BTC breaks through $107,000, AI agent token market value rises to $6.8 billion

Headline

▌BTC breaks through $107,000

The market shows that BTC breaks through $107,000 and is now at $107,078.17, with a 24-hour increase of 3.82%. The market fluctuates greatly, so please do a good job of risk control.

▌The total market value of AI proxy tokens has rebounded to $6.8 billion

According to Coingecko data, the total market value of AI proxy tokens has rebounded to $6.862 billion, with a 24-hour increase of 1.2%. Among them: FET rose 1.6% in 24 hours, with a market value of $1.972 billion; VIRTUAL rose 18.5% in 24 hours, with a market value of $1.296 billion; AI16Z The 24-hour increase is 7.1%, and the market value is now US$312 million;

Market

As of press time, according to Coingecko data:

BTC's latest transaction price is US$103,308, with a daily increase or decrease of +0.4%;

ETH's latest transaction price is US$2,484.28, with a daily increase or decrease of +0.7%;

BNB's latest transaction price is US$642.74, with a daily increase or decrease of +0.7% ng>;

SOL's latest transaction price is 167.17 US dollars, with a daily increase or decrease of +1.4%;

DOGE's latest transaction price is 0.2165 US dollars, with a daily increase or decrease of +0.3%;

XPR's latest transaction price is 2.36 US dollars, with a daily increase or decrease of +1.5%.

Policy

▌Blum co-founder and former Binance Russia executive Vladimir Smerkis arrested in Moscow on fraud charges

Vladimir Smerkis, co-founder of Telegram mini-app Blum (formerly general manager of Binance Russia and CIS), was arrested in Moscow on fraud charges. The Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow found him suspected of "extraordinary fraud", and the specific amount involved has not yet been disclosed. The market speculates that it may involve The Token Fund and Tokenbox projects he operated in his early years, which once raised millions of dollars and then disappeared.  

Blum's official X account has issued an emergency statement saying that Smerkis has resigned as CMO and is no longer involved in project development or co-founder affairs, and emphasized that the team's operations are not affected, and the airdrop plan will continue as planned in Q2 2025. Blum was supported by Binance Labs' "Most Valuable Builder" accelerator.

Blockchain Applications

▌Ethereum Liquidity Restaking Protocol TVL Rebounds to Nearly $10 Billion

DefiLlama data shows that the current TVL of Ethereum Liquidity Restaking Protocol is $10.338 billion, of which the top five protocols by TVL are: ether.fi TVL is $6.782 billion, up 0.55% in 7 days; Kelp TVL is $1.343 billion, down 1.18% in 7 days; Renzo TVL is $753 million, down 0.77% in 7 days; Mantle Restaking TVL is $515 million, down 3.63% in 7 days; Mellow LRT TVL is $327 million, with a 7-day increase of 1.76%.

Cryptocurrency

▌USDe supply falls below 5 billion

Etherscan data shows that the supply of stablecoin USDe issued by Ethena Labs has fallen below 5 billion, currently about 4,983,594,280, with 23,685 holders and 1,245,523 transfers.

▌El Salvador's strategic Bitcoin reserves are currently worth nearly $655 million

According to The Bitcoin Office, El Salvador's strategic Bitcoin reserves are now worth nearly $655 million, while a month ago they were worth only $518 million, an increase of $137 million in value within a month.

▌Michael Saylor: The digital gold rush will end on January 7, 2035

Michael Saylor said, "The digital gold rush will end on January 7, 2035. Accumulate Bitcoin before it runs out."

▌BlackRock IBIT currently holds nearly 660,000 Bitcoins

BlackRock officially updated the spot Bitcoin ETF holdings information. As of May 16, BlackRock IBIT held 65,976,252 Bitcoins, which has exceeded 3% of the total supply of Bitcoin. Its holdings are worth more than US$65.9 billion.

Important Economic Dynamics

▌U.S. Treasury Secretary: Tariffs will return to "equivalent" levels if countries fail to reach a trade agreement with the U.S.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant said on Sunday that if countries fail to reach a trade agreement within the 90-day tariff suspension period, tariff rates will soon return to "equivalent" levels. "President Trump has warned them that if they do not negotiate in good faith, tariffs will rise back to the level of April 2," Bessant said on the show. Bessant revealed that the United States is focusing on finalizing agreements with 18 "important" trading partners, but did not specify the specific speed at which tariffs will return to "equivalent" rates.

Golden Encyclopedia

▌What is RISC-V?

RISC-V is a modern open source instruction set architecture (ISA) based on the principles of reduced instruction set computers (RISC). Simply put, it is like a blueprint that defines a set of instructions that a processor can execute. The design goals of RISC-V are highly modular, efficient, and flexible. Originally developed by the University of California in 2010, the open-source framework gives developers the flexibility to customize its functionality and use cases, and it also saves costs compared to proprietary ISAs such as ARM or x86. RISC-V has a wide range of uses, from supercomputers to smartphones, and now blockchains such as Ethereum. On April 20, 2025, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced a "radical" new expansion plan that will replace the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with the RISC-V instruction set architecture, aiming to improve the speed and efficiency of the network's execution layer. The idea is that RISC-V is the best solution to the scalability limitations of blockchains.

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