Crypto analyst Maartunn has stated that the US government may sell its holdings of Bitcoin, including those seized from the dark web marketplace Silk Road, on May 26, August 7, October 19, and December 30 in 2023.
Maartunn believes that the US government may follow a "73-day interval" selling pattern. Previously, the US government had sold 9,800 Bitcoin for $215.7 million, with the goal of selling approximately 41,500 BTC in four batches throughout 2023.
On May 26, CoinShares released its latest weekly report indicating that digital asset investment products experienced an outflow of $1.47 billion last week, marking the second consecutive week of negative growth. This represents the third-largest single-week outflow since 2026, following two weeks in late January that saw $1.7 billion in outflows. Bitcoin alone saw an outflow of $1.315 billion, setting a record for the largest single-week outflow since 2026, surpassing the peak at the end of January. Year-to-date, Bitcoin outflows have decreased from $3.9 billion the previous week to $2.6 billion, highlighting the potential for a rapid reduction in cumulative holdings in 2026 during periods of heightened risk aversion. Ethereum experienced an outflow of $222.8 million, remaining roughly stable compared to the previous week. Other cryptocurrencies continued to attract some inflows, albeit at a smaller scale than the previous week: XRP saw an inflow of $31.8 million, Near attracted $9 million (notably with an asset management scale of $74 million), Solana received $7.7 million, Sui brought in $2.9 million, and Multi-asset inflows totaled $4.7 million.
Market data shows that ETH has fallen below $2100, currently priced at $2099.65, with a 24-hour decline of 0.4%. The market is experiencing significant volatility; please ensure proper risk management.
Astarter's four products - Launchpad, DEX, Money Market, and Tech Service Platform - are collectively completing a strategic repositioning, shifting from traditional DeFi infrastructure to the financial primitive layer of autonomous AI agent economy. The project team has released this direction signal in the March 2025 product update. This repositioning is not a product restructuring, but rather redirecting the existing four-year production level stack towards a larger Al Agent market - there are structural differences between Agent and human users in terms of financial primitive needs, and existing DeFi is difficult to directly serve. Astarter emphasizes that this positioning adjustment is "identification rather than transformation" - the same four products, a larger addressable market.
On May 26, Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Noriyuki Nishimura emphasized the importance of timely policy adjustments to maintain market participants' confidence amid recent sell-offs in Japanese government bonds. Nishimura stated on Tuesday, "Regarding monetary policy and long-term interest rates, we believe it is crucial to adjust the degree of monetary easing at an appropriate pace in response to future economic, price, and financial conditions, thereby maintaining market confidence that inflation will be adequately controlled." His remarks seem to suggest that the Bank of Japan is open to interest rate hikes in the near future. Nishimura, along with BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda and other officials, has recently stressed the need for a responsible approach to the financial market, as the market widely anticipates a rate hike at the BOJ's meeting next month. Meanwhile, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi subtly signaled last week her hope for the BOJ to maintain policy stability, as she seeks to mitigate the economic impact of the war in Iran. Nishimura stated, "The Bank of Japan will strive to implement policies appropriately to maintain this market confidence and achieve price stability goals in a sustainable and stable manner."
On May 26, spot silver plummeted by 3%, falling below $76 per ounce. Spot gold also dropped by 0.84%, breaking below $4530 per ounce.
On May 26, the STAR 50 Index's decline widened to over 3%. Among the constituent stocks, SMIC and Zhongwei Company both fell more than 5%.
On May 26, the yield on the two-year Treasury note fell by 6 basis points to 4.0595%, while the yield on the ten-year Treasury note also dropped by 6 basis points to 4.5034%.
On May 25, it was announced that the Listing Review Committee of the Shanghai Stock Exchange will hold its 31st meeting of 2026 on June 1, 2026, to review the initial public offering of Yushu Technology Co., Ltd.
May 25, 2026 — According to official sources, AI.Claw Foundation announced that it has completed the full acquisition of the on-chain capital market infrastructure DexFV, and has simultaneously rebranded it as DexSK, aiming to establish it as the flagship Perp-DEX product within the AI.Claw Foundation ecosystem. Together with Strikebit.ai, SuperStrike, and other ecosystem components, it will comprehensively initiate the strategic convergence of the Web3 + AI Super Agent Financial Ecosystem.
With the rapid rise of the DeFAI (Decentralized Finance x Autonomous AI Execution) category in 2026, Astarter has secured the "clearing layer" position within this space, which remains unclaimed by competitors. Astarter is a decentralized AI + DeFi (DeFAI) infrastructure built for Web4, designed to create an economic system executable by AI, enabling autonomous AI agents to independently perform on-chain trading execution, strategy optimization, and real-time data processing. Industry comparative analysis reveals that the first three layers of the AI Agent economic architecture are already occupied by leading projects such as Olas, Virtuals, and Fetch.ai, leaving the "clearing layer" long vacant. Astarter, with its operational DeFi stack of four products since 2021, stands as one of the few publicly recognized projects to claim this position.
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