Planet Early News: Wintermute Responds to Marketing Doubts, Robinhood Acquires Bitstamp, Tether Launches Gold-backed Stablecoin

1. Wintermute founder responds to James Wynn: This is just a well-executed Hyperliquid marketing campaign;

2. CreatorBid launches Launchpad V2 “Curate with BID”, implementing a decentralized project screening mechanism;

3. Sonic: 25% of tokens from the first season airdrop will be immediately liquid, 75% of tokens will unlock over 270 days;

4. Robinhood completes acquisition of cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp for 200 million USD;

5. Tether launches full-chain gold stablecoin “XAUt0” on the TON blockchain;

6. The probability that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged in June is 95.3%;

7. Federal Reserve’s Goolsbee: expects interest rates to likely decrease within the next 12 to 18 months;

8. Willy Woo: the market is currently in a "liquidation season", it is not advisable to go long at this stage;

9. xAI is conducting a stock sale transaction valued at 3 billion USD with an estimated valuation of 113 billion USD;

10. Trump: Without retaliating tariffs, the survival chances of the US economy are slim;

11. Meta shareholders overwhelmingly reject Bitcoin treasury strategy proposal, with only 0.08% support;

12. SharpLink’s stock price surged 2000% last week before pulling back 30%, completed 450 million USD financing and launched ETH strategy;

13. Ethereum Foundation announces restructuring of R&D team and layoffs, focusing on network scaling and user experience;

14. Circle raises its IPO issuance size, targeting a valuation of 7.20 billion USD;

15. Strategy announces plan to issue 2.50 million shares of STRD preferred stock for Bitcoin purchase and operations.