USDC Treasury adds 250 million USDC coins to Solana Chain for minting

Europol froze 41 million euros (approximately 47 million US dollars) of criminal cryptocurrency and destroyed the infrastructure of SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC malware in Operation Endgame, shutting down 326 servers and 142 domains, and recovering approximately 27 million stolen credentials from over 385000 infected systems.

According to a16z crypto data, the predicted market trading volume has reached a historic high for three consecutive weeks. Last week, the market trading volume reached 14.4 billion US dollars, and at the beginning of the year, the trading volume was 5.5 billion to 6 billion US dollars. A week ago, the trading volume was 10 billion US dollars. Open interest contracts rose to $1.6 billion, hitting a historic high for three consecutive weeks. The non sports market has seen significant growth, with a total transaction volume of $3.6 billion between Kalshi and Polymarket last week, exceeding the predicted total market size for all categories in 2023.

AI agent infrastructure company Sail Research has completed $80 million in seed and Series A funding, led by KPMG and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Redpoint Ventures, CRV, and Theory Ventures. Sail Research builds infrastructure for AI agents to address the computational power, cost, and operational limitations of AI systems in long-term, multi-step tasks. The API is compatible with OpenAI interfaces and supports mainstream open-source models such as DeepSeek and Gemma.

The pardoned ex-CEO called prison a character-building "plus" as he's pursued a venture-capital career, despite his majority stake in the world's biggest crypto exchange.

Spot gold prices rose 0.86% to $4033.18 per ounce; Spot silver prices rose 2.25% to $58.70 per ounce.