Strategy founder Michael Saylor stated in the May 21st podcast "When Shift Happens" that Bitcoin is more suitable as a long-term wealth storage tool than real estate, gold, and stocks. He believes that sports cars will depreciate, luxury consumption will depreciate, and Bitcoin is the only asset that can maintain its value for decades or even generations.

According to The Block, Tom Lehman, co-founder of Layer2 network Facet, proposed to include EIP-8182 in Ethereum's Hegota upgrade planned for the second half of 2026. This proposal provides privacy transfer functionality for ETH and ERC-20 tokens through a protocol level "Shielded Pool", designed with UTXO architecture, without administrator keys, proxy contracts, or pause mechanisms, and uses Growh16 zero knowledge proof to verify transactions. Lehman stated that a unified protocol level privacy pool can solve the problem of anonymous sets being fragmented due to user dispersion in current privacy protocols, and can be shared and used by all wallets and applications.

According to reports, influenced by market expectations of easing tensions between the US and Iran, Bitcoin prices have rebounded from around $75000, with traders expecting it to hit $80000 and potentially trigger a large number of short selling liquidations. Analysis indicates that the $80000 to $80500 region is home to a large number of highly leveraged short positions, and if prices continue to rise, it may trigger a new round of short selling. On chain analysis platform CryptoQuant suggests that Binance's net inflow of Bitcoin has significantly increased in the past 10 days, with monthly reserves reaching approximately 16000 BTC, which may be a potential selling pressure signal. In addition, there has been a capital outflow from the US spot Bitcoin ETF, and the Coinbase premium index has turned negative, indicating a weakening of institutional demand. Analysts warn that Bitcoin's current rebound is driven by leverage and may face large-scale liquidation risks in the future.

Last week, Stripe purchased approximately $80 million worth of Bitcoin, adding 794 new coins and increasing its holdings by 5.16%. （Bitcoin Archive）

According to official announcements, Binance leverage will remove cross leveraged trading pairs such as COW/USDC, SKL/USDC, COTI/USDC, and COW/USDC position by position leveraged trading pairs on May 29, 2026 at 14:00 (UTC+8). Users need to close their positions and transfer out assets before the deadline, and the platform will automatically settle and cancel all pending orders.