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Venezuela's oil exports just crossed 1,000,000 barrels a day for the first time in the post-Maduro era.
Third consecutive month of gains, less than 6 months after his ouster.

Wall Street's latest edge: mining prediction market data for trade signals.
Retail's obsession with Kalshi and Polymarket is quietly becoming institutional alpha.

JUST IN: Coinbase stock climbs as Northern Trust joins Coinbase Prime, expanding institutional custody and trading infrastructure.

Polymarket consensus locked: "Will Judy Shelton be confirmed as Fed Chair?"
No priced at 100% with $17,408,703 total volume.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇪🇺 Trump says EU vehicle tariffs are going to 25% "next week" unless carmakers build in the US.

$SOL processed 10,100,000,000 transactions in Q1 2025.
That's the kind of network throughput number that makes the $150 price thesis harder to dismiss.

JUST IN: Saylor says Strategy's STRC push into ETFs signals next phase of Bitcoin ($BTC) demand. MSN.

🇨🇳 Huawei is set to claim China's AI chip crown in 2026 as Nvidia's H200 shipments sit stuck in regulatory limbo.
The market they're fighting over: $67,000,000,000 by 2030.

JUST IN: $78,000 Bitcoin ($BTC)

JUST IN: Top AI firms just signed Pentagon contracts for classified work.
The move comes after the DoD flagged Anthropic as a supply-chain risk.

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan's JPX exchange is preparing to list crypto ETFs, pending regulatory clarity on legal reforms.
Asia's next domino.

Riot Platforms just posted $33,000,000 in first-ever data center revenue.
Catch: most of it came from lower-margin fit-out work, not recurring leases. The sticky revenue model isn't there yet.

🇮🇷 Cross-exchange BTC longs surged $78M in 1 hour. Right when Bitcoin ($BTC) hit $77k amid US-Israel-Iran oil tensions. Does someone know what's coming?

🇺🇸 Stablecoins now account for 40% of crypto purchases on Bitso, surpassing Bitcoin ($BTC) across Latin America.
Dollar-pegged tokens are the on-ramp of choice when your local currency is the risk.

JUST IN: Apple revenue jumped 17% as iPhone sales surged 20%, driven by what the company called its most popular iPhone model ever.

🇮🇷 Dollar index heading for its biggest monthly drop since June 2025.
Iran ceasefire hopes stripped the war premium. Fed bets and oil keeping it range-bound from here.
Historically, sustained dollar weakness is a tailwind for BTC and hard assets.

🚨 BREAKING
CARROT PROTOCOL IS SHUTTING DOWN AFTER LOSSES FROM THE DRIFT EXPLOIT.
ONE OF THE CLEAREST CASES OF DEFI CONTAGION IN APRIL. EXPLOIT AT ONE PROTOCOL, COLLAPSE AT ANOTHER.

JUST IN: Coinbase launches a tokenized share class for its new digital credit fund, bringing on-chain ownership to institutional credit markets.

Polymarket just plugged Chainalysis into its platform to flag insider trading and suspicious activity.
Prediction markets are under the microscope. This is how they're trying to stay in the game.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump's crypto adviser is teasing a "big" U.S. Bitcoin ($BTC) reserve announcement is coming.
No details yet. But this is the clearest signal we've had that a formal reserve policy is close.