According to DB News, the DOJ is cleared to sell 69,370 $BTC($6.58B) confiscated from Silk Road.

Dongcha Beating monitoring reports that Blitzy—an AI coding startup co-founded by a former NVIDIA architect—has raised $200 million, securing a post-money valuation of $1.4 billion. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Blitzy was launched in 2023 by Brian Elliott (a former U.S. Army Cavalryman and entrepreneur) and Sid Pardeshi (a former senior architect at NVIDIA). The company focuses on an AI platform enabling large enterprises to autonomously execute large-scale software development projects. The startup just closed a $200 million Series D round led by Northzone, with participation from PSG, Battery Ventures, Jump Capital, and other institutions. This pushes its total funding to date to over $204 million, cementing Blitzy as the latest unicorn in the Boston area. Blitzy’s platform can reverse-engineer full enterprise codebases, build dynamic knowledge graphs, parse billions of lines of code at once, and coordinate thousands of specialized AI agents to work in parallel

On May 7th, Binance Alpha announced it will launch the ShareX (SHARE) airdrop on May 8th. Once trading goes live, eligible users can claim the airdrop via Alpha Points on the Alpha event page. Further details will be released shortly.

Per monitoring from Dynamic Beating, Anthropic—dubbed the "AI Player Two"—has seen its implied valuation on Jupiter Chain’s pre-IPO market surge past $1.2 trillion to $1.26 trillion, officially overtaking OpenAI. The valuation has jumped another 20% over the past week, marking a 900% surge since October 2025. Should Anthropic complete its initial public offering (IPO) at this valuation, it would immediately become the 11th-largest publicly traded company globally, joining the ranks of Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, TSMC, Broadcom, Tesla, and Saudi Aramco—an unprecedented milestone in corporate history. Data from prediction market Polymarket, tracked by PolyBeats, further confirms Anthropic’s lead: the probability its valuation will exceed OpenAI’s in 2026 has risen to 86%.

On May 7, the World Gold Council reported that global gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw a net inflow of $6.6 billion in April, pushing total assets under management (AUM) up 1% to $615 billion. While global gold trading volume in April was lower than the previous month, it still remained above the 2025 average. All regions posted net inflows, with Europe leading the pack at +$3.7 billion; Asia (+$1.8 billion) and North America (+$1 billion) also recorded notable fund inflows. Per Bitget market data, spot gold is currently trading at $4,748 per ounce, up 1.22% over the past 24 hours.

On May 7th, Israeli media reported that a source said Saudi Arabia will restrict U.S. access to its bases and airspace until the United States provides adequate protection against Iranian attacks.

On May 7, Kalshi—the PredictIt-style prediction market platform—announced it has closed a new $1 billion funding round led by Coatue Management, pushing its post-money valuation to $22 billion. This marks the company’s third funding round in the past seven months, with its valuation roughly doubling after each round. Currently, Kalshi boasts roughly 2 million monthly active users, $178 billion in annualized trading volume, and annualized revenue exceeding $1.5 billion. Now, Kalshi is targeting large financial institutions as a key growth engine moving forward. Despite facing multiple lawsuits from U.S. state regulatory agencies, the prediction market has rapidly gone mainstream since the 2024 election.