U.S. Vice President Vance: Just learned the news of Pope Francis's passing. I was very happy to see the Pope yesterday, although he was clearly very ill.

Jesse Pollak, the head of the Base protocol, released a Chinese New Year greeting in Chinese: "On this reunion festival, Base wishes everyone a happy Chinese New Year and a happy family! May we join hands and bring more people onto the chain in the Year of the Snake!"

Happy New Year

DWF Labs co-founder Andrei Grachev wrote on the X platform that investors who had previously bought XRP and Cryptocurrency from the United States should be very happy now, if so. Andrei Grachev wrote last week that due to the significant impact of the U.S. election on the U.S. market, he believes that encryption projects in the United States and encryption projects that receive top venture capital may have significant returns in the short term.

BNB Chain announced on the X platform that it has provided a donation of 78,800 USDT to support the Happy-Sci Researcher Fund program, which means that the community's generous donations will be doubled to provide more support for doctoral students around the world.

Golden Finance reported that former US President Trump wrote on social media platform X: 'I want to wish our great BTC enthusiasts a happy 16th anniversary of Satoshi's White Paper. We will end Harris's war on cryptocurrency, and BTC will be made in America! Vote for Trump!'

The European Central Bank may emphasize that the fight against inflation is not over, and it is unlikely that the market will hear any promises of further interest rate cuts.

Golden Ten Data reported on June 4 that CITIC Securities' investment strategy for the consumer industry in the second half of 2024 believes that since the beginning of 2024, consumption is still weak overall, showing a "watershed" around March, and holiday consumption is better than the off-season on weekdays. Considering the base, and it is expected that the economic recovery in the second half of the year will lead to a rebound in the economy and a rebound in CPI to reduce price pressure, CITIC Securities believes that consumption will pick up. On the investment side, consumption allocation is still critical in the short term due to changes in economic expectations, and the strengthening of the signal and trend establishment of the recovery trend is expected to enhance the market's expectation of a rebound in consumption, thereby driving valuation repair; In the medium term, we will focus on structural trends such as rational consumption, happy life, and technological iteration, as well as incremental opportunities for going overseas and sinking.

Golden Finance reported that, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader just made 2,414 SOL (398,000 US dollars) in less than 10 minutes. The address spent 60 SOL (9,914 US dollars) to purchase 89.18 million HAPPY and sold them at a price of 2,474 SOL (408,000 US dollars). HAPPY purchased 793 million HAPPY tokens (79.3% of the total supply) for 85 SOL ($1400) on Pump.fun, which is currently worth $3.7 million, as bazingahappy.sol.

Golden Ten Data on May 31, after Trump became the first former president of the United States to be found guilty, the website that handles donations to President Trump's campaign collapsed due to excessive traffic. Some people with deep pockets are happy to donate to Trump's campaign. Sean Maguire, a venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital, said he donated $300,000 to Mr. Trump and said the timing was not a coincidence. Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin also spoke out that he had "raised" $800,000 for Trump's Joint Ways and Means Committee, saying that fundraising had never been easier.

PANews reported on May 30th that during the ETHBerlin event last week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin described some regrets he had about the initial design of Ethereum. Vitalik said that there were a series of things he could have done differently, ranging from the development of the Ethereum Virtual Machine to smart contracts, and even to the Proof of Stake consensus mechanism. He also mentioned that despite Ethereum becoming more mainstream, it is still misunderstood. ETHBerlin organizer Afri Schoeden asked, "Based on everything you know and have learned over the past 10 years, if you were to start from scratch today, how would you build Ethereum differently?" Vitalik explained that the initial design of Ethereum's EVM chose 256-bit processing instead of 64-bit or 32-bit. The original design was overly complex for 256-bit and proved to be very inefficient, even generating a large amount of redundant data on the blockchain when executing simple tasks. Additionally, Vitalik stated that Ethereum should have transitioned from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake earlier, ideally in 2022. "We wasted a lot of time trying to make Proof of Stake perfect. If we had a simpler Proof of Stake mechanism as early as 2018, we could have saved a lot of trees," he said. Vitalik also mentioned that the automatic logging of Ethereum transfers should have been in place from the beginning. "It only took us 30 minutes to code, yet it became an EIP," he added. The proposed EIP-7708, submitted by Vitalik on May 17th, will make this precise change. Furthermore, Vitalik stated that if given the chance to choose again, he would use SHA-2 for encrypting Ethereum instead of the current encryption algorithm called Keccak. Although there have been a series of small design mistakes, Vitalik said that such situations are inevitable for any project. He said, "I am really happy, and I feel that our core developers and their execution capabilities seem to be improving every year. We are now able to effectively and safely correct some of them."

News on May 25, on-chain data shows that about 50 minutes ago, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed the first Block on the Taiko Mainnet as a block proposer, and postscripted the Block: "I am very happy to see Taiko launched as a Based Rollup platform, Ethereum benefits from L2s with longest different methods, and I appreciate that Taiko is one of the first projects to develop in this direction" (Im excited to see that Taiko is launching as a based rollup. Ethereum benefits from L2s taking a plurality of different approaches, and I appreciate them being among the first to go in this direction）。

Gold Finance reported that Ripple's Chief Legal Officer, Stuart Alderoty, described Gary Gensler, the Chairman of the U.S. SEC, as a struggling burden, as the speculation surrounding the approval of a spot Ethereum ETF intensifies. In response to the discussion about the U.S. SEC becoming a hot topic before the election, Alderoty wrote on X: Gary Gensler has gone too far. He believes that cryptocurrency is an easy target, Alderoty said, and he is happy to be a polarizing figure. He believes he can surpass congressional oversight. That's all in the past. He is now a struggling political burden.

PANews May 16th news, according to Jin10, Williams of the Federal Reserve said that he welcomes the weakening trend of consumer inflation data, but these positive news are not enough to prompt the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in the near future. It is important not to overemphasize the latest economic news, but the slowdown in inflation in April is "positive progress after disappointing data in the previous few months." The overall trend of easing inflation pressure "looks quite good." However, he is still not sure whether price pressure will continue to approach the target of 2% before lowering interest rates. He also said that it is not necessary to tighten monetary policy now, which curbs speculation that the Federal Reserve may need to further raise interest rates to bring inflation to the ideal level.