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The tokenized financial market infrastructure Digital Asset Clearing Center (DACC) announced the completion of a $10 million strategic financing round, with participation from Conflux, Global InfoTech, Fosun International, Blockstone, Avior Capital, Fintech World, Satoshi Ventures, and BridgeTower. DACC currently provides end-to-end "Clearing-as-a-Service" for financial institutions, and the new funds will support its construction of compliant financial settlement and clearing infrastructure.

According to the official announcement from Huobi HTX, the platform has officially launched the "Crypto Pizza Festival" series of activities, covering multiple gameplay options such as task challenges, holiday red envelopes, and lucky draws, with a total prize pool exceeding 200,000 USDT, including physical grand prizes like the iPhone 17 Pro Max, 10 grams of gold, and pizza vouchers.The task challenge competition runs from May 14 to May 25. After signing up, users can complete any one of the five tasks: earning coins, spot trading, contract trading, learning to earn coins, or holding $HTX to light up "Fire Treasures" and receive tiered rewards such as USDT earning interest vouchers, contract experience gold, and spot trading fee cashback vouchers. Collecting all Fire Treasures allows participation in a lucky draw to share a prize pool of 100,000 USDT, thousands of pizza vouchers, and USDT 10% earning interest vouchers.From May 18 to June 19, the pizza carnival red envelope activity will also be launched, with a total prize pool of 100,000 USDT. On the birthday of Fire Treasures (May 18) and Bitcoin Pizza Day (May 22), users can visit the event post to receive no-threshold red envelopes. Completing daily interactions or referral tasks can unlock subsequent red envelope qualifications, and checking in for 7 consecutive days can unlock large red envelopes.The lucky draw activity will start on May 18. During the event, accumulating a spot trading volume of ≥100 USDT or a single contract trading volume of ≥2,000 USDT will grant a chance to enter the draw. The prize pool includes an iPhone 17 Pro Max in Starry Orange (1TB), Keron 4 GT, 10 grams of gold, BTT/NFT/WIN/SUN tokens, and contract experience gold, among others.

According to the official announcement, the Bitget IPO Prime Phase 2 project preOPAI has now completed allocation, and spot trading will begin today at 22:00 (UTC+8). For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

The BNB ecosystem decentralized finance platform Eleutheria announced the completion of a $5 million strategic round of financing, with participation from Alpha Capital, and valuation information has not yet been disclosed.The new funds will support its development of on-chain financial services through trustless code-driven DeFi and immutable smart contracts.

ARK Invest, led by Cathie Wood, submitted its Q1 2026 13F report, which shows a significant increase in holdings of Circle, Robinhood, Bitmine, and Bullish, while reducing its position in Coinbase.Specifically, ARK Invest significantly increased its holdings in Circle (CRCL) by approximately 368,000 shares, raising its total to about 4.5 million shares, with a market value of approximately $430 million, accounting for 3.34%; it also increased its holdings in Robinhood (HOOD) by about 1.19 million shares, with a market value of approximately $416 million; Bullish (BLSH) and Bitmine (BMNR) saw increases of about 1.74 million shares and 240,000 shares, respectively. Additionally, ARK Invest reduced its position in Coinbase (COIN), currently holding about 2.37 million shares, with a market value of approximately $414 million, accounting for 3.22%.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined 104 partners of Arc, covering six core sectors: asset issuance, infrastructure, developer tools, trading, financial services, and payments. Compared to most public chains that first develop a developer ecosystem and then seek commercialization scenarios, Arc's path is clearly more aligned with the real financial circulation network. At the asset issuance level, stablecoin issuers such as AllUnity, BDACS, Bitso/Juno, and Stablecorp, as well as tokenized asset players like Centrifuge, Securitize, and WisdomTree have entered the scene, indicating that Arc prioritizes solving the "on-chain asset supply" issue, bringing dollars, bonds, and securities onto the chain. At the infrastructure level, partners like Blockdaemon, Chainalysis, Elliptic, QuickNode, and DRPC provide node services, compliance analysis, and on-chain data support. This means Arc is preparing for institutional funds, rather than following the typical Crypto public chain model of "growth first, compliance later." At the developer tools level, partners such as Axelar, Wormhole, Chainlink, MetaMask, Fireblocks, Privy, Alchemy, LayerZero, and TRM Labs are concentrated, essentially lowering the migration costs for institutions and developers, allowing funds, wallets, cross-chain, and compliance tools to be directly in place. At the trading level, institutions like Coinbase, Bybit, Kraken, Robinhood, Galaxy Digital, and B2C2 are responsible for secondary market liquidity and price discovery. The payment layer is heavily integrated by Visa, Mastercard, PhotonPay, Nuvei, EBANX, and Ramp. At the financial services level, firms like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, State Street, Aave, Maple Finance, Morpho, and BitGo are appearing simultaneously, indicating that Arc has begun to bridge traditional banking, on-chain lending, and custody systems. On the surface, Arc appears to be a new public chain, but from an ecological structure perspective, it will serve as the new financial infrastructure for the Circle stablecoin era, directly emphasizing USDC gas fees, sub-second final settlement, compliance privacy, and native CCTP integration, aiming to directly penetrate real capital flows and attempt to become SWIFT + Stripe + DTCC. Related compilation: Arc Web3 Partner Network Compilation (continuously updated) Cryptocurrency projects actively showcasing their partner networks have become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 projects to claim their information and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of the cryptocurrency project ecosystem map, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners for upstream clients like Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase. If you wish to nominate your project in future ecosystem maps, please fill out the [RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping] form to supplement your important clients and partners.

Forward Industries, a Solana treasury company, announced its quarterly financial report for the period ending March 31, 2026, showing a year-on-year revenue increase of 319% to $13 million. However, due to the decline in the fair value of crypto assets, net losses widened to $283.1 million.The company stated that the growth this quarter was mainly driven by increased staking rewards from Solana (SOL). However, during the same period, it recorded a digital asset loss of $201.7 million and an asset impairment of $85.1 million, primarily due to the price volatility of SOL leading to a decrease in the valuation of holdings.The financial report indicated that the company held approximately 7.04 million SOL during the quarter and earned about 201,200 SOL in rewards through staking, with nearly all SOL assets being staked. Solana fell approximately 33.7% during the reporting period, closing at $82.44. Price volatility is considered the core factor dragging down financial performance.Additionally, Forward Industries signed a loan agreement with Galaxy Digital in March and drew the first tranche of $40 million in financing, using fwdSOL as collateral, with a comprehensive annual interest rate of about 3.4%. The company stated that this financing is used to optimize its liquidity structure.Company management indicated that they have adjusted the balance sheet through cost reductions, debt instruments, and stock buybacks to cope with market volatility and enhance long-term value. Despite a significant widening of quarterly losses, the company's stock price slightly declined in after-hours trading following the financial report, but it still recorded a monthly increase recently.

According to Jin Shi reports, Carol Kong, a foreign exchange strategist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, stated that the inflation data released this week will not be welcomed by FOMC officials, including the incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Waller. The U.S. Senate has approved Waller to serve as the Federal Reserve Chairman. Kong expects that the FOMC will have to enter a rate hike cycle starting in December this year, with three rate increases expected during this cycle.

The UK-listed company The Smarter Web Company increased its holdings by 10 BTC, bringing its total holdings to 2840 BTC, ranking 27th in the world for Bitcoin holdings.

Binance announced that due to third-party system maintenance, Binance Alpha tokenized securities trading services are currently in temporary maintenance status, and users are temporarily unable to place orders or conduct transactions.Binance stated that user asset security is not affected, and the platform is actively communicating with the third party to promote service recovery. Users will be notified as soon as the relevant functions are restored.

The prediction market platform Kalshi announced a partnership with Interactive Brokers.According to the cooperation details, Interactive Brokers has integrated the Kalshi prediction market into its existing trading platform, allowing users to manage prediction market positions and traditional portfolios on the same interface, and supporting real-time viewing of positions, liquidity, and price data.The initially launched prediction markets will mainly cover topics such as election results, climate events, and economic indicators.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies and strategic funds showed significant trends in digital asset allocation and performance, with the core dynamics as follows:Strategic trusts continue to buy: The strategic reserve fund Jupiter Litterbox Trust increased its holdings by 386,428 JUP (worth about $85,000) yesterday. So far, this trust has accumulated over 7 million JUP purchases in May, with a historical total purchase amount reaching 123 million (total value of about $27.32 million).DeFi concept stocks see profit explosion: Hyperion DeFi, Inc. (NASDAQ: $HYPD) disclosed its Q1 2026 financial report, achieving a record net income of $8.84 million. Thanks to its unique "triple yield" HYPE deployment plan, the staking income generated by the company in this quarter reached three times the baseline level. It also updated its treasury reserves as of May 11: currently holding over 2 million HYPE tokens, 1.92 million KNTQ tokens, and 10 million HPL tokens, further establishing its position as a compliant DeFi investment portal in the U.S. stock market.

According to documents from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, President Trump purchased shares of the Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings ($MARA) between January and March 2026. Additionally, a report from Reuters indicates that the same batch of disclosure documents shows Trump conducted 175 financial transactions in March, purchasing at least $51 million in bonds, with the total value of transactions in that month reaching approximately $161 million.

According to MacroScope monitoring, Dartmouth College in the U.S. disclosed in its submitted 13F filing that as of March 31, it held approximately 201,531 shares of the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF "IBIT," valued at $7.7 million, with the position unchanged from the previous quarter.The college also reported a new position, holding a Bitwise Solana Staking ETF valued at $3.4 million (304,803 shares).

According to Protos, Myanmar has proposed introducing the death penalty for criminals who use violent means to coerce victims into participating in cryptocurrency scam centers. According to the draft of the country's Anti-Cyber Fraud Bill, criminals who use violence, torture, illegal arrest and detention, or cruel treatment against others to force them to commit cyber fraud will be sentenced to death.The bill will be submitted to parliament for review in June. In addition, operators of scam centers or perpetrators of cryptocurrency scams will face life imprisonment. Last month, the President of Myanmar reduced all death sentences to life imprisonment.

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini released its Q1 financial report, with revenue reaching $50.3 million, a 42% increase from $35.3 million in the same period last year, which led to a 30% rise in its stock price during after-hours trading. The company stated that the growth mainly came from service business, OTC trading, and cryptocurrency-related credit card businesses such as the Gemini Credit Card. Among these, the credit card segment's revenue grew by approximately 300% year-over-year, nearing half of the total revenue.Gemini also disclosed data on its prediction market business for the first time. Since its launch in December last year, this business has attracted over 20,000 users trading contracts, with a total of over 100 million contracts traded, contributing approximately $400,000 in revenue. The company noted that trading volume in April further increased by 78% compared to the previous month. Gemini CEO Tyler Winklevoss stated that the company is gradually transforming from a cryptocurrency trading platform into a broader "market company." Previously, Gemini obtained a CFTC derivatives clearing organization license to support its expansion into derivatives and prediction market businesses.

The UK Parliament's Standards Commissioner is investigating UK MP and leader of the Reform Party, Nigel Farage, due to allegations of failing to declare a £5 million (approximately $6.7 million) personal donation from Tether investor Christopher Harborne. Christopher Harborne holds a 12% stake in Tether. Nigel Farage stated that the donation was received in 2024 before he announced his candidacy, intended for personal security, and therefore he had no obligation to declare it. According to the House of Commons Code of Conduct, new MPs must register any benefits received in the previous 12 months after being elected. If found in violation, Nigel Farage could face penalties such as an apology, suspension, or expulsion from Parliament.

According to Cointelegraph, the 13F filing shows that JPMorgan significantly increased its Bitcoin ETF holdings in the first quarter, with its position in the BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) rising from approximately 3 million shares to 8.3 million shares, an increase of 174%.In addition, JPMorgan also significantly increased its holdings in other Bitcoin spot ETFs such as Fidelity FBTC and Bitwise BITB, while slightly increasing its position in Strategy (MSTR).Regarding altcoin ETFs, JPMorgan's actions varied: it made its first purchase of the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), increased its holdings in Ethereum-related ETFs, while completely liquidating its XRP ETF.