📢 Tether Posts $1.04B Q1 Profit

• Tether reports $1.04B profit for Q1
• Reserve buffer now at $8.23B
• Backed mainly by $141B in U.S. Treasuries, plus gold and $BTC

📢 Crypto VC funding fell to $659M in April, marking its lowest monthly level since July 2024.

📢 Polymarket has reached $76B in total lifetime notional volume.

📢 Morgan Stanley added another 286 $BTC, bringing its total holdings to over 2,620 $BTC valued at around $205M.

📢 Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $629.7M in net inflows in May, marking their lowest monthly total since launch.

📢 The U.S. government’s 10% stake in Intel ($INTC) is now valued at over $43B, up about 380%. The shares were acquired in August 2025, 433.3M at $20.47 each, for roughly $8.9B. That position is now worth more than $43B, implying a paper gain of over $34B in about 14 months.

📢 Taiwan Eyes $BTC for Reserve Diversification🇹🇼

• A lawmaker is pushing to add Bitcoin to part of Taiwan’s $602B reserves
• About 80% is currently in U.S. dollar assets, raising concentration risk
• $BTC pitched as a neutral asset that can’t be frozen or controlled externally

📢 Lookonchain flagged trader 0x049b for opening 20x leveraged long positions on 586.68 Bitcoin (~$45.82M) and 19,416 Ethereum (~$44.67M).

📢 Bitdeer mined and sold another 186 Bitcoin this week, leaving its holdings at zero.

📢 Anatoly Yakovenko of Solana Labs warned that Ethereum Layer 2 networks aren’t quantum-resistant, saying “abandon all hope.”

📢 Ripple has re-locked 700M XRP into escrow after recently unlocking 1B XRP, according to Whale Alert.

These escrow movements are part of Ripple’s routine monthly supply management.

📢 Hyperliquid has rolled out its first prediction market on mainnet, marking a move beyond perpetuals into event-driven trading.

📢 Active stablecoin addresses have surged by about 673% over the past five years.

📢 The CLARITY Act is edging closer to becoming law, as final stablecoin rules ban passive yield while allowing activity-based rewards. Passage odds have risen to 55%, with lawmakers targeting May despite growing opposition from banks.

📢 Arbitrum Advances Plan to Unlock $71M $ETH

• Arbitrum committee proposes releasing ~$71M in $ETH
• Aimed at reducing losses linked to Kelp DAO
• Next step is governance approval after the earlier emergency freeze

📢 All top 10 publicly listed Bitcoin mining stocks are in the green year-to-date in 2026.

📢 The amount of Ethereum queued for unstaking has surged by 72,000% over the past two weeks.

📢 Gartner forecasts global AI spending will reach $2.5T in 2026 alone, exceeding the total spent over the entire previous decade combined.

📢 A late-March report indicates China has overtaken the United States in R&D spending, at $1.03T compared to $1.01T.

📢 Polymarket and Kalshi have surpassed $150B in combined lifetime trading volume. Kalshi logged a record $14.81B in April, outpacing Polymarket’s $9.01B and extending its lead in the prediction market space.