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Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas posted on X platform, pointing out that Bitcoin's volatility and correlation are increasingly approaching the level of gold. This trend has been significantly underestimated during the current market adjustment and may be a positive signal amid recent market turbulence. Based on the 60-day historical volatility comparison data of IBIT and the gold ETF (GLD) since their launch, Bitcoin's volatility structure is gradually converging with gold, indicating that its asset characteristics may be changing.Eric Balchunas added that despite the volatile market environment, the BlackRock Bitcoin Spot ETF (IBIT) has continued to outperform U.S. stocks since the escalation of the Iran conflict and has achieved more than double the excess returns compared to the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) since the approval of BlackRock's ETFs.
According to PR Newswire, the Open Transaction Layer (OTL) officially launched on May 28 as an open industry initiative aimed at establishing a unified transaction coordination standard for on-chain finance. OTL defines shared protocols among institutions, non-custodial wallets, and AI agents for identity verification, messaging, and transaction coordination—covering the entire transaction lifecycle, including discovery, compliance, and settlement. The founding alliance comprises over 25 members, including leading financial institutions, payment service providers, and blockchain foundations such as Fireblocks, Checkout.com, Cross River Bank, MetaMask, Robinhood, Securitize, Wintermute, Solana Foundation, and Polygon. OTL’s technical specifications are built upon mature standards including W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and ISO 20022, and adopt a modular five-layer architecture covering Identity, Session, Transport, Messaging, and Application layers. The specifications have been published under an open-source license at otl.network, and the alliance is also open to additional institutional participation.
: Multiple institutions including Robinhood, MetaMask, and eToro, along with Fireblocks, Checkout.com, Cross River Bank, Securitize, Wintermute, and others, jointly announced their participation in the "Open Transaction Layer (OTL)" initiative, aimed at establishing a unified transaction coordination protocol layer for on-chain finance.OTL is positioned as an open protocol stack for coordinating identity verification, compliance validation, transaction messaging, and execution processes among wallets, institutions, and AI agents, addressing the integration fragmentation problem currently plaguing cross-institutional interactions in on-chain finance, where entities operate in silos.The current coalition members include payment companies, trading platforms, wallets, market makers, and custody and stablecoin infrastructure providers, including Robinhood, MetaMask, eToro, MoonPay, SoFi, Wintermute, among others, as well as foundations from multiple public chains such as TON, Solana, Stellar, and Polygon. (Financefeeds)
According to official sources, Gate has now launched QNTX perpetual contract pre-market trading (USDT settlement), supporting 1-10x leverage.
Bitget has launched a new edition of CandyBomb, with a total prize pool of 165 HYPE. This event is exclusively for new futures contract users. Participants who complete the specified net deposit and futures trading tasks can earn a maximum of 1.65 HYPE per person.Detailed rules have been announced on the official Bitget platform. Eligible users must click "Join Now" to register before participating. The event ends on June 8 at 18:00 (UTC+8).
According to CoinDesk, prediction market platform Kalshi has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Minnesota law set to take effect on August 1 that criminalizes operating, hosting, or promoting prediction market platforms. Kalshi argues the law is unconstitutional, asserting it infringes upon the Commodity Exchange Act’s grant of exclusive federal jurisdiction over derivatives markets to the CFTC and violates the First Amendment by restricting advertising. Earlier, on May 19, the CFTC filed a motion making the same constitutional challenge against the state law. U.S. President Trump has also publicly voiced support for the CFTC’s sole regulatory authority over prediction markets. Kalshi previously secured preliminary injunctions in similar enforcement actions brought by New Jersey and Arizona.
According to the official announcement, Bitget has now launched pre-IPO perpetual contracts for QNTSTOCK (Quantinuum) and stock contracts for DELL (Dell Technologies Inc.), both supporting up to 20x leverage. For more details, please visit the official Bitget platform.
Check4U.ai, an AI large model transit hub review platform, has officially launched. Based on the GatewayBench evaluation framework, the platform revolves around three core dimensions of AI transit hubs—trustworthiness, cost-efficiency, and performance—transforming model authenticity, billing transparency, cache isolation, and actual costs into verifiable metrics. It provides users of AI transit hubs with open, transparent, and comparable audit and evaluation references. The platform has already included over a dozen AI transit hub companies, aiming to promote the standardization of evaluation and transparency in the AI large model gateway ecosystem.
The B.AI platform has officially launched the Claude Opus 4.8 model. Building on the same pricing as version 4.7, Opus 4.8 significantly enhances coding and reasoning capabilities, achieving several key breakthroughs: a roughly fourfold reduction in code defect detection failure rate; more objective and accurate task progress feedback; and further improved ability to independently execute complex tasks over extended periods—better supporting automated development and deep-reasoning scenarios. Currently, Opus 4.8 is fully available for API integration and Web Chat access. Users can immediately experience it by logging in at http://chat.b.ai/chat or consult the official documentation for more technical details.
According to The Block, Base—the Ethereum Layer 2 network operated by Coinbase—has officially activated the Azul upgrade on its mainnet. This marks Base’s first independent network upgrade following its separation from the Optimism Superchain. The Azul upgrade introduces a multi-proof system that combines TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) proofs with zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, reducing the shortest possible withdrawal finalization time to just one day. Both proof types can independently confirm proposals; in case of conflict, permissionless ZK proofs override TEE proofs—further enhancing the network’s censorship resistance. Additionally, Azul integrates Base into a single execution client, <code>base-reth-node</code>, and introduces a new consensus client, <code>base-consensus</code>, built on OP Kona. Following the upgrade, the number of empty blocks has plummeted from approximately 200 per day to roughly 2 per day, and the network has achieved a sustained peak throughput of 5,000 transactions per second.
: STRC once fell to $97.11, then rebounded and closed at $98.57. Attention is being paid to Strategy's ability to continue using this preferred security as a financing tool through ATM issuance.After repurchasing $1.5 billion in convertible debt, Strategy's cash reserves dropped to approximately $871 million, only covering about six months of its estimated $1.7 billion annual preferred dividend obligations. Strive's perpetual preferred security SATA remains near its $100 par value, supported by an approximately 13% dividend yield and the company's plan to launch daily dividend payments.
According to an official announcement, BitMart Futures will list the QNTXUSDT perpetual contract at 19:00 (UTC+8) on May 29, 2026, supporting up to 20x leverage.
According to the official announcement, Upbit will list the IO/KRW trading pair.
According to TechFundingNews, stablecoin payments company NALA announced it has secured a $50 million credit facility from Liquidity through Mars Growth Capital, its joint venture with Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). The new capital will be used to develop its stablecoin payment infrastructure, with a focus on expanding cross-border payments in emerging markets—including Africa and Asia—by offering real-time stablecoin-based payments and collections, pre-funded accounts, and treasury management services. Earlier, in July 2024, NALA closed a $40 million Series A round led by investors including Acrew Capital, DST Global, Norrsken22, HOF Capital, and Amplo, as well as angel investors Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood, and Ryan King, co-founder of Chime.
According to the official announcement, Binance HODLer airdrop is now live on Genius Terminal (GENIUS).
according to Gate's official page, the total minting volume of GUSD on the Gate platform has surpassed 171 million, with the current GUSD minting annualized yield at 3.0%. Meanwhile, the Gate Launchpool CTR project is ongoing, where the GUSD pool annualized yield is currently 9.68%, the BTC pool annualized yield is 3.41%, and the CTR pool annualized yield is 164.97%. While participating in the Launchpool GUSD pool, users can also stack GUSD minting rewards, resulting in a current combined reference annualized yield of 12.68%. This creates a dual earning model of "minting rewards + pool rewards," enhancing capital efficiency while further increasing the flexibility of asset returns.GUSD is a high-quality yield-bearing asset backed by Gate ecosystem revenue, Treasury RWA, and stablecoins. The product supports trading and collateralization, with users receiving daily rewards, aiming to provide users with relatively stable returns.
according to official announcements, Binance HODLer Airdrop has launched its 65th project, Genius Terminal (GENIUS), an AI machine intelligence network and open infrastructure layer. Users who subscribe BNB to SimpleEarn (Flexible and/or Locked) and/or On-Chain Yield products between 2026-05-11 00:00 and 2026-05-13 23:59 (UTC) will receive airdrop allocations. The airdrop is expected to be distributed to eligible users' spot wallets within 5 hours after the announcement. Binance will announce the specific listing time and trading pairs for GENIUS at a later date. Airdrop Details: Token Name: Genius Terminal (GENIUS); Genesis Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 GENIUS; Maximum Supply: 1,000,000,000 GENIUS; Total HODLer Airdrop Rewards: 10,000,000 GENIUS; Circulating Supply at Listing: 335,377,059 GENIUS (33.54% of total supply); Smart Contract Address: 0x1F12B85aAC097E43Aa1555b2881E98a51090e9A6; BNB Holding Hard Cap: Individual user's average BNB holdings shall not exceed 4% of the total average holdings (excess will be calculated as 4%).
according to MGBX spot market data, ALLO has risen past 0.343 USDT and is currently trading at 0.319 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of over 285% and a cumulative increase exceeding 290%.Allora is a self-improving decentralized artificial intelligence network. Allora aims to provide applications with smarter and more secure AI through a network of self-improving machine learning models.
According to Finance Feeds, Mastercard has partnered with Chainlink to build a fiat-to-crypto asset on-ramp for its global users, enabling them to purchase digital assets directly through their debit or credit cards within on-chain smart contracts—without needing to go through centralized exchanges.
Odaily reports, according to official news, TeraWulf has announced the acquisition of a strategically located hyperscale high-performance computing (HPC) development site in eastern Kentucky (the "Muskie Data Campus").This acquisition significantly expands TeraWulf's portfolio of large-scale, energy-advantaged digital infrastructure campuses and advances the company's strategy of developing AI and HPC sites with long-term power supply, transmission infrastructure, and strong community support that are ready for construction.The first 500 megawatts ("MW") of capacity delivery is expected to begin ramping up in the second half of 2028, with the additional 500 MW targeted for delivery in the second half of 2030.