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Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl stated that in the context of rising inflation in the United States, the Federal Reserve may maintain a high interest rate policy for a long time, which will have three core impacts on the cryptocurrency market. He believes that as the U.S. CPI approaches 4%, the new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has almost no room for interest rate cuts, and the market currently expects the first rate cut to be delayed until September 2027. Grayscale pointed out that long-term high interest rates will put pressure on "currency devaluation trades" such as Bitcoin. Since Bitcoin, like gold, is a non-yielding asset, higher real interest rates will increase the opportunity cost of holding dollar-denominated assets. However, it remains optimistic about Bitcoin's long-term prospects and believes that regulatory benefits such as the CLARITY Act can partially offset the related pressures. In addition, it believes that a high interest rate environment will accelerate the tokenization of fixed income assets. Currently, the yields on dollar-denominated fixed income products are higher than those of most DeFi yields; for example, the USDC lending rate on Aave is about 3.6%, while the yield on short-term corporate bonds is about 4.5%. Grayscale also stated that stablecoin issuers will benefit from high interest rates. Since the GENIUS Act prohibits stablecoins from paying interest to users, issuers can retain the income from reserve assets. It estimates that for every 25 basis point increase in short-term rates, Circle's revenue will increase by approximately $190 million.

According to The Washington Post, U.S. President Donald Trump failed to disclose his multi-million dollar stock trades involving companies like Microsoft and Amazon within the legal deadline, with delays lasting several months. He has been fined $200 as a result, according to the latest investment disclosure documents.The report noted that these trades involved several large technology and financial stocks, with disclosure information indicating that the scale of his asset operations reached "the tens of millions of dollars." The delay in related disclosures has raised concerns about whether he strictly adhered to federal financial disclosure regulations.According to the requirements of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, federal officials must report significant financial transactions within the specified deadline, but there are issues with delays in actual enforcement and relatively light penalties.

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.

Some high-end graphics cards, servers, and other products are gradually landing in JD's self-operated channels. According to JD's data, since May 14, the attention on "NVIDIA" H200 related chips and server workstation equipment launched on JD's platform has significantly increased, with the search volume for NVIDIA H200 related chips increasing 25 times year-on-year, and the search volume for NVIDIA H200 related servers and workstations increasing over 40 times year-on-year.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, 3 whales opened long positions on HYPE, with one whale going long on 145,310 HYPE with 10x leverage, worth 6.78 million USD, and a liquidation price of 44.53 USD; another whale going long on 100,000 HYPE with 10x leverage, worth 4.66 million USD, and a liquidation price of 42.58 USD; and another whale going long on 92,015 HYPE with 5x leverage, worth 4.30 million USD, and a liquidation price of 36.94 USD.

Aave officially announced an update to its bug bounty program to better match the risk characteristics of various parts of the ecosystem and simplify the review process. According to the latest adjustments, the bounty cap for critical bugs in Aave V4 and Core Aave V3 has been increased to five times the original amount.Aave Labs also proposed a reorganization of the bounty framework, placing different subsystems under the management of platforms such as Immunefi, Sherlock, and Cantina. The core components such as Core Aave V3, V2, and GHO will continue to be managed by Immunefi; Aave V4 and Aave App Stack will transition to Sherlock; and Aave V3 on Aptos will be managed by Cantina.

The Binance futures platform will launch the SOXLUSDT perpetual contract on May 15, 2026, at 22:00, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times; on the same day at 22:05, the MRVLUSDT perpetual contract will launch, with a maximum leverage of up to 10 times.Subsequently, Binance futures will launch CRWVUSDT at 21:30, WMTUSDT at 21:35, JPMUSDT at 21:40, VUSDT at 21:45, and BRKBUSDT at 21:50 on May 18, 2026, all with a maximum leverage of 10 times.

According to Arkham monitoring, a certain address purchased ETH for $120 during the Ethereum presale in 2015. Today, it transferred 50 ETH to a new wallet and deposited 350 ETH into Bitstamp. The address has held the assets for 10 years, with a return of over 7500 times. Based on the current price, the value of its ETH holdings is approximately $900,000.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock contracts are now live for INFQ (Infleqtion Quantum Technology), VRT (Vertiv), and ETN (Eaton), covering popular areas such as quantum frontiers, AI power, and cooling infrastructure. The aforementioned contracts support up to 20 times leverage, and more details can be found on the Bitget official platform.

According to data from Tom Wan (@tomwanhh), the market capitalization of the stablecoin USDG has surpassed 3 billion dollars, with nearly 700 million dollars added on the Solana network.At the same time, the market capitalization of USDe on the Solana network has also seen significant growth, skyrocketing from 3.5 million dollars in a single day to 70 million dollars, an increase of 20 times.

According to SolanaFloor, the P-Token upgrade for Solana has now been launched on the mainnet, which can increase transaction efficiency by up to 20 times.After the upgrade, the computational cost of token instructions is reduced by about 96%, and it releases an additional 12% to 13% of block space without changing the block limit.

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 Financial Times, Blue Origin, the American commercial space company founded by Jeff Bezos, is considering bringing in external investment for the first time. Introducing external capital could accelerate Blue Origin's operational expansion and technological research and development by mobilizing internal and external resources, thereby breaking through the growth model that relies solely on internal funding.More broadly, the rising interest of venture capital in the space industry may intensify competition for talent and contracts within the industry, while also sending positive signals of investor confidence to the supply chain and regulatory systems.

The Bitcoin bull-bear cycle indicator from CryptoQuant has recently turned green for the first time since 2023. On-chain analyst Julio Moreno stated that this usually indicates the market is switching from a bear market structure to a recovery phase. Moreno pointed out that historically, when this indicator exits the bear market zone and enters the "Early Bull" range, it often means that the worst adjustment phase has ended and the market structure begins to repair. However, several analysts emphasize that this indicator is more suitable for judging market phase transitions rather than precise trading signals. Mati Greenspan, founder of Quantum Economics, stated that the greatest significance of such indicators lies in determining "whether Bitcoin has stopped behaving like a bear market asset," and real confirmation still requires sustained demand, improved liquidity, and prices stabilizing at key levels. Currently, Bitcoin has not effectively broken through the $82,000 resistance level. Although it has rebounded about 35% from a low of around $60,000 in February this year, the market remains in a tug-of-war state. Moreno believes that to truly confirm a bull market signal, Bitcoin needs to digest some current "weakness" indicators while facing pressure from a neutral greed-fear index and a complex macro environment. Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and CIO of Maelstrom, believes that Bitcoin has completed a phase of bottoming around $60,000 this year. He stated that once it breaks through $90,000, the market may enter an "explosive phase," targeting the previous high of $126,000. Meanwhile, some analysts also remind that on-chain indicators like MVRV and NUPL are essentially more aligned with a "behavioral cycle framework" and should not be seen as absolute predictive tools.

The Graph officially announced that its Graph Gateway now officially supports x402 Payments. Developers and AI Agents can now access on-chain data via USDC on a pay-per-request basis, without the need for an API Key, account, or backend panel.The Graph stated that its network is responsible for indexing data from multiple blockchains, including token information, DEX trading pairs, governance updates, NFT metadata, and protocol activities. Previously, accessing related Subgraph data required registering for Subgraph Studio and applying for an API Key, while x402 has changed this access model.According to the introduction, after the Agent or program accesses the interface, it will receive an HTTP 402 response containing price information. It can then complete a signed payment using USDC on the Base network, and upon re-requesting, it can obtain the data, "the payment itself serves as authentication."This update includes: the addition of the /api/x402/ interface; a new payment process SDK; support for any tools compatible with x402; support for USDC payments on the Base mainnet and Base Sepolia testnet; and the original API Key model remains unchanged.The Graph stated that Subgraph data is now directly accessible by any program or Agent that supports HTTP and holds USDC.

According to CryptoQuant analyst MorenoDV, the Bitcoin bull-bear cycle indicator has turned into an "early bull market" signal for the first time since March 2023. Historically, this signal has appeared after 2019 and early 2023, indicating that the worst adjustment phase has passed and the market structure is beginning to recover. However, there was one exception in March 2022 when the indicator also entered the early bull market zone, but the price was subsequently rejected, confirming a local top rather than a new bull market.Regarding the current signal for May 2026, the analyst believes that Bitcoin is no longer behaving as a deeply bearish asset, and the recovery of the 30-day moving average indicates that market momentum is improving. However, several other market indicators have shown signs of fatigue, making this signal less clear than a classic early cycle confirmation. The analyst tends to believe that this is more likely a local top rather than the beginning of a new bull market, unless the price strongly confirms this trend in the future.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock contracts are now online for DRAM (Roundhill Memory ETF), AXTI (AXT Inc), LWLG (Lightwave Logic), KOPN (Kopin Corporation), NIO (NIO), and USAR (USA Rare Earth), covering popular sectors such as storage, optical communication, and rare earth resources. The above contracts support a maximum leverage of 20 times; for more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced on the X platform that TON has launched a unified smart contract toolchain called Acton. The new toolchain increases TON's development efficiency by 10 times, making the creation, testing, and deployment of smart contracts more convenient, and it is fully prepared for AI. This toolchain replaces TON's previous scattered tool stack, unifying it into a single development process.According to the introduction, Acton is an integrated command-line tool built around the Tolk language, covering the entire process of project creation, testing, debugging, dApp integration, deployment, and verification.