. KelpDAO also attached the relevant transaction information.

CITIC Securities believes that the U.S. and Iran are increasingly close to reaching an agreement, and the market has basically priced this as the baseline scenario. The biggest change after reaching an agreement will be the simultaneous replenishment of supply and demand and a rapid warming of economic activity. Currently, some economic indicators are noticeably weak, reflecting a delay in demand ahead of the U.S.-Iran agreement and the resumption of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. Micro entities are waiting rather than rushing to replenish inventory and start operations, which is an abnormal disturbance. As the agreement is reached and navigation in the Strait is restored, supply and demand will return to normal, and economic activity will show significant improvement after June. Changes in macro variables will also alter the environmental assumptions of market strategies, leading to a gradual balancing of styles. The reduction of large funds is nearing its end, and after macro stability is achieved, allocation funds will gradually return, driving the recovery of some undervalued sectors. In terms of allocation, continue to actively reduce volatility and reconstruct the barbell structure of AI + energy.

Toncoin announced that its bridge-v3 cross-chain bridge is scheduled to officially and permanently close on September 1, 2026. During the transition period before the closure, all proportionally charged cross-chain fees have been canceled, and users who have used the bridge are reminded to check their wallets as soon as possible and complete the withdrawal of any unprocessed or unrecovered assets before the deadline.If you hold Wrapped TON in Ethereum or BNB Smart Chain, you should rebridge to the TON network before the deadline. If you hold tokens such as jUSDT, jUSDC, jDAI, jWBTC, etc., you need to bridge back to the Ethereum network. Users must complete all asset migrations before the deadline to avoid assets being unable to operate across chains. After September 1, the cross-chain bridge will stop all transfer functions.