Gold needed 5,000 years to become a trillion-dollar asset.
Bitcoin did it in 12.
Scarcity
Global access
Digital-native money
The speed of monetary evolution is accelerating.

JUST IN: Goldman Sachs cuts crypto ETF exposure in Q1, liquidating XRP- and Solana-linked ETFs while trimming Ethereum ETF and reducing Bitcoin ETF stakes; raises bets in Circle, Galaxy Digital, Coinbase, Robinhood, and PayPal. $BTC $ETH $SOL $XRP

$FABC owned 58,916 ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca, but panic sold it at the absolute pico bottom 😂
They are an AI semiconductor outfit pivoting into MicroLED optical interconnects for data centers.
Random, but I'll take it.

🏦 Kinfos Events has announced the Open Banking & PSD3 Forum 2026 in Frankfurt on October 6.
The forum will cover PSD3, PSR, Open Finance, API interoperability, embedded payments, fraud prevention, SCA, AI in finance, and instant payments.
🔗

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Metaplanet's CEO met with a Japanese lawmaker to discuss Bitcoin ($BTC) strategy.
No legislation yet, but it's the first direct policy conversation at this level.

100 years ago, no one knew which stock could rise 500k times.
Looking back after 100 years, the answer is almost brutally simple: cola, cigarettes, hamburgers, diapers.
Coca-Cola has increased about 500k times over 100 years, with an annualized return of around 15%;
McDonald's has increased 9,000 times;
Walmart 20k times;
Procter & Gamble 7,000 times...
These long-lived companies share a few astonishingly consistent common points:
First, they all originated in the United States;
Second, they have never been nationalized;
Third, they have enjoyed a long-term stable monetary an

The heated battle over cryptocurrency tax reform in South Korea is reaching a climax! The Democratic Party is insisting on collecting taxes in 2027, while the opposition party is calling for a complete exemption.
Latest news on May 18th, the most concerned tax issue in South Korea's crypto community finally has a clear direction!
Democratic Party member Zheng Taihao from the National Assembly's Finance and Economic Planning Committee directly stated: "The virtual asset taxation has already been postponed once, and this time it must proceed as planned!"
This is not just his personal opini

Many people advise me to take profits and sell, I say I want to reach 100,000 US dollars
This is probably the biggest correction of this year, I've never experienced such smoothness before
Missing out is missing out, and those who didn't follow up will be kicking themselves again
$BTC ‌#加密市场下跌15万人爆仓

More importantly...….
I believe in myself enough to keep building even when nobody’s watching.
and I believe crypto hasn’t really won until moving between chains feels so natural people stop calling it “cross-chain” at all.
@squidrouter

The target for Erbie is 15K.
The spot has reached this price—go long at 2x to avoid missing out.

BTC Bitcoin 2026/05/18 Gann Fortune Forecast
Green area: High rebound rate or sideways movement
Red area: Higher rate of decline or lateral movement
5/18 Overall bearish, but may surge then fall back
Weekly & hourly top and bottom predictions have been posted in the group
Schedule predictions are highly variable and not 100% accurate nor investment advice
#crypto # Bitcoin #btc       # Gann #MarketAnalysis

This is the web2 version of clicking on unsafe links and getting on that Zoom call for the paid KOL opportunity

$ETH The BTC-ETH market currently shows mutual downward pressure, with the bullish trend clearly weakening, the market is pulling back, still accumulating, the bearish trend has not ended, and all recent rises are just to lure in more buyers.

#GateSquarePizzaDay
THE BITCOIN PIZZA PARADOX: FOURTEEN YEARS OF FINANCIAL HISTORY
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Transaction That Changed Everything
SECTION ONE: THE HISTORICAL MOMENT
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made a decision that would echo through financial history. Living in Jacksonville, Florida, Hanyecz posted a simple request on the BitcoinTalk forum: he would pay 10,000 Bitcoin for two large pizzas.
A British user named Jeremy Sturdivant accepted the offer. He ordered two Papa John’s pizzas and had them delivered to Hanyecz’s residence. In return, Hanyecz transferred

#GateSquarePizzaDay
Bitcoin Pizza Day - May 22.
What’s the story:
May 22, 2010: Laszlo Hanyecz bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 BTC. That’s the first real-world BTC transaction, and now it’s celebrated every year as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
What Gate Square is doing in 2026:
Gate Square ran a “Pizza Day” campaign May 18-22, 2026 with:
Trading competitions
Prize pool in USDT and GT token
Leaderboards for spot and futures volume
Social posts & giveaways
Users post pizza/BTC memes, trade stories, predictions
Top posts win airdrops. Hashtag was
Educational push
Content on how far crypto’s come since 2010
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$STABLE $STABLEUSDT | 1h | Trend Reversal Long
Bias: Long
Entry Zone: 0.0368 to 0.0376
Stop Loss: 0.0347
Targets:
TP1: 0.0390
TP2: 0.0410
TP3: 0.0430
Invalidation:
Close below 0.0347
Why This Setup:
I’m looking for continuation after the strong rebound from the 0.0315 low and the reclaim of the 0.0370 area. Price is holding above the recent intraday support, and a clean push through 0.0382 could open a move back toward the prior swing highs.
#GateSquareMayTradingShare

🚨 Community Buzz Today: $LAB exposed for alleged price manipulation — but it still hasn’t crashed
📉 Heavy sell volume hitting the market
📉 ZachXBT claims the team controls most of the supply
📉 OTC deals and hidden wallets continue fueling controversy
Everyone’s discussing:
🔥 Why hasn’t LAB collapsed yet?
🔥 Buy the dip or start shorting?
🔥 How long can heavily manipulated coins keep surviving?
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Today Jiuyi placed an order, and the client reported a tenfold profit, real data! Come on, haters, prove me wrong! Thank you #TradFi交易分享挑战 #黄金 #FDC

My three favorite Vaults on Hyperliquid
1. HyperGrowth by @SystemicStratHL [57% APR]
- HYPE Long, Shorting a wide battery of ALTs.
2. Long HYPE & BTC | Short Garbage [109% APR]
- The name is the strategy.
3. pmalt by @hyperbulla | Great Pair Trader [140% APR]
You can deposit USDC directly on Hyperliquid.
Risks: HYPE nukes. But if that happens other alts should nuke harder.

📊 LIQUIDATION: $563M in #crypto longs were liquidated in 24 hrs, the BIGGEST one-day wipeout since February. #crypto