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According to ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Matrixport-linked wallets sold the last 99,612 HYPE. The wallet sold a total of 403,290 HYPE and received 16.88 million USDC, with an average price of $41.86.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi, HSBC Research published a report pointing out that as technology stocks recovered, the S&P 500 index returned to record highs, and the solid earnings season in the first quarter also provided support. The bank raised its 2026 index earnings per share forecast by 8% and included its latest quarterly results, expecting earnings per share to increase by 20% to $325 in 2026. Based on higher earnings expectations, the bank raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 index to 7,650 points from the previous 7,500 points.

Cointelegraph posted on the X platform that the U.S. Senate Banking Committee has released a 309-page draft CLARITY bill, and committee members must submit amendments by tomorrow for consideration on Thursday.

According to ChainCatcher news, Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said that Bitmine purchased 26,659 ETH last week, a slower purchase rate than the previous weekly purchase rate of more than 100,000 ETH, but still plans to hold 5% of Ethereum's circulating supply by the end of 2026. Currently, the company's total Ethereum staked exceeds 4.7 million, and it is expected to receive an annual reward of approximately $352 million after all staking. Tom Lee believes that if Ethereum closes above $2,100 at the end of May, it will verify that the "crypto spring" has arrived.

ChainCatcher reported that Sportix, an AI-powered sports intelligence platform, has completed $3.2 million in financing, with participation from Coinvestor Ventures, Animoca Brands, Becker Ventures, x21 Digital, and Alpha Capital. According to reports, Sportix provides fantasy sports users with AI-driven player data, matchups, lineups and performance analysis, generating prediction insights and lineup optimization suggestions, covering leagues such as the NBA and NFL. The platform will also put predictive records on-chain, generating verifiable Fan Rank credentials based on user activity and predicted performance. This round of financing will be used for the research and development of AI aggregation engines, the accuracy of MIE and PIS indicators, and the scale expansion of B2B APIs.

ChainCatcher reported that the Ethereum Foundation unpledged 21,271 ETH from Lido, causing panic in the market. Arkham said in an analysis that the foundation's move may be due to concerns about the security of third-party protocols. In addition, there have been multiple recent sales of ETH, and the foundation has a need for treasury rebalancing, which generally does not trigger an immediate sell-off.

According to the Financial Times, the scale of foreign investors' withdrawals from India hit a record high. (Jin Shi)

Odaily Planet Daily News Musk's artificial intelligence model Grok is far behind its fast-growing competitors. A large-scale computing power leasing agreement reached between its parent company SpaceX and Anthropic has also made the outside world question whether Grok still has a chance to catch up with industry leaders. Since its launch two years ago, Grok has attracted millions of users thanks to its integration with Musk's social platform X, as well as controversial features like "AI Companion." But the latest data shows that its growth momentum seems to have stalled. According to data from analytics firm AppMagic, Grok's downloads have dropped to about 8.3 million in April this year, compared to more than 20 million in January this year. According to a survey of more than 260,000 U.S. AI users and professionals conducted by research firm Recon Analytics, the proportion of respondents willing to pay for Grok in the second quarter of 2026 was basically flat at only 0.174%, compared to 0.173% a year ago. In contrast, more than 6% of respondents said they had paid for ChatGPT. (Jin Shi)

Odaily Planet Daily News Grayscale has submitted its first Zcash spot ETF application on May 8. The ZEC price hit $600 at one point, entering the top 15 in market capitalization and surpassing Cardano. According to Tushar Jain, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, the move is based on the growing demand for privacy assets under the proposed wealth tax legislation in the United States. The SEC ended its review of Zcash in January 2026 without taking enforcement action. The data shows that about 30% of the ZEC supply is in shielded addresses. Last week, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs saw $268 million in outflows, with some funds shifting to privacy and AI infrastructure tokens.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Cathie Wood's Ark Invest bought approximately $5.5 million of Circle Internet Group shares through three ETFs: ARKK, ARKW, and ARKF on Monday, totaling 41,904 shares. This is the first time Ark has bought Circle since March 24. Previously, Circle disclosed its first-quarter earnings report, and the stock price closed up 15.91% at $131.76. Currently, Circle is the sixth largest position in ARKK (4.6% weight) and the second largest position in ARKF (6.66% weight).

According to SoSoValue data, the crypto market sector generally pulled back, with the Layer2 sector falling 2.62% in 24 hours, and within the sector, Starknet (STRK) fell 5.54%, Optimism (OP) fell 4.25%, and Mantle (MNT) fell 3.15%. Only the CeFi sector was relatively strong, rising by 0.42%, with Cronos (CRO) rising by 4.46% and Binance Coin (BNB) rising by 0.82%. In other sectors, the Layer1 sector fell 0.22% in 24 hours, but Canton Network (CC) rose 3.98%; The PayFi sector fell by 0.28%, with Telcoin (TEL) rising by 14.14%; The AI sector fell 0.41%, and Billions Network (BILL) rose 19.21% intraday; The Meme sector fell by 0.42%, but BUILDon (B) saw a significant increase of 54.09%; The DeFi sector fell by 1.68%, and Curve DAO (CRV) bucked the trend by 8.86%. According to the crypto sector index, which reflects the historical market conditions of the sector, the ssiRWA, ssiAI, and ssiDeFi indexes fell by 7.75%, 5.87%, and 4.02% respectively.

According to ChainCatcher news, Nasdaq-listed Tron Inc. (NASDAQ: TRON) announced that it purchased 142,384 TRX at an average price of $0.3512. After this increase, the company's total TRX treasury holdings have exceeded 695.7 million. According to its published on-chain address, the total value of digital assets in the vault wallet has exceeded $255 million.

According to the official announcement, Binance will update the collateral ratio and tiered collateral ratio of UNI, ENA, RAY, APE, ZEC and other assets under the portfolio margin at 06:00 on May 15, 2026 (UTC). At the same time, Binance Futures will adjust the leverage and margin levels of multi-U-margined perpetual contracts such as NAORISUSDT, ARCUSDT, MUSDT, etc. at 06:30 (UTC) on May 15, 2026.

According to ChainCatcher, the Chainlink network recorded 282,170 and 264,090 unique active LINK addresses on May 9 and 10, respectively, the highest level since September 2025. This surge in on-chain activity follows the announcement of cross-chain infrastructure migrations by several institutional-grade DeFi projects to Chainlink CCIP. On May 7, Solv Protocol announced that it had completed a security review following the Kelp DAO vulnerability in April, deciding to migrate more than $700 million in tokenized Bitcoin assets (SolvBTC and xSolvBTC) from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP. Previously, Kelp DAO had also announced the migration of rsETH infrastructure to Chainlink CCIP. These initiatives represent a significant shift in institutional-grade DeFi infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink's cross-chain ecosystem. Additionally, data from earlier this month showed that whale wallets holding between 100,000 and 10 million LINK increased their holdings by 32.93 million LINK in 30 days.

According to ChainCatcher, Aptos announced that it will become the first Layer 1 public chain to provide a native encrypted mempool after the governance vote is passed. This feature achieves complete transaction intent confidentiality without affecting transaction speed, and the trust assumption is consistent with the network itself, aiming to protect users from frontrunning at the protocol level.

ChainCatcher news, according to Yonhap News Agency, South Korean People's Power Party lawmaker Kang Min-guk obtained data from the Financial Supervisory Service that as of May 4, a total of 15 virtual asset service providers in South Korea have ceased operations, involving about 1.949 million users, and the scale of frozen assets reached 22.1 billion won (US$14.87 million). Among them, only 6 operators have handed over user assets to the Digital Asset Protection Foundation, involving 1.92 million users and assets of about 2.36 billion won (US$1.59 million). Only 131 users recovered their assets through the foundation, accounting for 0.006% of all users, and returned about 74.52 million won ($50,000), accounting for only 0.3% of the total assets. Member Kang pointed out that the current law does not mandate service providers to hand over user assets to the foundation, there is a lack of legal enforcement, and the foundation has not actively publicized the asset return application process. He called on the Financial Supervisory Yuan to accelerate the second phase of legislation and strengthen user protection mechanisms.

Odaily Planet Daily News The latest news, the issuance of TRC20-USDT increased to 89.3 billion, once again hitting a record high. Since the beginning of this year, the TRON network has issued an additional 8 billion USDT. Up to now, TRC20-USDT has held 74.15 million accounts, with a cumulative transfer of over 3.36 billion. At the same time, the total number of TRON accounts has recently exceeded 380 million. In addition, data from PaymentScan, a crypto payment card analysis platform, shows that in April 2026, the global crypto card transaction volume exceeded $650 million, and the TRON network maintained its lead with a 32% share, and its crypto card transaction volume has exceeded the combined Ethereum and BNB Chain. TRC20-USDT is a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Tether based on the TRON network, which has attracted a large number of users due to its fast transfer speed and low fees, and is already supported by Binance, HTX, OKX, Bitfinex, MEXC, KuCoin, Gate.io, Poloniex, and other exchanges.

Odaily Planet Daily News Monad issued airdrops to some active traders' wallets. Some user reviews indicate that MON tokens have been received.

Odaily Planet Daily News BitMart "BM Discovery" Zone launched Red Kitten Crew (RKC) at 11:00 on May 12 (East Eighth District time), and this time it launched the RKC/USDT trading pair. Red Kitten Crew (RKC) is a meme coin issued on the Solana chain via Pump.fun, inspired by the "Roaring Kitty" narrative.