A New York man identified in filings as Noah Doe has asked the Supreme Court of the State of New York to declare him the legal owner of 39,069 Bitcoin wallets that he says were abandoned. The First Amended Complaint was filed May 1, 2026 (index No. 153119/2026) after he reported wallet-address data to the NYPD and said he spent more than a year trying to locate the owners. The dispute centers on whether long-dormant, self-custodied wallets can be treated as lost property under New York law.

Hyperliquid's HYPE has gained 55% over the past week and is up more than 130% year-to-date in 2026, while trading near $56 after briefly pushing above $62. A technical read shared by Ali Martinez says multiple sell signals are clustering as price nears the $59–$60 area, which he argues could precede a pullback toward about $40 if momentum stalls.

A wallet linked to Ethereum's 2015 presale moved 400 ETH on May 14, 2026 after more than a decade of inactivity. The transfers included 50 ETH to a new address and 350 ETH sent to Bitstamp, with the 400 ETH valued at about $900,000 at the time.

XRPL transaction volume rose 65% over the past twelve months, increasing from 43 million to 71 million and marking a new record. Evernorth, an XRP-focused digital asset treasury, said the pattern looks steady and business-linked rather than bursty speculative activity, and pointed to institutions such as exchanges and stablecoin activity as key contributors.

High-leverage trader James Wynn recorded another forced closure after Bitcoin moved higher, bringing his total liquidations to six over the past two weeks. Lookonchain said Hyperliquid wallet data shows the latest liquidation occurred around the $68k area, after a series of short attempts failed. The report also noted BTC was trading in the high $69k range at the time of writing.

The IMF says crypto tokenization represents a structural change to financial market "plumbing", warning it could amplify liquidity stress as settlement, margining, and compliance are embedded in code. The report argues that atomic settlement, 24/7 trading, and automated margin calls may accelerate shocks beyond regulators' response speed, while fragmented liquidity across chains can worsen slippage and risk management. It also notes emerging-markets exposure, where large flows of crypto tokens and dollar-pegged stablecoins could undermine local monetary policy tools.

Gold (XAU) and silver (XAG) futures have moved into the top five by trading volume on Binance Futures, soon after Binance launched USDT-settled perpetual contracts for the metals. CryptoQuant said cumulative volume across the metals contracts has already reached the tens of billions of dollars, while BTC and ETH still lead overall futures activity at around the low-$20-billion range and $18.1B, respectively. WuBlockchain also reported that oil perps for CL and BZ logged $760 million and $358 million on April 2, with XAU and XAG together posting $5.58 billion in daily volume.

Bitget Wallet has added Hyperliquid's HIP-3 infrastructure, bringing always-on, permissionless onchain macro markets into its self-custodial "everyday finance" app. Users can trade RWA spot and perpetual markets from one wallet interface, including around 300 equities and ETFs, major indexes, and commodities such as gold, crude oil, and natural gas.

QCP Group published a note assessing quantum-computing risks for crypto after a Google whitepaper dated March 30 argued Bitcoin-style elliptic-curve cryptography could be broken with fewer quantum resources than previously believed. The firm says the issue is a long-term, system-wide challenge tied to public-key infrastructure rather than an immediate market shock, while noting BTC was trading in the high $68k range at the time of writing.