May 25 – OKX will support the Base network upgrade, per official announcements. To ensure a smooth upgrade, all deposits and withdrawals for Base network tokens will be suspended starting at 01:00 UTC+8 on May 29, 2026. Deposit and withdrawal services will resume once the network stabilizes after the upgrade is completed.

May 25 — Global markets are fixated on U.S.-Iran talks and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but capital is now zeroing in on a far bigger question: When high inflation, high interest rates, and sovereign debt risk collide, do central banks still have the firepower to stabilize markets like they’ve done for over a decade? While a U.S.-Iran framework is gradually coming together — including a limited reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a 60-day interim deal, and restarted nuclear negotiations — major gaps remain on highly enriched uranium, sanctions relief, asset unfreezing, and the Lebanese front. That means even as markets start pricing in de-escalation, capital hasn’t fully flipped back to a full risk-on mode. More notably, markets are seeing a phenomenon rare over the past two years: rate hike expectations are making a comeback. U.S. rate futures now fully price in a Fed rate hike as early as October, with a 25bps increase locked in by year-end. Fed Governor Christopher Waller

May 25, per Hyperinsight Monitoring (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight), last November, the Ventuals platform on Hyperliquid rolled out pre-IPO assets for three leading tech unicorns—SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic—over a single month. Current total open positions across these three assets sit at roughly $14.7 million. Since the launch of their respective contracts, all three assets have posted significant price increases: - SpaceX: Starting at ~$450 (implying a $4.5 trillion market cap), up 412% - OpenAI: Starting at ~$550 (implying a $5.5 trillion market cap), up 138% - Anthropic: Starting at ~$326 (implying a $3.26 trillion market cap), up 340% If an equal, 1x leveraged long position was taken on all three assets on their opening days, the overall portfolio would have generated an approximate 297% return. Meanwhile, the HyperInsight Bot is now live. To access its features, add @HyperInsightBot to your community, assign it administrator privileges, and enable message-sending pe

May 25 – Futu Securities (Hong Kong) issued a statement on recent regulatory developments tied to a new cross-border securities industry rectification plan unveiled by eight Chinese government agencies. This sector-specific rule targets all financial firms offering overseas securities and fund trading services to mainland Chinese investors, including relevant brokerages, banks, and other financial institutions. The firm warned that any institution claiming exemption from these eight regulators’ new requirements may be fraudulent, advising users to retain all written communication as proof to protect their assets. The mainland’s updated regulatory guidance applies only to investors across the industry who hold only a mainland Chinese ID card or passport, with no foreign citizenship or identity documentation. If a user holds any of the following foreign identity materials, their account and all trading services will remain unaffected: Hong Kong Permanent Resident Identity Card; Hong Kon

May 25. According to a new report from crypto research firm FalconX, leading exchange Hyperliquid is now competing directly with traditional trading platforms and prediction market operators, with its business expanding well beyond core perpetual futures trading. The report points out that Hyperliquid has recently entered new domains including IPO pre-market trading, prediction contracts, and Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization—moves that are broadening its appeal to traders who aren’t native to crypto ecosystems. Its native token, HYPE, has hit a new all-time high even as the broader crypto market struggles with weakness. Specifically, Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 market—where users can trade stocks, commodities, forex, and IPO pre-contracts 24/7—is growing, with speculators betting on pre-listing prices for companies like Cerebras, Anthropic, and SpaceX. The platform has also launched HIP-4, an outcome market analogous to prediction platforms that lets traders wager on binary results for po

On May 25, cybersecurity firm PeckShield announced its MistEye threat detection system uncovered a cross-registry supply chain attack. The attacker pushed over 34 malicious packages (across more than 384 total versions) to npm, PyPI, and crates.io, targeting developers in the cryptocurrency, DeFi, Solana, Sui/Move, and AI industries. These malicious packages were built to siphon sensitive data including crypto wallets, SSH keys, cloud credentials, GitHub and AWS tokens, browser data, environment variables, and developer secrets. Some payloads also attempted to maintain persistent access to compromised systems via .cursorrules, CLAUDE.md, Git hooks, shell startup scripts, cron jobs, systemd services, and SSH configurations. Developers and security teams are advised to take immediate action: remove all affected packages, isolate any impacted systems, retain incident logs for investigation, rotate any exposed credentials, rebuild CI environments and developer workstations from clean, un