🚀 BTC dominance climbs to new highs

Bitcoin dominance has reached 58.91% — the highest level since July 2025.

📈 The rise comes after more than two months of steady price growth, with BTC already up over 6% since early May.

💰 Capital continues rotating into Bitcoin, while altcoins lag behind.

😐 BTC is no longer untouchable?

Michael Saylor — long known for his “never sell Bitcoin” stance — has now admitted Strategy may sell BTC to pay dividends.

After reporting a $12.54B loss in Q1, the company signaled it could offload part of its holdings to meet ~$1.5B in annual obligations.

What changed? Strategy introduced high-yield preferred shares (STRC) with ~11% returns, raising $8.5B in just months. The playbook was simple:

🧠 Issue STRC → buy BTC → BTC rises → issue more STRC

But this created fixed liabilities. As long as demand for these instruments holds, the flywheel spins. If not — BTC shifts from a “forever asset” to a liquidity source. 🤷

The model in practice:
Borrow → buy BTC → wait → sell BTC → pay investors.

Irony? The same Saylor once pushed “never sell.” Now selling might be part of the strategy.

📊 Market sentiment rebounds, but still cautious

🚀 The Crypto Fear & Greed Index jumped 10 points in a day to 50 (neutral) — the highest level since January. Today it cooled slightly to 46, showing sentiment is improving but not yet fully bullish.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin is holding strong above $81K, signaling resilience despite recent volatility.

Altcoins are heating up: Toncoin continues its rally with +23% in 24h and an impressive +62% over the past week.

📈 The market is shifting from fear to balance — and selective altcoin momentum is already kicking in.

🤔 Bitcoin holders lock in profits

Data from CryptoQuant shows that on May 4, realized profit reached 14,600 BTC (~$1.2B) — the highest level since December 10.

This spike suggests a wave of profit-taking as prices remain elevated, with many holders choosing to secure gains after the recent rally.

👀 While not necessarily bearish on its own, such large profit realization often signals increased sell pressure in the short term — especially if momentum starts to slow.

🇰🇷 Korean won surges in crypto trading

The South Korean won now accounts for ~30% of global crypto spot trading volume — making it the second-largest fiat currency in the market after the US dollar.

This highlights the growing influence of South Korean retail and institutional traders, who continue to drive liquidity and momentum across major exchanges.

📊 With KRW volumes this high, local market sentiment in Korea is becoming a key factor for global crypto price action.

💵 Ethereum sets a new stablecoin record

Ethereum processed $18 trillion in stablecoin transfers over the past year — a new all-time high, according to Fidelity.

This milestone highlights Ethereum’s dominance as the core settlement layer for stablecoins, powering massive volumes of on-chain transactions across DeFi, exchanges, and payments. 💰

💪 Despite market cycles and competition, stablecoin activity on Ethereum continues to scale — reinforcing its role as critical infrastructure for the crypto economy.

🗓 Drift rolls out recovery plan after exploit

Drift Protocol announced a compensation mechanism for users affected by the April 1 exploit.

Each impacted wallet will receive a recovery token — representing the verified loss and the user’s proportional share in a recovery pool.

💡 Essentially, this token acts as a claim on future компенсации, aligning payouts with actual losses.

📝 A structured approach to damage control — but final recovery will depend on how effectively the protocol replenishes the pool.

⬇️ Everything is bearish… in Bitcoin terms

According to Rand Group, when major global assets are measured against Bitcoin, they’ve all been in a long-term downtrend since 2014.

This includes gold, silver, oil, and even the S&P 500.

📊 In other words: while traditional markets may look strong in fiat terms, they’ve consistently underperformed BTC for over a decade.

💡 Perspective shift — Bitcoin isn’t just another asset, but a benchmark that’s been quietly outperforming everything else.

💻 The biggest hacker of 2026 couldn’t hold the profits

The exploiter behind the massive Kelp DAO hack saw his $123M $rsETH position on Aave get liquidated after AAVE manually adjusted the oracle price for rsETH.

According to reports, another position tied to the attacker was also liquidated on Arbitrum.

But here’s the twist: the hacker likely doesn’t care. The borrowed funds backed by the stolen ETH had already been moved and laundered long before the liquidation happened.

❄️ Arbitrum freezes funds.
🔮 AAVE changes oracle prices manually.

And people still call this “decentralization.” 🤔

📊 Blockchain ranking by staked asset value

Ethereum remains the undisputed leader with $92B locked in staking — far ahead of the rest of the market. 💰

Next comes Solana with $36B, while BNB Chain and TRON are nearly tied at $16B and $15B.

Further down the list:
▪️ Sui — $7.6B
▪️ Cardano — $5.6B

Above the $1B mark are also Avalanche, Hedera, Polkadot, and Toncoin.

The gap between Ethereum and the rest remains enormous — staking liquidity is still heavily concentrated in the ETH ecosystem.

🐃 Bulls are getting aggressive on Bybit

According to CryptoQuant, the Taker Buy/Sell Ratio on Bybit has exploded, with market buy volume exceeding sell volume by nearly 11x.

📊 This metric tracks aggressive traders hitting market orders — meaning buyers are currently dominating the order flow.

Such spikes usually reflect strong short-term bullish sentiment and growing risk appetite among derivatives traders.

👀 The question now: is this the start of a breakout… or just another overcrowded long setup waiting to get flushed?

🚀 Matthew Sigel from VanEck says Bitcoin could reach $1M within the next ~5 years in the firm’s base-case scenario

Key takeaways:

▪️ The current BTC rally looks more like a massive short squeeze than an overheated bubble.
▪️ BTC correlation with the Nasdaq Composite is at a 5-year high.
▪️ VanEck sees a powerful emerging trend at the intersection of Bitcoin and AI.
▪️ Younger investors continue accumulating BTC aggressively.
▪️ At least one central bank has reportedly started adding BTC to reserves.
▪️ Bitcoin remains a long-term megatrend — but with extreme volatility along the way.

📊 The narrative around BTC is shifting from “speculative asset” to a strategic macro and technological play.

📈 Toncoin has doubled in price since May 4, briefly approaching the $3 mark for the first time since autumn 2025

TON is now ranked #16 onCoinMarketCap with a market cap of around $7B. 💰

The rally kicked off after a series of statements from Pavel Durov about Telegram taking a more active role in the TON ecosystem, followed by additional posts supporting the network.

🐃 Looks like the market still treats Durov tweets as a bullish indicator for TON.

🩸 “BTC hits a 52-week low at $0.02” — that was the lovely notification some Revolut users received today

At the same time, charts for Bitcoin, XRP, Solana and other assets started displaying obvious glitches, likely caused by a UI bug.

📉 Imagine opening your app, seeing BTC at two cents, and briefly thinking:
“Finally… mass adoption.” 🙀

Thankfully, it seems to be just a visual issue — not the fastest market crash in financial history.

💵 As Bitcoin keeps climbing, capital is flowing back into centralized exchanges

Net inflows across major CEXs exceeded $2B recently, signaling renewed market activity and growing appetite for trading exposure.

The clear leader is OKX with a massive +$2.82B in net inflows over the past 30 days.

Other exchanges seeing positive flows include:

▪️ Bitget
▪️ Bitstamp
▪️ Bitfinex
▪️ Binance]

💰 Large exchange inflows usually mean one thing: traders are preparing to deploy capital. Whether that liquidity fuels BTC continuation or rotates into alts is the next big question.

❄️ Tether froze around $515M USDT over the past month, blacklisting 371 addresses

The biggest crackdown happened on TRON:

▪️ 329 addresses frozen
▪️ ~$506M blocked

Meanwhile on Ethereum, freezes totaled only ~$8.7M.

📝 The numbers once again highlight how centralized stablecoins really are — one company can instantly freeze hundreds of millions with a single blacklist update.

“Be your own bank”… unless your bank account can be paused remotely.

😏 Bitcoin is becoming more attractive than gold?

🔎 Analysts at JPMorgan say that since the start of the Iran conflict, investors have been buying BTC more aggressively than gold.

Since the conflict began:

📈 BTC is up ~26%
📉 Gold initially dropped and still hasn’t fully recovered

📊 The narrative is shifting: instead of treating Bitcoin as a “risk asset,” more investors are starting to view it as a hedge against currency debasement and geopolitical instability.

Gold had its massive rally last year.
Now the market is wondering whether 2026 could become Bitcoin’s turn. 👀

🚀 Zcash is pushing hard into the privacy narrative again — and the market is paying attention

👩‍💻The project plans to roll out quantum-resistant wallets within a month and fully transition to post-quantum cryptography in the next 12–18 months. At the same time, the team says it’s working on scaling the network to Visa/Mastercard-level throughput.

Zcash developers also took shots at Bitcoin, calling it “fundamentally broken” for private payments due to blockchain transparency and growing surveillance risks.

📊 Key points:

▪️ ~30% of all ZEC is now in shielded private pools — an all-time high
▪️ ZEC is up over 110% in a month and ~300% since March
▪️ Privacy coin narrative is back as users rethink on-chain transparency
▪️ Market expects major upside if quantum-security upgrades ship on time

⚠️ But momentum is overheated. If BTC weakens or the quantum roadmap slips, sharp corrections are possible.

📉 Tom Lee says Bitmine Immersion Technologies will likely slow down its aggressive Ethereum accumulation once it reaches its target of owning 5% of the total ETH supply

The crazy part? The company originally expected this to take 5 years — but less than a year later, it already controls ~4.3% of all ETH in existence.

📝 Current stats:
▪️ 5.1M+ ETH worth ~$11.9B
▪️ Buying ~100K ETH per week
▪️ ~85% of holdings are staked
▪️ Staking reportedly generates $300M+ annually

At current pace, Bitmine could hit the 5% milestone within six weeks. After that, the focus shifts to ETH staking and BMNR stock buybacks.

🖕Despite the massive position, Bitmine is still sitting on a paper loss of over $6B due to an average entry above $3,500 per ETH.