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According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has decreased by 5.08% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 61.418 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 11.257 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 3.503 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 4.829 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 5.42 billion USD.

According to the official announcement, Binance will launch the BILLUSDT perpetual contract on May 7, 2026, at 16:15, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times. This contract will support a multi-asset model, allowing users to use assets other than USDT as margin for trading.

OKX will launch pre-market trading for SPACEX/USDT on May 7, 2026, at 17:00, for OPENAI/USDT at 17:15, and for ANTHROPIC/USDT at 17:30. Users can trade using USDT for settlement, with the contract type being perpetual contracts, and trading hours are 7 × 24 hours.

To optimize the user trading experience, Bitget has reduced the funding fee base rate for some metal and commodity contracts from 0.01% to 0%. This involves contracts such as XAUUSDT, XAGUSDT, COPPERUSDT, etc. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

According to CoinGlass data, in the past 4 hours, the leaderboard for contract positions has been led by stock index assets. HK50 positions are approximately $2.0061 million, with a growth rate of 5772.15%, ranking first; US30 positions are approximately $3.2118 million, with a growth rate of 779.86%, ranking second. The top two on the growth leaderboard are both products launched by Gate, significantly boosting the trading activity of related contracts.Gate has pioneered index perpetual contracts, using mainstream global indices and volatility indices as underlying assets, introducing market sentiment indicators into the cryptocurrency derivatives trading system, maintaining USDT settlement, and supporting 24/7 trading. The platform will continue to build a multi-asset contract system covering mainstream TradFi assets, providing users with more flexible multi-asset trading options.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale/institution withdrew 208,560 HYPE (9 million USD) from Bybit, Gate, and OKX, and then sent it for staking.

The Pentagon has awarded a $500 million contract to Scale AI, supported by Meta Platforms, to help process data and assist decision-making, marking the latest move by the U.S. military to further rely on artificial intelligence.The amount of this agreement is five times the $100 million contract the company received in September 2025. Dan Tadross, head of Scale AI's public sector business, stated in an interview that the Pentagon had "pushed the original contract to its limits." Tadross said, "I think this contract overall demonstrates the department's urgent desire to adopt this technology." Additionally, the San Francisco-based company is also involved in the Defense Innovation Unit's (DIU) "Project Convergence" program (which aims to integrate artificial intelligence into military planning and operations) and Trump's "Golden Dome" homeland defense framework.

According to the official announcement, Coinbase has announced the launch of perpetual contracts for gold and silver, open for trading to eligible non-U.S. users. Among them, GOLD-PERP corresponds to 1 troy ounce of spot gold, and SILVER-PERP corresponds to 1 troy ounce of spot silver, both settled in USDC, supporting 24/7 trading, with a maximum leverage of 25 times. Institutional users can trade through Coinbase International Exchange, while retail users can participate via the Coinbase website and app.Coinbase stated that this move is part of its "traditional financial assets on-chain" strategy, aiming to build an "Everything Exchange" that covers crypto assets, traditional assets, and new products.In addition, Coinbase mentioned that it is working with the CFTC to plan the expansion of gold and silver futures trading in the U.S. market to operate 24/7. The company believes this will support weekend hedging, continuous price discovery, and cross-asset strategy trading.

According to Jinshi reports, the UK's financial regulatory authority has launched an investigation into Mastercard (MA.N), Visa (V.N), and PayPal (PYPL.O) due to suspicions of anti-competitive behavior regarding the flow and use of funds in the PayPal digital wallet.The UK's Financial Conduct Authority stated on Wednesday that it has not yet concluded whether the relevant companies have violated competition law. PayPal disclosed this investigation in a regulatory filing this week. A representative from PayPal stated that the company is cooperating with the FCA investigation but will not comment further as the case is still ongoing.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has increased by 5.28% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at $35.321 billion. Among them, Binance's open interest is $7.622 billion, OKX's open interest is $2.1 billion, Bybit's open interest is $2.296 billion, and Gate's open interest is $5.088 billion.

According to the official announcement, to further enhance market liquidity and user trading experience, Bitget has launched exclusive fee rate discounts for contract market makers, covering stock, precious metals, commodities, and index contract currency pairs. The Taker fee rate for the above currency pairs has been uniformly adjusted to 0.0065%, and the event will end on June 30. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

According to Cointelegraph, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has publicly stated that Colombia should follow the example of Venezuela and Paraguay by actively attracting Bitcoin mining investments, and pointed out that the undeveloped renewable energy along the Caribbean coast is a core advantage for promoting mining development.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating, "The quality of prediction markets depends on their oracles," and expressed his happiness to see prediction markets beginning to shift towards decentralized and non-financial oracle solutions.He also mentioned that the next step in development should be to achieve privacy for proof-of-stake voting.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced that it will launch the AMDUSDT, QCOMUSDT, and USARUSDT U-based perpetual contract trading pairs today at 22:00 Beijing time (14:00 UTC).It is reported that the newly launched contract trading pairs support full margin, cross margin, and isolated margin modes, and users can experience trading through SuperEx's web and app platforms.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced the launch of MegaETH (MEGA) in the innovation zone and opened the MEGA/USDT spot trading pair. Trading officially starts on May 6, 2026, at 11:00 Beijing time (03:00 UTC), and the deposit and withdrawal channels will soon be opened.The official stated that with the launch of spot trading, MEGA will also be included in the margin support range for all cryptocurrency contracts, allowing users to directly use it as margin assets for contract trading.It is reported that MegaETH is a fully EVM-compatible Optimistic Layer 2 network, which uses Ethereum as the settlement layer and employs EigenDA to provide data availability (DA).

According to CoinGlass data, XAU is currently priced at $4646.96, with a 24-hour increase of 2.25%. Due to market fluctuations, the total trading volume of XAU contracts across the network reached $1.957 billion in 24 hours, a decrease of 10.75% compared to the previous period.In centralized exchanges, liquidity is mainly distributed among Binance, Bitget, and OKX, with their 24-hour trading volumes being $1.244 billion, $200 million, and $187 million, respectively, ranking in the top three.

According to CNBC, Google's stock price surged significantly after hours, briefly surpassing Nvidia's market value. The driving factor was a report stating that Anthropic has committed to paying $20 billion to Google Cloud over five years. If the deal is true, Anthropic will contribute over 40% of Google's future contract cloud revenue.