Crypto Midday News

1. OKB briefly surpassed $98, surging over 17% in 24 hours;

2. A whale opened a $40.26 million BTC short position while holding $33.3 million in ZEC long positions;

3. Base official released a promotional video, with the community speculating it might be pre-release material for the BASE airdrop snapshot or a new product;

4. On Predict.fun, the probability of the "Knicks winning the 2026 NBA Championship" surpassed the Spurs to reach 29%, rising 13% in a single week;

5. Facet co-founder proposed incorporating EIP-8182 into the Ethereum Hegota upgrade, introducing native privacy transfers;

6. Arthur Hayes: Monetary privacy will be "very necessary," hence Zcash is his second-largest holding;

7. Hyperliquid mainnet launched a prediction event for "U.S. May CPI year-over-year change."