✅ Leading U.S. banks were pleased with good reports, but bitcoin and the S&P 500 are correcting because of bad retail sales statistics.

Investors are in for a treat: they may be waiting for a recession to cut the Fed's rate, or they may be afraid of a recession because of the threat of a crisis 🤷‍♂️.

Friday News:

🔸 A queue of 1,180,000 ETH has formed for withdrawal from staking

🔸 Binance held a quarterly BNB burn of $674 million

🔸 On April 28, broker Otkritie Investments will prohibit buying dollars and euros

🔸 TRON founder Justin Sun gets subpoenaed by SEC

🔸 Bitrue crypto exchange hacked, $23 million loss

🔸 Amazon unveiled its own AI called Bedrock

🔸 Solana developers unveiled Saga crypto smartphone for $1,000 📱

🔸 Canon to launch NFT marketplace

🔸 Cryptocurrency developer Chia has filed for an IPO

🔹 Rates:

🌐 Bitcoin - $30,294 (↓0.61%)
📉 S&P 500 - 4,130 (↓0.38%)
🌕 Gold - $2,017 (↓1.86%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $86.25 (↓0.08%)

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👉 DeFi Education Fund and Blockchain Association Back Tornado Cash Amid Legal Battle - The Blockopedia

🔗 https://theblockopedia.com/defi-education-fund-and-blockchain-association-back-tornado-cash-amid-legal-battle/

✅ Bitcoin was sent below $30k. Rumor has it that a quick sale of 16k BTC on Binance is to blame.

And Elon Musk keeps insisting that the U.S. default is imminent, which also does not give optimism 🙃

Wednesday News:

🔸 Binance opens Ethereum withdrawal from stacking

🔸 Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallet added confidential BTC transfer function

🔸 Donald Trump released a second NFT collection

🔸 Hong Kong court classifies cryptocurrencies as property

🔸 UAE regulator required all cryptocurrency companies to obtain a license to operate

🔸 Investment firm Tribe Capital is ready to give FTX $250 million to restart the exchange 🐹

🔹 Courses:

🌐 Bitcoin - $29,329 (↓3.08%)
📉 S&P 500 - 4,149 (↓0.12%)
🌕 Gold - $2,004 (↓0.74%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $82.91 (↓2.18%)

✅ Bitcoin remains below $28k 😕

Ethereum is cheaper than $1,900, but it has become a deflationary asset and reduced its issuance by 100k ETH since The Merge update.

Friday's news:

🔸 Binance accused the former head of FTX of spreading false information about Changpeng Zhao. And Curly Sam seems to know something.

🔸 The CHEEL token of GameFi-platform Cheelee will be listed on the crypto exchange LBank on April 24

🔸 The cost of US default insurance is at its highest level since 2011

🔸 Another BTC kit that has been dormant for over 10 years has awakened

🔸 U.S. Metropolitan Commercial Bank is almost done with its exit from the crypto industry

🔸 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sold 7% of his stake in the company for $25 million 🤔

🔸 Aptos cryptocurrency developers have launched a steking delegation mechanism

🔸 International accounting firm Deloitte will cut 1,200 people in the U.S.

🔹 Courses:

🌐 Bitcoin - $27,929 (↓2.06%)
📉 S&P 500 - 4,135 (↑0.13%)
🌕 Gold - $1,991 (↓1.35%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $81.55 (↑0.96%)

Breaking: Amazon NFT Marketplace Launch Delayed

https://bit.ly/41VckFb

✅ Bitcoin expectedly went down to $27k, but so far this level is being bought back.

Institutionalists withdrew $30.4 million from crypto funds last week Fixes 🤔

Monday's news:

🔸 Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit introduces mandatory verification starting May 8

🔸 Binance launched liquid Ethereum stacking with new token WBETH

🔸 All civil servants in China's Changshu County will be paid in digital yuan 🐲

🔸 Unidentified people hacked Twitter of crypto exchange KuCoin and posted phishing links for 45 minutes

🔸 Binance launched its own chatbot with AI Sensei on the Binance Academy educational platform

🔸 Major U.S. retailer Bed, Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy 💀

🔸 Wake up: the ETH kit, which has been holding tokens since the ICO, got active today

🔸 Media: Romania to launch national NFT marketplace

🔹 Courses:

🌐 Bitcoin - $27,365 (↓0.44%)
📉 S&P 500 - 4,129 (↓0.09%)
🌕 Gold - $1,989 (↑0.33%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $82.64 (↑1.06%)

✅ BTC is back above $29k, S&P 500 is recovering from its recent sell-off, adding 1.8%.

Meanwhile, banks are scaring investors with predictions: JPMorgan expects the S&P 500 to fall to 3,500 this summer 😳

Thursday News:

🔸 U.S. GDP fell to 1.1% in the first quarter, with a 2% forecast

🔸 Bloomberg: Binance head Changpeng Zhao owns $28 billion in capital, CZ himself denies everything 😇

🔸 Meta shares soared 15% after a successful quarterly report with a good outlook for the next 3 months

🔸 Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken sued the U.S. IRS to overturn the IRS requirement to provide data on users

🔸 Unknown hacker figured out 986 BTC wallets that belong to FSB and other Russian intelligence agencies

🔸 Google Cloud partnered with Polygon blockchain

🔸 Warning: unknown person created 114 skam mem-tokens in just 1.5 months

🔹 Courses:

🌐 Bitcoin - $29,625 (↓0.54%)
📉 S&P 500 - 4,130 (↑1.85%)
🌕 Gold - $1,988 (↑0.03%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $78.46 (↑1.03%)

👉 Ethos Reserve and Optimism Foundation Partner to Incentivize DeFi Adoption on Layer 2 Network
🔗 https://theblockopedia.com/ethos-reserve-and-optimism-foundation-partner-to-incentivize-defi-adoption-on-layer-2-network/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=CryptoCoinPost

Binance's bitcoin balance has added 50k BTC in the last 30 days, including 22k BTC in the last 7 days. Bears believe these are coins to sell from the $30k resistance level 🐻

Coinbase has responded to a notice of lawbreaking from the SEC. Their understanding is that the exchange is already regulated and is not violating anything under current law. And they have also been asking the SEC for a long time to adopt normal regulation of the crypto industry 😎

A new record of ERC-20 token creation per day has been set: an average of 1,355 new tokens were launched from April 17 to April 27. This is attributed to the hype around meme-coins, because they are more exciting than going to the casino 🐸

And GameFi is no longer trending, with Axie Infinity's daily user count dropping to 9,000 to and STEPN's to 4,000. Play-to-Earn for pennies is questionable 😢

Mt Gox has 137,890 BTC on its balance sheet and US authorities have 205,514 BTC 🐳

🔹 Top 3 in 24 hours:
Render Token - $2.50 (↑11.43%)
Internet Computer - $5.96 (↑10.48%)
Immutable - $1.07 (↑9.80%)

🔹 Main:

☠️ First Republic Bank reported $100 billion in deposit outflows and shares fell 75% in a week. The media is talking about an imminent bankruptcy filing. Who's next?

🗽 Biden almost epically announced his run for President of the United States 2024. Trump is already trolling him and trying not to bring up his own sex scandals.

❄️ U.S. GDP fell to 1.1% in the first quarter, against a forecast of 2%. The next stop is a recession.

⚔️ Republicans in the House of Representatives passed their bill to raise the national debt limit, which certainly won't satisfy Democrats. The battle over the U.S. national debt has begun.

🔹 Summary:

The U.S. is getting closer to recession, and the Fed will raise rates again on May 3. Markets are waiting for a rise after the Fed's monetary policy reversal, but will they have enough patience...?

🔹 Quotes:

📉 S&P 500 - 4,169 (↑0.91%)
🌕 gold - $1,989 (↑1.36%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $80.25 (↓1.93%)
💵 USD INDEX - $101.67 (↓0.06%)

✅ After the U.S. stock market closes, Apple's quarterly report will be released, such a giant could make adjustments.

The bankruptcy continues: PacWest (↓42%) confirmed strategic talks about the future, Western Alliance (↓33%) refutes rumors of a sale ☠️

Thursday's news:

🔸 ECB raises rate by 25 bps to 3.75%

🔸 Coinbase closes BTC secured lending service

🔸 WallStreetBets community organizers dumped their own WSB Coin token by 90% 🤬

🔸 From 2021 to 2023, Kazakhstan's share of global BTC mining dropped from 18% to 4%

🔸 FTX wants to sue $4 billion from bankrupt Genesis

🔸 Reuters: Former top OpenSea executive found guilty of insider trading NFT

🔸 After 9 years of hibernation, a wallet with a balance of 1,556,994 DOGE wakes up 🐶

🔹 Rates:

🌐 Bitcoin - $28,782 (↑0.93%)
📉 S&P 500 - 4,058 (↓0.78%)
🌕 Gold - $2,049 (↑0.52%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $72.35 (↑0.65%)

🔹 Main:

🗽 The Fed raised the rate by 25 bps to 5.25%. How this helps the U.S. economy in the video above.

🏦 JPMorgan bought First Republic Bank along with all the problems, but the rest of the US regional banks still got hit with a hard sell-off in stock. Should we merge them all into JPMorgan at once?

😱 The U.S. Treasury warned of default after June 1 if the national debt ceiling is not raised. Recall that last week the probability of a real default rose from 0% to 2%.

⛽️ Brent crude has been falling below $72 this week due to fears of a global recession. China, of course, is trying to ramp up its economy, but the U.S. is the world's main buyer and they are reducing demand.

🔹 Summary:

After Friday's positive in the markets, investor sentiment has begun to shift toward a continued Fed rate hike (8%). BTC is trading without a weekend, so it is reacting faster.

🔹 Quotes:

📉 S&P 500 - 4,136 (↓0.93%)
🌕 gold - $2,016 (↑1.37%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $75.26 (↓6.15%)
💵 USD INDEX - $101.28 (↓0.39%

Breaking: Binance Announces SUI, FLOKI, PEPE Trading At Zero Fees

https://bit.ly/3B1SrRx

✅ The probability of another Fed rate hike in June is already almost 11%.

BTC and S&P 500 are under pressure because of this shift in sentiment 😬

Monday News:

🔸 Binance intends to integrate Lightning Network to address expensive BTC transactions

🔸 Warren Buffett believes in the future collapse of the fiat system, but denies the possibility of BTC becoming the world's new reserve currency 🤷‍♂️

🔸 That's not going to be enough: crypto bankrupt Voyager will offer customers $0.36 for every $1

🔸 Coinbase is set to make the UAE its strategic hub for international promotion

🔸 Blockchain startup Everledger, backed by Tencent, declared bankruptcy after a failed funding round

🔸 Ripple has spent $200 million on a lawsuit with the SEC. The trial has been going on since December 2020 and no end in sight 😳

🔹 Courses:

🌐 Bitcoin - $27,882 (↓3.72%)
📉 S&P 500 - 4,134 (↓0.05%)
🌕 Gold - $2,028 (↑0.58%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $76.83 (↑2.08%)

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OKX crypto exchange lowered the withdrawal limit from 200 BTC to $5,000 for users with Level I verification. Who wants to get back the previous withdrawal limit - must pass level II KYC (face recognition) 🥸

The haircuts in BRC-20 tokens started: capitalization fell by about $200 million. But transaction fees in BTC are back by $20, and will be even lower when they collapse all mem-tokens 🐹

A former top Coinbase executive got 2 years in prison for insider trading. Insiders at the rest of the crypto exchanges got noticeably tense... But then continued to make money on the listings 🚓

The meme-token hype got to Litecoin: yesterday the blockchain recorded a record 576,000 transactions in a day. So far, most LRC-20 tokens are not minted 🤷‍♂️

🔹 Top 3 in 24 hours:
Bitcoin SV - $40.01 (↑14.54%)
Kava - $0.8419 (↑10.97%)
Terra Classic - $0.00009195 (↑9.56%)

✅ Markets are rising on the positive after Biden's promise not to default.

In fact, the problem is not solved, but the mood has improved 😊

Wednesday News:

🔸 P2E Fanton, which raised $300k in investment, launched a $10k prize game on Telegram

🔸Tether announced plans to invest 15% of monthly profits in BTC

🔸 UBS estimates $17 billion loss from Credit Suisse takeover

🔸 Media: Pakistan intends to completely ban cryptocurrencies 🚫

🔸 Ripple lawyers win another local victory over SEC in court

🔸 Lightning Labs has proposed a new way to issue tokens on the bitcoin network Taproot Assets Protocol

🔸 UK authorities think to regulate cryptocurrencies like gambling

🔸 Axie Infinity has achieved placement of its app on the App Store 🤑

🔸 Ripple agreed to buy Swiss cryptocurrency maker Metaco

🔹 Courses:

🌐 Bitcoin - $26,886 (↓0.41%)
📉 S&P 500 - 4,152 (↑1.03%)
🌕 Gold - $1,983 (↓0.27%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $77.26 (↑3.54%)

Breaking: Binance Brings Back Zero-Fee Trading For Bitcoin, SHIB, PEPE, Other Crypto

https://bit.ly/3pSuVnF

Meanwhile, the Bitcoin network already accounts for more than 50 percent of NFT trading volumes from the traditional leader of this metric, Etherium.

In the last 24 hours, the equivalent of $8.2 million in transactions were made with NFT based on the Ordinals protocol.

Satoshi obviously didn't count on such result 👀

🔹 Main:

🤬 The EU passed the Cryptocurrency Regulation Act (MiCA). From January 2025, even non-custodial wallet use will have to be reported. This is the finish line...

😱 Market maker Jump Trading made a deal with Terraform Labs and made $1 billion on LUNA Pampa before it collapsed. What if, other projects are doing the same thing right now?

🔨 Ledger will have a recovery feature in case the seed phrase is lost. In response, users are literally destroying wallets.

💸 Tether announced plans to invest 15% of its monthly profits in BTC. MicroStrategy has a competitor.

🔹 Summary:

Good news on government debt and the Fed rate didn't help BTC gain ground above $27k. It could be worse from here, considering next week starts with bad news.

🔥 Top of the week:
- Render Token - $2.50 (↑35%)
- Mask Network - $4.62 (↑22%)
- Conflux - $0.2991 (↑18%)