📢 Bitcoin ETFs saw $131M in inflows on Thursday as the CLARITY Act moved forward in the Senate.

Following heavy ETF outflows in recent weeks, institutional demand appears to be picking up again.

📢 According to Santiment, XRP whales are accumulating at their strongest pace since 2018, now holding 45.83B tokens valued at $68.5B as XRP targets the $1.50 level.

📢 According to Santiment, Bitcoin exchange supply remains at 5.6%, its lowest level since 2018, while Ethereum exchange supply has risen slightly to 4.6%.

📢 KOSPI dropped 6% after briefly moving above the 8,000 level, as investors sold off AI-focused technology stocks.

📢 Boeing shares have fallen 4.7% since Donald Trump stated that China would purchase 200 aircraft.

📢 NVIDIA is now under $300B away from becoming the world’s first company to reach a $6 trillion valuation.

📢 According to ZachXBT, THORChain has suffered exploits across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BSC, and Base, with losses exceeding $10M.

📢 Japan’s 30-year government bond yield has climbed above 4% for the first time ever.

📢 The UK 10-year government bond yield has reached its highest level since 2008, currently standing at 5.137%.

📢 More than $200M in long positions were liquidated within the last hour.

📢 Strategy announced a $1.5B buyback of its 2029 convertible bonds, along with a proposed adjustment to STRC dividend terms.

📢 ZachXBT reports that alleged threat actor Dritan Kapplani Jr transferred $2.59M in stolen funds earlier today.

📢 The U.S. stock market erased nearly $1 trillion in market capitalization during today’s trading session.

📢 If Bitcoin maintains $60,000 as its cycle bottom, it would mark the mildest bear market the asset has ever experienced.

📢 In ChatGPT, OpenAI added a personal finance experience that enables US Pro users to link bank accounts and monitor expenditures.

📢 Grayscale Investments Research says persistent U.S. inflation and postponed Fed rate cuts could drive greater adoption of tokenized fixed-income products while increasing revenues for stablecoin issuers.

📢 Almost all leading Bitcoin traders on Hyperliquid are currently positioned long.

📢 According to Glassnode and @MorenoDV_, Bitcoin whales may ease significant sell-side pressure if BTC remains above their cost basis, potentially transitioning from defensive selling back to passive holding.

📢 BlackRock has submitted a filing with the SEC to launch a second tokenized fund, the “BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle,” in collaboration with Securitize.

📢 Full-time employment in the U.S. declined by 424,000 in April, marking the second-largest monthly drop since May 2025 as concerns over labor market weakness continue to build.