📉 Crypto VC Funding Drops 75%

In April, venture capital investment into crypto projects fell 75% compared to March.

👉 The market has cooled sharply, with funds becoming significantly more cautious about deploying capital into new deals.

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🤑 Solana just crossed a major milestone

For the first time, the network processed over 10 billion transactions in a single quarter.

🔥 That’s a strong signal of growing onchain activity and ecosystem usage.

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🤑 Telegram Set to Take the Lead on TON

Pavel Durov mentioned that Telegram will effectively replace the TON Foundation in leading the blockchain’s development.

🙃 The ton.org website is expected to receive a major update in the coming weeks, with the focus shifting toward developers and network performance.

A new chapter for the TON ecosystem.

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🪙 Strategy May Sell BTC to Fund Dividends

Strategy is reportedly considering a potential Bitcoin sale to finance dividend payments.

👉 The company also reported a $12.5 billion loss for Q1, adding fresh pressure to its capital allocation strategy.

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🗄 TON Leads Staking Yields Among Top-50 Crypto Assets

TON currently offers the highest annual staking yield among the top 50 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.

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🤑 Ethereum Loses DeFi Market Share

Ethereum’s share in DeFi has declined from 63.5% to ~54% since the start of the year.
While still dominant, competitors are steadily carving out niches:

• BNB Chain — driven by the Binance ecosystem
• TRON — focused on stablecoin settlements
• Solana — leading in high-speed trading activity

👉 Gradual but visible redistribution of DeFi liquidity.

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💤 Dormant 500 BTC Wallet Awakens After 12.5 Years

A wallet holding 500 Bitcoin has become active again after 12.5 years of silence.
Back in 2013, those coins were worth around $483,000.

Today, their value stands at roughly $40.7 million.

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🇨🇳 Donald Trump Heads to China With America’s Corporate Heavyweights

Trump is traveling to China alongside executives from some of the largest U.S. companies, including leaders from NVIDIA, Apple, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Mastercard, Visa, Qualcomm, Meta, and Tesla.

👉 The combined market capitalization of participating companies exceeds $11.5 trillion.

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🪙 Exchange Reserves for BTC Hit Multi-Year Lows

Only around 5.6% of all Bitcoin is currently held on crypto exchanges — the lowest level since 2018.

🤝 For Ethereum, exchange reserves also remain near historic lows at 4.6%.
That said, ETH balances on exchanges have risen noticeably over the past 10 days, potentially signaling that traders are preparing for increased market activity.

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💎 Capital is flowing back into crypto — in May, major assets like BTC, ETH, SOL, and BNB are outperforming the S&P 500, while inflows into exchanges, ETFs, and stablecoins have all turned positive at the same time.

The main liquidity magnet is Binance — accounting for 78% of all net inflows to centralized exchanges.

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🇰🇷 Tether Expands Into South Korea

Tether has filed 7 trademark applications in South Korea, covering its brand name, logo, and the gold-backed stablecoin XAUT.

👉 Notably, South Korea accounts for roughly 30% of global crypto trading volume, with around 85% of activity concentrated in altcoins rather than Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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🇮🇷 Iran Holds $7.7B in Crypto Assets

According to FOX Business, Iran controls around $7.7 billion in crypto assets and is actively using Bitcoin as an alternative financial rail to bypass sanctions.

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🤑 Ethereum RWA Market Hits New Highs

The RWA sector on Ethereum has reached new all-time highs in both market capitalization and transaction count.

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🇧🇴 Bolivia Launches Bitcoin Mining Powered by Idle Gas Plant

Bolivia has launched a Bitcoin mining operation using an underutilized 127 MW gas-fired power plant.

👉 The mining farm currently consumes around 27 MW and delivers approximately 1.23 EH/s of hashpower.

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🖥 TeraWulf Expands Into AI Infrastructure

TeraWulf has announced the acquisition of a site in Kentucky, where the company plans to build a data center campus with up to 1 GW of capacity.

Like many mining firms, TeraWulf is increasingly shifting away from pure crypto mining toward providing infrastructure for AI model training, positioning itself within the rapidly growing AI compute market.

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🔥 Google Employee Accused of Using Internal Data to Bet on Polymarket

A Google employee has been accused by U.S. authorities of using internal company data to place highly profitable bets on Polymarket.

👉 According to investigators, the engineer allegedly earned around $1.2 million with minimal risk by knowing future Google Search trends in advance.

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📉 Trader Loracle Shares Post-Close Screenshot

Trader Loracle posted a screenshot after closing his short position on HYPE, sparking attention across the trading community.

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