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In response to Ethereum core developer Trent Van Epps' lengthy article pointing out that Ethereum is entering a critical institutional turning point, including legitimacy distribution, governance structure evolution, and potential protocol funding crises, Tom Lee, chairman of the Ethereum treasury company Bitmine, responded by stating that the possibility of such a crisis occurring in Ethereum is zero, and wrote "Funding secured."Data shows that Bitmine has been increasing its holdings in Ethereum weekly, with the total holdings now exceeding 5.62 million coins.

According to Jinshi, JPMorgan Asset Management strategist Xu Changtai stated in a report that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to adjust interest rates this year, as the committee seems to be patient with the current policy rate. Xu Changtai pointed out that the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged and completely removed any dovish tendencies from the policy statement. As the Federal Reserve's initial stance was interpreted by the market as hawkish, U.S. Treasury yields rose, while U.S. stocks fell overnight.

J.P. Morgan strategist Tarek Hamid and his team have raised their forecast for total investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure by 2030 to $5.5 trillion in a recent research report, an increase of $400 billion from their prediction last November. The bank noted that in this investment race for super-scale data centers, approximately $4.1 trillion will come from debt financing, with loans covering an average of 85% of total project costs, indicating that AI capital expenditures have shifted to a debt market-centric financing model.Since last November, global bond issuance related to AI and data centers has exceeded $300 billion. The latest typical case comes from chip giant NVIDIA, which completed the pricing of a $25 billion investment-grade bond issuance this Monday, marking its return to the bond market for the first time in five years. This issuance was conducted in seven tranches (with maturities ranging from 2 to 30 years) and attracted oversubscription of up to $85 billion, ultimately increasing the issuance size by 25% from the initial target.The research report emphasizes that although tech giants like NVIDIA, Alphabet, and Amazon are generating substantial cash flow from the AI boom (with NVIDIA estimating free cash flow exceeding $200 billion this fiscal year), these giants still choose to issue hundreds of billions of dollars in bonds. This indicates that such bond issuance is not due to a "lack of financing," but rather that the credit market is confirming the pricing of AI assets.

According to The Block, JPMorgan analysts stated in their latest report that although Strategy's previous sale of 32 bitcoins caused market fluctuations, it was merely a symbolic operation, and the real issue lies in the lack of demand from new investors.The report pointed out that Strategy's current dollar reserves are only sufficient to cover about 6.3 months of preferred stock dividends, and it is recommended that they rebuild their dollar reserves to restore investor confidence. JPMorgan also lowered its expectations, believing that the likelihood of the U.S. crypto market structure bill (Clarity Act) passing this year is now below 50%, and has shifted to a cautious stance on digital assets as a whole.Nevertheless, analysts still expect Strategy to continue buying bitcoins and believe that the current market weakness may become a bullish reversal signal in the future.

According to Bloomberg, large IPO candidates including SpaceX may have to wait several years to be included in the S&P 500 index.The reason is that S&P Dow Jones Indices has refused to relax the criteria for inclusion of constituent stocks, maintaining the requirement for companies to achieve positive net income over the past year (including the most recent quarter). This decision was made by its index committee after a month of discussions, meaning that large newly listed companies that have not yet met the conditions for sustained profitability will still find it difficult to enter the index in the short term.

Regarding BTC briefly dropping below $60,000, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated on the X platform, "Many people still believe or feel that a drop in Bitcoin means a drop in cryptocurrency. However, derivatives, perpetual contracts, stablecoins, prediction markets, and more are all on the rise.Cryptocurrency involves various fields of finance, and now it covers a broader scope than Bitcoin. It will take some time for people to truly understand this. Of course, Bitcoin will perform excellently in the future and will remain as important as ever; this is just one of the many cycles we are experiencing."

S&P Global stated that it will maintain its existing eligibility requirements for major benchmark indices such as the S&P 500, rejecting proposals to expedite the inclusion of large companies like SpaceX into the benchmark index after their IPOs. On Thursday, S&P Dow Jones Indices noted in a press release that it will not shorten the current 12-month "maturity period" set for newly listed companies, nor will it waive existing profitability and public float requirements based on company size.This means that SpaceX will not be eligible for inclusion in the S&P 500 until at least one year after its IPO and must also meet the existing profitability and public float requirements of the index, which state that the company must be profitable according to GAAP in the most recent quarter and in the total of the most recent four quarters, and that the public float must be no less than 50%.

According to CoinDesk, FalconX stated that on certain trading days, its trading volume on the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid has surpassed that of Ethereum. Institutions and hedge funds are shifting from the range-bound Bitcoin and Ethereum to more volatile assets such as HYPE, Zcash, Venice, and AI concept tokens.FalconX pointed out that amid macro uncertainty and the outflow of funds from spot ETFs, the implied volatility of BTC and ETH is close to historical lows, and funds are seeking higher volatility targets. Hyperliquid attracts institutional funds looking to trade diverse assets in a 24/7 crypto-native environment by offering perpetual contracts for pre-IPO companies like SpaceX, tokenized stocks, commodities, and prediction markets. The platform's revenue is projected to be around $800 million in 2025.

Block's payment application Cash App now supports users in sending and receiving USDC stablecoins issued by Circle on Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and Arbitrum, with no fees currently charged for related transfers.The stablecoins received by Cash App will be automatically converted to a dollar balance. This feature is not yet available to customers in New York State, and users must complete identity verification and are subject to transaction limits.Block has previously focused on Bitcoin, including the development of mining hardware and the self-custody wallet BitKey; Jack Dorsey stated earlier this year that stablecoins represent "a shift from one gatekeeper to another," while acknowledging the growing customer demand.

Investment bank TD Cowen's Washington research team managing director Jaret Seiberg released a report on Tuesday stating that the political environment surrounding the CLARITY Act is continuing to deteriorate, and the likelihood of this cryptocurrency market structure bill passing this year is decreasing. Seiberg pointed out that recent controversies involving President Trump make it difficult for Democrats to support the bill without a conflict of interest clause.Seiberg indicated that these events have increased pressure on Democrats to include a conflict of interest clause targeting the president, while also making Republicans reluctant to push legislation that could force them to vote against related amendments. He anticipates that lawmakers may choose to wait and see, but there is limited room for further delays given the upcoming midterm elections. He previously mentioned that the legislative window could extend until the August recess, and if not resolved this year, the passage time could be pushed back to 2027.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday that the rapid development and application of artificial intelligence will not lead to a global "job apocalypse," and that this technology has not taken away as many white-collar jobs as he previously feared. He stated that when OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, the company's predictions about the development of technology were "basically correct," but their judgments about the social and economic impacts were "quite wrong.""I am glad that I misjudged this matter; I originally thought that by now, the elimination of junior white-collar jobs would be more severe than it actually is. Now I feel I understand better why that hasn't happened, and I am obviously relieved about it." An increasing number of global companies have announced that some positions within their organizations are being replaced by artificial intelligence. Altman noted that he realizes that despite AI playing an increasingly positive role in many industries and positions, there remains an irreplaceable "human aspect" in employment, and much of the interpersonal interaction required for many jobs will not be replaced by AI.

JPMorgan's latest report points out that although tokenized money market funds have revenue potential, they still only account for about 5% of the broader "stablecoin system," and the core position of stablecoins in the crypto ecosystem is unlikely to be replaced in the short term.The report states that stablecoins have become the default "cash tool" for trading, collateral, settlement, cross-border payments, and liquidity management, widely used in centralized exchanges and DeFi protocols, while tokenized money market funds are constrained by their securities characteristics, subject to registration, disclosure, and transfer restrictions, resulting in structural regulatory disadvantages.Analysts at JPMorgan, led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, expect that without significant changes in the regulatory environment, the market size of tokenized money market funds is unlikely to exceed 10% to 15% of the overall stablecoin market. Current demand is mainly concentrated among crypto-native investors seeking yield and institutional funds looking to balance on-chain settlement with traditional asset protection.The report also notes that although tokenized funds have advantages such as near real-time settlement, 24/7 transfers, and automated clearing, their growth is still constrained by liquidity, counterparty risk, and regulatory uncertainty. JPMorgan believes that in the absence of regulatory easing, these products will struggle to challenge the infrastructure-level position of stablecoins in the crypto market.

According to the threat intelligence released by Slow Fog, several high-frequency npm packages including AntV and Echarts-for-react, as well as the Python SDK durabletask, have recently been targeted by the Mini Shai-Hulud "mini sandworm" supply chain attack. The npm account atool was compromised, and the attacker automatically published 637 malicious versions within 22 minutes, affecting 317 packages. The attacker continuously uploaded durabletask versions 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 1.4.3 within 35 minutes, bypassing normal release controls and impersonating an official Microsoft release.The large-scale leak of GitHub tokens and the ransomware attack on Grafana Labs are likely related to this supply chain attack. Affected components include high-frequency components such as AntV and Echarts-for-react in the npm ecosystem, as well as Python packages durabletask 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 1.4.3. Attackers can steal cloud and local credentials, gain unauthorized access to internal repositories and sensitive cloud infrastructure, move laterally to developer machines and CI/CD pipelines, sell and exploit leaked GitHub tokens, and implement ransom and data leak threats.Slow Fog recommends immediately rotating all exposed credentials, replacing affected packages, isolating potentially infected systems, and implementing strict dependency review policies. Previously, it was reported that the "mini sandworm" worm had recently completed widespread infection in open-source code repositories, and developers should be vigilant in checking for issues.

On May 18, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) stating that the agency has improperly granted national trust charters to at least nine cryptocurrency companies since December 2025. Elizabeth Warren pointed out that the businesses these companies plan to engage in exceed the limited functions allowed by law for national trust banks, essentially attempting to circumvent the fundamental protections and obligations of banking through crypto banking. It is reported that the companies that have received or conditionally approved include Ripple, Circle, Paxos, Fidelity, BitGo, Coinbase, Stripe's subsidiary Bridge, and Crypto.com. The American Bankers Association urged the OCC in February to slow down the approval of related licenses, and Elizabeth Warren warned that this move would weaken consumer protections and pose regulatory arbitrage risks.

According to WIRED, Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated that the agency is using artificial intelligence technology to investigate insider trading in prediction markets such as Polymarket.In the past year, several traders on Polymarket have been suspected of using insider information to bet on geopolitical events such as the Venezuela raid and the Iran war, resulting in significant profits and drawing widespread attention.Previously, a U.S. Special Forces soldier was arrested for allegedly profiting from betting on the Maduro arrest using classified intelligence on Polymarket, becoming the first criminal case of insider trading in a prediction market in the United States.

According to The Defiant, Solana officials announced that the $ENA token has officially launched on multiple mainstream applications within the Solana ecosystem.The currently integrated platforms include Phantom Wallet, Jupiter Exchange, FOMO, dFlow, Titan Exchange, Solflare, Kamino Swap, and Mayan, among others. Among them, Phantom and Jupiter, as one of the most widely used applications on Solana, provide important trading and usage channels for ENA.

On-chain detective ZachXBT has released a lengthy article exposing the LAB project and its founder (@vsadkovv), accusing the LAB token's circulation and distribution of being very opaque.ZachXBT stated that Coingecko, RootData, and CMC all reported different circulation figures for LAB, and the official team has not clearly disclosed the token distribution. There is a significant overlap between investors and trading platforms, and most critically: insiders likely control over 95% of the tokens, leaving retail investors completely unaware of the true circulation situation.Additionally, the LAB team unilaterally changed the public sale lock-up period from 3 months to 9 months, while also defaulting on marketing fees, providing special treatment to KOLs and whales, and requiring them to post promotional content. The founder has mixed project funds with personal accounts, with a large amount of funds going directly into trading platform recharge addresses. Insiders can sell off tokens without retail investors being aware at all. ZachXBT calls for trading platforms to conduct a thorough investigation and delist or freeze the related funds.