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Der Blockchain-Analyst ZachXBT hat eine Untersuchung veröffentlicht, die schwerwiegende Anschuldigungen gegen LAB, die Multichain-Handelsplattform hinter dem Token LAB, enthält. Der Bericht von ZachXBT beschreibt intransparente private Kredite, einseitige Vesting-Änderungen und koordinierte Markt-Maker-Aktivitäten.
Der Preis von LAB erlebte nach dem Bericht einen Rückgang von etwa 10% zu seinem niedrigsten Punkt, nachdem er am 11. Mai sein Allzeithoch von 6,66 $ erreichte.
Laut ZachXBT kontrollieren Insider mehr als 95% des Token-Angebots und sind verantwortlich für einen Pump, der LAB zu einer vollständig verwässerten Bewertung (FDV) von über 6 Milliarden $ verholfen hat.

Grove hat eine Liquiditätsfazilität namens Basin gestartet, die bis zu 1 Milliarde Dollar an täglichen Stablecoin-Auszahlungen für Investoren anbietet.
Basin’s großes Angebot ist, dass Investoren jetzt ihre tokenisierten realen Vermögenswerte einlösen und sofort Coins von Basin erhalten können, anstatt zwei bis drei Geschäftstage auf eine Off-Chain-Plattform zu warten, um die Transaktion abzuschließen.
Was ist die 'Abwicklungs-Lücke' im tokenisierten Finanzwesen?
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China’s two largest tech companies are spending substantially in AI infrastructure, anticipating that domestically produced chips will alleviate their supply problems.
Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings said during recent earnings calls that they will sharply increase infrastructure spending.
The companies are relying on chips made in China by Huawei Technologies and other local manufacturers to replace limited supplies of American semiconductors.
Alibaba’s latest quarterly results showed a major shift in focus.
For the three months ending in March 2026, the company reported very low profit.
Although revenue increased slightly, Alibaba shifted spending from its main businesses to newer areas such as rapid delivery services and technology development.
Profit dropped sharply, with non-GAAP net income falling from 29.847 billion yuan to just 86 million yuan.
Eddie Wu Yongming said Alibaba may spend more than 380 billion yuan (US$56 billion) on AI data centers over three years.
Analysts say the weaker profits reflect heavy investment in future growth rather than business troubles.
Alibaba’s AI products generated 8.971 billion yuan in revenue, representing the 11th consecutive quarter of triple-digit percentage growth.
The division’s annual recurring revenue reached 35.8 billion yuan, indicating that the AI industry has progressed past the research phase and is now earning significant cash.
Tencent takes measured spending approach
Tencent is taking a different path, increasing spending more gradually while maintaining stronger profits.
The company spent 31.9 billion yuan on capital projects in the first quarter, a 63 percent jump from the prior quarter.
James Mitchell, Tencent’s chief strategy officer, promised “a substantial increase” in spending for 2026, especially in the second half of the year when more Chinese-designed chips are expected to become available.
Goldman Sachs analysts predict Tencent’s capital spending will hit 165 billion yuan in 2027, more than twice what it spent in 2025.
Both companies face tight supplies of AI chips.
“I can tell you that today there isn’t a single card on our service that is idle,” Wu said during Alibaba’s earnings call.
The company is deploying its own solution through T-Head, an Alibaba subsidiary that developed an AI chip called Zhenwu.
More than 100,000 of these chips are now running on Alibaba Cloud’s platform, with over 30 companies in the automotive and self-driving car sectors using them for research and development.
U.S. chip approvals create new complications
A recent US policy shift has hampered China’s chip strategy.
Washington has permitted seven large Chinese technology companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, to purchase sophisticated Nvidia H200 AI chips under a tight licensing scheme.
The H200 is Nvidia’s second-most powerful CPU, based on their Hopper design and optimized for training and running massive AI models.
The US license allows eligible companies to purchase up to 75,000 chips each.
However, there are certain restrictions. The chips cannot be used for military purposes, the equipment must pass through US ports, and there may be an obligation to split 25% of earnings under US agreements.
So far, none of the approved chips have actually been delivered.
At the same time, Beijing is urging companies to buy Chinese-made technology instead, such as AI chips from Huawei.
This leaves Nvidia caught between the interests of the two countries. Before the export limits were introduced, Nvidia controlled more than 95% of China’s high-end chip market.
This situation forces China’s top tech companies to choose between using better and faster foreign technology or supporting the government’s goal of becoming independent in technology.
The US Department of Commerce has allowed about 10 Chinese companies to buy these products, but deliveries are still being stopped as China keeps pushing to make its own computer chips.
Instead of relying on American companies, Chinese businesses are spending more on building AI systems at home.
This could help Nvidia regain access to one of the world’s biggest AI markets, while also showing that the AI competition is now driven by politics as much as by technology.
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Investors are waiting for Nvidia’s results on May 20, but concerns about problems with its newest graphics cards are creating uncertainty about what the results will show.
The chipmaker will report first-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings next week. Betting platforms tracking business outcomes expect strong results.
On Polymarket, users price in about a 97% chance of a beat, while Kalshi shows similar optimism across gaming and large data center segments.
Kalshi market odds for NVIDIA’s upcoming earnings call show Gaming and Hyperscalers as top mentions.
Source: Kalshi
However, difficulties with Nvidia’s latest graphics card software are raising concerns.
The company released updated GeForce 595.71 drivers to address previous issues, but consumers are reporting new ones.
The upgrade appears to limit the amount of electrical power that RTX 50 series GPUs can draw.
Because of power constraints, these “Blackwell” architecture cards are not operating as effectively as they should.
Tests show the cards are running at speeds below 3,000 megahertz, which lowers performance in video games and other applications.
Some analysts think Nvidia may be limiting power to prevent overheating in the 12V-2×6 power connector, but the company has not given an official explanation for the issue.
Strong forecasts backed by customer spending
Wall Street analysts expect Nvidia to report $78.8 billion in revenue and earnings of $1.77 per share.
According to James Schneider, a Goldman Sachs analyst who studies tech companies, the final sales figure could be about $2 billion higher than most forecasts.
Several signals indicate that the bullish expectations may be justified.
The four largest users of Nvidia’s data center chips, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, will spend more than $700 billion on equipment and infrastructure by 2026.
That significant investment could result in large orders for Nvidia’s goods.
Sales of memory chips also point to strong demand. SanDisk recently reported quarterly revenue of $5.9 billion, which was higher than what analysts expected.
Since memory chips work together with graphics processors, SanDisk’s strong results suggest that demand for GPU-related technology across the market remains healthy.
Competition and market uncertainty remain concerns
However, betting markets do not always show the full picture.
The average person placing bets on these platforms does not have access to private information that is not already reflected in Nvidia’s share price.
People who closely follow supply chains and huge investment firms, rather than casual bettors, provide the most valuable insights.
Another complicating factor is that major technology companies are developing their own customized chips.
Google has TPU processors, while Amazon has Trainium chips, both of which are specifically tailored for artificial intelligence work.
If these companies begin to use their own hardware rather than purchasing from Nvidia, it may reduce future revenues.
Companies that build servers are also adapting to the market shift. Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro need to offer more than just Nvidia chips to win customers.
They’re bundling software tools and consulting services to help businesses manage the power consumption and cooling requirements of AI systems.
Dell recently announced $9 billion in income from AI-optimized servers, while Supermicro generated $10.2 billion in sales, with platforms based on AI graphics processors accounting for more than 80 percent.
Nvidia has consistently beaten its own projections in recent quarters.
The company’s strength comes from having the best graphics hardware, an established software platform called Cuda that developers rely on, and expertise in networking technology for data centers.
These advantages have kept Nvidia at the front of the pack as companies race to build AI systems.
When results are released on May 20, investors will focus on whether Nvidia’s financial performance and its $60.6 billion cash reserve can ease concerns about hardware issues and overall market uncertainty.
The AI industry is still in an early stage, and rating agencies have described it as having “very high” uncertainty because so much of it is still new and developing.
Issues with graphics cards and limits in the supply chain make the situation more complicated than it looks.
How Nvidia responds to these problems during its earnings call may matter as much as the financial results it reports.
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Bitcoin ist auf $82.000 gesprungen, nachdem der Bankenausschuss des Senats am Donnerstag das Clarity-Gesetz genehmigt hat, was dem Krypto-Markt eine der größten politischen Schlagzeilen seit Monaten beschert.
Der Ausschuss hat das Gesetz mit 15-9 Stimmen genehmigt. Die meisten Senatoren haben mit ihrer Partei abgestimmt, aber zwei Demokraten, Senator Ruben Gallego aus Arizona und Senatorin Angela Alsobrooks aus Maryland, haben sich den Republikanern im Gremium angeschlossen.
Senatoren halten das Clarity-Gesetz für die Krypto-Industrie am Leben, während Bitcoin weiterhin in Amerika gewinnt.
Nach diesem Sieg muss das Clarity-Gesetz nun das Repräsentantenhaus passieren, das bereits im letzten Herbst eine andere Version des Gesetzes genehmigt hat. Wenn beide Kammern sich auf eine endgültige Version einigen, würde das Gesetz dann zur Genehmigung an Trump gehen.

Kasachstan behauptet, die Legalisierung von Krypto-Transaktionen in seiner Wirtschaft mit einer aktualisierten Gesetzgebung abgeschlossen zu haben, die zu Beginn dieses Monats in Kraft trat.
Während Krypto-Zahlungen jetzt angeblich legal sind, ist klar geworden, dass der Fiat-Tenge das einzige gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel bei direkten Käufen bleibt.
Kasachstan verabschiedet Regeln für den Krypto-Umlauf
Kryptowährung wurde in Kasachstan seit Inkrafttreten des Gesetzes „Über digitale Vermögenswerte“ im Jahr 2023 formell anerkannt. Aber die rechtlichen Möglichkeiten, damit zu handeln, waren ziemlich begrenzt.

The CME group has announced plans to partner with Nasdaq to launch the firm’s first weighted crypto futures by market cap on June 8. This new product is intended to give its institutional traders exposure to the major cryptocurrencies, subject to regulatory review.
The exchange announced that the crypto futures, will be available in both micro and larger contract sizes. At expiration, contracts will settle against the Nasdaq CME Crypto Settlement Price Index, which tracks the largest and most actively traded cryptocurrencies. This index currently includes Bitcoin, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, LINK, and XLM, according to the CME Group press release.
Institutional demand drives CME and Nasdaq partnership
Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group, has said the new contracts will offer clients “a regulated, cost-effective and convenient way to hedge or gain broad-based exposure to the overall crypto market.” He added that a 43% increase in average daily volume across CME’s crypto futures suite is strong evidence of increased institutional demand.
Sean Wasserman, Head of Index Product Management at Nasdaq, framed the product as a response to investor demand for transparent and governance-backed benchmarks. “The Nasdaq CME Crypto Index was designed to serve as a foundation, and the introduction of futures linked to the index is a natural extension of how index-based frameworks support market development over time,” Wasserman said in the same announcement statement.
Why employ a market-cap weighted contract?
The CME group already offers individual futures on BTC, ETH, and several altcoins. What it has not offered until now is a single contract weighted by market capitalization across multiple crypto tokens. This structure mirrors how equity investors use index futures (the S&P 500 E-mini, for example) to manage market exposure without picking individual stocks to invest in.
This appeals to portfolio managers as it helps with investment efficiency. Instead of creating and rebalancing a position involving multiple cryptocurrencies across separate futures contracts, they can simply work with a single futures tool to hedge their crypto exposure.
The CME Nasdaq crypto index futures arrive during a period of rapid expansion for the CME Group’s crypto products. Earlier in 2026, CME launched futures on Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar Lumens (XLM). In May, the exchange announced Bitcoin Volatility futures (ticker BVI) set to begin trading on June 1, which is a product that allows traders to speculate on or hedge against Bitcoin price swings instead of trading towards a particular price direction, as Cryptopolitan previously reported.
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A joint collaboration between Tether, TRON and blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs called the T3 Financial Crime Unit has announced on Wednesday that it has frozen more than $450 million in USDT suspected to be acquired through illicit, criminal means since the initiative launched in September 2024.
The frozen funds by the crime unit involve investigations into various illicit operations including money laundering, crypto exchange hacks, North Korea-linked cyber operations, terrorist cells financing, drug trafficking, and violent crimes including kidnappings and extortion, according to a statement published by Tether.
The T3 FCU has enlisted the help of multiple law enforcement agencies in its fight against illicit activity in the crypto community. These agencies span five different continents, with countries like the U.S., Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Bulgaria having the highest volume of assets frozen.
Tether’s T3 puts in the work
The T3 FCU reported that it helped in the recovery of 43.9% more illicit proceeds in 2025 compared to the previous year. The unit claimed it can execute asset freezes within 24 hours of a request by law enforcement regarding an investigation, a pace that traditional banks and services find hard to match.
The group pointed to several high-profile cases where it helped with asset freezing and recovery. One involved the freezing of about $26.4 million allegedly connected to a European money-laundering ring that was dismantled alongside Spain’s Guardia Civil in early 2025.
Another case was “Operation Lusocoin”, a Brazilian Federal Police investigation that froze more than 3 billion Brazilian reais in crypto assets, of which 4.3 million USDT linked to a criminal network was a part, according to Tether’s statement. Additional freezes targeted wallets tied to North Korean cyber activity and funds traced to the Bybit hack, with nearly $9 million in crypto funds identified.
In addition, Tether confirmed a $344 million USDT freeze on TRON in April 2026 following intelligence-sharing with U.S. and international law enforcement.
T3 FCU breaks higher ground amid international recognition
The Financial Action Task Force cited T3 FCU earlier this year as an “invaluable resource for law enforcement agencies worldwide.” The FATF highlighted the unit alongside TRM Labs’ Beacon Network as leading examples of public-private partnerships for combating criminal activity in the crypto community.
The recognition comes amid a sharp rise in illicit cryptocurrency activity, with blockchain-related criminal activity reaching a record $158 billion in 2025, according to estimates from TRM Labs. The figures underscore the growing pressure on stablecoin issuers and blockchain platforms to strengthen compliance frameworks as regulators intensify the crypto sector’s scrutiny.
“Compliance is not an option; it is a part of our commitment to protect our users and stop any illicit behaviors,” said Paolo Ardoino in the announcement. “This $450 million milestone is just the beginning of what T3 is capable of,” he added.
Chris Janczewski, who previously served as a special agent with the IRS Criminal Investigation division, said the initiative combines “real-time intelligence and expertise with coordinated public-private action to disrupt illicit activity as it happens.”
The comments reflect an intensified industry effort to ensure stronger oversight and enforcement capabilities.
Is crypto decentralization a myth?
The scale of the recent asset freezes has reignited debate over the level of control centralized stablecoin issuers retain within blockchain ecosystems that are often said to be ‘decentralized’.
Tether includes issuer-level controls that allow Tether to blacklist specific wallet addresses and freeze associated funds, which goes against the intent behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
According to onchain data compiled by BlockSec, more than $500 million worth of USDT was frozen over a recent 30-day period. This amount extends beyond the activity linked to the T3 Financial Crime Unit in the statement and proves Tether is doing even more blacklisting on multiple blockchains.
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Trumps historischer Besuch in Peking hatte nichts mit Krypto zu tun. Dennoch stieg Bitcoin um 2,3% auf $96.800, während das Treffen stattfand.
Der Grund für Trumps Treffen mit Xi am 14. und 15. Mai war das Handelsstreit-Problem, das seit 2022 zwischen den beiden größten Volkswirtschaften besteht.
NVIDIA stand im Mittelpunkt aufgrund der amerikanischen Blockade seiner H100-Prozessoren, einschließlich allgemeiner Exportbeschränkungen für fortschrittliche KI-Chips. Dies war ein Markt mit über 15 Milliarden Umsatz pro Jahr, bevor die Handelsstreitigkeiten alles ruiniert haben.

Die KI-Innovation wird von den USA und China dominiert. Es ist ein polarisierender Wettkampf, bei dem Japan mit Indien zusammenarbeitet, um "vertrauenswürdige KI" zu entwickeln.
Japan und Indien haben eine auf KI fokussierte Partnerschaft gefestigt, nachdem sie eine Reihe von Technologie-Events und staatlich geführten Diskussionen zu Themen wie KI-Governance, Halbleiter-Lieferketten, Rechenzentren und KI-Modelle in Landessprache abgehalten haben.
Ende April hielten die beiden Länder ihren ersten strategischen Dialog zusammen mit einem KI-Startup-Event in Mumbai und Bengaluru. Die Veranstaltung gipfelte in der Unterzeichnung eines Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) zwischen dem japanischen KI-Startup ONESTRUCTION und Indiens DataKaveri Systems zur Erweiterung der KI-Zusammenarbeit.

Coinbase hat heute große Pläne enthüllt, als es bekanntgab, dass es als offizieller Treasury-Deployer von USDC-Stablecoins im Hyperliquid-Netzwerk fungieren wird. Die gleiche Ankündigung gab bekannt, dass die größte Krypto-Börse in den USA die USDH-Markenassets von Native Markets erwerben wird.
Mit diesem Deal wird Coinbase nun die größten und drittgrößten Stablecoin-Anlagen auf Hyperliquid L1 übernehmen und die Stablecoin-Liquidität im Handelsnetzwerk rund um einen einzigen USDC-Dollar-Token konsolidieren.

Mehrere On-Chain-Indikatoren deuten auf ein großes Comeback für Bitcoin (BTC) hin, wobei wichtige Gesundheitschecks wie die Verluste der kurzfristigen Halter eliminiert und nachhaltige Gewinnmitnahmen absorbiert wurden, ohne dass sich der Preis negativ entwickelt hat – das erste Mal seit drei Jahren, dass dies positiv ist.
Der Zyklusindikator (ein wichtiger langfristiger Wachstumsindikator) hat ebenfalls zum ersten Mal seit März 2023 ein grünes Signal gegeben. Die Signale kommen, während BTC über 81.000 $ handelt, nachdem es um 37 % von den Tiefs im April gestiegen ist, obwohl Analysten sich immer noch unsicher sind, ob die kleineren digitalen Vermögenswerte denselben Trend folgen werden.

TAC, a cross-chain protocol that has marketed itself as a bridge between TON and Ethereum, has now reclassified its $2.8 million exploit from May 12 as a white hat event, after the hacker apparently took the team up on its offer to keep 10% of the “moved” funds in exchange for returning the rest to its multisig wallets.
According to TAC’s disclosures of the event, the exploit targeted the TON side of its cross-chain layer, draining funds across USDT, BLUM, and tsTON. TAC said the vulnerability was isolated to native TON Jettons bridged from the TON network, and that the TAC token itself, TON, and all ERC-20 tokens were unaffected.
The TAC token has taken a beating since the exploit, with price dropping more than 21% over the last week. Market cap is down to $79 million from over $91 million before the May 12 disclosure of the hack.
TAC Protocol’s token price is down over the last week. Source: CoinMarketCap.
TAC’s total value locked sits at approximately $2.74 million as of May 14, per DefiLlama, meaning the $2.8 million exploit roughly equaled the protocol’s entire TVL.
TAC’s total value locked (TVL). Source: DeFiLlama.
How did the TAC Protocol exploit happen?
TAC first disclosed that it had been hacked on May 12. The message from the team on X claimed that it had paused the bridge after receiving reports from security partners. The team quickly moved to allay fears by insisting that the issue was limited in scope, affecting only a subset of bridged assets rather than the protocol’s broader infrastructure.
As for how it would handle the coming days, the TAC Protocol team said: “Our focus is on making users whole and fully restoring bridge liquidity through a legally structured sale of Foundation’s TAC token treasury reserves.”
By May 14, TAC had positive news to share. The team said that after the exploiter took its offer to return funds to the designated multisig wallet on Ethereum and a corresponding address on TON, it came to the decision not to pursue litigation, a decision that it coordinated with its security partners and law enforcement.
The TAC team has paused investigations and litigation action and promised a 10% fee as a white hat bounty on its May 12 exploit. Source: @TacBuild via X/Twitter.
With the refunds, the TAC Protocol hack quickly went from exploit to white hat incident, with a 10% bounty offered up as incentive, which comes to about 13 ETH + 300ZEC.
It is standard practice in Web3 to offer hackers a percentage of stolen funds in exchange for returning the majority of the loot. Transit Finance took a page from that book earlier this week after it lost $1.88 million from a deprecated TRON smart contract. The team sent an on-chain message to its attacker offering a percentage of stolen funds as a bug bounty in exchange for cooperation, with a 48-hour response window.
Hackers drag cross-chain protocols through the wringer
TAC’s exploit adds to a pattern of bridge and cross-chain vulnerabilities in early May 2026. Transit Finance attributed its breach to a contract that had been deprecated since 2022 but still held exploitable code. Security firm GoPlus Security flagged two private key compromises on May 12 totaling $238,000, and blockchain security company Blockaid identified a $456,000 exploit on Aurellion Labs’ uninitialized Diamond proxy contract on Arbitrum, according to Cryptopolitan’s reporting.
The losses follow a rough April. CertiK reported approximately $651 million lost to exploits across the sector that month, the highest since March 2022, when excluding the Bybit incident in February 2025. The KelpDAO bridge exploit ($293 million) and Drift Protocol hack ($285 million) accounted for most of April’s damage.
May’s individual incidents are smaller by comparison, but the frequency suggests the underlying conditions that enabled April’s record losses have not been addressed.
TAC Protocol’s bridge remains paused. The team has not disclosed a timeline for resuming operations, but it said it will direct the remaining balance, minus the white hat bounty, to its multisig wallets.
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OpenAI hat zugegeben, dass zwei Geräte von Mitarbeitern durch bösartige Versionen der TanStack npm-Pakete kompromittiert wurden.
Das Unternehmen besteht darauf, dass keine Beweise gefunden wurden, dass Benutzerdaten, Produktionssysteme oder geistiges Eigentum manipuliert wurden.
Wurde OpenAI gehackt?
OpenAI hat bestätigt, dass böswillige Akteure zwei Geräte von Mitarbeitern im Rahmen einer massiven Software-Lieferkettenkampagne namens “Mini Shai-Hulud” angegriffen haben.
OpenAI hatte zuvor Maßnahmen ergriffen, um die Exposition gegenüber Lieferkettenangriffen nach einem Vorfall mit Axios zu begrenzen, aber die beiden betroffenen Geräte hatten die aktualisierten Konfigurationen, die den Download des bösartigen Pakets blockiert hätten, noch nicht erhalten.

Transit Finance hat versprochen, alle betroffenen Nutzer zu entschädigen, nachdem ein Angreifer etwa 1,88 Millionen Dollar aus einem veralteten Smart Contract abgezogen hat.
Die Sicherheitsüberwachungsplattform PeckShield hat den Vorfall bei Transit Finance gemeldet und erklärt, dass die gestohlenen Gelder derzeit in einer $DAI-Adresse geparkt sind.
In einer Onchain-Nachricht, die Transit Finance an die Wallet des Angreifers gesendet hat, wurde der Angreifer darüber informiert, dass er einen bestimmten Prozentsatz als Belohnung für die Rückgabe der Vermögenswerte erhalten könnte, wenn er bereit ist, bei der Rückgabe zu kooperieren.

Eine weitere Woche, ein weiterer Meilenstein für Kalshi. In der vergangenen Woche hat die Prognosemarktplattform ihr bisher höchstes wöchentliches Volumen in den Bereichen Politik, Makro, Krypto und geopolitische Ereignisse verarbeitet, ohne dass Sportwetten gezählt wurden. Das Wachstum der Nicht-Sport-Volumina auf Kalshi ist beeindruckend, wenn man sich die Zahlen ansieht. Vor einem Jahr lag diese Zahl bei 35,2 Millionen Dollar. Mit jetzt 1 Milliarde Dollar entspricht das einem Wachstum von etwa 28x in zwölf Monaten. Diese Daten kommen zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem die einfachste Kritik an Kalshi war, dass die Plattform im Grunde genommen ein reguliertes Wettbüro mit zusätzlichen Schritten war.

Das Vermögen von Sam Altman ist auf über $6,5 Milliarden gestiegen, basierend auf der neuesten Schätzung von Forbes, nachdem Gerichtsdokumente neue Details über seine privaten Unternehmensanteile ans Licht brachten.
Sams Vermögen wurde zuvor auf etwas über $4,5 Milliarden geschätzt, aber die neue Schätzung umfasst Bestände, die mit Unternehmen verbunden sind, die Geschäfte mit OpenAI gemacht haben, sowie ein indirektes Interesse an dem ChatGPT-Hersteller über Y Combinator, obwohl Sam die Größe dieses OpenAI-bezogenen Anteils vor Gericht nicht offengelegt hat.
Greg Brockman, Präsident von OpenAI, hat ausgesagt, dass sein persönlicher Anteil am Unternehmen fast $30 Milliarden wert ist, während Ilya Sutskever, ein Mitbegründer von OpenAI, mit einem Halten von $7 Milliarden verbunden ist.

Privacy & Scaling Explorations, der Forschungszweig der Ethereum Foundation für Datenschutz, veröffentlichte im Mai 2026 einen Forschungsantrag mit dem Titel 'Anonyme Anmeldeinformationen für vertrauenslose Agenten (ACTA)' auf Ethereum Research, laut dem ethresear.ch-Beitrag.
ACTA ist als Datenschicht konzipiert, die auf ERC-8004 aufsetzt und adressiert, was der Vorschlag als 'ein permanentes, öffentliches Interaktionsdiagramm zwischen KI-Agenten und ihren Kunden' bezeichnet, das das aktuelle Design des Standards erzeugt.
ERC-8004 wurde ursprünglich im August 2025 mit Beiträgen von MetaMask, der Ethereum Foundation, Google und Coinbase vorgeschlagen, laut Allium. Der Standard ging im Januar 2026 auf dem Ethereum-Hauptnetz live und verankert jetzt über 100.000 eingesetzte Agenten auf Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base und Solana.

Ein X-Nutzer, Cprkrn, der am 13. Mai 2026 gepostet hat, behauptete, dass claude.ai ihm gerade geholfen hat, das Passwort zu seinem alten digitalen Wallet zu knacken. Er taggte Anthropic und sagte, er würde sein Kind nach dessen CEO, Dario Amodei, benennen.
Der Post hatte innerhalb von Stunden Millionen von Aufrufen, und die Geschichte dahinter war sogar besser als die Ankündigung. Cprkrn kaufte Bitcoin in seinen College-Tagen, als jeder Coin ungefähr $250 kostete, und änderte das Passwort zu seinem Wallet, aber vergaß es komplett. Er verbrachte die nächsten 11+ Jahre damit, zu versuchen, es wiederherzustellen.