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Aster’s new market offers contracts that do not grant voting rights or actual ownership of OpenAI shares. The instrument’s conditions use an initial total count of 1 billion diluted shares as a reference. The platform’s estimated deadline for the OpenAI market is set for the fourth quarter of 2026. Aster introduced its new OpenAI Pre-IPO perpetuals to the market. This is a synthetic financial product traded under the ticker $OPENAI. With this new instrument, users will be able to trade with up to 5x leverage on the AI firm’s implied price per share in secondary markets. The company’s official statement…

Acuity Trading has entered a partnership with Agentic AI platform WNSTN to integrate market intelligence with AI-driven engagement tools for brokers and trading platforms. The collaboration aims to improve how traders access and interact with market data within a single environment. The partnership combines Acuity’s trade, market, and event intelligence with WNSTN’s conversational AI technology. The integrated solution is expected to offer real-time interaction, data visualization, and personalized user engagement directly within trading platforms. Acuity’s tools focus on explaining market movements and highlighting key events. WNSTN adds an AI layer that enables users to interact with this data in real…

Bitcoin’s three-month uptrend against gold seems to have ended, as ETF flows shift toward gold and other precious metals. That’s evident from the bitcoin-to-gold ratio, which measures the per-coin dollar price of $BTC against the per-ounce dollar price of gold. This is the chart that tells you which “store of value” investors actually prefer at any given moment. Since early March, bitcoin has been the clear winner, lifting the ratio higher from roughly 12 points to 18 points. But not anymore. The growth has stalled lately, and, over the past 24 hours, it has decisively turned lower, snapping the three-month…

One of the $XRP Ledger’s biggest weaknesses as a DeFi venue might be on its way out. A draft amendment titled “AMM Swappable Curves” was filed on the XRPL standards repository Tuesday, proposing to extend the network’s existing automated market maker with three pluggable curve types — constant product, concentrated liquidity, and StableSwap. A fourth, fully programmable curve type called Smart AMM is reserved for a follow-up specification. AMMs refer to automated market makers, a type of decentralized exchange where trades happen against a pool of deposited tokens rather than between buyers and sellers. The proposal was authored by XRL…

A blockchain address linked to prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has continued its accumulation of $HYPE tokens, purchasing an additional 200,000 tokens worth approximately $9.95 million over the past 10 hours, according to on-chain analytics firm Lookonchain. Accumulation pattern since April The address, which on-chain sleuths have tied to a16z, has now acquired a total of 2.34 million $HYPE tokens since April 14. At current market prices, the total value of these purchases stands at roughly $102 million. The latest transaction represents the most recent in a series of regular buys, signaling sustained interest from one of the…

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission raided the local offices of CCB International and China Securities International on May 27, seizing documents and electronic devices as part of an investigation into suspected misconduct tied to share offerings. The operation marks the second time in three months that Hong Kong’s top financial regulator has gone after offshore subsidiaries of state-linked Chinese banks. In March, the SFC targeted units of Citic Securities and Guotai Junan International in a similar enforcement action. Together, these raids represent one of the most significant regulatory crackdowns on the brokerage sector in nearly a decade. ## What…

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance TR continues to both distribute rewards and entertain its users. As part of the latest event, cryptocurrency users have the chance to earn points by participating in the Chestnut Kebab contest four times a day via the Binance TR app, and subsequently win an iPhone 17 Pro Max 256 GB or a digital gift voucher worth 500 TL. The event, running from May 6, 2026 to June 6, 2026, allows each user to play four times a day, with the right to do so renewed at midnight. Users earn 1 point for each chestnut successfully roasted…

BANA Protocol, a well-known Web3 infrastructure network, has collaborated with AI6, an AI-led automation and computation ecosystem. The partnership endeavors to advance intuitive infrastructure and cutting-edge AI innovation across the Web3 network. As BANA Protocol revealed in its official announcement on X, the partnership denotes the rising momentum backing AI-powered Web3 growth. Thus, the alliance serves as a forward-looking move to driving the digital infrastructure’s next epoch. https://twitter.com/i/status/2059160080248164681 BANA Protocol and AI6 Partner to Advance Web3 Adaptability and Performance BANA Protocol and AI6’s partnership aims to develop more autonomous, more scalable, and smarter Web3 infrastructure. In this respect, the development…

Crypto analytics platform Arkham Intelligence posted a satirical meme on Tuesday, spotlighting the City of Roswell, New Mexico’s onchain bitcoin holdings of 0.173 $BTC, currently valued at a modest $13,000. Key Takeaways: Arkham Intelligence flags Roswell, NM, holding 0.173 $BTC worth $13,000 onchain as of May 26, 2026. The City of Roswell launched the first known U.S. municipal bitcoin reserve in April 2025 via donations. Mayor Pro Tem Juliana Halvorson signed a ceremonial receipt, setting a ten-year $BTC holding mandate. City of Roswell, NM Sits on $13,000 in $BTC as Arkham Tracks It Onchain The post, framed as a tongue-in-cheek…

Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 network Base has launched a new tool that lets artificial intelligence agents directly interact with users’ crypto wallets and decentralized finance applications through plain-language prompts, marking a new step in the convergence of AI and crypto infrastructure. The product, called Base MCP, connects a user’s Base Account to AI clients such as ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an emerging standard that allows AI systems to securely interface with external tools and applications. With the integration, users can ask AI agents to send funds, swap tokens, check balances, review transaction history and…