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According to Jinse Finance, Privacy Pools, the on-chain privacy protocol backed by Vitalik Buterin, has announced the integration of Sky's USDS stablecoin, marking its first expansion into multi-asset privacy pools. Developed by the startup 0xbow, the protocol leverages zero-knowledge proofs and an "association set" mechanism to ensure funds remain both compliant and anonymous. The official statement noted that more assets and ecosystems will be supported in the future, balancing privacy protection with regulatory compliance.

According to a report by Jinse Finance, documents obtained by independent crypto journalist L0la L33tz through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that as of March this year, the U.S. Marshals Service held only 28,988 bitcoins, worth approximately $3.4 billion—significantly lower than the market’s previous estimates of its holdings. Earlier estimates suggested that the U.S. government’s total crypto asset holdings reached as high as $25 billion. The Trump administration had previously ordered that bitcoins held by federal agencies be transferred to the Treasury Department for management and established a “strategic bitcoin reserve.”