🗣 #BTC Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee claims that “Bitcoin is going to catch up to gold."

🆕🥳 #RSR Coinbase will added Reserve Rights (RSR) tomorrow. Twitter

🇺🇸👀 #ETF Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas revealed that 72 crypto-related ETFs are currently pending approval from the US SEC. These proposed ETFs span major assets like #XRP, #LTC, and #SOL, along with meme and niche tokens such as #PENGU, #DOGE, and 2x #MELANIA.

📉🤔 #BTC-#ETF's have recorded consistent outflows over the past 40 days.

🥳 Coinbase Derivatives now offers CFTC-regulated #XRP futures.

📊👀 Retail is waking up as on-chain data shows a surge in transaction activity from small wallets:

• $0–$1: 817,470 tx (+155.78%)
• $10–$100: 740,809 tx (+37.55%)
• $100–$1k: 1,096,022 tx (+27.54%)
• $1–$10: 102,345 tx (−0.35%)
• $1k–$10k: 391,131 tx (−3.72%)

💰 Top Fundraising Rounds conducted in the last 7 days

Projects that received the most funding include Auradine ($153M), an infrastructure for #BTC mining and #AI apps; Layerzero ($55M), a blockchain messaging protocol; World Liberty Financial ($25M), a Donald Trump-backed earn and borrow crypto platform.

📊🤔 #BTC C.Q.: STHs still in the red while new investors flip back to profit. New Investors (holding < 1 month) have flipped back to profit with a +3.73% realized gain, thanks to the latest price rally. This is a short-term bullish signal.

🔝 Leading Chains By Stablecoin Market Cap Change

Over the past 30 days, Tron stablecoin market cap grew by $4.26B, while Solana added $478M. In contrast, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Optimism saw declines.

Sui and Sonic Labs also posted growth, while Aptos reached $1B in stablecoin market cap for the first time. Unichain surged by $152M, fueled by its new incentives campaign.

🥳 #ORCA The Orca team announced the start of the ORCA buyout. 20% of the protocol fees charged by Whirlpools are now used to buy ORCA on the open market and then transferred to the xORCA reserve wallet.

🥳 #RED RedStone plans to allocate a portion of its proceeds to RED redeem RED, accumulating a strategic reserve. The program started with an initial $500k token buyback.

📊👀 The US stock market today lost $1.5 trillion, while the market capitalization of the crypto market increased by >$40 billion. At the same time, the dominance of #BTC continues to grow rapidly and reached 64.4%.

🏦🙋‍♂️ #USDC Circle announced the creation of Circle Payments Network (CPN), which will bring together financial institutions - banks, neobanks, payment service providers, virtual asset service providers and digital wallets - to enable real-time settlement of cross-border payments using regulated stablecoins.
Partners include BNY, Banco Santander, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale, Standard Chartered Bank, Fireblocks and others.

⚖ #SOL Investors sued Meteora and venture capital firm Kelsier Labs, accusing them of fraud and manipulating the price of the M3M3 token.

📊👀 Over 376 million #LINK were accumulated around $6.30, marking a key support zone. The main resistance to watch sits at $15.22.

🤔 #BTC #MSTR Despite investing billions into bitcoin, Strategy's purchases have had little to no lasting impact on BTC prices, according to new research from TD Cowen. coindesk

🔮🌿 #BTC The Crypto Alliance predicts that the Bitcoin network will be 70% powered by renewable green energy by 2030.

💰 #TRUMP Over $13.7M in donations from top crypto firms to the Trump-Vance Inauguration Fund, according to FEC filings. Names include Solana Labs, Coinbase, Ripple, Uniswap, Ondo Finance, and more.

In total, the inauguration fund reported $239M in net contributions between Nov. 15 and April 20, with other donors including Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and McDonald’s.

📊👀 In the past 7 days, stablecoins (#USDT&#USDC) on Tron increased by $623M, and stablecoins (USDT&USDC) on Arbitrum decreased by $178.26M.