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🚀 TON continues its rally: the price increased by 35% in one day, and by 120% over seven days. With a market capitalization of $7.7 billion, the asset has surpassed Chainlink and Monero.
After the update, TON outperformed other L1 blockchains in finalization speed — transactions in the network are confirmed faster and almost immediately become irreversible.

📈 Over the week, Zcash has gained more than 70%, although it still remains 22% below the $735 mark recorded six months ago.
According to Santiment, private coins are attracting the interest of retail investors — amid declining trust in authorities, tightening requirements for exchanges, and the spread of AI tools for data surveillance.
Analysts note: further tightening of regulations on stablecoins and KYC requirements could boost demand for decentralized networks with privacy features. The low market capitalization of many such assets makes them potentially highly profitable.

🔮Blockchain_com has launched SnapMarkets — a prediction platform for the price change of the first cryptocurrency with 30-second intervals.
Developers position the product as a "skill-based prediction market." Unlike Polymarket or Kalshi, SnapMarkets differs in focus: instead of betting on elections or sports outcomes — only predictions on Bitcoin's price.
The minimum bet is $1 on either increase or decrease.

💰 Morgan Stanley has launched cryptocurrency trading on the E*Trade platform with a 0.5% transaction fee — lower than Coinbase (0.6%), Schwab (0.75%), and Robinhood (from 0.95%).
The service is operating in pilot mode. Full access for all 8.6 million E*Trade users will open later in 2026. Trading is currently limited to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
Morgan Stanley is preparing a tool for converting cryptocurrencies into ETF shares without selling assets, as well as launching tokenized stocks in the second half of 2026.

🌐 Matt Haughan, Director of Investments at Bitwise, named corporate partnerships as the main driver of stablecoin market growth.
DoorDash, in partnership with Stripe, will launch stablecoin payments for couriers in 40 countries. Meta is testing a similar pilot for content creators in Colombia and the Philippines — through the Polygon and Solana networks.
According to Haughan, the key advantage is not low fees, but simplified payment logistics: one wallet replaces dozens of banking systems, providing access to Bitcoin and DeFi protocols.
The sector's market capitalization exceeds $317 billion.

🤝 The Solana Foundation has partnered with Google Cloud to develop a new payment system for AI bots called Pay.sh.
Thanks to an open standard, agents will be able to find APIs, access them, and pay for usage with stablecoins on the Solana network.
The new system uses the x402 protocol — an open payment standard for AI from Coinbase — as a gateway service. It is also compatible with the Machine Payments Protocol.
🔐 Users will be able to link Solana wallets to various AI platforms, including Google Gemini and public systems like Openclaw, as well as top up balances using a credit card or stabl

💰 The Andreessen Horowitz crypto division — a16z — has formed a fund worth $2.2 billion. Over the next decade, the funds will be used to support startups at all stages of development.
The fund's priorities: stablecoins, payments and financial services, decentralized systems, as well as on-chain markets — perpetual contracts, lending, prediction markets, and tokenized assets.
a16z crypto noted that the fundamental indicators of the crypto industry have reached record levels — despite weak market sentiment and capital flowing into the AI sector.

🚨 Strategy has sold Bitcoin to pay dividends on STRC preferred shares.
Previously, the company publicly maintained a stance of "never selling" Bitcoin.
Strategy founder Michael Saylor noted that with Bitcoin increasing by 2.3% annually, existing reserves would be sufficient to cover dividends without selling common shares. CEO Fong Le added that the company's priority is to increase Bitcoin holdings per share.
On Strategy's balance sheet are 818,334 BTC (~3.9% of the total supply) worth over $60 billion.

Cyvers Alerts: Hackers compromised Ekubo Protocol for $1,400,000 (exploit of v2 contract).
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💰 From April 27 to May 1, the inflow into investment crypto products amounted to $117.8 million — the fifth consecutive week of growth with the slowest pace during this period. Assets under management remained at $155 billion.
From April 27 to 30, funds lost $619 million; on May 1, $737 million was received — one of the largest daily figures of 2026.
Bitcoin attracted $192.1 million over the week; the total inflow since the beginning of the year reached $4.2 billion. Interest in downward instruments increased by $6 million.
Ethereum ended a three-week growth streak: outflows totaled $81.6 mil

🔻 Coinbase is reducing approximately 14% of its staff.
The company's CEO, Brian Armstrong, explained that the decision was necessary to improve operational efficiency and to more actively implement AI — technologies that allow small teams to handle tasks that previously took weeks.
The exchange is changing its operational model: the number of reporting levels will be limited to five, managers will participate in work on equal footing with performers, and AI divisions will be established.
Laid-off employees in the U.S. will receive at least 16 weeks of salary and will be provided with health

📊 The price of Bitcoin tested the $81,000 level.
Analyst with the nickname Darkfost recorded an influx of capital into the digital asset market: over the past 60 days, the market capitalization of USDT has increased by $5.9 billion.
Demand remains moderate, but key indicators have been rising for several months in a row — this supports the recovery that began in February. According to the expert's estimate, the market is approaching a turning point, and during this period, the actions of major players should be closely monitored.

🔒 Polygon Labs has added private transfers in USDC and USDT to their wallet.
The Privately Send option routes transactions through Hinkal's secure protocol pool instead of a standard blockchain transfer. Zero-knowledge proof technology conceals the sender, receiver, and amount from third-party observers.
Before execution, each private transaction undergoes a KYT check.

🔐 Base has integrated ZK proofs from Succinct.
The integration will reduce the withdrawal period to one day and replace the dispute mechanism with cryptographic proof of calculation correctness.
Most of the TVL in the L2 segment is attributed to "optimistic rollups."
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⚙️ The developers of the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid activated the HIP-4 protocol on the main HyperEVM network. The main innovation was the prediction markets.
On May 3rd, the trading volume of event contracts through HIP-4 reached approximately $3.6 million. For comparison: Polymarket's figure for that day was $201 million.

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Durov promised an update to TON and announced a sixfold decrease in fees
Pavel Durov stated that Telegram will take on the role of the largest validator in the TON network, and blockchain fees have already decreased sixfold and nearly reached zero. According to him, in 2-3 weeks, the team will update the ton.org website, introduce new tools for developers, and implement performance improvements as part of the Make TON Great Again campaign. Amid these news, Toncoin (TON) has increased by 7.27% in the last 24 hours to $1.44, but is still trading 82% below its all-time high of $8.24.