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The Ethereum Foundation just unstaked $48.9M $ETH.
Likely unstaking to sell.

📌OpenAI GPT-5.5 & DeepSeek V4 launched simultaneously
🇺🇸OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 (23/4/2026)
- GPT-5.5 codenamed "Spud," called by Greg Brockman "a new layer of intelligence aimed at more agentic and intuitive computing."
- GPT 5.5 is strongest in agentic tasks: programming, computer use, office work, and scientific research.
- API price: $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens. The Pro version is much more expensive: $30 and $180.
- GPT-5.5 Thinking leads most agentic tests (Terminal-Bench, OSWorld, CyberGym), while GPT-5.5 Pro excels in BrowseComp (90.1%) a

Raising nine-figure capital with a valuation of billions of dollars, but revenue is still less than a child's lemonade stand.
Not including Move, Starknet, Wormhole, 0G, Polyhedra…

Rumors of Pentagon Email proposing "punishments" against NATO leak
An email drafted and circulated internally by Elbridge Colby - the top policy advisor at the Pentagon - has been leaked. The proposed NATO sanctions in the email:
- Suspend Spain from NATO (for refusing to allow use of Rota, Morón bases and closing airspace)
- Reconsider the UK’s stance on Falkland sovereignty to pressure London
- Exclude "difficult" countries from key NATO positions
- The Pentagon does not deny the email, stating it will ensure the President has "reliable options"
Reactions from NATO members:
- N

Nearly 17% of the total U.S. stock market is held by "old-timers" over 70 years old.
Meanwhile, the under-40 group accounts for only about 3%.

Google invests $40B into Anthropic.
Netizens are making memes, saying this deal was advised by Gemini.

📌 Iran - The US opens an indirect negotiation channel through Pakistan
- Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has arrived in Islamabad
- Pakistan acts as an intermediary, conveying messages between the two sides
- No direct contact between the US and Iran, still behind-the-scenes diplomacy.
📌 Ghalibaf still does not participate in this round of negotiations.
📌 The US continues to add entities to the OFAC list ( The Office of Foreign Assets Control ):
- Iranian oil shipping vessels
- Intermediary businesses
- Related refining and petrochemical chains
- China’s Hengli Petrochemical oil refining gro

📍 Trump continues to escalate tensions with Iran
📌 Trump orders the Navy to shoot down any Iranian ships conducting mine-laying operations in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. triples mine-clearing efforts and deploys additional ships and forces to the entrance of Hormuz.
📌 Trump declares that there is no need to reach an agreement with Iran to achieve the goal.
📌 The U.S. blocks two super tankers carrying Iranian oil from leaving Hormuz, inspecting the unflagged ship Majestic X transporting Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean.
📌 Trump says Iran is under great pressure as oil revenues de

The crypto market recorded an inflow of $1.4 billion in the past week, the highest since the beginning of the year.

📌 Trump Fires U.S. Secretary of the Navy
A statement from the White House, John Phelan - the U.S. Secretary of the Navy must step down, effective “immediately.”
📌 Hung Cao - a Vietnamese-American temporarily holds the role of acting secretary. He previously served as Under Secretary).
Note: American media reports that Hung Cao holds the position of Acting Secretary of the Navy, meaning he is temporarily overseeing the Department of the Navy, not an official post approved by the Senate.

🚨 China has just imported the highest amount of silver ever recorded for March.
In March 2026, China imported 836 tons of silver, driven by industrial silver demand and individual investors.
Chinese individual investors are shifting towards buying silver.

In ASEAN, 70%-80% of the assets of billionaires are owned by people of Chinese descent
🇮🇩 INDONESIA
1. Prajogo Pangestu → of Chinese descent
2. Low Tuck Kwong → of Chinese descent
3. R. Budi Hartono → of Chinese descent
4. Anthoni Salim → of Chinese descent
5. Tahir → of Chinese descent
👉 5/5 of Chinese descent
🇹🇭 THAILAND (5/5)
1. Dhanin Chearavanont → of Chinese descent
2. Sarath Ratanavadi → of Chinese descent
3. Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi → of Chinese descent
4. Sumet Jiaravanon → of Chinese descent
5. Jaran Chiaravanont → of Chinese descent
👉 5/5 of Chines

📍The US continues to block ships entering the Strait of Hormuz
📌In the past 24 hours, the US has continued to force 28 ships entering the Strait of Hormuz to turn back, and even intercepted and inspected the M/T Tifani ship in the Pacific Ocean:
- The M/T Tifani is a stateless vessel, subject to sanctions
- Suspected of transporting approximately 2 million barrels of Iranian oil
- En route to China
📌Yesterday, only 15 crossings through the Strait of Hormuz occurred, (6 in and 9 out).
📌 Regarding the Touska ship, China rejected the US accusations, denying transporting weapons to

UAE proposes establishing a USD swap line in case of a prolonged war with Iran.
UAE's financial assets include approximately $350B foreign exchange reserves, $150B UST, $60B T-bills, plus hundreds of billions in sovereign wealth funds (SWF).
Assets do not necessarily mean liquidity; UAE needs USD funding.
The swap line will help connect the Fed's balance sheet directly to the domestic financial system.
The WSJ rumors "UAE threatens to swap UST for the Renminbi to pressure the US into agreement" are likely false.
Dumping UST would result in losses for them first, and the Renminbi c

The U.S. government has started to refund import taxes previously collected, up to approximately $166 billion, after the Supreme Court ruled Trump's policies illegal.
About 330,000 businesses, involving 53 million shipments, may be eligible for refunds.
Trump's achievements from the start of his second term to now:
- Criticizing the Fed, criticizing Powell as “that idiot.” Interest rates still not going down as Trump wants.
- No tariff revenue collected to offset the budget deficit as expected.
- Extreme trade protectionism, high tariffs on both North American allies. No pressure exe

The cost of using AI is still 10-20 times cheaper than reality. When will AI companies stop subsidizing token prices?
The essence of AI is technology that reduces prediction costs (prediction). When the input prediction gets cheaper over time, businesses will gradually turn every decision into a probability problem.
Right now, only 0.28% of users worldwide are willing to pay for using AI.
Most paid AI users do so through (Plus) subscriptions, so the cost is already bundled into the (package not charged per token), and people hardly realize how expensive AI really is once you account for

📌Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz again.
The United States states that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has carried out at least three attacks on civilian ships in the Strait of Hormuz since Saturday morning.
- Two Indian ships were shot at with machine guns from IRGC naval vessels, including the supertanker VLCC SANMAR HERALD carrying Iraqi oil and the dry cargo ship JAG ARNAV.
- Offshore the coast of Oman, a container ship was hit by an unidentified object.

Foreign investors are rushing into Chinese government bonds:
- Trading volume through Hong Kong reached $179B in March — a record high.
- Average daily volume reached $8.1 billion per day — the highest in history.
-> Total transactions have more than doubled compared to October 2025.
📌 These are Chinese domestic bonds (CGB + policy bank bonds), valued in Renminbi, allowing foreign investors to trade via Hong Kong Connect. After the heavy sell-off of U.S. Treasury bonds, is the new trend to pour money into China?

📌 Hedge funds are accelerating their net purchases of USD.
Net long positions of speculative traders have risen to +$18B -, the highest in 12 months.
This has completely reversed the -$21B ( short position from February.
This group includes hedge funds and asset managers → trading based on trend & macro, not hedging.