U.S. ethics filings show President Donald Trump bought Palantir shares in early 2026, then later praised PLTR on Truth Social. The documents list purchases of $247,008 to $630,000 in the first three months of the year, including up to $530,000 across at least seven buys in March. The filings also show sales, including as much as $5 million on Feb. 10, alongside trades in Nvidia, Amazon and Apple.

Ethereum (ETH) has given back most of its earlier-month gains as broader selling pressure returns. Analyst Ali Martinez says a weekly TD Sequential sell signal is active, with potential supports at $1,900, $1,565 and $1,090, while $1,071 is framed as a possible buy zone. Separately, US spot Ethereum ETFs posted four straight outflow days from May 11 to May 14, including $130.6 million on May 12.

Cerebras Systems surged in its Wall Street debut on Thursday, ending its first session with a market cap just under $100 billion before trading lower on Friday. The company sells dinner-plate-sized custom ASICs and says its WSE-3 is 57 times larger than the biggest GPU and packs 50 times more transistors. Cerebras also runs its chips through its own cloud data centers, with a $20 billion OpenAI cloud deal running through 2028 and sales said to be booked out into 2027.

Santiment data indicates XRP Ledger addresses holding at least 10,000 XRP climbed to a new record of 332,230, even as XRP remains about 60% below its all-time high. The cohort saw more than 4,500 wallets drop between February 6 and 8, 2026, before rebounding later in February and pushing past January’s prior peak.

On May 15, Bitcoin rebounded 1.55% to $80,900 as trading volume rose 25% to $44.82 billion. A whale opened a 700 BTC long worth $57 million with 10x leverage, while U.S. spot BTC ETFs posted net inflows of over $131.31 million. Traders are watching $82,700 as the key level, with a daily close above it seen as the trigger for a move toward $89,500.

On May 15, bitcoin fell to an intraday low of $78,611 before rebounding above $79,000 as risk sentiment soured after the U.S.–China summit ended without a trade breakthrough. Oil prices jumped after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Washington may need to do "clean-up work" in Iran, with WTI briefly topping $105 and Brent settling at $109. The selloff coincided with $382 million in long liquidations across crypto, including $86 million in bitcoin longs.

Huang Licheng (known as "Machi Big Brother") reportedly closed most of his leveraged long positions in Ethereum and Bitcoin, booking losses close to $32 million. According to on-chain tracking data compiled by KuCoin, the drawdown was above $30 million as the positions were unwound, while he was said to still hold about 6,800 ETH after exiting BTC and other longs.

Top XRP holders reduced exposure over the past 30 days, with the top 100 XRPL wallets posting a net outflow of 481,409,805 XRP valued at about $693,229,719. Over the last 24 hours, the same cohort trimmed 27,085,842 XRP worth roughly $38,003,612, while XRP traded around $1.45 after failing to hold above $1.50.