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Chainalysis posted on the X platform that before the theft of THORChain, wallets suspected to be associated with the attacker had been transferring funds through Monero, Hyperliquid, and THORChain for several weeks. The attacker-associated wallets had already deposited into Hyperliquid positions via the Hyperliquid and Monero privacy bridge as early as the end of April. The funds were then exchanged for USDC and transferred to Arbitrum, and later bridged to Ethereum, with some ETH subsequently transferred to THORChain to become staked RUNE for newly added nodes, which are believed to be the source of the attack.Afterward, the attacker bridged some RUNE back to Ethereum and split it into four pathways, one of which went directly to the attacker. After being transferred through intermediate wallets, 8 ETH was sent to the final wallet receiving the stolen funds 43 minutes before the attack. The funds from the other three pathways flowed in the opposite direction. These wallets bridged ETH back to Arbitrum, deposited it into Hyperliquid, and transferred it into Monero through the same privacy bridge, with the last transaction occurring less than 5 hours before the attack began.As of Friday afternoon, the stolen funds have not yet been used, but the attacker has demonstrated their skilled cross-chain money laundering capabilities, and the Hyperliquid to Monero path may become the next move.

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 monitoring by lookonchain, a wallet related to a16z (0xb5E4) has purchased 74,175 HYPE (approximately 3.38 million USD). In the past month, this wallet has accumulated a total purchase of 1.71 million HYPE (approximately 72.81 million USD).

According to Gate market data, the dollar is heading towards its best week in two months, following U.S. data showing rising inflation pressures that may force the Federal Reserve to consider interest rate hikes within the next year. The dollar index DXY has risen more than 1% this week, expected to achieve its best single-week performance since mid-March. Due to two consecutive inflation data releases this week exceeding expectations, the U.S. Treasury market has been impacted, prompting a Federal Reserve official to state that the U.S. "is facing an inflation problem."

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Anchorage associated wallet (@Anchorage) purchased 74,200 HYPE on Bybit, worth 3.38 million dollars. This wallet has accumulated a total of 1.71 million HYPE in the past month, worth 72.82 million dollars, and has used it for staking.

According to Jin Shi reports, Carol Kong, a foreign exchange strategist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, stated that the inflation data released this week will not be welcomed by FOMC officials, including the incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Waller. The U.S. Senate has approved Waller to serve as the Federal Reserve Chairman. Kong expects that the FOMC will have to enter a rate hike cycle starting in December this year, with three rate increases expected during this cycle.

According to CoinGlass data, Brent crude oil (XBR) is currently priced at $102.78, up 0.68% in 24 hours; WTI crude oil (XTI) is currently priced at $98.45, up 1.33% in 24 hours, with active trading in oil-related contracts. Among them, for XBR, the trading volume on the Gate platform is approximately $5.45 million, ranking first across the network; for XTI, the trading pair XTI/USDT has a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $3.4613 million, maintaining high market attention, reflecting the platform's liquidity and product advantages in the oil derivatives market.In addition, Gate has renamed the trading symbol for the XBR perpetual contract to BZ and officially launched the BZ perpetual contract; at the same time, the trading symbol for the XTI perpetual contract has been renamed to CL and officially launched the CL perpetual contract. This only involves adjustments to the trading symbols, while the contract underlying and trading rules remain unchanged. Gate will further improve the product system for oil derivatives on the platform.Gate contracts have taken the lead in the oil market, pioneering the commodity contract sector, covering XBRUSDT (Brent crude oil) and WTIUSDT (WTI crude oil) perpetual contract trading, providing 24/7 trading, USDT settlement, and up to 100 times leverage, assisting users in cross-market asset allocation and strategic layout in volatile markets.

According to Jinshi reports, U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen stated that there may be "hot" inflation data in the next one to two months. After that, inflation should start to decline.

According to CoinDesk, Moody's has awarded the highest rating of AAA-mf to the tokenized money market funds of Fidelity and BlackRock, marking that the products of both institutions meet the highest standards in credit quality, liquidity, and capital preservation.Fidelity's FILQ fund was launched on May 6, built on Sygnum's Desygnate tokenization platform, supporting on-chain real-time cash settlement, and introducing infrastructure support from JPMorgan, Apex Group, and Chainlink; BlackRock's BUIDL fund is set to launch in March 2024 and currently accounts for about 15% of the tokenized government bond market.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the a16z associated address 0xb5E4 bought 50,168 HYPE again 8 hours ago, worth approximately 1.97 million dollars.In the past month, this wallet has accumulated a purchase of 1.64 million HYPE, worth approximately 69.43 million dollars, and the current unrealized loss has exceeded 6 million dollars.

According to Cointelegraph, the trading volume of the prediction market platform Polymarket saw a month-on-month decline in April, dropping about 8.9% compared to March, marking the first monthly decline since last August.According to Dune Analytics data, the total trading volume of Polymarket and its U.S. application in April exceeded $10.2 billion, down from $11.2 billion in March. In contrast, competitor Kalshi's trading volume increased significantly by 13% in April, reaching about $14.8 billion.Despite the decline in Polymarket's share, the total trading volume of the entire prediction market still grew from $26.5 billion in March to $29.8 billion in April, a month-on-month increase of 12.4%.

On the last day of the evidence-gathering phase of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, a Microsoft executive revealed in court that by June 2026, Microsoft's total investment in OpenAI (including investment commitments, infrastructure, and computing power hosting costs) will exceed $100 billion.Reports indicate that this figure is significantly higher than the previously understood cash investment scale of $13 billion, marking the first disclosure of the overall costs Microsoft has incurred in supporting OpenAI in terms of underlying computing power and infrastructure. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott also confirmed that during the early setup of their first supercomputer, they deployed tens of thousands of GPUs in a single instance.Furthermore, after Microsoft and OpenAI concluded their evidence presentation, Musk's team chose to forgo the rebuttal phase, officially ending the three-week evidence-gathering stage, with the court expected to enter the closing arguments phase on Thursday.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Counter-Strike: TheMongolz vs Aurora Gaming (BO3) - PGL Astana Group Stage" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Odd" option in the sub-market "Odd/Even Total Kills" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Due to the impact of preOPAI fundraising, according to DeFiLlama data, the net inflow of funds to Bitget in the past 24 hours reached 46.17 million USD, ranking first among CEX platforms.

According to The Block, K33 research director Vetle Lunde stated that Strategy's perpetual preferred stock STRC may be becoming an important factor driving the mid-month rise in Bitcoin. Lunde pointed out that STRC dividends are paid on the last day of each month, while the ex-dividend date is set around the 15th of each month.Since Strategy will issue additional shares through the ATM mechanism when the STRC price exceeds the $100 par value and use the raised funds to purchase BTC, the market demand for STRC tends to increase before the ex-dividend date, often leading to more BTC buying.Data shows that the scale of BTC purchased by Strategy through STRC has grown from 4,467 coins in January this year to about 46,872 coins in April. Currently, Strategy's total Bitcoin holdings have reached 818,869 BTC, valued at approximately $6.57 billion.However, K33 also noted that the speed at which STRC returned to par value this month has slowed compared to before, with only 1 BTC added through this tool recently, indicating that market demand may be approaching a phase of plateau.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a wallet address associated with a16z, 0xb5E4, has accumulated the purchase of 1.588 million HYPE in the past month, worth approximately 67.46 million USD.Data shows that this address has also staked approximately 1.3 million HYPE through multiple wallets, worth about 51.2 million USD.

According to The Block, the monthly trading volume of decentralized exchanges (DEX) for Ethereum and Solana has both approached approximately $45 billion, with Solana's trading volume being only about 94% of Ethereum's, reaching a nearly 12-month low, significantly down from the 218% peak in January of this year.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow of smart money in the past 24 hours are as follows:RoyalPop (8Tbn....ump): Net inflow of $3,000, with a 24-hour increase of 40.9%, currently priced at $0.0007.ARGENTINA (8vR5....ump): Net inflow of $1,000, with a 24-hour increase of 1118.2%, currently priced at $0.0001.SPAIN (D2bS....ump): Net inflow of $795, with a 24-hour increase of 1401.1%, currently priced at $0.0002.USDC (F3Uf....JH1): Net inflow of $614, with a 24-hour increase of 2049.8%, currently priced at $0.0001.MBAPPE (AdyD....ump): Net inflow of $430, with a 24-hour increase of 458.1%, currently priced at $0.0001.