Today's top news highlights:
The United States has rejected Iran's written proposal to end the war.
Upbit will list its IRYS token on the Korean Won, BTC, and USDT markets.
Coinbase will launch four AI infrastructure stock perpetual contracts on May 18.
The US has approved approximately 10 Chinese companies to purchase Nvidia H200 chips.
Regulation & Macro
The United States has rejected Iran's written proposal to end the war.
The United States has rejected Iran's 14-point written proposal to end the war. The Iranian proposal was based on two phases of negotiations: the first phase would end the war on all fronts, and if certain conditions were met, the second phase of nuclear negotiations would begin. The United States reiterated its hardline stance, particularly on the nuclear issue.
Trump's ethics filings revealed that he made thousands of securities transactions involving U.S. companies in the first quarter of this year, totaling between $220 million and $750 million, including transactions with Microsoft, Meta, and Nvidia. Furthermore, Trump purchased shares in Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings between January and March 2026.
The US has approved approximately 10 Chinese companies to purchase Nvidia H200 chips.
The US has approved approximately 10 Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, to purchase Nvidia's H200 AI chips, with each company allowed to buy up to 75,000 chips. However, no actual deliveries have been made. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accompanied Trump on his visit to China to promote sales, but the deal stalled due to regulatory restrictions and China's efforts to promote self-sufficiency.
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee passed the CLARITY bill by a vote of 15 to 9, and it will be merged with the House version before being submitted to both houses for a vote. Final passage depends on negotiations regarding anti-money laundering and ethics provisions, which must be completed before August to avoid delays.
Project Updates
Vitalik transferred 50.25 ETH, equivalent to approximately $113,000, through Privacy Pools.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin transferred 50.25 ETH, worth approximately $113,000, through Privacy Pools.
Bybit launches a global asset "$100 million airdrop" campaign.
Bybit has launched a global asset "$100 Million Airdrop" campaign. New users will enjoy benefits from Nvidia tokenized stock, while existing users can trade RWA assets such as US stocks and gold to participate in a lottery, with a top prize of $2,500 in Amazon tokenized stock. The campaign ends on June 30.
Upbit will list its IRYS token on the Korean Won, BTC, and USDT markets.
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit will list the IRYS token on the Korean Won, BTC, and USDT markets, with trading commencing at 20:00 local time on May 15th.
Trading of Binance Alpha tokenized securities has resumed.
Binance Alpha tokenized securities trading has resumed. The previous suspension was due to maintenance of a third-party system; user asset security was unaffected.
Blockchain data platform Dune laid off approximately 25% of its staff to focus on core data products. The CEO stated that investments in AI tools have yielded results, with Dune MCP enabling the creation of dashboards without SQL. Dune is financially sound, having completed a $69.42 million Series B funding round in 2022.
Coinbase will launch four AI infrastructure stock perpetual contracts on May 18.
Coinbase will launch four AI infrastructure stock perpetual contracts on May 18: Cerebras Systems (CBRS), TSMC, Nebius Group (NBIS), and Bloom Energy (BE), supporting long/short positions, leverage, and 24/7 trading.
Moscow Exchange Considers Launching 24/7 Cryptocurrency Trading
The Moscow Exchange is considering launching 24/7 cryptocurrency trading and is in discussions with brokers to test deposit and withdrawal functions. Users will need to operate through a broker's digital custody account and cannot register wallets directly on the exchange.
CoinList launches Passage, an on-chain capital markets infrastructure.
CoinList has launched Passage, an on-chain capital markets infrastructure that provides compliant distribution, funding access, and infrastructure support for tokenized assets. Since 2017, CoinList has covered more than 160 countries and has completed asset distributions totaling over $1.2 billion.
Ranger Finance, a DeFi project within the Solana ecosystem, has been shutting down due to delayed fundraising, financial pressure, and the depletion of remaining funds by a Drift attack. The founders invested personal funds to maintain operations, but ultimately failed to secure further funding and have since returned the raised capital. Vault users affected by the Drift attack will receive recovery tokens.
Binance: AIGENSYN spot trading launch delayed to 23:00
Binance has postponed the launch of spot trading for Gensyn (AIGENSYN) to May 14th at 23:00 (UTC+8), opening trading pairs AIGENSYN/USDT, AIGENSYN/USDC, and AIGENSYN/TRY.
Coinbase will become the official USDC vault deployment provider on Hyperliquid.
Coinbase will become the official USDC treasury provider on Hyperliquid, facilitating USDC integration. Native Markets has agreed to Coinbase's acquisition of the USDH brand assets, allowing users to exchange USDH for USDC or fiat currency with zero transaction fees. USDC's market capitalization on Hyperliquid is approximately $5 billion, representing a year-on-year growth of about 200%.
Kraken will replace LayerZero with Chainlink CCIP as its cross-chain infrastructure.
Kraken will replace LayerZero with Chainlink CCIP as its cross-chain infrastructure for wrapped assets, covering kBTC and others, involving over $3 billion in TVL. This follows the LayerZero-related attacks on Kelp. Coinbase has also chosen CCIP as its cross-chain bridge solution for wrapped tokens.
Kelp has announced the relaunch of rsETH withdrawals, and bridging and claiming functions are now available. The exchange rate will be updated around 22:30 on May 15th. Eigen claims will also open simultaneously, reflecting staking rewards during the suspension period. Deposits will reopen once stabilization is achieved, and remaining rsETH will be gradually added to the Lockbox contract.
Investment and financing news
Korea Investment & Securities and OKX are jointly acquiring approximately 20% of Coinone's shares. The investment will primarily involve a new share issuance and is considered a financial investment, with no change in management control. Coinone's major shareholders include The One Group (34.30%), Com2us Holdings (21.95%), and CEO Cha Myung-hoon (19.14%).
SpaceX's prospectus is expected to be released as early as next week.
SpaceX plans to release its prospectus as early as next week, aiming to launch its roadshow on June 8th. The merger with xAI values the company at $1.25 trillion, with an IPO expected to raise approximately $70-75 billion, potentially making it the largest IPO in history. Advisory teams are currently contacting overseas retail investors.
Hana Financial Group will invest approximately 1 trillion won (about US$667 million) to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, the operator of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit.
AI chip company Cerebras' stock price surged 100% after its $5.5 billion IPO.
Cerebras Systems, an AI chip company, saw its shares surge approximately 100% to $367 on its first day of trading. The IPO price was $185, raising $5.5 billion and valuing the company at around $40 billion. The company focuses on AI chip design and competes with Nvidia and AMD.
Bitcoin custody platform Onramp has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding, valuing the company at $135 million pre-money. The round was led by Early Riders. Onramp employs a multi-institutional custody model, partnering with companies such as BitGo. Its clients are primarily high-net-worth individuals and family offices, and the company plans to expand into enterprise services.
Fasset, a new stablecoin bank, has completed a $51 million Series B funding round, with participation from SBI Group and others. The funds will be used to expand its market, develop SME lending, and build stablecoin payment infrastructure. The platform now covers 125 countries and has an annualized transaction volume exceeding $32 billion.
British AI chip company Fractile completes $220 million Series B funding round.
British AI chip company Fractile has completed a $220 million Series B funding round, led by Factorial Funds and others. The company focuses on AI inference chips, aiming to improve the response speed of large models. Anthropic is reportedly in initial contact regarding chip procurement.
Opinions & Analysis
The GoPlus AgentGuard team discovered a "historical memory authorization" attack: attackers trick the AI agent into remembering preferences and then trigger financial transactions through vague descriptions. Actions involving refunds and transfers require explicit confirmation in the current session; memory writing is considered high-risk; long-term memories must be traceable; and vague descriptions should be given a higher risk level.
SlowMist has revealed that the high-risk iOS attack framework DarkSword has been leaked in the wild. Targeting iOS 18.4 to 18.7 devices, it exploits a Safari vulnerability via malicious web pages to remotely execute code and steal wallet private keys and mnemonic phrases. Attackers use bait such as fake pornographic live streams, putting users of older iOS versions at risk.
SlowMist 23pds reported that node-ipc has been compromised again, with three malicious versions (9.1.6, 9.2.3, and 12.0.1) being released that steal payloads by carrying credentials. The package has been downloaded more than 10 million times per week.
Important data
On May 14th, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a total net inflow of $131 million. BlackRock's IBIT led the way with a net inflow of $144 million, bringing its historical total net inflow to $65.917 billion; Grayscale's GBTC experienced a net outflow of $31.6357 million, with a historical total net outflow of $26.4 billion. The total net asset value of these ETFs is $107.746 billion, representing 6.61% of Bitcoin's total market capitalization, with a historical cumulative net inflow of $58.63 billion.
An address sold 250 WBTC on-chain in the past 5 hours, worth $20.275 million.
Address 0xB4d…B186a sold 250 WBTC on-chain in the past 5 hours, worth $20.275 million. This address has frequent interactions with Titan Builder and still holds $80.95 million in ETH and $20.88 million in WBTC.
A whale opened a long position of 700 BTC with 10x leverage, worth $57 million.
BlackRock transferred 3,581 BTC and 9,876 ETH to Coinbase.
BlackRock deposited 3,581 BTC (approximately $284.62 million) and 9,876 ETH (approximately $22.29 million) into Coinbase.
whale Garrett Jin bought approximately 71,000 BNB, worth $48.22 million.
Garrett Jin, an agent of the "1011 Insider Whale," bought 71,066 BNB from Binance, worth $48.22 million. In the past two weeks, this address has deposited 577,896 ETH ($1.35 billion) into Binance.
