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According to the Industrial and Commercial Times, due to the soaring prices of key components such as memory and SSDs, the cost pressure for configuring high-capacity storage in mainstream laptops has greatly increased. Cost-effective mainland Chinese memory and storage components are gradually penetrating the PC supply chain, with brands such as Lenovo, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Acer, and even the American brand Apple accelerating the certification, introduction, or platform tuning of related products.The report pointed out that Lenovo has expanded its use of mainland components this year, and recently flagship laptop models equipped with Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) SSDs have appeared on North American cross-border e-commerce platforms. The American brand Apple is also reported to be negotiating with the U.S. government to procure Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) memory to cope with the rising prices. In terms of Taiwanese board manufacturers, MSI recently announced that it is the first to complete the verification and tuning of Changxin Memory DDR5 chips on the AMD platform at DDR5-8000+, while Gigabyte has also adopted Changxin Memory chips in some motherboard models. ASUS and Acer have introduced memory modules from mainland manufacturers such as BIWIN through their own brand memory certification or OEM models.Industry analysts believe that although the short-term imbalance in supply and demand for storage has prompted non-mainland brands to accelerate related certifications, due to the limited production capacity of mainland manufacturers, brand Taiwanese manufacturers still emphasize that Korean original manufacturers with long-term contracts remain the main supply partners at present.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett posted on the X platform that after the release of President Trump's financial disclosure documents, Senator Gillibrand once again called for advancing ethical reforms to prohibit the president, congressional members, and their spouses from issuing or sponsoring digital assets.The financial disclosure documents show that President Trump earned over $600 million from his Solana Meme coin in 2025. At the time of this announcement, Senator Gillibrand's long-standing position advocating for stronger ethical rules came under more scrutiny, as reports emerged that her son had raised funds to launch a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange.

According to official news, the perpetual contract trading platform Drift today announced its official rebranding to Velocity, stating that this brand upgrade aims to reflect the new generation trading platform architecture it is building.The team pointed out that in the perpetual contract market, execution speed and directional judgment are crucial. The name "Velocity" aims to embody trading speed and market momentum, while marking the platform's entry into a reboot phase.The official statement indicated that this renaming also represents a clear boundary in the product roadmap: the new platform will adopt a clearer system architecture, stronger security infrastructure, and a more defined product positioning. Currently, Velocity is advancing its reconstruction work and plans to open a private testing version to some partners and traders in the coming days to validate the stability and performance of the new generation Solana-based perpetual contract trading system.

Animoca Brands announced on the X platform that the company has made a strategic investment in the stablecoin payment infrastructure provider AllScale, with the specific amount undisclosed. Animoca Brands stated that in addition to the investment, both parties will also explore collaboration opportunities to support global payment flows and emerging agency commerce use cases within its ecosystem.

According to Fortune, Theodore Gillibrand, the son of New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has completed a $30 million financing round, with the company valued at approximately $300 million. They plan to launch a derivatives trading platform named American Perpetuals Exchange Corp. (APEC). The platform intends to apply for a license from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and aims to list perpetual futures for stocks and stock indices, rather than perpetual contracts for cryptocurrencies.

AIPayWithCrypto announced that it has officially completed its first round of strategic financing of $10,000,000, led by Animoca Brands, with participation from Titans Ventures, Castrum Capital, Adaverse, M2M Capital, and other institutions.It is reported that in addition to the capital injection, all parties have also reached a deep strategic consensus to jointly build the future of AI and payment integration, as well as to improve infrastructure to serve global users and AI economic entities. The APC platform will present a new AI + payment system to the market, solidifying the core competitiveness of the payment sector.

Famous trader and chart analyst Peter Brandt, who successfully predicted the Bitcoin crash in 2018, stated yesterday that Bitcoin is currently forming an expanding triangle pattern, which is relatively common and usually reliable in Bitcoin's history, with a target based on projecting the height of the pattern from the breakout point.According to the measurement rules for the expanding triangle: Target = height of the pattern projected downward from the breakout point. The attached diagram shows a widening triangle (with the upper and lower bounds gradually diverging). The breakout point is roughly around $74,000 (marked as 74,395 in the diagram), and after projecting the height of the pattern (from the highest point to the lowest point of the widest part of the triangle), the arrow points to the area around $56,000.

The NFT market Rarible announced on the X platform that Impossible has acquired the Rarible brand and core platform assets. This acquisition marks IMPOSSIBLE's first foray into mergers and acquisitions and brand expansion. The RARI Foundation ecosystem and RARI tokens will continue to be independently managed by the relevant foundation entities. The team stated that they will continue to support artists, collectors, and the community, and will share more plans in the future.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on May 25, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the last week was $17.38 million, a decrease of 99.14% compared to the previous week. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) did not purchase Bitcoin last week. The Japanese listed company Metaplanet also did not purchase Bitcoin last week. Additionally, two other companies purchased Bitcoin last week.The Japanese food brand DayDayCook announced on May 21 that it spent $15.8992 million to purchase 200 Bitcoins at a price of $79,496, bringing its total holdings to 2,583 Bitcoins; the UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on May 21 that it invested $1.48 million to purchase 19 Bitcoins at a price of $77,687, bringing its total holdings to 2,859 Bitcoins.As of the time of writing, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,114,060 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.02% compared to the previous week, with a current market value of approximately $86.03 billion, accounting for 5.6% of the circulating market value of Bitcoin.

OneBullEx announces a brand upgrade and officially clarifies its platform positioning as The AI Futures Exchange. This upgrade occurs as the OneBullEx product system further takes shape, with the automated strategy market 300 SPARTANS now operational, and the AI strategy generation platform OneALPHA having entered the targeted testing phase. This positioning reflects OneBullEx's judgment on the competitive logic of contract trading platforms in the next stage, where AI is transitioning from an auxiliary tool into the trading execution process, and the platform's capabilities are shifting from a single trading entry to a comprehensive strategy integration.The current product architecture of OneBullEx consists of three layers: the bottom layer is the contract trading infrastructure, the middle layer is the 300 SPARTANS strategy market, and the top layer is OneALPHA. The 300 SPARTANS connects strategy creators with subscribers, supporting users in subscribing to automated strategy bots and tracking strategy performance through NAV and TWRR methods; OneALPHA covers the key processes from strategy generation, validation to deployment preparation, jointly supporting OneBullEx's AI Futures Exchange positioning.OneBullEx states that after the brand upgrade, the platform will express its core message of "smart trading, simplifying complexity," continuing its long-term mission of "returning ownership to traders," while further expanding strategy categories, user participation mechanisms, and global market coverage, promoting the contract trading experience towards a more systematic, transparent, and verifiable direction.

The brand new version of ChainCatcher's official website is officially launched, with a comprehensive optimization of the homepage information structure. Through clearer content categorization, more reasonable interaction hierarchy, and more intuitive display methods, high-value content can be quickly accessed on the first screen, helping users more efficiently complete information filtering, market judgment, and decision-making.The new official website has simultaneously launched or upgraded several core functions: the homepage has added a panoramic data panel that aggregates macro funds, exchange dynamics, and mainstream Token market trends, helping users quickly establish a macro understanding of the market; in-depth articles are integrated with AI intelligent summarization, significantly reducing the reading cost of long articles; the "Selected Events" calendar has been fully upgraded, supporting large token unlocks and tracking important macro events, assisting users in grasping key nodes in advance.Welcome to experience the new version of ChainCatcher and enjoy a more efficient and clearer information acquisition experience.

X announced the launch of the AI-driven brand and creator matching tool Creator Connect, which intelligently matches platform creators based on brand marketing goals, audience interests, and real-time trends. This feature is realized through xAI tools, and X will be responsible for the entire process of creator selection, contact, content creation, and distribution, while brands can review at each stage.Mitchell Smith, X's Head of Global Content Partnerships, stated that the platform is entering the "Creator Era" and is committed to building a healthy and sustainable creator economy. Monique Pintarelli, Head of Global Advertising at xAI, said that Creator Connect combines AI technology with X's real-time communication capabilities to help brands reach consumers more efficiently.This release is part of X's "Year of the Creator" initiative. Previously, the platform has launched features such as Creator Subscriptions 2.0 and Exclusive Threads, and has doubled creator revenue sharing.