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ChainCatcher news, according to Gate market data, the Dow Jones index opened down 175.78 points, or 0.36%, at 49,323.49 points on May 4 (Monday); The S&P 500 opened down 8.52 points, or 0.12%, at 7,221.6; The Nasdaq Composite opened up 3.35 points, or 0.01%, at 25,117.8.

ChainCatcher news, according to Gate market data, at the opening of U.S. stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3%, the S&P 500 index fell 0.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index opened flat. Storage concept stocks performed strongly, with SanDisk up 3.2% and Micron Technology up 4%.

According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitoring, Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR) did not buy BTC last week. They still hold a total of 818,334 BTC ($64.413 billion) at an average cost of $75,537 and a floating profit of $2.598 billion (+4.2%). Ethereum treasury company Bitmine (BMNR) bought 101,745 ETH ($235 million) at a price of about 2,311 last week and now holds a total of 5,180,131 ETH ($12.08 billion), with an average cost of $3,546 and a floating loss of $6.289 billion (-34.2%).

ChainCatcher news, according to Globenewswire, DeFi Development, a Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company, announced the launch of a $200 million ATM financing plan, which said that the funds raised will be mainly used to continue to execute its Solana reserve strategy, and will only issue shares when it has a gain effect on the value of shareholders' SOL holdings per share to ensure that the financing has a "thickened" attribute.

Odaily Planet Daily News U.S. Treasury Secretary Besant said that we have absolute control over the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian economy is in a state of collapse, the Iranians cannot control the Strait of Hormuz, the "freedom plan" is not coordinated with Iran, if the Iranians want to escalate the situation, we are willing to do so, and the United States will only fight back when attacked. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to official news, the U.S. Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced the establishment of an industry working group to promote the tokenization process of the U.S. capital market. Ondo has been selected for the task force and will participate in the design with institutions in traditional and decentralized finance such as BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Franklin Templeton, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citadel Securities, NYSE, Circle, Fireblocks, Robinhood, and others. DTCC has over $114 trillion in assets under custody and a total annual liquidation of $3.7 trillion. A tokenization service is currently being built to bring core processes from the U.S. capital markets on-chain. Frank La Salla, President and CEO of DTCC, said: "We believe tokenization will significantly change the way markets operate, bringing new levels of liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to investors. ”

According to people familiar with the matter, OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion to form a new joint venture that will focus on helping businesses adopt its AI software. According to an unnamed source, the new venture, called The Deployment Company, has received support from 19 investors, including TPG Inc., Brookfield Asset Management, Advent and Bain Capital. The deal valued the company at $10 billion, excluding payments made. The person also said that the joint venture will be controlled and controlled by OpenAI. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to market news, OpenAI has finalized a $10 billion joint venture agreement with the private equity giant.

According to Gate data, WTI crude oil narrowed its intraday gain to about 2.5% and is now trading at $104.6 per barrel, almost giving up the increase since Iran claimed to have hit a US warship.

A counterclaim filed by World Liberty Financial has been filed in a Florida court in the United States, accusing Justin Sun of alleged defamation and saying he launched a "systematic pressure action" on the project. The case stemmed from a long-standing dispute between the two parties over token freezing and control of funds. World Liberty Financial said that Justin Sun had previously publicly accused him and posted relevant remarks on social media, which constituted defamation; Justin Sun previously filed a lawsuit, accusing the project of illegally freezing its token assets of about $240 million. （Fortune）

According to ChainCatcher news, World Liberty Financial (WLFI) announced that it has filed a defamation lawsuit against Justin Sun. WLFI alleges that Justin Sun's entity, Blue Anthem, purchased $WLFI tokens in November 2024 and immediately engaged in illegal operations, including transferring tokens to Binance. After WLFI freezed the relevant tokens in accordance with the terms of the sale, Justin Sun did not seek a goodwill solution, but launched a coordinated smear campaign, spent money to hire influencers, deploy bots, and spread false information to more than 4 million fans, calling WLFI governance a "scam" and accusing it of having a "back door" with the intention of "driving the token price to the bottom". WLFI said that the above-mentioned freezing function has been clearly disclosed in the terms of sale, the governance mechanism is transparent and community-driven, and Justin Sun will be held accountable through legal channels.

According to ChainCatcher news, the South Korean Digital Asset Exchange Consortium (DAXA) submitted a draft amendment to the Enforcement Order of the Specified Financial Information Act (Special Financial Information Act) through the National Participation Legislation Center of the Legislative Affairs Department on April 29, reflecting the opinions of a total of 27 virtual asset service providers (VASPs), including five major exchanges including Upbit and Bithumb. DAXA disputed two core provisions in the revised draft: first, all virtual asset transactions above 10 million won are considered suspicious transactions and require mandatory reporting to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which is expected to lead to an 85-fold increase in the annual number of suspicious transaction reports on the five major exchanges from 63,000 to 5.445 million; The second is to add information accuracy verification obligations in addition to the current customer identity verification obligations, which exceed the scope of authorization by the higher law, and the penalties for violations are much heavier than those of other financial industries. DAXA said it agrees with the legislative intent of the amendment to strengthen the anti-money laundering system, but believes that some provisions go beyond the scope of legal mandate and treat the virtual asset industry differently. The revised draft will end the legislative notice period on May 11 and is expected to be formalized in July, and the relevant provisions will be implemented in stages between August 2026 and 2027.

ChainCatcher reported that stablecoin infrastructure startup Rain is currently valued at $1.95 billion and announced a partnership with payment giant Mastercard to issue credit cards and prepaid cards, and explore the use of stablecoins for payment settlement. Previously, Rain mainly relied on Visa network card issuance products, and this cooperation with Mastercard means that it has entered the "dual SIM network" layout stage and further expanded the institutional customer market. Rain said that this cooperation will focus on serving large institutional customers who are already deeply bound to a single payment network, allowing them to introduce stablecoin settlement capabilities without changing the existing payment system. At the same time, stablecoin applications continue to expand at the industry level, including Stripe, Coinbase, and other institutions are promoting the integration of stablecoin payments and settlements, indicating that the integration of traditional finance and crypto payment infrastructure is accelerating. Analysts believe that as the regulatory framework is gradually clarified, stablecoins are accelerating from transaction tools to corporate payment and cross-border settlement infrastructure.

According to ChainCatcher news, Tether officially disclosed data that Tether Gold (XAUT) continued to expand in the first quarter of 2026, with a total market capitalization of more than $3.3 billion, driven by new highs in gold prices and intensified macro uncertainty, and investors' demand for safe-haven assets has increased significantly. Tether's data for this quarter showed that its underlying gold reserves increased by 36% month-on-month, reaching a total of about 707,747 ounces as of March 31, corresponding to the XAU₮ token in circulation fully pegged to 1:1 gold, with a total market capitalization of about ₮3.303 billion. Compared to about 520,000 ounces of reserves at the end of 2025, gold holdings increased significantly this quarter, reflecting the continued inflow of funds into physical gold digital products.

According to market news, Strategy suspended its Bitcoin holdings last week while raising about $82 million through stock offerings, and its total Bitcoin holdings remain at 818,334. Analysts believe that despite the short-term suspension of holdings, Strategy continues to raise funds through the capital market to provide financial support for its long-term Bitcoin reserve strategy. The financing was mainly from the equity sale arrangement rather than the debt expansion. The market is generally concerned that Strategy's first phased halt after multiple rounds of holdings may reflect its adoption of a more flexible capital allocation strategy in the current price range, but the overall "Bitcoin balance sheet" strategy has not changed.

According to ChainCatcher news, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed its review of the first batch of prediction market ETFs, resulting in the postponement of more than 24 products originally planned to be launched. According to people familiar with the matter, the SEC is asking issuers to further explain the details of the product mechanism and information disclosure, and the delay is expected to be temporary. Issuers such as Roundhill Investments, Bitwise Asset Management and GraniteShares submitted applications in February to launch ETF products linked to real-world events such as election results, economic recessions, technology layoffs and oil prices. Under SEC rules, ETF applications typically take effect automatically 75 days after filing, unless regulators step in. Currently, Roundhill has set May 5 as the effective date, and Bitwise and GraniteShares' products are expected to be launched at the same time. The market is closely watching to see if the SEC will finally approve this product that opens up an "event contract" asset class. "This is a rapidly maturing field, and regulation is maturing in tandem," said Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, noting that innovative products such as Bitcoin ETFs have also gone through a lengthy review process but ultimately successfully launched.

According to the official announcement, the single-day trading volume of the Bitget CFD sector has exceeded $8 billion. Driven by the global macroeconomic environment and asset allocation needs, the activity of gold-related products has surged, contributing about 95% of the transaction increment, becoming the core engine driving cross-asset transactions. From the perspective of regional distribution, it shows a good trend of global coordinated growth. Among them, the Chinese-speaking region contributed 42% of the transaction increase, the European market accounted for 27%, the Southeast Asian market accounted for 16%, and the three core markets together contributed 85% of the incremental share.

ChainCatcher news, according to businesswire, cross-border remittance giant Western Union announced the launch of the US dollar stablecoin USDPT on the Solana chain, which is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and fully backed by US dollars 1:1, and is built on top of Solana. It is reported that USDPT will be directly integrated into its global payment system to build a more efficient settlement layer to serve agents, partners and future consumer application scenarios, aiming to provide on-chain settlement layer capabilities for cross-border payments, combining blockchain settlement efficiency with Western Union's global compliance and distribution network.

According to ChainCatcher news, K Wave Media, a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company, announced the launch of a series of strategic transformation initiatives, including receiving up to $485 million in capital support for the construction of AI infrastructure platforms, focusing on data center investment, GPU computing power leasing, and mergers and acquisitions and cooperation in key AI infrastructure. In addition, the company has approved the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Play Co., Ltd., to original shareholders, in a transaction expected to reduce debt by approximately $48 million, which is still subject to shareholder approval at the July 2026 annual meeting.