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According to The Block, Kraken has launched CFTC-regulated crypto spot margin trading services for U.S. retail users just days after its parent company acquired the Bitnomial derivatives platform.Such products have largely been unavailable to U.S. retail users, forcing them to turn to offshore platforms. Kraken stated that users can use their crypto assets as collateral for trading with up to 10 times leverage without having to sell them.This launch follows the announcement made on Monday that Kraken's parent company Payward has completed the acquisition of Bitnomial. Bitnomial is a Chicago-based crypto derivatives exchange that holds licenses as a matching entity, contract party, and clearinghouse issued by the CFTC.Payward stated that this acquisition will ultimately enable it to offer regulated spot margin, perpetual futures, and options products to U.S. users. This move also strengthens Kraken's position in regulated derivatives infrastructure in preparation for a potential public listing.Payward has submitted a confidential S-1 registration draft to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in November. The trading platform is also continuing to expand its institutional and derivatives business in the UK and Europe following its $1.5 billion acquisition of NinjaTrader in March 2025.

According to official news, Coinbase will launch KAIO (KAIO) spot trading on May 6. If liquidity conditions are met and trading is supported, the KAIO-USD trading pair will open later today.

According to the official announcement, the Binance Wallet is launching the "On-Chain Trade & Win Campaign" for the third quarter starting today.The registration period is from May 6, 2026, 12:00 to May 21, 2026, 4:00 (UTC), and the competition period is from May 7, 2026, 4:00 to May 21, 2026, 4:00 (UTC). Users need to register with the Binance Wallet and participate in on-chain trading, with trading tokens based on the BSC or SOL chain, and the trading pairs must include USDT, USDC, USD1, U, BNB, WBNB, SOL, or WSOL.Rewards will be distributed based on the PnL rankings achieved during the competition period, with the top 50 users eligible for BNB or SOL rewards.

According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley is piloting cryptocurrency trading services on its E*Trade platform, charging a fee of 50 basis points on each crypto transaction based on the transaction amount, which is lower than major competitors like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab.Approximately 8.6 million E*Trade customers are expected to have access to this feature by the end of the year. The report noted that Morgan Stanley has been continuously expanding in the crypto space over the past year, having launched the lowest-fee Bitcoin ETF, plans to launch Ether and Solana ETFs, and applied for a national trust bank license to provide digital asset custody, with future support for institutional clients trading tokenized stocks.

According to official news, the AI-driven stock and cryptocurrency futures trading platform Stockcoin.ai has completed its seed round financing, led by Amber Group, with participation from angel investors in both the crypto and traditional finance sectors. The platform focuses on bridging on-chain data with the stock market.According to the disclosure, Stockcoin.ai will subsequently launch Hong Kong IPO subscription and US Pre-IPO features.

According to Jinshi, Qualcomm's stock rose over 5% in pre-market trading.

According to official news, Gate Alpha officially launched the 36th Hot Coin Trading Competition on May 6 at 14:00 (UTC+8). Users can participate by trading designated hot coins to share a total airdrop reward worth over $100,000.This event features a dual reward mechanism: on the basic level, users can receive 1 chance to draw a regular blind box for every 200 USDT traded, with a total prize pool of about $30,000, a 100% winning rate, and prizes including iPhone 17, GT tokens, and Alpha fee rebate vouchers; on the advanced level, after reaching a trading volume of 4,000 USDT, users can earn 1 chance to draw a premium blind box for every additional 500 USDT traded, with a total prize pool of about $76,000, and prizes including iPhone 17 Pro Max, high-value GT tokens, and high-value Alpha fee rebate vouchers. Additionally, when inviting friends to make their first trade of 100 USDT, both the inviter and the new user can receive extra rewards. All rewards are distributed in real-time and are available until exhausted.Gate Alpha now supports popular public chains such as SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BNB Chain, Base, SUI, ARB, World Chain, AVAX, Polygon, LINEA, ZK, OP, and Berachain, and allows seamless trading of all-chain tokens through the contract address search function, enabling cross-chain trading and achieving one-click access to on-chain tokens.

According to the official announcement, Gate will launch the 13th Anniversary VIP Welcome Event from April 21, 10:00 to May 20, 23:59 (UTC+8), and the second phase of the VIP Reward Triple Gift from May 6, 12:00 to May 19, 23:59 (UTC+8), providing multiple incentives for new and advanced VIP users. The event includes VIP newcomer packages, trading cashback, GT airdrops, and level acceleration among other benefits.In the VIP Welcome Event, users who upgrade to VIP 5 or above can unlock newcomer packages and multi-track trading rewards, and participate in sharing an 800,000 USDT airdrop prize pool; at the same time, users can also receive a maximum airdrop reward of 1,500 USDT by meeting the standards through contract, spot, and TradFi trading. In the Reward Triple Gift event, users can participate in the trading cashback program and level acceleration mechanism after signing up, with a chance to receive a VIP+2 experience card and a 10% trading cashback voucher.In addition, users who meet the net deposit conditions can also receive GT airdrop rewards. The platform will also launch a VIP Growth Camp to help users quickly advance to VIP levels and unlock more benefits.

OKX will launch EDGE/USDⓈ spot trading on May 6, 2026, at 20:00, to support the development of the USDⓈ ecosystem and meet users' diverse trading needs.

OKX will launch spot trading for EDGE (edgeX) on May 6, 2026, at 19:00. Users can start depositing at 13:00, with the pre-order time from 18:00 to 19:00, and withdrawal time at 21:00.

UPBIT will open trading for dogwifhat (WIF) on May 6, 2025, at 16:00, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT markets. Users are advised that deposits must be made using the Solana network, and the deposit service will be available 1 hour and 30 minutes after the announcement is made.

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).

The cryptocurrency market is strengthening in sync with global stock indices, and risk assets continue to show an upward trend. As of this morning, BTC has firmly stood above the key support level of $81,000 and is showing a sustained upward trend.Meanwhile, major global stock indices are performing strongly, with several core indices reaching historical highs this week. According to data from the Gate platform, SPX500 (S&P 500 Index) reached a peak of $7,314.55 during trading, setting a new historical high, and is currently reported at $7,274.36; NAS100 (Nasdaq 100 Index) is currently reported at $28,211.46, with a 24-hour increase of 1.73%; JPN225 (Nikkei 225 Index) is currently reported at $387.33, with a 24-hour increase of 2.21%, indicating a continued warming of global risk appetite.Against this backdrop, the inter-market asset correlation has further strengthened. Gate has launched the world's first index perpetual contracts, currently offering 15 trading pairs that cover major global stock indices and volatility indices, fully supporting USDT settlement and 24/7 continuous trading. At the same time, the platform has expanded to include various traditional financial assets such as stocks, metals, foreign exchange, and commodities, continuously building an integrated derivatives trading system that coordinates cryptocurrency assets with TradFi.

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 a report by the analysis firm Kaiko on Monday, the open interest, funding rates, and on-chain trading patterns in the perpetual contract market indicate that some traders may have positioned themselves ahead of the announcement of the Robinhood cryptocurrency listing. The report highlights the most obvious case of wallet address 0xa1E, which opened a long position in Lighter (LIT) on Hyperliquid at 11:05 AM on January 15, about an hour before Robinhood announced the listing of the token, and this wallet subsequently closed the position after the announcement.The same address also opened a short position in HOOD a few hours before Robinhood reported lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue on April 28. Several tokens, including ZEC, SNX, and NEAR, experienced abnormal spikes in open interest and funding rates, as well as price drift, before their listing announcements. Researcher Fraussen told Cointelegraph that traders who understand microstructure may have noticed public signals such as rising funding rates and increased trading volume and positioned themselves accordingly, but this type of positioning is statistically consistent and has repeatedly occurred across multiple events, reflecting privileged access to Robinhood's listing pipeline or a highly reliable front-running method based on public signals.

CME Group announced that it will launch cash-settled Bitcoin volatility futures, scheduled to go live on June 1 (pending regulatory approval). This product is based on the 30-day implied volatility index (BVX), allowing traders to trade or hedge risks on Bitcoin volatility without betting on price movements.The new contract is expected to have the code BVI, with a contract multiplier of $500 × index value, aimed at providing the market with more refined risk management tools.

MoonPay announced the acquisition of the Solana-based execution layer platform DFlow, officially entering the trading infrastructure sector.DFlow provides trading optimization services for companies like Coinbase and Phantom, having processed over $50 billion in transaction volume and approximately 10 million transactions per month. Reports indicate that the acquisition amount is around $100 million (paid in stock). MoonPay stated that integrating DFlow will enhance high-frequency trading capabilities and support a new generation of "agent-driven" financial applications.

Digital payment company PayPal (PYPL) announced its Q1 2026 financial report, with net revenue of $8.35 billion, exceeding market expectations of $8.05 billion; adjusted earnings per share were $1.34, higher than the estimated $1.27.However, the company provided cautious guidance for Q2, expecting adjusted earnings per share to decline by about 9% quarter-over-quarter, with guidance set at $1.34. It also provided full-year guidance for fiscal year 2026, with adjusted earnings per share of $5.32 and revenue of $34.06 billion.Affected by the Q2 guidance falling short of expectations, PayPal's stock price briefly dropped over 10% during trading, but the decline has since narrowed to about 8%.