ByteDance has denied reports of offering 100 million yuan to recruit ex-researcher Guo Daya. VP Li Liang confirmed that all technical staff have the same compensation structure and recent hires did not exceed 100 million yuan, although options might yield significant returns over time.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are collaborating to combat Chinese competitors’ efforts to enhance AI capabilities by extracting outputs from U.S. models, sharing information through the Frontier Model Forum to address adversarial data distillation.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has proposed a governance plan locking 62.2 billion WLFI tokens for two years, with different vesting schedules for advisors and early supporters. This aims to enhance long-term governance in DeFi and includes a token burn requirement.

Xiaohongshu's AI team has open-sourced Relax, a reinforcement learning engine for multimodal training that efficiently processes image, audio, and video inputs through advanced parallelism and asynchronous pipelining.

Lattice, the gaming infrastructure team, will gradually shut down its Redstone network by May 15, 2026. Users are advised to withdraw funds quickly, as assets in smart contracts will be unrecoverable post-shutdown. Projects under Lattice have been open-sourced or migrated to new chains.

Blockaid has identified a frontend attack on CoW Swap, marking its domain as malicious. Users are advised to cease interactions, revoke wallet authorizations, and await further updates from the CoW Swap team.

The $RAVE token surged 68% in 24 hours, reaching a market cap of nearly $4 billion, with a rise exceeding 6,000% over the week. Despite its volatility and concentration among few wallets, analysts suspect insider manipulation behind the sudden price increase.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan reviewed his experiences before creating Hyperliquid in an interview. He once ran a large anonymous trading team, Chameleon Trading, and used $10k to achieve significant growth. Due to dissatisfaction with the state of the crypto industry and the FTX event, Jeff decided to shut down Chameleon Trading and focus on building the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid.

Zcash’s core development team, ZODL, has released the latest strategic roadmap, focusing on post-quantum security, scalability, and user experience, and moving into the Zcash IV phase. The new version is now live, improving user experience and advancing key development. Meanwhile, ZODL is actively involved in industry cooperation, but due to regulatory issues it has temporarily taken down the Russian app store.

Hyperliquid founder Jeffrey Yan rejected a $1 billion valuation fundraising proposal less than a year after the project launched, believing that outside capital could undermine the project’s neutrality and long-term goals. Even though the team had been covering operations out of their own pockets, Yan still insisted on not taking investment.