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Coinbase Markets announced on X platform that spot trading for Wrapped Ronin (WRON) will be launched on May 18, 2026. If liquidity conditions are met, the WRON-USD trading pair will be available later today in supported regions.
Bitcoin mining company HIVE Digital Technologies has acquired land in the Toronto area for $58 million, planning to build an industrial-scale AI computing center through its subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing. Once fully operational, the facility is expected to support approximately 320 MW of capacity and over 100,000 GPUs—potentially making it one of Canada’s largest computing “super-factories.” Following the announcement, HIVE’s stock surged nearly 45%. Just two weeks earlier, HIVE had raised $115 million to expand its global data center footprint and GPU capacity.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that Telegram now supports communication between bots. He stated that this move responds to AI developers’ needs, providing autonomous agents with a communication layer traceable by humans.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on platform X, stating that Telegram has launched a bot-to-bot communication feature, and autonomous agents now have a communication layer viewable by humans.
Anza, a core Solana development team, announced that it has recommended Solana mainnet validators upgrade to Agave 4.0. This release includes XDP for Turbine, TPU transaction ingestion exclusively over QUIC, faster replay stages, and a suite of feature-gated SIMD instructions set to activate during this cycle. Production environment results from large mainnet validators show Turbine retransmission latency has dropped from 600 ms to approximately 0.8 ms. Additionally, UDP-based transaction ingestion has been removed, making QUIC the sole transaction submission method; simple vote transactions now follow the same cost model as regular transactions. Features including p-token, Stake Program v5, SBPFv3 program support, pre-funded account creation, and BLS12-381 system calls will also be enabled during the 4.0 cycle.
The BNBAgent SDK has officially launched on the BSC mainnet, providing core infrastructure for scaling AI agents on-chain. The SDK comprises four modular components: identity and trust based on ERC-8004; commerce and custody based on ERC-8183 (APEX); autonomous payments integrating MPP and x402; and memory and storage built on BNB Greenfield. This framework addresses key challenges faced by AI agents—including identity verification, commercial collaboration, automated settlement, and cross-execution-environment memory continuity—enabling developers to build, deploy, and monetize AI agents on BNB Chain. Initial partners include Google, AWS, Virtuals, Binance Pay, Trust Wallet, Binance Wallet, and United Stables.
Vitalik published an article titled “A Shallow Dive into Formal Verification,” introducing recent progress in applying formal verification to Ethereum’s cutting-edge research and development. The article states that developers can write code in Lean, EVM bytecode, or assembly language and verify its correctness via mathematically rigorous proofs that can be automatically checked—thereby improving both code efficiency and security. He notes that formal verification is especially suitable for complex yet well-defined-security systems such as STARKs, Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus, ZK-EVMs, and post-quantum signatures, and mentions related projects including Arklib, VCV-io, and evm-asm. The article also emphasizes that formal verification is not a panacea: it remains subject to limitations such as incorrect specification definitions, unverified code paths, hardware-level constraints, and side-channel attacks.
Tether has announced an investment in the financial platform LemFi.The investment aims to support LemFi in integrating USDT as a settlement layer across its key corridors, enabling near-instant, low-cost settlements in Africa and Asia, while accelerating the construction of LemFi's stablecoin infrastructure and gradually expanding it into a broader product suite.
AEON, focused on the economic settlement layer for AI agents, has announced the completion of an $8 million pre-seed funding round led by YZi Labs, with participation from IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, and Oak Grove Ventures. AEON stated that it will use these funds to advance the development of its settlement layer tailored for AI agent interactions. The company launched its first AI-powered payment product in May, claiming it connects to over 50 million offline merchants worldwide. Additionally, AEON has partnered with BNB Chain to launch the x402 Facilitator, enabling verifiable transactions, on-chain settlement, and tamper-proof receipts.
according to PeckShieldAlert monitoring, the Adshares bridge attacker has returned 256 ETH (worth $540,700) to the deployer, accounting for 86% of the stolen funds.The Adshares bridge was attacked on May 17, 2026, resulting in a loss of approximately $628,000.
according to an official announcement, Binance Futures will launch the CBRSUSDT perpetual contract on May 19, 2026, at 09:30 (UTC), with a maximum leverage of 10x. This contract tracks the price of CerebrasSystemsInc. Class A common stock (Nasdaq: CBRS). The settlement asset is USDT, with a minimum trading quantity of 0.01 CBRS and a minimum notional value of 5 USDT. The funding rate cap is +2.00%/-2.00%, and settlements occur every eight hours.
former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner has updated the stock holdings of his "Situational Awareness Fund" as of the end of the first quarter of 2026.The disclosure shows that his major positions are concentrated in AI power, data centers, computing infrastructure, and Bitcoin mining companies. Among them, the Bloom Energy position amounts to $878.7 million, Sandisk to $724.4 million, and CoreWeave to $556.1 million.Additionally, he holds significant positions in mining companies and AI infrastructure firms such as Iren Limited, Core Scientific, Applied Digital, Riot Platforms, Cleanspark, Bitdeer, and Bitfarms and holds stocks semiconductor-related stocks including AMD, Intel, TSMC, ASML, and Micron.
According to the HTX announcement, HTX has enabled ATWO deposits as of May 18 at 18:00 (GMT+8). ATWO/USDT spot trading and grid trading will go live on May 18 at 20:00 (GMT+8). ATWO withdrawals will be available starting May 19 at 20:00 (GMT+8). Additionally, HTX Margin Trading will introduce ATWO/USDT (10x) isolated-margin leveraged trading on May 18 at 20:00 (GMT+8). Arena Two is a decentralized interactive platform enabling fans to play an active, tokenized role in real-time event outcomes. Unlike traditional models that reduce fans to passive spectators, Arena Two leverages blockchain technology to allow fans to directly vote in real time—thereby influencing on-field outcomes.
Bitget has announced the launch of Delta-Neutral Mode in its Unified Account. When an account meets predefined delta-neutral conditions, this feature applies a differentiated Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) ranking mechanism to eligible hedged positions, thereby reducing the likelihood of forced liquidation for properly hedged strategies during extreme market conditions. Delta-Neutral Mode enables users to combine spot, cross-margin leveraged trading, and cross-margin perpetual contracts within the Unified Account framework. The system simultaneously assesses directional exposure at both the account and asset levels. This feature supports funding rate arbitrage, basis trading, multi-market hedging strategies, and quantitative neutral strategies.
Odaily. Bernstein stated in its latest research report that the newly reached compromise on stablecoin yields under the U.S. CLARITY Act is structurally beneficial for Circle and the USDC ecosystem.The report notes that the current version of the bill prohibits stablecoin issuers from paying interest to passive holders that is "economically equivalent" to bank deposits, but allows reward mechanisms tied to actual transaction, payment, and usage activities to continue. Bernstein believes this means Circle's current model, which relies on partners like Coinbase to provide USDC reward programs, will gain regulatory recognition, while also limiting the industry's ability to compete for market share through high yields.Bernstein points out that the bill effectively reinforces the positioning of stablecoins as "payment tools" rather than "deposit substitutes," helping to protect Circle's current business model that relies on reserve income. The firm maintains an "Outperform" rating for Circle with a $190 target price.Data shows that the total global supply of dollar-pegged stablecoins has surpassed $300 billion, with USDT and USDC collectively accounting for approximately 97% of the market share. Bernstein notes that USDC's share in on-chain payments and wallet transfers is steadily increasing, and its share of payments in the AI Agent payment protocol x402 has exceeded 99%.Additionally, Bernstein mentioned that Circle's ARC chain has cumulatively completed 244 million testnet transactions. The ARC token pre-sale previously raised $222 million, with investors including a16z crypto, Apollo Funds, ARK Invest, and BlackRock.However, the report also points out that the CLARITY Act still needs to complete multiple legislative procedures before it takes effect, including a 60-vote threshold in the full Senate and coordination with the House version. Polymarket currently estimates its probability of passage by 2026 at approximately 62%. (The Block)
It is reported that Byreal has now launched the SpaceX Pre-IPO perpetual contract market, with the contract ticker SPCX and up to 5x leverage. This market is based on a fully diluted share count of 11.87 billion shares; at the current price of $210, SpaceX’s market capitalization stands at $2.49 trillion.
法国上市比特币财库公司 Capital B 宣布增持 192 枚 BTC，价值约 1300 万欧元（约 1520 万美元），买入均价约为 78948 美元。此次增持后，Capital B 的比特币总持仓量升至 3135 枚 BTC。此前，该公司曾宣布完成 1780 万美元融资，投资方包括 Blockstream CEO Adam Back 及巴黎资产管理公司 TOBAM。数据显示，Capital B 目前为欧洲第二大比特币财库公司，仅次于持有 3605 枚 BTC 的德国 Bitcoin Group SE。尽管公司持续推进比特币财库策略，其股价在公告发布后仍下跌约 2.4%。（Cointelegraph）
According to the official announcement, HTX (formerly Huobi) has launched perpetual contracts for HD/USDT, DIS/USDT, and CBRS/USDT on May 18, with a maximum leverage of 10x for each. Concurrently, HTX is hosting an HD, DIS, and CBRS perpetual contract trading party from 15:00 on May 18 to 15:00 on May 25 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of up to $20,000. During the event, users who register and trade HD/USDT, DIS/USDT, or CBRS/USDT perpetual contracts—achieving a cumulative effective trading volume of ≥$5,000—will share the prize pool based on their trading volume ranking. Additionally, new users trading HD/USDT, DIS/USDT, or CBRS/USDT perpetual contracts will receive exclusive benefits.
According to the official announcement, Websea officially resumed withdrawals on May 18 at 16:00 (UTC+8), marking the platform’s entry into a substantive and comprehensive recovery phase. This withdrawal resumption is proceeding steadily with support from strategic investors. Earlier reports indicated that the platform has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with a Middle Eastern family fund to fully support its long-term operations and development.
Odaily Despite warnings and related bans issued by the Indian government, prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket still allow Indian users to register and trade.According to reports, India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology stated in a letter last month that Indian users are still accessing "illegal and already blocked prediction markets and online entertainment platforms." The relevant announcement was subsequently published on the ministry's official website, specifically naming "Polymarket and other similar websites," stating that these platforms should have been blocked by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). (Bloomberg)