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Follow @thebbcrypto for daily analysis that actually makes sense of the market.
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Follow @thebbcrypto for daily analysis that actually makes sense of the market.
$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.
↳ 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.
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. 👀
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
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 .
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 .
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
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. 🐧
- ↑ +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. 🐧
As per @lookonchain data, Tom Lee's #Bitmine just bought another 100,000 $ETH (~$234M), their biggest weekly purchase of 2026.
3 newly created wallets linked to Bitmine received the ETH directly from #BitGo .
The accumulation isn't slowing down. 👀
3 newly created wallets linked to Bitmine received the ETH directly from #BitGo .
The accumulation isn't slowing down. 👀
#Bitmine ($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.
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.
$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.
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.
#VoloProtocol was exploited for ~$3.5M in $WBTC, $XAUm, and $USDC.
The team froze the vaults, isolated the breach, and confirmed that there was no shared vulnerability with the remaining vaults.
$28M in TVL across other vaults is safe. ~$500K already recovered.
Volo says they'll absorb the loss; users won't be made to pay for it. #HackerAlert
The team froze the vaults, isolated the breach, and confirmed that there was no shared vulnerability with the remaining vaults.
$28M in TVL across other vaults is safe. ~$500K already recovered.
Volo says they'll absorb the loss; users won't be made to pay for it. #HackerAlert
Justin Sun put $75M into World Liberty Financial, $WLFI , Trump's crypto project.
They froze his tokens, stripped his voting rights, and threatened to burn them.
Now he's taking them to federal court.
When a project's biggest backer can't trust it, that's a red flag for every $WLFI holder. #JustinSunSuesWorldLibertyFinancial
They froze his tokens, stripped his voting rights, and threatened to burn them.
Now he's taking them to federal court.
When a project's biggest backer can't trust it, that's a red flag for every $WLFI holder. #JustinSunSuesWorldLibertyFinancial
Arbitrum just did something most people thought L2S couldn't do.
After the KelpDAO exploit, where ~$290M was drained from a LayerZero bridge, the Arbitrum Security Council identified 30,766 $ETH sitting in the exploiter's wallet on Arbitrum One.
They froze it. All of it.
No user funds touched. No chain state disrupted. Done in coordination with law enforcement.
Here's the background:
KelpDAO's LayerZero bridge ran on a 1-of-1 validator setup, meaning a single compromised verifier was all it took to approve forged cross-chain messages. Attackers used a "phantom" transaction to trick the bridge into releasing rsETH without burning the corresponding tokens.
116,500 rsETH drained in one hit.
Aave froze the rsETH markets → utilisation hit 100%
Users pulled $6.2B from Aave alone
DeFi TVL dropped $13B+ in two days
Attribution points to North Korea's Lazarus Group.
Now the frozen 30,766 ETH can only be moved by Arbitrum governance, coordinated with law enforcement and relevant parties.
This is what responsible L2 governance looks like under pressure.
And a reminder: DeFi's interconnectedness is both its strength and its biggest systemic risk.#kelpdaofacesattack
After the KelpDAO exploit, where ~$290M was drained from a LayerZero bridge, the Arbitrum Security Council identified 30,766 $ETH sitting in the exploiter's wallet on Arbitrum One.
They froze it. All of it.
No user funds touched. No chain state disrupted. Done in coordination with law enforcement.
Here's the background:
KelpDAO's LayerZero bridge ran on a 1-of-1 validator setup, meaning a single compromised verifier was all it took to approve forged cross-chain messages. Attackers used a "phantom" transaction to trick the bridge into releasing rsETH without burning the corresponding tokens.
116,500 rsETH drained in one hit.
Aave froze the rsETH markets → utilisation hit 100%
Users pulled $6.2B from Aave alone
DeFi TVL dropped $13B+ in two days
Attribution points to North Korea's Lazarus Group.
Now the frozen 30,766 ETH can only be moved by Arbitrum governance, coordinated with law enforcement and relevant parties.
This is what responsible L2 governance looks like under pressure.
And a reminder: DeFi's interconnectedness is both its strength and its biggest systemic risk.#kelpdaofacesattack
#blackRock spent $332M on crypto yesterday. Quietly. No announcement. No fanfare.
Just two line items:
#IBIT → $256,050,000 in $BTC
#ETHA → $76,100,000 in $ETH
And this wasn't a one-off.
Apr 17 → 3,672 $BTC
Apr 18 → 3,899 $BTC
Apr 20 → $256M more
Apr 21 → buying again (hoping)
IBIT holdings are now past $61B.
They topped $600M in #etf inflows last week alone.
What I find interesting is that it's not just Bitcoin anymore. ETHA is being stacked in the same pattern and with the same consistency.
Most people are waiting for the "Right Moment" to enter.
BlackRock clearly decided that the moment is now, every single day.
When the world's largest asset manager keeps showing up like this, it's worth paying attention.
Just two line items:
#IBIT → $256,050,000 in $BTC
#ETHA → $76,100,000 in $ETH
And this wasn't a one-off.
Apr 17 → 3,672 $BTC
Apr 18 → 3,899 $BTC
Apr 20 → $256M more
Apr 21 → buying again (hoping)
IBIT holdings are now past $61B.
They topped $600M in #etf inflows last week alone.
What I find interesting is that it's not just Bitcoin anymore. ETHA is being stacked in the same pattern and with the same consistency.
Most people are waiting for the "Right Moment" to enter.
BlackRock clearly decided that the moment is now, every single day.
When the world's largest asset manager keeps showing up like this, it's worth paying attention.
US spot crypto #etf just had a massive day.
Apr 20 Daily Net Inflows👇
$BTC Spot ETF: +$238.37M
$ETH Spot ETF: +$67.77M
$XRP Spot ETF: +$3.00M
$SOL Spot ETF: +$3.28M
Total: ~$312.4M in a single day.
BTC still dominates institutional #ETF demand, about 76% of total inflows. ETH is holding strong at $67M+.
Apr 20 Daily Net Inflows👇
$BTC Spot ETF: +$238.37M
$ETH Spot ETF: +$67.77M
$XRP Spot ETF: +$3.00M
$SOL Spot ETF: +$3.28M
Total: ~$312.4M in a single day.
BTC still dominates institutional #ETF demand, about 76% of total inflows. ETH is holding strong at $67M+.
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