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Gate.io News bot message, according to the latest data, as of May 2, 10 Bitcoin ETF products have net inflows of 3,215 Bitcoins, worth approximately $311 million. Among them, the iShares Bitcoin ETF under BlackRock had a single-day inflow of 3,636 Bitcoins, valued at $352 million, with current open interest reaching 607,685 Bitcoins, totaling $58.86 billion.
During the same period, 9 Ethereum ETF products had a net outflow of 358 Ethereum, worth approximately $656,000. Among them, Grayscale Ethereum ETF had an outflow of 4,070 Ethereum, worth $7.47 million, with a current open interest of 1,140,412.

According to Gate.io News bot, CoinDesk reported that Google has added zk-SNARKs technology features to its Wallet application. This encryption technology allows users to prove they meet specific age requirements without providing complete personal information such as their full date of birth, thereby gaining access to restricted applications.
This feature is developed based on open standards and supports operation on both iOS and Android platforms. Google plans to expand this technology to more online identity verification application scenarios in the future.

According to Gate.io News bot, data from Nansen shows that a Crypto Assets Whale Address (0xd441ae066c33b2c3abef2652369643822dc936ad) has become active again after sleeping for 2.11 years. The address sold 14.38 WBTC (worth 1.39 million USD) and purchased 758.25 ETH at a price of 1836 USD each.

Gate.io News bot message, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the UK released a discussion paper on May 2, initiating public and industry consultations regarding encryption intermediaries, stake, and lending.
According to CoinDesk, the FCA plans to ban retail investors from using credit cards to invest in encryption assets, while requiring trading platforms to implement segregation between proprietary and client trading. This consultation is a continuation of the legislative proposal by the UK Treasury in April, with the consultation period lasting until June 13.

gate News bot message, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury has released a new proposal targeting Cambodia's Huione Group. According to the FinCEN investigation, the Huione Group laundered over $4 billion in illegal funds between 2021 and 2025 and has connections to North Korean hacker organizations.
Once this proposal takes effect, U.S. financial institutions must cease providing account opening and management services for Huione and its affiliated entities. FinCEN official Bessent noted that the cryptocurrency trading platforms and online payment services operated by Huione have become the preferred market for cybercriminals.
Source: The Block

According to Gate.io News bot and a report by Fortune, the cryptocurrency company Dinari recently completed a $12.7 million Series A funding round. This round of financing was co-led by Hack VC and Blockchange Ventures, with participation from VanEck Ventures, F-Prime, and Avalanche Fund.
After this round of financing, Dinari's total financing amount reached 22.65 million USD. The company mainly provides blockchain technology-based US company stock purchasing services for non-US investors.

According to Gate.io News bot, on-chain data shows that a Large Investor completed a series of transactions in the past 24 hours:
First, 1,185 ETH was exchanged for 2.113 million USDC, and then these USDC were used to purchase 2.92 million AERO, 3.34 million AIXBT, and 6,800 VIRTUAL tokens.
The Large Investors subsequently exchanged 2,440,000 AERO (worth 1.66 million USD) for 996,566 VIRTUAL tokens, bringing their total VIRTUAL holdings to 1,003,366.
Currently, the Large Investors still hold 2.9 million AERO tokens.

Gate.io News bot message, Bloomberg reports that BlackRock has submitted an application to the SEC to establish a blockchain-based stock class for the BlackRock BLF Treasury Trust, labeled as DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). The fund invests in high-quality short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, and the DLT class will record stock ownership through blockchain technology and simplify the operation of money market funds. Bank of New York Mellon acts as the intermediary responsible for the sale of these stocks, with a minimum transaction limit of $3 million.
Source: Bloomberg

According to the Gate.io News bot and Cointelegraph, Europe's first Bitcoin reserve company The Blockchain Group has announced a long-term acquisition plan. The company aims to accumulate 260,000 Bitcoins by 2033, which is approximately $24 billion at current market capitalization. Data shows that as of March 2025, The Blockchain Group has already held 620 Bitcoins.

According to the Gate.io News bot, data from SoSoValue shows that on May 1st, Eastern Time, the Ethereum Spot ETF market recorded a total net inflow of $6.4932 million. Among them, Grayscale's Ethereum Mini Trust ETF ETH ranked first with a single-day net inflow of $11.984 million. The data also shows that the historical total net inflow of this ETF product has reached $617 million.

Gate.io News bot message, according to @ralexstokes' summary report of the 156th Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developer Meeting (ACDC), the meeting focused on two major upgrade issues:
Regarding the Pectra upgrade, the development team has completed shadow fork testing on the mainnet. The configuration issues encountered during testing were similar to those in Holesky, but did not affect the operation of the mainnet. GnosisChain has completed the deployment of the Pectra upgrade.
Regarding the Fusaka upgrade, the development team is preparing peerdas-devnet-7 and discussing relevant specifications, validator hosting features, and bug fixes. This upgrade plan will be initiated after resolving synchronization issues and upon completion of the Pectra upgrade.
Source: Wu Says

According to Gate.io News bot, as reported by Wu, Jacob Franek, a core builder of Alliance, stated on social media that the Ethereum community needs to provide support for excellent application developers.
Franek made three suggestions: First, he pointed out that hackathon events struggle to produce high-quality products, and the Ethereum community has invested too much in this; second, he suggested focusing funding on accelerators, incubators, ecological venture capital funds, and growth funds, rather than basic research; finally, he emphasized the importance of scaling the Ethereum mainnet and addressing the composability issues of layer-two networks.

According to the Gate.io News bot, Wu Shuo reported that Du Jun, the founder of the ABCDE Fund, publicly disclosed the latest performance data of the fund in the Web3 101 podcast. Du Jun stated that the first phase of the ABCDE Fund has currently achieved approximately 5 times paper gains, while the DPI's return rate is about 2 times, and the overall performance has not exceeded Bitcoin.
Du Jun also revealed that the fund is currently focusing its investments on areas such as AI-assisted security, trading, and data companies.

Gate.io News bot message, according to the latest news, Movement Labs announced that its founder Rushi Manche has been suspended from his position. The company is conducting an investigation into the matter. This news was first published on the Twitter platform. Movement Labs is a company focused on Blockchain technology development, and this personnel change has attracted widespread attention from the Crypto Assets community.

Gate.io News bot message, according to data from Nansen, crypto investor Crypto Chad POW (@traderpow) purchased 2.62 million BOO tokens with $977,000 worth of AI16Z, SOL, and LETSBONK tokens. After the transaction was completed, these BOO tokens have been transferred to the staking pool.
The trading address is: 8zFZHuSRuDpuAR7J6FzwyF3vKNx4CVW3DFHJerQhc7Zd.

According to the Gate.io News bot, data from @Adam_Tehc's data panel shows that since its establishment 16 months ago, the total number of Tokens created on the Pump Fun platform has exceeded 10 million. The data indicates that in the past week, the graduation rate of Pump Fun Tokens from the internal market to the external market is 0.96%. Based on the current graduation rate, approximately 100,000 Tokens created on the Pump Fun platform have successfully transitioned from the internal market to the external market.
Source of information: Wu Shuo

According to Gate.io News bot, crypto assets investor and KOL CryptoCondom recently summarized his investment mistakes over six years in the encryption industry.
Specifically includes: not participating in the DeFi Summer Farming activities; selling thousands of ETH at the bottom price during the Covid pandemic on March 15, 2020; buying CRV at a price of $0.9 and locking it up for four years; locking CVX resulting in missing the $60 peak; missing opportunities for multiple Memecoin projects such as TRUMP Fartcoin due to underestimating Memecoin; not selling during Trump's inauguration; selling at the bottom of Trump's tariff policy to preserve capital.

According to the Gate.io News bot, data from the PineAnalytics dashboard shows that the well-known KOL dingaling's Solana Memecoin launcher boop fun started operations last night. Statistics indicate that the platform has launched 10.8k tokens, of which 153 tokens have been successfully launched and entered the external trading market. In terms of internal transactions on the platform, boop fun has accumulated a trading volume of 138.5k SOL, and the platform has collected transaction fees of 1.4k SOL.
Information source: Wu Says

According to Gate.io News bot, Metaplanet Inc. officially announced the issuance of the 12th tranche of ordinary bonds for the EVO FUND, with a total issuance amount of 3.6 billion yen (approximately 24.71 million USD). The raised funds will be used to purchase Bitcoin.
This bond is a zero-coupon bond and will mature at face value on October 31, 2025. The company plans to use the proceeds from the exercise of stock subscription rights for the 15th to 17th periods as the source of funds for the bond redemption.