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According to the official page, the Gate WCTC S8 global trading competition continues to gain popularity. Currently, the number of registered participants has reached 56,000, with over 8,000 teams participating, and the total unlocked prize pool has reached 880,000 USDT.As one of the key events for Gate's 13th anniversary, WCTC S8 officially started on April 23 and has now entered the second half of the team competition phase. The event features a parallel mechanism of team competitions, individual competitions, and 1v1 PK matches, covering different types of trading users. Among them, the team competition ranks based on yield and trading volume, while the individual competition covers the entire trading cycle, and the PK matches further enhance the event's real-time interactivity.Compared to previous editions, this year's event has further expanded in trading dimensions, integrating spot, contract, and some TradFi assets into a unified statistical system. Meanwhile, the prize pool adopts a dynamic unlocking mechanism, continuously releasing rewards as the number of effective participants increases.Currently, WCTC S8 has become one of Gate's key annual global trading events. As the event progresses, the scale of participation, prize pool data, and platform trading activity are all showing growth, further demonstrating the driving effect of large trading competitions on user participation and multi-asset trading scenarios.

Solana's official tweet stated that Bullish has tokenized its entire cap table by putting 151 million shares on-chain to Solana after completing the acquisition of Equiniti.Bullish CEO Thomas Farley announced this news at the Consensus 2026 conference and demonstrated a real-time wallet-to-wallet share transfer live using the Phantom wallet.

The WLFI community voted to pass the proposal for the "Token Unlocking Plan for Early Supporters and Founding Team," with a support rate of 99.9%.The proposal includes that approximately 17 billion WLFI held by early supporters will adopt a 2-year cliff unlock + 2-year linear unlock (a total of 4 years); approximately 45.2 billion WLFI held by the founding team, advisors, and partners can choose a 2-year cliff unlock + 3-year linear unlock (a total of 5 years), and may voluntarily burn 10% of it permanently; tokens that do not actively accept the new plan will remain permanently locked but retain governance participation rights.

According to BBX data, yesterday Wall Street institutions made a significant breakthrough in retail crypto layout, and today the dual verification point of the earnings season is approaching. The core dynamics are as follows:Morgan Stanley (NYSE: $MS) disclosed via Bloomberg on May 6 that its ETrade platform officially launched a pilot for crypto spot trading, with a fee structure of 50 basis points per transaction amount, lower than Coinbase (retail rates vary by tier and payment method, potentially exceeding 50 basis points), Robinhood (approximately 100 basis points, according to media estimates), and Charles Schwab (75 basis points); initially supporting three major assets: BTC, ETH, and SOL, with liquidity, custody, and settlement services provided by Zerohash; the pilot is currently aimed at a select group of users, with plans to open to all 8.6 million ETrade customers by the end of 2026. Head of Wealth Management Jed Finn characterized this move as "reverse disruption of disruptors," and Morgan Stanley is simultaneously advancing its application for a national trust bank license to achieve self-custody, with plans to launch Ethereum and Solana spot ETFs.Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: $COIN) will release its Q1 2026 earnings report after the market closes today (May 7), with the earnings call scheduled for 2:30 PM (PT); analyst consensus expects Q1 revenue of approximately $1.5 billion (a year-on-year decrease of about -26%), and EPS of about $0.23---$0.36 (a significant decline from $1.94 in the same period last year); the relative resilience of subscription and service revenue (including stablecoins, custody, and staking) will be the core metric of most interest today.Block, Inc. (NYSE: $XYZ) will release its Q1 2026 earnings report after the market closes today (May 7), with an earnings call at 2:00 PM (PT); analyst consensus expects revenue of approximately $6.04 billion to $6.11 billion (a year-on-year increase of +5.79%), and EPS of $0.68 (an increase of about 21% from approximately $0.56 in the same period last year); consensus for Bitcoin ecosystem revenue is expected to be about $2.11 billion (down from $2.30 billion in the same period last year); Evercore ISI maintains an "Outperform" rating with a target price of $96 (implying about 35% upside from the current stock price of $70.92), focusing on the recovery progress of the fundamentals of the two major business lines, Square and Cash App.

According to Blockaid's monitoring, its vulnerability detection system found that the 1inch market maker/parser TrustedVolumes is under attack, involving the Ethereum network. The victim contract is the TrustedVolumes parser, which has so far extracted approximately $5.87 million, including 1,291.16 WETH, 206,282 USDT, 16.939 WBTC, and 1,268,771 USDC.Blockaid stated that the attacker is the same operator as in the 1inch Fusion V1 attack incident in March 2025, but this vulnerability is different, located in the custom RFQ trading agent contract controlled by TrustedVolumes. More details will be announced soon.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov stated in a personal channel that TON leads in the final confirmation time of blocks among L1 chains. Data shows that TON's final confirmation time is about 0.6 seconds, faster than mainstream L1s like Avalanche (about 1 second) and BNB Chain (about 1.1 seconds), while Ethereum takes 13 minutes and Bitcoin about 1 hour.

The Bitget Launchpool project KAIO (KAIO) is now open for investment, with a total prize pool of 10,000,000 KAIO. The locking period ends on May 13 at 21:00 (UTC+8). This round of Launchpool has opened 3 locking pools, including:BGB Locking PoolTotal Airdrop: 7,000,000 KAIOVIP User Locking Limit: 50,000 BGBRegular User Locking Limit: 5,000 BGBUSDGO Locking PoolTotal Airdrop: 2,000,000 KAIOIndividual Locking Limit: 500,000 USDGOKAIO Locking PoolTotal Airdrop: 1,000,000 KAIOIndividual Locking Limit: 20,000,000 KAIO

According to official news, Gate will launch the Crazy Wednesday Enjoy Life special event from May 6 at 14:00 to May 10 at 16:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users can sign up to receive a 50 USDT dual currency experience fund (limited to 10,000 copies). By completing multiple tasks such as flash exchanges, spot trading, contracts, deposits, invitations, residual coin treasure, and on-chain earning, users can get a chance to open blind boxes and win luxurious gifts such as FOGO, lucky bags, Louis Vuitton adventure game hard cases, chess hard cases, and playing card boxes, with a 100% winning rate.In addition, this period will temporarily launch a 14-day fixed-term financial product for USDT, with an annualized return of 6%. Both new and existing users can also participate in residual coin treasure financial products for ETH, USDD, ES, AIA, SWCH, 0G, APT, enjoying up to 200% annualized returns. At the same time, users who sign up to participate in on-chain earning BTC, ETH, and SOL mining can enjoy increased annualized interest rates during the event, with staking annualized returns of up to 16%.

Bitget Launchpool is about to launch the project KAIO (KAIO), with a total prize pool of 10,000,000 KAIO. The locking period is open from May 6, 21:00 to May 13, 21:00 (UTC+8). This round of Launchpool opens 3 locking pools, including:BGB Locking PoolTotal airdrop: 7,000,000 KAIOVIP user locking limit: 50,000 BGBRegular user locking limit: 5,000 BGBUSDGO Locking PoolTotal airdrop: 2,000,000 KAIOIndividual locking limit: 500,000 USDGOKAIO Locking PoolTotal airdrop: 1,000,000 KAIOIndividual locking limit: 20,000,000 KAIOAt the same time, KAIO will also launch spot trading on Bitget RWA zone, with the deposit channel now open. The trading open time is May 6, 21:00 (UTC+8).

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Unitas (UP) will unlock approximately 9.38 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on May 13, worth about 1.44 million dollars.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, BounceBit (BB) will unlock approximately 37.03 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on May 13, worth about 1.18 million USD.

According to CoinDesk, Angus Fletcher, head of digital assets at State Street Bank, stated at the Consensus Miami conference that in light of the recent surge in DeFi attack incidents, institutional investors are looking for improvements in blockchain security. He pointed out that the young crypto industry needs to find solutions now before trillions of dollars in real-world assets are put on-chain.Fletcher believes that the interoperability between blockchains needs to be clearly defined and understood, and institutional clients need to understand the legal ownership and rights of cross-chain tokens. Dennis Bree, head of Morpho, stated that April could be the month with the most hacker attacks in DeFi history, and regulators are conducting more due diligence on the security of collateralized assets.

According to SolanaFloor, the on-chain reinsurance company OnRe Finance has completed a $5 million financing round, led by Forward and Rockaway. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of on-chain reinsurance business on the Solana network.Forward plans to deploy up to $25 million in OnRe's ONyc token to gain exposure to tokenized reinsurance returns.

Bitget PoolX is about to launch projects CC and UMXM, where users can participate in locking ETH to share 1,000,000 CC, or locking BTC to share 71,600 UMXM. Among them:CC PoolX: Locking period from May 6, 18:00 to May 10, 18:00 (UTC+8), with both static and dynamic locking pools for ETH, allocating 450,000 and 550,000 CC airdrop quotas respectively. Among them, the ETH dynamic pool will unlock the tiered upper limit based on the user's trading volume in the past 15 days, with a maximum of 1,500 ETH that can be locked.UMXM PoolX: Locking period from May 6, 18:00 to May 9, 18:00 (UTC+8), with both static and dynamic locking pools for BTC, allocating 33,600 and 38,000 UMXM airdrop quotas respectively. Among them, the BTC dynamic pool will unlock the tiered upper limit based on the user's trading volume in the past 15 days, with a maximum of 50 BTC that can be locked.In addition, during the event, users who participate in the corresponding PoolX and have a net recharge that is positive can also receive BTC/ETH financial interest coupons, with first-time participants enjoying up to 10% BTC or 15% ETH interest benefits. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

According to the Wall Street Journal, algorithm development company MicroAlgo Inc. announced the launch of a blockchain architecture based on quantum technology, which enhances transaction security and transparency by integrating quantum secure channels (QSC) and quantum key distribution (QKD).The architecture features a four-layer design, including a quantum communication layer, a blockchain core layer, a smart contract layer, and an application layer. Among these, QKD is used to achieve high-security key generation and distribution, while quantum encryption protects transaction data from theft and tampering, and also possesses resistance to quantum computing attacks.Additionally, the system strengthens long-term security through periodic key rotation and a quantum signature mechanism, and combines distributed ledger technology with a consensus mechanism to ensure data immutability and transaction verifiability, achieving a balance between security and transparency. However, the company also pointed out that there are still challenges regarding the maturity and commercialization of quantum technology, and large-scale implementation will take time.

According to token unlock data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Rain (RAIN) will unlock approximately 5,063,177 tokens at 11:00 AM Beijing time on May 12, worth about 379 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 10.94 million tokens on May 12 at 8:00 AM Beijing time, worth about 10.58 million USD.

According to Business Wire, the special purpose acquisition company Quantum Leap announced the completion of a $200 million initial public offering (IPO) and will trade on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "QLEPU." The raised funds will be used to support its pursuit of acquisition or merger transactions in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain.

According to market news, Binance has announced the launch of a user-controlled "Withdraw Protection" feature, aimed at preventing offline coercion attacks (commonly known as "wrench attacks") against cryptocurrency holders. This feature allows users to actively lock their account withdrawal permissions for 1 to 7 days and provides a stricter "lock mode," which cannot be lifted early during the set period.Binance stated that this locking mechanism cannot be overridden by platform customer service but is controlled by internal policy, not an on-chain cryptographic lock. Binance's Chief Security Officer, Jimmy Su, indicated that this move stems from the risk trends observed on the platform, including cases where some users in high-risk areas have been forced to transfer funds. By setting a withdrawal delay, it can buy users time to respond and recover in extreme situations.Data shows that incidents of offline coercion against cryptocurrency users are significantly rising in 2025, with related attacks often bypassing traditional account security mechanisms, as the actions are completed by the users themselves under pressure. Industry insiders believe that the time-lock mechanism can change this risk model to some extent. Binance emphasizes that this feature does not affect law enforcement agencies' ability to act in accordance with the law, while also advising users to strengthen API key management and privacy protection to reduce the risk of being targeted.

Bitget announced the official launch of the global campaign "A 'Substantial' Resume" (Boxed for Opportunity) on the occasion of the third anniversary of its Blockchain4Youth program. This campaign cleverly combines "Bitcoin Pizza Day," printing the resumes and portfolios of selected candidates on pizza boxes and delivering them directly to Web3 companies and ecosystem partners worldwide, creatively connecting Web3 youth talent with industry opportunities.Since its launch in 2024, the Blockchain4Youth program has attracted over 15,000 participants globally, established partnerships with more than 70 universities, and held over a hundred campus events. As the project enters its third year, its focus has gradually shifted from basic education and awareness to more specific career development support.Bitget CMO Ignacio Aguirre Franco stated that the core of Blockchain4Youth is to help young people connect the pathways from knowledge learning and skills demonstration to integrating into the industry ecosystem.