📢 S&P 500 companies cut 400,000 jobs in 2025, the first annual decline in employment since 2016, as firms like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft led layoffs while shifting spending toward AI.

📢 Polymarket traders now see a 73% chance of Bitcoin reaching $80,000 before the end of April, up from 60% earlier in the month.

📢 The U.S. government is now accepting public donations to help lower its $39T national debt.

📢 Aave Labs has proposed that Arbitrum release $73.5M in ETH linked to the Kelp DAO exploit and redirect it to the “DeFi United” relief fund to reimburse affected rsETH holders.

📢 More than $71M in crypto positions were liquidated within an hour, with $69.17M in long positions erased as BTC slipped below $77K.

📢 Ki Young Ju cautions that Bitcoin’s rally is being driven by futures, while on-chain spot demand is still negative, noting that past bear markets have only ended when both spot and futures demand recover.

📢 Western Union Steps Into Stablecoins

A familiar payments giant is making its move into crypto.

• Western Union plans to launch Solana-based $USDPT next month
• Part of a broader push into digital asset infrastructure
• Also working on a USD stablecoin card for payments

📢 CoinShares reports $1.2B in weekly crypto inflows, lifting total assets under management to $155B as institutional demand picks up.

📢 Binance has recorded more than $6B in stablecoin inflows over the past two months.

📢 Strategy acquired 3,273 $BTC for $255M, bringing its total holdings to 818,334 BTC.

📢 A developer has proposed a Bitcoin fork that would redistribute the coins in Satoshi’s wallet.

📢 Crypto ETPs saw $1.2B in inflows for a fourth straight week, led by Bitcoin with $932.5M and Ethereum with $192M.

📢 Aave DAO’s governance vote on whether to pause buybacks until the rsETH issue is resolved is set to begin on April 28.

📢 Today, Galaxy Digital deposited $34,730,000 in Ethereum into exchanges.

📢 Polymarket ranked first among crypto, trading, and prediction platforms in Q1 2026, recording 122M visits according to Similarweb.

📢 Foreign central banks have reallocated reserves into gold, with total holdings now surpassing U.S. Treasuries for the first time in nearly 30 years.

📢 More than $1 trillion in stablecoins has been transferred so far this month, according to DeFiLlama.

📢 Active addresses on Ethereum have reached record levels even as prices decline, with CryptoOnchain noting that this on-chain divergence could point to undervaluation.

📢 NVIDIA’s market value has climbed above $5.2 trillion.

📢 The total stablecoin market cap has risen to $305.29 billion.

📢 Caladan reports that about 93% of Web3 gaming projects are effectively no longer active.