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According to Bloomberg, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange) is collaborating with the cryptocurrency trading platform OKX to launch perpetual futures contracts linked to crude oil.According to statements from both parties, ICE's Brent crude oil and WTI crude oil futures prices will serve as the pricing basis for the related perpetual contracts. The product will be launched in regions where OKX is licensed to offer perpetual contract trading.

According to the official status page of Pyth, Pythnet/Hermes has been down for over 4 hours, affecting both Price Feeds and Sponsored Feeds. The page indicates that the root cause of the problem has been identified, and validators are coordinating to restart the network, with services expected to resume at 20:30.

According to the official announcement, Bitget stock contracts have now launched two popular U.S. stock indices: SP500 (S&P 500 Index) and NDX100 (Nasdaq 100 Index). The above contracts support up to 50 times leverage, and more details can be found on the Bitget official platform.

According to Jinshi News, Interactive Brokers' U.S. stocks rose over 8% before the market opened.

On-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed that the UMA CTF adapter contract of Polymarket seems to have been attacked on Polygon, with over $520,000 stolen.

According to analyst Darkfost (@Darkfost_Coc) in a social media post, since the event on October 10 last year, Bitcoin has undergone a long de-leveraging phase in the derivatives market. When open interest falls below the 180-day moving average, it usually indicates a decline in futures activity, and investors' risk-off behavior leads to a reduction in open interest. Affected by the deterioration of the global macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop, traders generally choose to reduce their risk exposure.This de-leveraging phase on Binance has lasted for about 8 months, with the last similar occurrence dating back to the previous bear market in 2022, just before the FTX collapse. However, since early May, the trend seems to be changing. Open interest on Binance has risen from $6.4 billion in March to about $8.96 billion currently, re-establishing itself above the current 180-day moving average of approximately $8.75 billion. This effectively marks the end of the de-leveraging cycle.The return of investors to the derivatives market has clearly driven the current upward rebound, but it is still too early to call it a true recovery. Despite the continued deterioration of the macro environment, Bitcoin's significant pullback has attracted more speculative traders seeking rebound opportunities. It should be noted that this trend remains highly fragile; once Bitcoin resumes the adjustment trend that began last October, these traders may exit as quickly as they entered.

The U.S. government, through the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has initiated a multi-agency coordinated financial action aimed at systematically targeting Iran's domestic digital asset infrastructure, with the goal of dismantling Tehran's parallel shadow banking system. According to officially disclosed information, this operation has successfully identified and incapacitated a large interconnected digital wallet network directly controlled by the Iranian regime, and has immediately frozen nearly $500 million in sovereign-related crypto assets.The U.S. intends to disrupt Iran's ability to bypass long-standing Western trade embargoes by blocking these alternative capital channels, cutting off its resources to regional proxy networks, and systematically weakening the regime's ability to transfer or repatriate wealth outside the oversight of traditional global clearing institutions. The focus of this enforcement action is to systematically identify state-sponsored large cryptocurrency trading portals, which have quietly evolved into core nodes for evading sanctions.Federal intelligence reports indicate that these regional platforms have processed billions of dollars in high-frequency digital asset transactions, heavily relying on mainstream stablecoins and high-throughput alternative blockchain networks to obscure their illegal settlement flows. Under the newly implemented executive directive, the Treasury is actively blacklisting specific crypto addresses, tracking mining pool variables, and imposing sanctions on foreign technology providers that facilitate these state-supported networks.Additionally, the U.S. is leveraging its dominant position in international banking to compel foreign financial intermediaries to fully comply with its aggressive crypto asset control protocols. The Treasury has issued stern warnings to international technology centers that any platform providing clearing services or liquidity assistance to designated Iranian digital entities will face immediate risks of exclusion from the U.S. financial system.This comprehensive containment model shifts regulatory responsibility to global exchanges, forcing them to deploy advanced real-time blockchain analysis tools to programmatically identify and block any inbound transactions originating from Iranian internet protocol or historical wallet clusters. By installing these stringent crypto safeguards at the level of global gateways, the U.S. government is transforming permissionless distributed ledgers into highly controlled economic zones, ensuring that alternative payment infrastructures cannot be used to undermine broader Western geopolitical security objectives in the next decade.

According to Gate platform data, gold (XAU) reached a maximum of $4561.69 and a minimum of $4495.52 in 24 hours; silver (XAG) reached a maximum of $77.20 and a minimum of $74.55 in 24 hours. The metal market has experienced a short-term correction, maintaining overall high volatility, which has driven active trading. According to CoinGlass data, the 24-hour trading volume for Gate XAU contracts reached $171 million, with a current open interest of $136 million; the 24-hour trading volume for XAG contracts reached $190 million, with an open interest of $108 million, both ranking among the industry's top.Gate pioneered the metal contract trading sector, providing 24/7 uninterrupted trading, offering users higher strategic flexibility and asset management efficiency in volatile markets. Gate contracts cover various traditional financial assets, including stocks, metals, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities, supporting trading in core assets such as gold, silver, and globally popular stocks. Gate continues to build a more efficient and professional multi-asset one-stop trading platform for global users.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow of KOL in the past 24 hours are as follows:My Sword and Shield (6iA7....ump): Net inflow of $3,000, with a 24-hour increase of -29.9%, currently priced at $0.0009.42069K (Be78....ump): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 25%, currently priced at $0.0002.FISH2 (7swL....ump): Net inflow of $1,000, with a 24-hour increase of 1855%, currently priced at $0.0002.BFM (EvDk....ump): Net inflow of $430, with a 24-hour increase of 331.9%, currently priced at $0.0001.ZePIN (61ua....ash): Net inflow of $355, with a 24-hour increase of 780.5%, currently priced at $0.0001.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the whale Loracle (@loraclexyz) has deposited 616,670 HYPE (36 million USD) into HyperLiquid and has started selling, with only 78,000 HYPE left for sale. Its 5x HYPE short position loss has expanded to 23 million USD, with a liquidation price of 83.34 USD.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve official Barkin stated that before the increase in tariffs and oil prices, the Federal Reserve is "basically on track" to achieve its inflation target.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has now launched the U-based 10000NEX perpetual contract, supporting up to 20x leverage, and the contract trading bot will be opened simultaneously.In addition, you can participate in the NEX CandyBomb event. New contract users who complete net deposits and trading tasks can earn up to 20 million NEX individually, with a total prize pool of 2 billion NEX. The event ends on May 28 at 20:00 (UTC+8), and more details can be found on the Bitget official platform.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced that it will officially launch the GEVUSDT and URNMUSDT U-based perpetual contract trading pairs today at 21:30 Beijing time (13:30 UTC).It is reported that the newly launched contract trading pairs support full margin, cross margin, and split margin modes, and users can experience trading through SuperEx's web and app platforms.

According to a news release from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Hong Kong police announced that they have joined law enforcement agencies from 9 countries and regions, including Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand, to combat cross-border fraud and money laundering activities. This operation took place from March 10 to May 7, resulting in the arrest of 3,018 individuals, involving over 138,000 fraud cases, with total losses of approximately $752 million (about HKD 5.89 billion).During the operation, law enforcement agencies froze a total of 101,989 bank accounts and successfully intercepted approximately $161 million (about HKD 1.26 billion) in fraudulent funds. Among them, the Hong Kong police arrested 870 individuals and intercepted approximately HKD 539 million in funds. The largest case involved a Singapore company that was defrauded of $36 million (about HKD 280 million), with the related funds subsequently flowing into multiple bank accounts in Hong Kong and other regions. About half of this amount was converted into stablecoins and dispersed into different virtual asset wallets, with the police successfully freezing $20 million of these funds after tracking.Investigations show that money laundering through virtual asset platforms is on the rise, and various regions need to continue enhancing their capabilities to respond to crimes involving virtual assets through intelligence sharing and collaborative mechanisms.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, loracle.hl (@loraclexyz) has shorted HYPE with a scale exceeding 100 million dollars, currently facing an unrealized loss of over 23 million dollars, with a liquidation price of 69.49 dollars.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the SpaceX pre-market perpetual contract SPCXUSDT, with a maximum leverage of 5 times. For more details, please check the Bitget official platform.

Binance updated the funding rate for the SPCXUSDT U-based Pre-IPO perpetual contract to 0% on May 21, 2026, at 16:00. If the funding rate for this contract remains at 0% on May 22, 2026, at 00:00, Binance will notify separately. Users holding open positions are advised to reassess their hedging strategies.

The Binance contract will launch the SPCXUSDT U-based Pre-IPO perpetual contract on May 21, 2026, at 12:45, with a maximum leverage of up to 5 times. This contract will be issued by the Binance RCH clearing program, and users can pay attention to subsequent announcements for more information.