📢 Global central banks’ gold reserves have climbed to their highest level so far this century.

📢 Yuga Labs CEO Michael Figge stated that the team carried out a whitehat intervention to secure dozens of NFTs that were vulnerable to an exploit found in Flooring Protocol, including assets from Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, and Azuki collections.

📢 According to CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn, Bitcoin is currently down just 51% from its all-time high, a shallower decline compared to previous market cycles.

📢 According to CoinGecko, XRP and Bitcoin are the only cryptocurrencies that have consistently remained in the top 10 by market capitalization since 2014.

📢 Reports suggest both Israel and Iran are moving toward an immediate ceasefire, with final negotiations on a potential peace agreement reportedly underway.

📢 Agentic payments on Base have surpassed 100 million transactions. According to Chainalysis, transfers above $1 now make up 95% of AI agent payment value on Base, up from nearly zero in mid-2025.

📢 BITMINE EXPANDS ETH POSITION TO BILLIONS

BitMine has quietly increased its Ethereum holdings again, pushing its exposure even higher.

• Added 126,971 $ETH in latest accumulation
• Now holds about 4.59% of total Ethereum supply
• Total crypto + cash position stands at ~$9.6B

📢 6 of the top 10 most sought-after private companies are now in the AI space, showing how dominant the sector has become.

📢 Only about 11% of Ethereum’s supply is currently sitting at 3x+ unrealized profit, the lowest level seen since February 2017, according to Glassnode.

📢 Metaplanet has announced all FY2026 quarterly dividend payments in advance for its Pre-IPO Class B MERCURY preferred shares.

📢 Polymarket bettors are pricing in a 68% probability that Claude 5 will be released before the end of the month.

📢 A $SOL whale’s portfolio surged from $26M to $337M before falling back to $26M, while still managing to realize about $137.67M in profits along the way.

📢 The SEC has introduced shared data standards as part of the Financial Data Transparency Act passed in 2022.

📢 Lending deposits have dropped sharply from a peak of about $125B in October 2025 to roughly $60B now, almost a 50% decline.

📢 References to stablecoins in SEC filings and investor presentations reached a record high of around 1,000 in Q1 2026, according to Artemis.

📢 Hyperliquid led 24-hour fees with about $1.9M, while Tron came next at roughly $627K.

📢 Ethereum makes up about 47.1% of all tokenized stock issuance, according to data from Token Terminal.

📢 Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has built up a record cash pile of $397 billion, an amount large enough to buy 477 companies within the S&P 500.