🇺🇸🕵️ The U.S. Government (Brian Krewson Confiscated Funds) deposited 2,466 $UNI ($8,410), 152,925 $CRO ($10,689), and 1,589 $LINK ($15,703) into Coinbase Prime.

🇺🇸🗣 President Trump says the US has a lot of oil and is not facing any energy crisis.

🇺🇸🏦 The Senate Banking Committee is set to notice a markup for the Clarity Act as early as tomorrow, with a potential Thursday vote, Eleanor Terrett reports.

🕵️ Matrixport linked wallet sold another 100,000 $HYPE.

In total, they’ve sold 200,000 $HYPE for $8.447M $USDC at an average price of $42.24.

Now the wallet holds 203,290 $HYPE, worth $8.65M.

🇫🇷🚀 Tom Lee: Ethereum Is the Best-Performing Asset Since the War Started

BitMine Chairman Tom Lee stated at Paris Blockchain Week 2026 that Ethereum has outperformed all assets since the Middle East crisis began, exceeding energy stocks and beating the S&P 500 by nearly 20 percentage points.

He noted that if markets can endure the crisis and the U.S. economy remains resilient despite rising oil prices, the crypto bull market could extend into 2028. Lee emphasized that Ethereum is experiencing significant consolidation, with tokenization and agentic AI expected to drive the next rally, including stablecoins, tokenized stocks, tokenized reputation systems, and AI payment demand. #stablecoin

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🕵️ Four newly created wallets are betting on the "Hantavirus pandemic in 2026," while the odds are below 10%.

Their total bets are ~$18K, and they could make over $180K if they win.

📊 Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs announced a commitment of over $50 million for first-party products, research, protocol infrastructure, and a strategic fund for trading and AI partners.

Aptos reported that Decibel is live on mainnet with over $1 billion in cumulative volume. The stablecoin market cap on Aptos has reached $1.93 billion, while RWAs have reached $1.2 billion, with BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Apollo Global, and other asset managers deployed on the network.

Aptos also plans to advance encrypted mempool, FIX and CCXT connectivity, multi-leader consensus, and confidential perpetual trading. #stablecoin

📊 Coinbase Suspends Perpetual Contract Trading for Multiple Tokens

Coinbase announced it will suspend perpetual contract trading for KAITO, SENT, SAHARA, CAKE, TOSHI, AKT, VET, ANIME, THETA, ZK, KERNEL, and BARD around 21:00 (UTC+8) on May 21st. The main reason is that liquidity and project quality no longer meet market standards.

🕵️ The Ethereum Name Service token unlock wallet deposited 1.457M $ENS ($9.34M) into Binance 5 hours ago.

🔮 Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas stated during the earnings call that Coinbase’s USDC contract auto-renews every three years indefinitely and cannot be terminated. Additionally, Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal mentioned that the company’s existing contract terms with Circle are established, will auto-renew, and Coinbase anticipates maintaining the relationship under the same terms.

📊 Kraken will list NEO and GAS, with trading set to begin on May 8. Neo is an open-source blockchain platform designed to support digital assets, digital identity, and smart contracts, utilizing a dual-token model where NEO is for network governance and GAS is for transaction fees and smart contract execution fees.

😱🤑 Fear & Greed Index for #BTC

👮 Coinbase Exchange has been experiencing an outage for over two hours. Its status page indicates that some users may be unable to trade or may experience degraded performance due to an AWS outage. Coinbase stated that its team is investigating, assuring users that their funds are safe, and directing them to check AWS service status.

💸 #HYPE Company Hyperliquid Strategies reports a net loss of $165 million for 9 months.

🐳 The mysterious whale linked to Erik Voorhees, who bought 123,184 $ETH ($266M) previously, just spent another 6.67M $USDT to buy 2,920 $ETH at $2,284.

🕵️ According to BlockSec USDT Freeze Tracker, as of May 7, 2026, Tether has blacklisted 371 addresses on Ethereum and Tron in the past 30 days. This includes 329 on the Tron chain and 42 on the Ethereum chain, involving frozen funds worth approximately $515 million ($506 million on Tron and $8.73 million on Ethereum).

🗽 #ZRO #LINK DeFi platform Solv Protocol, focused on #BTC, has announced a transition from LayerZero to Chainlink following a major security incident.

🕵️ The leaders of Bridge and Deus X Capital stated that large corporations seeking to modernize payment systems and #AI agents conducting autonomous transactions are becoming the two main drivers of stablecoins' growth. #stablecoin

📊 A trader spent over three months swing trading $ETH, ultimately losing more than $1.48M.

Starting on February 2, trader 0x8062 began trading $ETH with 4.38M $USDT.

Three hours ago, he sold his $ETH holdings and was left with only 3.4M $USDT, resulting in a loss of 1.48M $USDT!

⚖️ BTC Accumulation Accelerates While ETH Struggles to Regain Institutional Conviction

“But while Bitcoin appears to have regained institutional confidence relatively quickly, Ethereum still shows signs of hesitation.”