Whale Evaded Increases ETH Long Position to $38.5 Million

May 22: Per PeckShield monitoring, the attacker behind the VerusCoin cross-chain bridge hack has returned 4,052.4 ETH (valued at ~$8.5 million) to the project’s team address 0xF9AB...C1A74, accounting for 75% of the total stolen funds. The remaining 25% (1,350 ETH, ~$2.8 million) will stay in the attacker’s wallet as a white-hat bounty.

On May 22, per HTX market data, NEAR surged to $2.05, marking a 17.2% gain over the past 24 hours.

On May 22, SpaceX announced that Wang Chun, co-founder of F2Pool, will serve as commander of the company’s first commercial crewed interstellar mission: a roughly two-year flight that will venture beyond the Earth-Moon system, perform a Mars flyby, and return to Earth. This marks Starship’s debut as a platform for commercial crewed interstellar missions. Wang Chun already has critical prior leadership experience for the role: in 2025, he commanded the Fram2 polar orbit mission—the first ever human flight over Earth’s poles—experience that lays the groundwork for leading this upcoming deep-space journey.

May 22: Per Arkham Data, the wallet linked to Trump Media Technology Group (Trump Media) transferred 2,650 Bitcoin to Crypto.com, a transaction valued at $204.93 million. The address now holds a total of 6,889 Bitcoin, worth $532.78 million.

May 22 – According to EmberCN’s monitoring, 122 million EIGEN tokens (worth $23.88 million) were unlocked and redeemed from staking 7 hours ago, representing 16.5% of EIGEN’s total circulating supply. The unlock comes from addresses linked to investment firm Polychain, which pulled the full batch from the staking contract of EigenCloud (previously known as EigenLayer). As of press time, the EIGEN tokens have not been further transferred. The funds are part of Polychain’s 2024 investment allocation, and the venture capital firm is one of EigenCloud’s lead investors.

Here’s the natural American English rewrite of the news brief: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in an internal speech on May 22 that even if the company files IPO paperwork quickly, it won’t go public right away. The exact listing timeline will hinge on market conditions and other factors—with September tagged as the earliest target, though the schedule remains flexible. Earlier reports noted OpenAI plans to confidentially submit its IPO application to regulators soon, possibly as early as this Friday. Insiders confirmed Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are helping draft the company’s IPO prospectus. This week, OpenAI cleared a major IPO hurdle when Altman won a legal dispute against rival Elon Musk—but the firm still faces key challenges, the biggest being whether the market believes it can generate enough revenue to cover its massive data center spending commitments. Per PolyBeats monitoring, prediction market Polymarket puts the odds of OpenAI going public by August’s end at j