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According to ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin custody platform Onramp has completed a $12.5 million Series A financing, valuing the company at $135 million after this round. Onramp focuses on helping large Bitcoin holders decentralize their assets across multiple institutions, eliminating the need for users to rely on a single custodian or manage their private keys themselves.

ChainCatcher news, TownSquare, an infrastructure focused on institutional yield and cross-chain lending brokerage services, announced the launch of a $100 million USD1 token liquidity program, which aims to promote institutional income and cross-chain income to more users through institutional yield strategies through the USD1 stablecoin powered by the World Liberty Financial platform. Previously, TownSquare had collaborated with the World Liberty Financial DeFi team to bring USD1 tokens to Monad, a high-performance EVM chain, with official incentives from the Monad Foundation. The team officially stated that this new liquidity plan marks TownSquare's continued commitment to expanding the application scope of DeFi and bringing institutional strategy returns to more assets. At present, the cross-chain lending function has been launched on the official website of the project, and the interest-bearing bank product is about to be launched. According to official information, the project has previously completed a round of financing, supported by angel investors from Monad, a16z, Aptos, Solana Bonk, as well as other European and American angel investors and a number of VCs. The team was founded by people from Coinbase, Meta, Accenture, and market maker backgrounds. The new round of financing information for the project has not yet been announced.

Odaily Planet Daily News BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said that the global demand for computing power is so huge that traders can one day trade in the computing power futures market.

Odaily Planet Daily News Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has increased this week, but analysts warn that more ships have turned off the Automatic Identification System (AIS) tracking signal during passage. According to Lloyd's List, tanker owners are preparing for long-term shipping disruptions as regional risks remain high. Current traffic is still well below pre-conflict levels. At the time, about 130 ships passed through the strait every day, carrying about 20% of the world's oil and gas supply. (Jin Shi)

According to ChainCatcher news, USDC issuer Circle announced that it has further deepened its cooperation with Hyperliquid, becoming the technical deployer of USDC in Hyperliquid, and positioning USDC as an Aligned Quote Asset. Hyperliquid is expanding from perpetual contracts to results-based markets as a high-performance on-chain trading platform, and USDC will continue to support liquidity, collateral management, and cross-chain capital flows as the primary collateral and quote asset. Circle is responsible for providing reliable infrastructure for minting, redemption, and cross-chain transfers, allowing USDC to play a more central role in the new market. Circle also announced increased financial investment in the Hyperliquid ecosystem: following the initial purchase of HYPE tokens in September 2025, it will stake another 500,000 HYPE to further bind the interests of both parties and move towards becoming a validator.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States for the week ending May 9 was 211,000, exceeding market expectations of 205,000. The previous value was revised from 200,000 to 199,000.

Odaily Planet Daily News Iranian Vice President Reza Aref: We will never lose the Strait of Hormuz, no matter what the cost. The Strait of Hormuz is ours; It has always been our property, but for a while we have not been able to put it to good use. (Jin Shi)

According to ChainCatcher news, Gate Research Institute recently released the "Cryptocurrency Market Review in April 2026" report, pointing out that the cryptocurrency market as a whole showed a volatile upward pattern in April, with the total market capitalization significantly higher than in March, and the overall trading volume of BTC and ETH ETFs maintained high fluctuations. The report shows that the ecological activity of major public chains continues to differentiate. Solana's daily trading volume remains in the range of around 90 million to 110 million, maintaining its lead. In terms of hot tracks, the report pointed out that Pokemon TCG RWA has become one of the fastest-growing segments of on-chain RWA and entered the secondary outbreak stage in April. The trading volume of major trading platforms exceeded $220 million in a single month, and the weekly revenue once approached $6 million, setting a new all-time high. Meanwhile, Aave experienced the worst liquidity shock in its history in April, with TVL outflows reaching tens of billions of dollars in a few days and net outflows of more than $9 billion for the entire month. In terms of financing and security incidents, the Web3 industry completed a total of 51 financings in April, with a total amount of approximately US$834 million, and funds were further concentrated in the leading financial and infrastructure tracks. Among them, Payward ranked first in a single month with $200 million in financing. At the security level, Web3 security incidents lost approximately $306 million in April, an increase of approximately 858% month-on-month, mainly driven by a single cross-chain infrastructure attack of approximately $293 million by Kelp DAO. The report believes that in the context of market recovery, on-chain activity and capital liquidity have increased simultaneously, but the security risks of cross-chain infrastructure and high-leverage protocols are still worthy of continued attention.

AggrNews: COINBASE BECOMES OFFICIAL USDC TREASURY DEPLOYER ON HYPERLIQUID, ACQUIRES USDH BRAND ASSETS

According to TASS and Reuters, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said at a press conference on the 14th that Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to visit China and relevant preparations are ready. According to reports, when asked if the date of Putin's visit to China has been clarified, Peskov responded, "We will announce a specific date in the near future." The visit is being prepared. It can be said that all preparations, including the final finishing touches, have been completed. The visit will take place soon. (Global Network)

Odaily Planet Daily News Emerging market stocks rose for the third consecutive trading day this week, with technology companies continuing their strong gains, supported by optimism about the market's increased demand for AI-related hardware and services. The benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose 0.7% and has accumulated gains of more than 7% this month. Among them, TSMC, Alibaba and Samsung Electronics together contributed 105% of the index's gains, which means that without the pull of these three stocks, the index as a whole would actually be in a state of decline. Chipmakers have been leading the market rally since early April, with higher corporate earnings largely offsetting inflation concerns caused by the Iran war. While the information technology sector rose 1.4% on Thursday, sectors such as utilities, energy and industrials fell, highlighting the stark divergence between Asian tech stocks and other emerging market sectors. (Jin Shi)

According to Crypto In America reporter Eleanor Terrett, bipartisan negotiations in the U.S. Senate on the CLARITY Act ended last night without reaching an agreement. Senator Cynthia Lummis said lawmakers have agreed on 99% of the bill's content, but disputes over BRCA protection provisions for non-custodial developers and ethics provisions related to First Families remain unresolved, with tomorrow's Banking Committee markup imminent. Coin Center drew a red line, warning that it would not support the abridged version of the BRCA proposal, and called the vote a "moment of side" for developer rights. As of now, the markup is expected to be drawn along party lines, and the Democratic Party is still resisting. （Bitcoin News）

According to ChainCatcher news, Solana's perpetual contract daily trading volume reached a 31-week high of $3.45 billion, reaching 56% of Hyperliquid's daily trading volume of $6.1 billion.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bescent said that there may be one to two months of "hot" inflation data in the future. After this, we should see inflation come back.

Binance EN: Binance Will List Gensyn (AIGENSYN) with Seed Tag Applied

ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham monitoring, an address purchased ETH for $120 during the 2015 Ethereum presale, transferred 50 ETH to a new wallet today, and deposited 350 ETH into Bitstamp. The address has been held for up to 10 years and has returned more than 7500 times. At current prices, its ETH holdings are worth approximately $900,000.

According to Iran's Mehr News Agency: Iranian Foreign Minister Aragqi said that the UAE was directly involved in military operations against Iran. (Jin Shi)

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, in the past two hours, Ma Ji Huang Licheng once again rolled over his position and increased his holdings of about 550 ETH long orders, pushing up the average price of the position, and the liquidation price moved up to $2,220. The current price of ETH is only $47 away from its liquidation line, and the $20.4 million long order has become the closest to liquidation on the Hyperliquid platform. As of press time, the actual funds in the account were only about $850,000, and instead of failing to accumulate profits after a month and a half of frequent rollover and T operations, it resulted in a net loss of about $345,000. Currently, the address holds $20.4 million in ETH long orders and $4 million in BTC long orders, with a total floating loss of about $500,000 in the account.

According to official news, OKX Agent Trade Kit has launched the "Macroeconomic Calendar" function, which integrates global macroeconomic event databases, historical backtest analysis, and daily macro briefings, covering economic data and policy events in 190+ countries and regions around the world, including major macro indicators such as the Federal Reserve's interest rate meeting, CPI, non-farm payrolls, GDP, and PMI. Users can directly invoke relevant capabilities through natural language to analyze the historical performance of macro events and currency price reactions, and generate customized macro briefings based on positions and market sentiment. It is reported that OKX Agent Trade Kit is an MCP trading toolset launched for AI Agents and professional traders, and has been launched with multiple capability suites such as market screening and position analysis, sentiment radar, smart money signals, and smart money earning.