🔥 Metaplanet reported a $726 million Q1 net loss due to a drop in the paper value of its bitcoin holdings

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⚡️ Senate officially confirms Pro-Bitcoin Kevin Warsh as the new Fed Chair

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🔥 Arthur Hayes: rising 10-year yields could force Donald Trump to strike a deal with China to avoid market turmoil

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❕ Trump and Xi Jinping have officially begun talks

Main points and signals from the meeting so far:

• Xi Jinping called Taiwan the “most sensitive issue” in US–China relations and warned that mishandling it could lead to serious confrontation.

• Donald Trump said ties between Washington and Beijing could become “better than ever before.”

• According to Reuters, both sides are discussing tariff reductions worth roughly $30B from each side.

• China is pushing for softer US restrictions on advanced semiconductors and chipmaking equipment exports.

• The US wants broader access to the Chinese market for American companies.

• Key topics on the table include trade, tariffs, Taiwan, Iran, and technology export controls.

• Marco Rubio stated that Washington wants Beijing to play a bigger role in preventing escalation around Iran.

• The US is also hoping to expand exports of Boeing aircraft, energy resources, and agricultural products to China.

• Xi said the world needs stable US–China relations and that the two countries should act as “partners rather than rivals.”

• Elon Musk reacted to the first round of negotiations by calling the meeting “excellent.”

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🔥 70% of US voters say Congress should have already passed crypto legislation, according to a recent HarrisX poll

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🪙 Bitcoin ETFs sold $635 million worth of BTC yesterday

This was the largest single day outflow in 105 days.

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❕ The Senate Banking Committee markup for the CLARITY Act is scheduled for 10:30 AM ET

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⚡️ The US has cleared around 10 Chinese firms including Alibaba and Tencent to buy Nvidia's H200 chips, though no deliveries have been made yet

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🔽 Search interest for “buy bitcoin” just hit its lowest level in the past 12 month

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🔥 Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in business AI adoption for the first time in April

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💜💜💜Senate Banking Committee markup of the Clarity Act is now live

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🔝 S&P 500 hits new ATH

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🔽 Bitcoin firm Nakamoto's stock hits new low after posting $239M loss, selling more BTC

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⚡️ Top projects by FDV value lost since TGE

Third place goes to Trump-backed WLFI.

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📣 Trump said Xi told him China would not provide military equipment to Iran and expressed support for a potential deal

Donald Trump added Xi Jinping offered to help mediate tensions and agreed the Strait of Hormuz should remain open, according to a White House readout.

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⚡️ Senate Banking Committee passes the Clarity Act in 15-9 vote

The bill now goes to the full Senate.

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🔖🔖⬜️🔖 to $82,000

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⚠️ Tether, Tron and TRM Financial Crime Unit has frozen $450M in illicit crypto funds

Tether, Tron, and TRM Labs' joint T3 Financial Crime Unit has frozen over $450 million in illicit crypto assets since launching in September 2024.

The unit said it intercepted nearly 44% more illicit proceeds in 2025 than the prior year, targeting crimes ranging from terrorist financing and drug trafficking to violent crimes like kidnapping and extortion.

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📣 JPMorgan says Ethereum and altcoins could keep underperforming Bitcoin without stronger activity

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📣 Coinbase CEO celebrated the Senate Banking Committee's bipartisan passage of the crypto market structure bill: "Historic day for crypto and for the future of digital assets in America".

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⚠️ Just Fun Fact: The US Government transferred $7 of ETH, seized from narcotics trafficker in January 2024

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