A whale sold 20,000 ETH at an average price of $2059, totaling around $41.18 million.

May 23 – The Iran Civil Aviation Organization has issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for Iranian airspace, temporarily closing all airports in the western part of the Tehran Flight Information Region (FIR) except for 8 airports: Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Tehran Mehrabad International Airport, and six others not specified. These 8 open airports will only allow commercial flights, and access is restricted to daylight hours. The NOTAM is effective from May 22 through May 25, 2026. All airlines operating flights over or into Iranian airspace are still required to obtain prior clearance from the Iran Civil Aviation Organization.

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart said Grayscale has resubmitted its amended Hyperliquid ETF filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with this latest submission being Amendment #3 and confirmed to carry the ticker symbol "GHYP". Seyffart noted that as the application advances through the regulatory process, the Hyperliquid ETF may be nearing its launch phase — a development that will lead to three HYPE-related ETF products being available on U.S. exchanges in the future.

May 23 — A terrorist trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has targeted Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump for assassination, according to a report from the *New York Post*. The recently arrested 32-year-old suspect, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national, allegedly pledged to kill Ivanka and planned to stake out her residence in Florida. He reportedly targeted the Trump family to retaliate over the 2020 U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Iran’s top military commander Qasem Soleimani — a move he framed as revenge for the death of his mentor. Entifadh Qanbar, former deputy military attaché at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, noted, “After Qasem was killed, he (Saadi) went around telling people, ‘We have to kill Ivanka in revenge. Just like Trump burned our house, we will burn his house too.’”

On May 23rd, Bloomberg reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given Nasdaq the go-ahead to launch a Bitcoin price-based index options product. The new offering will provide U.S. stock market traders with an additional tool to gain Bitcoin exposure, separate from existing spot Bitcoin ETF options. Moving forward, investors can trade Bitcoin index options to speculate on or hedge against BTC price risks without needing to hold underlying spot assets or ETFs directly. Market watchers note this approval further underscores the accelerating convergence between traditional financial markets and the crypto asset ecosystem. Previously, products like BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) — which includes spot Bitcoin ETF options — were already seeing widespread trading activity among investors.

May 23 — Data shows the U.S. stock market’s 2026 Shiller P/E ratio has risen to roughly 39.5 to 41.7, marking the highest level in 25 years and coming in just below the roughly 44x peak hit during the 1999 internet bubble. Analysts point out this round’s valuation surge is largely driven by the AI theme, with gains fueled by tech giants spanning semiconductors, cloud computing, and AI infrastructure. A handful of large-cap tech stocks have accounted for most of the S&P 500’s gains, stoking concerns the current trend mirrors the 1999 internet bubble. However, a new report argues today’s landscape is distinct from the late 1990s: unlike the host of unprofitable internet firms back then, today’s AI industry leaders boast strong cash flows, mature business models, and high profit margins—providing far stronger fundamental support. The current AI investment frenzy has also expanded into data centers, energy, power grids, and enterprise-level AI applications. Still, analysts warn th

May 23: Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC announced that its second round of Series B financing is on track to wrap up, bringing the company’s total cumulative funding to around 5 billion yen. New investors joining this round include Life Design Fund, IHD STRATEGY FUND, funds affiliated with Awa Bank, and Meiji Yasuda Future Co-Creation Fund. JPYC said the new capital will be allocated primarily to system and application development, hiring talent to drive business expansion, scaling its stablecoin payment and management operations, and building machine-to-machine (M2M) payment scenarios powered by AI Agents. In 2025, JPYC secured a fund transfer service provider license issued by Japan and launched the JPYC stablecoin, which is pegged 1:1 to the Japanese yen, the same year. The company reported that within approximately seven months of launch, it has amassed 18,000 accounts, with cumulative issuance exceeding 2.5 billion yen and total transaction volume topping 35 billion yen. Cu