Crypto News
Today (05/07/2026)
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Bermuda pilots embedding digital asset compliance directly into blockchain infrastructure
ChainCatcher news, according to market sources, Chainlink, Apex Group, Bluprynt and Hacken have partnered with the Bermuda Monetary Authority to complete an embedded regulatory pilot that embeds compliance requirements directly into the digital asset infrastructure for real-time execution, replacing the traditional compliance model based on regular reporting and manual checks.
Non-compliant transactions are blocked before settlement, and compliance metadata is retained in cross-chain transfers. Chainlink provides on-chain policy enforcement and reserve verification infrastructure, evaluates transactions through an automated compliance engine, and verifies off-chain collateral using proof-of-reserve tools. Bluprynt is responsible for issuer authentication and compliance certificate issuance. Apex Group acts as an independent administrator to provide certified reserve data from third-party hosts. Hacken provides real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and compliance alerting systems that generate alerts in milliseconds after a transaction is captured. The Bermuda Monetary Authority plans to extend the model to production deployments and multi-jurisdictional oversight frameworks.
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South Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy: Virtual assets will be taxed from January 1 next year as originally planned
ChainCatcher news, according to market news, Moon Kyung-ho, head of the income tax division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of South Korea, said at a seminar on emergency inspection of virtual asset taxation that the government will tax virtual assets from January 1 next year as originally planned. This is the first time that the country's Ministry of Finance and Economy has publicly stated on the taxation of virtual assets.
Under the current income tax law, income generated from the transfer or lending of virtual assets will be classified as other income, with a tax rate of 22% (20% other income tax plus 2% local income tax) applied to virtual asset income exceeding 2.5 million won. The tax is levied on about 13.26 million investors. Chief Moon revealed that the IRS is formulating relevant notices and has had multiple discussions with the five major virtual asset operators, and legislative notices are expected to be issued soon.
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Israeli media: Iran is open to the transfer of enriched uranium
According to Israel's N12 News, Iran's main request to Washington - to transfer its 60% enriched uranium stockpile to a third country - has shown surprising openness, but the two sides have not yet reached any agreement on the identity of the country that receives this stockpile. (Jin Shi)
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Bitcoin miner American Bitcoin increased its holdings by 300 Bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 7,300
ChainCatcher news, according to BitcoinTreasuries.NET monitoring, American Bitcoin, a Bitcoin mining company backed by the Trump family, increased its holdings by 300 Bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 7,300.
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1inch: Not related to the TrustedVolumes security incident, protocol and user funds were not affected
ChainCatcher news, 1inch posted on the X platform that it has noticed reports involving TrustedVolumes and confirmed that 1inch and all its protocols are not involved in the incident. 1inch systems, infrastructure, and user funds were not affected.
TrustedVolumes operates independently as a liquidity provider, used by multiple protocols in the industry, and is not exclusive to 1inch. 1inch will continue to monitor the situation and actively assist with relevant security parties when appropriate.
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The total number of TRON accounts officially exceeded 380 million
According to TRONSCAN data, the total number of TRON accounts reached 380,102,569, officially exceeding 380 million. It is reported that the total number of accounts is the total number of active account addresses on the TRON network.
Up to now, the total number of TRON transactions has exceeded 13.8 billion, the total locked interest (TVL) has exceeded US$28.5 billion, the total issuance of TRC20-USDT has exceeded 88.3 billion, and an additional 2 billion have been issued in the past seven days. At the same time, TRON's total revenue from the April agreement reached US$225 million, further confirming the strong vitality and continued prosperity of the network ecosystem.
In addition, Justin Sun, founder of TRON, recently said on social media that TRON will launch a quantum-resistant network on the testnet in the second quarter of this year and a mainnet in the third quarter, becoming the world's first quantum-resistant network, and the quantum-resistant blockchain network is the first demand for AI use.
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BIT, the Bitcoin TAP protocol ecosystem project, has released a new roadmap to create a decentralized security budget layer for Bitcoin
According to ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin TAP protocol ecological project BIT (@dmt_bit_) has released a new roadmap, announcing that it will focus on the "Bitcoin security budget layer" narrative, flowing directly to Bitcoin miners through the issuance of tokens per block, as a new source of miner subsidies.
The BIT team disclosed that only $NAT tokens of the TAP protocol currently enjoy a miner subsidy mechanism, and this mechanism is hardcoded in the protocol source code (only effective for dmt-nat tokens) and cannot be used by other DMT projects. The TAP protocol has not yet made third-party security audits public.
BIT has submitted a code upgrade proposal to TAP hoping to open up the mechanism to all DMT tokens, but it was officially rejected by TAP.
According to the roadmap, BIT will next develop a new protocol based on the TAP fork - any DMT token deployer can customize the token issuance rules and miner distribution methods (including distribution by mining pool weight, independent miner prize accumulation, mixed distribution, etc.) through a single inscription, and no longer set any project hard-coded privileges. A third-party security audit will be completed before the new protocol mainnet is launched. $BIT will serve as the native token of the new protocol, and the development of the protocol ecosystem will continue to empower $BIT.
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Despite Bitcoin's strong holding at $80,000, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has begun to turn negative
ChainCatcher news, according to Coinglass data, despite Bitcoin's recent strong position at $80,000, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has begun to turn negative. The Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index remained at a positive level for most of April.
Additionally, the IFP Index, which reflects the risk appetite of market participants and the direction of capital flows, fell below the 90-day EMA, indicating a certain degree of Bitcoin flows from derivatives exchanges back to spot exchanges, indicating waning speculative interest and risk aversion, often corresponding to bearish/risk-averse sentiment.
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A whale spent $325,000 to buy SATO, with an average purchase market value of $28.4 million
ChainCatcher news, according to market news, a giant whale began to continuously purchase sato three hours ago, and currently buys a total of $325,000, with an average purchase market value of $28.4 million and a floating profit of $32,000.
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Matrixport-linked wallets deposited 403,300 HYPE into HyperLiquid, of which 100,000 were sold
ChainCatcher news, according to market news, a wallet associated with Matrixport deposited 403,290 HYPE ($173 million) to HyperLiquid and sold 100,000 HYPE at $42.38, obtaining 4.238 million USDC. The wallet still holds 303,290 HYPE (approximately $13 million) and may continue to sell the remainder.
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PhotonPay won three Mastercard Partner of the Year awards
ChainCatcher news, the new generation of financial operating system PhotonPay won three awards at Mastercard's annual partner awards dinner, namely: New Product Launch Award (physical card), New Service Launch Award (MDES Digital Empowerment) and New Service Launch Award (consulting service), marking that PhotonPay, as the next generation of financial operating system, is comprehensively reshaping the financial infrastructure landscape of global enterprises.
PhotonPay is based on the Mastercard network, supporting real-time consumption tracking, multi-level limit control, 3D Secure identity verification, and significantly reducing cross-border transaction rates.
MDES digital empowerment reflects the deep integration of PhotonPay and Mastercard digital empowerment services, and virtual and physical cards can be bound to Apple Pay and Google Pay in seconds, ensuring transaction security with tokenization technology throughout the process.
The Consulting Services Award recognizes the fruitful collaboration between PhotonPay and Mastercard's team of experts to help PhotonPay create more compliant and competitive card product solutions for customers around the world.
Lewison, founder and CEO of PhotonPay, said that these accolades are a reflection of Mastercard's trust in PhotonPay and PhotonPay's adherence to its standards. The company has always been focused on building financial infrastructure that gives global enterprises the tools to operate, expand and compete without borders.
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OKX will list SPACEX/USDT, OPENAI/USDT, and ANTHROPIC/USDT pre-market perpetual contracts
According to ChainCatcher news, OKX will list SPACEX/USDT pre-market trading at 17:00 on May 7, 2026, OPENAI/USDT pre-market trading at 17:15, and ANTHROPIC/USDT pre-market trading at 17:30. Users can trade through USDT settlement, and the contract type is perpetual contracts, with a trading time of 24 hours × 7.
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NEAR Protocol is adding post-quantum cryptography support, allowing accounts to rotate keys in a single transaction
According to ChainCatcher news, NEAR Protocol posted on the X platform that the team is adding post-quantum cryptography support to the network. NEAR's account model differs from Bitcoin and Ethereum, with accounts decoupled from cryptography and controlled by rotating access keys.
The NEAR One team is adding the NIST-approved lattice-based signature-based FIPS-204 scheme as the first post-quantum signature option. Once launched, any NEAR account holder can rotate keys for a single transaction, achieving quantum security. NEAR is also working with software and hardware wallets to advance post-quantum support.
With the Chain Signature feature, NEAR can provide threshold signatures for more than 35 chains, and the NEAR Intents team is developing a quantum-secure cross-chain signature scheme that provides a quantum-safe environment if other chains are slow to adopt post-quantum cryptography. Consensus mechanisms, validators, block synchronization, and transaction signatures also need to evolve for the post-quantum era, with the goal of achieving a one-time future-compatible migration.
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Opinion: The United States has an economic and geopolitical advantage in the game against Iran
Terry Weizman, global foreign exchange and interest rate strategist at Macquarie Group, said that the United States has established a greater economic advantage in the game with Iran by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, increasing its own oil production, and issuing a potential threat of a US oil export ban, and then gained a greater political advantage. If the stalemate between the United States and Iran is not resolved in the coming days, it is still possible that it will be resolved in the second or early third quarter. This relative "isolation" has given the United States a huge advantage in recent behind-the-scenes negotiations with Iran. (Jin Shi)
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BNY Mellon expands cryptocurrency services in Abu Dhabi
According to CoinDesk, Bank of New York Mellon, the world's largest custodian bank, is expanding its digital asset custody business in the Abu Dhabi global market through local partners Finstreet and ADI Foundation.
The plan will initially focus on custody services for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and will later expand to stablecoins and tokenized assets. Hani Kablawi, Executive Vice President of BNY Mellon, said that the UAE is entering a new phase of financial development, and the bank is committed to bridging the traditional and digital financial ecosystems.
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Data: SATO started a new round of rally, with floating profits exceeding US$360,000 in both addresses on the first list
According to ChainCatcher news, according to the monitoring of on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, sato has started a new round of gains. The number one address on the list, runecrypto.eth, spent 34.7 ETH to open a position of 375,046 satoes, costing about $0.2186 and making a floating profit of $398,000. List 2 Address 0x313... 6ABAe spent 35 ETH to open a position of 350,000 sato, costing about $0.2363 and making a floating profit of $365,000.
List 3 Addresses 0x7F5... c8F2d has a position of 260,969 SATO. The first and second lists were all directly bought through the SATO bonding curve in the downtrend of SATO, and the market value of SATO fell below $3 million at one point and then broke through to $40 million.
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Bitwise CEO: U.S. wealth management channel inflows hit an eight-year high amid market declines
According to ChainCatcher news, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley said in a speech at the Consensus 2026 conference that the market fell in the fourth quarter of last year and fell again in the first quarter of this year. However, inflows from U.S. wealth management channels hit a record high in any quarter in eight years. In other words, for financial advisors in the wealth channel, the first quarter of this year was the best quarter for them to invest in these products. So, when the market falls, they choose to buy the dip.



