In the Forbes 2025 Global Billionaires List, there are 16 cryptocurrency billionaires on the list, with a total wealth of more than $164 billion and an average net worth of $6.8 billion. Among them, Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao became the world's richest cryptocurrency billionaire with $63 billion. In addition, Tether's CFO Giancarlo Devasini ranked second with $22.4 billion, and JL van der Velde, Paolo Ardoino and Stuart Hoegner, who are also related to Tether, also made the list. The founders of cryptocurrency exchanges occupy an important position, including Coinbase co-founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Tron founder Justin Sun. Others on the list include Ripple's Chris Larsen, Stellar's Jed McCaleb, investor Tim Draper, and Microstrategy founder Michael Saylor. Saylor's company holds 528,185 bitcoins and he personally holds 17,732 bitcoins, and his crypto assets have significantly improved his wealth ranking.

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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a "universal plug" launched by Anthropic, which allows AI to easily connect to external data and tools. Many public chains have developed their own MCP Servers, and a new track: MCP + Web3 is about to emerge.

Li Chunlin, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office that in terms of strengthening technical support and guarantee, the National Development and Reform Commission has applied new technologies such as privacy computing to the sharing and application of credit information to reduce the risk of information leakage. At the same time, it will explore the use of blockchain technology to promote the "chaining" of key data and realize data encryption processing and process plasticity.

Metaplanet, a Japanese listed company, announced that it would spend 1.998 billion yen (about 13.34 million US dollars) to increase its holdings of 160 bitcoins, bringing its total bitcoin holdings to 4,206 BTC.

Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart forwarded the X post, which pointed out that Circle did list the USDT run as a risk of Circle's business in the S-1 document. In the screenshot shared in the post, Circle wrote: "Negative developments related to USDT, or actual or perceived instability of USDT, may cause other stablecoins (including stablecoins issued by Circle) to lose trust. Temporary price dislocations in the secondary market or a full run on USDT may cause Circle stablecoins to experience sustained redemption demand, runs, or similar price dislocations in the secondary market. Although we have never encountered a situation where we were unable to meet customer minting or redemption requests when other stablecoins experienced such price dislocations, the volatility of inflows and outflows and the demand for minting or redemption may be so strong that we may encounter operational difficulties in meeting such demands."

Zach Pandl, head of research at Grayscale, said the impact of tariffs on cryptocurrencies may have already been "priced in" and the worst may be over. Pandl estimates that tariffs have reduced economic growth by 2% this year so far. But Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" may actually prevent the worst pain felt by financial markets. "If we see that the tariff policy announced on Wednesday is both tough and phased, and focused on the 15 countries they appear to be targeting, I expect the market to rebound on the news," Pandl said. "Once we get through this announcement period, the cryptocurrency market may refocus on fundamentals, which are very positive." Pandl said that if institutions did not have a high degree of confidence in the digital asset sector and its related policies, announcements like Circle's initial public offering (IPO) would not have happened. In addition, Pandl believes that tariffs will increase demand for non-US dollar currencies.