The Global AI New King is Born! Anthropic Valuation Skyrockets to $1.2 Trillion, Surpassing OpenAI for the First Time

On May 7, Bitwise announced the launch of its first tokenized cryptocurrency yield fund—the Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund (USCC)—marking the firm’s first tokenized fund. Bitwise noted that all of its future funds will be tokenized. This particular fund delivers market-neutral returns via crypto basis trades, with underlying technology powered by Superstate. It is currently only available to accredited investors.

On May 7th, data from LookOnChain shows: - Over the past hour, addresses tied to Metalpha deposited 27,000 ETH into Binance, valued at roughly $62.78 million. - An hour earlier, a whale address starting with 0x8Ad4 transferred 14,062 ETH to Binance, worth approximately $32.82 million.

May 7 (Al Jazeera) — Lebanese officials report the U.S. is working to de-escalate Israeli attacks on Lebanon as it prepares to uphold a ceasefire and enter the second round of negotiations. Ministerial-level talks between Israeli and Lebanese delegations are set to begin in Washington next week.

On May 7, data from Bitget shows U.S. stocks opened slightly higher: the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.35%, the S&P 500 gained 0.14%, and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.16%. Crypto-related U.S. stocks were broadly lower, including: - MicroStrategy (MSTR): down 1.92% - Coinbase (COIN): dropped 1.05% - Circle (CRCL): fell 3% - MARA Holdings (MARA): declined 1.2% - BitMine Immersion (BMNR): slid 2.1% - SharpLink Gaming (SBET): lost 2.46%

On May 7, on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) noted that wallet address 0x8Ad...Ab818 has deposited 14,062 ETH (valued at $32.82 million) to Binance. The ETH was recently redeemed from the Etherfi protocol and is suspected of being sold imminently.

Per monitoring from Sentinel Beating (https://t.me/OneMillion_AI), Coinbase has announced the native integration of its x402 payment protocol and wallet infrastructure into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments (AI Agent Core Payments). This marks the first time AWS has offered native encrypted micropayment capabilities to developers on a mainstream cloud platform. The integration enables enterprise AI agents to autonomously discover services, complete payments using USDC, and execute tasks—all while upholding full compliance governance, budget control, and audit tracing. Settlements finalize on Base and Solana in roughly 200 milliseconds, cost less than a cent, and require no account, subscription, or checkout page. This solution empowers enterprises to securely grant AI agents “financial autonomy” by: - Completing payments via a single API call (agents cannot access private keys); - Setting temporary budget limits (e.g., $1 within 5 minutes); - Leveraging Coinbase’s built-