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According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain whale, which had built a position of 11,004 ETH at an average price of $3.45 in 2016 and made a profit of $30.38 million, has once again built a position in ETH after a year. One hour ago, it purchased 647.137 ETH on-chain at an average price of $2,211.49, worth $1.43 million. This address currently still has 14.19 million USDC available.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, as HYPE surged past $45, a whale holding a long position of 1.38 million HYPE (with 5x leverage) is currently sitting on a profit of over $9 million, but needs to pay $2.3 million in funding fees. This whale's position once faced a loss of over $26 million.

According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX officially launched the 2026 Global Creator Recruitment Campaign on May 14, inviting external KOLs, community operators, live streamers, and trading experts to join the Huobi HTX creator ecosystem. It offers exclusive benefits such as a 60% permanent invitation commission, 100% return on live stream rewards, and a monthly content mining competition. The first 200 creators who successfully settle in will also receive double traffic support.In addition, from May 14, 0:00 to June 14, 24:00 (UTC+8), the platform will simultaneously launch a new creator invitation trading ranking competition, with a total prize pool of up to 5500 USDT. During the event, newly settled creators will be ranked based on the number of effective new users they invite. If the total trading volume of the invited users reaches the specified threshold during the event, they will receive corresponding rewards, with the champion enjoying a grand prize of 1500 USDT.

According to GMGN market data, the meme coin "Haqimi" on the BNB Chain has a market capitalization exceeding $18 million, with a 10-minute increase of 62.52%.According to the Aster official website, it will launch "Haqimi" spot trading at 20:00.

The Speaker of the Polish Sejm, Włodzimierz Czarzasty, announced that the parliament has officially begun reviewing four competing regulatory bills for crypto assets, following President Karol Nawrocki's veto of related legislation twice. This review involves multiple legislative proposals from the government, the presidential office, the Poland 2050 party, and the Confederation party, with a second reading vote expected to take place on Thursday. The core disagreement centers on the scope of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) regarding account freezing powers and the maximum penalties for violations. The presidential draft sets the maximum fine at approximately 20 million zlotys (about 5.5 million USD), while the Ministry of Finance's version raises it to 25 million zlotys (about 6.9 million USD).Meanwhile, the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS), after withdrawing support for earlier regulatory proposals, submitted a separate bill on Monday advocating for a complete ban on crypto asset-related activities in Poland, further complicating the regulatory discussion. Speaker Czarzasty stated that the PiS ban draft will enter the review process only after the four main regulatory bills are completed and questioned the connection between crypto industry funding and political activities, specifically inquiring about potential political financing issues, including those involving zondacrypto.

The cryptocurrency research institution Delphi Digital released the latest report "How Far Can Saylor Stretch It," which systematically analyzes the Bitcoin (BTC) funding expansion mechanism of Strategy, pointing out that its financing structure is transitioning from "low-cost accumulation" to the "diminishing marginal efficiency" stage. The report shows that in the current asset accumulation system centered around Bitcoin, STRC has become the core financing tool for Strategy's continuous purchase of BTC. Initially, it relied on a significant premium in MSTR's stock price (mNAV far exceeding BTC's net value) to achieve a positive cycle of "issuance leads to accumulation," but as the valuation has fallen back to about 1.24 times the EV-based mNAV, the BTC per share enhancement effect from common stock issuance is nearing breakeven.At the same time, while convertible bond tools have played an important role historically, they have accumulated about $8.2 billion in principal and will face concentrated repayment pressure after September 2027, putting long-term sustainability of the financing structure under pressure. STRC provides a continuous financing source for Strategy by offering approximately 11.5% annualized monthly dividends to income-oriented investors, to maintain the pace of BTC purchases. However, this mechanism also introduces ongoing cash flow obligations, meaning that each round of financing increases BTC assets while simultaneously accumulating future dividend burdens.The report emphasizes key risk scenarios: if BTC prices remain stagnant and MSTR's premium fails to recover, then the "STRC financing purchase gain" may be gradually offset by "common stock dilution and dividend obligations." Although the company's approximately $2.25 billion cash reserves can cover about $1 billion in redemption pressure in 2027, larger-scale debt and dividend structures in 2028 still need to be addressed. Additionally, the current authorized issuance limit of about $28.3 billion for STRC becomes a critical constraint point. Once the limit is reached, the ability to purchase new BTC may slow down, but existing dividend obligations will continue to exist, thus altering the overall BTC per share dynamic growth path.

According to Decrypt, USDC issuer Circle has launched the Agent Stack toolkit, allowing AI agents to autonomously hold funds, pay fees, and conduct transactions using USDC without human intervention. The core products include agent wallets, a command line interface, an agent marketplace, and a nano payment protocol that supports micro-transfers of $0.000001 without gas fees.Circle stated that traditional financial systems are designed for humans, and AI agents cannot operate independently, thus requiring a rebuild of the infrastructure. Circle co-founder Jeremy Allaire said that Agent Stack is the first financial services suite to treat AI agents themselves as clients.

The Ethereum Foundation disclosed the results of a recent interoperability meeting held by core developers in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway and updated the key technical progress for the next phase upgrade, Glamsterdam. During the meeting, multiple client teams collaborated on network scalability and execution layer optimization, making progress in several directions. Developers confirmed that based on the comprehensive results of ePBS, BAL optimization, and the EIP-8037 repricing mechanism, a consensus on the "trusted path" after Glamsterdam has been reached.In terms of the execution layer, ePBS (External Proposer Separation Architecture) has been stably running in the multi-client Glamsterdam-devnet, and the external block builder process has completed end-to-end testing, covering almost all client implementations. Meanwhile, EIP-8037 has been finalized, establishing the fixed cost_per_state_byte model, and complete repricing parameter output has been achieved in bal-devnet-6. The scalability direction Hegotá has also made progress. The FOCIL-related prototype has a runnable implementation, and the scope of account abstraction (AA) requirements has been defined, with the next phase entering the multi-client development network verification stage.Current development focus remains on the final implementation of Glamsterdam while advancing the Hegotá scalability design and subsequent Strawmap route evolution. The development network is online, and functionalities such as FOCIL are expected to continue deepening in the next phase of testing. At the organizational level, this interop meeting also marks the formal initiation of leadership structure adjustments within the Protocol Cluster. The new leaders include Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik. Will Corcoran is responsible for zkVM proof and post-quantum consensus coordination, Kev Wedderburn leads zkEVM development, and Fredrik is in charge of protocol security and the Trillion Dollar Security project.Original Protocol Cluster leadership team members Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko will gradually step back from management roles, and Alex Stokes is entering a leave period. The foundation stated that during its term, the Protocol has completed modular advancement and facilitated the launch of the Fusaka upgrade (December 2025), introduced PeerDAS, and enhanced mainnet gas capacity.

According to the official announcement, Circle has launched a new infrastructure suite for the "Agentic Economy," called Circle Agent Stack, which includes products such as Circle CLI, Agent Wallets, Agent Marketplace, and Nanopayments based on Circle Gateway, supporting AI agents as autonomous economic entities for asset holding, service discovery, and on-chain payments.Among them, Nanopayments supports gas-free USDC transfers at a minimum level of $0.000001, aimed at high-frequency machine-to-machine payment scenarios; Agent Wallets allow AI agents to autonomously manage funds under preset permissions and risk control frameworks; Agent Marketplace provides an AI service directory, enabling agents to automatically discover and invoke services.Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that traditional financial infrastructure is designed for "humans," while the future global economy will increasingly be driven by AI and agents. The Circle Agent Stack is the first complete product suite launched for "AI agents themselves" rather than developers.

Bitget launches VIP exclusive ETH wealth management, aimed at VIP users participating in CC PoolX from May 6, 18:00 to May 10, 18:00 (UTC+8). During the event, relevant users can go to the "Easy Coin Earning" section to purchase ETH, enjoying a maximum of 5% APR. The participation period is from May 10, 18:00 to May 15, 18:00 (UTC+8).At the same time, Bitget will allocate a total of 100 NVDAON rewards to VIP users who meet specific trading thresholds based on the deposit time, amount, and holding duration of ETH. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

Bitget launches VIP exclusive BTC wealth management, aimed at VIP users participating in UMXM PoolX from May 6, 18:00 to May 9, 18:00 (UTC+8). During the event, relevant users can go to the "Simple Earn" section to purchase BTC, enjoying up to 2% APR. The event period is from May 9, 18:00 to May 14, 18:00 (UTC+8).At the same time, Bitget will allocate a total of 100 NVDAON rewards to VIP users who meet specific trading thresholds based on the BTC deposit time, amount, and holding duration. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Daly stated that the main conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting is that all members unanimously agreed to keep interest rates unchanged. Daly pointed out that the wording of the statement is not as important as the actual actions of the FOMC.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced the launch of MegaETH (MEGA) in the innovation zone and opened the MEGA/USDT spot trading pair. Trading officially starts on May 6, 2026, at 11:00 Beijing time (03:00 UTC), and the deposit and withdrawal channels will soon be opened.The official stated that with the launch of spot trading, MEGA will also be included in the margin support range for all cryptocurrency contracts, allowing users to directly use it as margin assets for contract trading.It is reported that MegaETH is a fully EVM-compatible Optimistic Layer 2 network, which uses Ethereum as the settlement layer and employs EigenDA to provide data availability (DA).

According to CoinDesk, Coinbase has revealed that it has integrated the trading protocol DFlow as the main trading router for its Solana ecosystem, supporting users in achieving native value exchange for spot and prediction markets on Solana.Coinbase stated that after introducing DFlow, the trading failure rate for its Solana products dropped from about 1/30 to approximately 1/250, an 8-fold decrease. At the same time, this solution has expanded the liquidity coverage, enabling small and mid-cap tokens that were previously unable to trade due to "lack of liquidity" to become tradable, and optimizing user transaction prices.

The crypto lending platform Nexo has disclosed that the number of wallets holding more than 100 BTC is continuously increasing, indicating that "smart money" is flowing back into the Bitcoin market. Data shows that addresses holding between 10 and 100,000 BTC have accumulated approximately 41,000 BTC over the past two weeks.Meanwhile, the price of Bitcoin has also surpassed the "True Market Mean" average level of $78,100 for the first time since January this year. Market analysis suggests that the continued accumulation by large on-chain addresses may reflect a rebound in the risk appetite of institutions and long-term holders.

TwentyOne Capital, a Bitcoin treasury company, announced an operational strategy update for "Bitcoin companies," aiming to integrate Bitcoin reserves, mining, financial services, and capital market operations through mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, this includes: financial services and distribution, covering licensing, compliance, custody, technology, and institutional and retail customer bases; Bitcoin infrastructure, through low-cost, high-performance mining of BTC and continuously expanding Bitcoin reserves; capital market strategies, which will securitize loan books and mining revenue, and support non-dilutive leveraged financing of BTC reserves with operating cash flow; and acquiring value-added Bitcoin companies, continuously using cash flow to increase Bitcoin holdings.

According to Businesswire, Bitcoin treasury company TwentyOne Capital has updated its corporate strategy, planning to integrate Bitcoin reserves, mining, financial services, and capital market operations through mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, this includes: financial services and distribution, covering licensing, compliance, custody, technology, and institutional and retail customer bases; Bitcoin infrastructure, through low-cost high-performance mining of BTC and continuously expanding Bitcoin reserves; capital market strategy, which will securitize loan books and mining revenue, and support non-dilutive leveraged financing of BTC reserves with operating cash flow; and acquiring value-added Bitcoin companies, continuously using cash flow to increase Bitcoin holdings.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Ethereum founder vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) has been selling the Meme tokens he received for free, and it seems he is clearing out his wallet. In the past 24 hours, he has earned 114,566 USDC and 155 ETH (a total of $355,000) by selling these free Meme tokens.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a giant whale has been continuously buying HYPE over the past two months. Since March 1, this address has withdrawn 472,700 HYPE from Bybit and Kraken, with a total value of approximately $18.96 million, at an average purchase price of about $38. Currently, this address has realized over $1 million in unrealized gains.