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According to ME News on April 18th (UTC+8), forecast market data shows that under the event "What will be the impact on WTI crude oil in April 2026?", the probability of the "Yes" option for the question "Will WTI crude oil prices fall below $70 in April 2026?" increased from 7.5% to 60.5%, a single-day rise of 53.0 percentage points.

CryptoWorld News reports that Solmate Infrastructure announced it has raised approximately $11.4 million through a direct registration offering, issuing 2.3M Class B common shares at a price of $4.97 per share. The company plans to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including further development of its Solana infrastructure projects, financial operations, and balance sheet strengthening. Solmate also stated that the new funds will help expand its Solana staking, validator, and infrastructure projects in Abu Dhabi and other regions.

Crypto World News reports that well-known trader Loracle's HYPE short position is experiencing increasing unrealized losses, currently totaling $24,736,961.01, with a loss ratio of 116.32%. The average entry price for this short is $45.26, the current coin price is $58.98, the liquidation price is $83.35, and the position size is $106,329,173.87.

According to the official Paradigm announcement, Paradigm and Tempo's jointly developed self-hosted, secure AI agent runtime Centaur has officially open-sourced, supporting multi-user collaboration, can be used via Slack or API, and features sharing tools, long-running capabilities, restart recovery, organizational-level skills, and workflows. Centaur injects credentials during requests through firewalls, allowing agents to operate without direct access to the original keys; all persistent state is stored in Postgres and licensed under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at the earnings conference that the Vera CPU is designed specifically for agent-based AI, expected to open up an TAM of about $200 billion; Vera has sold about $20 billion this year. The company’s revenue this quarter was $81.6 billion, with guidance for next quarter at $91 billion. Jensen Huang stated that there will be hundreds of millions of AI agents worldwide, driving demand for CPUs, with major enterprises and system vendors deploying Vera.

a16z Crypto points out that the tokenized commodity market is almost monopolized by gold. As of 2026-05-07, on-chain tokenized gold is approximately $5 billion; tokenized silver is about $28.1 million, gold ETFs are around $14.1 million, and other commodities total approximately $2.95 million. Gold has characteristics such as global circulation, standardization, and being based on paper certificates, making it naturally suitable for tokenization. XAUt and PAXG map the ownership of gold reserves to on-chain wallets. Besides gold, tokenized oil, agricultural products, energy, and computing power are in very early stages.

ME News Report, May 15th (UTC+8), forecast market data shows that in the event "What price will Bitcoin reach in May?", the probability of the "Yes" option for the prediction "Will Bitcoin fall to $75,000 in May?" decreased from 54.5% to 33.5%, a drop of 21.0 percentage points in a single day.

CryptoWorld News reports that Federal Reserve official Barkin stated that the current policy is in good shape and capable of handling ongoing shocks. So far, long-term inflation expectations still appear to remain within manageable levels.

Google AI Studio officially launches a new paid subscription system, marking its transition from the preview phase to a commercial workstation. The paid plans include usage-based billing and Google AI subscriptions. Notably, the usage-based billing plan indicates access to all models and agents, implying that complex agent building and invocation capabilities will be natively integrated into AI Studio.

Analysts say the market's focus has shifted to whether Nvidia can continue to outperform expectations and provide better guidance. Despite strong earnings, investor reactions are muted, with attention turning to whether future growth is sustainable. Data center demand is central to the tech industry, and Nvidia is seen as a barometer of spending; if growth persists, whether other companies benefit becomes a key focus, which will also drive supply chains, energy, and capital expenditures, bringing inflationary pressures. The AI cycle is steady, but the market is pricing in a "perfect" scenario, and the future trajectory is more important than current data.

ME News Report, May 21 (UTC+8), Iran is "responding to the negotiation text sent by the U.S. side," currently discussing the "overall framework, some details, and trust-building measures as guarantees." The report states that the U.S. negotiation text has somewhat "narrowed the differences," but further narrowing of the gaps "requires the U.S. to abandon its warlike tendencies." The report also says that Pakistan Army Chief of Staff Munir will visit Iran to promote the narrowing of differences between Iran and the U.S. and facilitate the signing of a formal memorandum of understanding between the two sides. (Source: BlockBeats)

Hong Kong Police Force, in collaboration with law enforcement agencies from multiple countries through FRONTIER+, carried out cross-border anti-fraud operations from March 10 to May 7.
Ten jurisdictions arrested 3,018 people, involving over 138,000 cases, with losses of approximately $752 million, freezing 101,989 accounts, and intercepting about $161 million in scam funds.
The largest case was an account hijacking incident in April: a Singaporean company lost $36 million, with funds transferred through banks in multiple countries and stablecoins, ultimately intercepting $20 million.

ME News said the average forecast from 17 analysts shows that the European Stoxx 600 will end the year at 623 points, up about 1% from Wednesday’s close. The index has largely recouped the losses caused by the Iran war, but many believe the rebound will be difficult to sustain, and the full impact of energy costs has not yet emerged. Deutsche Bank, DekaBank, UBS Group, and Barclays have cut their targets, while HSBC is the most bullish, with a target of 670 points (about an 8% increase). TFS Futures and Bank of America remain the most bearish, forecasting about a 9% decline.

CryptoWorld News: A whale has increased its short position in ZEC by 1,842.31 coins on the HyperLiquid platform, approximately $1,212,791.91. The current position size is $6,256,584.32, with the average price adjusted from $672.62 to $671.98. The current profit and loss is +$30,304.15 (+4.84%), with the current coin price at $668.74 and the liquidation price at $2,485.20. This whale has long relied on market oscillations during downward trends, simultaneously going long on BTC and short on HYPE. Currently, with a total scale of $50 million in long BTC positions, the full-cycle profit exceeds $37 million.

ME News Report, April 17 (UTC+8), Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited today published a consultation document regarding shortening the settlement cycle for Hong Kong stock spot market ("Consultation Document"), proposing a new operational model to reduce the settlement cycle for Hong Kong stock spot market from the current T+2 to T+1, and seeking market opinions on the proposal. (Jinshi) (Source: ODIALY)

CryptoWorld News reports that Wu has learned that SUI has announced the launch of a gas-free stablecoin transfer feature on the mainnet. The official statement says this is a new protocol-level feature that allows users and businesses to perform peer-to-peer transfers without paying gas fees or holding SUI tokens, meaning that transfer fees for stablecoins supported on the SUI network are now $0. The first batch of supported stablecoins includes USDSui, SuiUSDE, AUSD, FDUSD, USDB, USDC, and USDY, and it has received support from Fireblocks.

UBS research report states that if the Middle East conflict is diplomatically resolved, investors will refocus on economic and earnings fundamentals, and global and U.S. stocks remain attractive. U.S. stocks' Q1 earnings are optimistic, with EPS growth of about 17%, the fastest since Q4 2021. Long-term ceasefires remain difficult, and the energy market recovery will take time, so Brent crude oil price forecasts have been raised from $90 per barrel to $100 per barrel, and ratings for energy-sensitive markets like the Eurozone and India have been downgraded to neutral.