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Huge STRC buys continue, RAVE hits $15B, stocks push higher

Crypto

• BTC: 74,040 (-1%) | BTC.D: 59% (0.25%)

• ETH: 2,324 (-3%) | BNB: 615 (-1%) | SOL: 83 (-4%)

• Fear & Greed: 23 | 24h Liq: $425m

• BTC ETFs: +$412M | ETH ETFs: +$53M

• Top Gainers: ENJ, DEXE, RAVE, EDGE, GENIUS

• STRC sees record volume again, dividend today

• IBIT on 5-day buying streak; ETFs buy $471M

• RAVE hits $15B, 90% controlled by insiders

• X launches live trading cashtags in US, Canada

• 30% chance BTC hits $80K in April

• BTC ‘Risk Index’ hits 0

• CLARITY Act pulled from Senate for next week

• Bybit CEO: CLARITY Act would unlock crypto

• Ripple tokenises Korean bonds with Kyobo Life

• Chainlink brings SIX equities data on-chain

• CoW Swap front-end exploited

• Apple pulls fake Ledger app that stole $9.5M

• NK hackers hit Zerion via AI social engineering

• Kraken co-CEO confirms confidential IPO filing

• SocGen launches MiCA-compliant USDCV

• Visa joins Stripe's Tempo as anchor validator

• Etherfi commits $3B ETH to ETHGas as validator

• Hyperliquid unlocks set to double

• BIP-361 plans to freeze quantum-vulnerable BTC

• Pumpcade raises $5m, token hits $35m

Macro

• NASDAQ: $23,640 (+2%) | Gold: $4,815 (-1%)

• NASDAQ goes on 10 day winning streak

• Trump hints at 'amazing two days ahead'

• US halts all Iran sea trade for 36 hours

• 78% chance Iran op ends by May 31

• Iran used China spy satellite to hit US bases: FT

• Trump: NATO won’t be there for us in the future

• Lavrov: Russia to help China replace Hormuz oil

• Saudi Arabia gives Pakistan $3B as UAE loan due

• N. Korea seen sharply increasing nuke production

• China: US distorting Taiwan narrative

• Turkey loses 69.1 tonnes of gold in one week

• SEC kills the $25,000 Pattern Day Trader rule

• JPMorgan raises 2026 IPO forecast to $60-70B

• Spain PM Sanchez's wife charged with corruption

• Israel orders evacuation of southern Lebanon

• Germany faces massive layoff wave

• UK approves 3 new nuclear power stations

• Trump tells UK to utilise North Sea oil

• House Dems file 5 Hegseth impeachment articles

AI & Tech

• Anthropic ships Claude Code Routines

• ByteDance launches Seedance 2.0 video

• OpenAI releases GPT-5.4-Cyber for security

• Google ships Gemini Skills to Chrome

• ASML raises 2026 guidance on AI chip demand

• OpenAI investors questioning valuation: FT

• Novartis CEO joins Anthropic board

• Fluidstack in talks for $1B raise, data centre company

• Mintlify valued at $500M, AI doc infra company

• Meta commits to 1GW of chips with Broadcom

• NAACP sues xAI over Memphis data centre

• Maine passes first data centre ban in US

• Amazon buys Globalstar for $11.6B

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