Gate.io Launches INIT Perpetual Contract Pre-trading

On May 20, per OnchainLens’ monitoring, a crypto whale allocated $1 million in USDT to purchase 11,206 AAVE at an average price of $89.24, then deposited these tokens into Aave V3. The whale also holds 5,007 ETH, which is currently valued at $10.56 million.

Grafana Labs released a security update on May 20, confirming that the company suffered a targeted network attack on May 16. The attacker gained unauthorized access through a GitHub repository, downloaded its full codebase, and then issued a ransom demand. The incident stemmed from a compromise of the TanStack npm supply chain. After securing initial access, the attacker exploited a missed GitHub workflow token to breach Grafana’s internal repository environment. Grafana emphasized that its ongoing investigation has found no impact on customer production systems or the Grafana Cloud platform. The breach was limited to the company’s GitHub environment, including source code and some content from internal collaborative repositories—no code was altered during the attack. The company noted that the downloaded data may contain more than just source code: it could include internal operational details, business contacts’ names and emails, though no production system data was exposed. Foll

On May 20th, monitoring data from Lookonchain reveals that whale address 0xde42 sold 50,000 HYPE tokens worth approximately $2.41 million over the past 10 hours, and opened a 10x leveraged short position, bringing its total HYPE short holdings to 223,404 tokens (valued at roughly $10.55 million).

May 20: According to Bitget’s market data, the Nikkei 225 Index dropped 2.00% intraday, while South Korea’s KOSPI Index fell to 7,100 points, down 2.37% intraday.

On May 20, AI patent management startup Stilta announced it has closed a $10.5 million seed funding round. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the investment, with participation from Y Combinator (YC) and individual investors from firms including OpenAI, Legora, Sana, Lovable, and Listen Labs. The new capital will drive core growth: Stilta plans to hire engineers, patent specialists, and a marketing team, expanding its headcount to roughly 10 people over the next three to six months. The startup also targets opening an office in New York City by the end of this year or early 2027. Stilta builds AI Agent-powered patent management software focused on high-impact use cases: patent infringement detection, licensing opportunity identification, and litigation defense. Its platform analyzes hundreds of millions of patents, academic papers, and historical web data to help enterprises and law firms streamline their patent portfolio management. Founded earlier this year by former McKinsey teammate

GitHub officials announced on May 20 that the company is investigating an unauthorized access incident targeting its internal code repositories. As of now, there is no evidence indicating that customer data stored in GitHub-hosted repositories—whether for enterprises, organizations, or individual users—has been compromised. The company is actively monitoring its infrastructure to prevent additional abnormal activity, noting that it will notify affected customers through its standard incident response and notification channels if any user data or services are found to be impacted.