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According to CoinDesk, after the cryptocurrency trading platform Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss brothers, announced its Q1 2026 financial report, its stock price rose over 25% in pre-market trading. The financial report showed that the company's revenue for the quarter increased by 42% year-on-year to $50.3 million, while the net loss narrowed by 27% year-on-year to $109 million, but still exceeded market expectations of a loss of $0.61 per share.The report indicated that Gemini's operating expenses increased by 73% year-on-year to $144.5 million, with employee compensation costs rising by 91%, which included approximately $6.5 million in severance pay; sales and marketing expenses also doubled year-on-year to $19.1 million.The company stated that it is currently driving its business transformation through layoffs, business contraction, and a $100 million Bitcoin injection from Winklevoss Capital Fund, and is seeking to achieve profitability.In February of this year, Gemini closed its operations in the UK, EU, and Australia, laying off about 25% of its staff, and shifted its focus to the U.S. market and prediction market business. In April, the company received approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for its Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) license, officially entering the cryptocurrency prediction market field. Boosted by these developments, the company's stock price has recently rebounded and is now above $6.6.

According to official news, Kraken announced that its Kraken Pro will increase the maximum leverage for Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual contracts from 50 times to 100 times, applicable to the PF_XBTUSD and PF_ETHUSD USD cash-settled perpetual contracts, with products continuing to support 24/7 trading.According to the announcement, 100 times leverage is currently available to international users in eligible regions without the need to migrate accounts or apply additionally; existing Kraken Pro contract users can use it directly. The leverage mechanism adopts a tiered model: for BTC contracts, the first $1 million nominal position can use up to 100 times leverage, while any amount above that will automatically drop to a lower leverage tier; for ETH contracts, the first $500,000 nominal position offers up to 100 times leverage. The platform emphasizes that the leverage adjustment is not a "one-size-fits-all" switch, but rather a dynamic tiered calculation as the position size increases.

According to monitoring by lookonchain, a wallet related to a16z (0xb5E4) has purchased 74,175 HYPE (approximately 3.38 million USD). In the past month, this wallet has accumulated a total purchase of 1.71 million HYPE (approximately 72.81 million USD).

According to the official page, since the Bitget IPO Prime Phase 2 project preOPAI opened for subscription on May 12 at 16:00 (UTC+8), the total number of participants has reached 5,098, with a total investment amount of 106,146,536 USD, currently oversubscribed by about 5 times. This round of subscription will close today at 16:00 (UTC+8), for more details please refer to the Bitget official platform.

The founder of the AI agency platform Bankr, deployer, tweeted that he has raised about $100,000 to provide free LLM inference services for Bankr ecosystem projects. Projects currently being built in the Bankr ecosystem will soon be able to access free inference credits. However, before officially starting the distribution, the team will first launch a new feature that "the entire industry will love," with specific details to be announced later.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, after 6 years of silence, a certain whale deposited 1001 ETH into Kraken, worth 2.31 million dollars.The whale still holds 3000 ETH in 2 different wallets, worth 6.88 million dollars.

According to Bloomberg, Gemini exchange founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss made a $100 million "strategic investment" in the exchange, purchasing Class A common stock at a price of $14 per share, with payment made in Bitcoin. The exchange's stock closed at $5.26 on Thursday, rising about 15% in after-hours trading, having fallen over 80% in the past year.Gemini's net loss in the first quarter narrowed to $109 million, compared to $149 million in the same period last year; revenue grew 42% to $50 million, mainly driven by income from services such as credit cards. CEO Tyler Winklevoss stated that the market has severely underestimated Gemini, and this investment will help the company transition from a crypto company to a market company. Gemini went public in September 2025, shortly after which the crypto market began to decline.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "How many tweets will Elon Musk post between May 8 and May 15, 2026?", the "Yes" option in the sub-market "100-119" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 63.65% an hour ago to the current 41.05% (a fluctuation of 22.6%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Coinglass data, on May 15 at 01:12, 100 million USDT was detected being transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows:Top five gainers: Immutable (IMX) up 12.7%, current price $0.2087; XDC Network (XDC) up 10.48%, current price $0.03464; Hyperliquid (HYPE) up 9.6%, current price $42.7; Quant (QNT) up 9.07%, current price $78.31; Canton (CC) up 6.95%, current price $0.1629.Top five losers: siren (SIREN) down 52.68%, current price $0.5663; BUILDon (B) down 23.51%, current price $0.519; Terra Classic (LUNC) down 4.89%, current price $0.00008124; Internet Computer (ICP) down 4.43%, current price $2.92; Injective (INJ) down 4.34%, current price $5.22.

TownSquare, focused on institutional yield and cross-chain lending brokerage services, announced the launch of a $100 million USD1 token liquidity program. This initiative aims to promote institutional yield and cross-chain returns to more users through institutional yield strategies using the USD1 stablecoin from the World Liberty Financial platform.Previously, TownSquare collaborated with the World Liberty Financial DeFi team to introduce the USD1 token to the high-performance EVM chain Monad and received official incentives from the Monad Foundation. The team officially stated that this new liquidity program marks TownSquare's ongoing commitment to expanding the application of DeFi and bringing institutional strategy yields to more assets. Currently, the project's official website has launched cross-chain lending functionality, and the yield-generating product is in an upcoming state.According to official information, the project has previously completed a round of financing supported by Monad, a16z, Aptos, Solana Bonk, as well as other angel investors and a number of VCs from Europe and America. The team consists of founders with backgrounds from Coinbase, Meta, Accenture, and market makers. Information about the project's new round of financing has not yet been announced.

GoPlus Security stated that a user fell victim to a typical address poisoning attack, mistakenly transferring 100,000 DAI to a fake address created by the attacker after copying a similar address from the transaction history.In this incident, the user had previously transferred 300,000 DAI to the target address, and the attacker subsequently sent 0.0003 DAI from a similarly structured address to lure the user into mistakenly selecting the wrong address for the second transfer.GoPlus Security reminds users not to copy addresses from transaction history, to verify the complete address before transferring, and to conduct a small test transfer before making large transactions.

On the last day of the evidence-gathering phase of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, a Microsoft executive revealed in court that by June 2026, Microsoft's total investment in OpenAI (including investment commitments, infrastructure, and computing power hosting costs) will exceed $100 billion.Reports indicate that this figure is significantly higher than the previously understood cash investment scale of $13 billion, marking the first disclosure of the overall costs Microsoft has incurred in supporting OpenAI in terms of underlying computing power and infrastructure. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott also confirmed that during the early setup of their first supercomputer, they deployed tens of thousands of GPUs in a single instance.Furthermore, after Microsoft and OpenAI concluded their evidence presentation, Musk's team chose to forgo the rebuttal phase, officially ending the three-week evidence-gathering stage, with the court expected to enter the closing arguments phase on Thursday.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, a certain whale shorted 100 BTC on Hyperliquid with 40x leverage, worth approximately $8.07 million, at an average price of $80,958, with a liquidation price of $82,209. Currently, this position has an unrealized profit of about 7%.As of the time of writing, this whale has a stop-loss order planned if the price rises to $81,150. Over the past month, it has opened and closed a total of 61 positions, with an overall profit of only $50,700. Address: 0xcab59c7a92b8f7c4d5cde72bb7669ee7d75b6e6.

According to The Block, Coinbase has expanded its on-chain loan products supported by cryptocurrency, adding support for Solana, allowing users to collateralize SOL to borrow up to $100,000.The loans are provided through the Morpho integration on Base, similar to collateralized loan products for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. A company spokesperson revealed that since its launch last year, Coinbase's total issuance of cryptocurrency collateralized loans has exceeded $2.3 billion, with Bitcoin collateralized loans accounting for $2.17 billion and Ethereum approximately $110 million.

According to Gate market data, the Nasdaq 100 Index continues to decline, recently down 2.1%.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows:Top five gainers: SKYAI (SKYAI) up 44.45%, current price $0.5792; BUILDon (B) up 15.32%, current price $0.6454; Humanity (H) up 13.06%, current price $0.2646; Injective (INJ) up 7.06%, current price $4.66; JUST (JST) up 2.95%, current price $0.08974.Top five losers: Ondo (ONDO) down 10.28%, current price $0.3908; Aerodrome Finance (AERO) down 10.16%, current price $0.4725; Ethena (ENA) down 7.57%, current price $0.1204; Sei (SEI) down 7.03%, current price $0.0695; Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) down 6.99%, current price $0.8131.

Coinbase has expanded its on-chain crypto lending product, adding support for Solana (SOL), allowing users to borrow up to $100,000 by collateralizing SOL. This lending service is based on the integration of Coinbase with the DeFi lending protocol Morpho on the Base network, which previously supported collateralized lending for crypto assets like BTC and ETH.Ben Shen, Head of Financial Services and Loyalty Products at Coinbase, stated that the addition of SOL collateral is an important step for Coinbase to become "the best platform for trading and holding Solana," and reflects its strategy to build an "Everything Exchange." Data shows that since the launch of this crypto lending product last year, Coinbase's cumulative loan issuance has exceeded $2.3 billion. Among these, Bitcoin remains the primary collateral asset, with a cumulative loan amount of $2.17 billion; ETH collateralized loans are about $110 million, and XRP is $31.6 million, followed by assets like cbETH, DOGE, ADA, and LTC.Last month, Coinbase also expanded this lending business to the UK market, continuing to advance its on-chain financial services layout. Although Coinbase announced a net loss of $394.1 million in the first quarter last week and laid off about 14% of its workforce, CEO Brian Armstrong still stated that in the future "all finance will migrate on-chain," and Coinbase is positioning itself around this trend. Several institutions, including Bernstein, Benchmark, and Rosenblatt, have recently maintained a "buy" rating on Coinbase stock, with Bernstein believing that Coinbase is gradually validating the feasibility of its "Everything Exchange" strategy.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the WLFI team-related addresses (founders/team members/advisors/partners) have burned 100 million WLFI tokens in the past 19 hours, worth 6.68 million dollars. Four WLFI team-related addresses transferred 1 billion WLFI into the unlocking ownership contract and then burned the corresponding 10% of WLFI.