📢 📢 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.

📢 The DeFi Education Fund, along with 35 industry leaders, is calling on the SEC to formally clarify how user interfaces should be distinguished from broker-dealer activity.

📢 A researcher has broken an ECC key using public hardware, underscoring rising quantum-related risks to Bitcoin. Project Eleven awarded 1 $BTC to Giancarlo Lelli for cracking a 15-bit ECC.

📢 Spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen inflows for eight days in a row.

📢 Consumer sentiment in the United States has dropped to a record low of 49.8, the lowest number since data collection started in 1978.

📢 The total crypto market has grown by $310B over the past four weeks.

📢 NVIDIA ($NVDA) closed at a new all-time high.

📢 Spot Bitcoin ETFs have now seen eight straight days of inflows.

📢 NVIDIA’s market capitalization has climbed back above $5 trillion.

📢 Grayscale has staked 102,400 ETH, valued at over $237 million.

📢 McKinsey projects global investment in AI-driven data centers could reach as much as $5.2 trillion by 2030, rising to $7.9 trillion in a high-demand scenario.

📢 Tether holds a 59% share of the $320B stablecoin market.

📢 Around 35M $XRP moved off exchanges within 24 hours, the sixth-largest outflow this year, according to Santiment. Similar spikes in February and March were followed by 20%–50% rallies, suggesting another potential move higher.