🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🇺🇸 Senator Thom Tillis says he will support Kevin Warsh's Fed Chair confirmation.
🚨 S&P 500 companies shed 400,000 jobs in 2025, marking the first annual employment decline since 2016.
🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran has offered the US a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war while pushing to postpone nuclear negotiations to a later stage, Axios reports.
🚨 SUI-native DeFi lending platform Scallop suffered an exploit on its sSUI rewards pool, losing approximately 150K SUI. The protocol has since resumed operations and pledged to cover 100% of the loss.
🔥 Western Union says it will launch its Solana-based stablecoin USDPT next month, as part of a crypto plan that includes its digital asset network and US dollar stable card.
🇺🇸 President Trump says Iran peace talks can happen by phone, refusing to send envoys to Pakistan after Tehran's foreign minister left Islamabad without progress.
⚡️ CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju warns Bitcoin's rally is futures-driven while on-chain spot demand remains negative.
🇨🇳 China blocks Meta’s $2B bid for AI firm Manus.
🔥 Strategy bought 3,273 $BTC for $255M. They now hold 818,334 BTC.
🔥 Bitmine added 101,627 $ETH last week, bringing its total holdings to 4.98M ETH, or about 4.12% of the total supply.
🔥 Fred Thiel said Bitcoin is like a public utility that no one owns but everyone depends on.
🚨 Arthur Hayes said AI tools could replace accountants and lawyers, adding “I can’t wait for Claude to take over.”
🔥 Arthur Hayes said he is long Bitcoin, adding “we’ve had a bit of chop… now it’s time to break out,” with a $125,000 year-end target.
🇺🇸 Cynthia Lummis said “we are going to mark up the Clarity Act in May” and push it “to the finish line”.
🇺🇸 Mike Selig says, “America is now the crypto capital of the world,” adding that the U.S. now has a pro-crypto administration.
🇺🇸 Mike Selig adds that the prior administration “weaponized” the SEC against the crypto industry.
🇺🇸 Paul Atkins says the U.S. is taking a new approach by embracing innovation and advancing the President’s push to bring digital asset activity onshore.
🚨 Patrick Witt warns that crypto innovation has been driven offshore by regulation and says the U.S. must lead in setting the rules for the future of financial infrastructure.
🇺🇸 The US stock market has added nearly $8 trillion in market cap over the past month.
🚨 An estimated $60 billion was spent on remittance fees in 2025, a cost that Brian Armstrong says could fall close to zero with stablecoins.
🇺🇸 Senator Thom Tillis warns he will vote against the Senate crypto bill unless it includes ethics language restricting officials' use of digital assets.
🚨 A Claude-powered AI coding agent deleted PocketOS's entire production database and all backups in just 9 seconds.
🚨 Solana introduces Falcon, a post-quantum digital signature scheme, following independent research by Anza and Firedancer.
