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According to Gate market data, Nvidia (NVDA.O) turned to rise at the beginning of trading, currently up more than 1%, after previously falling more than 1%.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, approximately 667 BTC (about $51.556 million) were transferred out of Coinbase Institutional and into an unknown wallet.

According to Caixin, the "Global Payments Report 2026" released by global payment technology and software company Global Payments indicates that digital wallets account for more than half of global online transaction volume and one-third of offline transactions. Digital wallets can flexibly integrate different payment methods, including cryptocurrencies. The report predicts that direct cryptocurrency payments will become the fastest-growing online payment method, with a compound annual growth rate of 16% from 2025 to 2030. This means that by 2030, the volume of e-commerce transactions using direct cryptocurrency payments could account for 0.28% of global e-commerce transaction volume, nearly $31 billion.However, despite the global total market value of cryptocurrencies nearing $3.2 trillion by the end of 2025, it remains a relatively marginalized payment method for consumers to merchants. Reports from MRC and Visa show that only 10% of merchants globally accept cryptocurrency payments directly. In 2025, cryptocurrencies will account for only 0.19% of global e-commerce transaction volume, approximately $15 billion.

As the U.S. stock earnings season and the narrative of tech giants in AI continue to advance, according to official news from Bitget, the platform has recently added 10 popular U.S. stock contract targets. So far, Bitget's panoramic exchange (UEX) has supported 263 U.S. stock tokens and 81 U.S. stock contracts, bringing the total number of U.S. stock-related assets available for trading on the platform to over 340.This week marks the beginning of a period with a dense release of earnings reports and macroeconomic data. Through continuous expansion, Bitget aims to provide users with a wide range of cross-market asset allocation channels.This week's three major focus targets:NVDA (NVIDIA): Will release its Q1 earnings report after the market closes on May 20, Eastern Time. The implied volatility in the options market indicates that the daily fluctuation may exceed 7.5%. As the core of AI computing power, its performance will directly impact the overall valuation trend of the tech sector.GOOGL (Google): Recently, at the I/O conference, multiple new products such as Gemini 3.5 and AI agents were intensively launched, and the market is closely watching the subsequent commercialization pace and revenue realization capabilities.WMT (Walmart): Will release its Q1 earnings report before the market opens on May 21. As a retail giant, Walmart's counter-cyclical ability during a consumer downturn is being tested, and the results and guidance from the earnings report will directly influence investors' judgments on annual growth expectations and short-term stock performance.

JUST 6th Anniversary × GasFree Super Carnival Month is in full swing, the "GasFree Knowledge Challenge" beginner challenge has now begun, with a massive prize pool of up to 10,000 USDT continuously being offered. We sincerely invite all community members to participate in answering questions, with the first wave sharing 200 USDT in incentives.To participate, simply follow @DeFi_JUST, like and retweet this post, provide the correct answer to the poster question in the comments, tag 3 friends, and include the #JUSTGASFREE topic along with your GasFree wallet address for a chance to be one of the 20 lucky winners. Once the comments on the Chinese and English tweets exceed 300 each, the second phase advanced challenge and a 400 USDT doubled prize pool will be unlocked immediately! The event runs from May 19 to 25, and opportunities are fleeting, so take the first step of "0" Gas transfer now and win big with your strength.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on the X platform that Telegram now supports communication between bots.He stated that this move responds to the needs of AI developers, allowing autonomous agents to have a communication layer that can be tracked by humans.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, address 0x860 has currently become the largest loss-making whale among BTC longs on Hyperliquid. This whale entered the market to bottom out BTC 220 days ago, on October 11 last year, after a market crash, using 29x leverage to build a position with an average price of $109,632, with a position size of $13.2 million. In the early stages of building the position, this long position brought considerable floating profits within 10 days, but since BTC fell below its average entry price on October 30 last year, the position has not returned to profit. As of the time of writing, this whale has not closed the position and has held on until now, with current floating losses reaching $3.94 million, about 12 times the initial capital.It is estimated that, considering the overall capital size of tens of millions from this address, this $13.2 million position corresponds to an actual leverage ratio of only about 1.1 times, but the floating losses have still eroded about 30% of the overall capital in the account. Address: 0x8607a7d180de23645db594d90621d837749408d5

RootData has completed a comprehensive upgrade of its API, which includes: new synchronization update interfaces for people and financing based on the original project types; a new RD Growth Index Top 300 project interface; a new X关注关系 interface, including information on Top followers; a new calendar event interface, including types such as token unlocks, latest token issuance, product dynamics, etc.; the original project interface has added fields for the country of origin, token distribution, RD Growth Index, and the original people interface has added a field for educational background.Currently, the total number of interfaces for the RootData API has reached 21, with over 200 total fields. Major clients include Ethereum Foundation, Binance, OKX, CertiK, Gate, Blockworks, Amber Group, CMT Digital, BlockBeats, Mask Network, Token Pocket, and others.

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. law firm Charles Gerstein has filed a petition in the Manhattan federal court, requesting an order for Tether to transfer over $344 million of frozen USDT to victims holding judgments against Iran for unpaid terrorism claims. These USDT were previously frozen by Tether after the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control identified the related Tron wallets as belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran.The plaintiffs argue that since OFAC has designated the relevant wallets as owned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Tether has frozen the related tokens, Tether can fully reissue an equivalent amount of USDT to a wallet controlled by the victims' attorney. This case is part of a broader legal strategy by Charles Gerstein aimed at leveraging the ability of crypto platforms to freeze and transfer digital assets to enforce terrorism-related judgments. Unlike the Arbitrum case involving North Korean-linked hacker funds, in this case, OFAC has clearly designated the relevant wallets as owned

Arbitrum official announcement, the x402 protocol under Coinbase is now live on the Arbitrum network, allowing developers to enable AI agents to directly use stablecoins to pay for APIs, services, and software fees. The x402 protocol is named after the unused HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code, which allows websites, APIs, and AI bots to request and receive instant micropayments through blockchain and traditional payment channels.The protocol is managed as an open standard by the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation and has the support of over 20 institutions and crypto companies, including Cloudflare, Stripe, AWS, Google, Visa, Base, Circle, and the Solana Foundation.

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.

At the Tencent shareholder meeting, Chairman and CEO Ma Huateng gave the most candid response to date regarding doubts about whether Tencent is falling behind in AI. He stated, "A year ago, we thought we were on board, but later found that the boat was leaking. Now it feels like we are on board, but we can't sit down yet. We hope the speed of the boat can be a bit faster." Ma Huateng acknowledged the company's bumpy journey in the field of artificial intelligence and humorously illustrated the current situation: on the boat, but not yet stable.Ma Huateng also emphasized that Tencent may not be the fastest in the industry to seize opportunities, but it insists on following the right path, combining its unique advantages to proceed steadily. "We can't just look at others doing things and casually jump in to take over their territory. We have done that in the past but mostly failed."

According to Bitcoin Magazine, members of the Block team revealed that the company's Square has automatically enabled Bitcoin payment functionality for approximately 1 million U.S. merchants, allowing customers to pay with Bitcoin via the Lightning Network, while merchants settle in USD, with real-time conversion handled in the backend.This feature has been available by default to eligible U.S. sellers since March 30, with a new merchant being activated every 8 seconds at peak times. Miles Suter, Block's Bitcoin product lead, stated that Bitcoin must circulate rather than sit idle, or it will lose its transformative value as peer-to-peer cash.

Base co-founder Jesse stated that the x402 protocol now supports batch settlement, enabling a large number of small payments, with individual transactions as low as below 0.0001 USD, making it very suitable for on-demand payment calculations and instant resources such as inference.

Tria announced that the $2.25 million USDT cash rebate has been officially distributed to all eligible users, and you can claim it immediately by opening the Tria App.At the same time, Tria's second quarter rewards have been fully launched, including the distribution of 300,000 USDT + 40 million TRIA, with the third quarter approaching.

The Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet developed by StarkWare officially launched strkBTC, a new type of asset based on Bitcoin, designed to achieve privacy balances and anonymous transfers through zero-knowledge proof (ZK) technology, while maintaining composability with DeFi applications.After the launch of strkBTC, it supports "re-anonymization," allowing assets to be bridged back to a new, unassociated Bitcoin address, and provides compliance auditing and asset screening functions.

According to the official announcement, the Bitget IPO Prime Phase II project preOPAI is now open for subscription, with the investment period ending on May 15 at 16:00 (UTC+8). The token distribution phase will take place from May 15 at 16:00 to 20:00 (UTC+8); spot trading will begin on May 15 at 22:00 (UTC+8). Project details are as follows:• OpenAI implied valuation: $898.21 billion• Total subscription amount for IPO Prime: 29,082• Total subscription value: $21,084,450• Subscription price: 1 preOPAI = $725• Investment currencies: USDT or USDGO• Total investment pool cap: $300,000,000• Individual investment range: $100 - $600,000• Distribution schedule: 30% released on May 15, 30% released on June 15, 40% released on July 15

Glassnode's latest weekly report indicates that Bitcoin slowly climbed from $77,000 to $82,000 last week, with buying pressure continuing to support during the pullback, even as momentum began to cool near local highs. The spot CVD surged, reflecting strong bullish sentiment and a firm belief in price increases. Meanwhile, spot trading volume also increased, indicating that the recent price trend gained more support with heightened investor participation. However, the easing of price momentum suggests that buying and selling pressures are becoming more balanced, implying that the market may be entering a stabilization phase.The situation in the futures market is similar, with a rise in risk appetite. The increase in open interest indicates heightened speculative activity, with investors willing to take on more risk; the perpetual contract CVD surged, indicating sustained bullish momentum. However, the decline in long funding rates suggests a shift towards bearish sentiment, and bullish sentiment may have weakened.In the options market, the demand for downside protection has decreased, while open interest has increased, indicating a shift in market expectations towards neutral or slightly bullish. However, the volatility spread has surged significantly, indicating that the risks reflected in options pricing are much higher than the actual risks, reflecting a notable increase in participant uncertainty.In summary, supported by stronger on-chain activity, healthier profitability, and more stable holder positions, Bitcoin's market structure continues to improve. Although bullish sentiment is strengthening, the slowdown in capital inflows and cautious market sentiment suggest that the market remains sensitive to changes in risk appetite.

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.