According to Arkham monitoring, someone accidentally sent 90% of their BTC assets to Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet address last night. They were trying to swap Ordinal for PupsToken, but ended up sending almost their entire wallet balance - about $7,000 worth of BTC.

According to official data, within the 7 days ending on May 16th, Circle issued 1.8 billion USDC, redeemed 1.6 billion USDC, and the circulation increased by 200 million. The total circulation of USDC is 33.2 billion US dollars, and the reserve is 33.4 billion US dollars, of which 3.8 billion US dollars are in cash, and Circle Reserve Fund holds 29.6 billion US dollars.

Phoenix Group, a listed mining company and blockchain technology provider for Bitcoin, released its Q1 financial report, with the following main points:

CoreDAO announced in a post on X platform that the Core Foundation has launched a $5 million innovation fund. The fund is currently mainly targeting the Indian market and has established strategic partnerships with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and some top venture capital companies to support the development of innovative blockchain projects in the country. At present, the fund has opened project funding applications.

According to Coinglass data, there were liquidations totaling $139 million in the past 24 hours, with a total of 56,471 people being liquidated.Of these, long positions were liquidated for $83.5374 million, short positions were liquidated for $55.4391 million, BTC was liquidated for $39.2379 million, ETH was liquidated for $26.5550 million, and SOL was liquidated for $10.2312 million.

Greeks.live data shows that on May 17th, 18,000 BTC options with a put/call ratio of 0.63 and a maximum pain point of $63,000 (nominal value of $1.2 billion) will expire. Additionally, 320,000 ETH options with a put/call ratio of 0.28 and a maximum pain point of $3,000 (nominal value of $930 million) will also expire. Greeks.live states that this week, inspired by the meme stock craze in the US, BTC ETFs have seen significant inflows, causing BTC to surge above $65,000. However, the rest of the crypto market remains weak, with trading volume continuing to decline, and the divergence in the options data of BTC and ETH reflects this. Looking at the structure of bulk trades and market trades, the downward trend in IV for major deadlines has ended and entered a consolidation phase, with limited downside potential at present. BTC longs and shorts are relatively balanced, while the weak ETH price has led to a continuous decline in market confidence, with selling calls becoming the absolute main transaction.

On May 17th, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced that 1 billion USDT had been issued on the Tron Network early this morning Beijing time, but not yet released. This means that the amount will be used as inventory for the next issuance request and chain exchange.

The Hashgraph Association (THA) has announced a strategic partnership with the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) to establish a $50 million digital asset venture studio called Digital Assets Venture Studio, which will support the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions that comply with regulations and digital assets based on the Hedera distributed ledger technology (DLT) network. They will also invest in Web3 startups and DeFi projects supported by Hedera.

According to Coinglass data, there were liquidations of $159 million across the entire network in the past 24 hours, with long positions being liquidated for $44.75 million and short positions being liquidated for $114 million. Bitcoin liquidations were approximately $58.41 million and Ethereum liquidations were approximately $21.29 million.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, a total of 800 million XRP were locked in three transfer transactions to Ripple's custody address this morning, with a value of approximately 476 million US dollars.