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On May 18, trading platform Hyperliquid announced that open interest for its Real World Asset (RWA) trading has hit a new all-time high of $2.6 billion—double what it stood at just two months ago. Hyperliquid noted that market demand for 24/7, on-chain trading of real-world assets continues to grow.

On May 18th, Galxe published a security update noting that a leaked internal key has affected its deprecated Galxe SpaceStation V2 contract. Galxe emphasized that this incident does not impact any user wallets or fund security—even if users have interacted with the affected contract in the past, their wallet assets are fully secure. The platform clarified that the issue is limited to the contract level, the root cause has been identified, and security controls are being updated. A full report will be released once the investigation wraps up.

May 18 data from trade.xyz’s Pre-IPO segment shows that SpaceX (ticker: SPCX) trading on the platform ran for 12 hours, logging a trading volume of $41.96 million and reported total holdings of $27.27 million. As of press time, SPCX is priced at $210, corresponding to an implied valuation of $2.493 trillion. The initial trading price of SPCX stood at $150, calculated based on a fully diluted reference share count of 11.87 billion shares, which translates to an initial reference market cap of $1.78 trillion. BlockBeats earlier reported that trade.xyz’s Pre-IPO segment officially kicked off SpaceX trading under the SPCX ticker at 7:00 AM Beijing Time today.

May 18th – Even though the U.S. Senate Banking Committee greenlit the "Clarity Act" last week, which lays out the clearest framework yet for regulating the crypto industry, the souring macro environment is draining market risk appetite – hitting crypto assets too, per crypto analyst Omkar Godbole. He points to three major headwinds pressuring the space right now: First, U.S. bond market volatility has exploded. The MOVE index, which tracks Treasury market swings, jumped 14.7% last Friday to 79.87 – its highest point since April 7. Since U.S. bonds underpin the global financial system as core collateral, rising yields and volatility usually weigh on risk assets and trigger broad deleveraging. Second, yen depreciation risks are flaring. USD/JPY has climbed from 155 to nearly 159 lately, closing in on the 160 level where the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has historically intervened. Markets fear if the BOJ steps in to prop up the yen, it could spark unwinding of the popular "carry trades" funded

May 18 — According to monitoring from PeckShield, the attacker behind the Adshares cross-chain bridge exploit has returned 256 ETH to the project’s deployer address. The returned funds, worth roughly $540,700, account for about 86% of the total amount stolen in the prior breach. Earlier, the Adshares cross-chain bridge was attacked on May 17, 2026, causing losses of approximately $628,000.

On May 18, Binance Futures will announce the launch of the CBRSUSDT U-settled perpetual contract, which is set to go live on May 19, 2026, at 09:30 UTC. The contract will support up to 10x leverage.