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GRAYSCALE ARE SELLING $BTC, AND BLACKROCK ARE BUYING
Grayscale has sold a total of $BTC worth $62.3 million since Monday.
However, BlackRock bought 10 times more $BTC, totaling $623.5 million this week.
Now, BlackRock holds 3.87% of the total supply $BTC worth $64.85 billion.

💼 For the first time since July 2025, spot Bitcoin ETFs have closed six consecutive weeks with net inflows. From May 4 to 8, funds attracted $622.7 million, bringing the total capital in them to $106.6 billion.

Ethereum-based products did not show similar stable dynamics: inflows over the past week amounted to $70.5 million after a loss of $82.5 million the previous week. The total AUM of the instruments increased to $13.7 billion.

📊 On Friday, whales withdrew approximately $1.29 billion in USDT from Ethereum exchanges, marking the largest outflow in the past three months, according to Santiment. Despite the reduction in readily available capital on trading platforms, this should not be seen as an unequivocal bearish signal. Usually, money does not leave the ecosystem entirely; it is a matter of redistribution.
However, after a $3.72 billion outflow on February 9, experts noted a two-week correction in Bitcoin.

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Kalshi Raises $1 Billion at a $22 Billion Valuation
The prediction platform Kalshi closed a Series F funding round of $1 billion. The company's valuation increased to $22 billion.
The leading investor was the Coatue fund. Participating also were Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest. This is Kalshi's third closed round in the past seven months.
The funds raised will be used to work with institutional clients: hedge funds, asset managers, and insurance companies. Kalshi also plans to develop tools for block trading, risk management products, a

🛡 Zcash will introduce wallets with a recovery mechanism in case of a quantum threat within a month. This was announced by Zcash Open Development Lab CEO Josh Suhart.
The full network transition to post-quantum standards will take 12–18 months. Meanwhile, the team is scaling throughput to the level of Mastercard and Visa.
Suhart called Bitcoin "fundamentally broken" as a confidential settlement system due to its transparent ledger. According to him, open balances allow governments to track user assets and exert pressure.

🔻 Coinbase completed the first quarter of 2026 with a net loss of $394.1 million.
The main reason is a $482 million drop in the investment crypto portfolio amid a market correction.
Revenue decreased by 31% — to $1.41 billion. Trading fees brought in $756 million (-40%), subscriptions and services — $584 million (-14%). Adjusted EBITDA fell from $930 million to $303 million.
Losses are recorded for the second consecutive quarter: in the previous reporting period, the figure was $667 million.
Bernstein analysts maintained the target stock price at $330, citing undervaluation of the shares and

🔷 BitMine will slow down Ethereum purchases.
The company has already accumulated 5.1 million ETH ($11.9 billion) — 4.29% of the total supply of Ether.
Chairman Tom Lee emphasized that the company's initial goal was 5% issuance over five years. At the current pace of 100,000 ETH per week, the company will reach it in about a month and a half.
85% of assets are locked in staking protocols and generate over $300 million annually.

⚡️ AWS introduces Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments — a toolkit for autonomous payments by AI agents.
The new product is designed for digital assistants created in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. With it, they will be able to independently pay for access to web content, APIs, MCP servers, and other agents.
Developers will be able to connect a Coinbase or Stripe wallet and top it up with stablecoins or fiat currency. In the initial phase, payments will be made in USDC.

📊 CoinShares: Institutional investors are increasing their investments in digital assets.
According to the survey, 32% of respondents have already invested in Bitcoin — it remains the most in-demand asset. Ethereum was chosen by 25% of participants; interest in Solana is also growing.
The share of digital assets in portfolios currently amounts to about 1%. CoinShares' Head of Research James Butterfill called this a typical entry threshold for current conditions. He explained the interest in Bitcoin by its high growth potential amid the development of spot ETFs and the easing of regulatory sta

📰The DL News journal, founded by the DefiLlama team, will close at the end of May.
The editorial team reported that they were unable to build a sustainable independent media business. Among the reasons: declining traffic, worsening search and content distribution conditions due to AI, as well as operational interactions with DefiLlama after an internal conflict in early 2023.
Reductions began in mid-April, and employees were notified of the closure by the end of the month on May 1.

🔄 The BTCFi platform Solv Protocol will migrate from LayerZero to Chainlink infrastructure.
The project team will gradually abandon LayerZero bridges for SolvBTC and xSolvBTC on the Corn, Berachain, Rootstock, and TAC networks. The new cross-chain solution for managing assets worth over $700 million will be Chainlink's CCIP protocol.
"Considering recent events in the industry, we have reviewed the bridges in use. The CCIP architecture provides maximum security guarantees thanks to built-in risk management and proactive monitoring," the developers emphasized.
The Solv team did not mention the

A Temple in Seoul Consecrated a Robot as a Buddhist Monk
On May 6, a Buddhist ceremony took place in Seoul, during which a humanoid robot took an oath and became a monk. The robot named Gabi, standing 130 centimeters tall, was developed by the Chinese company Unitree Robotics. At the ceremony, he was dressed in traditional gray-brown Buddhist robes.
“Gabi” means “mercy.”
At the Chogesa Temple, the robot took a vow to dedicate itself to Buddhism. It folded its hands, bowed, and answered questions from monks, confirming its readiness to serve the Buddha and his teachings.
A string of 108

Anthropic increased Claude's limits after the agreement with SpaceX
Anthropic doubled the five-hour usage limits for Claude Code in the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.
It also canceled the reduction of Claude Code limits during peak hours for Pro and Max accounts and significantly increased the API speed limits for Claude Opus models.
The changes were made possible thanks to a partnership agreement with SpaceX, which allowed for a substantial increase in computing power.
Anthropic gained access to all the power of the Colossus 1 data center: over 300 MW, or more than 220,000 Nvid

JPMorgan analysts estimate that BTC purchases by Strategy could reach $30 billion this year
Since the beginning of the year, MicroStrategy has acquired 145,834 BTC worth about $11 billion.
In April, the company accelerated its Bitcoin purchase pace, and if the current annual pace is maintained, the total purchase volume in 2026 will significantly exceed approximately $22 billion, which was bought over the entire 2024 and 2025 years.
Currently, Strategy owns 818,334 BTC, which are valued at over $65 billion at current market prices.

🔍 Bitcoin has not yet reached a local minimum: the price still needs to break through several resistance zones with a high concentration of losing positions. This conclusion was made by a CryptoQuant contributor under the nickname IT Tech.
The analyst highlighted three groups of long-term holders who bought cryptocurrency near local highs:
✔️ investors with a 3–6 month horizon: average entry price — $88,888;
✔️ 12–18 months: $93,450;
✔️ 6–12 months: $111,850.
These levels act as barriers to growth. When the price approaches the entry point, market participants aim to break even, creating sell

📈 The market capitalization of tokenized treasuries on Ethereum has reached an all-time high — about $8 billion. Over the past six months, the figure has doubled.
Notable segments include: BUIDL (Securitize), JTRSY (Centrifuge), iBENJI (Franklin Templeton), WTGXX (WisdomTree), USDY (Ondo Finance), and USTB (Superstate).

🧲 Spot Bitcoin ETFs record net capital inflows for the fifth consecutive trading session. Ethereum funds have been in positive territory for the fourth day in a row.

⚡ Hut 8 has signed a lease agreement for the Texas Beacon Point campus with an anonymous tenant for $9.8 billion.
The facilities are planned to be used for training neural networks based on NVIDIA architecture. If all renewal options are exercised, the contract value will exceed $25 billion.
The company's shares increased by more than 35%.
For the first quarter of 2026, Hut 8's net loss was $253 million compared to $134 million a year earlier. Revenue reached $71 million — almost entirely from computing services. At the end of the period, the company had cash and Bitcoin worth $1.3 billion.