📢 The U.S. stock market lost $500 billion in market value right at the open.

📢 Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research estimates that crypto markets are roughly 90–95% through their current price and volume downturn compared to past cycles.

📢 Visa Opens the Door to Self-Custody Spending

Big step toward using your own crypto in everyday payments.

• VISA partners with WeFi to support self-custodied crypto spending
• Users keep control of their funds while paying through Visa’s network
• Rollout starts in parts of Europe, Asia, and Latin America

📢 After 10.8 years of inactivity, an Ethereum ICO member who deposited $3,100 in 2015 just shifted 10,000 $ETH valued $22.88M, earning a 7,381x return.

📢 In order to increase Aave liquidity and expand GHO liquidity, LayerZero Labs is pledging more than 10,000 $ETH to DeFi United, including a 5,000 ETH contribution and a 5,000 ETH deposit.

📢 The overall value of Solana's RWA ecosystem exceeds $2.5 billion, setting a new record.

📢 Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $89.7M net outflows for the second straight day, with BlackRock hit hardest at $112.2M in withdrawals.

📢 Bitcoin exchange netflows climbed to +9,905 BTC on April 27, marking the largest single-day inflow in the past 30 days, according to CryptoQuant.

📢 Solana’s RWA ecosystem has climbed to a new all-time high, reaching roughly $2.50B in total value.

📢 Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart says the first U.S. prediction market ETFs may go live as early as next week.

📢 Hyperliquid topped 24-hour fees with $1.4M, narrowly ahead of Ethereum at $1.3M.

📢 U.S. net crude imports fell into negative territory last week, reaching a record low, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

📢 Eightco Holdings disclosed $333M in total assets, including 283M Worldcoin and over 11,000 Ethereum holdings.

📢 TRON has already made over $813 million in fees in the last four months.

📢 Santiment lists Chainlink, Solana, and Swarms among the most active projects in the Solana ecosystem by development, noting that rankings have been shifting month to month.

📢 Markets are assigning a 0% probability to a rate cut at the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

📢 Nikita Bier says crypto has become the most muted topic on X since the snooze feature launched, followed by politics and the Iran conflict.

📢 Sam Altman says GPT-5.5 will host its own party on May 5 at 5:55 PM, with Codex selecting attendees from replies.

📢 SoftBank Sets Sights on $100B AI Firm

• SoftBank plans a new AI robotics & data center firm, “Roze”
• Targeting a U.S. listing as a standalone company
• Aiming for a massive $100B valuationSoftBank Sets Sights on $100B AI Firm