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ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a mysterious whale associated with Erik Voorhees bought ETH again, spending 1.12 million USDC to buy 494 ETH. The whale currently holds 127,716 ETH ($292 million).

According to Bits.media, the Presnensky District Court in Moscow sentenced Vladimir Smerkis, the former head of Binance Russia and co-founder of the Blum crypto platform, to five years in prison. The court found him guilty of "fraud of extraordinarily large sums" under paragraph 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to prosecutors, in June 2024, trader and crypto blogger Oleg Polunin asked Smerkis for help driving traffic to his social media. Smerkis promised to bring about 2 million new users, and after receiving more than 8.8 million rubles, they did not fulfill their obligations and diverted funds for personal use. The judgment has not yet entered into force and can be appealed. Smerkis was arrested a year ago. He served as the head of Binance's region from early 2022 to September 2023, and later co-announced the launch of the clicker game Blum with another former Binance regional manager, and on the same day of his arrest, the Blum team announced his departure.

Jesse Pollak, head of the Base protocol, posted on the X platform that x402 now supports batch settlement, which unlocks a large number of micropayments (less than $0.0001) and is suitable for payment scenarios for instant resources such as computing and inference.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, analyst ArabxChain said that more than 3 million ETH have been withdrawn from Binance since early May, which may reduce spot selling pressure.

ChainCatcher news, according to market sources, Anthropic is in preliminary talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in new funding, which could be the company's largest funding round to date. Anthropic is raising a new round of funding at a valuation of over $900 billion.

According to ChainCatcher news, crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett disclosed on the X platform that since last Friday, members of the American Bankers Association have sent more than 8,000 letters to the Senate office, urging lawmakers to revise the stablecoin yield compromise plan. People familiar with the matter said this did not include additional telephone lobbying activities.

According to on-chain analyst Ember monitoring, Spark transferred 326,900 USDS to the repurchase wallet 6 hours ago and launched the 3rd month SPK repurchase. In the previous two months, Spark spent a total of 986,000 USDS to repurchase 41.372 million SPK, with an average repurchase price of $0.0238.

Odaily Planet Daily News Affected by the decline in large U.S. technology stocks, higher-than-expected U.S. inflation, and uncertain prospects for the U.S.-Iran peace talks, the South Korean stock market opened sharply lower on Wednesday, following the overnight decline on Wall Street. South Korea's KOSPI index extended its decline to more than 3% after opening down 1.7% today. The index ended its previous five-day winning streak on Tuesday, rising to a high of nearly 8,000 points yesterday's session, and investors then began to take profits. The overnight decline in Wall Street technology stocks further weakened investors' risk appetite and reignited concerns about the sustainability of huge investments in AI. Investors are also worried about rising inflation in the United States in April, mainly due to the US-Israel war against Iraq pushing up oil prices. The market is also concerned about whether the Samsung Electronics union will move forward with a full-scale strike after the union and company management failed to narrow their differences over performance bonuses in government-led overnight mediation negotiations. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, after more than a year of silence, wallet 0xB476 spent 5.81 million USDC 7 hours ago to buy 2,570 ETH at a price of $2,261.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptopolitan, a market report released by Wintermute pointed out that Bitcoin's breakthrough of $80,000 was mainly driven by a short squeeze in the perpetual futures market, rather than spot demand. Bitcoin futures open interest increased by about $10 billion to $58 billion over the past month, but spot trading volume fell to a two-year low. When Bitcoin broke above $70,000, a large number of short positions were liquidated, triggering a buying wave that pushed the price higher. Wintermute warns that the rally lacking support from spot demand is fragile and the market could face a sharp reversal. In the long term, spot ETFs have recently seen net inflows of $623 million, and exchange Bitcoin stock has fallen to a seven-year low, but these factors are not enough to offset short-term risks. Higher-than-expected US CPI data and uncertainty over the Fed chairman's nomination could also add to market pressures. Wintermute said $85,000 is still possible, but the risk-reward ratio for buying at the current price is not good.

The head of the Korean labor union at Samsung Electronics said that the company and the union failed to agree on a wage agreement on Wednesday, and more than 50,000 employees are expected to go on a full-scale strike, which could disrupt the production of artificial intelligence and other chips. Previously, the two sides had hours of marathon negotiations on Monday and Tuesday mediated by the government. Union representative Choi Seung-ho said the company did not respond to the union's demands for reforms to the compensation package, including removing the bonus cap currently set at 50% of the annual basic salary and instead calculating bonuses based solely on operating profits. The union previously said that if its demands are not met, employees will go on strike for 18 days from May 21. The union representative said there are currently no plans to restart negotiations with management before the strike date, but he is willing to consider it if the company comes up with a "reasonable plan". South Korea's National Labor Relations Commission said it had proposed "multiple alternatives" but decided to end the mediation process "given the large gap between the two sides and the union's demand to suspend negotiations." (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, CITIC Securities Research Report said that US inflation continued to be hot in April, the spillover impact of the Middle East conflict continued, and the compensatory rise in rent inflation pushed up the core reading. High inflation continues to erode the real purchasing power of American households, low-income households face a stronger cost shock, and real hourly earnings return to negative year-on-year growth after three years. CITIC Securities believes that the risk of secondary inflation in the United States is small, but high oil prices will constrain the room for inflation to fall this year, and the benchmark scenario still expects the Fed to cut interest rates by 25 basis points this year.

According to Reuters, two Western officials and two Iranian officials with knowledge of the situation said that Saudi Arabia had previously launched a number of undisclosed attacks on Iran in retaliation for attacks that occurred in its territory during the Middle East war. These attacks by Saudi Arabia have not been reported before, indicating that Saudi Arabia has become boldering in defending itself against its main regional adversaries. The attacks, carried out by the Saudi Air Force, are estimated to have been carried out in late March, two Western officials said. Earlier, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Monday, the UAE also carried out military strikes on Iran. Together, the actions of Saudi Arabia and the UAE reveal a conflict in which the Gulf states, hit by Iran, are fighting back. Iranian and Western officials said Saudi Arabia informed Iran of the attacks, followed by intensive diplomatic contacts, and Saudi Arabia's threat of further retaliation, eventually prompting the two countries to reach a de-escalation consensus.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed an amiriae opinion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, supporting prediction market platform Kalshi and refuting a previous lawsuit filed against it by Ohio. The Ohio side argues that Kalshi's prediction market operations constitute unlicensed sports betting; The CFTC, on the other hand, argues that the relevant markets should fall within the scope of federal regulation and that state governments have no right to intervene beyond the boundary. CFTC Chair Michael Selig said the Ohio District Court's previous understanding of CFTC jurisdiction was "too narrow" and hoped the appeals court would correct it. Over the past few months, the CFTC has sued states such as Wisconsin, Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut, and New York to assert its regulatory authority over prediction markets. As platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket gain popularity, the regulatory boundary dispute between federal and state governments continues to expand.

According to ChainCatcher news, JPMorgan Chase will launch a second Ethereum-based tokenized money market fund called OnChain Liquidity-Token Money Market Fund under the ticker JLTXX. The fund will invest primarily in U.S. Treasury bonds, as well as overnight repurchase agreements secured by U.S. Treasury bonds or cash, with the goal of meeting the qualified reserve asset requirements that stablecoin issuers need to maintain under the GENIUS Act. JPMorgan Chase & Co. said the fund's blockchain technology will be managed by its Kinexys Digital Assets. Currently, Ethereum is the only on-chain network available to investors, and it is not ruled out that it will be expanded to other blockchains in the future. This is also JPMorgan's second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum after launching MONY last year. Compared with MONY, which prefers institutional on-chain cash management, JLTXX is more directly oriented to the stablecoin reserve asset scenario.

ChainCatcher news, data shows that Bitcoin's market share has rebounded from a stage low of about 55% to about 58.5%, indicating that funds are concentrating on Bitcoin again. Bitcoin market share is often seen as an important indicator for observing the rotation of funds in the crypto market. Rising market share often means that the market has entered a period of consolidation, and Bitcoin is relatively stronger than altcoins; The decline in market share is often accompanied by the flow of funds to higher-risk assets, promoting the so-called "copycat season". In contrast, Bitcoin's market share reached a high of 62% to 63% in mid-2025, and then continued to fall against the backdrop of rising altcoin activity, falling to about 54% at one point. The current recovery above 58% suggests that the market is more likely to be in a consolidation phase rather than a full turn to altcoins.

ChainCatcher news, according to Golden Ten, the Federal Reserve Goolsbee said he remains optimistic that interest rates can fall sharply, but progress on inflation is needed.

According to TechFlow news on May 13, according to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), as ETH fell back to close to the average price of opening longs, a leading long trader at Hyperliquid once again increased his position by 9,000 ETH, increasing his total ETH position to 108,000 ETH, worth about $245 million based on current data, with an average opening price of $2,271. Previously, it recorded a floating profit of about $10 million, but it has basically given up.

According to TechFlow news, on May 13, Aave said that the first steps of the rsETH technical recovery plan have been completed, including the destruction of rsETH held by the attacker on Arbitrum. In the coming days, relevant parties will gradually replenish funds to LayerZero's OFT adapter and restart rsETH-related operations in stages. Kelp previously stated that it has completed a series of rsETH endorsement recovery steps with Aave, planning to gradually inject 117,132 rsETH from Aave Recovery Guardian and Kelp Recovery Safe into the LayerZero OFT adapter on the Ethereum mainnet.