• Deloitte merger and acquisition of encryption infrastructure company Blocknative; stabilization currency company Checker completed $8 million in financing; a16z or became the largest external holding facility for HYPE
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- Checker completed $8 million in financing, Galaxy Ventures etc
- Deloitte & Touche Encrypted Infrastructure
- Mastercard, abandoning investment in Zerohash, turning to BVNK layout stabilization currency payment infrastructure
- a16z or has become the largest external warehouse facility for HYPE, cumulatively over $356 million
- Tether acquired all shares held by SoftBank in Twenty One Capital(XXI)
- Go to the Central Derivatives Trading Platform, Valinational, finish $50 million
- Strategy CEO: Q1 Former 15 Large Agency Shareholders 13 with MSTR, total warehouse growth 27%
What's important about the past 24 hours
Strategy CEO: Q1 Former 15 Large Agency Shareholders 13 with MSTR, total warehouse growth 27%
ChainCatcher, Strategy CEO Phong Le, states that in the first quarter of 2026, 13 of Strategy ' s top 15 institutional shareholders increased their hold on $MSTR, with a combined increase of 27% in the size of the hold。
Go to the Central Derivatives Trading Platform, Valinational, finish $50 million
ChainCatcher, according to Fortune, went to the Central Derivatives Trading Platform, Variational announced the completion of $50 million in round A, Dragonfly Capital, and Bain Capital Cripto and Coinbase Ventures。
The company, based in the Cayman Islands, works to build a chain-based derivative agreement for institutions and traditional financial dealers to provide instantaneous trading chains for real-life assets such as oil, commodities and so forth by combining traditional financial and encrypted market liquidity. Its core product, the Omni platform, uses a zero-fee model and combines a liquidity pool mechanism to enhance market depth and efficiency of implementation。
According to Varinational, its objective is not to compete directly with the centralized exchange, but to connect multiple sources of liquidity through the “brokering” model, including traditional finance as a marketer and mainstream encrypted trading platform, in order to address the “liquidity cold start” of the chain。
THE NEW HAVEN PARENT COMPANY, ICE, IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH A FUTURES MARKET
ChainCatcher reports that the New York Stock Exchange parent company Intercontinental Exchange Group (ICE) announced plans to introduce futures contracts based on “calculations” to track changes in computing costs, such as GPU, which underpins the AI industry, which still requires regulatory approval。
It is known that ICE will work with Ornn, the financial infrastructure company, to develop a system for pricing derivatives based on its GPU cost index. The index will be used to support the computing futures contract。
Tether acquired all shares held by SoftBank in Twenty One Capital(XXI)
ChainCatcher reports that, according to official announcements, Tether International announced the acquisition of all SoftBank shares in Twenty One Capital (XXI) as a larger controlling shareholder. Upon completion of the transaction, the members of the board of directors posted by SoftBank had withdrawn from the board as agreed by shareholders。
According to Tether, this reflects its long-term strategic commitment and confidence in establishing listed companies from zero, with Bitcoin at their core. The bulletin states that the early involvement of SoftBank provides an important institutional background and governance experience to help companies complete the initial phase, on which Tether will build to move XXI to the next stage of development。
Mercury Finance Technology Corporation. $200 million in financing. TCV
ChainCatcher reports that the financial technology company Mercury announced the completion of a $200 million new round of financing, a TCV award, and the participation of Sequoia Capital, Andressen Horowitz (a16z) and Coatue Management。
Mercury, which mainly provides banking services for start-up businesses, currently has over 300,000 clients and has an annualized revenue of about $650 million, indicates that the recent AI entrepreneurial boom has significantly driven the demand for new company registration and account openings as an important driver of growth。
At the same time, Mercury announced that it had obtained conditional approval from the United States Monetary Supervisory Authority (OCC) to apply for federal bank licences to expand access to loans, payment networks (e.g. Zelle) and reduce reliance on cooperative banks, whose founders said that the future goal would remain independent listing rather than acquisition。
Goldman Sachs will serve as SpaceX IPO masters. Business
ChainCatcher News, according to The Information, Goldman Sachs will be the main vendor of SpaceX IPO, which will be responsible for coordinating the entire listing process, including the core elements of pricing, road shows and stock distribution。
ChainCatcher NewsAccording to Kim X, informed sources, SpaceX is expected to move forward with the acquisition of the artificial intelligence coding company Cursor 30 days after the start of the IPO。
ChainCatcher, according to slow fog cosine monitoring, several bankr user wallets were stolen. @bankrbot replied that the incident was a social engineering attack on the trust level between automated agents, which involved interaction between Grok and Bankrbot and resulted in unauthorized trade signatures。
ChainCatcher reports that MasterCard has abandoned its investment plan for the encryption infrastructure company Zerohash, which previously agreed in March to buy the British Stabilisation Currency Infrastructure company BVNK for $1.8 billion. Last January, Mastercard considered a strategic investment in Zerohash, based in Chicago. At that time, Zerohash was seeking to finance $250 billion in the $1.5 billion valuation, and the company was currently moving forward with a new round of higher valuations. Founded in 2017, Zerohash provides API and developer tools mainly for encryption, stable currency and tokenization products。
Meanwhile, recent transactions such as the Kraken parent company Payward and Bullish have shown that integration in the area of digital asset infrastructure continues. In terms of stable currency payment layouts, Mastercard has purchased BVNK with $1.8 billion and is likely to pay an extra $300 million in performance. BVNK currently serves payment and payroll platforms such as Worldpay, Deel etc. for cross-border payments, fund settlement and financial management。
Mastercard plans to integrate BVNK technology into its MasterCard Move network to support payment agencies and businesses to receive a single 7x24-hour stable currency settlement and explore the inclusion of a stable currency clearing function in the payment gateway. The analysis concluded that the transaction would further intensify the competition between Mastercard and Visa on the payment network network networking strategy and accelerate the evolution of the traditional cross-border clearing system towards a stable currency settlement model。
GitHub suspected of being hacked and investigating unauthorized access to the internal code library
ChainCatcher, official GitHub stated that an unauthorized visit to his internal code library was being investigated. GitHub states that there is currently no evidence that the data of the business, organization or code warehouse stored by the customer outside the GitHub platform has been affected, but that the company is continuously monitoring the infrastructure to prevent further unusual activity。
GitHub indicated that clients would be informed through established incident response and notification channels if subsequent confirmation was made that user data or services were affected。
a16z or has become the largest external warehouse facility for HYPE, cumulatively over $356 million
ChainCatcher reports that according to the chain analyst Aunt Ai (@ai 9684xtpa) monitors a16z (@a16zcrypto) or has become the sixth largest HYPE holding entity, possibly the largest external holding agency in all of Hype ' s home ecology。
The data show that a16z has had a large build-up pattern since August 2025, cumulatively 9.18 million HYPEs (approximately $356 million) at an average price of $38.77; after the transfer to the exchange and to the market, 8,844,000 HYPEs remain, stored in dozens of addresses。
Within the last 11 hours alone, a16z has added 2,06,000 HYPEs (approximately $9.95 million); since 16 April, 2.35 million accumulated (approximately $102 million); and 4.92 million accumulated since 2026 (approximately $183 million). At current prices, it had a currency surplus of $7,929,000。
Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini urged the Senate to remove the secret currency listing restrictions
ChainCatcher News, Centralized Exchange Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini urged members of the United States Senate to repeal specific provisions of the Digital Asset Market Structure Act. This provision restricts the marketing of market-prone tokens on trading platforms. Exchanges submitted proposals for changes to remove the restriction and considered that this regulatory standard, which is derived from traditional commodity futures, would discourage low-mobility small coins from being listed on compliance exchanges and limit industry innovation。
Deloitte & Touche Encrypted Infrastructure
ChainCatcher informed that Deloitte announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the encryption infrastructure company Blocknative through a merger based on talent acquisition. According to the bulletin, the Blacknative team will “focus on promoting Web3 innovation in the Deloitte customer system”. Currently, the Blocknative Network of Officials has shown announcements that the company “is phasing out”. Its Blocknative API and Gas Network services will also be phased out and are expected to remain in operation until 19 June。
Blocknative was established in 2018 as a block chain infrastructure company focusing on real-time mempool monitoring, Gas cost forecasting and transaction management. The company provides API and related tools to optimize chain transactions; its Gas Network is a network of decentrizers that provides real-time Gas cost data. This is taking place at a time when the whole spectrum of encrypted ecosystems is being integrated. This was accompanied by increased exposure to encryption by traditional companies like Deloitte. Deloitte now provides accounting, auditing and other business services for encryption companies。
Checker completed $8 million in financing, Galaxy Ventures etc
ChainCatcher News, Checker, SFI, announced the completion of $8 million in pre-seed and seed-wheel financing, with the participation of Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, Framework Ventures, Bitso, Airtm, DFS Lab, Onigiri Capital, SNZ Capital and Velocity。
The main business of the project is to assist financial institutions in introducing and expanding stabilization currency and related products through the provision of a single API. It was known that Checker had processed over $3 billion in transactions over the past 12 months and planned to use new funds to expand its network of financial institutions to Brazil, Kenya, Hong Kong and the United States, while planning to introduce AI agents for customer orientation, compliance assessment and treasury operations。
Meme Hot List
According to Meme Currency Tracking and Analysis PlatformGMGNAs of May 21, 0900
Former 24h ETH top five in the order of HEX, SHIB, LINK, PEPE, mUSD
In the past 24h Solana top five hot coins were: TROLL, HANTA, Buttcoin, testicle, MAGA
The top five of the 24h Base coins were: B3, Skya, TOSHI, Toby, KEYCAT
What are the good articles worth reading in the past 24 hours
Duan Yongping's first warehouse encryption company: Why Circle
A well-known investor with the reputation of "Buffett, China" and his family's wealth management agency, H& H International Investment LLC recently submitted a 13F hold-up report to the US SEC as of March 31, 2026。
ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, THE TOTAL MARKET VALUE OF THE PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS THAT REMAINED FLAT INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY FROM $17.49 BILLION IN THE PREVIOUS QUARTER TO $20.004 BILLION. IN ADDITION TO CONTINUING WITH AAPL, BRK.B AND NVDA, A NEW FACE HAS DRAWN THE ATTENTION OF THE ENCRYPTION INDUSTRY AND VALUE INVESTORS: THE STABILIZATION CURRENCY GIANTCircle(NYSE: CRCL)。
In recent days, the Etherwood Foundation has been hit again by human shocksI don't knowCore FellowsCarl BeekandJulian MaOfficial declaration of separation。
This yearSince thenAt least seven core members or senior contributors have left each other, ranging from joint implementation directors to agreement researchers, from upgraded coordinators to password specialists, and there are clear community concerns about the stability and implementation of the Foundation。
AT THE SAME TIME, INSTITUTIONAL WAREHOUSE DATA ARE BEING GENERATED. GOLDMAN SACHS SHRUNK ABOUT 70 PER CENT OF BELET ETHA ' S WAREHOUSE, NEARLY US$ 87 MILLION FROM THE HARVARD ENDOWMENT FUND, WHICH WAS FULLY CLEARED, WAS HELD BY ETF, AND KOREA ' S SEVENTH LARGEST PENSION RELIEF COMPANY RECORDED A LOSS OF APPROXIMATELY US$ 32.73 MILLION BY INVESTING IN ETF。
In addition, the Etherwood Foundation recently released 21,271 ETH from Lido and repeatedly sold ETH on the chain for rebalancing the treasury。
Internal core teams are running away, large external funding is out of place and the Foundation itself is losing. It is being voted by different types of participants at the same time。
It's a good business to get money back from the encrypted money
Today, in Hangzhou, we had a long chat with a friend who had found it。
They have dealt with a number of cases over the past year, starting with almost $1 million for individual projects, some more. Before the conversation, I also had a rough understanding of this type of business, thinking that the so-called “retribution of encrypted assets” was mainly stolen, deceived, hackers attacked, chained to these more exciting scenes. After that conversation, it became clear that what really happened in large numbers was more everyday, more specific and more violent problems。
The monetization market will reach trillions of dollars, but four major obstacles remain
We are at the dawn of a new era of finance. Democratization is no longer a small experiment, but has rapidly evolved into an important area where institutions compete for one of the largest emerging asset classes, where capitalizers seek more tangible returns。
The question now is no longer whether trillions of dollars will be transferred to the chain, but who will lead the process. This paper will explore the conditions required for this process and the opportunities for operators and entrepreneurs to build a platform for hosting and trading trillions of dollars。
The monetization of finance has reached considerable proportions. The total market value of other monetized financial assets (including monetary market funds, private loans, equities, commodities, etc.) is over $30 billion. Many of the world's largest asset management companies, including Belet, Fuda and Franklin Templeton, have accumulated billions of dollars in real world assets。
