CoinMarketCap's April 2026 Exchange Platform Report: Binance Leads in Platform Reserves and Trading Volume

**May 9th Brief** Per HyperInsight monitoring (via t.me/HyperInsight), the Hyperliquid whale known for scalping strategies briefly opened a 40x-leveraged short position on BTC. The position totals $15.3 million, with an entry price of $80,600, take-profit at $80,100, and stop-loss at $80,700. This is the whale’s third trade this week targeting narrow price gaps with a large position. While the position tops $15M, total net profit across all these operations is roughly $8,000—equating to less than 2% in overall account returns. Address: 0x6572bc26edf54a74bef243eff10d3fbe6d461eb7

IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) has released its Q3 fiscal 2026 performance and key business updates, per monitoring from Dongcha Beating. The bitcoin mining firm signed a $340 million, 5-year AI Cloud contract with NVIDIA, deployed Blackwell GPUs, and secured a 5GW strategic partnership. NVIDIA holds an option to subscribe to up to 30 million shares of IREN common stock, with a potential $2.1 billion investment. IREN is accelerating its shift from bitcoin mining to AI Cloud, targeting 480MW of capacity by 2026 (fully contracted operating capacity, with contracted annual recurring revenue (ARR) hitting $3.1 billion and a year-end target of $3.7 billion). Under-construction capacity is expected to reach 1.21GW by 2027. Acquisitions of Nostrum (490MW in Spain) and Mirantis will strengthen its European footprint and software capabilities, while locking in 5GW of global power resources. For Q3, IREN reported total revenue of $14.48 billion (down sequentially, primarily due to lower bi

On May 9, Bitcoin mining firm DMG Blockchain launched a new subsidiary—DMG Infrastructure—to support its future artificial intelligence/high-performance computing (AIHPC) operations, with plans to pivot its data centers toward the AI/HPC sector. DMG also reported April mining totals of 21 BTC, down from 23 BTC in March. As of April 30, the company held 389 BTC, a 9-BTC decrease from the prior month. Its current hash rate stands at 1.54 exahashes per second (EH/s), down from 1.63 EH/s in March.

**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.

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