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The agenda for Binance Online, set to broadcast live on Binance Square from 11:00 AM UTC on May 13, reads less like a typical conference rundown and more like a map of crypto's most consequential narratives. Four hours of programming pull together voices from Binance leadership, layer-one ecosystems, institutional finance, venture capital, and independent research — a lineup that reflects how rapidly the industry's center of gravity is shifting from speculation to infrastructure.
For builders, investors, and policymakers tracking the next phase, the session themes are as telling as the speakers themselves.
Scaling From 300 Million to 3 Billion Users
The day opens with Binance Co-CEOs Yi He and Richard Teng outlining a "300 Million to 3 Billion" vision — a framing that puts user growth, not price action, at the heart of the industry's next decade. It's a thesis that aligns with where serious capital is positioning: distribution and utility over short-term cycles.
That conversation extends into The Evolution Era, where Teng is joined by Lily Liu of the Solana Foundation and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse to discuss scalability, developer adoption, and the institutional integration now defining the maturity curve.
Where Smart Money Is Actually Going
The capital allocation panel — featuring Chamath Palihapitiya, Binance founder CZ, and Anthony Pompliano — is positioned to be one of the day's most-watched segments. The framing, "Where Smart Money Is Moving Now," signals a focus on emerging narratives, sector rotation, and how sophisticated investors are reading conditions that retail often catches late.
For those building research discipline, the BYOR (Build Your Own Research) framework session with Messari, DL Research, and CoinMarketCap offers a practical counterweight — a reminder that conviction without methodology rarely survives a full cycle.
Bitcoin, Tokenization, and the Institutional Bridge
Two sessions stand out for anyone tracking the convergence of crypto and traditional finance:
Adam Back on Bitcoin's Long Arc
Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream and one of the few names cited in the original Bitcoin whitepaper, will revisit the cypherpunk foundations and discuss Bitcoin's long-term significance — a perspective worth absorbing as ETF flows and sovereign accumulation reshape the asset's identity.
BlackRock on Tokenizing Capital Markets
Rob Goldstein, COO of BlackRock, joins Binance's SVP of Finance Kaiser Ng for a conversation on tokenization — arguably the clearest signal of how the largest asset manager in the world views on-chain infrastructure as core to the future of capital markets.
AI, Stablecoins, and the BNB Chain Roadmap
Nina Rong of BNB Chain leadership will outline priorities around stablecoins, real-world assets (RWAs), and agentic finance — three categories absorbing disproportionate developer attention this cycle. Ella Zhang of YZi Labs follows with a session on the blockchain-AI convergence, while Thomas Gregory, Binance's VP of Payments, addresses what it takes to turn crypto into everyday financial utility.
Why This Event Matters
Beyond the $10,000 in live giveaways and the 3,000 USDC pre-registration reward pool, Binance Online is positioned as a state-of-the-industry briefing. The selection of speakers — spanning Solana, Ripple, BlackRock, Blockstream, and top research desks — suggests Binance is using the platform to frame the conversation, not just host it.
For anyone serious about understanding the forces shaping crypto's next chapter, the agenda is a strong indication of where the smart attention is going. Pre-registration is open on Binance Square.

The U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) annual rate for April recorded a 6% increase, marking the highest level since December 2022. According to Jin10, this figure surpassed market expectations, which had anticipated a 4.9% rise.

On May 13, 2026, 11:04 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has dropped below 680 USDT and is now trading at 679.559998 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 2.67% increase in 24 hours.

At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on May 13 to begin a state visit to China.

Binance Co-CEO Yi He said the most significant transformation at the world's largest crypto exchange over the past few years has been one that users cannot see from the outside: a fundamental rebuild of the company's internal structure and talent base.
Speaking during the opening session of Binance Online on May 13, Yi He pushed back on the assumption that Binance's headline achievement is simply user growth. "From outside, probably you feel, oh, Binance users grow a lot and achieve three hundred million. But internally, I think the biggest change is definitely the organization structure — much, much more powerful," she said.
She framed people as the foundation of everything else the company has built. "Everything comes from the right people. If you have the right talent density, then you can improve your team, you can grow your user size, you can have more business developing. That's normal," Yi He told viewers.
The second shift, she said, is a cultural rebalancing — preserving Binance's founding identity while adding institutional discipline. "We keep our DNA. And at the same time, we are really working to improve our compliance culture, while hiring a lot of fantastic people who joined our group."
Yi He also pushed back on prevailing market sentiment. "From external people, you feel, oh, it's bear market, it's terrible. But we can see the industry day by day stronger. People are not just looking at trade. Blockchain tech is actually deeply involved in the real world, and TradFi is cooperating with the crypto industry. We are together."

 

Binance founder CZ said AI agents will likely outperform most human financial advisors — and that Binance has already deployed AI trading bots that operate within user-controlled risk parameters.
Speaking at Binance Online on May 13, CZ acknowledged the current risk profile of fully autonomous AI investing. "For agents to handle large amounts of money for you is right now a little bit risky because AI is so new. They don't have a lot of guardrails around them."
He pointed to a feature Binance has already shipped. "Binance already released some AI trading bots or agents, and they can work on a segregated wallet. So you can limit the amount of funds that the AI agents have access to. What I read online is the feedback is actually quite positive. People are able to use different agents to do different strategies."
CZ said the user experience shift is the most significant change. "This type of strategies, you don't have to code yourself anymore. You can just have a conversation as a prompt. So I advise people to try it."
He was direct on where AI will replace traditional finance professionals. "AI will be very good financial advisors. Many of us have financial advisors who are humans. But to be very frank, there are some really good ones, but the average financial advisor is not that great."
He explained the structural weakness of the existing advisor model. "They're just people who give you random advice — sort of random advice to get you to buy stuff. The advice is generic. It's not individually tailored. They don't understand your background. They don't understand a lot about you. So I think agents will be much better on those fronts."

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya laid out his four highest-conviction AI investment themes for 2026 at Binance Online on May 13, signaling that the AI capital cycle is shifting decisively toward the physical layer of the stack.
"The last decade has mostly been gearing up for this moment, which is this movement around AI. Most of it originally, I spent a lot of time swimming around in silicon and that part of the stack," Palihapitiya said.
The first theme, he said, is what he called "dirt to token" — the full vertical from land to inference. "It means the land parcel that wraps the data center, that wraps the racks, that then wraps the chips that generates the token. And right now, the cost of all of that is extremely high. The reason is because it's a very fragmented go-to-market."
The second theme covers two specific physical AI components he described as "the fulcrum assets." The first is prismatic LFP, "which is the power source of robotic AI." The second is actuation, "which is really around rare earths and the entire supply chain of the metals and materials that are needed to drive actuation."
The third theme is software — but not at the consumer layer. "The next software layer that has to sit on top of all this AI, which is more of like a control plane. That's largely where most of my current time is being spent."
The framing positions Palihapitiya squarely against the consumer-facing AI narrative dominating public conversation, and points to where some of the most sophisticated capital is now deploying.

Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng grounded the exchange's 3 billion user ambition in a measurable global gap — and a strategy built around regulation, asset class expansion, and round-the-clock trading.Speaking at Binance Online on May 13, Teng credited his co-CEO with setting the bar high. "Kudos to Yi. The three billion was Yi saying that we need to aim very high, we need to be ambitious, and we need to serve our users much better."He pointed to financial exclusion as the addressable opportunity. "I travel the world quite a bit, including many frontier and emerging markets. And I see even today, one point four billion people excluded from financial services globally. That is something we need to solve. And crypto is here to solve that problem. That's why we are very passionate about freedom of money globally."Teng said the path to that user base runs through both product expansion and regulatory positioning. "We need to continue to run faster on user protection. How do we make sure that we become a multi-asset class, multi-jurisdictional platform? We brought a lot more new products throughout the course of this year, from precious metals to petrochemicals to stocks trading."He pointed to 24/7 markets as a structural advantage over legacy finance. "By allowing for twenty-four seven trading, institutions and retail love it because they can manage risk much better compared to traditional platforms. They can hedge their exposure, they can take positions as and when news comes in."On the regulatory front, Teng said Binance now occupies a position no other exchange holds. "We are the only exchange globally to have a home regulator that regulates us end-to-end by the FSRA in ADGM. And we are the most regulated exchange, with more than twenty jurisdictions regulating us."His conclusion: the 3 billion target is a discipline. "It forces us to really think outside the box on how to serve our users much better."

Three of the crypto industry's most influential executives — Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu, and Binance CEO Richard Teng — used a recent panel at the Binance Online event to explain why the Clarity Act has become the industry's most-watched piece of pending legislation.Each executive approached the topic from a different angle, but their analyses converged on a shared conclusion: the current regulatory environment, while constructive, requires legislative codification to deliver durable institutional adoption.The Institutional ArgumentGarlinghouse framed the issue in terms of how large financial institutions approach regulatory risk."The big financial institutions have leaned out because they don't know if the next head of the SEC might be more like the last one, which was very aggressively attacking and frankly seeking to kill the industry in the United States."He explained that banks operate on long planning horizons that require regulatory durability beyond any single administration. "Banks in the United States have had enough experience and long tenure to know that the next head of the SEC might be more like the last one."Garlinghouse acknowledged that current SEC leadership has been supportive, describing Chairman Paul Atkins as "a very constructive partner that is protecting consumers but also unlocking innovation." His argument was that constructive leadership alone is insufficient for institutions making multi-decade capital allocation decisions.He noted that current institutional crypto activity represents a fraction of what's possible. "Some of the names that have started to dabble — Franklin Templeton and BlackRock — they are leaning in. But as a percentage of the capital they have available to them, it's still tiny."Garlinghouse offered a specific prediction on timing: "I think these prediction markets have the likelihood of around 70% of this passes this year. So I think we may see President Trump sign something before the end of the summer."The Structural ArgumentLiu approached the topic from the perspective of why US legislation matters disproportionately in a global industry."The United States is about 15% of global GDP, but between 50 and 60% of global capital markets."She explained that this asymmetry creates particular weight for US regulatory decisions. "Given the dominance and influence of US on the global economy, many people will look to the United States for guidance. And not just in a spiritual sense, but the ability to actually participate in a blockchain world, because ultimately at some point it still hits the fiat banking system, which the United States obviously has a lot of influence into."Liu also articulated a regulatory philosophy that has shaped industry frustration over the past several years. "Regulating through regulation rather than regulating through enforcement is a really important thing for us to get right right now."The distinction matters because enforcement-driven regulation establishes rules through individual cases and settlements rather than through written guidance that builders can read in advance. Liu argued that codified legislation provides the clarity that enforcement actions cannot.She also noted that even friendly administrations are temporary. "We came from a very hostile administration from 2020 to 2024. Now it's a very crypto-friendly administration. But in the same way we had a sea change a couple of years ago, you can have a sea change again."The International ArgumentTeng added context about how US legislation affects global regulatory dynamics, pointing to the recently passed GENIUS Act as a working example."It's not only prompted institutions to act within the US, but it prompted international regulators and policymakers to formulate their own stablecoin to make sure that they keep pace with what's happening in the US. Hong Kong issued their own stablecoin and stablecoin licenses recently."Teng described the pattern as a two-way effect of US policy. "Under the last administration, a lot of good crypto firms' developments started to flow out from the US because of that anti-crypto environment. Under President Trump, you'll see a lot of new developments coming out from the US again."He noted that the international response to US clarity tends to follow predictable patterns, with jurisdictions including Hong Kong, the UAE, and Singapore moving to align their frameworks when US legislation creates competitive pressure.What the Clarity Act Would AddressThe Clarity Act, currently moving through the Senate Banking Committee, would establish codified rules for crypto categories beyond stablecoins, including questions of asset classification, custody requirements, and exchange operations.Liu described the expected effect by reference to GENIUS. "What happened after the GENIUS Act certainly unleashed the whole payments industry in the United States, where people saw stablecoins as being a really foundational upgrade in terms of how you move money around the world. The Clarity Act would do the same for non-payments use cases — regulated financial institutions being able to actually sort of jump into blockchain."Garlinghouse described the expected institutional response in similar terms. "With the Clarity Act, you'll see the largest financial institutions leaning in in a way we've never seen before."Where the Three Executives AgreeAcross different framings, the three executives converged on the same core point: the current crypto-friendly regulatory environment is an asset that requires codification to become permanent. Friendly administrations are temporary. Legislation is durable. The window for codification is open now, and the panelists' shared position was that the industry should treat its passage as the central near-term priority.Garlinghouse's 70% probability estimate, drawn from prediction markets, represents the most concrete near-term forecast. Whether that estimate proves accurate will likely shape the trajectory of US crypto adoption over the next several years.

Blockaid has unveiled Risk Exposure, a real-time compliance suite designed for institutional use. According to NS3.AI, the platform is capable of screening over 500 million transactions monthly. The suite offers tools to screen inflows before funds are accepted and to monitor wallets, pools, and counterparties for any tainted exposure. This launch is targeted at banks, asset managers, custodians, and payment processors that are engaged in continuous onchain operations.

SoftBank Group has announced that its cumulative paper gains from investments in OpenAI have reached $45 billion as of the end of March. According to Odaily, this figure reflects the significant appreciation in value of its stake in the artificial intelligence company.

Binance founder CZ said the most important work in crypto right now is making blockchain infrastructure "agentic ready" — so that AI agents can transact, store data, and execute trades natively.
Speaking at Binance Online on May 13, CZ said payments are the most obvious intersection. "Payments is definitely one of them. We want to make all crypto infrastructure agentic ready. So when agents want to use crypto, they can call a skill or API and the agents can just use it."
He outlined three specific infrastructure requirements. "The infrastructure should be micropayment ready, large amounts of data ready. If agents want to save a large amount of data in a decentralized fashion, we need to have the infrastructure for it. And we need to be able to support fast, high volume, but low transaction values of each agent."
CZ said the biggest user-facing shift will come in trading. "Agents should do all the trading for you. You shouldn't have to click on a chart, enter a price, enter a number on your mobile phone, and then click a button. That's just clunky. You should just say, look, I want to convert ten percent of my portfolio or ten percent of my stablecoins into BNB. And the agent just does it for you in the background. You'll figure out the best price, where to do it, etc."
On capital deployment, CZ echoed Chamath Palihapitiya's view that infrastructure offers steadier — if lower-multiple — returns. "In AI infrastructure, you can deploy a very large amount of capital, and the return multiple-wise may be smaller than a very successful software or model or language model company. But the return will be very steady."
He acknowledged the competitive dynamic now reshaping software. "With the advancement of AI, creating new software is much easier now. For somebody to copy somebody else's software idea, it's going to become cheaper and easier. But software does have network effects. Once you build a platform, users are with you. I don't know how those forces will converge over time."

JPMorgan is reportedly developing a tokenized money market fund based on Ethereum. According to NS3.AI, Kinexys Digital Assets will manage the fund, which will include U.S. Treasury bonds and ultra-short-term repurchase agreements. The fund is intended to serve as collateral for stablecoin reserves under the GENIUS Act.

Charles Schwab has announced that its Schwab Crypto accounts are now being gradually opened to retail clients. According to PANews, starting today, the initial group of clients can trade Bitcoin and Ethereum alongside other investment products through Schwab.

Binance Co-CEO Yi He said the biggest risk to Binance's ambition of becoming the world's financial super app is not regulation, competition, or market cycles — it is hiring.Speaking at Binance Online on May 13, Yi He was asked what keeps her up at night about Binance's race to outpace traditional banks and rival exchanges chasing the same vision. Her answer was direct. "If you ask me something that makes me cannot sleep well every night, I feel that's probably about the talent density."She explained the logic of why people, rather than capital or strategy, are the binding constraint. "Binance always keeps hiring. If we can find the right people in our group, we can have more innovation. If we can have more innovation, we definitely can drive the financial future."The mission, she said, is broader than serving sophisticated investors. "This means more people have a better financial service — not just professional investors or institutional users. That includes people like a nanny, people in this world who don't know what money is, who don't know what financial service is."Yi He pointed to Binance's current scale as a foundation rather than a finish line. "In this moment, we cover more than one hundred countries already. We have three hundred million users. If you ask me, is that enough? I think that's just the beginning."She closed with a framing that drew an explicit line between Binance and legacy financial services. "A lot of financial service companies really want to help professional investors. They care about how much they earn. For me, if we can build a platform for the world and let normal people live better, that's our goal."

Boyaa Interactive anticipates a net loss of HK$470 million to HK$500 million for the first quarter of 2026, primarily due to valuation losses on its Bitcoin holdings. According to NS3.AI, this projected loss represents a 110% to 120% increase compared to the same period last year. Despite this, the company reported improved profitability in its core gaming business.

Solana's P-Token upgrade is now live on the mainnet, significantly enhancing transaction efficiency. According to Foresight News, this change can increase transaction efficiency by up to 20 times. The upgrade reduces the computational cost of token instructions by approximately 96% and frees up an additional 12% to 13% of block space without altering block limits.

Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng said the company has undergone a drastic transformation since he joined in August 2021, pivoting from a crypto-native exchange to a global, multi-jurisdiction financial infrastructure platform — without losing the cultural traits that built it.
Speaking at Binance Online on May 13, Teng said the leadership's most important ongoing decision is preserving what he called Binance's foundational DNA. "The important, conscientious decision that Binance leadership management make on a day-to-day basis is to maintain the DNA of Binance, which is extremely important — keeping Binance user-focused, user-first, being very hardcore, being very collaborative. Those are the unique DNAs that continue to make us successful."
Beyond culture, Teng pointed to a structural shift in how the company operates. "If you look at the talent density, we have transformed. If you look at the organization structure, we have transformed drastically," he said. "We have pivoted very strongly to become a global infrastructure. We have pivoted very strongly to be the most regulated exchange globally."
He said the pivot required new categories of talent across functions traditionally absent in crypto-native firms. "We need many more talents across TradFi, regulator functions, control functions, and of course all of our front office functions, from marketing to business development."
For Teng, the result is a company that has scaled across asset classes and jurisdictions while protecting what made it work in the first place. "It's very exciting to see the company continue to keep its core DNA and strength, while at the same time being able to pivot and become something that continues to grow multi-jurisdiction, multi-asset class."

Emerging market currencies experienced a narrowing of gains following the release of the U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) data. According to Jin10, the PPI figures have influenced market sentiment, leading to adjustments in currency movements. The data release has prompted investors to reassess their positions, impacting the performance of various emerging market currencies.

European stock markets saw their gains narrow following the release of U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) data. According to Jin10, the STOXX Europe 600 Index remained largely unchanged throughout the day, reflecting the market's cautious response to the economic indicators from the United States.

Sei Labs announced that Sei Network has officially disabled the IBC asset transfer function following a community proposal. According to Foresight News, users holding IBC assets on the Sei Network are advised to transfer their assets cross-chain promptly, as the network plans to further disable IBC asset withdrawal in the future. Sei Labs noted that the Sei v6.4 upgrade in April included a mechanism to disable IBC asset transfers. Wallets holding these assets have previously received airdrop notifications, urging users to complete bridging or exchange operations before Sei fully transitions to an EVM-only architecture. This move indicates Sei's gradual shift away from the original Cosmos IBC ecosystem compatibility towards an EVM chain focus.

Aethir Claw has introduced a Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) layer, integrating API quotas from leading models such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google into its platform subscription. According to Odaily, this allows users to pay once for a comprehensive stack, covering everything from VPS hosting to model inference, without needing to register separately with external LLM providers or manage API keys.

The next step for Aethir Claw is to deploy mainstream models on Aethir's proprietary GPU network, aiming to achieve true data sovereignty at the inference layer.

Aethir is a prominent platform in the decentralized GPU cloud computing infrastructure sector. Its network spans 94 countries with over 200 nodes, deploying more than 430,000 GPU containers. The platform has delivered nearly 1.8 billion hours of computing time, serving over 150 partners and enterprise clients. The GPU hardware includes NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell generations, such as H100, H200, B200, and B300.

Gold prices experienced a brief decline of approximately $10 following the release of U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) data. According to Odaily, the U.S. dollar index (DXY) saw a short-term increase of 6 points in response to the data.

Semiconductor company stocks have seen a remarkable surge, contributing to the rise in U.S. stock markets. However, this significant increase has also raised concerns about potential market overheating, prompting some investors to prepare for a market correction. According to Jin10, even investors who are optimistic about the sector are preparing for a cooling of this trend. The performance of the semiconductor sector has led some to compare it to the internet bubble of 1999-2000.

"Whenever you see any asset experiencing a parabolic rise, you have to ask yourself: Is the market becoming too overheated?" said Peter Tuz, President of Chase Investment Counsel Corp in Charlottesville, Virginia. Tuz mentioned that the company sold its holdings in Qualcomm from its income portfolio on Monday, although other portfolios still hold stocks including AMD and Nvidia.

On Tuesday, related stocks experienced a pullback, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closing down 3%. Some investors are increasingly bearish on the sector. Notable investor Michael Burry, known as "The Big Short," stated on Tuesday that he continues to hold put options on the iShares Semiconductor ETF, which grants the right to sell the asset.

Futu's subsidiary, Leopard Trading, and Dingdian Finance have successfully completed a transfer test of the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin 'HKDAP' on the Ethereum mainnet. According to Foresight News, the test involved converting fiat Hong Kong dollars into reserve assets, with Standard Chartered Bank ensuring full backing for all HKDAP transfers. Following the test, all HKDAP were fully redeemed. The two companies plan to continue their collaboration, aiming to launch HKDAP in phases by the end of the second quarter of 2023.

Conviction buyers currently hold nearly 4 million BTC, marking a 300% increase since the end of 2025. According to Foresight News, this represents the largest accumulation over two quarters since the COVID-19 pandemic crash.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov has called on U.S. lawmakers to pass the CLARITY Act, emphasizing its importance ahead of a Senate Banking Committee vote. According to NS3.AI, Kulechov believes the bill could be a pivotal moment for decentralized finance (DeFi), providing developers with enhanced protections and greater confidence to innovate within the United States.

Tokenized Treasury total value locked (TVL) has reached $15.35 billion, surpassing the mid-April peak. According to NS3.AI, this increase is attributed to stronger expectations of Federal Reserve rate hikes. As a result, some investors are opting for yield-bearing tokenized Treasury bills over spot cryptocurrencies. Meanwhile, Bitcoin remains stable above $80,000, reflecting the ongoing investor interest in digital assets despite the shifting capital preferences.

April's Consumer Price Index (CPI) experienced a 0.6% rise for the month, contributing to a 3.8% increase over the past 12 months. According to NS3.AI, this data reflects ongoing inflationary pressures in the economy. In related legislative developments, the Senate Banking Committee has unveiled a 309-page draft of the Clarity Act. This draft is set for a markup session on Thursday, with over 100 amendments submitted for consideration. The Clarity Act aims to address regulatory issues and provide clearer guidelines for financial markets.

According to the announcement from Binance, the platform is set to expand its trading options on Binance Futures by introducing several new perpetual contracts. These contracts will be available starting from 2026-05-15, with launch times staggered throughout the day. The new contracts include LITEUSDT, ORCLUSDT, DISUSDT, UBERUSDT, CSCOUSDT, and HDUSDT, each offering up to 10x leverage. The underlying equities for these contracts are Lumentum Holdings Inc., Oracle Corporation, Walt Disney Company, Uber Technologies, Cisco Systems, and Home Depot, respectively.

Each of these perpetual contracts will be settled in USDT and will feature a tick size of 0.01 and a minimum trade amount of 0.01 of the respective underlying equity. The minimum notional value for trading is set at 5 USDT. The funding rate for these contracts is capped at +2.00% or -2.00%, with funding fees settled every eight hours. The interest rate of the funding rate is maintained at 0%, and trading will be available 24/7. Additionally, the Multi-Assets Mode is supported, allowing users to trade these contracts across multiple margin assets.

Binance notes that these contracts are exempt from the 8.1 Adjustment of Funding Interval rules, meaning the funding interval will not change from every eight hours to every one hour, even if the funding rate cap or floor is reached. Binance reserves the right to adjust the specifications of these futures contracts based on market risk conditions. This includes potential changes to the funding fee, tick size, maximum leverage, and margin requirements. Users are advised to refer to this notice for the most accurate and updated information regarding these new perpetual contracts.

On May 13, MediaTek announced the release of its Dimensity AI Engine 2.0 and Dimensity AI Development Kit 3.0. According to Jin10, MediaTek's Director and General Manager, Chen Guanzhou, highlighted that over the past three years, the growth of Dimensity AI ecosystem partners has increased by 240%, while downloads of the development kit have surged by 440%. As the world's largest mobile chip supplier, MediaTek has been rumored to collaborate with OpenAI to develop system-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones, with plans for mass production expected by 2028. Li Junnan, Senior Director of Technology Planning at MediaTek's Wireless Communications Division, stated, "We are actively exploring these new opportunities, and the role of large models in AI is seeking multiple development paths, which we believe hold significant potential." However, MediaTek did not directly comment on specific company collaborations.

The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April, adjusted for seasonal variations, decreased to 0.6%, marking the lowest level since February this year. According to Jin10, this figure aligns with market expectations.

BlackRock has recently made significant cryptocurrency deposits. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, on May 13, BlackRock transferred 861 Bitcoin and 44,691 Ethereum into a centralized exchange (CEX). This move highlights BlackRock's ongoing engagement with digital assets.

Alibaba is advancing its AI capabilities through significant innovations, according to ChainCatcher. The company has recently launched a series of new large language models and multimodal models, achieving notable progress in model intelligence. In March, Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Plus, which has shown substantial performance improvements, particularly in programming and intelligent programming, setting industry standards in front-end web development and complex warehouse-level tasks.

Qwen3.6-Plus also features enhanced multimodal perception and reasoning abilities, with a native context window length supporting up to 1 million tokens, and improved stability and reliability. In addition to the Qwen model family, Alibaba is expanding its specialized model offerings. This includes the world model HappyOyster, which supports real-time creation and interaction, and the multimodal model HappyHorse for video generation, both currently in beta testing.

Bitcoin's price movements are poised to impact liquidation levels significantly, according to ChainCatcher. Data from Coinglass indicates that if Bitcoin falls below $76,977, the cumulative liquidation intensity for long positions across major centralized exchanges could reach $1.574 billion. Conversely, if Bitcoin surpasses $84,537, the liquidation intensity for short positions could total $1.497 billion.

Strategy has initiated its Bitcoin accumulation using STRC. According to Odaily, the company has raised sufficient funds to purchase 17 BTC.

Charles Schwab has launched spot trading for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) for its U.S. retail clients, implementing a trading fee of 0.75%. According to NS3.AI, the rollout of this service is being conducted in phases. The trading infrastructure is supported by Paxos, a well-known blockchain technology company.

A Nasdaq-listed company reported a net loss primarily due to $92.3 million in unrealized losses on digital assets, according to The Block. The firm attributed the financial setback to the depreciation in the value of its digital asset holdings, impacting its overall financial performance. This highlights the volatility and risk associated with holding digital assets, which can significantly affect a company's financial results.

PANews posted on X (formerly Twitter). Anthropic and OpenAI have recently issued warnings regarding unauthorized equity transfers, including those conducted through SPVs, tokenized instruments, or forward contracts. These transactions may be deemed invalid and unrecognized by the companies. This announcement has led to a significant decline in related PreStocks tokens on the Solana blockchain. Data indicates that the price of Anthropic PreStocks has fallen by approximately 38%, while OpenAI PreStocks have decreased by about 46%.