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🌐 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).
#strk

💰 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."
#BASE

⚙️ 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.

#ton
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.

Western Union has issued a USDPT stablecoin on Solana for fast international transactions
Western Union launched the USDPT stablecoin, pegged to the US dollar, on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, with Anchorage Digital Bank holding the federal license as the issuer. The company aims to accelerate transactions between agents 24/7 and transfer some treasury operations to USDPT to reduce the amount of idle funds in accounts. Among the plans are entering global exchanges, creating a Digital Asset Network, and launching the Stable by Western Union service in 2026 to pay with stablecoins in more than

North Korea called accusations of attacks on crypto projects "absurd slander"
The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the US is spreading "false information" and trying to link North Korea to hacker attacks on crypto projects to tarnish the country's reputation. In Pyongyang, they also claim that Washington itself conducts indiscriminate cyberattacks, controlling the global IT infrastructure, and have promised to take measures to protect the country's interests. According to TRM Labs, 76% (~$577 million) of the damage to the crypto industry since the beginning of the year is

📊 Trading volume on the Kalshi prediction platform in April increased by 13.3% and reached $14.8 billion.

Polymarket's figure decreased by 22.2% — to $8.2 billion. However, the company's US division showed a rapid growth of +85.2% and $1.3 billion in trading volume. At the same time, some market players demonstrated even more impressive dynamics over the month:

🔹Predict: +368.2% ($1.5 billion);
🔹Limitless: +207.8% ($1.7 billion).

The total market volume in April amounted to $29 billion, an increase of nearly 10%.
#PREDICT

🇺🇸 Coinbase: Representatives from banks and the crypto industry have reached a compromise on the CLARITY bill regarding stablecoin yields.
The essence is that banks have secured a number of restrictions, but the payouts themselves will be preserved. Income can be earned not from holding stablecoins, but only through actual usage, such as in payments.

In ecosystems where the largest net outflow of funds was observed over the past 7 days, the following are highlighted:
Arbitrum – -116.12 million dollars
edgeX – -98.30 million dollars
BNB Chain – 26.10 million dollars
Polygon PoS – -9.30 million dollars
Sonic – 1.18 million dollars
Ink – 1.15 million dollars
Avalanche C-Chain – -1.02 million dollars
WorldChain – -0.91 million dollars
Linea – -0.70 million dollars
Sei Network – -0.65 million dollars
zkSync Era – -0.26 million dollars
Explosion – -0.03 million dollars
Aptos – -0.02 million dollars
Almost -0.002 million dollars

The ecosystems with the largest net inflow of funds over the past 7 days are as follows:
Hyperliquid – $127.90 million
Base – $67.77 million
Ethereum (ETH) – $26.15 million
Mainnet OP – $18.12 million
StarkNet – $8.33 million
Mantle – $3.80 million
BeraChain – $1.36 million
Solana (SOL) – $1.13 million
Unichain – $0.91 million
Sui (SUI) – $0.29 million

Over the past two weeks, the queue for exiting Ethereum staking has sharply increased. On May 2, the metric reached a local high above 530,000 ETH.
Analyst Jay Chek expects the trend of fund outflows from the DeFi segment to strengthen in the near future.
“[...] risk has shifted heavily toward zero returns. AI is getting better at finding vulnerabilities, so if you have serious capital tied up in such protocols, seriously think through your exit strategy,” he added.
#eth