📢 US exports of crude oil and petroleum products reached a record 12.9 million barrels per day as demand rises globally and nations look for alternatives following disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.

📢 Aave has temporarily halted rsETH reserves across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, and Linea while recovery efforts continue after the incident.

📢 Data from the National Association of Realtors shows U.S. pending home sales dropped to a record-low March reading of 73.7, about 30% below pre-pandemic levels and roughly 45% under pandemic highs, pointing to continued weak buyer demand.

📢 Tiger Research reports that Tether and USDC account for over 85% of the stablecoin market, with total market capitalization reaching around $300 billion.

📢 Institutional investors are increasing their equity exposure, with the NAAIM Exposure Index climbing to 79 and hedge fund net leverage reaching 77%, pointing to a more bullish stance.

📢 Santiment data indicates that MetaMask, Hedera, and Chainlink topped crypto development activity over the past 30 days, while Ethereum and Sui ranked among the fastest-growing.

📢 Mantle’s core contributors have proposed lending 30,000 ETH from the treasury to the Aave DAO to help cover bad debt stemming from the $292M rsETH bridge exploit on April 18.

📢 xAI has introduced Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, a voice model designed for complex multi-step tasks that claims the top ranking on the Tau Voice Bench.

📢 Bitcoin sentiment has swung from extreme fear to strong FOMO in just four days, as $BTC climbs back above $78.7K and approaches the $80K resistance level again, according to Santiment.

📢 Tether issued 3B USDT over the past week, with Abraxas Capital receiving 2.89B, according to Lookonchain.

📢 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have taken in 18,991 BTC over the last five trading days—about nine times the amount of new supply created during that period, according to Bitwise.

📢 Ethereum generated $2.7M in fees over the past 24 hours, surpassing Hyperliquid’s $1.7M.

📢 📢 India Pushes Digital Rupee Adoption🇮🇳

India is using real-world programs to drive its CBDC forward.

• $80B welfare system is being used to test the e-rupee
• Pilot programs aim to bring it into everyday transactions
• Focus is on scaling adoption through government payments

📢 Tether’s USDT has climbed to a new all-time high market cap of $189.68 billion.

📢 The active RWA market cap has grown fivefold in just over a year, rising from $4.1B to $25.2B, driven mainly by tokenized funds, commodities, and private credit, according to DeFiLlama.

📢 Europe Builds Digital Euro on Existing Rails🇪🇺

The ECB is keeping things familiar as it moves forward with the digital euro.

• Partnerships signed with ECPC, Nexo Standards, and the Berlin Group
• Focus is on using existing European payment standards
• Aims to make the digital euro fit into current payment systems

📢 Stablecoin supply on BNB Chain has surged nearly 200% since 2025, with the network now accounting for almost one-third of all active stablecoin addresses.

📢 The U.S. housing market is now at its most unaffordable level ever recorded, according to Barchart.

📢 Bitcoin is often nearest to a bottom when it appears least appealing, according to CryptoQuant’s CEO.

📢 Intel shares have surged over 24%, putting them on pace for their largest single-day percentage gain since October 1987.

📢 Whales on Hyperliquid are positioning for a $BTC breakout from the current range, with conviction and net long exposure steadily increasing over the past two months, according to Glassnode.