Crypto Market Fear Subsides Significantly, Today's Fear and Greed Index at 45

May 26. The newly emerging "Tech Small-Cap Guru" Serenity posted on social media, stating: "SIVE is the most attractive Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) concept stock to me, even with its high volatility. You may have to wait years for the next architecture-level change in photonics technology to get another opportunity like this. Most major laser suppliers have already reached market capitalizations of several hundred billion dollars, but SIVE—one of the key 'bottleneck' components in the CPO laser sector—currently has a market cap of just $2.3 billion." Financial reports typically only confirm capacity ramp-up signals that have already materialized; in investing, most market profits are earned "before official confirmation," not after—this is a fundamental rule of the game. BlockBeats Note: Serenity is a highly influential senior trader on Reddit’s WallStreetBets (WSB) forum, with a year-to-date (YTD) total return rate of over 3,800%. Their core research is consistently high-quality, publi

May 26 – UBS Group raised its price target for Micron Technology (MU.O) from $535 to $1,625.

On May 26, official sources confirmed that Sharplink Gaming (ticker: SBET) has announced its inclusion in the Russell 2000 Index and Russell 3000 Index. The index addition will take effect at the opening of U.S. markets on June 29, 2026, in conjunction with the Russell indexes’ semi-annual rebalancing.

May 26: Per LookOnChain monitoring, a whale that opened a short position ahead of a token’s hype-driven pump closed its short just one hour before the pump went live, resulting in a near $7 million loss.

On May 26, Strive CEO Matt Cole revealed on social media that he increased his bitcoin holdings by roughly $85.4 million, purchasing 1,109 coins at an average price of approximately $76,988 per bitcoin. His total bitcoin holdings now stand at 16,500 coins.

Per Bitget market data, pre-market trading for U.S.-listed cryptocurrency-related stocks picked up steam on May 26. Key pre-market gainers among these firms included: MARA rising 2.75%, RIOT advancing 2.74%, BLSH gaining 2.1%, BMNR jumping 2.91%, MSTR climbing 1.87%, and CRCL adding 0.34%.