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The on-chain perpetual contract trading platform Ostium announced a partnership with Nasdaq to use its U.S. stock market data to support stock perpetual contract products on the platform. Ostium stated that this makes it the first on-chain trading venue to offer stock perpetual contracts supported by Nasdaq data.The platform claims that users will be able to gain exposure to U.S. stocks through on-chain infrastructure while retaining features such as transparency, instant settlement, and self-custody. Ostium focuses on on-chain leveraged trading of traditional financial assets, covering categories such as stocks, indices, commodities, ETFs, and foreign exchange. Currently, the platform's cumulative trading volume has exceeded $50 billion, with more than 26,000 trading users.

Cryptocurrency infrastructure service provider Zerohash Europe has obtained an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license issued by the Dutch central bank, becoming the first company to hold both the EU MiCA cryptocurrency license and full EMI qualifications.Zerohash previously obtained the MiCA license from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets in October 2025, allowing it to provide cryptocurrency asset services across the EU. With the acquisition of the EMI license, the company will be able to handle both cryptocurrency asset services and traditional electronic money circulation, particularly suitable for stablecoin-related payment and settlement scenarios.The European Banking Authority has previously clarified that some stablecoin fund flows may be considered electronic money business, thus requiring relevant institutions to obtain an additional EMI license. Zerohash stated that the dual-license structure will enable it to provide compliant infrastructure for banks, brokerages, fintech companies, payment service providers, and enterprise platforms in the European market.

Coinbase announced that it will launch Wrapped Ronin (WRON) spot trading today. The WRON-USD trading pair will open later today after meeting liquidity conditions and will gradually go live in supported regions.The official statement indicated that WRON will be available for trading on the Coinbase website, App, and Coinbase Advanced platform, with institutional users able to access it directly through Coinbase Exchange. At the same time, the ERC-20 contract address for WRON based on Ethereum has been announced, and users are reminded to transfer only through the specified network to avoid asset loss.

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.

According to The Block, the stablecoin issuer Tether has invested in the cross-border remittance fintech company LemFi, with the specific amount undisclosed. LemFi was founded in 2021 and has raised a total of $85 million, with over 1 million users.As part of this investment, LemFi will integrate Tether's settlement network, using USDT as the settlement layer in its main remittance corridors operating in Africa and Asia, to reduce reliance on traditional payment networks like SWIFT. Both parties stated that they will collaborate to enhance the speed, cost, and transparency of cross-border remittances.

According to The Block, HIVE Digital, a Bitcoin mining company transforming into an AI infrastructure company, announced plans to build a 320 MW AI infrastructure park in the Toronto area, aiming to create one of Canada's largest sovereign AI "super factories." Following the announcement, HIVE's stock price surged over 35% at the market open on Monday.HIVE stated that the project is being advanced by its high-performance computing subsidiary BUZZ, and once fully completed, it is expected to accommodate over 100,000 GPUs, with a target to begin operations in the second half of 2027. The total investment for the project is estimated to be around CAD 3.5 billion (approximately USD 2.55 billion), which will be used for the construction of large-scale data centers to train and run AI models.In recent years, HIVE has been continuously pushing its business from traditional Bitcoin mining towards AI and high-performance computing infrastructure, having previously expanded its GPU cluster and AI data center operations in Paraguay and Sweden.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index opened up 34.53 points on May 18 (Monday), an increase of 0.07%, reporting at 49,560.7 points; the S&P 500 Index opened up 8.36 points, an increase of 0.11%, reporting at 7,416.86 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index opened up 42.07 points, an increase of 0.16%, reporting at 26,267.22 points.

According to Gate market data, at the opening of the US stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 0.04%, the S&P 500 index rose by 0.15%, and the Nasdaq Composite index rose by 0.14%. Micron Technology rose by 4%, NVIDIA rose by 2%, Intel rose by 5.3%, Baidu rose by 3.6%, while Li Auto fell by more than 9%.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $4.039 billion, with long positions totaling $1.981 billion, accounting for 49.05% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $2.058 billion, accounting for 50.95%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$30.8386 million, and for short positions, it is -$14.5573 million.Among them, the whale address 0xa5b0..41 has taken a 15x leveraged long position on ETH at a price of $2265.48, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$4.6117 million.

Vitalik Buterin published an article discussing the application prospects of Formal Verification in the field of blockchain security.The article points out that a new paradigm is emerging in Ethereum's cutting-edge research and development, where code is directly written using EVM bytecode, assembly, or Lean, and its correctness is verified using automatically checkable mathematical proofs in Lean. Researcher Yoichi Hirai refers to this paradigm as "the ultimate form of software development."Vitalik believes that AI-assisted formal verification is expected to enhance both code efficiency and security, particularly suitable for security core modules such as STARK, ZK-EVM, quantum-resistant signatures, and consensus algorithms.The article also emphasizes that formal verification is not a panacea and may still fail due to issues such as incomplete proof coverage, specification errors, and hardware side channels; in the future, software may differentiate into "security cores" and "non-security edges," with Ethereum becoming one of the important security cores.

According to Jinshi News, European stocks have turned to gains, with the UK's FTSE 100 index and Germany's DAX30 index both rising by more than 1%, while the Euro Stoxx 50 index and Spain's IBEX35 index have increased by 0.8%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "LoL: DN SOOPers vs Nongshim Red Force (BO3) - Esports World Cup Korea Qualifiers Playoffs," the "Yes" option win rate in the sub-market "Both Teams Destroying the Nexus" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, soaring from 0.5% an hour ago to the current 49.95% (a fluctuation of 49.45%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to The Block, Geoffrey Kendrick, the global head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that the total scale of on-chain tokenized assets is expected to reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028, with stablecoins and real-world assets (RWA) each accounting for $2 trillion. Standard Chartered believes that DeFi protocols with mature risk control systems and scalability will be the main beneficiaries of this trend, while the advancement of the U.S. Clarity Act may become an important catalyst for accelerating the on-chain transition of traditional finance.Kendrick pointed out that the core advantage of DeFi lies in "composability." In an on-chain environment, the same asset can simultaneously earn yields, serve as collateral, and maintain liquidity, which the traditional financial system cannot achieve with similar efficiency. He stated that this structural advantage means "1+1=3." Standard Chartered cited BlackRock's tokenized U.S. Treasury fund BUIDL as an example, noting that the product not only yields about 4% from U.S. Treasuries but can also be converted into sBUIDL for use in lending protocol collateral and serves as a reserve asset for products like Ethena USDtb and Ondo OUSG.The report also noted that the current scale of off-chain assets is still about 1,000 times that of on-chain assets, and the tokenization of institutional-grade assets may become the core source of growth for the next phase of the industry. Regarding institutional adoption, Standard Chartered mentioned that Aave's asset scale once matched that of the 38th largest bank in the U.S., and the current daily trading volume of on-chain stablecoin lending has reached $1.5 billion to $2 billion.At the same time, the Bitcoin lending product developed in collaboration between Coinbase and Morpho currently has a loan scale of about $1.75 billion, covering approximately 22,000 borrowers, indicating that traditional financial institutions are gradually using DeFi as underlying infrastructure.

Verus posted on the X platform confirming that the Verus-Ethereum cross-chain bridge has been attacked, with ETH, USDC, and tBTC stolen from the Ethereum chain contracts. Currently, other bridged assets have not been affected. The Verus network has now suspended operations, and most block-producing nodes have proactively gone offline after experiencing the impact of the attack. The development team is working hard to investigate the scope of the incident, the attack path, and subsequent handling plans, and will announce progress after confirming more information.Verus stated that it is willing to cooperate with relevant law enforcement agencies to pursue legal responsibility; however, if the attacker returns the full amount of funds, the project team is willing to offer a bug bounty and will not pursue further accountability. Verus also reminds anyone claiming to be a member of the Verus team or community in public channels, private messages, or other channels and offering "compensation" or "reimbursement plans" to be scammers. The official emphasizes not to interact with anyone claiming to have compensation projects or offering reimbursement, and to report relevant accounts to Discord or the X platform in a timely manner.Previously, the Verus Ethereum cross-chain bridge was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $11.58 million.

Hyperliquid stated on platform X that its platform's RWA trading open contract size has risen to $2.6 billion, setting a new historical high, doubling from two months ago.Hyperliquid indicated that the market demand for 24/7 on-chain access to real-world assets (RWA) continues to grow.

The Binance futures platform will launch the CBRS USDT perpetual contract on May 19 at 17:30, with a maximum leverage of up to 10 times. This contract will track the price of Cerebras Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CBRS) Class A shares, with the settlement asset being USDT.