U.S. President Donald Trump met with his national security team on Monday to discuss potential military actions against Iran following stalled negotiations over the weekend. According to Odaily, Trump is seeking an agreement to end the conflict, but Iran has rejected his demands and refused to make significant concessions on its nuclear program, bringing military options back into consideration. Trump has recently threatened to bomb Iranian infrastructure if diplomatic efforts fail. Officials mentioned that one option includes targeting 25% of the identified but yet unstruck military targets. U.S. officials stated that Vice President Vance, U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff, Secretary of State Rubio, Defense Secretary Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Kane, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and other senior officials are expected to attend the meeting on Iran.

TradingView has reportedly disclosed the initial public offering (IPO) date for prediction market platform Polymarket. According to Odaily, the countdown displayed on TradingView's website suggests that Polymarket's IPO may occur on December 31 this year.

Sui Network has expanded its ecosystem with the introduction of a new real-world asset (RWA) application. According to ChainCatcher, Creek Finance has launched its core protocol on the Sui mainnet, integrating the XAUm gold token developed by Matrixdock. The protocol enables users to split, collateralize, lend, trade, and generate yields from tokenized physical gold on-chain, facilitating DeFi operations centered around gold assets. XAUm is backed 1:1 by physical gold and is verified through third-party audits and an on-chain reserve proof mechanism. Creek Finance stated that this launch signifies the completion of its core contract deployment, allowing users to engage in leverage and yield strategies based on gold assets in a permissionless environment, further expanding the application scenarios of RWA in DeFi.

According to ChainCatcher, the prediction market Polymarket has observed a significant shift in the odds for the "Odd/Even Total Kills" sub-market in the "Counter-Strike: FURIA vs. Spirit (BO3) - PGL Astana Group Stage" event. The probability for the "Odd" option has surged from 50% to 90% within the past hour, marking a 40% fluctuation. Stakeholders are advised to consider the impact of this sudden change.

CoW DAO reported that its domain registrar was compromised in a social engineering attack on April 14, leading to a brief control of the official domain for approximately 4.5 hours. According to ChainCatcher, during this period, users were redirected to a phishing site, resulting in the signing of malicious transactions. The CoW Protocol itself was not breached, but some user assets were affected during this time. In response, the CoW DAO community has approved governance proposal CIP-86, establishing a discretionary compensation fund to reimburse affected users. Eligible users must submit claims by May 14, including wallet addresses, asset information, transaction hashes, and names. Applications should be sent to [email protected] with the email subject "Discretionary Grant Claim for."

The Ethereum Foundation has disclosed the outcomes of a recent interoperability meeting held in the Svalbard Islands, Norway, focusing on the next phase of the Glamsterdam upgrade. According to Odaily, core developers collaborated on network expansion and execution layer optimization, achieving progress in several areas. Developers have agreed on a 'trusted path' following Glamsterdam, based on ePBS, BAL optimization, and EIP-8037 repricing mechanisms. In the execution layer, the ePBS architecture has been running stably in the multi-client Glamsterdam-devnet, with external block builder processes completing end-to-end testing across nearly all client implementations. Meanwhile, EIP-8037 has been finalized, establishing a fixed cost_per_state_byte model, and has completed full repricing parameter output in bal-devnet-6. The expansion direction 'Hegotá' has also seen progress. The FOCIL prototype is operational, and the scope of account abstraction (AA) requirements has been defined, moving into the multi-client testnet verification phase. The current focus remains on the final implementation of Glamsterdam, while advancing Hegotá's design and subsequent Strawmap evolution. The testnet is live, and features like FOCIL are expected to deepen in the next testing phase. Organizationally, the interop meeting marked the start of leadership restructuring within the Protocol Cluster. New leaders include Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik. Will Corcoran will oversee zkVM proof and post-quantum consensus coordination, Kev Wedderburn will lead zkEVM development, and Fredrik will handle protocol security and the Trillion Dollar Security project. Former Protocol Cluster leaders Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko will gradually step down from management roles, while Alex Stokes enters a leave period. The foundation noted that during their tenure, Protocol achieved modular advancement, facilitated the Fusaka upgrade launch in December 2025, introduced PeerDAS, and enhanced mainnet gas capabilities.

It is rumored that SK Hynix's South Korean employees receive year-end bonuses exceeding 3 million RMB. Insiders reveal a huge disparity in treatment between China and South Korea, and the AI ​​storage supercycle may continue to drive up the prices of consumer electronics products.

Jinse Finance launches the "Jinse Web3.0 Daily," providing you with the latest and fastest news on AI, DeFi, DAO, NFT, and the metaverse industry.

While the public is exclaiming "NFT is dead," top global art institutions and old-money giants are quietly building up their holdings, and digital art is about to undergo a century-level value revaluation comparable to the rise of "Impressionism."

Chips, Artificial Intelligence, DeepSeek, The world is reassessing China's chip industry. Golden Finance reports that the global semiconductor industry is reaching an all-time high.

Exchanges, South Korea, South Korean exchanges "battle" regulators, challenging the boundaries of law enforcement and legislation. Golden Finance reports that the South Korean crypto industry is entering a rare head-on regulatory conflict.

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On April 13, 2026, Henry Shevlin, a scholar at Cambridge University, posted a message on X saying that he would soon be joining Google DeepMind as Philosopher.

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A white hat hacker who exploited a vulnerability in Renegade.fi’s Arbitrum-based dark pool over the weekend returned roughly $190,000 in stolen crypto assets just 45 minutes after the protocol publicly offered a bounty deal onchain.