Daily recap — May 4

Lead stories

A former employee of Pump Fun заявил live that the team itself launched bots that dumped tokens right before their exchange listings.

Tether purchased more than 6 tons of gold in Q1 2026 and now holds over 132 tons — making it one of the largest gold holders outside banks and governments.

The Grok AI model was tricked through specially crafted prompts and made to transfer around $150,000 in DRB tokens — essentially, the attacker bypassed safeguards and convinced the system to send funds on its own.

Russia’s Ministry of Energy intends to accelerate the introduction of criminal liability for illegal mining — the issue is being actively discussed with federal executive authorities.

Tether minted another 1,000,000,000 USDT.

According to Anatoly Yakovenko, AI is becoming the main threat to cryptography — it can discover vulnerabilities in post-quantum algorithms faster than developers.

Moscow Exchange will launch crypto indices starting May 13 based on Solana, XRP, TRON, and BNB using data from крупнейших exchanges — with plans to expand the lineup to 10 indices.

The number of transactions on the Solana network exceeded 10 billion in a single quarter for the first time.

Reuters reported that Iran’s largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, was founded by brothers from the influential Kharrazi family, which is connected to the country’s political elite.

A former top manager of Google X predicted in a recent interview that by 2027 AI could reach an IQ of 500, becoming smarter than any human in history.

BitMine acquired another 101,745 ETH last week — the company now holds around 5,180,000 ETH (about 4.3% of the total supply).

Western Union has launched the USDPT stable-value digital currency on the Solana blockchain.

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