By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
The crypto market is a sea of green as traders look past the stagflation specter raised by the Fed on Wednesday and cheer President Donald Trump’s hint of a big trade-deal announcement with a major trading partner.
Bitcoin jumped 2.6%, nearing $100,000, even with the WSJ reporting that the announcement could be more of a framework for talks than actual confirmation of an agreement. The wider market put in bigger gains, with XRP, ETH, ADA, DOGE and several other coins rising 4% to 6%. Tokens associated with memecoin projects, layer 1s and DeFi are leading the market higher.
In key news, cumulative inflows into the U.S.-listed spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have hit an all-time high of $40.62 billion, signaling continued institutional adoption. (Check Chart of the Day.)
On Thursday, Arizona became the second U.S. state to pass a bitcoin reserve bill. The regulation allows the state to take ownership of abandoned coins in the event that the owner ignores messages sent within three years. It also lets the state make BTC investments.
An ether whale ICO participant sold 5,200 ETH at $9.54 million, extending a series of recent liquidations. The whale still holds 8,300 ETH ($15.28 million).
Decentralized layer-1 blockchain Avalanche’s C-Chain registered the highest amount of transactions in two years, with the median gas cost of just $0.00078. The AVAX token traded 7% higher at $21 at press time.
Stripe unveiled a new feature called Stablecoin Financial Accounts, powered by Bridge, unlocking access to dollar-denominated services in over 100 countries.
On the macro front, the first quarter U.S. unit labor cost data will be watched by traders for signs of sticky wage price inflation that could potentially delay the Fed rate cuts. Stay alert!
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Governance votes & calls
Unlocks
May 9: Movement (MOVE) to unlock 2.04% of its circulating supply worth $8.08 million.
May 11: Solayer (LAYER) to unlock 12.87% of its circulating supply worth $35.66 million.
May 12: Aptos (APT) to unlock 1.82% of its circulating supply worth $57.45 million.
May 13: WhiteBIT Coin (WBT) to unlock 27.41% of its circulating supply worth $1.14 billion.
May 15: Starknet (STRK) to unlock 4.09% of its circulating supply worth $17.7 million.
Token Launches
May 8: AIXBT to be listed on Binance.US.
May 8: Space and Time (SXT) to be listed on Binance, MEXC, BingX, KuCoin, Bitget and others.
May 16: Galxe (GAL), Litentry (LIT), Mines of Dalarnia (DAR), Orion Protocol (ORN), and PARSIQ (PRQ) to be delisted from Coinbase.
CoinDesk’s Consensus is taking place in Toronto on May 14-16. Use code DAYBOOK and save 15% on passes.
By Shaurya Malwa
$3, just $3.
That’s all Movement network earned in fees over the past 24 hours, DeFiLlama data shows, the lowest in a week for the embattled chain once valued at $1 billion.
Daily DEX volumes have cratered below $500K, a dramatic fall from earlier exuberance that saw the network process more than $2 million a day.
The slide comes days after CoinDesk reported irregularities with how the MOVE token was distributed and supplied to trading firms.
Ironically, the MOVE token launched before the chain existed, raising millions via private sales while the actual blockchain infrastructure lagged far behind.
The project handed out 66 million MOVE tokens (5% of supply) to a market-making firm called Rentech, which dumped nearly all of it for $38 million.
Founder Rushi Manche was terminated on May 7, just days after being suspended. He admitted to “zero oversight” and blamed bad-faith advisers for the project’s collapse in X posts following the CoinDesk report.
MOVE has fallen over 85% from its peak of $1.45 in December 2024 to just 15 cents.
With no trust, no traction and, now, almost no fees, Movement has turned into the cautionary tale of 2025 — a billion-dollar paper promise with a $3 reality.
BTC and ETH perpetual funding rates rose close to an annualized 10%, signaling a strengthening bullish mood in the market.
BTC, ETH futures premium on the CME still remain under 10%.
On Deribit, bitcoin and ether options risk reversals show a bullish bias for calls across multiple time frames.
Notable block trades include a short position in the $85K BTC put expiring in June and a calendar spread involving calls at strikes $140K and $170K, expiring on Sept. 26 and Dec. 26, respectively.
BTC is up 3.49% from 4 p.m. ET Wednesday at $99,620.26 (24hrs: +2.77%)
ETH is up 7.76% at $1,939.15 (24hrs: +5.11%)
CoinDesk 20 is up 5.75% at 2,854.54 (24hrs: +3.81%)
Ether CESR Composite Staking Rate is down 6 bps at 2.894%
BTC funding rate is at 0.0048% (5.2242% annualized) on Binance
CoinDesk 20 members’ performance
DXY is up 0.48% at 100.09
Gold is down 1.25% at $3,343.61/oz
Silver is down 0.25% at $32.40/oz
Nikkei 225 closed +0.41% at 36,928.63
Hang Seng closed +0.37% at 22,775.92
FTSE is up 0.39% at 8,592.98
Euro Stoxx 50 is up 1.21% at 5,293.07
DJIA closed on Wednesday +0.7% at 41,113.97
S&P 500 closed +0.43% at 5,631.28
Nasdaq closed +0.27% at 17,738.16
S&P/TSX Composite Index closed +0.75% at 25,161.18
S&P 40 Latin America closed -0.2% at 2,512.07
U.S. 10-year Treasury rate is up 5 bps at 4.315%
E-mini S&P 500 futures are up 1.03% at 5,170.00
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 1.4% at 20,240.00
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are up 0.82% at 41,552.00
BTC Dominance: 65.08 (-0.44%)
Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.01942 (4.02%)
Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 909 EH/s
Hashprice (spot): $53.34
Total Fees: 6.64 BTC / $661,908.40
CME Futures Open Interest: 142,255 BTC
BTC priced in gold: 29.5 oz
BTC vs gold market cap: 8.37%
XRP-ETH ratio. (TradingView/CoinDesk)
Strategy (MSTR): closed on Monday at $392.48 (+1.78%), up 5.35% at $413.49 in pre-market
Coinbase Global (COIN): closed at $196.56 (-0.17%), up 4.77% at $205.94
Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed at C$26.49 (+2.28%)
MARA Holdings (MARA): closed at $13.33 (+1.37%), up 5.55% at $14.07
Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed at $7.84 (-0.25%), up 5.1% at $8.24
Core Scientific (CORZ): closed at $8.90 (-1%), up 5.28% at $9.37
CleanSpark (CLSK): closed at $8.03 (-0.74%), up 5.23% at $8.45
CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed at $14.59 (+0.34%), up 5.89% at $15.45
Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed at $33.05 (-0.12%), up 4.99% at $34.70
Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed at $40.01 (+1.34%), up 0.25% at $40.11
Spot BTC ETFs:
Daily net flow: $142.3 million
Cumulative net flows: $40.68 billion
Total BTC holdings ~ 1.17 million
Spot ETH ETFs
Daily net flow: -$21.8 million
Cumulative net flows: $2.48 billion
Total ETH holdings ~ 3.45 million
Source: Farside Investors
Top 20 digital assets’ prices and volumes
Cumulative inflows into the spot bitcoin ETFs. (Source: Checkmate)
The chart shared by pseudonymous analyst Checkmate shows the cumulative inflows into the U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs have hit a record high above $40 billion.
Early this week, BlackRock’s IBIT surpassed the SPDR gold ETF in year-to-date inflows.
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