📢 SharpLink Bets on Onchain Yield Strategy

New ETH-focused move with Galaxy

• Plans a $125M onchain yield fund with Galaxy Digital
• Aims to increase ETH-per-share returns for investors
• Pushes deeper into structured onchain yield products

📢 TON Core Launches “Acton” Dev Tool

Builder-friendly upgrade on TON

• TON Core introduces Acton for smart contract development
• Designed to simplify and speed up building on-chain apps
• Strengthens TON’s ecosystem for developers and builders

📢 According to Santiment, Chainlink recently recorded its highest address activity in eight months, with more than 282,000 unique $LINK addresses active on May 9.

📢 According to @JA_Maartun, strong rallies in Zcash have historically tended to show up around local tops in the Bitcoin market.

📢 The U.S. Senate Banking Committee has released a 309-page draft of the CLARITY Act, with lawmakers given until tomorrow to submit amendments before Thursday’s markup session.

📢 Semiconductor stocks now make up a record 23% of the S&P 500’s total market value, up from roughly half that share just two years ago.

📢 Binance says its AI-driven security infrastructure has helped prevent $10.53B in potential user losses while restricting over 36,000 malicious addresses since 2025.

📢 The seven biggest token unlocks scheduled for this month are worth a combined $187.65M, with Toncoin accounting for the largest share at $86.77M.

📢 Kraken acquires an Asian stablecoin issuer in a $600M deal, while the cousin of Hun Manet reportedly confirms owning a 30% stake in scam-linked Huione Pay, among other developments in Asia Express from Cointelegraph Magazine.

📢 Altcoin activity is gaining strength, with the 30-day average trading volume moving above the annual average, according to CryptoQuant.

📢 Bhutan transferred another 100 Bitcoin valued at $8.1M from its wallets, according to Arkham.

The country has moved roughly $230M worth of BTC so far this year and still retains around $252M in holdings.

📢 BNB Chain’s real-world asset TVL has climbed to $4B, increasing by $2B since January, with Circle USYC leading the growth.

📢 Glassnode reports that unrealized losses among long-term Bitcoin holders reached 15% in April, still well below the 75%+ levels typically seen during major bear markets.

📢 TRON led all networks in 24-hour fee revenue with $1.3M, ahead of Hyperliquid at $1.2M and Ethereum at $1.1M.

📢 Addresses linked to the World Liberty Financial team burned 100M WLFI tokens valued at $6.68M, according to on-chain analyst Ember.

📢 Prediction markets are the only major crypto sector posting gains in 2026, rising 32% while every other major sector has moved lower.

📢 Bitwise says Bitcoin ETPs are steadily gaining adoption across mainstream US wealth management channels.

📢 Odds of the CLARITY Act passing on Polymarket fell to 60%, slipping 5% ahead of Thursday’s Senate Banking Committee markup.

📢 Toncoin now operates with 400 validators spread across six continents, and according to Pavel Durov, Telegram’s validator expansion allows major exchanges and custodians to stake TON without significantly raising centralization concerns.

📢 Arkham identified wallet clusters linked to the Central Bank of Iran after Tether froze $344M in USDT tied to sanctions-evasion activity. Tether USDt was part of the assets affected.