The KelpDAO vulnerability attack was not a black swan event; it was a predictable failure mode.

The success of the x402 is inseparable from native integrators. Unauthorized wrappers can turn potential partners into competitors.

Polymarket and Kalshi are not jointly supporting a competitor; they are insuring the market foundation they will need for their future.

Chips were the main battlefield of the last war. The next war will revolve around something even more difficult to control, track, and fight—AI agents capable of autonomous planning, execution, and iteration.

The base interest rate for perpetual contract funding rates is no longer an exchange parameter, but rather a default "crypto USD risk-free rate." It's an artificial anchor point solidified by copying, fueled by arbitrage funds, and maintained through collusion among all participants.

MiCA: What's the European Crypto Market Like Now After MiCA? Golden Finance: Offshore Companies Captured the Biggest Benefits from MiCA.

In recent years, the number of virtual currency-related cases investigated and prosecuted by public security organs for the crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes has increased significantly.

Bitcoin has been consolidating above $77,000 for some time. Market sentiment regarding the second half of the year is severely divided.

BTC continued its slight pullback, reaching 77k. Whenever this happens, some news always seems to emerge to fuel the price movement. This time, it's quantum computing again.

Satoshi Nakamoto, Vitalik Buterin, one of the top ten most influential figures in the cryptocurrency field. Golden Finance reveals ten top figures who will unveil the future of crypto.

Jinse Finance launches its cryptocurrency and blockchain industry daily news bulletin, "Jinse Morning 8," issue 3038, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

If a virtual currency project has specific characteristics, and given the current domestic policy of cracking down on cryptocurrency speculation, there is a significant criminal risk that it could be classified as a crime of organizing or leading pyramid schemes.

Stablecoins are evolving from trading instruments into universal payment infrastructure, and this process is happening more quietly and thoroughly than most people expected.

Nvidia's market capitalization has firmly established itself above the $5 trillion mark, maintaining its position as the world's most valuable company.

The United States, Iran, stablecoins; the US freezes $344 million worth of Iranian cryptocurrencies. Golden Finance reports that the US has targeted Iran again.

Some institutions have already publicly disclosed their choice to unlock the shares immediately at a discount. The project is about to face the pressure of a massive one-time unlock; whether it can achieve explosive growth alongside the AI ​​sector hinges on this test.

Cryptocurrency market, cryptocurrency, market trends, rebuttal to Yang Haipo's "The Endgame of Cryptocurrency" - Golden Finance: This may be the real test for cryptocurrencies.

The Nasdaq index hit a new high, driven by a triple factor: increased weighting of technology stocks, strengthened earnings expectations, and a rebound in risk appetite.

Web3 security doesn't just happen at the "most dangerous" moments; it can also be hidden in the most everyday and familiar operations.

The $100 anchor point was once the cornerstone of Strategy's fundraising magic. This perpetual motion machine of fundraising, built by Michael Saylor to buy Bitcoin, is now stuck.

On April 24, 2026, DeepSeek V4 preview version was officially released.

How Hyperliquid, USDAI, MetaMask, Maple, and Centrifuge build industry moats by vertically integrating and adding practical value.

The real battle in this war over "whose currency will become the settlement unit in the on-chain world" has only just begun.

Hong Kong, stablecoins, regulation, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Web3 Carnival was a huge success, but why is the crypto world still "absent" from stablecoins? Golden Finance: The road to stablecoin licensing in Hong Kong is still long and requires steady progress.

Stablecoins, AI Agent, Circle, USDC, x402 protocol, after AI votes itself, only USDC remains as the winner. Golden Finance: The market has misrepresented the story of AI tokens.

Intel's earnings report completely beat expectations, sending its stock soaring 20% ​​in after-hours trading, nearing $80, a resounding slap in the face to Wall Street! The surge was fueled by the strong backing of a mega-deal with Musk and Google, as well as the surge in demand for data centers driven by AI inference.

Bitcoin has no productive value, no consumer value, and no real monetary function. Historically, there are very few precedents for pure consensus assets to survive for a long time.

Spark's TVL growth is essentially a redistribution of existing DeFi funds among protocols, rather than an influx of new capital. The overall industry "pie" is shrinking in the short term, and no one can remain unaffected.

A black swan event has redefined who holds the Iron Throne of DeFi.

Crypto Market, Exchanges, Perpetual Contracts, Projects, Air Coins, Crime Coin: The Most Profitable Business in the Crypto Industry. Golden Finance: How to Discover Crime Coin in the Crypto Market?

If not for liquidation, SBF's AI investments would now be worth tens of billions of dollars.

A16Z, Artificial Intelligence, LLM, a16z: Why Large Models Need Continuous Learning in the AI ​​Era (Golden Finance, Memory Fragments and Machines)

Wanxiang Blockchain Chairman Xiao Feng and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin held a fireside chat at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, engaging in in-depth discussions on the theme of "The Next Stage of Ethereum Applications".

The GPT Image 2 core team consists of only 13 people, all of whom are Asian.

Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Cook's Departure and Tenus's Succession: The Discontinuity and Reboot of Apple's 4 Trillion-Dollar Empire. Golden Finance: In the current era of explosive growth in artificial intelligence, has Apple fallen behind?

The merger of the two major payment companies, Ridge and BVNK, established their industry position and revenue scale.

Stablecoins: US Stalls, Japan Spends Money: Stablecoins Reshape the Financial Landscape. Golden Finance: The stablecoin competition is entering a tiered era.

Since 2026, the crypto market has been under pressure overall, with Bitcoin and mainstream assets experiencing a synchronized correction and a significant cooling of market sentiment. Behind this period of downturn, is it the end of a cycle, or the prelude to structural reshaping?

This is not an offensive move, but a defensive counterattack, and the window of opportunity is closing.

The true reward in life is not money, power, or fame, but knowing that what you do is useful to others.

Financial market participants expect stablecoins to play an important role in the payments ecosystem.

With the Ponzi scheme fading out and computing power becoming a new scarce resource, intelligent agents may trigger the next cycle within 12-18 months.

Tim Cook, the executive who defined Apple’s post-Steve Jobs era, is stepping down as CEO after more than a decade at the helm, signaling one of the most significant leadership transitions in the company’s modern history.

Is it possible to simultaneously achieve three goals: expanding the industry, maintaining market share, and avoiding the provision of industry-wide public goods?

Tiger Research forecasts a target price of $143,000 for Bitcoin in Q2 2026, representing a potential upside of 2x, and provides in-depth analysis of macroeconomic positive factors, ETF inflows, and on-chain indicators supporting a medium- to long-term bull market.

When ChatGPT first emerged, Chinese users went to great lengths to find overseas Apple IDs and phone numbers to try it out. Now, the tables have turned. With the advent of the AI ​​Agent era, token cost-effectiveness has become crucial, and large-scale Chinese models have attracted the attention of overseas programmers.

Scenario Analysis Based on Circle's Financial Situation and the Chain Reaction of the $300 Million KelpDAO Vulnerability Attack

This will be the most dangerous prisoner's dilemma in the history of DeFi.

Xiao Feng delivered a keynote speech entitled "Innovation of Intelligent Agent Economic Model - The Integration Revolution of AI Token, Blockchain Token and Fully Homomorphic Encryption" at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival.

Is Agent finally saying goodbye to "going it alone" and ushering in the second stage of evolution?

Arbitrum's security committee transferred over 30,000 ETH from the KelpDAO hackers with a single click, demonstrating some of L2's responsiveness in a crisis, but also quickly sparking a heated debate in the crypto community about the nature of "decentralization."

AI makes scale cheap and readily available, but difficult to trust. Encryption, on the other hand, restores trust at scale.

BTC, Bitcoin's Maginot Line: From Halving Failure to the Power Law Test. Golden Finance: Bitcoin halving is the most classic story in the cryptocurrency world.

On April 18, KelpDAO's rsETH cross-chain asset suffered a massive attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $290 million.

AI investment is shifting from "competing on GPU computing power" to "full-stack system efficiency." In the era of intelligent agents, the bottleneck has changed from computing power to orchestration: GPUs determine whether something can be done, and the system determines whether it can generate revenue.

The tokenized commodities market has expanded rapidly over the past year. The core issue for the industry today is no longer whether tokenized commodities can continue to grow, but when they will become a mainstream asset recognized by both retail and institutional investors.

Aave's governance mechanism has completely disabled the rsETH market in versions V3 and V4. However, this is a remedial measure, and the protocol still needs to deal with its hundreds of millions of dollars in outstanding bad debts before it can recover from this serious vulnerability.

Code is dead, logic is immortal. When code comparison fails, what can we rely on to determine plagiarism?

Historically, investors have considered the US dollar, US Treasury bonds, and gold as the best safe-haven assets. However, the latest data shows that Bitcoin has now claimed the crown, becoming the king of safe-haven assets.

The window of opportunity for positioning in underlying infrastructure is beginning to narrow, while vertical application layers that can transform protocol capabilities into real business loops represent a more noteworthy opportunity between 2026 and 2027.

DeFi: 300 Million After Another 300 Million - Is It Still Safe to Invest Money in DeFi? (Jinse Finance) And when the tsunami recedes, what remains will be an even more solid foundation.

SAAS, DeFi, Harness Arbitrage Period: Saving DeFi from the Edge of SaaS (Golden Finance): Reinventing DeFi, the Revival of AI Narratives.

The message conveyed by the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival is clearly different from the industry discussions of the past few years.

What will be the most "luxurious" consumption by humans at work in 2026? The answer is not buying a top-of-the-line computer or acquiring a few impressive pieces of clothing, but rather being able to use the world's most advanced AI tools without restrictions or regard to cost.

Cryptocurrency, crypto market, He Yi, Interview with He Yi: I don't recommend selling your house to go all in; survival is the priority in the crypto world. Golden Finance: Small allocation, more research.

I don't know where Anthropic will fire next. But I do know one thing—three bullets in four months, the next one will most likely be at the end of May or the beginning of June.

This article reviews the KelpDAO hack, analyzes the reasons for the hack and the mastermind behind it, summarizes the losses, and explores why Aave generates a large number of bad debts.

The real AI token is USDC. Everything else is just a facade.

DeFi touts itself as transparent and regulated. But in reality, the most crucial question is: who bears the losses?

Where exactly does AI payment happen? How can AI spend money securely? How does this business make money? Where will the competition between large companies and startups lead?

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, comprehensively outlining Ethereum's five-year technology roadmap, clarifying Ethereum's core value proposition, phased technology upgrade plan, and underlying principles for long-term development.

The key to survival in a bear market lies in understanding how to identify complex, structured commodities and protect oneself.

This attack originated from a highly sophisticated state-sponsored hacking group, most likely North Korea's Lazarus Group. The underlying reason is that KelpDAO uses a single DVN (Decentralized Authentication Network) setup.

Sometimes, reality is more absurd than a script. Even if a screenwriter dares to write it that way, the audience might not believe it.

From April 20th to 23rd, the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Numerous guests from regulatory bodies, the crypto ecosystem, traditional finance, and cutting-edge technology sectors shared their insights. Jinse Finance has compiled the keynote speeches from these speakers.

As AI agents begin to manage real-world systems, who controls the underlying models? Furthermore, blockchain can fill in the gaps in AI's infrastructure in four other ways.

Computing power-based currencies (Tokens) are reshaping the value paradigm in the AI ​​era. From changes in charging methods to the differentiation of cost structures and adjustments to budget systems, we can see how the Token economy is being redefined.

Contactless SaaS reveals a completely new software payment paradigm: the retrieval layer shifts from humans to intelligent agents, and the decision-making cost of service selection shifts from human emotions to quantifiable cost-benefit trade-offs.

Jinse Finance launches its cryptocurrency and blockchain industry daily news report, "Jinse Morning 8," issue 3032, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

Golden Weekly is a weekly blockchain industry summary column launched by Golden Finance, covering key news, mining information, project updates, technological advancements, and other industry dynamics.

The phrase "Audit passed" does not cover the location of that parameter.

This report analyzes Kalshi's rapid growth and the evolving structure of the sports betting market, and compares its pricing, liquidity, and valuation against traditional sports betting companies.

A fake news story swindled $292 million: 46 minutes of Kelp DAO's cross-chain bridge being hollowed out.

Laws, regulations, policies, and the massive removal of encrypted apps: Google Play's death knell heralds the end of the era of unlicensed, unregulated apps. This isn't targeting any one app store, but rather a global purge of app stores.

This episode of the Empire podcast, hosted by Jason Yanowitz and Santi, focuses on Hyperliquid's institutionalization process, signs of regulatory deregulation, and market structure differentiation.

Jeff Park believes that for young people, from unaffordable housing to AI replacing an entire generation of jobs, the financial system has completely collapsed.

This is a slow and steady process: integrating new competencies into the existing system. It signifies an awareness—to govern the future of the dollar, one must first understand the language that is writing that future.

Bitcoin successfully broke out of the $62.8k–$72.6k range, briefly touching the $74k mark. This breakout strategically signifies that the market has moved from a geopolitically induced "forced deleveraging" phase to an "initial stabilization period."

Discussions surrounding stablecoins have long focused on one question: who will issue the next dominant stablecoin?

The most valuable thing in the future will be the oldest thing. It's not computing power. It's not data. It's not models. It's when one person says "I believe in you" to another, and that promise is truly fulfilled.

In the world of artificial intelligence and crypto, are humans being replaced by robots? Golden Finance: In which areas of the crypto world have robots taken over, and which remain human-dominated?

For traditional security vendors, they need to figure out their future path as soon as possible.

Prediction markets are maturing into an infrastructure that provides pricing for uncertainty, serving a wide range of participants from retail traders to top institutions, and their applications are becoming increasingly widespread.

Quantum Computing, BTC: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding the Real Threat of Quantum Computers to Bitcoin (Part 2) - Jinse Finance: The threat is real and closer than previously anticipated.

Kevin Warsh, a leading candidate for the next Federal Reserve Chairman, recently submitted a 69-page financial disclosure document for his Senate hearing.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has issued a stark warning: China possesses the infrastructure, talent, and computing power needed to develop an AI systems that could infiltrate into the US security system.

Global innovation in Web3 and stablecoins is accelerating, while Hong Kong's official policy framework still emphasizes control rather than empowerment.

Following Morgan Stanley and BlackRock, Goldman Sachs has also applied for a Bitcoin ETF.

In the past few cycles, observing the changing relationship between cost base and price behavior has been one of the best perspectives for observing BTC emerging from a bottoming structure.

What factors are driving this round of cryptocurrency market gains? Which altcoins are the dark horses?