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ChainCatcher news, according to CoinShares' latest weekly report data, institutional digital asset investment products had a net outflow of about $1.07 billion in a single week, the third largest weekly net outflow this year, and ended the previous six consecutive weeks of net inflow. Affected by geopolitical risk sentiment related to Iran, funds were mainly withdrawn from Bitcoin, with a net outflow of $982 million for products, a net outflow of $249 million for Ethereum, the largest weekly outflow since January 30, and an outflow of about $133 million for blockchain stock ETFs. The United States was the main source of this outflow, about $1.14 billion; Swiss, German, Dutch and Canadian products recorded a small net inflow. At the same time, XRP and Solana recorded net inflows of about $67.6 million and $55.1 million, respectively, and Ton, Sui, Ondo, Chainlink, and Doge also had millions of dollars in inflows, indicating that some funds were selectively deployed outside of BTC and ETH.

Odaily Planet Daily News AEON announced the completion of an $8 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by YZi Labs, with participation from IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, Oak Grove Ventures, etc. The project's main business is to develop a settlement layer designed for interaction between AI agents. (theblock)

According to ChainCatcher news, Michael Saylor posted on the X platform that Strategy bought 24,869 bitcoins for about $2.01 billion last week, with an average price of about $80,985. As of May 17, 2026, Strategy holds a total of 843,738 Bitcoins, with a total holding cost of approximately $63.87 billion and an average price of approximately $75,700, with a year-to-date BTC yield of 12.6% in 2026.

AggrNews: *STRATEGY BUYS 24,869 BITCOIN FOR AGGREGATE PURCHASE PRICE $2.01B: BBG

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, AI settlement layer AEON has completed an $8 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by YZi Labs, with participation from IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund and Oak Grove Ventures. The structure and post-investment valuation of this round of financing were not disclosed. AEON plans to use this round of funding to develop a settlement layer designed to support interactions between AI agents. AEON launched its first AI payment product in May, enabling AI agents to connect to over 50 million brick-and-mortar merchants worldwide. Additionally, AEON has partnered with BNB Chain to launch x402 Facilitator, a product natively built on BNB Chain's infrastructure, providing verifiable transactions, on-chain settlements, and immutable receipts for service providers within the BNB ecosystem.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Geoffrey Kendrick, head of global digital asset research at Standard Chartered Bank, said that the total scale of on-chain tokenized assets is expected to reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028, of which stablecoins and real-world assets (RWAs) account for $2 trillion each. Standard Chartered believes that DeFi protocols with mature risk control systems and scalability will be the main beneficiaries of this trend, and the promotion of the Clarity Act in the United States may become an important catalyst for accelerating the on-chain of traditional finance in the near future. Kendrick pointed out that the core advantage of DeFi is "composability". In an on-chain environment, the same asset can simultaneously earn yields, act as collateral, and maintain liquidity, while traditional financial systems cannot achieve similar efficiency. He said that this structural advantage means "1+1=3". Standard Chartered cited BlackRock's tokenized U.S. Treasury bond fund BUIDL as an example, saying that this product can not only obtain about 4% of U.S. Treasury yields, but also can be converted into sBUIDL for DeFi, which can be used as collateral for lending protocols and as a reserve asset for products such as Ethena USDtb and Ondo OUSG. The report also pointed out that the current scale of off-chain assets is still about 1,000 times that of on-chain assets, and institutional-grade asset tokenization may become the core source of growth in the next stage of the industry in the future. In terms of institutional adoption, Standard Chartered mentioned that Aave's asset size was once comparable to that of the 38th largest bank in the United States, and the current daily trading volume of on-chain stablecoin lending has reached $1.5 billion to $2 billion. At the same time, Coinbase's Bitcoin lending product in collaboration with Morpho currently has a loan size of about $1.75 billion, covering about 22,000 borrowers, indicating that traditional financial institutions are gradually using DeFi as the underlying infrastructure.

According to Coinworld.com, Tencent Hunyuan and SSV Digital Culture Laboratory, together with the Institute of Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions, officially launched the first ancient character perception evaluation benchmark Chronicles-OCR covering the "Change of the Seven Bodies". The benchmark contains 2,800 images cross-annotated by experts, and for the first time, the difficulty of recognition of seven fonts, from oracle bones to cursive, is uniformly quantified. The research team evaluated 28 mainstream multimodal large language models and found that they were almost completely wiped out in ancient fonts. In the cross-era character detection task, the core indicators of GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro are close to 0, and the strongest model is only 16.5. Even if the positioning step is eliminated by drawing a frame directly on the graph, the highest accuracy is only 27.1%, of which Gemini 3.1 Pro has an accuracy of only 14.0% on oracle bones. This confirms that modern models rely heavily on regular, modern typography priors. The experiment also revealed a counterintuitive phenomenon: turning on the thinking mode will lead to a decrease in the recognition rate of ancient characters.

ChainCatcher news, Verus posted on the X platform confirming that the Verus-Ethereum cross-chain bridge was attacked, and ETH, USDC and tBTC in the Ethereum on-chain contract were stolen, and other bridge assets have not been affected so far. The Verus network is now suspended, and most block nodes have been voluntarily taken offline after encountering the impact of the attack. Verus said it is willing to cooperate with relevant law enforcement agencies to pursue legal responsibility; However, if the attacker returns the funds in full, the project team is willing to provide a bug bounty and will not be held accountable. Verus also reminds anyone who claims to be a member of the Verus team or community and offers a "compensation" or "compensation plan" in public channels, private messages, or other channels to be a scammer. Officials emphasize not to interact with anyone who claims to have a compensation project or provides compensation, and please report the relevant account to Discord or X platform in a timely manner. Previously, the Verus Ethereum cross-chain bridge was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $11.58 million.

ChainCatcher news, encryption technology company Quantography Labs announced the launch of the early access version of the crypto wallet Lock.com, which uses "isolated signing" and air-gapped architecture to achieve offline private key management without the need for dedicated hardware wallet devices. Officials say that Lock.com separates the signing environment from the networked broadcast environment: the private key is always stored in a completely offline device, and transactions are created and broadcast on the networked device, so as to prevent the private key from touching the Internet. The platform emphasizes that users can directly use existing devices without relying on third-party hardware vendors or supply chains. In addition, Lock.com integrates quantum-resistant cryptography architectures, including ML-DSA digital signatures and ML-KEM key encapsulation mechanisms, to enhance security in future quantum computing environments. Quantography Labs said that the current early access phase is mainly used to collect user feedback and prepare for the subsequent full opening.

ChainCatcher news, according to Gate market data, the US dollar index DXY fell nearly 20 points in the short term and is currently at 99.06.

Odaily Planet Daily News Sources close to the negotiating team revealed that the United States has accepted the temporary lifting of oil sanctions against Iran during negotiations in the new text, which was not included in the previous US text. Iran insists that all sanctions against Iran must be waived as part of the U.S. commitment, but the United States has proposed a temporary exemption from overseas asset control until a final agreement is reached.

ChainCatcher news, Galxe released a security update stating that a compromised internal key affected the retired Galxe SpaceStation V2 contract. Galxe emphasized that the incident did not affect the security of any user's wallet or funds, and that wallet assets are "completely safe" even if users have interacted with relevant contracts in the past. The platform said that the problem is limited to the relevant contract level, the root cause has been identified, and security controls are being updated, and a full report will be released after the investigation is completed.

ChainCatcher news, according to Paidun monitoring, the Adshares cross-chain bridge attacker has returned 256 ETH to the project deployer's address, worth about $540,700, accounting for about 86% of the previously stolen funds Previously, the Adshares cross-chain bridge suffered an attack on May 17, 2026, resulting in a loss of approximately $628,000.

ChainCatcher reported that although the U.S. "Clarity Act" successfully passed the Senate Banking Committee last week, bringing the clearest path to establish a complete regulatory framework for the crypto industry so far, the current deterioration of the macro environment is suppressing market risk appetite, and crypto assets are also under pressure. Crypto analyst Omkar Godbole said that the market is currently facing three major risks: First, the volatility of the US Treasury market has increased significantly. The MOVE index, which measures U.S. Treasury volatility, surged 14.7% to 79.87 on Friday, its highest since April 7. Since U.S. Treasuries are the core collateral of the global financial system, rising yields and volatility usually dampen the performance of risk assets and trigger widespread deleveraging. Second, the risk of yen depreciation continues to rise. USD/JPY recently rose from 155 to close to 159, approaching the key level of 160, which the Bank of Japan has historically been likely to intervene in. The market is worried that once the Bank of Japan intervenes and pushes the yen higher, it may trigger the unwinding of "carry trades" financed by low-interest yen, leading to a contraction in global liquidity. QCP Capital said that if the current large number of crowded yen carry positions are released in a centralized manner, it may impact global risk assets. Third, international oil prices continue to rise. WTI and Brent crude oil have both stood above $100 per barrel. Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), warned that global commercial crude oil inventories are falling rapidly due to the conflict in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the remaining inventories may only last for a few weeks. If oil prices continue to rise, it could re-push global inflation and further tighten financial conditions. Although the regulatory environment is improving, the current macro pressures – including bond market volatility, yen carry trade risks, and rising oil prices – have temporarily overwhelmed the crypto market, "currently dominated by macro factors." In addition, cross-chain bridge attacks have occurred frequently since 2026, and hackers have stolen approximately $328 million in assets through eight major bridge attacks, highlighting that the industry's infrastructure security issues are still prominent.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, BlackRock deposited 2,221 BTC (worth about $170.59 million) and 26,572 ETH (worth about $56.17 million) to Coinbase

Odaily Planet Daily News Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner has updated his "Situational Awareness Fund" stock holdings as of the end of the first quarter of 2026. According to the disclosure, its main heavy positions are focused on AI power, data centers, computing power infrastructure and Bitcoin mining companies. Among them, Bloom Energy holds $878.7 million, Sandisk holds $724.4 million, and CoreWeave holds $556.1 million. In addition, it also holds heavy positions in mining companies and AI infrastructure companies such as Iren Limited, Core Scientific, Applied Digital, Riot Platforms, Cleanspark, Bitdeer and Bitfarms, and holds semiconductor-related stocks such as AMD, Intel, TSMC, ASML, and Micron.

According to CoinWorld.com, KuCoin announced the launch of two emerging tokens on its Alpha platform: BABYTROLL and SPCX. The trading pair of BABYTROLL is BABYTROLL/USDT, based on the Solana public chain, and the contract address is 6qdzmx4c9rl2x3ns3swz8ueo4zredpjdxpaempo7pumpSPCX. The trading pair of SPCX is SPCX/USDT, also based on the Solana public chain. The contract address is E6IFP2MJY8cyqehugutfvrxrirkxruonlmrvtfypump. Users can start trading both tokens in the KuCoin Alpha area. Please note that the tokens listed on KuCoin Alpha may carry higher risks, including price volatility and potential capital loss. It is important to conduct independent research to ensure that the associated risks are fully understood.

Odaily Planet Daily News Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it took action in Qazvin province, Kerman province and other places to identify and arrest some people associated with the United States and Israel. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the personnel were "attempting to create insecurity or disrupt the country's economic system." (CCTV News)

According to Iran's Tasnim News Agency, citing sources from the negotiating team, Iran's new plan focuses on negotiations to end the war and measures taken by the United States to build trust. (Jin Shi)