OpenAI rolled out new personal finance features in ChatGPT on Friday, enabling U.S. Pro subscribers to link bank and investment accounts via Plaid. The tool covers 12,000+ institutions and can analyze spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments, while viewing balances and transactions without being able to move funds or see full account numbers. Pro access costs $200 a month, and OpenAI says synced data is deleted within 30 days after an account is disconnected.

On May 15, Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) said it reached privately negotiated deals to repurchase about $1.5 billion of its 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029. The company estimated the cash repurchase price at about $1.38 billion, with the final amount partly linked to its Class A stock price during a set measurement period. Strategy listed cash, at-the-market securities sales, and potential bitcoin sales as possible funding sources, with settlement expected on or about May 19.

Shiba Inu's exchange reserves are hovering around the closely watched 82 trillion SHIB area, with centralized venues holding about 81.9–82.3 trillion tokens. SHIB has struggled to sustain a breakout, with resistance at $0.0000064–$0.0000065 and support near $0.0000060, while indicators suggest momentum has cooled rather than fully reversed.

Santiment says Bitcoin sentiment has turned notably bullish after the US Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act in a 15–9 bipartisan vote. Bitcoin was trading at $79,084 at publication, up 3.15% since May 1, while Santiment flagged 1.55 bullish comments per bearish one and urged caution even as some analysts stayed optimistic.

Terra Classic (LUNC) is retesting the $0.000072 area after a 69.7% surge to a swing high of $0.000123. A further pullback of roughly 13% to 25% could still leave the broader bullish structure intact, with $0.000066 and the $0.00004–$0.00005 demand zone highlighted as potential downside levels.

XRP Ledger usage accelerated as XRP moved above $1.54 and tested $1.55, with on-chain metrics showing a notable jump in participation. The network recorded 48,453 active wallets and 3,317 new wallets, while large holders later reached a record share of supply as XRP traded around $1.43 at the time of writing.

A wallet tagged by trackers as "BlackRock-linked" reportedly moved more than 1,700 BTC out of Coinbase, putting the transfer among the larger single transactions seen on the Bitcoin network. The movement was initially highlighted by Coinness, but the report said the exact address and confirmation details had not yet been independently verified. The article notes that a "linked" label may reflect custody-related interactions rather than confirmed ownership or fresh accumulation.

SlowMist said three tainted node-ipc releases (9.1.6, 9.2.3, 12.0.1) were published on May 14 after attackers took over a dormant npm maintainer account. The injected code was designed to exfiltrate .env secrets, crypto private keys, exchange API credentials, and cloud tokens, and projects that installed or auto-updated during the roughly two-hour exposure window were urged to audit dependencies and rotate credentials.