🔹Dell has officially rejected a shareholder proposal suggesting the company hold Bitcoin in its treasury reserves. 🔹On May 9, Dell stated the proposal was “complex” and could interfere with sound decision-making and management autonomy. 🔹The board emphasized that strategic investment decisions should be made by the management team, not mandated by shareholders.
📌 This highlights the cautious stance many traditional firms still take toward crypto—even as some investors view BTC as an inflation hedge.
🔹Dell has officially rejected a shareholder proposal suggesting the company hold Bitcoin in its treasury reserves. 🔹On May 9, Dell stated the proposal was “complex” and could interfere with sound decision-making and management autonomy. 🔹The board emphasized that strategic investment decisions should be made by the management team, not mandated by shareholders.
📌 This highlights the cautious stance many traditional firms still take toward crypto—even as some investors view BTC as an inflation hedge.
😓 Whale Loses $453K in 3 Days Trading $TRUMP On-chain analyst @余烬 reports: A whale withdrew $4M USDC from Binance 3 days ago and spent it buying 276K TRUMP at $14.4 each. Just 1 hour ago, he rage-sold them all at $12.8, losing $453K. 💀
🇯🇵 Japan’s Metaplanet Goes Bigger on BTC Publicly listed firm Metaplanet just announced a $15M zero-coupon bond issuance to buy more Bitcoin! 💡 Earlier this month, they made BTC a core treasury strategy 💡 Zero-interest issuance shows long-term conviction in BTC 💡 Following MicroStrategy’s playbook — now Japan joins the “Bitcoin company” trend 🏯
🔎 Bitcoin Volatility Hits Lowest Level Since February As of May 12, Bitcoin volatility has fallen for four straight days, now at 1.88%, returning to levels last seen in late February, per Coinglass.
What this drop may signal:
Reduced speculative trades & retail FOMO
A potential consolidation phase or market cooling
Macro stability (e.g., inflation, rates, geopolitics) contributing to lower volatility
BitsLab’s TonBit, Once Again Discovers a Vulnerability in the TON Virtual Machine: RUNVM Instruct...
The RUNVM instruction vulnerability causes library corruption when a child VM exhausts gas, leaving the parent VM’s libraries in a cleared state despite continued execution.
TonBit demonstrated the vulnerability through a proof-of-concept test showing how XLOAD operations fail after RUNVM execution due to emptied libraries.
As TON’s Primary Security Assurance Provider, TonBit follows responsible disclosure practices and has submitted mitigation plans to the TON Foundation for patching.
Crypto Weekly Outlook (5/12-5/18)|Inflation, Regulation, and Unlock Events Converge
Key macro events dominate: April CPI data (May 13) and SEC tokenization roundtable (May 12) may sway crypto markets amid inflation and regulation uncertainty.
Major token unlocks ahead: WBT (1.19B),ARB(1.19B),ARB(42.3M), and AVAX ($41.5M) releases could pressure prices unless offset by bullish demand.
Fed policy in focus: Powell’s speech (May 15) and CPI data may hint at rate-cut timing, impacting crypto’s risk-asset appeal.
WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: MAY 12–18, 2025 (MACRO + ON-CHAIN EVENTS)
🧨 Trump’s TruthSocial Meme Coin Coming in 72 Hours?
According to @cryptomanran, a Meme coin linked to Donald Trump’s TruthSocial platform will launch within the next 72 hours.
Trump Media previously announced plans for a utility token tied to TruthSocial. Is this a new wave of politics x crypto hype just ahead of the U.S. elections? 🇺🇸💥
AlphaX 2.0: DeAgentAI Ignites the Next Wave of Autonomous Crypto Trading
AlphaX 1.0 achieved 72.3% accuracy in crypto price predictions by combining Transformer architecture, Mixture-of-Experts technology, and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback mechanisms.
AlphaX 2.0 introduces the DeAgentAI framework to solve identity, continuity, and consensus challenges in blockchain environments through on-chain states and entropy function mechanisms.
The integration of specialized MoE capabilities, human-aligned RHF training, and DeAgentAI’s robust framework positions
🪙 Binance CEO Richard Teng: Bitcoin Is a Resilient Store of Value "In times of global economic uncertainty, #Bitcoin remains the flagship crypto asset and a resilient store of value," tweeted Binance CEO Richard Teng.
🏦 He added that as institutional adoption rises, BTC will play a greater role as a hedge and as "digital gold" in diversified portfolios.
🔥 Institutional trust is forming the new narrative for BTC.
🐋 “Zero-Win Whale” Shorts ETH Again with $12.45M at $2491 On May 11, on-chain analyst EmberCN spotted a familiar face: the “always-top-shorting” whale is back! 😬
💰 Borrowed 5,000 ETH ($12.45M) from Aave 📉 Shorted ETH at $2,491
🔙 Last time, he shorted 10K ETH before a major pump, and barely escaped with a $430K loss. Had he held, losses would've hit $7M today 😵
Will history repeat itself again? Or will he finally win one? 👀