📢 Solana led all blockchains in Q1 2026 activity, recording 25.3B transactions, according to CryptoRank.

📢 Strategy acquired 13,927 $BTC for about $1B, bringing its total holdings to 780,897 Bitcoin.

📢 Bitcoin exchange inflows have fallen back to 2020 levels, with Binance’s 30-day average around 3,998 BTC, a six-year low, according to CryptoQuant.

📢 Bitmine Keeps Accumulating ETH

• Added 71,524 $ETH in latest purchase
• Total holdings now at 4.87M $ETH
• Controls about 4.04% of total Ethereum supply

📢 Since 2020, 50 countries have increased access to Bitcoin, according to River.

📢 Users of Claude are reportedly affected by a major outage.

📢 U.S. home sellers now exceed buyers by about 630,000, the largest gap ever recorded, according to Barchart.

📢 X Head of Product Nikita Bier posted this on X “Crypto has had a rough year. Maybe we should launch something to fix it."

Hopefully, something great is coming!

📢 Strategy’s $STRC reached a new record with $1.1B in daily trading volume, jumping 46.5% above its previous peak.

📢 Perpetual futures trading surged, with volumes reaching $86.2T on centralized exchanges (+47% YoY) and $6.7T on decentralized platforms (+346% YoY), as they continue to grow into a major force in crypto markets.

📢 Activity for Tether and USD Coin on Ethereum has fallen to its lowest level in 2026 so far, indicating weaker buying activity, according to Santiment.

📢 Global data center electricity demand is expected to rise 220% from 2023 levels, reaching a record 1,350 TWh by 2030, largely driven by AI growth, according to Goldman Sachs.

📢 The seven largest token unlocks this week add up to $337.9M, with $PUMP leading at $193.3M.

📢 BNB Chain recorded the biggest stablecoin inflows over the past 24 hours, adding $518M, according to Artemis.

📢 About $444M in short positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours.

📢 A fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s App Store reportedly drained $9.5M from over 50 victims in just one week, according to ZachXBT.

📢 U.S. PPI DATA UPDATE

U.S. PPI DATA IS OUT!

HEADLINE PPI (YoY): 4.0%
Forecast: 4.6% | Previous: 3.4%

CORE PPI (YoY): 3.8%
Forecast: 4.2% | Previous: 3.9%

📢 Visa Steps Into Blockchain Validation

• VISA launches its own validator node on Tempo
• Joins Stripe and Zodia Custody as early external validators
• Signals deeper involvement in on-chain infrastructure

$BTC surges past $75,000

📢 Anthropic has introduced Claude cloud-run routines, allowing tasks to be automated without relying on local machines.