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JUST IN: Jack Dorsey's Block now holds nearly 9,000 BTC in treasury after Q1 additions.
That's $765,000,000 at current prices, adding Block to the growing list of public companies stacking hard.

ELON MUSK: "Work will be optional."
Mark Cuban's counter: that means higher taxes on everyone still working.

JUST IN: Fidelity says crypto may be finding its floor, as the White House teases a major update on the strategic Bitcoin ($BTC) reserve.

BYD net profit fell 9% in Q1 2025, its steepest quarterly drop since 2022.
Tesla's biggest EV rival is feeling the margin squeeze as the price war it started bites back.

🇺🇸 Brent crude just cleared $110 a barrel as Trump weighs Iran's ceasefire proposal, with a White House response expected "very soon."
Oil hasn't traded here since the 2022 energy shock.

🇮🇹 ⚖️ Bank of Italy warns Meloni's government to rein in spending as growth slows, or risk breaching EU fiscal rules.

BlackRock leads $1,900,000,000 in Bitcoin ($BTC) ETF inflows as institutional demand for structured crypto products hits a new gear.

🇺🇸 FOMC tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. Powell presser at 18:30.
Three signals to watch.
1. Rate decision: market priced 92% no-cut. A surprise move = max impact.
2. Statement language on inflation + labor. Hawkish tilt = USD up, BTC down.
3. Powell's tone on "data-dependent" framing. Soft = risk-on rally.
Crypto positioning: BTC funding flat, ETH OI elevated. Late-day volatility expected from 17:30 UTC.

⚡ DEV: MetaMask just merged a fix adding HIP-3 categorization to the perps market list, shipping in release 13.30.0.

X reportedly still allows Grok-created, sexualized images despite new ban

🇮🇷 Oil just spiked to $111 a barrel after reports Trump rejected Iran's latest proposal to end the war.
Brent crude hasn't traded at these levels since the early 2022 supply shock. Risk-off pressure building fast.

🇺🇸 Goldman Sachs: AI fears are pushing US equity investors to reprice long-term growth expectations.
When growth multiples compress, risk-off bleeds into crypto. BTC correlation to Nasdaq sits above 0.7 right now.

JUST IN: Google has signed a classified AI deal with the Pentagon, per The Information.
No terms disclosed. Defense AI race just got a new entrant.

JUST IN: Singularity Finance lost $413,000 on Base via UniswapV3Oracle misconfiguration.
Share inflation attack hit the dynBaseUSDCv3 vault. The admin had registered 6 yield-token oracle routes with shallow Uniswap V3 fee tiers, exploitable by an attacker.

JUST IN: Acting AG Blanche says the DOJ has "fundamentally changed the game" for crypto developers. comments come as the Roman Storm case continues.

🇺🇸 The Fed just linked ChatGPT's 2022 launch to a 50% drop in U.S. programmer job growth.
First institutional study to connect AI adoption directly to developer hiring declines.

🇺🇸 IRAN is financing military operations with crypto backed by U.S. Treasury debt.
The sanctions regime has a $3 trillion hole in it.