Weekly brief: May 24, 2026 – May 31, 2026
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WEEKLY BRIEF May 24–May 31, 2026
Headlines
Weekly ETF Flows
Exchange Listings
Regulatory
Market Flows
Headlines
- OKX to launch Exchange OS for onchain spot, perpetuals, and outcome markets
- MicroStrategy uses $1.38B cash to buy back 2029 converts; firm did not purchase Bitcoin over the past week
- StakeDAO suffers mint exploit involving vsdCRV; attacker swapped assets for ETH
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8 and plans to make Mythos public in the coming weeks
- Fluid Merkle Rewards distribution exploit results in drain of 125K FLUID and 51.9K GHO
Weekly ETF Flows
- BTC: -$1,415.6M net outflows
- ETH: -$241.6M net outflows
- SOL: +$2.4M net inflows
- HYP: +$25.5M net inflows
Exchange Listings
- Bybit: $SKYAI1 (futures)
- Binance: $OPENAI (futures), $CTR (futures), $QNTX (futures), $GENIUS (hodler airdrops)
- Coinbase: $CTR (spot), $META (spot), $DRV (spot), $O (roadmap)
- Hyperliquid: BB (HIP-3), QNT (HIP-3), ASML (HIP-3)
- Bithumb: $BILL (spot)
- Upbit: $IO (spot KRW)
Regulatory
- The UK imposes sanctions on HTX exchange due to alleged support for the Russian government
- CFTC approves perpetual contracts to be offered to users within the United States
- US officials report the seizure of approximately $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency holdings to date
Market Flows