MAJOR MEMECOINS PEPE & SHIB SEE SERIOUS HOLDER GROWTHDespite a difficult market for memecoin assets, both @Shibtoken and @pepecoineth have seen sizeable increases in their holder bases.Since April 15, SHIB's unique holder addresses have risen by around 20,000 to reach nearly 1.583 million.In the same period, PEPE's holders have surged by nearly 37,000, to reach roughly 551.5k total holders.Is memecoin season finally back...? ...

SPOT XRP PRODUCTS SEE BIGGEST INFLOWS OF ANY ETFAs both $BTC and $ETH ETFs bled 8-figures in net outflows on April 28, spot @Ripple $XRP ETFs clocked a net inflows of $2.2 million.This continues a bullish streak for the products, which now hold 1.23% of $XRP's supply and have not seen a single day of net outflows since April 9.$AVAX was the only other crypto asset to see net inflows to its ETF products on April 28. ...

SWEAT ECONOMY RECOVERS ALL DRAINED FUNDS AFTER ATTACKER STEALS 67% OF TOKEN SUPPLY ON NEAR@SweatEconomy has restored all external account balances after an attacker exploited a bug in the $SWEAT token contract, draining roughly 13.71 billion tokens worth an estimated $2 to $2.5 million from the project's top 100 holder accounts.The exploit hit the NEAR Protocol-based token at approximately 13:36 UTC on April 29 and emptied targeted accounts within 30 seconds, per Blockaid analytics. The attacker deployed a ...

BAIN PROJECTS 5X TO 12X STABLECOIN SUPPLY GROWTH BY 2030 AS BANKS REWIRE WHOLESALE RAILSStablecoins and tokenized deposits have shifted from speculative crypto instruments to strategic liquidity tools for wholesale banks, according to a new Bain & Company brief.Bain (@BainandCompany) projects stablecoin supply growing fivefold to twelvefold by 2030, with banks targeting friction in foreign exchange settlement, derivatives margining, and corporate treasury operations. Cross-border complexities ranked as the ...

PENTAGON DRONE BUDGET JUMPS FROM $225 MILLION TO $55 BILLION AS SWARMS OVERWHELM US DEFENSESThe Pentagon is requesting roughly $55 billion for drone and autonomous warfare in fiscal 2027, up from about $225 million the year prior, per Fox News.Battlefield evidence forced the rethink. Iranian drone barrages on Gulf air defenses and Russian Shahed waves in Ukraine exposed what officials call a "math problem", firing million-dollar interceptors at drones that cost a fraction of that.The funding sits inside the ...

ONDO PARTNERS WITH BROADRIDGE TO BRING PROXY VOTING TO 250+ TOKENIZED STOCKS AND ETFSOndo Finance announced a partnership with Broadridge today to enable holders of its tokenized stocks and ETFs to participate in proxy voting and access regulatory filings, prospectuses, and issuer communications for the underlying securities. The integration extends to more than 250 Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs.Broadridge serves over 10,000 public companies as the leading provider of investor communications infrastructure ...

XRP HAS HAD A MASSIVE 2026 SO FARripple:native has emerged as one of the most institutionally-adopted digital assets of 2026, with five spot ETFs trading in the US and cumulative inflows topping $1.50 billion by early March. The funds locked over 769 million XRP tokens across combined custody arrangements and recorded zero net outflow days in their first month. JPMorgan has forecast first-year inflows of $4 to $8.4 billion.Goldman Sachs disclosed a $153.8 million spot XRP ETF position in its Q4 2025 13F fil ...

ALPHABET BLOWS OUT Q1 ESTIMATES, GOOGLE CLOUD ACCELERATES TO 63% AS CAPEX HITS $35.7BAlphabet reported Q1 2026 revenue of $109.9 billion, beating Wall Street's $107 billion estimate, with EPS of $5.11 against the $2.63 consensus. Shares rose roughly 1.5% after hours. The headline number was @Google Cloud, which accelerated to 63% year-over-year growth to reach $20.02 billion in revenue, well above the $18.05 billion analyst estimate.The Cloud reacceleration from 48% in Q4 to 63% in Q1 is the structural news ...

HERE'S WHEN THE EXPERTS THINK THE CLARITY ACT WILL PASSIndustry experts and prediction markets are pricing the CLARITY Act's 2026 passage odds at roughly even, with most timelines now centered on a Senate Banking Committee markup the week of May 11. The five remaining hurdles before President Trump's desk are committee markup, a 60-vote Senate floor vote, reconciliation with the Senate Agriculture Committee version that cleared 12-11 in January, reconciliation with the House version that passed 294-134 last ...

THE NEXT 6 WEEKS DECIDE XRP'S FATE IN THE USSenate Banking markup pushed to mid-May as August recess looms. Galaxy puts CLARITY Act odds at 50/50.If it doesn't pass in 2026, Lummis says the next shot is 2030.Here's what $XRP holders need to watch: https://t.co/unjPI6eNaH ...