A newly created address withdrew 684,000 HYPE from Coinbase, worth approximately $40.7 million

May 22 – Per market sources, the UAE has joined Saudi Arabia and Qatar in urging Trump not to restart the war with Iran. (FX168)

Per Binance’s official announcement dated May 22, the crypto platform will add Genius Terminal (GENIUS) and OpenGradient (OPG) to the following Binance services: Binance Savings, One-Click Crypto Purchase, Instant Exchange, VIP Crypto Loans, and Margin Trading. Additionally, Binance’s Cross-Collateral and Isolated Margin products will support GENIUS and OPG as borrowable assets starting at 8:00 PM on May 22, 2026 (UTC+8). Corresponding trading pairs—GENIUS/USDT, GENIUS/USDC, OPG/USDT, and OPG/USDC—will be enabled for both cross-collateral and isolated margin trading in this release.

On May 22, CNBC reported that James Comer, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform, announced an insider trading investigation into prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket. Comer has sent letters to the CEOs of both companies requesting documents related to identity verification, geographic restrictions, and monitoring protocols for unusual transactions. Comer stated that internal records of the prediction market platforms are the only way to identify violators and assess whether the platforms are fulfilling their legal obligations. The investigation focuses on how the platforms prevent insider trading and the identity verification process for international accounts. The announcement comes amid a string of prior suspicious incidents involving the two platforms. Previously, a U.S. soldier was arrested for using insider information to bet on a change in the Venezuelan government, netting around $400,000 in profits. The New York Times recently reported tha

May 22 — Per Pyth’s official status page, Pythnet/Hermes has been offline for nearly four hours. All Price Feeds and Sponsored Feeds are currently impacted. The root cause of the outage has been pinpointed, and validators are coordinating a network restart. Service is expected to resume at 20:30 UTC.

On May 22, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor told CNBC during an interview that Bitcoin had dropped from a high of roughly $125,000 to around $60,000, where it found solid support, and is now entering a "spring" warm-up phase. Saylor noted the current price level has strong backing and anticipates the market will rebound from this point. Meanwhile, he highlighted that as the digital credit market takes shape, additional Bitcoin supply from miners is being fully absorbed by the market. He stated: "Our company may purchase all bitcoins produced by miners from now through the year 2140." Furthermore, Saylor cited advancement of the U.S. "CLARITY Act" and the SEC's "innovation exemption" policy for security tokenization as two major positives for the digital asset market.

Bitunix officially launched its Bitcoin Pizza Day limited-time lucky draw event on May 22. Here’s how it works: Users only need to register via the event page to participate, and every draw comes with a 100% win rate—no empty attempts here! The event runs through May 22 to May 26 (UTC+0). During the event window, you can earn extra draw opportunities by completing simple tasks: net deposits, contract trading, or subscribing to wealth management products. The maximum number of draws any user can get is 20. Prizes include both physical pizzas and USDT rewards, and if you’d rather have crypto instead of pizza, you can swap any physical prize for an equal amount of USDT. To mark Bitcoin Pizza Day, Bitunix is also inviting users to explore the platform’s professional trading tools, which serve as a one-stop hub for trading cryptocurrencies, stocks, and commodities. Through these diverse activities, Bitunix keeps rewarding its global community of users within its ecosystem with fun per