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

May 9 – Amid rising memory chip costs and ByteDance ramping up its artificial intelligence (AI) push, the company has increased its 2024 AI infrastructure spending plan by 25% to 200 billion yuan, according to Jinse.

On May 9, Polymarket’s trading analysis tool Polyinsider reported that wallet address 0xc6dd...89F nailed a precise bet on the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire outcome, netting $34,000 in daily profits—its strongest daily showing lately. The address belongs to a high-win-rate “fundamental trader,” boasting a 70.4% historical win rate and roughly $78,800 in total realized profits. The big daily gain stemmed from its accurate call on the Polymarket event: “Russia-Ukraine ceasefire by June 30, 2026.” The event settled with a “YES” result, and the trader topped $1 million in daily trading volume, locking in its biggest single-day profit ever. To date, the address has completed 2,526 total trades and has a historical maximum drawdown of roughly $14,000.

May 9th — LookOnChain monitoring data shows whale address 0xDeB0 purchased 143,674 HYPE tokens, valued at $6.26M, over the past 12 hours.

On May 9, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officially launched the UAP/UFO Document Declassification Platform—a major milestone in U.S. government transparency. The site drew 340 million visits within 12 hours, including from U.S. citizens and global users seeking unfiltered truth about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. The Trump administration addressed public demand for clarity on the topic. The administration released 162 total documents via the new site war.gov/UFO: 14 images, 28 videos, and 120 written records, spanning 1947 to 2025. Since launch, internet users have debated several of the images. However, the critical question may not be “what was disclosed,” but “why now.” Undoubtedly, this was a carefully orchestrated political move by Trump—leveraging “Disclosure as a Service” for structured attention management, mirroring the December 2025 Epstein files release. Tactics included an independent website, ongoing updates, no offici

On May 9, prediction market Kalshi announced a partnership with Madison Square Garden (MSG), becoming the venue’s official prediction market partner. The sixth-floor lobby of MSG will be officially renamed the Kalshi Concourse, which will primarily host merchandise sales, dining options, and bars.