🇺🇸📉 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

USDT dominance vs BTC.

📊 Hyperliquid Treasury Vehicles Now Hold Nearly 9% of HYPE Float

Hyperliquid-linked digital asset treasury companies (DATs) now hold close to 9% of HYPE’s circulating supply, surpassing comparable treasury holdings in #BTC, #ETH, #SOL, and #BNB. HYPE is the only DAT asset in the dataset trading at a positive mNAV, potentially facilitating capital raises and supply absorption. An ETF approval could lead to new passive inflows into a tighter float, supporting price amid existing institutional positioning and ongoing treasury demand. #etf

🇺🇸💵 250,000,000 $USDC (249,980,750 USD) minted at USDC Treasury

🗽 SEC Proposes Allowing Companies to Report Earnings Twice a Year. #regulation

💸 $BTC perp funding was pinned negative for almost the entire month of April.

Shorts paid longs to stay short — and got vaporized twice.
Apr 18: $593M shorts liquidated above $77K.
May 4: another $300M wiped above $80K.
Open interest just rebuilt to 763.35K $BTC after the May 1 reset.

Persistent negative funding into a rising tape is one of the cleanest setups we track.

💵 250,000,000 $USDC (249,969,916 USD) minted at USDC Treasury

🧑‍💻 #SOL Google Cloud and Solana Foundation launch a new pay-as-you-go payment system for AI agents.

🧑‍💻 Cloudflare’s Stephanie Cohen asserts bots now dominate web traffic, as AI agents scan thousands of sites per task, accelerating machine-to-machine payments.

🐳 Two 14-year dormant $BTC whales just disagreed — violently.

On May 3, one Satoshi-era wallet sold 11,300 $BTC for $750M, while the other bought 7,000 $BTC for $470M. Both wallets had been silent for over 14 years and moved on the same day, resulting in a net distribution of -4,300 $BTC.

🏦 Anchorage asserts the “agentic economy” could become a trillion-dollar market, with AI agents paying each other, merchants, and earning income. This comes as it launches an agent-focused bank.

📈 Bitcoin is outperforming gold by 36% since the start of the Iran conflict.