Daily Summary, May 1



📊 Bitcoin rose by nearly 12% in April 2026—Ethereum added 7.3% in value over the month.

🗽 U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he has long been a supporter of Bitcoin and considers it a tool for projecting power— in his view, crypto is already going beyond investments and is becoming a factor in geopolitical influence.

🎲 American senators have officially prohibited themselves from participating in prediction market betting, such as Polymarket and Kalshi.

💳 Spending on cryptocurrency cards has already reached $600,000,000 per month—meanwhile, around 90% of transactions are processed through Visa, which is increasingly betting on crypto infrastructure rather than only traditional banks.

🌎 In Latin America, users are increasingly exchanging ordinary money for “digital dollars.” In 2025, USDT and USDC accounted for 40% of all cryptocurrency purchases, while Bitcoin accounted for only 18%.

💼 In April, the volume of venture capital investments in crypto projects fell by 75% compared with March.

🪙 Tether reported a profit of $1.04 billion for Q1 2026—the company’s reserve buffer grew to a record $8.23 billion, and the volume of assets in U.S. Treasury bonds reached about $141 billion.
BTC2.19%
ETH1.4%
USDC-0.01%
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