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**Bitget Market Data: Situational Awareness LP Holdings Post Broad Uptick on May 9** Per Q4 2025 filings, Situational Awareness LP (SALP) positions saw a general rise on May 9, with select holdings below: - Bloom Energy (BE): +0.92% - CoreWeave (CRWV): -11.4% - Core Scientific (CORZ): +2.5% - Lumentum (LITE): +1.26% - Sandisk Corp (SNDK): +16.6% - Intel (INTC): +13.96% - Applied Digital (APLD): -0.67% - IREN (IREN): +7.65% - Cipher Mining (CIFR): -0.65% - Bitdeer (BTDR): -2.67% - Coherent (COHR): +5.03% **Fund Background** SALP founder Leopold Aschenbrenner— a 25-year-old German investor (born 2001/2002)—previously worked at FTX Future Fund and served as an OpenAI researcher in 2023 (fired in 2024 over alleged leaks and non-cooperation with investigations). In June 2024, he published the 165-page blockbuster paper *Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead*, detailing AGI’s near-term timeline and strategic importance. He then launched the eponymous AI-fo

On May 9, enterprise blockchain infrastructure firm Antier Solutions announced it has closed a $3 million funding round led by GVFL, per AMBCrypto. The fresh capital will be allocated to three core priorities: advancing secure transaction capabilities, verifiable workflows, and enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure; expanding deployments in government and the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) sector; and scaling its business across the U.S., Middle East, and Asia-Pacific markets.

On May 9, CoinMarketCap’s April 2026 Exchange Monthly Report revealed Binance ranked first globally across key metrics: reserve size, trading volume market share, and ETH market liquidity. Key findings include: - Binance’s April reserves totaled $149.75 billion, representing 68% of tracked market reserves. Its stablecoin reserves topped $50.69 billion—cementing it as the exchange with the largest absolute liquidity reserves in the market. - Among 12 major exchanges, total monthly trading volume hit $45 trillion in April. Binance held the top spot with a 36.23% market share. - Its derivatives-to-spot trading ratio aligns closely with the market average, reflecting a healthy balance between spot and derivatives operations (no overreliance on either segment). - In spot liquidity, Binance’s ETH market ±2% order book depth reached $13 million—up 10.5% month-over-month—securing its status as the deepest ETH execution venue globally.

Cerebras, the AI chipmaker dubbed a "NVIDIA challenger," is set to go public on May 14 under the ticker CBRS. Its IPO price range is $115 to $125 per share, with a $3.5 billion fundraising target at the top end of that range. In January, OpenAI signed a $10 billion-plus cooperation deal with Cerebras and holds warrants to purchase over 33 million shares. Cerebras’ chip stands out for occupying an entire silicon wafer’s surface—unlike traditional chips, which typically have dozens etched onto the same wafer. Its single wafer-level design packs 400 trillion transistors and roughly 900,000 AI-optimized cores, plus up to 44 GB of on-chip memory and 21 PB/s of memory bandwidth—thousands of times better than GPUs. This design eliminates the inter-chip communication bottleneck of traditional setups, making it ideal for large-scale AI training and inference, including trillion-parameter models. On Hyperliquid chain’s perpetual DEX Trade.xyz, Cerebras’ pre-IPO price has surged 17.8% in

On May 9, Circle’s Layer 1 blockchain Arc announced its Developer Grant Program is now accepting applications. The program will fund high-quality teams to build production-grade systems on the Arc network, leveraging USDC (Circle’s stablecoin) and the Circle Developer Platform. Key focus areas include payments, treasury management, foreign exchange, and the agentic economy.

May 9th — Per HTX market data, Ondo Finance’s native token ONDO led gains in the market Wednesday. As a real-world asset (RWA) tokenization DeFi platform, the surge is backed by several recent bullish developments, with the most notable being an announcement from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) earlier this month. The DTCC announced the formation of an industry working group, selecting Ondo to help advance tokenization in U.S. capital markets. The firm also plans to launch limited trading of tokenized assets in July. Ondo will collaborate with traditional and decentralized finance (TradFi/DeFi) players including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Franklin Templeton, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citadel Securities, NYSE, Circle, Fireblocks and Robinhood on the initiative. On the business front, Ondo Global Markets has expanded its tokenized U.S. stock and ETF offerings to over 260 assets—primarily targeting non-U.S. investors—with cumulative tokenized