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🔥 The United States proposes forming an alliance to ensure shipping safety in the Strait of Hormuz
On April 30, according to The Wall Street Journal, the United States proposed establishing an international alliance aimed at helping maintain shipping safety in the Strait of Hormuz.
🔥 Iranian speaker: The U.S. government’s “trash” strategy pushes oil prices up; next target is $140
On April 30, Iran’s Islamic Consultative Parliament Speaker Kalibaf said on X, “Three days have passed, and no oil well has exploded. We can extend the live broadcast time to 30 days and do a live broadcast here. This is the trash advice the U.S. government often gets from people like Besent—these people peddle blockade theories and also push oil prices to above $120. Next target: $140. The issue isn’t the theory—it’s the way of thinking.”
🔥 Hyperliquid’s largest long again adds to ETH long position, holding 90,000 ETH worth over $200 million
According to Ember monitoring, on April 30, the “largest long army leader” who previously profited $68.47 million from going long on ETH on Hyperliquid again made a large-scale long position. He opened a total of 90,000 ETH across 3 addresses (about $203 million), with an average holding entry price of $2,265, becoming Hyperliquid’s current largest long.
🔥 Meta Q1 revenue beats expectations, capital expenditure raised to $145 billion, down 7% after hours
Meta released its first-quarter earnings report: revenue was $56.31 billion, up 33% year over year and above expectations. Adjusted earnings per share were $7.31, higher than expected. However, the capital expenditure guidance was raised to $125-145 billion, $10 billion higher than the prior high, leading to about a 7% drop in the after-hours share price. CFO Susan Li said the increase was due to rising component costs and demand for data center construction. Daily active users were 3.56 billion, below expectations. Advertising revenue was $55.02 billion, accounting for 98% of total revenue. CEO Zuckerberg said Muse Spark is “the biggest milestone of the year.” Meta plans to lay off about 10% of staff in May, affecting 8,000 people. Q2 revenue guidance is $58-61 billion, in line with expectations.
🔥 BitMine adds another 20,000 ETH and stakes 111,496 ETH
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, five hours ago, BitMine staked 111,496 ETH (about $253 million). Its cumulative staked amount is now 4,034,885 ETH (about $9.09 billion). In addition, two hours ago, a new wallet 0x448 received 20,000 ETH from FalconX (about $44.8 million). That wallet currently holds 40,000 ETH (about $90.16 million) and likely belongs to BitMine.
🔥 Meta teams up with Stripe to launch stablecoin payments; creators will settle using USDC
On April 30, Meta announced that it will launch stablecoin payments for creators via Stripe, settling with Circle’s USDC on the Solana and Polygon blockchains. The feature will first be piloted with creators in Colombia and the Philippines, who must convert USDC to local currency themselves through local exchanges. Meta does not provide direct fiat on/off-ramp services. This move marks further integration of cryptocurrency into the creator economy by major technology companies. Meta previously gave up the Libra project in 2022 due to regulatory headwinds. This cooperation leverages existing stablecoin infrastructure, reducing compliance risk and improving cross-border payment efficiency. (The Information)
🔥 Google search volume hits an all-time high; Alphabet Q1 EPS of $5.11 crushes expectations
Alphabet released its first-quarter earnings report: revenue of $94.7 billion beat expectations, and EPS of $5.11 was nearly double what was expected. CEO Pichai said AI integration drove search query volume to a record high. Cloud business revenue reached $20 billion, and backlog orders surpassed $460 billion. The capital expenditure budget was raised to $190 billion, and dividends increased by 5%.
🔥 Microsoft FY26 Q3 revenue beats expectations; Azure returns to 40% growth; full-year capital expenditure raised to $190 billion
According to Beating monitoring, Microsoft released its FY26 Q3 results: revenue was $82.89 billion, up 18% year over year and above expectations. Azure and other cloud services revenue grew 40% (39% at fixed exchange rates), reversing the trend of slowdown for two consecutive quarters. Annualized AI business revenue reached $37 billion, up 123% year over year; paid seats for Microsoft 365 Copilot exceeded 20 million. Capital expenditure was $31.9 billion, below expectations, but the full-year capital expenditure estimate was raised to $190 billion. The midpoint of Q4 revenue guidance was slightly below expectations, and Azure guidance is 39%-40%.
🔥 Samsung Electronics Q1 operating profit up 756% year over year, far exceeding market expectations
On April 30, Samsung Electronics released its first-quarter earnings report. Operating profit rose 756.1% year over year to 57.23 trillion KRW (about $38.5 billion), revenue rose 69.2% year over year to 133.87 trillion KRW, and net profit rose 474.3% year over year to 47.23 trillion KRW—each reaching a quarterly high. The semiconductor business contributed most of the profits. The Device Solutions segment’s revenue was 81.7 trillion KRW, with operating profit of 53.7 trillion KRW. According to FnGuide data, prior market expectations were revenue of 117.13 trillion KRW and operating profit of 38.12 trillion KRW; actual performance far exceeded expectations.
🔥 Amazon Q1 revenue of $181.5 billion beats expectations; EPS including one-time gains falls more than 3% after hours
According to Beating monitoring, Amazon’s first-quarter earnings show total revenue of $181.5 billion, up 17% year over year, exceeding Wall Street expectations of $177.3 billion. Earnings per share were $2.78—seemingly far above the expected $1.64—but it includes $16.8 billion in pre-tax gains from investments in Anthropic. Excluding those, adjusted EPS was about $1.61, one cent below expectations. After-hours the stock price fell by more than 3%. AWS revenue was $37.59 billion, up 28% year over year, beating expectations of $36.64 billion, the fastest growth rate in 15 quarters; operating profit was $14.16 billion, with a profit margin of 37.7%. CEO Andy Jassy said annualized revenue from self-developed chips exceeded $20 billion, with three-digit year-over-year growth; over the past 12 months, more than 2.1 million AI chips were deployed, over half of which are self-developed Trainium chips. First-quarter capital expenditure was $44.2 billion, above expectations, with full-year budget at $200 billion. Over the past 12 months, free cash flow fell to $1.2 billion, down 95% year over year. Advertising business revenue was $17.24 billion, up 24% year over year. Q2 revenue guidance is $194-199 billion, above expectations; operating profit guidance is $20-24 billion. Prime Day will be moved up to June.
🔥 Strike CEO announces the launch of proof of borrowing reserves, anti-volatility loans, and supports Tether’s merger plan
At Bitcoin 2026, Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced a series of product updates and strategic initiatives, including proof of borrowing reserves, anti-volatility loans, and public support for Tether’s merger plan.
🔥 In 2020, the SHIB #1 address transferred tokens worth $4.91 million to a CEX
According to Ember monitoring, on April 30, the “top address” that bought 103 trillion SHIB in 2020 using only 37.8 ETH (17.4% of the total supply)—the “big brother” who ranked #1—transferred 800 billion tokens (worth $4.91 million) to CEX Coinmena within the past day. At the peak of its price in 2021, the value of its holdings was $9.1 billion. It currently still holds 95.42 trillion SHIB (16.2% of the total supply), worth $588 million.
🔥 Amazon CEO: operating the chip business independently is worth $50 billion; all Trainium fourth-generation orders are fully booked
According to Beating monitoring, during Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s Q1 earnings call, he said that if Amazon’s self-developed chip business were operated independently, annualized revenue could reach $50 billion, placing it among the top three data center chip providers globally. Trainium 2 is sold out. Trainium 3 has improved cost-performance by 30%-40%, and is nearly fully booked. Trainium 4 has already been largely pre-ordered before launch. Jassy said Trainium has accumulated over $225 billion in revenue commitments from customers including Anthropic and OpenAI. Using Trainium for large-scale inference can save hundreds of billions in CapEx, and most inference on Amazon Bedrock runs on Trainium. Jassy expects that in the coming years, Amazon may begin directly selling Trainium racks. AWS backlog orders are $364 billion, not including more than $20k orders from Anthropic.
🔥 Google CEO reveals compute allocation priorities: DeepMind first; TPU sold directly for the first time in a decade
At Alphabet’s Q1 earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai outlined compute allocation priorities: first to ensure Google DeepMind training of cutting-edge models; the rest will be allocated between Search, YouTube, and Cloud based on the ROIC framework. He admitted that short-term compute resources are constrained, and cloud revenue could have been higher. To ease pressure, Google will, for the first time, sell TPU hardware directly to some customers—after only internal use or cloud leasing over the past decade. Target customers include Hudson River Trading, Thinking Machines Lab, and Boston Dynamics. CFO Anat Ashkenazi said that TPU hardware sales revenue will only be recognized in small part this year, with most recognized in 2027. The hardware agreements have been included in cloud backlog orders (nearly doubling to $462 billion), but the bulk remains GCP contracts, expected to be recognized slightly above 50% within 24 months. Token processing volume for self-developed model APIs such as Gemini increased from 10 billion/min to 16 billion/min, up 60% quarter over quarter. Over the past 12 months, 330 cloud customers each handled more than 1 trillion tokens, and 35 customers exceeded 10 trillion.
🔥 Legend completes a $3.5 million seed round; Electric Capital leads the investment
Decentralized trading protocol Legend announced completion of a $3.5 million seed round, led by Electric Capital, with participation from Amber Group and GSR. With this, Legend’s total funding has exceeded $5 million.