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According to Gate.io News bot, Decrypt reported that after Epic Games lost the antitrust case, Apple updated the review guidelines for the iOS App Store. The new policy targets applications in the US region, allowing developers to guide users to use third-party payment methods and lifting the restrictions on users browsing others' NFT collections.
The court previously ruled that Apple "deliberately" violated the 2021 injunction, requiring it to stop charging a 27% fee for external app payments and to lift restrictions on payment redirection. The new regulation does not involve in-app features such as premium content or in-game purchases.
Apple has made it clear in its new policy that it still prohibits applications from distributing tokens through task completion, launching ICOs, or using devices for cryptocurrency mining.

Gate.io News bot message, according to the latest 13F filing, Brown University held 105,000 shares of BlackRock Bitcoin Spot ETF (IBIT) as of the end of the quarter on March 31, 2025, with a holdings market capitalization of approximately 4.9 million dollars. This is a new investment position added by Brown University in the first quarter of this year. The 13F filing also disclosed that Brown University holds a total of 14 investments, with a total market capitalization of 216 million dollars.
Source: Wu Says

Gate.io News bot message, the Aave community is voting on a new proposal to use 6 million USD (3M aEthUSDT + 3M aEthUSDC) to repurchase AAVE tokens on the open market, with a repurchase period of six weeks, and the specific operations will be executed by the Aave Finance Committee.
This repurchase plan is part of Aave's larger-scale capital restructuring and incentive program. The plan also includes migrating assets from other chains back to the Ethereum mainnet, purchasing 4 million GHO stablecoins for operations, and converting some MATIC assets into ETH to generate returns.
Source: Wu Says

Gate.io News bot message, the decentralized derivation protocol Hyperliquid officially releases the HIP-3 feature, which supports developers to autonomously deploy Perptual Futures, and is currently live on the Testnet.
According to this mechanism, developers need to stake 1 million HYPE tokens and pay gas fees through a Dutch auction to achieve complete decentralization of the contract market launch. The deployer has the authority to set the fee distribution and market parameters. In case of malicious operations, the verifier will confiscate their staked assets through a voting mechanism.
Source: wublock123

Gate.io News bot message, according to the latest data, as of May 2, 10 Bitcoin ETF products have net inflows of 3,215 Bitcoins, worth approximately $311 million. Among them, the iShares Bitcoin ETF under BlackRock had a single-day inflow of 3,636 Bitcoins, valued at $352 million, with current open interest reaching 607,685 Bitcoins, totaling $58.86 billion.
During the same period, 9 Ethereum ETF products had a net outflow of 358 Ethereum, worth approximately $656,000. Among them, Grayscale Ethereum ETF had an outflow of 4,070 Ethereum, worth $7.47 million, with a current open interest of 1,140,412.

According to Gate.io News bot, CoinDesk reported that Google has added zk-SNARKs technology features to its Wallet application. This encryption technology allows users to prove they meet specific age requirements without providing complete personal information such as their full date of birth, thereby gaining access to restricted applications.
This feature is developed based on open standards and supports operation on both iOS and Android platforms. Google plans to expand this technology to more online identity verification application scenarios in the future.

According to Gate.io News bot, data from Nansen shows that a Crypto Assets Whale Address (0xd441ae066c33b2c3abef2652369643822dc936ad) has become active again after sleeping for 2.11 years. The address sold 14.38 WBTC (worth 1.39 million USD) and purchased 758.25 ETH at a price of 1836 USD each.

Gate.io News bot message, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the UK released a discussion paper on May 2, initiating public and industry consultations regarding encryption intermediaries, stake, and lending.
According to CoinDesk, the FCA plans to ban retail investors from using credit cards to invest in encryption assets, while requiring trading platforms to implement segregation between proprietary and client trading. This consultation is a continuation of the legislative proposal by the UK Treasury in April, with the consultation period lasting until June 13.

gate News bot message, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury has released a new proposal targeting Cambodia's Huione Group. According to the FinCEN investigation, the Huione Group laundered over $4 billion in illegal funds between 2021 and 2025 and has connections to North Korean hacker organizations.
Once this proposal takes effect, U.S. financial institutions must cease providing account opening and management services for Huione and its affiliated entities. FinCEN official Bessent noted that the cryptocurrency trading platforms and online payment services operated by Huione have become the preferred market for cybercriminals.
Source: The Block

According to Gate.io News bot and a report by Fortune, the cryptocurrency company Dinari recently completed a $12.7 million Series A funding round. This round of financing was co-led by Hack VC and Blockchange Ventures, with participation from VanEck Ventures, F-Prime, and Avalanche Fund.
After this round of financing, Dinari's total financing amount reached 22.65 million USD. The company mainly provides blockchain technology-based US company stock purchasing services for non-US investors.

According to Gate.io News bot, on-chain data shows that a Large Investor completed a series of transactions in the past 24 hours:
First, 1,185 ETH was exchanged for 2.113 million USDC, and then these USDC were used to purchase 2.92 million AERO, 3.34 million AIXBT, and 6,800 VIRTUAL tokens.
The Large Investors subsequently exchanged 2,440,000 AERO (worth 1.66 million USD) for 996,566 VIRTUAL tokens, bringing their total VIRTUAL holdings to 1,003,366.
Currently, the Large Investors still hold 2.9 million AERO tokens.

Gate.io News bot message, Bloomberg reports that BlackRock has submitted an application to the SEC to establish a blockchain-based stock class for the BlackRock BLF Treasury Trust, labeled as DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). The fund invests in high-quality short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, and the DLT class will record stock ownership through blockchain technology and simplify the operation of money market funds. Bank of New York Mellon acts as the intermediary responsible for the sale of these stocks, with a minimum transaction limit of $3 million.
Source: Bloomberg

According to the Gate.io News bot and Cointelegraph, Europe's first Bitcoin reserve company The Blockchain Group has announced a long-term acquisition plan. The company aims to accumulate 260,000 Bitcoins by 2033, which is approximately $24 billion at current market capitalization. Data shows that as of March 2025, The Blockchain Group has already held 620 Bitcoins.

According to the Gate.io News bot, data from SoSoValue shows that on May 1st, Eastern Time, the Ethereum Spot ETF market recorded a total net inflow of $6.4932 million. Among them, Grayscale's Ethereum Mini Trust ETF ETH ranked first with a single-day net inflow of $11.984 million. The data also shows that the historical total net inflow of this ETF product has reached $617 million.

Gate.io News bot message, according to @ralexstokes' summary report of the 156th Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developer Meeting (ACDC), the meeting focused on two major upgrade issues:
Regarding the Pectra upgrade, the development team has completed shadow fork testing on the mainnet. The configuration issues encountered during testing were similar to those in Holesky, but did not affect the operation of the mainnet. GnosisChain has completed the deployment of the Pectra upgrade.
Regarding the Fusaka upgrade, the development team is preparing peerdas-devnet-7 and discussing relevant specifications, validator hosting features, and bug fixes. This upgrade plan will be initiated after resolving synchronization issues and upon completion of the Pectra upgrade.
Source: Wu Says

According to Gate.io News bot, as reported by Wu, Jacob Franek, a core builder of Alliance, stated on social media that the Ethereum community needs to provide support for excellent application developers.
Franek made three suggestions: First, he pointed out that hackathon events struggle to produce high-quality products, and the Ethereum community has invested too much in this; second, he suggested focusing funding on accelerators, incubators, ecological venture capital funds, and growth funds, rather than basic research; finally, he emphasized the importance of scaling the Ethereum mainnet and addressing the composability issues of layer-two networks.

According to the Gate.io News bot, Wu Shuo reported that Du Jun, the founder of the ABCDE Fund, publicly disclosed the latest performance data of the fund in the Web3 101 podcast. Du Jun stated that the first phase of the ABCDE Fund has currently achieved approximately 5 times paper gains, while the DPI's return rate is about 2 times, and the overall performance has not exceeded Bitcoin.
Du Jun also revealed that the fund is currently focusing its investments on areas such as AI-assisted security, trading, and data companies.

Gate.io News bot message, according to the latest news, Movement Labs announced that its founder Rushi Manche has been suspended from his position. The company is conducting an investigation into the matter. This news was first published on the Twitter platform. Movement Labs is a company focused on Blockchain technology development, and this personnel change has attracted widespread attention from the Crypto Assets community.