# Chung Daily Note - 2026/5/12

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**Published on:** 2026-05-12
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Happy Tuesday! Chung Daily Note curates key news and insights to save you time while also serving as a record of my research and analysis Recap Chung l 仲@cchungccc Chung Daily Note - 2026/5/11 Happy Monday! Some highlights from today's note 🔸Strategy bought 535 BTC for ~$43M at ~$80.3K per BTC 🔸BitMine bought another 26,659 ETH, bringing total holdings to 5.2M ETH Read More Below 👇 --- 📰 News • Strategy bought 535 BTC for ~$43M 2:00 AM · May 12, 2026 · 141 Views 3 Replies · 7 Likes 📰 News •US April CPI and Core CPI both came in above expectations *Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone *US APRIL CONSUMER PRICES RISE 0.6% M/M; EST. +0.6% *US APRIL CONSUMER PRICES RISE 3.8% Y/Y; EST. +3.7% *US APRIL CORE CPI RISES 0.4% M/M; EST. +0.3% *US APRIL CORE CPI RISES 2.8% Y/Y; EST. +2.7% 8:30 PM · May 12, 2026 · 9.11萬 Views 61 Replies · 99 Reposts · 395 Likes •US Senate Banking Committee unveils draft crypto Clarity Act bill Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Senate Banking Committee releases crypto Clarity Act draft bill. 12:27 PM · May 12, 2026 · 57.5萬 Views 431 Replies · 1900 Reposts · 1.17萬 Likes •Crypto Wallet Exodus sold 1,076 BTC Coin Bureau@coinbureau 🚨CRYPTO WALLET EXODUS SOLD 1076 BITCOIN Crypto wallet firm Exodus sold 1,076 $BTC in Q1 to help fund its W3C payments acquisition, moving about $70 million into U.S. dollar reserves. The company sold $73.2 million in crypto, lifting cash, cash equivalents, and stablecoins 8:00 PM · May 12, 2026 · 7680 Views 26 Replies · 10 Reposts · 68 Likes •Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City launches fast-track licensing for regulated crypto firms The Block@TheBlockCo Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City launches fast-track licensing for regulated crypto firms theblock.co Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City launches fast-track licensing for regulated crypto firms 6:36 PM · May 12, 2026 · 2860 Views 6 Replies · 3 Reposts · 11 Likes •Trump family made roughly $1.55B from World Liberty Financial token sales Bloomberg@business Trump family members made roughly $1.55 billion from sales of World Liberty Financial tokens, lifting their total fortune by about $660 million bloomberg.com Quiet Token Sales Boosted Trump Crypto Wealth by $660 Million 6:24 PM · May 12, 2026 · 1.15萬 Views 7 Replies · 17 Reposts · 22 Likes 📖 Good Reads •@arjunkhemani - What Unifies the Enemies of Civilization? Arjun Khemani@arjunkhemani https://t.co/ZlvcOTLUx4 4:34 PM · May 11, 2026 · 5萬 Views 9 Replies · 20 Reposts · 167 Likes •@TheOneandOmsy - Is the Circle x Coinbase Relationship Starting to Fall Apart? Omar@TheOneandOmsy How long until the Circle / Coinbase marriage gets messy? > historically $CRCL = issuer of USDC and $COIN = distributor. Coin pushes USDC, and in exchange gets half the economics w/ some adjustments > but w/ Circle now a pubco, it’s been forced into pitching a much broader zoomer @zoomerfied [ ZOOMER ] CIRCLE RAISES $222 MILLION FROM BLACKROCK, APOLLO AND OTHERS IN ARC TOKEN PRESALE VALUED AT $3 BILLION: CNBC 9:41 PM · May 11, 2026 · 5.2萬 Views 23 Replies · 15 Reposts · 280 Likes 🎉 New Protocols •@EquiumEQM Equium@EquiumEQM $EQM can be seen as an evolution of Solana tokens. Our network hash rate costs real hardware & electricity expense to operate. Therefore the token is backed by what users pay to mine it. Similar to bitcoin, the electrical and hardware expense is similar to market value. 9:42 PM · May 12, 2026 · 1540 Views 35 Replies · 1 Repost · 11 Likes •@bloomv4_ BLOOM@bloomv4_ The first financial mania was not born from coins, stocks, or JPEGs. It was born from flowers. 🌷bloomv4.org 2:41 AM · May 12, 2026 · 1.65萬 Views 7 Replies · 3 Reposts · 36 Likes 💰 Crypto Fundraising •@USBD_Stablecoin (CeFi) - 2m Pre-Seed led by @galaxyhq Galaxy@galaxyhq Galaxy Ventures led @USBD_Stablecoin $2M pre-seed. Stablecoins are one of the most proven and transformative innovations in crypto, with a >$300B market reshaping global payments, treasury management, and financial infrastructure. The next frontier: making that infrastructure Boundary @USBD_Stablecoin We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $2M in pre-seed funding led by @galaxyhq to build the natively verifiable stablecoin, USBD. Check out the exclusive story in The Block: https://t.co/m25S4xjUdv 🌐 https://t.co/akZRnowEOk #Stablecoins #DeFi #Galaxy #USBD 1:21 AM · May 12, 2026 · 4370 Views 5 Replies · 4 Reposts · 51 Likes 💵 Airdrops •@citrea_xyz airdrop airdrop registration Citrea | Mainnet Live 🍊🍋@citrea_xyz 1/4 The CTR Genesis Airdrop Opens for Registration 🍊 Check eligibility at citrea.xyz/airdrop Airdrop registration closes on May 17, 2026, at 2:00 PM UTC 🧵 10:03 PM · May 11, 2026 · 32.4萬 Views 423 Replies · 77 Reposts · 530 Likes 📺 Videos & Podcasts •@naval - Sell the Truth •@a16z - Marc Andreessen on AI Psychosis, Productivity, and The Future of Work . CDN Telegram Channel: http://t.me/chungdailynote If you’d like to support me, your likes, comments, and shares on Twitter, Farcaster, Binance Square, Paragraph, Coinmarketcap are greatly appreciated! Thank you

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