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🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🚨 Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiating investment deal, with Microsoft potentially giving up a portion of its equity for continued OpenAI model access beyond 2030, per FT.
🔥 Conor McGregor to meet El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to discuss building a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in Ireland.
⚡️ Coinbase considered adopting a Saylor-like Bitcoin investment strategy multiple times since 2012 but opted out each time, according to Bloomberg.
🔥Metaplanet bought 1,241 $BTC worth $126.7M, totalling to 6,796 $BTC on its balance sheet.
🇺🇸The SEC Crypto Task Force roundtable will discuss tokenization at 1.00 PM ET with panelists from BlackRock, Fidelity, Nasdaq and more.
🚨US cuts tariffs from 145% to 30% on Chinese imports, while China reduces duties from 125% to 10% on US goods. Both countries announce 90-day temporary reduction to cool trade tensions.
🚨BlackRock’s $IBIT bought 10,572 Bitcoin this week while only 3,150 were mined on average.
🇺🇸 Northern Mariana Islands Senate overrides governor's veto of stablecoin bill, giving it a second chance.
🇺🇸 US Treasury Secretary Bessent says “we want a decoupling with China for strategic necessities” in a CNBC interview.
🚨 BlackRock files to allow in-kind redemptions for its Ethereum Trust, enabling direct $ETH buybacks.
🔥Strategy acquires 13,390 $BTC for $1.34B, raising total holdings to 568,840 $BTC worth $39.41B at an average of $69,287 per coin.
🚨 SEC Chair Paul Atkins calls it a “new day” at the agency, ending enforcement-first tactics and pledging fit-for-purpose crypto rules.
🇺🇸 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce makes the case for better crypto regulation: “Tokenization cannot reach its full potential without legal clarity."
🚨 Over $215,000,000 has been liquidated from the crypto market in the last 60 minutes.
🇺🇸 ADIN ROSS: “I think Ethereum is going to hit 5k.” Adin Ross has previously claimed he put $10,000,000 into $ETH.
🚨 American Bitcoin announces go-public merger with Nasdaq-listed Gryphon Digital Mining, aiming to become a leading vehicle for large-scale $BTC accumulation under the ticker ABTC.
🚨 Coinbase ($COIN) is set to join the S&P 500.
🔥 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong declares “Coinbase just became the first and only crypto company to join the S&P 500.”
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🚨UPDATE: BlackRock’s $IBIT bought 10,572 Bitcoin this week while only 3,150 were mined on average.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: Press Sec. Leavitt says Trump is willing to pay more taxes himself to aid working Americans.
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🚨 BREAKING: Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky has been sentenced to 144 months (12 years) in prison for crypto fraud.
He is supposed to report to prison by Sept 12th.
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⚡️ LATEST: Stripe introduces stablecoin accounts in over 100 countries.
The new feature supports $USDC and $USDB for sending, receiving and holding US-dollar stablecoin balances.
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🔥 BULLISH: Standard Chartered predicts BNB could reach $2,775 by 2028, a potential gain of over 360%, citing its deflationary model and exchange-linked utility.
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🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🔥 Bernstein analysts project companies worldwide could allocate up to $330B to Bitcoin treasuries within 5 years.
🇺🇸 The US House Financial Services Committee has released a discussion draft on the new crypto market structure bill.
🇺🇸 Florida's Bitcoin Reserve Bills HB 487 and SB 550 have failed after the legislature adjourned its 2025 session on May 2 without passing either bill.
⚡️ OpenAI abandons plans to become for-profit, will maintain its nonprofit status with a new structure.
🔥 BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF bought 5,640 $BTC worth $531.2M on May 5, totaling $4.6B of inflows in 15 days.
🔥 Binance founder CZ thinks Bitcoin price could top between $500,000 to $1,000,000 this cycle.
🇬🇧 UK Treasury rules out national Bitcoin reserve, says following US lead not appropriate for its market.
🔥 Sol Strategies deploys full $20M from ATW deal to acquire 122,524 $SOL at an average price of $148.96.
🇺🇸 New Hampshire just signed a new law to allow the state to invest in cryptocurrency.
🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claims having a “central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a sign of weakness.”
📊 Bitcoin outperformed both gold and the S&P 500 last month.
🚨 The US CFTC moves to drop its appeal against prediction market platform Kalshi.
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🚨 JUST IN: Bessent says Trump’s tariffs, tax cuts, and deregulation are unified strategies to boost long-term US investment.
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🇲🇻 NEW: MBS Global to invest $9B in a blockchain financial hub in the Maldives—more than the nation’s annual GDP.
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🐳 LATEST: Whale unstakes 340,510 $SOL ($51.18M) after 5 months and sends 300,000 $SOL to Kraken.
$6.64M in SOL remains.
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⚡️ JUST IN: Tether has announced they brought in $1,000,000,000 of profit in Q1 of 2025 in their attestation report.
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📊 LATEST: 52.7% of all cryptocurrencies launched since 2021 have failed, according to CoinGecko.
2025 recorded the highest number of crypto project failures with 1.8 million.
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🚨 JUST IN: The SEC has dropped its investigation into PayPal’s stablecoin, $PYUSD.
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🇦🇪 JUST IN: Circle wins in-principle approval from Abu Dhabi’s regulator to operate as a money services provider.
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🚨 NEW: SEC Chair Paul Atkins calls it a “new day” at the agency, ending enforcement-first tactics and pledging fit-for-purpose crypto rules.
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🇺🇸 ETF UPDATE: 9.4K BTC ($920.9M) were bought last week, marking four weeks of inflows.
ETH saw a $38.2M outflow.
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🚨 ALERT: Ethereum surged as short sellers faced mass liquidations, with forced closures surpassing Bitcoin’s levels.
The rally pushed $ETH near $2,500 before a brief pullback.
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🔥 JUST IN: Bitcoin just broke above $99,000.
Will it hit $100,000 today?
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🇺🇸 BREAKING: The Federal Reserve has decided to leave interest rates unchanged.
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🇺🇸 NEW: Arizona's second Bitcoin reserve bill SB 1373 has passed its Final Reading with Senate concurrence.
The bill now heads to Governor Hobbs, who recently vetoed the previous Bitcoin Reserve Bill SB 1025.
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🇬🇧 BREAKING: UK Treasury rules out national Bitcoin reserve, says following US lead not appropriate for its market.
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🇺🇸 UPDATE: Florida's Bitcoin Reserve Bills HB 487 and SB 550 have failed after the legislature adjourned its 2025 session on May 2 without passing either bill.
Both proposals have been "indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration."
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🔥 BULLISH: Strategy has acquired 1,895 $BTC between April 28 and May 4 at an average price of $95,167, totaling $180.3 million.
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🔥 NEW: CoinMarketCap has unveiled CMC AI at their VIP event in Dubai, set to launch mid-May.
The tool offers real-time price analysis, token comparisons, portfolio insights, and cross-device accessibility.
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🔥 NEW: Michael Saylor’s Strategy doubles its capital plan to a total of $84 BILLION to buy more #Bitcoin.
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🔥 NEW: RIpple is said to have offered $4b to $5b for Circle.
The bid was rejected.
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📊 UPDATE: Corporations added nearly 100,000 $BTC to reserves in April
Strategy was top with 25,370 BTC (26.3% of April total)
15 new firms acquired Bitcoin last month, per Bitwise.
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⚡️NEW: Mastercard has partnered with OKX and Nuvei to allow consumers and merchants to send and receive stablecoins seamlessly.
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