🇺🇸🇨🇳 Bessent: Negotiations with China will begin on Saturday. This is the start of negotiations, not advanced discussions. #tradewars

🇺🇸📈 Bessent: Demand for US Treasuries from crypto projects will reach $2 trillion.

🧑‍💻 #SOL Santiment: Top Solana ecosystem projects by developer activity over the last 30 days

🆕 #PAXG Coinbase will add support for PAX Gold

🎁 Top Binance Alpha Airdrops

📊👀 Santiment: Social media discussions on duties have dropped significantly. At the same time, interest in #AI-agents and the alt season has increased significantly, and there is a slight increase in #ETF and #RWA discussions.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: -132 BTC ($12.83M) 🔴
Grayscale outflows 181 BTC ($17.6M) and currently holds 190,229 BTC ($18.46B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: -10,287 ETH ($18.81M) 🔴
Fidelity outflows 9,991 ETH ($18.26M) and currently holds 413,405 ETH ($755.7M).

⚠️🇺🇸 #macro #FOMC Fed rate: 4.5% (expect: 4.5% / prior: 4.5%)

🇺🇸👀 #macro #FOMC The Fed's accompanying letter:
- Inflation remains somewhat elevated;
- Risks of rising unemployment and rising inflation have increased;
- Economic activity continues to pick up, but uncertainty about the economic outlook is also growing.

🇺🇸 #macro Traders still expect three rate cuts this year (the closest in July)

🇪🇺🤔 Robinhood plans to use blockchain for trading US assets in Europe.

📈 Crypto M&A hit record high in Q1 2025

🍿🗽 #macro #FOMC Powell's press conference:
- Inflation has fallen substantially, but upside risks have risen due to duties;
- Risks of rising unemployment have risen;
- The economy is resilient;
- GDP decline in the first quarter was due to trade policy;
- There is time to wait before making a rate decision;
- The rate is at a good level, - the labor market is not a source of significant inflationary pressure;
- Does not rule out the possibility that a rate cut may have to be postponed until 2026 because of a possible increase in inflation;
- There is a possibility of a rate cut this year;
- The President's calls for a rate cut have no impact on our work.

👨‍💻📉 The number of commits tagged to open-source repositories has now returned to 2018 levels after peaking at 176K weekly commits in August 2023.

Ethereum ecosystem accounts for 44% of the total weekly commits, with a current figure of 28.7K, down from its peak of 93.2K.

🎮 Top 15 #GameFi Price Gainers over the past 30 days

The crypto market has gradually recovered in the past 30 days, with GameFi showing moderate growth, while select projects delivering explosive returns. Leaders include MemeFi, Blockasset, Voxie, Treasure, and Highstreet.

🇺🇸🤖 #AI Donald Trump is ready to lift global restrictions on chip exports amid debate over limits on AI technology.

📊👀 #ETH faces strong resistance at $1,860, where 4.54 million wallets hold a total of 5.58 million ETH.

📉👀 #BTC volatility is at weekly lows.

💰 Funding Rounds Backed By Coinbase Ventures In April

Coinbase Ventures was the most active fund in April, participating in 10 funding rounds. The fund led the pre-seed round for Sats Terminal, and other notable investments include Blackbird, Symbiotic, and Codex.

🐳 #BTC Whales capitalized on the recent price surge, booking profits by selling over 60,000 BTC, shows on-chain data from Santiment.