BREAKING: $435 million has been liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the past 12 hours.

May 25 — Crypto analyst Darkfost (@Darkfost_Coc) noted in a recent social media post that Binance’s Bitcoin (BTC) inflows have skyrocketed over the past 10 days. Data shows that since May 16, the average weekly BTC inflow to Binance stood at 378 coins; as of today, that figure has surged to 1,190 coins — more than tripling in just two weeks. Notably, on May 18 alone, daily BTC inflows topped 3,600 coins, hitting a high mark in Darkfost’s analysis. Additionally, Binance’s BTC reserves have bounced back from their April 24 low of 616,000 coins to today’s 632,000 coins, a 16,000-coin increase over the past month. Market participants widely interpret net inflows to major exchanges like Binance as a potential sell signal: users transferring BTC to trading platforms are most often doing so to offload holdings, reduce positions, or execute defensive asset reallocations. Against this backdrop, Bitcoin’s price has fallen by as much as 6.2% during the period. The current market remains in a p

May 25 (Bloomberg) — SoftBank Group Corp. is planning to raise 260 billion yen (approximately $2 billion) via a secondary bond offering targeted at individual investors, per Bloomberg. The move comes roughly two months after the Japanese tech giant’s most recent retail bond issuance. In regulatory documents the company filed on Monday, the new bonds will carry a 35-year maturity, with an issuer call option that becomes exercisable after five years. Pricing for the offering is set for June 5, with an initial coupon guidance range of 4.8% to 5.6% for the first five years.

Per monitoring from Dynamic Insight (via its Telegram channel at https://t.me/OneMillion_AI), Elon Musk has announced that Grok’s base model—V9-Medium (1.5T)—has completed training. The model’s evaluation results are positive. A large volume of Cursor data was integrated during fine-tuning, with additional data sets set to be added in the future. Fine-tuning is ongoing, and reinforcement learning is scheduled to begin in a few days. The official release is expected in 2 to 3 weeks. This will mark a significant improvement over the current V8-Small model (0.5T), which is currently handling all of Grok’s production traffic—especially when it comes to complex encoding tasks.

May 25th — Per monitoring from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel: https://t.me/HyperInsight), U.S. media reported that the U.S. and Iran have reached a comprehensive agreement to fully open the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. Secretary of State further confirmed a potential deal could be signed as early as Monday. In response, Brent crude and WTI crude oil futures both posted a 6% intraday drop. Additionally, Crypto KOL CBB0FE (wallet address: 0xefd3a) took a large short position in Brent crude worth $18.4 million. This position currently sits on a floating profit of $1.26 million, with a liquidation price set at $131.6.