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According to the latest research report "Institutional Footprints" released by CryptoQuant, Gate has performed outstandingly in several core indicators such as institutional trading activity, market liquidity, and TradFi derivatives trading, becoming one of the trading platforms with the highest institutional participation in the current crypto market. Among them, Gate ranks first in the average trading volume indicators in four major markets: Bitcoin spot, Bitcoin perpetual contracts, Ethereum spot, and Ethereum perpetual contracts, reflecting that institutional funds continue to gather at Gate. In addition, Gate ranks third globally with a cumulative spot trading volume of $253 billion for 2026, firmly establishing itself among the top global crypto asset trading platforms.It is noteworthy that as traditional finance and the crypto market accelerate their integration, Gate has performed particularly well in the TradFi perpetual contract sector. In March of this year, Gate's monthly TradFi perpetual contract trading volume approached $290 billion, setting an industry-leading level. CryptoQuant believes that with its layout of tokenized stocks, metals, index products, and a 24/7 derivatives trading system, Gate is at the forefront of the integration of traditional finance and crypto finance.

Gate's prediction market officially launches a World Cup section, integrating three core areas: match schedules, points, and event predictions, further enhancing the user experience in participating in top sporting events. After upgrading the Gate App to version 8.22 or above, users can enter the section page through the prediction market entrance, allowing them to view group match information, real-time points rankings of each team, and promotion scenarios all in one place, and quickly participate in related prediction market events.This section helps users easily switch to the corresponding prediction event page while keeping an eye on the match progress through structured information aggregation. The event calendar feature is also launched, displaying the daily match schedule in a timeline format, supporting quick browsing of key events and improving information retrieval efficiency. In the future, a one-click subscription feature for all events will be launched to further optimize the event tracking experience. As the first CEX platform to integrate with Polymarket, Gate maintains a leading position in the Polymarket partnership channels, achieving the highest daily trading volume during the NBA Finals on June 6, ranking first among Polymarket partnership channels. Gate will continuously improve its sports prediction market product matrix, promoting the deep integration of sports event scenarios and prediction markets through thematic aggregation and multiple functional upgrades, expanding more interactive digital participation methods.

The World Cup will kick off on June 11, and the Hong Kong police have launched operations "Gobi" and "Wind Shield" to combat illegal betting on sports through publicity, education, intelligence, and law enforcement. The police pointed out that in recent years, illegal gambling has shown a trend of digitalization, including online betting, social media attracting gamblers, and using virtual currency for bets. The police stated that they still have the capability to trace participants.According to the law, betting with illegal bookmakers can result in a maximum sentence of 9 months and a fine of 50,000 HKD, accepting bets can lead to a maximum sentence of 7 years and a fine of 5 million HKD, and money laundering can result in a maximum sentence of 14 years and a fine of 5 million HKD. The police also shared a case of a young person who was once addicted to illegal gambling, who owed a maximum of 160,000 HKD at his peak. A police clinical psychologist warned that those who start gambling before the age of 18 have a risk of developing gambling disorders of over 80%.

According to data from DefiLlama, Gate had a net capital inflow of over 58.21 million USD in 24 hours, ranking first among centralized exchanges globally.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale has made a single purchase of $100,000 on the "World Cup Champion" event for "Portugal." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 90.22%.

Chairman of Bitmine, Tom Lee, posted on the X platform stating that one should not be misled by false information, and he believes that the current bull market in the stock market remains solid.Tom Lee stated that cryptocurrency is the only way to achieve tokenization, and in the future AI world where machines interact with each other, cryptocurrency will play a key role.

According to The Block, Kraken's parent company Payward's xStocks framework will launch a service that allows Kraken and partner platform users to participate in U.S. stock IPOs at the offering price and receive on-chain tokenized shares corresponding 1:1 with the underlying stock, which is held by a regulated custodian.Users can submit non-binding subscription intentions through partner platforms weeks before the IPO. Payward will aggregate demand and collaborate with the underwriting team to allocate shares, completing pricing, allocation, and token issuance on the listing day.xStocks tokens can circulate across multiple chains such as Ethereum, Solana, and TON, and can be used in combination with DeFi protocols.

According to CoinDesk, Bittensor co-founder Ala Shaabana stated at the Proof of Talk summit in Paris that Bitcoin's computing power exceeds that of the top 100 supercomputers in the world combined by 600,000 times, demonstrating the scale of distributed computing.Shaabana pointed out that true computing power no longer belongs to isolated corporate data centers, but to open, global networks. Shaabana believes that through programmatic goal setting, open networks attract talent and computing power far more efficiently than traditional enterprises. The long-term bullish logic is no longer primarily based on technology, but driven by debt, liquidity, and a decline in trust in traditional sovereign systems.

Solana's official announcement "Building Fully On-Chain Perpetual Contracts on Solana" aims to vigorously promote the ecological construction of fully on-chain perpetual contracts (Perps) in the future, with the goal of making Solana the world's strongest on-chain financial derivatives infrastructure. Currently, the trading volume of crypto derivatives is mainly concentrated on centralized trading platforms or hybrid models that rely on off-chain matching engines, which Solana believes is a transitional phase. It hopes to make a truly fully on-chain derivatives market a reality through the characteristics of high-performance blockchain—where all processes such as order submission, price updates, matching, and clearing are completed on-chain, while maintaining institutional-level speed and low costs.The Solana Foundation will provide funding, technical support, and resource allocation, focusing on supporting projects that meet the following criteria: fully on-chain execution, price discovery based on real bilateral liquidity (rather than purely pool pricing), Solana priority with revenue flowing back on-chain, teams with derivatives experience, and core code being open source. It also welcomes the co-construction of surrounding infrastructure such as front ends, aggregators, vaults, and market-making tools.

Recently, funds have continuously flowed into the AI infrastructure sector, significantly increasing the trading activity of computing power and data center-related assets. According to Gate market data, NVIDIA (NVDAX) is currently priced at $216.60, up 0.25% in 24 hours; Marvell Technology (MRVL) is currently priced at $205.17, up 0.82% in 24 hours. According to CoinGlass data, the NVDAX contract position on the Gate platform reached $4.08 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of $2.46 million, both ranking first in the world; the MRVL contract position reached $1.46 million, ranking among the market leaders. Relevant data indicates that AI computing power and data center infrastructure-related assets remain an important direction for capital allocation.It is reported that Gate's stock trading service has officially launched, allowing users to directly trade over 10,000 mainstream U.S. stocks and ETFs using USDT, covering major U.S. securities trading markets and liquidity networks such as NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE Arca, NYSE American, and BATS, providing users with a more comprehensive choice for global securities asset allocation and further bridging crypto assets with traditional financial markets. Based on a unified account system, users can achieve flexible allocation of digital assets and global securities assets on the same platform, enhancing cross-market investment efficiency.

Polymarket announced on Thursday that it has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with the Berlin digital football platform OneFootball, which will connect the prediction market to OneFootball's 200 million monthly active users and 645 million fan ecosystem about two weeks before the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Polymarket will be the only prediction market partner within the OneFootball app, and competitors like Kalshi will not be allowed to enter this product.This is Polymarket's seventh major football partnership this year and the first collaboration aimed at media application distribution channels, having previously signed agreements with MLS, LaLiga, Serie A, Lazio, and DAZN.According to analysis by the Pew Research Center, since July 2024, sports have accounted for 39% of Polymarket's total trading volume. The 2026 World Cup champion market has seen a cumulative trading volume of over $1.2 billion since its launch last July, while the broader World Cup category market totals approximately $1.3 billion.OneFootball has previously launched the OFC token based on Base and Ethereum, as well as the points system BALLS. The integration with Polymarket will convert user engagement into actual transactions. OneFootball has raised over $300 million in funding, with investors including Liberty City Ventures, Animoca Brands, and Adidas.

According to Front Office Sports, former NBA player Tristan Thompson is suing the UK-based cryptocurrency company World Mobile Group, accusing it of fabricating excuses to terminate a $2 million endorsement deal and continuing to use his name, image, and likeness without authorization.Thompson claims that under an agreement signed in May 2025, he was promised cryptocurrency tokens worth up to $2 million from the company, WMTX. He stated that he had been fulfilling his obligations under the agreement, including promoting the company on social media and participating in public events, but the company terminated their collaboration in March of this year. According to the agreement, World Mobile Group was to make quarterly installment payments of the token amounts. In December 2025, the company informed Thompson that they had unexpectedly issued him more WMTX tokens than anticipated. Thompson stated that he proposed a "reasonable solution: to offset the excess tokens against the upcoming quarterly dividends due in about 60 days." Three months later, the company issued him a "notice of material breach and termination of contract." The case is still pending in court.

According to official news, the application channel for Gate Card is currently open, and global user participation continues to rise. Currently, Gate Card supports over 100 countries and regions worldwide, covering approximately 130 million merchants that accept Visa, and is compatible with Apple Pay and Google Pay, usable for various consumption scenarios such as online shopping, offline retail, and dining travel.At the same time, Gate Card has launched a brand video that showcases scenarios around global consumption, mobile payments, and the everyday application of crypto assets, further conveying the product concept of "integrating crypto payments into real life."It is reported that Gate Card offers up to 5% cashback on spending, supports cashback in multiple currencies including BTC, ETH, USDT, GT, and provides benefits such as free card application, no annual fee, and no monthly fee. Industry insiders believe that as the mobile payment ecosystem and crypto assets become further integrated, crypto payment products are gradually extending from transaction scenarios to high-frequency consumption scenarios. In addition, Gate Card has recently launched a limited-time referral reward activity. Users who invite friends to complete card opening and spending can both receive up to 165 USDT in rewards.

The Trump family's AI infrastructure project WorldClaw and VergeX AI announced a strategic cooperation, with both parties working together to promote the development of next-generation AI-native trading infrastructure and accelerate the construction of the emerging Agentic Trading market.It is reported that VergeX AI will integrate WorldClaw's AI access layer into its Harness-driven autonomous multi-agent trading infrastructure to achieve a more scalable, more accessible, and more cost-efficient professional-grade AI trading system deployment. Currently, VergeX AI is building an autonomous multi-agent trading operating system for the AI-native financial era, with its core Harness architecture serving as the layer for agent collaboration and task orchestration, supporting trading execution across multiple markets including cryptocurrencies, US stocks, foreign exchange, and commodities.In addition, both parties stated that this cooperation aims to lower the barriers to building professional-grade AI trading agents and jointly promote the development of next-generation autonomous financial system infrastructure. The market generally believes that as AI Agents evolve from auxiliary tools to autonomous market participants, autonomous agents, AI-native execution systems, and programmable financial infrastructure are becoming the next trillion-dollar track that the industry is focusing on.

The decentralized derivatives trading protocol Aster announced the official launch of BTCU and ETHU perpetual contracts through permissionless token listing voting, and introduced a trading event with a total prize pool of $50,000 $U. The official statement indicates that this is one of the world's first perpetual contract trading pairs priced in $U.It is reported that the event will take place from May 27, 10:00 UTC to June 2, 14:00 UTC. During the event, trading BTCU and ETHU will enjoy a 1.5 times weight bonus.The total prize pool of $50,000 will be evenly divided between the two trading pairs (each $25,000), distributed according to the proportion of trading fees generated by users in the corresponding trading pairs, with a maximum individual reward cap of 3% of the corresponding prize pool. Participating users must generate more than $5 in fees on a single trading pair to qualify.In addition, $U (United Stables) is a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by United Stables Limited, aimed at building a unified liquidity layer across trading, payments, DeFi, institutions, and the AI sector.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Dplus KIA vs Hanwha Life Esports (BO5) - Esports World Cup Korea Qualifiers Playoffs," the option "Hanwha Life Esports" in the sub-market "Game Spread: HLE (-1.5) vs Dplus KIA (+1.5)" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 62% an hour ago to the current 89.5% (a fluctuation of 27.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Nongshim Red Force vs Hanwha Life Esports (BO3) - Esports World Cup Korea Qualifiers Playoffs," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Both teams destroy inhibitors" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, 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 monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Dplus KIA vs T1 (BO5) - Esports World Cup Korea Qualifiers Playoffs," the "game handicap: T1 (-2.5) vs Dplus KIA (+2.5)" sub-market's "T1" option has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win probability, soaring from 15% an hour ago to the current 48.5% (a fluctuation of 33.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.