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The BTC Pizza Day 2026 campaign is now live. During the campaign period, purchase pizza using your Bybit Card and post about it on X to receive a $20 USDT reimbursement—limited to the first 500 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. The campaign runs from now until May 25, 23:59 UTC. During the campaign, users must purchase pizza using their Bybit Card, record a video of the payment, and post it on X, mentioning @Bybit_Official and @Bybit_ZH. Participants must then complete the submission form with their UID and the link to their X post to be eligible for the $20 USDT reimbursement—limited to the first 500 participants. Rewards will be credited within 7 business days after the campaign ends.
Odaily News: BTC IV at 38%, ETH IV at 53%. ETH Skew shows divergence, with the mid-to-long-term maintaining +2 to +4, indicating strong institutional bullish consensus. The short-term skew has sharply deteriorated to -8 to -12 due to CPI exceeding expectations and Powell's resignation, leading to a surge in short-term hedging demand. BTC/ETH GEX has shifted from a long Gamma, steady bull market strategy to short Gamma, widening short-term volatility and making it difficult for IV to drop significantly. The medium-term bullish structure remains intact, with the current situation appearing more like an event-driven release of short-term risk rather than a trend reversal. In block trades, 2,181.8 lots (worth $176 million) of BTC 5/15 expiry $82K Calls were traded; 11,026 lots (worth $24.97 million) of ETH June $2,100 Puts were traded.Gate has launched an exclusive incentive plan for options VIPs. During the event, users can participate to share a 100,000 USDT prize pool. The platform supports cross-exchange VIP rate matching. By submitting VIP proof or trading volume records from other exchanges, users can apply for lower rates. Rewards are distributed in tiers based on options trading volume; the more you trade, the higher the reward. Additionally, participating users enjoy exclusive service benefits, including VIP customer support, API technical integration, and daily options strategies and data services, providing professional traders with more competitive trading costs and liquidity support.
According to The Block, Forward Industries, the treasury company of Solana, released its Q1 2026 financial report, reporting quarterly revenue of $13 million—a 319% year-on-year increase—primarily driven by SOL staking rewards. However, the company recorded a $201.7 million digital asset loss and an $85.1 million crypto-asset impairment, both stemming from the decline in the fair value of its SOL holdings (SOL fell 33.7% during the quarter), resulting in a net loss of $283.1 million—far exceeding the $1.5 million net loss reported in the same period last year. As of the end of March, the company held approximately 7.04 million SOL and had accumulated 201,200 staking rewards, nearly all of which remained staked. Additionally, in March, the company signed a loan agreement with Galaxy Digital, drawing an initial $40 million, while simultaneously advancing cost-cutting initiatives and share buybacks (reducing basic share capital by 7.4%).
According to the official announcement, Upbit will list IRYS/KRW, IRYS/BTC, and IRYS/USDT trading pairs.
It is reported that Bybit has launched the TradFi Perp Edition campaign today, offering a total reward pool of 50,000 USDT to be shared among users trading U.S. stock perpetual contracts. During the campaign period, users who trade U.S. stock perpetual contracts will receive higher rewards proportional to their trading volume. The campaign runs from now until May 22, 2026, at 10:00 UTC.
According to the official announcement, HTX has launched perpetual contracts for MRVL/USDT and WMT/USDT on May 14, with a maximum leverage of 10x for both. Additionally, HTX is hosting an MRVL and WMT perpetual contract trading party from 15:00 on May 15 to 15:00 on May 22 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of up to $20,000.
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.
According to Money Today, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) of Korea announced that it will release detailed regulations and guidelines for tokenized securities in July 2026. The proposed framework would permit issuing fractional investment securities backed by a bundle of similar underlying assets and explore raising trading limits on over-the-counter (OTC) exchanges. Regulators will also draw on international precedents to develop a roadmap for tokenizing standardized securities—including equities, bonds, and money market funds—and advance testing and enhancement of infrastructure such as on-chain settlement. Korea’s tokenized securities regime was approved by the National Assembly in January this year and is scheduled to take effect on February 4, 2027.
According to CoinGecko data, BILL has demonstrated consistently strong performance since its launch, rising from an opening price of approximately $0.005 to a peak of $0.227—a cumulative maximum increase of over 45x. Yesterday, its 24-hour global trading volume exceeded $2.18 billion, with the Bybit BILL/USDT trading pair standing out—accounting for over $1.68 billion, or more than 77%, of the total volume, maintaining its position as the top-performing trading pair on centralized exchanges (CEX).
OpenAI has confirmed a supply chain attack targeting a malicious TanStack NPM package in its internal environment, infecting two employees' devices. While user data and core code were not affected, the attackers stole access credentials for some internal code repositories, including code signing certificates used for iOS, macOS, and Windows products.To prevent hackers from exploiting the stolen certificates to distribute counterfeit applications, OpenAI has initiated defensive certificate rotation and announced that all macOS users of ChatGPT desktop, Codex, and Atlas browsers must upgrade to the latest version by June 12, 2026. After this deadline, old certificates will be revoked, and system-level blocks will prevent the launch of older versions and new installations.OpenAI stated that the company had previously deployed stricter code package blocking policies, but the infected devices had not yet synchronized the latest configuration, allowing the malicious component to successfully infiltrate. Currently, the iOS and Windows clients are unaffected, and core data such as user account passwords and API keys have been confirmed secure.
0x Co-CEO Will Warren announced today that he is stepping down from his role as Co-CEO, effective immediately. He will remain on the board as a major shareholder and continue to support Amir Bandeali and the team. Warren noted that 0x built the first decentralized exchange protocol on Ethereum in 2016; today, its products drive billions of dollars in monthly trading volume and power on-chain swap services for companies including Coinbase, Robinhood, Phantom, and Kraken. He also observed that the co-CEO structure has somewhat slowed decision-making efficiency in recent years. Moving forward, Amir Bandeali will lead an organizational restructuring—with Warren’s continued support—to better position the company in an increasingly competitive market environment.
: According to official announcement, OKX will officially list the CBRS/USDT stock perpetual contract at 14:00 (UTC+8) on May 15, 2026, supporting web, app, and API trading.The announcement shows that the contract is settled in USDT, supports 7×24-hour trading, and the default funding fee settlement cycle is once every 8 hours.
Odaily Odaily News: Prediction market platform Kalshi has announced a partnership with Interactive Brokers.According to the terms of the collaboration, Interactive Brokers has integrated Kalshi's prediction market into its existing trading platform. Users can manage their prediction market positions and traditional investment portfolios within a single interface, and access real-time data on positions, liquidity, and prices.The prediction markets initially available will primarily cover topics such as election outcomes, climate events, and economic indicators.
Caixin reported that a private banking client was sentenced to six months’ immediate imprisonment and fined HK$500,000 for deliberately providing false information in a CRS declaration—the first criminal conviction in Hong Kong for violating CRS rules. CRS 2.0 refers collectively to the revised OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF); its framework entered into force on 1 January 2026. On 27 March 2026, the Hong Kong government published the Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information) Bill 2026 in the Gazette; the bill underwent its first reading in the Legislative Council on 1 April 2026 and is expected to take effect on 1 January 2027—marking Hong Kong’s accelerated domestic legislative implementation of CRS 2.0. CRS 2.0 explicitly brings cryptocurrencies within the mandatory reporting scope, including stablecoins, crypto derivatives, certain NFTs, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and specific electronic money products. Cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and related funds must fulfill KYC obligations and report information to tax authorities—systematically closing off avenues for concealing wealth using crypto assets.
According to The Block, JPMorgan stated that although the crypto market as a whole rebounded following the Iran conflict, ETH and other altcoins continue to underperform BTC—a trend that began in 2023 and is unlikely to reverse in the near term unless on-chain activity, DeFi, and real-world applications show clear improvement. JPMorgan noted that spot ETF fund flows and CME futures positioning both indicate institutions are rebuilding risk exposure to BTC more strongly than to ETH. The bank also pointed out that Ethereum’s upgrades over the past several years have not meaningfully boosted on-chain activity; instead, by lowering Layer 2 costs, they have weakened mainnet fee revenue and the burn mechanism.
BIT's latest weekly report indicates if Bitcoin had kept pace with the Nasdaq's rally, its price would theoretically be near $140,000. However, since October 2025, the divergence between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq has become increasingly pronounced.BIT highlights that the latest U.S. CPI data has risen to 3.0%, 100 basis points above the Federal Reserve's target, prompting the market to pull back some of its pricing for rate cuts in 2026. The report suggests that Bitcoin's previous upward momentum was heavily reliant on expectations of Fed easing, and as rate cut expectations have diminished, Bitcoin's performance has come under short-term pressure.The report also notes that the stock market has benefited from nominal income growth driven by inflation and a decline in real debt burdens, resulting in a different trajectory compared to Bitcoin. BIT believes the market's current focus is on whether the repricing of inflation expectations will undermine Bitcoin's fundamentals and how investors will adjust their positions going forward.
According to Cointelegraph, Tezos ecosystem developers have launched the quantum-resistant privacy payment prototype TzEL on the testnet. TzEL employs post-quantum cryptography and zk-STARK proofs to defend against “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, safeguarding transaction data and encrypted payment metadata. The prototype also integrates Tezos’ data availability layer to handle the relatively large size of post-quantum proofs. According to the whitepaper, the quantum-resistant zk-STARK proofs used by TzEL are approximately 300 KB in size. TzEL is currently running on the Tezos testnet, and the Tezos ecosystem’s transition to post-quantum cryptography remains in its early stages.
Odaily News, Coinbase announced that it will launch perpetual contracts for four AI infrastructure stocks on May 18, including Cerebras Systems (CBRS), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Nebius Group (NBIS), and Bloom Energy (BE).According to the company, the contracts support long and short positions, leverage, and 24/7 trading. They will be available to both retail and institutional traders in regions meeting liquidity conditions.
today, the RWA trading platform MSX Maitong officially launched spot trading for the US stock token ($CBRS.M) of AI computing unicorn Cerebras. Market data shows that $CBRS.M opened at $350, surged to a high of $386.34 during the session, and triggered an upward circuit breaker on its first day.It is reported that Cerebras is the first Pre-IPO core target launched by MSX. The locked subscription price for early participants was only $100.35, and the current actual yield has exceeded 300%. From $100.35 to $350: MSX's first issuance of Cerebras successfully exited, completing a historic closed loop for on-chain RWA. It is one of the very few platforms in the entire network that allows retail investors to genuinely access subscription quotas for top tech stocks and successfully cash out.Cerebras is regarded by the industry as "NVIDIA's strongest challenger," possessing the world's largest AI training chip and recently signing a strategic agreement with OpenAI worth over $20 billion.
According to an official announcement, KelpDAO has resumed rsETH withdrawal functionality, and cross-chain bridging and claiming have also been enabled simultaneously as part of the coordinated restart plan. KelpDAO stated that the exchange rate will be updated and Eigen rewards will be made available for claiming at approximately 22:30 Beijing Time today, May 15, to reflect the full staking rewards accrued by rsETH holders during the pause period. Thereafter, deposits will resume after a brief stabilization window. Over the next two weeks, Aave and Kelp will gradually transfer the remaining rsETH in batches to fully replenish the vault. KelpDAO confirmed that rsETH remains fully backed on Ethereum Mainnet and across all L2 networks.