Bill No. 0451, submitted to the Rhode Island Senate last month, proposes that state residents and businesses can conduct up to 10 Bitcoin transactions (or sales of equivalent value) per month, with each transaction valued at less than $1,000, without paying state capital gains tax.

In the first quarter of 2025, there were more than 60 cryptocurrency hacking incidents, with a total loss of $1.63 billion, an increase of 131% from $706 million in the first quarter of 2024. In March 2025, there were 20 cryptocurrency hacking incidents, with a loss of $33.46 million, including a $5 million hacking incident affecting 1inch, 90% of which has now been recovered.

Pantera disclosed in a blog post titled "PANTERA's All-in-One Blockchain Investment Strategy" that it plans to raise funds for its fifth venture capital fund (Pantera Fund V), which is now open for subscription. The new fund is an "all-in-one" venture capital style fund that provides access to a full range of blockchain assets, including venture capital equity, private tokens, liquidity tokens, etc. The first closing date is June 30, 2025, with a target fundraising amount of US$1 billion and a minimum investment amount of US$1 billion.

Elon Musk plans to resign from his position at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the end of May. In an interview with Fox News, Musk said he was confident that he would achieve his goal of reducing the federal deficit by $1 trillion before leaving office. He also stressed that the government is inefficient, there is a lot of waste and fraud, and he is confident that spending can be reduced by 15% without affecting key services. In addition, Musk questioned the phenomenon of the unusually rich wealth of members of Congress. He pointed out that many members of Congress only earn $200,000 a year, but have assets as high as $20 million, questioning how they can accumulate such huge wealth on limited income.

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, said in a recent blog post: "Bitcoin Value = Technology + Fiat Liquidity. The technology works and is not going to change in any significant way in the near future, for better or worse. Therefore, Bitcoin is traded entirely based on the market's expectations of future fiat money supply. If my analysis of the Fed's major pivot from Treasury QT to QE is correct, then Bitcoin hit a local low of $76,500 last month and now we are starting to move towards $250,000 by the end of the year. Of course, this is not an exact science, but if I use gold as an example, if I had to bet between whether I think Bitcoin will hit $76,500 or $110,000 first, I would bet on the latter. Even if the U.S. stock market continues to fall due to tariffs, collapsing earnings expectations, or falling foreign demand, I still believe there is a greater probability that Bitcoin will continue to climb. Recognizing the pros and cons, Maelstrom is deploying capital cautiously. We do not use leverage, and we make small purchases relative to the size of our total portfolio. We have been buying Bitcoin and altcoins at all levels between $90,000 and $76,500. The pace of capital deployment will speed up or slow down depending on the accuracy of my forecasts. I still believe that Bitcoin can reach $250,000 by the end of the year. ”

The address where Tether purchased and reserved BTC withdrew 8,888 BTC from Bitfinex on the first day of the first quarter. This is the BTC purchased by Tether in the first quarter of this year: Tether announced in May 2023 that it would regularly use 15% of the company's profits to purchase Bitcoin to enhance its reserves.

The recent signing of the Nigerian Investment and Securities Act (ISA) 2025 by Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu effectively puts an end to the uncertainty surrounding the status of cryptocurrencies, as the new bill actually repeals the Investment and Securities Act No. 29 of 2007. The revised securities law "officially" recognizes cryptocurrencies as an asset class. This recognition not only eliminates the uncertainty surrounding cryptocurrencies, but also means that they are no longer prohibited assets. In addition, law enforcement agencies that have been "harassing" people involved in these assets will have to stop such behavior.

The uniqueness of GUNZ lies in the optionality of blockchain functions: players can choose to participate in NFT transactions to gain benefits, or simply enjoy the game itself. This design lowers the threshold for new users and attracts traditional players and Web3 users at the same time.

When World Liberty Financial raised more than $500 million, industry experts pointed out that the family of former US President Donald Trump took control of the crypto business and seized most of the funds with governance terms that favored insiders. The project is billed as a "DeFi platform" and claims to allow users to bypass banks and directly use cryptocurrencies to obtain financial services. However, investigations have found that the platform has not yet been publicly operated and the team size is extremely limited.

White House press secretary Levitt said U.S. President Trump will announce his reciprocal tariff policy at an event in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday. Levitt said Trump's announcement will focus on "country-based" tariffs, but he also "promises" to implement industry tariffs at another time. Levitt said members of Trump's cabinet will attend the announcement ceremony. "The president will announce a tariff plan that will reverse the unfair trade practices that have been exploiting our country for decades," Levitt said. "Now is the time for reciprocity, it's time for the president to take historic changes and do the right thing for the American people."

OpenAI announced on Monday that it has completed a $40 billion financing, setting a record for the highest financing for private technology companies. After this round of financing, the company's valuation reached $300 billion (including newly injected capital). Japan's SoftBank became the lead investor in this round with $30 billion, and existing investors such as Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter and Thrive jointly invested $10 billion. This round of financing has made OpenAI's valuation jump to the third place among unlisted companies in the world, second only to SpaceX (US$350 billion) and on par with TikTok's parent company ByteDance.

Coinbase announced that it will support Doginme (DOGINME) and Keyboard Cat (KEYCAT) on the Base network. The DOGINME-USD and KEYCAT-USD trading pairs will be launched in phases, but there may be restrictions in some regions.

USDC issuer Circle is advancing its initial public offering (IPO) plan and has hired JPMorgan Chase and Citi to assist in the listing process. Circle expects to publicly submit IPO documents to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at the end of April 2025. This IPO will be the largest cryptocurrency-related IPO since Coinbase went public in 2021, and Circle's target valuation is between $4 billion and $5 billion.