📢 Around 21% of altcoins listed on Binance have moved back above their 200-day moving average, rising sharply from only 2% in February and pointing to strengthening momentum across the altcoin market.

📢 NVIDIA has overtaken silver to become the world’s second-largest asset with a $5.52 trillion valuation, while Google is now within 4% of reaching a $5 trillion market cap.

📢 U.S. household debt climbed to a record $18.8 trillion in Q1 2026, with both mortgage balances and auto loan debt reaching new all-time highs.

📢 The S&P 500 finished at yet another all-time high, recording its 17th record close so far this year.

📢 Chainlink, Hedera, and Stellar were ranked as the top three real-world asset crypto projects based on development activity.

📢 Bitcoin traders’ unrealized profit margins have risen to 17.7%, the highest level since June 2025, while BTC continues to test its 200-day moving average.

📢 Fidelity Investments has expressed support for the CLARITY Act, describing it as a balanced framework that helps maintain the United States’ leadership in digital assets globally.

📢 Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in business AI adoption for the first time in April, according to the latest Ramp AI Index.

📢 Ethereum recorded a three-week high in network realized profits, reaching $74.58M, according to Santiment.

📢 The Senate Banking Committee’s markup session for the CLARITY Act has been set for 10:30 AM ET.

📢 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a blanket no-action letter for prediction markets, relaxing certain swap data reporting requirements.

📢 According to CryptoQuant, Bitcoin traders’ unrealized profit margins have risen to 17.7%, marking the highest level since June 2025.

📢 U.S. Jobless Claims Come In Hot 🇺🇸

U.S. initial jobless claims rose to 221K, above the 205K forecast and previous 200K reading.

• Higher claims boosted Fed rate-cut expectations
• Weaker outlook for the dollar after the data
• Could support stocks and crypto if markets see it as easing-friendly, not recession-driven

📢 Stablecoin supply on BNB Chain has jumped 73% year-over-year, increasing from around $9B to nearly $16B, according to Artemis.

📢 ZachXBT alleges that LAB-linked wallets transferred 226M tokens to Bitget, raising concerns over potential insider trading activity.

📢 Kraken Picks Chainlink for $3B Migration

Kraken is moving over $3B in assets to Chainlink CCIP, replacing LayerZero as the bridge provider for kBTC and future wrapped assets.

• Chainlink CCIP becomes the exclusive bridge for kBTC
• More than $3B in TVL expected to migrate
• Move follows the $292M Kelp exploit tied to LayerZero infrastructure

📢 Crypto liquidations reached $112.86M over the past four hours, with short positions accounting for $98.65M of the total.

📢 The CLARITY Act now has a 69% probability of becoming law this year.

📢 The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve declined by roughly 8.6 million barrels last week, marking the largest weekly drawdown on record and extending its streak to seven straight weeks of declines.

📢 The total crypto market capitalization has climbed back above $2.71 trillion.