According to Coinglass data, there were liquidations totaling $139 million in the past 24 hours, with a total of 56,471 people being liquidated.Of these, long positions were liquidated for $83.5374 million, short positions were liquidated for $55.4391 million, BTC was liquidated for $39.2379 million, ETH was liquidated for $26.5550 million, and SOL was liquidated for $10.2312 million.

Greeks.live data shows that on May 17th, 18,000 BTC options with a put/call ratio of 0.63 and a maximum pain point of $63,000 (nominal value of $1.2 billion) will expire. Additionally, 320,000 ETH options with a put/call ratio of 0.28 and a maximum pain point of $3,000 (nominal value of $930 million) will also expire. Greeks.live states that this week, inspired by the meme stock craze in the US, BTC ETFs have seen significant inflows, causing BTC to surge above $65,000. However, the rest of the crypto market remains weak, with trading volume continuing to decline, and the divergence in the options data of BTC and ETH reflects this. Looking at the structure of bulk trades and market trades, the downward trend in IV for major deadlines has ended and entered a consolidation phase, with limited downside potential at present. BTC longs and shorts are relatively balanced, while the weak ETH price has led to a continuous decline in market confidence, with selling calls becoming the absolute main transaction.

On May 17th, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced that 1 billion USDT had been issued on the Tron Network early this morning Beijing time, but not yet released. This means that the amount will be used as inventory for the next issuance request and chain exchange.

The Hashgraph Association (THA) has announced a strategic partnership with the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) to establish a $50 million digital asset venture studio called Digital Assets Venture Studio, which will support the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions that comply with regulations and digital assets based on the Hedera distributed ledger technology (DLT) network. They will also invest in Web3 startups and DeFi projects supported by Hedera.

According to Coinglass data, there were liquidations of $159 million across the entire network in the past 24 hours, with long positions being liquidated for $44.75 million and short positions being liquidated for $114 million. Bitcoin liquidations were approximately $58.41 million and Ethereum liquidations were approximately $21.29 million.

According to DeFiLlama data, the current TVL of Ethereum liquidity re-staking protocol is 10.177 billion US dollars, of which the top five protocols ranked by TVL are:

Bitget Wallet announced the launch of a $10 million ecosystem fund in collaboration with Onchain Layer. The ecosystem fund is denominated in Bitget Wallet's native token BWB, which is planned to be released this quarter. It is reported that BWB is the native token of the exchange's self-hosted wallet with the same name, similar to Trust Wallet's token (TWT). The new fund will accelerate the development of Bitget Onchain Layer and support project construction.

1. Hong Kong Bitcoin Spot ETF has held 4,218 BTC since its listing three days ago

Nate Geraci, President of ETFStore, stated on X platform that the outflow trend of GBTC has ended, with a revenue of $63 million.

As monitored by The Data Nerd, 2 new wallets withdrew 7.85 million ARB (approximately $8.91 million) from Coinbase 12 hours ago.