Professional mixed martial arts athlete Conor McGregor tweeted his advocacy for Ireland to adopt a Bitcoin reserve strategy, saying: “The original intention of cryptocurrency is to return power to the people. Ireland’s Bitcoin strategic reserve will give the people monetary power.”

In the past two days, a whale deposited 20.18 million USDT in Bybit and withdrew 9,023.5 ETH at a price of $2,237. Currently, the whale holds 11,739 ETH, worth $27.57 million, and 9.38 million USDT.

Indonesia's Ministry of Communications and Digital (Komdigi) may delete 500,000 retinal data records collected by the World platform. The move stems from concerns about potential data leaks. Komdigi is investigating whether there are risks in storing retinal data. If evidence of such risks is found, the data may be permanently deleted.

On-chain detective ZachXBT said law enforcement mistakenly detained former Yuga Labs security researcher Sam Curry in connection with a 2022 cyber theft that stole approximately $1.1 million worth of BAYC NFTs. ZachXBT said he had identified the wallet behind the scam and associated it with a now-deleted X account.

Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf announced its first quarter financial report for 2025, with a net loss of $61.4 million, far higher than the $9.6 million in the same period last year. The company's revenue fell year-on-year to $34.4 million, while the cost of revenue rose to $24.5 million, accounting for 71.4%, more than double the 34% in the same period last year. TeraWulf attributed the decline in revenue to the halving of Bitcoin and the increase in network difficulty; in addition, the severe weather in New York State also affected its mine operations.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will speak at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas later this month. Last July, President Trump spoke at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, before winning and returning to the White House in November.

According to Jinshi, the US stock market closed on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially closing down 0.29%, the S&P 500 down 0.07%, and the Nasdaq closing flat. Tesla (TSLA.O) rose 4.7%, Apple (AAPL.O) rose 0.5%, and Nvidia (NVDA.O) fell 0.6%.

According to on-chain analyst Ember’s monitoring, [Whale 0x3c9] continued to transfer 500 billion PEPE (6.14 million USD) to Binance 1 hour ago. Currently, the whale still holds 1 trillion PEPE, worth 12.27 million USD.

Coinbase had considered adopting the Bitcoin buying strategy popularized by Michael Saylor in the past, but decided the plan was too risky. "We did have moments over the last 12 years where we wondered if we should put 80% of our assets in cryptocurrencies - specifically, Bitcoin," Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a video address on the X social network. Coinbase ultimately decided against the strategy because it could have hurt the company's cash position as a startup and could have even "killed" the San Francisco-based company. Nonetheless, according to the company's latest shareholder letter, Coinbase purchased $153 million worth of cryptocurrencies (mostly Bitcoin) in the first quarter. According to the letter, the company holds $1.3 billion worth of cryptocurrencies (mostly Bitcoin) as investments. Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas said the company does not want to be seen as competing with customers who invest in cryptocurrencies.

Representatives of BlackRock met with members of the U.S. SEC Crypto Working Group on ways to address issues related to the regulation of crypto assets and discussed issues related to pledges and options on cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds. According to the document, the meeting discussed "considerations for promoting ETPs with pledge functions" and discussed parameters for determining crypto ETF option positions and exercise limits, including liquidity thresholds. In addition, BlackRock also discussed specific criteria for approving crypto ETFs.

PANews reported on May 10 that the OKX market showed that BTC had just fallen below $103,000 and is now trading at $102,990.10 per coin, with a daily increase of 0.08%.

Doodles said on the X platform that it has noticed that some airdrop wallets have problems and are working on fixing them as soon as possible. All eligible wallets will receive their share of the airdrop, and more information will be announced soon.

Solana co-founder Toly said on the X platform that the computing power in Solana v2.2 has increased by 20%, which is equivalent to adding 5 Ethereum Pectra upgrades to the network.

Huobi HTX launched the DOOD/USDT perpetual contract on May 9, with a maximum leverage of 20 times. At the same time, Huobi HTX launched the DOOD contract trading party from 23:00 on May 9 to 23:00 on May 16 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of up to US$10,000.

Ethereum re-staking protocol EigenLayer announced that it will launch the "redistribution of forfeited funds" upgrade on the mainnet in June, which is an advanced function of its slashing mechanism. This function allows the Active Verification Service (AVS) to allocate forfeited funds to designated recipients instead of directly destroying them. The first batch supports LST, EIGEN, USDC and AVS tokens (excluding ETH for the time being). The testnet is scheduled to be deployed on networks such as Holesky in May.

PANews reported on May 9 that Coinglass data showed that in the past 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market had a total contract liquidation of $1.118 billion, of which $351 million was for long orders and $767 million was for short orders. The total amount of BTC liquidation was $307 million, and the total amount of ETH liquidation was $439 million.

Metis said the next evolution of MetisL2 will start on May 14, when the Andromeda upgrade will be launched, which is the first stage of the MetisReGenesis evolution.

Telegram founder Du Rove announced on his personal channel that he has launched the Telegram Gift Market, where users can instantly buy gifts from other users or sell their own gifts. Telegram gifts are unique NFT collections based on the TON blockchain. They were initially sold for only a few dollars, but now the value of some gifts has soared to tens of thousands of dollars.

Ten Bitcoin ETFs had a net inflow of 1,382 BTC (about $142 million) today, of which iShares (Blackrock) had an inflow of 682 BTC (70.26 million USD), and currently holds 621,600 BTC (64.07 billion USD). Nine Ethereum ETFs had a net outflow of 9,120 ETH (21 million USD), of which Fidelity had an outflow of 9,242 ETH (21.28 million USD), and currently holds 404,163 ETH (931 million USD).

A group of U.S. Democratic senators (including Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren) sent a joint letter to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, requesting an investigation into Binance's connection with the Trump family's digital asset project. The letter pointed out that Abu Dhabi investment company MXG completed a $2 billion investment in Binance in March this year through the USD1 stablecoin controlled by the Trump family, which raised concerns about compliance risks. In 2023, Binance pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering regulations, and its former CEO Zhao Changpeng has served four months in prison.