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Celestia $TIA is up 13.58% in 24h
The market didn't move. $TIA did. The volume tells you exactly why.
↳ Price: $0.50 (+13.58%)
↳ 24h Volume: $122M (+102%)

A 102% volume spike alongside a 13% price move isn't a thin-book pump. That's fresh capital entering with conviction, the kind of buying that doesn't reverse in an hour.

Volume is already well above $100M, and that threshold has been cleared and is holding.
The question now is whether it sustains into the next 24h or fades once the initial momentum cools.

#metaplanet just dropped its FY2026 Q1 earnings
↳ Net Sales: ¥3.08B (+251% YoY)
↳ Operating Income: ¥2.27B (+283% YoY)
↳ Operating Margin: 73.6%
↳ BTC Yield: 2.8% (QTD)
↳ Total Assets: ¥402.96B (-12.1% QoQ)

A 73.6% operating margin at this growth rate isn't typical for a company in transition; it signals that the BTC treasury model is generating real operational leverage, not just paper gains.

The one flag: total assets dropped 12.1% quarter-on-quarter, likely tied to BTC price movement rather than business deterioration.

Full-year forecast remains unchanged.
¥16B in sales (+80% YoY) and ¥11.4B operating income (+81%).

No guidance cuts, no course correction, the $BTC thesis is still fully intact.

According to CNBC reports, SoftBank's Vision Fund posted $46B in gains for FY2025, and nearly all of it came from one bet: #OpenAI .
Here's the math:
↳ Invested in OpenAI: $30B+
↳ Gains from OpenAI alone: $45B
↳ Total Vision Fund gain: $46B

The rest of the portfolio- Coupang, DiDi, Klarna- was in the red.

But this isn't just a win story.
S&P revised SoftBank's outlook to "negative" in March, flagging concerns over portfolio concentration and debt load. #SoftBank has been selling Nvidia and T-Mobile stakes to fund the position.

The upside is historic. The risk is just as real.
One company. One fund. $852B valuation and counting.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/softbank-earnings-fy-2025-vision-fund-openai-stake.html

Crypto ETF flows are sending a split signal.
#etf Net Inflows (May 12):
↳ $BTC : - $239M
↳ $ETH : - $40M

US Spot ETF Daily Net Flows
$BTC : -$233.25M
$ETH : -$130.62M
$SOL : +$19.07M (led by Bitwise's BSOL at $16M)
$XRP: +$5.31M

BTC and ETH post red numbers on US spot ETFs, SOL and XRP are quietly ending the day in positive territory. Whether that's institutional rebalancing or genuine appetite for alts, the directional split is something the market will be watching closely.
SOL's DEX activity remains strong, and XRP continues to benefit from regulatory tailwinds. BTC still commands ~$100B in AUM. The throne isn't shaking yet.

US Crypto Spot #etf : May 6 flows just dropped.
Total net inflow: $57.70M
$BTC - $46.33M
$ETH - $11.57M
$SOL - $21.30M
$XRP - $13.03M
$LINK - $532.90K
$DOGE - $227.21K

And #IBIT alone scooped up $134.6M worth of BTC.

$TON is knocking on $3

The move we've been tracking all week just got louder.
↳ Up 35%+ in 24h, currently at $2.73
↳ Market cap surged 27% to $7.32B
↳ Volume spiked 81%, this isn't thin air buying
↳ RSI at 97- deeply overbought, but momentum isn't fading yet

The technicals are clean, breakout above all key MAs, confirmed by volume. Social sentiment is also leaning bullish, which is adding fuel.

Now the critical zone:
- Hold above $2.31 (daily pivot) → $3 test becomes likely
- Lose $2.50 → a pullback is on the table given how stretched RSI is

$3 is more than just a price; it's a psychological level.
Whether $TON breaks through or gets rejected there will set the tone for what comes next.

Watching closely. 👀

$TON is up 62% over the past week, and the price is the least interesting part.
↳ Telegram slashed fees 6× to $0.0005 per tx
↳ Pavel Durov staked 2.2M TON, now the network's largest validator
↳ TON memecoins surged to a $156M market cap
↳ $7.17M in short liquidations turbocharged the move on May 5. Forced short covering accelerated the move, so part of this rally is mechanical, and not just organic demand.

1B Telegram users. Native chain. Near-zero fees.
The infrastructure is being laid quietly.

Watch for whether active addresses and developer activity follow the price, or if this fades once the short-squeeze pressure clears.

#strategy just dropped its Q1 2026 results, and the Bitcoin accumulation story keeps getting bigger.

A few things worth noting:👇

- #strc (their preferred stock) hit $8.5B in just 9 months. Now the largest preferred stock by market cap globally.

- Q1 revenue was $124.3M (+11.9% YoY). The software business is still running quietly in the background.

- The $12.5B net loss is almost entirely unrealised. It's BTC mark-to-market in a down quarter, not cash burned. Important distinction.

- Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Citi are now offering BTC ETFs, custody & lending. Institutional rails are quietly being built.

- Cost basis: ~$75,537/BTC
Market price (May 1): ~$78,374/BTC

Still in the green on paper, barely.

The core thesis: raise cheap capital → buy $BTC → outpace dilution per share. A Q1 BTC yield of 9.4% says the math is still working.

Whether you think this is genius or a house of cards, the scale is undeniable.

$TON is up 35% in 24h
Telegram announced it will become TON's largest validator, replacing the TON Foundation entirely. Transaction fees cut 6x to near zero.

1 billion users. Now directly plugged into the network.

Price hit $1.85. Marketcap surged 41% to $5B. Volume exploded 640% to $860M- highest in 7 months. TON meme tokens are surging, too.

TON broke out of a 4-month consolidation between $1.20 and $1.55 on record volume.

The #Durov effect is real. 👀

World Liberty Financial sued Justin Sun for defamation. $WLFI pumped 7.46% on the news

WLFI alleges false statements and token-sale violations. Sun's tokens were frozen after a $9M transfer was flagged; he called the lawsuit a "meritless PR stunt" and filed his own case to have them unfrozen.

Now, there are 2 active lawsuits, one from each side.

Volume up 24% to ~ $170M in 24h. Markets love chaos.#wlfsuesjustinsun

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (#BMNR ) just dropped its May 4 holdings update, and the numbers are massive.

Total Holdings: $13.1B
$ETH : 5,180,131 tokens @ $2,336
↳ 4.29% of total ETH supply
↳ 4,362,757 ETH staked ($10.2B)
↳ Staking yield: 2.91% annualized
↳ Annualised staking revenue: $297M

$BTC : 200 Bitcoin
Cash: $700M
Moonshots:
↳ $200M- Beast Industries
↳ $83M- Eightco Holdings $ORBS

Bought 101,745 ETH last week alone. They're 86% of the way to owning 5% of all ETH supply, in just 10 months.

#1 ETH treasury in the world.
#2 global crypto treasury behind $MSTR .

🚨 US Spot #etf Inflows on May 4
Institutions went shopping today.
$BTC ETF: +$532.21M
↳ IBIT: $335.5M
↳ FBTC: $184.6M
$ETH ETF: +$61.29M
$XRP ETF: +$3.87M
$SOL ETF: +$3.28M

One day. Four assets. $600M+ flowing in.

Cardano's dev team just got leaner and more focused.
Input Output submitted 9 funding proposals for 2026, asking for $38.9M from the community treasury, nearly half of last year's $97.5M request.

Two upgrades anchor the plan:
▸ Leios- a consensus upgrade targeting a 10–65x boost in L1 throughput, with 1,000+ TPS as the goal. Testnet in June, mainnet by the end of 2026.
▸ Pogun- a Bitcoin DeFi engine bringing a trust-minimised BTC bridge and credit markets to #Cardano .

~1,000 DReps now vote on this. Deadline: May 24.

Less money is asked. More accountability is built in. That's actually a good sign. $ADA

$PENGU is making noise today 👀
- ↑ +6.43% in the last 24hrs
- Market Cap: $541.17M
- Volume spiked +85% to $260M

That is, nearly half the market cap traded in a single day (Vol/Mkt: 48.37%)
That volume-to-mcap ratio is the real signal.

Someone's accumulating, or the crowd's waking up.
Watch closely. 🐧

US Spot #etf inflows on Apr 22:
▸ $BTC → $85.04M
▸ $ETH → $42.84M
▸ $XRP → $2.42M
▸ $LINK → $171.57K
And BlackRock's #IBIT alone absorbed $246.9M in BTC today.

As per @lookonchain data, Tom Lee's #Bitmine just bought another 100,000 $ETH (~$234M), their biggest weekly purchase of 2026.
3 newly created wallets linked to Bitmine received the ETH directly from #BitGo .
The accumulation isn't slowing down. 👀

#Bitmine ($BMNRon) just dropped its April 20, 2026, holdings update, and the numbers are hard to ignore.

Holdings Snapshot:
• 4.976M ETH- 4.12% of total $ETH supply (120.7M)
• 3.33M ETH actively staked via MAVAN at 2.88% yield
• Annualised staking revenue: $221M
• Projected staking revenue at full scale: $330M/year
• 199 $BTC
• $1.12B in cash
• 107M stake in Eightco holdings ( $ORBS)- one of the few public equities with direct OpenAI exposure
• $200M stake in Beast Industries
• Total crypto + cash + moonshots: $12.9B

What makes this significant:

- Bitmine is now the #1 Ethereum treasury globally and the #2 crypto treasury in the world, only behind Strategy ( $MSTR), currently the largest BTC treasury globally.
- They acquired 101,627 ETH in just the last week, the highest weekly buy pace since December 2025.
They're 82% of the way to owning 5% of all ETH, in just 9 months.

The bigger picture:
Tom Lee sees ETH as the best performing war-time asset, up 41% from February lows and outperforming the S&P 500 by 2,280 basis points since the conflict began.

Bitmine isn't just accumulating ETH. They're staking it at scale, generating real yield, and positioning for what they believe is the final stage of the crypto winter.
The 5% milestone is closer than most realise.

U.S. Spot #etf inflows- Apr 21:
$BTC : $11.84M
$ETH : $43.36M
$LINK : $504K

Breaking it down:
ETH led by #IBIT ($39.3M) and ETHA ($37M).
ARKB and BITB saw outflows.

ETH is pulling more institutional flow than Bitcoin today. The rotation is showing up in the data.

$ETH just crossed $2,400, up 3.6% in 24h.
What's driving it:
- 9 straight days of U.S. spot #ETHETF inflows.
- Bitmine scooped ~4.97M ETH and staked a large chunk, pulling liquid supply off the market.
- Layer-1s are quietly outperforming the broader market, too.

Institutions aren't just watching ETH anymore, they're stacking and staking it.