## Market Snapshot Trump’s Visit to China market indicates a 0.1% YES probability for a May 9 visit, while a broader timeframe until May 31 shows a 94.3% YES probability. These odds reflect strong market confidence in a visit occurring by the end of May. ## Key Takeaways – Market pricing suggests Trump’s planned visit
“I did not come here to poke at your trauma,” is not a thing I, Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko, expected to say to anyone, much less Scottish action star Gerard Butler. When we sat down to celebrate the release of Greenland 2: Migration with a game of “Slash or Pass,” I’d prepped to talk
Key Takeaways A whale wallet linked to Erik Voorhees bought 2,920 ETH for $6.67M on May 8, 2026, per Lookonchain. The wallet previously accumulated 123,184 ETH worth ~$266M before the latest purchase at $2,284. The buy came as a separate wallet offloaded $20M in ETH to Binance the same day. Massive Accumulation Adds to $266M
Bitcoin price slipped to $79,800, breaking below the $80,000 mark after a failed push above the $82,800 resistance, all while investors had a single bearish prediction. If your first instinct was to panic, you’re not alone. Round numbers feel like ceilings when price breaks through them on the way up, and they feel like floors
Polygon has launched one of the most important infrastructure upgrades in its history, and while the technical changes may appear small on paper, the impact could be significant for crypto users worldwide. The Ethereum scaling network recently reduced its block time from 2 seconds to 1.75 seconds. In simple terms, this means the blockchain can
Jim Chanos’ hedged MSTR short-sale is probably up 15-35% depending on the assumptions you make about his cost basis and fees. Source link
Chainlink CCIP just secured another major DeFi migration. Bitcoin-focused DeFi platform Solv Protocol announced that it is fully migrating to the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as part of its updated security strategy for cross-chain transactions. The move will cover more than $700 million in Bitcoin-related assets across SolvBTC and xSolvBTC. Solv Ends LayerZero
For five years, Strategy Inc.’s position was ironclad: accumulate Bitcoin and never sell. That changed last week. On May 5, 2026, during Strategy’s Q1 earnings call, CEO Phong Le and Chairman Michael Saylor signaled that the company could offload a portion of its 818,334 BTC — the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury in the world —
Key Takeaways Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said May 8, 2026, that the U.S. is very close to passing the Crypto Clarity Act. Senator Angela Alsobrooks says the yield issue blocking bitcoin market structure legislation is now resolved. The Crypto Clarity Act would define which digital assets are securities versus commodities in U.S. law. Landmark Legislation
Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have identified new ways to combat tuberculosis and reduce bacterial resistance, developing three new antibiotics derived from scorpion venom and habanero peppers. A team led by Lourival Domingos Possani Postay, from the Institute of Biotechnology’s Morelos campus, created two drugs that demonstrated efficacy against the bacterium