📢 The Hyperliquid-linked spot ETF saw $22.3M in net inflows during its first week of trading.

📢 Binance Research reports that tokenized real-world assets have climbed to $31.4B in 2026 and may expand to $1.6T by 2030 as institutional adoption gains momentum.

📢 Drift Protocol stated that its Insurance Fund remained unaffected because the protocol was paused before any losses could be realized.

📢 Food prices may climb worldwide as fertilizer costs have surged 44% since the Iran war began, reaching their highest levels since 2022 amid disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz.

📢 Most leading BTC traders on Hyperliquid are currently positioned long on Bitcoin.

📢 World Liberty Financial recorded its highest realized profit to date after 1.8B WLFI tokens were sold on May 18 following Binance’s launch of the USD1/BTC trading pair.

📢 According to CryptoQuant, Bitcoin has faced rejection at the 200-day moving average, resembling the March 2022 bear market structure that historically signaled a continuing downtrend.

📢 Spot BTC ETFs saw $70.5M in net outflows, marking a fourth straight day of withdrawals. BlackRock accounted for the largest share, with investors pulling $61.5M.

📢 According to CoinGecko, the top 12 perpetual DEXs averaged $611.6B in trading volume in 2026, with Hyperliquid leading the market.

📢 Kraken Expands in the Middle East 🇦🇪

Kraken has secured regulatory approval in the UAE under Dubai’s VARA framework.

• Approved under Dubai’s crypto regulator VARA
• Expands Kraken’s regulated global presence
• Signals growing institutional support for crypto in the region

📢 Early holders of Hyperliquid have outperformed both Bitcoin and Ethereum investors over a five-year period.

📢 According to Artemis, NVIDIA generated $62.3B in data center revenue, exceeding the combined total of its competitors.

📢 According to Grayscale Investments and Lookonchain, around 115,733 Hyperliquid were purchased in the past hour, bringing weekly accumulation to 682,190 tokens.

📢 Crypto liquidations reached $287M over the past 24 hours, with $HYPE short positions accounting for $40M of the total.

📢 PRIOR TO THE BIGGEST IPO LAUNCH, SPACEX DISCLOSED THAT IT HAD 18,712 $BTC.

📢 U.S. 30-year mortgage rates have climbed to 6.51%, their highest level since August, increasing pressure on homebuyers.

📢 The Coinbase premium has fallen to a one-month low of -0.0983%, pointing to increasing institutional selling pressure in the Bitcoin market.

📢 A whale trader on Hyperliquid is down more than $12.5M in 30-day perpetuals PnL, including a $26.8M loss from Hyperliquid positions.

📢 Dankrad Feist of Tempo Labs and the Ethereum Foundation said Ethereum needs a new billion-dollar-plus organization, funded through staking revenue and aligned with ETH growth, to help “get Ethereum back to winning.”

📢 ZachXBT says a Polymarket-linked UMA adapter on Polygon may have been exploited for at least $520K.

Polymarket later stated that user funds remain secure, adding that the incident was caused by a compromised private key rather than a failure in its core infrastructure.