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: According to official sources, Gate's Contract Stock Zone will debut the perpetual contract trading (USDT settlement) of TWLO (Twilio), ROK (Rockwell Automation), CGNX (Cognex), IVV (iShares Core S&P 500 ETF), SOXX (iShares Semiconductor Sector ETF), SMH (VanEck Semiconductor 25 Component ETF), SPYM (SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF), and VOO (Vanguard S&P 500 ETF) on June 16, 14:00 (UTC+8), supporting leverage of 1-20x.
Bitget is set to launch its 5th CFD Trading Championship, with a total prize pool of $90,000 USDT. The event runs from 21:00 on June 9 to 21:00 on June 19 (UTC+8). This edition features three dedicated zones: the Mystery Box Zone, the Points Zone, and the Ranking Zone. During the event, users who complete designated CFD trading tasks will receive mystery box rewards—with a 100% win rate—and may claim up to $100 USDT in cash vouchers per draw. Additionally, new users who meet the minimum requirement for their first CFD trade will receive three extra draws. Moreover, users can accumulate points daily by meeting trading targets and share in a $15,000 USDT points prize pool. Users who meet both cumulative trading volume thresholds and ranking requirements will jointly share a $60,000 USDT ranking prize pool, with the champion receiving $4,000 USDT outright. For more details, please visit the official Bitget platform.
Odaily reports: According to official sources, Gate's Contract Stock Zone has launched VOLX (Volatility Index) perpetual contract trading (USDT-settled) for the first time at 14:00 (UTC+8) on June 6, supporting leverage of 1-20x.
Odaily Odaily News According to official sources, Gate's Stock Derivatives Zone will launch perpetual contract trading (USDT-settled) for NOW (ServiceNow), CRM (Salesforce), ONDS (Ondas), LUNR (Intuitive Machines), RDW (Redwire Space), URNM (Sprott Uranium Miners ETF), XLE (Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund), and ADBE (Adobe) at 14:00 (UTC+8) on June 4, supporting 1-20x leverage.
Coinbase has released a post-mortem report on the large-scale service outage that occurred on May 7, 2026. The disruption lasted approximately 8 hours, with full recovery taking about 12 hours. During this period, trading, deposits, withdrawals, and most core services were either unavailable or severely degraded.Coinbase stated that the outage was triggered by the simultaneous failure of multiple chillers in the cooling system of a data center within an Availability Zone (use1-az4) of the AWS us-east-1 region. This led to thermal shutdown protection for server racks, causing EC2 instances and EBS volumes to go offline, and impacting multiple internet services.During the recovery process, Coinbase's trading matching engine lost quorum after its cluster architecture, deployed within a single AWS data center, lost the majority of its nodes. Emergency code adjustments and the formation of new node groups were required to restore operations, with market trading being gradually restarted throughout the recovery.Additionally, the AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) service experienced a control plane failure, preventing automatic re-election of partition leaders. This further blocked order books, fee calculations, and parts of the settlement and data streaming systems, expanding the overall impact. After Coinbase and the AWS engineering teams collaborated on manual partition migrations, the system gradually returned to normal.Coinbase indicated that this incident exposed deficiencies in its cross-Availability Zone automatic failover capabilities and the disaster recovery of managed middleware. The company will upgrade its cross-region hot standby architecture, strengthen regular disaster recovery drills, migrate its Kafka systems from a dual-AZ to a triple-AZ deployment, and work jointly with AWS to address root causes and implement improvements.
According to official announcements, the Gate CFD contract zone has launched 53 CFD trading pairs: SHLD (GLOBAL X Defense Technology ETF), DRAM (Roundhill Memory ETF), GME (GameStop), NBIX (Neurocrine Biosciences), BAX (Baxter International), KMI (Kinder Morgan), CFG (Citizens Financial Group), Z (Zillow Group), DVN (Devon Energy), ADP (Automatic Data Processing), ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland), GPN (Global Payments), SIRI (Sirius XM), ECL (Ecolab), MPC (Marathon Petroleum), MDLZ (Mondelez International), BKR (Baker Hughes), EL (Estée Lauder Companies), LVS (Las Vegas Sands Corp), LHX (L3Harris Technologies), VALE (Vale), A (Agilent Technologies), FOXA (Fox Corporation), TJX (TJX Companies), CLX (The Clorox Company), CCI (Crown Castle International), FAST (Fastenal), HLT (Hilton Worldwide), HOG (Harley-Davidson), DLR (Digital Realty Trust), PPG (PPG Industries), MTCH (Match Group), PLD (Prologis), EMR (Emerson Electric), KODK (Eastman Kodak), SWKS (Skyworks Solutions), AEP (American Electric Power), MDT (Medtronic), OMC (Omnicom Group), NSC (Norfolk Southern Railway), GFI (Gold Fields), BMY (Bristol-Myers Squibb), ROK (Rockwell Automation), LEN (Lennar Corporation), ETSY (Etsy), ADI (Analog Devices), CHTR (Charter Communications), NTRS (Northern Trust), NBR (Nabors Industries), EDU (New Oriental Education & Technology Group), VFS (VinFast), SENS (Senseonics), ETD (Ethan Allen Interiors). These contract trading pairs support 4x fixed leverage.In addition, the Gate CFD Stock Contract Zone will launch the new coin airdrop Phase 4 event from 16:00 on May 19 to 16:00 on May 29 (UTC+8). During the event, registered users can receive 300 USDT and share a prize pool of 900,000 USDT by participating in trading the newly listed assets, with a maximum reward of 31,300 USDT per person.
According to CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler, Bitcoin has recently attempted to break above the $82,000 level three times—but each time failed and retreated. Data shows that during each rally, the STH-SOPR indicator rose to around 1.0 before weakening again, indicating that short-term holders are consistently taking profits amid upward price movements rather than holding onto their positions. Axel Adler notes that $82,000 is not only a key technical resistance level but also a significant zone of selling pressure from a market-behavior perspective. Currently, this level coincides with Bitcoin’s 200-day simple moving average (200D SMA). Until the 7-day SMA of STH-SOPR sustains above 1.0 for several consecutive days—and until Bitcoin’s daily closing price decisively breaks above its 200-day SMA—the ongoing rally may still be viewed as a selling opportunity. On the macro front, escalating tensions in the Middle East continue to dampen market risk appetite. Fueled by the Iran conflict, rising oil prices, and expectations of “higher-for-longer” interest rates, U.S. equities closed lower across the board on Friday. WTI crude oil futures surged over 4%, while the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note climbed to approximately 4.6%, hitting a year-to-date high.
Odaily reports: According to official sources, Gate’s perpetual futures stock zone has launched CBRS (Celeris) perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20x leverage.
BitMart's "BM Discovery" zone launched LO0P (LO0P) at 10:30 AM (UTC+8) on May 11. The trading pair LO0P/USDT is now available.LO0P is a lending AMM protocol on Ethereum based on Uniswap V4 Hook, allowing users to borrow ETH without selling their tokens. Users purchase LOOP on a bonding curve and lock it as collateral to withdraw funds from the liquidity pool's ETH reserves.
Coinbase stated that, at approximately 8:00 a.m. Beijing Time on May 8, its systems detected elevated error rates across multiple services. The issue was subsequently traced to AWS’s US-EAST-1 Region Availability Zone use1-az4. Although Coinbase’s systems were originally designed to recover from failures in a single availability zone, this incident affected multiple availability zones, resulting in an extended outage of core trading services. The primary issues have now been fully resolved. The team will conduct a comprehensive postmortem analysis and provide further updates once AWS releases its official post-incident report.
BitMart's "BM Discovery" zone has strongly launched Hantavirus (HANTA) at 11:00 on May 8 (UTC+8), with the HANTA/USDT trading pair now available.Hantavirus (HANTA) is a meme coin on the Solana blockchain themed around the Hantavirus outbreak, featuring a Resident Evil-style brand design.
Odaily Odaily BitMart's "BM Discovery" zone has launched sato (SATO) at 18:00 on May 7 (UTC+8), with the SATO/USDT trading pair now available.sato is an ERC-20 asset on Ethereum, minted and repurchased via Uniswap v4 Hook. It is issued using an index bonding curve, with no pre-sale, migration, or operator intervention.
Bitget has launched Season 3 of the CFD King Battle, featuring a total prize pool of 80,000 USDT. This event includes three main sections: a Blind Box Zone, a Points Arena, and a Ranking Arena. During the event, both new and existing users can earn blind box rewards by completing designated CFD trading tasks daily, and have the chance to draw USDT cash vouchers. The prize pool has a 100% winning rate and operates on a "first come, first served" basis.Furthermore, users who trade specific currency pairs can participate in the Points Arena and Ranking Arena, with top individual prizes reaching up to 3,000 USDT. After the event concludes, the top 100 users by trading volume will also receive a random amount of CFD credit bonus package. The event runs from April 27 to May 22. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
According to Cointelegraph, Uzbekistan has established a state-supported cryptocurrency mining zone named “Besqala Mining Valley” in Karakalpakstan, pursuant to a presidential decree signed on April 17, effective as of April 20. Approved mining enterprises may sell their mined digital assets on domestic cryptocurrency exchanges or overseas platforms, or via direct contractual agreements; however, all related revenues must be fully deposited into bank accounts within Uzbekistan. The mining zone grants tax exemptions to入驻 enterprises until January 1, 2035, while requiring them to pay a monthly fee equal to 1% of their mining revenue to the zone’s management authority. The new regulations also permit mining operations powered by renewable energy, hydrogen energy, and grid electricity.
According to Cointelegraph, Tempo—a payment-focused Layer-1 public blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm—recently launched its new “Zones” feature, enabling enterprises to conduct stablecoin transactions within permissioned environments while maintaining interoperability with public-chain liquidity. This functionality is primarily targeted at use cases such as payroll distribution, fund management, and B2B settlements. However, the feature has drawn criticism from industry observers due to its operator-centric design. Each Zone is controlled by a single operator who can view all transaction data and has the authority to suspend users’ transfer or withdrawal privileges in accordance with compliance requirements. Critics argue that this introduces a trust assumption akin to that of centralized exchanges, thereby deviating from blockchain’s core trustless principle.
According to The Block, Layer 1 blockchain Tempo has launched a privacy solution called Zones, designed for institutional use cases such as payroll distribution, treasury management, and payment settlement. Zones provide a confidential execution environment in the form of parallel blockchains connected to the Tempo mainnet; transactions within a Zone are confidential by default, yet assets remain interoperable with the Tempo mainnet, other Zones, fiat on/off-ramps, and liquidity pools. Tempo states that each Zone will be managed by a trusted entity, whose operators can view activities within the Zone and enforce access controls—but do not control the underlying assets. Users retain full control and may withdraw funds locked in smart contracts on the mainnet at any time.
Crypto analyst Ali published a detailed analysis on X, arguing that rather than debating whether Bitcoin has hit its bottom, market participants should focus on whether the current volatility represents a “generation-defining entry opportunity.” Based on long-term trend lines, on-chain liquidity, and cost distribution metrics, Ali delineates the core “value range” for this cycle. On the support side, the UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD) shows a significant concentration of coins in the $63,111–$70,685 range, forming the current primary support zone; if price breaks below $63,111, the market may enter a liquidity vacuum. From a long-term perspective, Bitcoin is approaching the key upward trend line from the past decade (approximately $56,000–$60,000), a level historically associated with accumulation phases preceding major rallies.