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Samourai Wallet co-founders and U.S. prosecutors have asked a federal judge to delay court proceedings as they weigh a possible dismissal of the case. In an April 28 letter to Judge Richard Berman, Samourai Wallet defense attorneys said they had jointly requested a 16-day extension of the pretrial motions schedule with the government. If approved, the new timeline would push the deadline for motions to May 29, with responses due June 26 and replies by July 10. The trial date, currently scheduled for early November, would remain unchanged. Samourai Wallet CEO Keonne Rodriguez and CTO William Hill were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice in April 2024 for allegedly running an unlicensed money-transmitting business and laundering over $100 million through the platform. Rodriguez was arrested in the U.S., while Hill was detained in Portugal and is awaiting extradition. According to the April 28 letter, defense attorneys for Samourai CEO Keonne Rodriguez and CTO William Hill met with prosecutors on April 24 to discuss dropping the charges. They contended that it would be a “significant expense” to prepare motions while the DOJ is still “determining its position” on whether to proceed. Prosecutors reportedly agreed to the delay “without expressing any views on the merits,” the letter noted. The joint request for a delay comes on the heels of a major policy reversal within the Justice Department.  You might also like:CryptoQuant CEO defends Samourai Wallet founders In early April, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memo disbanding the DOJ’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, a task force created under the Biden administration to pursue crypto-related crimes. Blanche criticized the previous administration’s “reckless strategy of regulation by prosecution” and stated plainly that the DOJ “is not a digital assets regulator.” The memo urged prosecutors to limit enforcement efforts to cases involving direct criminal harm, such as fraud against investors or the use of digital assets to facilitate serious offences. Lawyers representing Samourai had initially written to Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton on April 10, just days after the DOJ memo, formally requesting that the case be dismissed in light of the department’s revised crypto enforcement stance. While the DOJ previously viewed such platforms as enablers of illicit activity, the new guidance calls for a narrower scope of enforcement that does not target developers solely for creating privacy tools. The policy shift was already being referenced in other cases. On April 9, SafeMoon CEO Braden Karony cited Blanche’s memo to ask a New York judge to drop his fraud and securities charges, arguing they no longer align with the DOJ’s updated stance. Read more:DOJ arrests Samourai Wallet founder over $2b illegal money flow

Zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu was found alive in his parents’ home after evidently faking his suicide on a pump.fun livestream. As a result, his tribute meme coin LLJEFFY has fallen by 40%. According to a report by local news outlet The San Francisco Standard, Jeffy Yu was confirmed to be alive and living in his parents’ home, five days after the 23-year-old crypto mogul seemingly took his own life on a livestream. On-chain traders have speculated that Yu faked his own death as a way to depart from the crypto space. Especially after Yu’s obituary on the memorial platform, Legacy was removed a few days after it was published. Not only that, on-chain activity shows that there have been multiple transactions linked to Yu’s wallet after his alleged death. On May 9, a reporter from the San Francisco Standard confirmed that Yu was not dead. Instead, he had been living in a two-story home with his parents. Yu declined to provide any commentary about the false reports of his death and how he benefited from it. However, the Zerebro (ZEREBRO) founder said that he would be moving his parents out of the home within a week due to fearing that other people would be able to track down his whereabouts. “I’ve been doxxed. I’ve been harassed. If you can find me, other people can find me,” said Yu. Price chart for LLJEFFY, Zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu’s legacy meme coin, May 9, 2025 | Source: DEX Screener According to DEX Screener, the Solana (SOL)-based meme coin LLJEFFY, created to honour Yu’s legacy, has fallen more than 40% following the news of Yu being alive. A far cry from its previous high when the token skyrocketed as high as 2,115% after news of Yu’s livestreamed suicide began to circulate. At the moment, the token has accumulated a market cap of $2.1 million. “If you’re reading this, it’s because my 72-hour deadman’s switch triggered, so I’m not here, at least physically,” said the Zerebro co-founder in a scheduled blog post linked to the meme coin. “This is a legacoin, my final art piece. $LLJEFFY,” he wrote. On the other hand, Yu’s original staple token, ZEREBRO, has been on the rise. In the past 24 hours of trading, the token has gone up by 22.3%. It is currently valued at $0.048. In the past few days the token has also suffered a similar downfall to its “legacoin” counterpart, dropping by nearly 10% in the past week and declining by 34.8% in the past two weeks. Price chart for ZEREBRO in the past few days of trading, May 9, 2025 | Source: crypto.news You might also like:Fake ‘Hong Kong coin’ promoted by chief executive impersonator account Controversy surrounding Zerebro founder Jeffy Yu’s ‘suicide’ On May 4, Zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu was thought to have committed suicide. A video broadcast on meme coin launch platform Pump.fun showed Yu smoking a cigarette before shooting himself in the neck. The video was then shared multiple times on social media platform X. Two days later, Yu’s obituary was published on the memorial platform Legacy. However, many traders suspected Yu had faked his own death after on-chain data showed that his wallet was still actively making transactions. Analytics platforms like Bubblemaps and Lookonchain revealed that the LLJEFFY deployer and associated wallets were actively trading and burning tokens after Yu’ alleged death. Not only that, but an unverified letter was found indicating that his death had been staged. Allegedly written by Yu, the letter stated that the Zerebro founder had faked his death as he believed it was the “only viable exit from persistent harassment, blackmail, and threats.” You might also like:On-chain clues spark speculation Zerebro founder Jeffy Yu isn’t dead after all

PENGU continued its rally for the second day, after securing a listing on South Korean crypto exchange Upbit. According to data from crypto.news, Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) over 23% to hit an intraday high of $0.015 on May 9, marking a 300% gain from its monthly low.  Meanwhile, its 24-hour trading volume surged nearly 100% to $500 million. The token’s market cap is now sitting at $972 million, inching just $28 million shy of the $1 billion milestone. The key catalyst behind today’s move was Upbit, a tier-1 South Korea-based crypto exchange, which listed PENGU on its spot trading platform. Activity in PENGU’s derivatives market spiked after the Bithumb announcement broke. Data from CoinGlass shows that open interest in PENGU futures spiked 30% over the past 24 hours, reaching nearly $136 million. Further, data shows that Pudgy Penguins’ NFT sales are also soaring. According to data from Crypto Slam, NFT sales spiked 360% in the past 24 hours, raking in $617,081 while making Pudgy Penguins the 8th most popular NFT collection globally at the time of writing. Transaction activity also climbed, with sales counts jumping 200% to 24 and buyers up 320% to 21. You might also like:MOODENG rallies over 130% as open interest soars and exchange balances drop PENGU’s rally has also been supported by growing hype around Solana meme coins. The entire Solana meme coin sector surged 28.7% in market capitalization over the past day, to over $12.1 billion. This broader surge in meme coins has been largely driven by Bitcoin’s breakout above $100,000, marking its first time crossing that milestone since February, which has reignited bullish sentiment across the crypto market. PENGU price analysis Looking at the charts, PENGU has broken out of a descending parallel channel pattern on the 4-hour/USDT chart, a move that’s typically seen as a bullish reversal signal in technical analysis. PENGU price, Supertrend and Aroon chart — May 9 | Source: crypto.news Momentum indicators back up the breakout. The Aroon Up sits high at 92.86% while the Aroon Down is down at 28.57%, signaling that buyers are clearly in control right now. Adding to the bullish setup, the Supertrend indicator has flipped green, reinforcing the positive momentum. With these signals aligning, PENGU could be setting its sights on the next big hurdle: the psychological resistance level at $0.021, a price it’s struggled to break since February. If bulls can push it past that level, the next stop could be around $0.022, a key support-turned-resistance from earlier in January. At press time, PENGU had pared some of its earlier gains and was trading at $0.014 per coin. Such volatility is expected as the hype around major developments fades, with the market often pricing them in ahead of their actual occurrence. Read more:$900M liquidated from crypto market as Bitcoin surges past $103K in latest rally Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only.

由于贸易紧张局势加剧，海关官员加强审查，依赖比特大陆硬件的美国加密矿工正面临发货延迟。 由于海关官员加强对比特币 (BTC) 挖矿设备最大供应商比特大陆 (Bitmain) 的货物检查，美国的加密挖矿公司在获取新设备方面面临延误。 彭博社援引业内高管的话称，总部位于北京的比特大陆在专用采矿设备市场占据主导地位，但其对美国客户的交付速度因审查力度加大而放缓，并称美国检查越来越频繁。 “大约三个月前，美国海关就开始对几乎所有空运的比特币挖矿机进行随机检查。” 中国数字矿业协会创始人 徐诺 总部位于纽约的 Bit Digital 表示，其 700 台矿机被延迟了几周。知情人士称，俄克拉荷马州的一家矿机公司有 2,000 台矿机滞留在海关。Luxor Technology 的 Ethan Vera 指出，“贴有比特大陆矿机标签”的货物也属于被扣留的货物之列。报告指出，随着 2 月 1 日对中国进口产品征收 10% 的关税，新机器的成本将会增加，情况可能会进一步恶化。 比特大陆的供应链问题发生之际，其联合创始人詹克团正因其 AI 公司 Sophgo 而受到美国当局的压力。该公司于 1 月被列入黑名单，原因是涉嫌帮助中国芯片行业并与华为合作。 詹进军人工智能领域让比特大陆的所有人都很不满，因为一些高管对于将重点从挖矿硬件上转移并不感到兴奋。黑名单也给 Sophgo 带来了沉重打击，使其与台湾半导体制造公司等主要供应商断绝了联系。尽管如此，比特大陆还是在 12 月宣布了在美国建立新工厂的计划，但他们对工厂的具体位置保密。 阅读更多：由于香港监管机构称加密货币公司“不成熟”，比特大陆 IPO 遭遇重大挫折

Polkadot 的表现不及 Solana、币安币和 Tron 等最接近的同行，其价格在三年内一直维持在 3.85 美元至 11.7 美元之间的盘整状态。 Polkadot (DOT) 的价格走势导致其在加密货币排名中下滑，从 2021 年的前十大代币跌至第 22 位。它已被 Hyperliquid (HYPE)、Sui (SUI) 和 Toncoin (TON) 等较新的加密货币所取代。 不过，有三个关键原因导致 DOT 价格可能很快像 Ripple (XRP) 一样退出三年盘整阶段。 现货 Polkadot ETF 获批潜力 Polkadot 价格可能很快飙升的一个潜在原因是美国证券交易委员会可能很快批准现货 DOT ETF。21Shares 本月早些时候申请了该基金 美国证券交易委员会暗示，在唐纳德·特朗普的领导下，该机构将成为对加密货币行业更加友好的机构。它可以证明这一点的一种方式是更快地允许现货 ETF 上市，这将使华尔街投资者接触到它们。 大多数加密货币，如 XRP 和莱特币，获得 ETF 批准的几率较高，过去几周大幅上涨。Polkadot 可能加入这波上涨行列，因为它目前仍接近历史最低点。 Polkadot JAM 升级 Polkadot 价格可能飙升的另一个原因是向联合累积机 (JAM) 的迁移，它是 Polkadot 2.0 的一部分。JAM 希望结合 Polkadot 和以太坊现有的优势，然后在未来取代中继链。 你可能还喜欢：Polkadot 推出 JAM 课程，为 web3 开发者赋能 JAM 还希望解决过去困扰 Polkadot 的挑战。其中最突出的是制作平行链的成本高昂、这些平行链相互隔离以及加入平行链拍卖的机会有限且成本高昂。 — Polkadot (@Polkadot) 2025 年 2 月 14 日 Polkadot 价格具有强劲的技术面 DOT 价格图表 | 来源：crypto.news Polkadot 的技术实力也很强，可能会随着时间的推移推高其价格。上图显示，过去三年来，DOT 一直保持在支撑位 3.85 美元和阻力位 11.71 美元之间。它最近重新测试了该通道的最低点。 这种盘整反映了最近飙升的代币 XRP 所经历的情况。这也是积累的标志，即威科夫理论的初始阶段。积累之后通常是加价阶段，其特点是需求高于供应。