📢 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.

📢 Michael Saylor says there were no Bitcoin purchases this week, an unusually rare pause.

📢 $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL tread water today amid mixed signals, Bitcoin tests $79K resistance with ETF pressure looming, Ethereum consolidates steadily, Solana lags on pattern risks, watch yields and flows for the next move.

📢 Top Gainers

Staked TAO (Root) SN0
Bittensor TAO
Zcash ZEC
Dogecoin DOGE
WhiteBIT Coin WBT
Ondo ONDO

Top Losers

MemeCore M
World Liberty Financial WLFI
Sky SKY
NEAR Protocol NEAR
Stellar XLM
Cosmos Hub ATOM

📢 Polymarket currently puts a 63% probability on the CLARITY Act being signed into law in 2026.

📢 The U.S. government’s cash balance has climbed to around $1T for the first time since April 2021, jumping by $300B in just three weeks.

However, the debt situation is expected to worsen again as tax season inflows begin to fade.

📢 McKinsey & Company notes that China controls a large portion of the humanoid robotics supply chain, including about 90% of permanent magnets and 40% of precision bearings and encoders.