📲 #JTO Fortune: Jito plans to launch a mobile trading app called JTX in July. The app will offer spot trading, with future integrations for perpetual futures and prediction markets.

💼 #SXT Space and Time launches virtual storage for institutional lending on the blockchain. Cointelegraph

🕵️ ZachXBT: $150M Ponzi Collapses, $41.5M Frozen Across Chains

On-chain investigator ZachXBT reported that the DSJ Exchange (DSJEX) / BG Wealth Sharing Ponzi scheme collapsed last week, involving over $150 million.

Between April 27 and May 3, more than $92 million in illicit funds was laundered across chains, with approximately $63 million routed to custody provider Cobo. ZachXBT assisted Tether, Binance security team, OKX, and U.S. law enforcement, resulting in over $41.5 million frozen so far. #regulation

📊 #JUP Securitize, Jump Trading Group, and Jupiter launch a fully regulated platform for trading tokenized stocks. #rwa

🕵️ Jan3’s A1 Lab launched Agentic AQUA, an open-source tool enabling AI agents to send, receive, and manage Bitcoin across on-chain, Liquid, and Lightning networks.

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📈 Intel $INTC rises over 12%, adding $55,000,000,000 to its market cap today.

🇺🇸📝 #macro US - ISM Services PMI (Apr) = 53.6 (prior 54)

📝 USA - Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) (March) = 6.9 million (expected 6.86 million / previously 6.882 million)

🇺🇸🗣 “The more money that is printed in the U.S. or the world, the more value $BTC will have.” — Arthur Hayes

📝 Number of job openings on the labor market (JOLTS) for March: 6.866 million
(prior: 6.882 million) #macro

🇺🇸📉 USA - New Home Sales (March) decreased by 7.4% month-on-month (expected - / previously -19.9%).

🕵️ #BTC Bitcoin network processed its 1 billionth transaction on this day last year, 15+ years after Satoshi mined the Genesis Block.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:

Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +6,668 $BTC (+$541.96M)
7D NetFlow: +10,817 $BTC (+$879.26M)

Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +26,480 $ETH (+$63.23M)
7D NetFlow: -3,788 $ETH (-$9.05M)

Solana ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +41,170 $SOL (+$3.52M)
7D NetFlow: +33,161 $SOL (+$2.84M)

🤝 #CFG #COIN Coinbase invests in Centrifuge with a "seven-figure" amount and chooses this platform as its main partner for tokenization Base. #rwa

🚀 $PEPE filed for a spot ETF. Memes are now lobbying the SEC.

Canary Capital's S-1 for a spot $PEPE ETF hit the SEC desk on April 8.
$PEPE jumped 34% on the news, +62% on the rally leg. Volume cracked $300M.

Meanwhile, $BONK ($1.71B mcap), $WIF ($0.19), and $FLOKI all coiled at resistance.

📈 CEO Brad Garlinghouse says AI is driving growth at Ripple, not layoffs.

“The opportunity is so big, we’re not using AI to reduce headcount.”

🕵️ The trader who went long 321.46 $BTC ($26.14M) 12 days ago created a new wallet 2 hours ago and opened a 5x long on 307.7 $BTC ($25.04M) again.

Total position: 629.16 $BTC ($51.18M)

🎁 Uniswap DAO Votes to Reclaim $42M in UNI Delegation Loans

Uniswap DAO is voting on a proposal to reclaim 12.5 million UNI, valued at approximately $42 million, which was loaned to the Uniswap Foundation and key delegates from 2022 to 2023. This move aims to enhance governance participation amid ongoing discussions about governance influence and decentralization. The vote will conclude on May 8, with around 53% in favor and about 46% abstaining, showing minimal opposition.

🕵️ The Binance SAFU Fund wallet bought 15,000 $BTC ($1.22B) in February at ~$69,244 each and is now up ~$177M.

⚖️ Spirit Airlines says in court papers it was forced to shut down due to rising fuel prices. #regulation