Anthropic Releases New AI Agent for Financial Services Companies
On May 5, according to JINSHI News, Anthropic launched a new AI agent tailored for financial services companies.
Chief executives of multiple U.S. states have sent letters to the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic.
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WorldClaw partners with WLFI to launch WorldRouter, enabling access to over 300 AI models from a single account
The AI Agent operating system WorldClaw announced on X that it has partnered with the Trump family’s crypto project WLFI to launch WorldRouter.
Users can access over 300 mainstream AI models with just one account, at prices approximately 30% lower than the public list prices offered by the respective model providers—eliminating the need to switch between platforms like ChatGPT and Claude.
[Foresight News]
US States Call for Participation in AI Model Testing to Strengthen Cybersecurity Collaboration
On May 5, according to JIN10, senior security officials from more than a dozen U.S. states urged AI companies to include these states in frontier model testing, citing developers’ current preference for collaboration with Washington and major tech firms.
In a letter sent on Tuesday to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google, a group of state-level Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Homeland Security Advisors, and technology officials stated that states remain excluded from early access programs.
The letter reads: “While we appreciate the rollout of new cyber defense initiatives, we are deeply concerned about the current practice of prioritizing partnerships with federal entities and large technology companies while largely excluding state and local agencies—entities responsible for delivering and safeguarding many of the nation’s critical services.”
[PANews]
Vitalik proposes a new “Keyed Nonces” scheme: potentially becoming a new type of Ethereum state expansion strategy
Vitalik Buterin posted that “Keyed Nonces” not only provides stronger protocol-level support for on-chain privacy solutions, but is also likely an important direction for future state expansion of Ethereum. By creating dedicated storage types for specific use cases, extreme scale can be achieved while maintaining protocol decentralization.
Taking nullifiers in privacy transactions as an example: if on-chain privacy transactions maintain 2000 TPS for a long time, approximately 500 billion nullifiers will be generated after 8 years. Since nullifiers cannot be pruned, putting them all into the existing general state will put enormous pressure on node storage and decentralization.
Dedicated nullifier storage can take advantage of its highly restricted usage (only used for validity checks, and transactions need to explicitly provide the nullifier ID) to achieve a more decentralized processing solution, such as sharded storage (nodes only need to hold a small number of shards and maintain connections with honest nodes in each shard), and Bloom Filter optimization (which can significantly reduce verification overhead to approximately 8 bits per nullifier).
If we continue to rely on the existing state, builders may need to download tens of TB of full data, and privacy users will not be able to efficiently use mechanisms such as FOCIL. Therefore, most use cases should be migrated to more dedicated and lower-cost storage types, while retaining the complete dynamic state for applications that require high flexibility such as DeFi, so as to achieve a better balance between scalability and decentralization.
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IREN will acquire Mirantis for approximately $625 million, further strengthening its capabilities in the AI cloud domain.
Bitcoin mining company IREN has signed a definitive agreement to acquire cloud infrastructure service provider Mirantis for approximately $625.00 million (payable in IREN common stock). The acquisition will increase IREN’s deployment, management, and operational capabilities in the AI cloud space.
Upon completion of the acquisition, Mirantis will continue to serve existing customers as an independent subsidiary while fully supporting IREN’s AI cloud deployments. The transaction remains subject to customary regulatory approvals and other conditions to be met before completion.
[Foresight News]
Crypto.com’s Chief Marketing Officer Steven Kalifowitz will step down and become a CEO advisor.
On May 5th, Crypto.com announced that its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Steven Kalifowitz, will officially step down on June 30th and subsequently become an advisor to the company’s CEO.
The company stated that during his nearly six-year tenure, Kalifowitz drove Crypto.com’s transformation from a crypto app to a global brand, leading over $1.00B in brand and marketing investments, including large-scale sports and entertainment sponsorships and global advertising campaigns.
The most representative projects include the $70.00M, 20-year naming rights for the Los Angeles stadium (Crypto.com Arena), and the $100.00M global marketing campaign with actor Matt Damon. In addition, the company has established long-term partnerships with top sports IPs such as F1 and UFC.
[PANews, CoinDesk]
PayPal’s Q1 results exceeded expectations, but its Q2 guidance was weak, causing its stock to fall over 10% intraday.
Digital payments company PayPal (PYPL) announced its Q1 2026 financial results, reporting net revenue of $8.35 billion—exceeding the market expectation of $8.05 billion—and adjusted EPS of $1.34, higher than the expected $1.27.
However, the company issued a more cautious outlook for Q2, forecasting adjusted EPS to decline approximately 9% quarter-on-quarter, at $1.34. It also provided full-year 2026 guidance, with adjusted EPS of $5.32 and revenue of $34.06 billion.
Due to the Q2 guidance falling short of expectations, PayPal’s U.S. shares dropped over 10% intraday; the decline has since narrowed to approximately 8%.
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Anthropic launches a series of financial services agents
Anthropic PBC has launched a suite of new AI agents designed to handle a broader range of financial services tasks. These agents are said to be able to write presentations for client meetings, audit financial statements, and escalate cases for compliance review.
The ten new tools are targeted at professionals in the banking, insurance, asset management, and FinTech sectors. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will be speaking about AI with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at an Anthropic event in New York on Tuesday, which will also be attended by banking leaders.
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Analysis: Abnormal transactions frequently occur before Robinhood lists a coin, suggesting possible information advantage or front-running behavior.
In its latest report, crypto data analytics firm Kaiko pointed out that there appeared to be suspected “front-running” trading behavior surrounding Robinhood’s crypto asset listing announcements.
The report stated that prior to multiple token listings, perpetual contract holdings and on-chain transaction data showed abnormal capital flows. For example, wallet address “0xa1E” established a long position on Hyperliquid about an hour before Robinhood announced the listing of Lighter (LIT) on January 15, and quickly closed the position for profit after the announcement.
The address also shorted HOOD-related perpetual contracts several hours before Robinhood announced its financial report on April 28, and closed the position after the price fell.
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Dragonfly investor: `Coinbase` is expected to save $225.00 million in annual salary expenses after layoffs
Dragonfly investor Omar Kanji posted on X that Coinbase’s 14% layoff is expected to save $225.00 million in annual salary expenses.
Previous news: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on X that the company will lay off approximately 14% of its staff due to market conditions and a transition to an AI-native architecture.
[Odaily]
Trump: Iran is negotiating, and its military has been completely destroyed.
May 5th, according to Jinshi reports, US President Trump stated that he has completely destroyed the Iranian army, and Iran is negotiating. If Iran possesses nuclear weapons, “the world will face trouble.”
Iran has no air defense capabilities and no leader. Iran has no chance of winning, and they never have. They know it themselves, and they have told me on the phone.
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Hyperliquid is expanding its prediction market products and is testing 15-minute cryptocurrency up or down event contracts.
Hyperliquid’s testnet information shows that the platform is testing new event contracts, including a 15-minute cryptocurrency price movement market.
[Odaily]
BlackRock to Announce Hyperscale Data Center Deal This Week
On May 5, it was reported that BlackRock will announce a large-scale data center deal this week.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated that a new asset class will be “computing power futures.”
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WorldClaw is the first AI project in the WLFI ecosystem, positioned as an open operating system (Agent OS) for the Agent economy.
WorldClaw (worldclaw.ai) officially launched today and released its first product, WorldRouter, where Pro and Max users have the opportunity to qualify for a private dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump Jr. WorldRouter brings together a routing gateway with 300+ mainstream AI models such as Claude, GPT, and Gemini, with a calling cost 35% lower than B.AI, and native $USD1 settlement.
By integrating the WLFI AgentPay SDK, WorldClaw achieves instant and transparent on-chain settlement with the $USD1 stablecoin, covering agent-to-agent payments and building a complete economic closed loop from computing power calls to final payment. Its vision is to bring AI into an open economic model where users can develop exclusive Agents and monetize them directly.
[Odaily]
OnRe completes $5.00 million Series A funding round, led by Forward and others
OnRe, an on-chain asset management platform, has completed a $5.00 million Series A funding round, led by Forward and RockawayX.
The raised funds will be used to expand underwriting capabilities, strengthen infrastructure, and deepen integration with on-chain markets.
[Foresight News]
Binance’s SAFU Fund’s purchase of 15,000 BTC in February now has an unrealized profit of approximately $177 million.
According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Binance SAFU fund purchased 15,000 BTC (approximately 1.22 billion USD) in February at a price of about 69,244 USD per coin.
The fund is currently seeing a floating profit of approximately 177 million USD.
[Foresight News]
Today’s Market Pulse
AI’s infiltration into finance and crypto accelerates as established players launch specialized agents while states push for testing access, even as traditional payment giants show mixed signals.
Key Themes
AI Financial Agents and Integration
Anthropic is aggressively targeting financial services with specialized AI agents capable of writing presentations, auditing statements, and managing compliance. Simultaneously, WorldClaw’s partnership with WLFI creates unified access to 300+ AI models at reduced costs, signaling a shift toward AI consolidation in financial workflows. This matters as AI adoption in traditionally regulated finance could create new efficiencies but also regulatory complexities.
Corporate Restructuring and Profitability
Crypto companies continue cost optimization, with Coinbase’s layoffs projected to save $225M annually, while Binance’s SAFU fund shows $177M unrealized profits on BTC purchases. This reflects a maturing market where operational efficiency and strategic asset management are becoming as important as growth. Near-term implications include potential margin expansion but also reduced innovation spending.
Market Infrastructure Evolution
BlackRock’s entry into computing power futures and Hyperliquid’s prediction market expansion signal deeper institutional interest in crypto-native infrastructure. These developments could reshape how markets price risk and create new asset classes. The emergence of specialized AI agents in finance may accelerate this trend by providing better analytics.
Regulatory Pressures
US state officials are pushing for inclusion in AI testing, while crypto exchanges face scrutiny over front-running allegations. This matters as regulatory clarity remains the biggest barrier to institutional adoption. Near-term, we could see more standardized testing protocols but also increased scrutiny of market practices.
RichSilo Verdict
Smart money should monitor how traditional financial institutions integrate AI agents into workflows, with particular focus on JPMorgan’s collaboration with Anthropic as a potential bellwether. The Trump-WLFI-AI nexus through WorldClaw represents an unconventional but potentially high-impact catalyst for mainstream AI adoption. Key risks include regulatory backlash around AI testing participation and market manipulation concerns in crypto listings.
