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According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Will Iran close its airspace?" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "May 24" experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 44.5% an hour ago to the current 25.5% (a fluctuation of 19%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the "Spurs vs. Thunder" event, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Isaiah Hartenstein: Points O/U 1.5" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 96.45% an hour ago to the current 68.95% (a fluctuation of 27.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The co-founder of the crypto platform Forsage, Olena Oblamska, pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after being extradited from Thailand to the United States. Forsage launched in January 2020, marketing itself to retail investors worldwide as a smart contract-based DApp investment platform. The U.S. Department of Justice accused the platform of using smart contracts on Ethereum, Tron, and BNB Chain to automatically redirect funds from new participants to early investors, constituting a Ponzi and pyramid scheme.Blockchain analysis shows that over 80% of Forsage investors received less cryptocurrency than they deposited, and over 50% received no returns at all. The scam defrauded victims from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America of approximately $340 million. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had previously filed a civil lawsuit against those involved in August 2022.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that Coinbase is proud to collaborate with law enforcement to combat crime. Its investigation team identified an ongoing criminal activity and used blockchain forensics to track down the criminals, ultimately leading to 5 convictions.

Bitwise tweeted that it will use 10% of the management fees from its Hyperliquid ETF ($BHYP) to hold HYPE on the company's balance sheet, taking concrete action to support the development of the Hyperliquid ecosystem.Bitwise emphasized that Hyperliquid adopts a community-first model, with 99% of the blockchain's revenue used for the buyback and destruction of HYPE, stating, "If the protocol succeeds, the community should succeed." Bitwise's decision to hold HYPE is based on this principle.

According to CoinDesk, former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner has increased his disclosed investment size from $5.5 billion to $13.67 billion as of March 31, 2026, and has significantly bought shares in Bitcoin mining companies and AI infrastructure companies.His key holdings include mining companies such as IREN, Core Scientific, Riot Platforms, CleanSpark, Bitfarms, Bitdeer, and Hive Digital, betting that their power resources and data center capabilities will benefit from the growing demand for AI computing power.At the same time, he has also established a short position of approximately $7.46 billion in semiconductors, including large put option positions on the VanEck Semiconductor ETF, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Broadcom.

Aave has officially proposed a principal retention charitable donation layer, allowing users to continuously donate the generated income to charity while retaining control and liquidity of the principal.The proposal is currently undergoing a temp-check vote in the Aave governance forum. Its core aim is to address three major pain points of traditional charitable models: donors must permanently give up the principal, the funding flow of charitable organizations is unstable, and there is a lack of transparency in the use of funds.According to the proposal, users can deposit assets into yield-generating infrastructures like Aave, direct the earned income to donations, and withdraw the principal at any time.

The Solana development company Anza announced that it has officially recommended the mainnet validators upgrade to Agave 4. This upgrade introduces XDP for Turbine, QUIC-only TPU data access, a faster replay stage, and several SIMD features that will be activated during this cycle.Anza stated that production environment tests on large mainnet validators showed that XDP has reduced the Turbine retransmission delay from about 600 ms to approximately 0.8 ms, providing critical performance headroom for Solana's push towards 100 million CU blocks. Additionally, Agave 4 has completely removed UDP transaction access, making QUIC the only transaction submission method; PoH entry verification and Ed25519 signature verification have also been removed from the critical path and processed asynchronously to enhance replay stage performance.This round of upgrades will also gradually enable several SIMD features, including p-token (an SPL Token alternative that can free up about 13% of block capacity), Stake Program v5, SBPFv3 support, pre-funded account creation, and BLS12-381 syscall, among others.

According to Jinshi News, the technology company Hangzhou Yunshen Technology Co., Ltd., which focuses on embodied intelligent robots and their supporting products and solutions, has released a prospectus. It shows that the revenue from the embodied intelligent robot project for the year 2025 is expected to reach 322.3773 million yuan; the revenue from product components is expected to reach 11.9501 million yuan; and the revenue from supporting services is expected to reach 2.573 million yuan.According to the resolutions from the company's first extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in 2026 and the ninth meeting of the first board of directors, this issuance aims to raise 2,502.511 million yuan. After deducting issuance costs, the funds will be invested in the research and development projects for embodied algorithms and models, the research and development projects for robot bodies and solutions, the industrialization projects for embodied intelligent robots, and the construction projects for embodied intelligent robot bases.

According to official news, the BNBAgent SDK has officially launched on the BSC mainnet, providing core infrastructure for the large-scale implementation of AI agents on the blockchain.This SDK is centered around four modular components:Identity and trust based on ERC-8004;Business and custody based on ERC-8183 (APEX);Autonomous payments integrating MPP and x402;Memory and storage based on BNB Greenfield, comprehensively addressing key challenges for AI agents in authentication, business collaboration, automatic settlement, and continuity of memory across operational environments.Developers can leverage this standardized framework to efficiently build, deploy, and realize commercial monetization of AI agents on the BNB Chain.The first batch of partners is strong, including industry leaders such as Google, AWS, Virtuals, Binance Pay, Trust Wallet, Binance Wallet, and $U, jointly injecting strong momentum into the implementation and development of the BNBAgent SDK.

According to Gate market data, the Nasdaq 100 Index has turned down, indicating a weakening market sentiment.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on May 18, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $2.03 billion, an increase of 4,403.11% compared to last week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced an investment of $2.01 billion (an increase of 4,574.4% compared to last week) to purchase 24,869 Bitcoins at a price of $80,985, bringing the total holdings to 843,738 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase Bitcoin last week.In addition, four other companies purchased Bitcoin last week. Asset management company Strive announced on May 12 that it bought 9 Bitcoins, without disclosing the specific amount spent, bringing its total holdings to 15,009 Bitcoins; the UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on May 12 and May 15 that it invested $2.84 million to purchase 25 Bitcoins at a price of $81,592.67 and 10 Bitcoins at a price of $79,662, bringing its total holdings to 2,840 Bitcoins; the French Bitcoin company Capital B announced on May 18 that it invested $15.02 million to purchase 192 Bitcoins at a price of $78,205.4, bringing its total holdings to 3,135 Bitcoins; the Brazilian Bitcoin company OrangeBTC announced on May 18 that it invested $390,900 to purchase 5 Bitcoins at a price of $78,180, bringing its total holdings to 3,737 Bitcoins.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the listed companies worldwide (excluding mining companies) is 1,113,841 Bitcoins, an increase of 2.37% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $86.16 billion, accounting for 5.6% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

According to Jinshi News, S&P 500 futures have shown signs of turning upward, and market sentiment has improved.

According to Bloomberg, Iran has begun to launch a Bitcoin-based shipping insurance arrangement for the Strait of Hormuz to address the current high-risk navigation environment in the strait.Recently, Iran has introduced a maritime insurance platform called "Hormuz Safe," which provides digital insurance services for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz and allows payments in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin.Against the backdrop of escalating U.S.-Iran conflicts and risks in the Strait of Hormuz, the costs of war insurance for ships have surged significantly. Bloomberg previously reported that the insurance costs for some vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz have now risen to about 5% of the vessel's value.

According to Gate market data, Nasdaq 100 index futures have turned positive, indicating signs of a recovery in market sentiment.

Bitcoin mining company and AI infrastructure company IREN announced that it has acquired the creative and media agency Awaken, which focuses on content strategy and brand building for high-growth companies.According to the announcement, some core members of Awaken will join IREN, including Awaken founder and CEO Chris Parker, who will be responsible for IREN's overall branding and marketing strategy.IREN co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Roberts stated that as the company continues to expand into new markets and customer bases, the importance of brand awareness and user engagement is increasing. The Awaken team has long been a trusted partner of IREN, and internalizing these capabilities is a natural step in the company's expansion process.

According to the latest weekly report from CoinShares, institutional digital asset investment products experienced a net outflow of approximately $1.07 billion in a single week, marking the third-largest weekly net outflow this year and ending a previous six-week streak of net inflows.Due to geopolitical risk sentiment related to Iran, funds primarily withdrew from Bitcoin, with a net outflow of $982 million, and Ethereum saw a net outflow of $249 million, the largest single-week outflow since January 30. Blockchain stock ETFs also experienced an outflow of about $133 million. The United States was the main source of this capital outflow, totaling approximately $1.14 billion, while products in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Canada recorded slight net inflows.Meanwhile, XRP and Solana recorded net inflows of approximately $67.6 million and $55.1 million, respectively, while Ton, Sui, Ondo, Chainlink, and Doge also saw inflows in the millions, indicating that some funds are selectively allocating outside of BTC and ETH.

According to official news, Tether announced an investment in the cross-border financial platform LemFi to promote the application of stablecoins in remittance scenarios in emerging markets and to expand the coverage of borderless financial infrastructure.LemFi primarily serves cross-border users living and working in the UK, US, Canada, and Europe, providing financial services for remittances to Africa and Asia. Tether stated that this investment will support LemFi in introducing USD₮ as a settlement layer in major cross-border corridors, replacing the traditional multi-day settlement process of SWIFT, achieving lower costs and near-instant cross-border transfers.Both parties also plan to further expand the stablecoin infrastructure, gradually integrating USD₮ into LemFi's broader product system to provide more stable, transparent, and convenient financial services.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that the company hopes to promote global financial inclusion by supporting scalable financial solutions and believes that cross-border payments should focus more on speed, cost, and transparency.

Gate, a global leading digital asset trading platform, released its transparency report for April 2026. As the on-chain infrastructure continues to improve and capital efficiency increases, the synergy between on-chain trading, financial products, and payment scenarios has further enhanced, maintaining a steady upward trend in overall ecosystem activity.In terms of on-chain network, the number of transactions on Gate Layer exceeded 36.3 million, with a month-on-month growth of over 11%. The proportion of non-API trading on Perp DEX is close to 90%, reflecting a continued recovery in retail participation. On the capital and product side, the peak TVL of Yubibao approached $1.8 billion, the scale of on-chain earning products continues to grow, GUSD's scale has increased to over $190 million, and the crypto payment scenario has further extended into daily consumption through Gate Card, with the user base continuously rising.In addition, Gate has joined the Mastercard crypto partner program and is deepening cooperation around crypto cards, stablecoin payments, and cross-border settlements, promoting the accelerated integration of digital assets into the global mainstream payment system.The platform ecosystem is also continuously evolving, with approximately 2.5577 million GT tokens burned on-chain in the first quarter of 2026, with a destruction value exceeding $20.68 million. As of now, the cumulative burn of GT has exceeded 187 million tokens, accounting for about 62.46% of the initial supply.On the basis of adhering to the stable execution of the established burn plan, the long-term supply contraction trend of GT has become clearer, providing a foundation for its scarcity and value support. Gate is continuing to strengthen the integrity and global connectivity of its multi-asset financial infrastructure through the synergy of on-chain ecosystem expansion and asset management.

According to The Block, the AI settlement layer AEON has completed an $8 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by YZi Labs, with participation from IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, and Oak Grove Ventures. The structure of this financing round and the post-investment valuation have not been disclosed. AEON plans to use the funds from this round to develop a settlement layer aimed at supporting interactions between AI agents.AEON launched its first AI payment product in May, enabling AI agents to connect with over 50 million physical merchants worldwide. In addition, AEON has partnered with BNB Chain to launch a product called x402 Facilitator, which is natively built on BNB Chain infrastructure, providing verifiable transactions, on-chain settlements, and tamper-proof receipts for service providers within the BNB ecosystem.